NetworkMiner Alternatives for Linux

There are many alternatives to NetworkMiner for Linux if you are looking for a replacement. The best Linux alternative is Wireshark, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to NetworkMiner and many of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to NetworkMiner are Charles, Proxyman, tcpdump and Nethogs.

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  1. Wireshark icon
     994 likes

    Wireshark is a premier network protocol analyzer used globally in industries and education, offering multi-platform support, deep protocol inspection, powerful display filters, and VoIP analysis. It allows both live capture and offline analysis, supporting various networks and protocols.

    68 Wireshark alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2009

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Snapcraft
    • Arch Linux
    • Flathub
    • Fedora
    • FreeBSD
    • Homebrew
    • Chocolatey
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  2. Charles icon
     69 likes

    Charles is an HTTP proxy / HTTP monitor / Reverse Proxy that enables a developer to view all of the HTTP and SSL / HTTPS traffic between their machine and the Internet. This includes requests, responses and the HTTP headers (which contain the cookies and caching information).

    41 Charles alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2009

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • iPhone
    • iPad
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  3. Proxyman icon
     17 likes

    Monitor, intercept and debug HTTP/HTTPS and WebSocket traffic on macOS, iOS, Windows, and Linux. Includes advanced features such as Breakpoint, Map Local/Remote, scripting, filtering, reverse proxy, DNS spoofing, and automation for backend development.

    70 Proxyman alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2019

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad
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  4. tcpdump icon
     60 likes

    Command-line packet analyzer for monitoring, capturing, and filtering network traffic in real time. Supports TCP/IP protocols, pcap file export, BPF syntax, timestamped outputs, and works on UNIX-like systems with both wired and wireless interfaces.

    32 tcpdump alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2010

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  5.  21 likes

    NetHogs is a small 'net top' tool. Instead of breaking the traffic down per protocol or per subnet, like most tools do, it groups bandwidth by process.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Since

    • Since 2010

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Xfce
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  6. Impacket icon
     2 likes

    Impacket is a collection of Python classes for working with network protocols. Impacket is focused on providing low-level programmatic access to the packets and for some protocols (e.g. SMB1-3 and MSRPC) the protocol implementation itself.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Since

    • Since 2026

    Platforms

    • Python
    • Docker
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Windows
    • BSD
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  7. Ettercap icon
     19 likes

    Ettercap is a suite for man in the middle attacks on LAN. It features sniffing of live connections, content filtering on the fly and many other interesting tricks.

    20 Ettercap alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2010

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  8. Edgeshark icon
     1 like

    Discover and capture container network traffic from your comfy desktop Wireshark, using a containerized service and a Wireshark plugin.

    47 Edgeshark alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2025

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Mac
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  9. iwScanner icon
     7 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Since

    • Since 2010

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  10.  3 likes

    tcpflow, a TCP Flow Recorder, is a program that captures data transmitted as part of TCP connections (flows), and stores the data in a way that is convenient for protocol analysis or debugging. A program like 'tcpdump' shows a summary of packets seen on the wire, but...

    Cost / License

    Since

    • Since 2010

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  11. Weer icon
     1 like

    A HTTP protocol debugger with Chrome DevTools frontend interface.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Since

    • Since 2019

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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