Ostinato Alternatives

Ostinato is described as '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' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to Ostinato for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Android and BSD apps. The best Ostinato alternative is Wireshark, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Ostinato are PCAPdroid, Scapy, packeth and Ixchariot.

Ostinato alternatives are mainly Network Analyzers but may also be Network Monitors. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Ostinato.

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Ostinato is a network packet and traffic generator and analyzer with a friendly GUI. It aims to be "Wireshark in...

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Wireshark
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Free • Open Source
Network Analyzer
Network Monitor
Mac
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BSD
Snapcraft
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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 Ostinato.
- - Wireshark is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Ostinato.
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Wireshark Features
Detailed packet analysis
Network Usage History
Support for Android Things
Work Item Tracking
Comments about Wireshark as a Alternative to Ostinato
This alternative is disputed. Wireshark is still a legitimate Ostinato alternative, but it might have issues that some users think are important.
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wireshark captures packets while ostinato allows creation/editing of packets
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Wireshark as much as i know hasn't started generating packet/traffic rather used for analyzing capture packets...please update with app similar to Osinato instead.
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PCAPdroid
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Free • Open Source
Network Analyzer
Network Monitor
Android
F-Droid
41 PCAPdroid alternatives
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.
- - PCAPdroid is the most popular Android alternative to Ostinato.
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PCAPdroid Features
Traffic Monitoring
HTTP Monitoring
Scapy
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Free • Open Source
Mac
Windows
Linux
20 Scapy alternatives
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.
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Scapy Features
Packet generator
packeth
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Free • Open Source
Mac
Windows
Linux
12 packeth alternatives
packeth is GUI and CLI packet generator tool for ethernet. Primary it is developed and maintained for Linux, but some ports for Windows and MAC have also be done. It allows you to create and send any possible packet or sequence of packets on the ethernet link.
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packeth Features
Packet generator
Ixchariot
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Paid • Proprietary
Windows
6 Ixchariot alternatives
IxChariot is the industrys leading test tool for simulating real-world applications to predict device and system performance under realistic load conditions. Comprised of the IxChariot Console, Performance Endpoints and IxProfile, the IxChariot product family offers thorough...
- - Ixchariot is the most popular commercial alternative to Ostinato.
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qcheck
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Free • Proprietary
Windows
7 qcheck alternatives
Qcheck, the network troubleshooting utility from Ixia, quickly checks network response time, throughput, and streaming performance. It even runs anywhere-to-anywhere traceroute!
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AirSnare
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Free • Proprietary
Network Analyzer
Network Monitor
Windows
35 AirSnare alternatives
AirSnare is another tool to add to your Wireless Intrusion Detection Toolbox. AirSnare will alert you to unfriendly MAC addresses on your network and will also alert you to DHCP requests taking place.
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Discontinued
The official website is no longer available. Last version, 1.5, released in May 2006, can be still downloaded from Download.com
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Appknox
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Paid • Proprietary
Online
Self-Hosted
Software as a Service (SaaS)
43 Appknox alternatives
Appknox is a mobile app security testing solution to detect and fix vulnerabilities in mobile apps using a combination of automated and manual tests.
- - Appknox is the most popular Web-based, SaaS & Self-Hosted alternative to Ostinato.
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Appknox Features
Static analysis
API Scan
Network Scanner
HttpCanary
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Freemium • Proprietary
Network Analyzer
Network Monitor
Android
42 HttpCanary alternatives
HttpCanary supports packets capture and injection. With this app, you can test your mobile Rest APIs very very easy. Besides, HttpCanary provides multiple view browsers, such as raw viewer, hex viewer, preview viewer and so on.
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HttpCanary Features
Traffic Monitoring
Termshark
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Free • Open Source
Mac
Windows
Linux
BSD
50 Termshark alternatives
If you're debugging on a remote machine with a large pcap and no desire to scp it back to your desktop, termshark can help!
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Remote Debugging
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Packet Capture
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Free • Proprietary
Network Analyzer
Network Monitor
Android
42 Packet Capture alternatives
Packet capture/Network traffic sniffer app with SSL decryption. Not that feature rich yet, but it's a powerful debugging tool especially when developing an app.
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Packet Capture Features
HTTP Monitoring
Traffic Monitoring