Wireshark localhost traffic capture [closed]
I wrote a simple server app in C which runs on localhost. How to capture localhost traffic using Wireshark? cnicutar 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