Wirediff: a new tool to diff network captures
(WorldNews Germany)

Network debugging is hard, for many reasons. When dealing with protocols using the client/server model, the source of any problem can be: A buggy client A buggy server Both If you have a specification, it can be wrong or unspecified, and you have to trust whatever your reference implementation is doing. Exploring all those possibilities takes a lot of time and effort so ideally, you want to reduce and narrow things down before you start a deep dive. After debugging server message block (SMB) issues for a couple of years while working on the Linux kernel client and Samba server, I have found a couple of tricks and techniques that seem to work well for me and hopefully will work well for you....