User talk:Netcrash87

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Proposed deletion of Netsniff-ng

The article Netsniff-ng has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Not notable software.

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Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{dated prod}} will stop the Proposed Deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. The Speedy Deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and Articles for Deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Pontificalibus (talk) 11:14, 21 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Articles for deletion nomination of Netsniff-ng

I have nominated Netsniff-ng, an article that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Netsniff-ng. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time.

Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. Pontificalibus (talk) 11:40, 21 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

netsniff-ng

My opinion about whether there should be a netsniff-ng page or not is that there should be one if it meets the appropriate Wikipedia criteria for notability; this requires some level of consensus about notability, i.e. just because you or I think it's notable, that doesn't mean it is notable.

By the way

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).

is not accurate as of libpcap 1.0.0, as 1.0.0 and later support memory-mapped capture on both Linux and FreeBSD.

My opinion about whether the packet analyzer page should cite, as a notable packet analyzer, something not notable enough to have a Wikipedia page is "no". Guy Harris (talk) 04:16, 22 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]