alerting on local test traffic

[Tim.Maletic () priority-health com]

I can't get snort to alert on localhost traffic.  I want to test snort on a
system that is attached to a LAN, but I don't want any of my tests to
traverse the LAN.  My test traffic will trigger an alert when it's aimed at
another system, but never when its source and destination are interfaces on
the sensor.  And this after a day's worth of playing around with HOME_NET,
EXTERNAL_NET, the "-i" switch, and multiple dummy interfaces (per the faq).

Will someone be kind enough to control their snickering, step forward, and
point out the obvious command-line switch that will reverse this behavior?
(Or in some other way help?)

Thanks!
Tim


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