Well i belive i am not listening on righ interface. As there is nothing listed as soon as i unplug the cable.

I searched internet for ways to monitor packets in localhost but couldn't really implement them. Now i am trying to get a network by hooking up to a router. So i have a laptop running the client side of the code and desktop with mysql and apache (Xampp) running the server side. Now to connect from laptop to desktop i would use 192.168.1.103 instead of localhost. Connection works successfully. I could run ethereal to collect data. But there is a lot of info I could hardly differentiate the packets generated by my laptop.

Thanks bob for your concern, but for me its too late to pull out. Help is higly appreciate.