Re: Sending a packet to localhost?

["Tyler Littlefield" <tyler () tysdomain com>]

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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