On 11.04.2012 13:52, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> Johan Corveleyn wrote on Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 13:43:57 +0200:
>> If anyone has any suggestions on capturing network traffic on
>> localhost on Windows XP ... I'm all ears.
>>
>> Maybe the easiest thing to do is to set up Apache on a second machine,
>> so I don't have to go over the loopback device ...
>>
> One option: don't use the loopback device, use some other interface.
>
> That is, have httpd listen on 0.0.0.0 and pass --url=http://192.168.9.199
> to foo_tests.py, where 192.168.9.199 is your externally-visible
> IP address.
The traffic will still get routed through the loopback device if it's on
the same machine. At least I hope so, though could be that Microsoft has
another "enhancement" in their TCP stack in this regard.
brane@zulu:~$ ifconfig en0
en0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
options=27<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,TSO4>
ether 34:15:9e:03:09:74
inet6 fe80::3615:9eff:fe03:974%en0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
inet 172.23.17.71 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 172.23.17.255
media: autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex,flow-control>)
status: active
brane@zulu:~$ route get 172.23.17.71
route to: 172.23.17.71
destination: 172.23.17.71
interface: lo0
flags: <UP,HOST,DONE,STATIC>
recvpipe sendpipe ssthresh rtt,msec rttvar hopcount mtu expire
49152 49152 0 0 0 0 16384 0
-- Brane
