Re: Sending a packet to localhost?

[Oliver Zheng <mailinglists () oliverzheng com>]

I am trying to inject a packet to a live TCP stream. It is connected
to the localhost and some other host. The packet i'm trying to inject
is to spoof the other host. Is this possible.

On 2/22/09, Tyler Littlefield <tyler () tysdomain com> wrote:
> you are able to send packets to eth0, set the ip address to 127.0.0.1
> Hope that's what your asking.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Oliver Zheng" <mailinglists+tcpdump () oliverzheng com>
> To: <tcpdump-workers () lists tcpdump org>
> Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2009 3:04 PM
> Subject: [tcpdump-workers] Sending a packet to localhost?
>
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is it possible to send a packet to localhost and have the application
> > receive it? On Linux, there is (at least) lo and eth0. I tried sending
> > a TCP packet to both lo and eth0, however, it seems like the Linux
> > TCP/IP stack and application do not receive the packet. The exact same
> > packet works on Windows (with WinPcap). Is this not possible?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Oliver
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