Re: BPF does not pick up loopback activity

2001-08-06 Thread Henry Whincup
*doh* of course... the loopback device! thanks Henry On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, to see the packets to 192.168.2.1 you have to specify the interface lo0, because it's your own address. Packets to this address aren't send to fxp0. So use: tcpdump -ni

BPF does not pick up loopback activity

2001-08-06 Thread Henry Whincup
Take the following example: # ifconfig fxp0 fxp0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 inet 192.168.2.1 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255 ether 00:90:27:94:84:34 media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX ) status: active # tcpdump -ni fxp0 & # ping 192.168.2.1 PING 192.168.2.1