Packet Sniffers

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  1. Wireshark icon
     945 likes

    Foremost network protocol analyzer with multi-platform support, deep protocol inspection, VoIP analysis, and extensive file format compatibility.

    • Network Analyzer
    • FreeOpen Source
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Snapcraft
    • Flathub
    • Homebrew
    • Chocolatey
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  2. tcpdump icon
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    tcpdump is a common packet analyzer that runs under the command line. It allows the user to intercept and display TCP/IP and other packets being transmitted or received over a network to which the computer is attached.

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  3. NetworkMiner icon
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    NetworkMiner is a Network Forensic Analysis Tool (NFAT) for Windows. NetworkMiner can parse PCAP files and regenerate/reassemble transmitted files and certificates from PCAP files with HTTP, FTP, SMB, SMB2, TFTP and several other protocols.

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    37 alternatives
  4. Kismet icon
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    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.

    • FreeOpen Source
    • Mac
    • Linux
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  5. Microsoft Network Monitor is a packet analyzer. It enables capturing, viewing, and analyzing network data and deciphering network protocols. It can be used to troubleshoot network problems and applications on the network.

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  6. CloudShark icon
     11 likes

    Streamline network analysis with a secure solution for efficient packet capture. Ideal for operators and IT teams, use on-premise or in cloud.

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  7. WinPcap icon
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    WinPcap is the first successful port of libpcap (originally developed for Unix-like operating systems) for Windows.

    • Discontinued
    • FreeOpen Source
    • Windows
  8. PCAPdroid icon
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    PCAPdroid is an android app to capture the phone traffic and analyze it remotely (e.g. via Wireshark). The traffic can be easily downloaded from a remote device thanks to the integrated HTTP server, or streamed to a remote UDP receiver.

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  9. SmartSniff icon
     13 likes

    SmartSniff is a packet sniffer that capture TCP/IP packets and display them as sequence of conversations between clients and servers. You can view the TCP/IP conversations in Ascii mode (for text-based protocols, like HTTP, SMTP, POP3 and FTP) or as hex dump (for non-text base...

    • FreeProprietary
    • Windows
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  10. Npcap icon
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    Npcap is a packet capture (and sending) library for Windows by the Nmap Project. It implements the open Pcap API using a custom Windows kernel driver alongside our Windows build of the excellent libpcap library.

    • FreeOpen Source
    • Windows
    4 alternatives
  11. Arkime icon
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    Moloch augments your current security infrastructure to store and index network traffic in standard PCAP format, providing fast, indexed access. An intuitive and simple web interface is provided for PCAP browsing, searching, and exporting.

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  12. ReqRes icon
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    ReqRes is an open-source, high-performance, modern native web debugging proxy for macOS. It lets you capture, inspect, modify, and intercept HTTP(S) traffic in real time.

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  13.  4 likes

    HTTP Analyzer is such a handy tool that allows you to monitor, trace, debug and analyze HTTP/HTTPS traffic in real-time. It is used by industry-leading companies including Microsoft, Cisco, AOL and Google.

    • PaidProprietary
    • Windows
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  14.  7 likes

    Scapy is a powerful interactive packet manipulation program. It is able to forge or decode packets of a wide number of protocols, send them on the wire, capture them, match requests and replies, and much more.

    • FreeOpen Source
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    20 alternatives
  15. Ostinato icon
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    Ostinato is a network packet and traffic generator and analyzer with a friendly GUI. It aims to be "Wireshark in Reverse" and thus become complementary to Wireshark. It features custom packet crafting with editing of any field for several protocols: Ethernet, 802.

    • PaidProprietary
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  16. WinDivert icon
     3 likes

    WinDivert allows user-mode applications to capture/modify/drop network packets sent to/from the Windows network stack.

    • FreeOpen Source
    • Windows
    12 alternatives
  17.  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...

    • FreeOpen Source
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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