Re: solaris loopback

[Andrew Brown <atatat () atatdot net>]

> Is it possible to do packet capture using the loopback device on
> solaris(dlpi)? I tried passing /dev/lo0 and got a pcap error: /dev/lo:
> No such file or directory. I see that the ethernet device /dev/hme0 is
> symbolically linked from /dev/hme -> /devices/pseudo/<some dev file> but
> this is not the case with the loopback lo0. 

i tried this once, a few years back, and gave up.  interestingly,
before i gave up, i tried all the other character devices with the
same major number as /dev/hme (/dev/le, /dev/ip, /dev/rawip, etc) and
found that using /dev/sp (aka running tcpdump -isp0) will make the
kernel panic.

i never found any packets, though.

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