netsniff-ng Alternatives for Linux

There are many alternatives to netsniff-ng for Linux if you are looking for a replacement. The best Linux alternative is Aircrack-ng, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to netsniff-ng and five of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to netsniff-ng are Kismet, reaver, netscanner and iwScanner.

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  1. Aircrack-ng icon
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    Aircrack-ng is an 802.11 WEP and WPA-PSK keys cracking program that can recover keys once enough data packets have been captured. It implements the standard FMS attack along with some optimizations like KoreK attacks, as well as the all-new PTW attack, thus making the attack...

    4 Aircrack-ng alternatives

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Fern Wifi Cracker
     
  2. Kismet icon
     19 likes

    Kismet is an 802.11 layer2 wireless network detector, sniffer, and intrusion detection system. Kismet will work with any wireless card which supports raw monitoring (rfmon) mode, and (with appropriate hardware) can sniff 802.11b, 802.11a, 802.11g, and 802.11n traffic.

    36 Kismet alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  3. reaver icon
     14 likes

    Reaver implements a brute force attack against Wifi Protected Setup (WPS) registrar PINs in order to recover WPA/WPA2 passphrases. Reaver has been designed to be a robust and practical attack against WPS, and has been tested against a wide variety of access points and WPS...

    11 reaver alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  4.  1 like

    A command-line network scanning tool.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  5. iwScanner icon
     7 likes

    iwScanner is a wireless scanner for linux with an easy to use graphic interface.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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