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6 Since several years I used to use a own repository of scripts to ana‐
7 lyze network traffic. First I started with plain tcpdump, tcptrace,
8 tcpslice, tcpstat and the other tools. After some years I started to
9 wrote an own set of scripts, starting with Perl and later also some
10 Ruby scripts. Before I forget, of course, a few C programs are also in
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17 During the years some wisdoms are here collected. You can ignore them,
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