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		pnathan on Feb 22, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: You Owe it to Yourself to be Old-School I might be misremembering, but I think wireshark is/was a frontend for tcpdump.

rl1987 on Feb 24, 2011 [–]

No it's not. TCPdump and Wireshark both use libpcap, however.

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