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> Bruce,
>=20
> Please reconsider your interpretation of the word "debuggability".
> Debugging is not only something that R&D staff does in a lab. Debuggabili=
ty
> can also be interpreted as a network engineer's ability to debug what is
> happening in a production network.

Is tcpdump used in large production cloud environments? I would have=20
thought other less intrusive (and less manual) tools would be used? Isn't
that one of the benefits of SDN.