Packet Sender Alternatives

Packet Sender is described as 'can send and receive UDP, TCP, and SSL on the ports of your choosing. All servers and clients may run simultaneously' and is an app in the network & admin category. There are three alternatives to Packet Sender for Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Chrome OS. The best alternative is netcat, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Packet Sender are SmartSniff and pwncat.

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

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Packet Sender

Freemium • Open Source

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Packet Sender can send and receive UDP, TCP, and SSL on the ports of your choosing. All servers and clients may run...

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netcat
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Free • Open Source
Network Monitor
Mac
Windows
Linux
20 alternatives to netcat
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.
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netcat Features
Connect
Tunnel
Peer-To-Peer
Network Tools
Discontinued
The last version (0.7.1) was released in January 2004.
SmartSniff
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Free • Proprietary
HTTP(S) Debugger
Windows
33 alternatives to SmartSniff
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...
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SmartSniff Features
1. PortableSmartSniff can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Sockets
pwncat
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Free • Open Source
Mac
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Chrome OS
BSD
3 alternatives to pwncat
pwncat - netcat on steroids with Firewall, IDS/IPS evasion, bind and reverse shell, self-injecting shell and port forwarding magic - and its fully scriptable with Python (PSE).
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pwncat Features
Port Forwarding
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netcat

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SmartSniff

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pwncat

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