Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 00:37:36 +0100 (CET) From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com> Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: tcpdump and localhost Message-ID: <XFMail.990113003736.asmodai@wxs.nl> In-Reply-To: <19990112150229.A804@wopr.caltech.edu>
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On 12-Jan-99 Matthew Hunt wrote: > On Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 12:00:55AM +0100, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: > >> I got no response. This got me curious, because as far as I know, a ping >> to localhost never leaves the card and should thus be seen by tcpdump. > > A ping to localhost will travel on the loopback interface, not the > Ethernet card. > > Try "tcpdump -i lo0". D'oh... OK, and if I ping the IP address associated with the NIC then it gets put on the wire right? --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven A veil of smoke is what I am, asmodai(at)wxs.nl I wait and I wait... Network/Security Specialist <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>; BSD & picoBSD: The Power to Serve <http://www.freebsd.org>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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