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"Monitoring network traffic with Ruby and Pcap"

Ars Technica has a neat article on using Ruby with Pcap to monitor network traffic. Sniffers aren't new, but Ruby is such a nice language to work with..

"There are many situations where the ability to monitor network traffic can save a lot of time and effort. If you want to reverse engineer a network protocol, keep an eye on junior's browsing habits, or blackmail your evil boss, Ruby and libpcap can make it easy!"