[j-nsp] Question about monitor traffic

[Stefan Fouant]

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 8:50 AM, Thiago Drechsel
<thiago.drechsel at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi list.
>
> A question that came up few days ago:
>
> 1. I've used "monitor traffic" on lo0, in order capture some traffic. I was
> trying to capture pings, protocol packets and other traffic destined to lo0.
> The problem is that I could not capture any packet!! Why this behaviour? I
> understand that I must be able to capture traffic on lo0, like I do in any
> other interface. Am I missing something?
> PS: There was no filter applied during the tests.
>
> Thanks for any comment.
>
> Thiago

Did you do monitor traffic on lo0, or monitor traffic on lo0.0?

The latter should work, the former should not.

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Stefan Fouant
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