monitor local network traffic issue

Question

I am using Networking Tab of Windows Task manager to monitor local network traffic to test how much bandwidth my application will use. My scenario is, I will use a local console client application to send data (using Http POST method) to local IIS 7.0 server.

My issue is no traffic could be monitored using Networking Tab of Windows Task manager. My environment is, VSTS 2008 + C# + .Net 3.5 + Windows Vista x86 Enterprise. Any ideas what is wrong?

Answer 1

Traffic in local loopback scope is not monitored as it don't really use the network. I guess you will have to collect these statistics programatically in your own program, unless you have another machine.

Answer 2

我想这是本地的，所以Windows会解析localhost而不将其转发到NIC，因此不会产生任何网络流量。