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		hnlmorg on July 19, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: NetSour, CLI Based Wireshark I commend the effort, it’s always nice seeing people working on usability improvements for staple systems tools. But I have to ask the following since given your ubiquity comment: What’s the advantage of this over using tcpdump directly?

thegoodduck on July 19, 2024 [–]

You can extend this with like addons type for detecting ddos...

hnlmorg on July 19, 2024 | [–]

DDoS is probably not a great example to lead with because odds are your Python application will hang quicker than the hosts network stack.

But that aside, the addons idea is an interesting one.

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