Feature #8257
closed
pfSense Diagnostics -> Packet Capture support for loopback interface
Added by Chaos215 Bar2 over 6 years ago.
Updated about 6 years ago.
Description
I can't overstate how useful the GUI Packet Capture feature is for debugging all variety of networking issues, but it's missing an option to capture traffic on the loopback interface. This would be a very useful and, I believe, fairly simple feature to implement.
In particular, in order to debug a problem I was having with the HAProxy and Acme packages (#7519), I ultimately ended up having to just do this manually on the router. Not a big deal, but it may have short circuited a couple hours of debugging if I had just been able to try this directly from the GUI at an earlier point.
- Project changed from pfSense Packages to pfSense
- Category set to Web Interface
- Assignee set to Jim Pingle
- Target version set to 2.4.3
- Status changed from New to Feedback
- % Done changed from 0 to 100
Tested build 2.4.3.a.20180126.0706
Navigated to Diagnostics -> Packet Capture
Localhost is available in interfaces list. Selected.
Click Start capture, Stop Capture, View Capture - Data displayed is captured localhost traffic.
Test PASSED, thanks!
- Status changed from Feedback to Resolved
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