Nprobe: Network protocol analysis
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Observing Web Browser Behaviour Using the Nprobe Passive
Monitoring Architecture
James Hall, Ian Pratt and Ian Leslie
Cabernet 2001
We introduce a novel passive network monitoring architecture which
enables us to capture and integrate data from different levels of the
protocol stack using a probe which can be placed at any arbitrary point
in the network. We subject the data gathered to off-line analysis and
show how, by modelling the dynamics of the protocols observed, we are
able to extract information which would not be available using existing
means. In this paper, we show how the technique can be used to observe
the network behaviour of Web Browsers, and the way in which they use TCP
connections.
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