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Just yesterday tcpdump saved me an indeterminate amount of time working with a Horribly Problematic vendor's support team by allowing me to sniff the loopback interface to pinpoint which of two (closed-source) components was introducing a sizeable processing delay in our real-time network event management system.

I am grateful for the tool.




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