Free LANGuardian Alternatives

The best free alternative to LANGuardian is Wireshark, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to LANGuardian and 18 is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to LANGuardian are Fiddler, tcpdump, Nethogs and netcat.

LANGuardian alternatives are mainly Network Analyzers but may also be Network Monitors or HTTP(S) Debuggers. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of LANGuardian.

LANGuardian alternatives page was last updated

LANGuardian

Paid • Proprietary
Network Analyzer

LANGuardian is the first and only deep packet inspection (DPI) software to provide SMB network managers with root cause...

More about LANGuardian

Wireshark
Is this is a good alternative?
Yes
No
Free • Open Source
Network Analyzer
Network Monitor
Mac
Windows
Linux
BSD
Snapcraft
Flathub
Homebrew
Chocolatey
52 Wireshark alternatives
Wireshark is the world's foremost network protocol analyzer. It lets you capture and interactively browse the traffic running on a computer network. It is the de facto (and often de jure) standard across many industries and educational institutions.
- - Wireshark is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to LANGuardian.
- - Wireshark is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to LANGuardian.
Suggest and vote on features
Wireshark Features
Detailed packet analysis
Network Usage History
Support for Android Things
Work Item Tracking
Fiddler
Is this is a good alternative?
Yes
No
Freemium • Proprietary
HTTP(S) Debugger
Web Debugger
Windows
47 Fiddler alternatives
Fiddler is a Web Debugging Proxy which logs all HTTP(S) traffic between your computer and the Internet. Fiddler allows you to inspect all HTTP(S) traffic, set breakpoints, and "fiddle" with incoming or outgoing data.
Suggest and vote on features
Fiddler Features
HTTP Monitoring
Debugging
HTTP Proxy
One click installation
Traffic Monitoring
tcpdump
Is this is a good alternative?
Yes
No
Free • Open Source
Network Analyzer
Mac
Windows
Linux
BSD
22 tcpdump alternatives
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.
Suggest and vote on features
tcpdump Features
Bib Tex Sniffer
Nethogs
Is this is a good alternative?
Yes
No
Free • Open Source
Linux
Xfce
21 Nethogs alternatives
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.
Suggest and vote on features
Nethogs Features
Traffic Monitoring
Network activity
netcat
Is this is a good alternative?
Yes
No
Free • Open Source
Network Monitor
Mac
Windows
Linux
20 netcat alternatives
Netcat is a featured networking utility which reads and writes data across network connections, using the TCP/IP protocol. It is designed to be a reliable "back-end" tool that can be used directly or easily driven by other programs and scripts.
Suggest and vote on features
netcat Features
Connect
Tunnel
Peer-To-Peer
Network Tools
Discontinued
The last version (0.7.1) was released in January 2004.
NetworkMiner
Is this is a good alternative?
Yes
No
Free • Open Source
Network Analyzer
Network Monitor
Windows
34 NetworkMiner alternatives
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.
Suggest and vote on features
NetworkMiner Features
1. PortableNetworkMiner can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Ettercap
Is this is a good alternative?
Yes
No
Free • Open Source
Network Analyzer
Mac
Windows
Linux
17 Ettercap alternatives
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.
Suggest and vote on features
Ettercap Features
Network Tools
Based on Ubuntu
Microsoft Network Monitor
Is this is a good alternative?
Yes
No
Free • Proprietary
Network Monitor
Windows
25 Microsoft Network Monitor alternatives
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.
Microsoft Network Monitor has no features, suggest some!
SmartSniff
Is this is a good alternative?
Yes
No
Free • Proprietary
HTTP(S) Debugger
Windows
33 SmartSniff alternatives
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...
Suggest and vote on features
SmartSniff Features
1. PortableSmartSniff can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Sockets
Packetyzer
Is this is a good alternative?
Yes
No
Free • Open Source
Windows
25 Packetyzer alternatives
Packetyzer provides a Windows user interface for the Ethereal packet capture and dissection library. Ethereal is used by network professionals around the world for troubleshooting, analysis, software and protocol development, and education.
Packetyzer has no features, suggest some!
Discontinued
iwScanner
Is this is a good alternative?
Yes
No
Free • Open Source
Linux
34 iwScanner alternatives
iwScanner is a wireless scanner for linux with an easy to use graphic interface.
Suggest and vote on features
iwScanner Features
Gtk
Scanner
Wireless
Discontinued
website is unresponsive, unable to locate packages
tcpflow
Is this is a good alternative?
Yes
No
Free • Open Source
Mac
Windows
Linux
14 tcpflow alternatives
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...
tcpflow has no features, suggest some!