Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Netsniff-ng


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The result was   speedy deleted per author request. Jamie  S93  16:52, 21 November 2009 (UTC)

Netsniff-ng

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Not notable software. No significant coverage. Pontificalibus (talk) 11:40, 21 November 2009 (UTC)

Hi Pontificalibus, this software has been developed internally at the Max-Planck-Institute and recently been released Open Source (and in a few weeks it will be integrated into the Debian/Linux project). It would be a pity to delete this, because this technique used is rarely known, most of the sniffers uses the standard libpcap-api which is not that performant (on high throuput packets will be dropped because of lack of processing resources... the reason for this is that the packets (buffers) have to be copied from userspace to kernelspace and back again which is very time intensive). Of course, I am willing to point this more out if you change your mind. Thanks.
 * Comment Whilst this may be a wonderful peice of software, Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. The subject of any article needs to have significant coverage in reliable sources. Maybe in the future this software will have lots of people writing about it, so we can then have lots of references to use in the article to show it is notable. However at this early stage I can't find significant third-party coverage. -- Pontificalibus (talk) 12:11, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment Okay, sorry, I forgot to add the Ref. As 'third-party coverage' it was part of a talk/proceedings at the international Open Source Monitoring Conference in Nueremberg, Germany and it has been presented to professionals in this area with a very positive feedback. (http://www.netways.de/en/osmc/y2009/uebersicht/) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Netcrash87 (talk • contribs) 12:33, 21 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete: I can't find significant coverage for this software. Joe Chill (talk) 15:06, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
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