Wednesday | 7 January, 2009
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Stories by: Greg Schaffer

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    Linux primer for networkers: Using the sniffer 05/05/2006 10:55:13

    A few years back, I used an old 486 running Red Hat Linux and tcpdump to easily diagnose a client's denial-of-service attack, illustrating the benefits of creating a powerful network analysis tool from "scrap" parts. There are plenty of tools to build a similar Windows-based network analyzer, but Linux can run on machines that can't efficiently run Windows.
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