Sometimes network protocols don’t entirely behave as documented. Other times there is no documentation at all beyond code. Either way you can sometimes find a need to sniff the traffic of a connection to find out what is really going on.
Tag: Tools
Linux tools: silver searcher
After my previous post about ack a Twitter follower, Nick Morrott, pointed out that there is a potentially better tool than ack.
Linux tools: ack and memleakx
My day job requires me to spend a lot of time in Linux terminals, hammering away at MariaDB ColumnStore to write and test new code as well as finding and fixing bugs. I have decided to write about the tools I use to get the job done, especially newer ones I have discovered.