Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Intra machine packet

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Okta Prisetyo wrote:

> I use ethereal to analyze packets in a Solaris 8 machine. But I cannot 
> find any packets that come from and to that machine.
> Do you have suggestion how to capture packet from and to the same machine ?

Yes.  Use Linux or some version of BSD on the machine, instead. :-)

Solaris doesn't support capturing packets from a machine to itself; see

	http://wiki.ethereal.com/CaptureSetup/Loopback

The page at

	http://wiki.ethereal.com/CaptureSetup

is a good page to read if you're having problems capturing; it refers 
you to the

	http://wiki.ethereal.com/CaptureSetup/NetworkMedia

page, which discusses issues for capturing on particular types of 
networks and network interfaces (both real physical networks, and 
"virtual" networks such as VLANs and loopback networks).