Friday, August 22, 2003 | |
This summer, I've been using SSLDump and WinDump to do traffic analysis on some production web services. These tools work pretty well; essentially we capture data on a server using WinDump and then do post processing using a modified version of SSLDump and a Python script to do the actualy analysis on the data. What we're trying to find out is where time is being spent in a transaction; for instance, if the network pipe to the customer is slow, or if the mainframe behind the web service is slow. We can tell if the SSL handshake is taking a long time. Often, it's useful just to see the raw data if we're not sure where something's gone awry. Anyway, we've been looking at a way to access the WinPCap libraries from .NET and came across a few options on CodeProject.com:
None of these fully replace WinPCap, which isn't the point. Pacanal seems like a great option if you need to get access to network sniffing functionality from .NET. 3:41:32 PM permalink
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