Many problems can be isolated by running a packet sniffer on your firewall. Our favorite is tetheral, a part of the ethereal package, because it will put the packets into a more readable form than tcpdump, which is another good option. tetheral is also handy for command line diagnosis work because it works without all the fuss of a GUI and all the "voodoo" of a more lower-level sniffer such as tcpdump.more...
The standard Perl distribution comes with a debugger, although it's really just another Perl program, perl5db.pl. Since it is just a program, I can use it as the basis for writing my own debuggers to suit my needs, or I can use the interface perl5db.pl provides to configure its actions. That's just the beginning, though. read more...
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