WinPcap Alternatives

WinPcap is described as 'The first successful port of libpcap (originally developed for Unix-like operating systems) for Windows' and is an app in the development category. There are six alternatives to WinPcap for Windows, Linux, Android and Mac. The best WinPcap alternative is Microsoft Network Monitor, which is free. Other great apps like WinPcap are Npcap, PcapPlusPlus, WinDump and Win10Pcap.

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    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.

    30 Microsoft Network Monitor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
    • Microsoft Network Monitor is the most popular Windows alternative to WinPcap.

    • Microsoft Network Monitor is the most popular free alternative to WinPcap.

    • Microsoft Network Monitor is Free and ProprietaryWinPcap is Free and Open Source
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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.

    4 Npcap alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Riverbed Technology: "WinPcap Has Ceased Development. We recommend Npcap. The WinPcap project has ceased development and WinPcap and WinDump are no longer maintained. We recommend using Npcap instead".

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    • Npcap is the most popular Open Source alternative to WinPcap.

    • Npcap is Free and Open SourceWinPcap is also Free and Open Source
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    PcapPlusPlus is a multiplatform C++ library for capturing, parsing and crafting of network packets. It is designed to be efficient, powerful and easy to use.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Android
     
    • PcapPlusPlus is the most popular Android, Mac & Linux alternative to WinPcap.

    • PcapPlusPlus is Free and Open SourceWinPcap is also Free and Open Source
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    WinDump is the Windows version of tcpdump, the command line network analyzer for UNIX. WinDump is fully compatible with tcpdump and can be used to watch, diagnose and save to disk network traffic according to various complex rules.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Win10Pcap is written as a personal project by Daiyuu Nobori, a Ph.D student of Computer Science of University of Tsukuba, Japan. The many parts of Win10Pcap was from WinPcap.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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