Re: [Ethereal-users] Ethereal doesn't capture local communication

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Leo Jose wrote:
> I set the capture string to *host ip1, *where ip1 is my ip address. Then 
> I run a Server->Client application on a single machine itself, but 
> Ethereal fails to capture anything.I even tried *host ip1 and host ip1 
> *but even that didn't work
> If I run the server or client on different  machines, then changing the 
> capture string to *host ip1 and host ip2 *will work without any problems.

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