Sniffing around a black box

On 22 April 2010, I gave a talk to the Atlanta Perl Mongers on using a network protocol analyzer (a "sniffer") to identify the inputs and outputs of a complex system. The talk explains the original motivation for using this technique and gives an overview of the method. The slides from the talk are available for download in Acrobat (.pdf) format.

[Slides from "Sniffing around a black box" talk (726 KB)]

Revision history:

8 May 2010: added material that I covered verbally in presentation or that was mentioned during the discussion

22 April 2010: original slides (never posted)

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