Wireshark localhost traffic capture [closed]

by

If you’re using Windows it’s not possible – read below. You can use the local address of your machine instead and then you’ll be able to capture stuff. See CaptureSetup/Loopback.

Summary: you can capture on the
loopback interface on Linux, on
various BSDs including Mac OS X, and
on Digital/Tru64 UNIX, and you might
be able to do it on Irix and AIX, but
you definitely cannot do so on
Solaris, HP-UX….

Although the page mentions that this is not possible on Windows using Wireshark alone, you can actually record it using a workaround as mentioned in a different answer.

EDIT: Some 3 years later, this answer is no longer completely correct. The linked page contains instructions for capturing on the loopback interface.

More Related Contents:

  1. Network tools that simulate slow network connection [closed]
  2. What is the difference between a port and a socket?
  3. What is the largest Safe UDP Packet Size on the Internet
  4. UDP vs TCP, how much faster is it? [closed]
  5. What is the difference between 127.0.0.1 and localhost
  6. How does the socket API accept() function work?
  7. How to connect to docker host from container on Windows 10 (Docker for Windows)
  8. Mosquitto: Starting in local only mode
  9. Maximum packet size for a TCP connection
  10. What is the difference between active and passive FTP?
  11. What is the cost of many TIME_WAIT on the server side?
  12. Windows Phone 8 emulator can’t connect to the internet
  13. Is 0.0.0.0 a valid IP address?
  14. When is it appropriate to use UDP instead of TCP? [closed]
  15. Docker Network Nginx Resolver
  16. How to open a create-react-app from another computer connected to the same network?
  17. Containerized Node server inaccessible with server.listen(port, ‘127.0.0.1’)
  18. Artificially create a connection timeout error
  19. Why is network-byte-order defined to be big-endian? [closed]
  20. Can a TCP checksum fail to detect an error? If yes, how is this dealt with?
  21. Android Things: Connect to Raspberry Pi 3
  22. How to close TCP and UDP ports via windows command line
  23. TCP Socket no connection timeout
  24. Best TCP port number range for internal applications [closed]
  25. Viewing my IIS hosted site on other machines on my network
  26. Valid characters of a hostname?
  27. TCP stream vs UDP message
  28. Can’t access 127.0.0.1
  29. UDP broadcast packets across subnets
  30. How to tell which interface the socket received the message from?

Leave a Comment