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Re: localhost on Solaris
From: Darren Reed <darrenr () reed wattle id au>
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 21:16:40 +1000 (EST)
Hi ! I understand there is no solution to sniffing for local traffic on Solaris since the kernel always used the loopback interface for that. I suggest to write a STREAMS module to sit on top of the loopback driver. Does anyone know if the loopback driver is a STREAMS driver ? (Say, Solaris 8 and on?) Any comments or advice on this ?
There is no loopback driver: $ modinfo | grep -i loop | wc 0 0 0 $ echo /dev/lo* /dev/lockstat /dev/log /dev/logindmux That is the root of the problem. The loopback interface and loopback traffic handling in Solaris, is hard coded inside of IP. Darren - This is the tcpdump-workers list. Visit https://lists.sandelman.ca/ to unsubscribe.
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