What are your recommended tools and frameworks for network development on Linux?
What are your favourite network-tools, which you use to troubleshoot or design (as in conceptualize) your network-application code. Ethereal/Wireshark Nmap any particular simulators (e.g. ns) any special purpose sniffer any particular frameworks, (e.g. iptables) I am looking at must have, and good/advantage to have tools/framework ...