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 Npcap, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like WinPcap are Microsoft Network Monitor, WinDump, WinDivert and Win10Pcap.
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.
- - Npcap is the most popular Windows alternative to WinPcap.
- - Npcap is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to WinPcap.
- 25 Microsoft Network Monitor alternatives
- Free • Proprietary
- Network Monitor
- Windows
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.
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.
WinDump Features
WinDivert allows user-mode applications to capture/modify/drop network packets sent to/from the Windows network stack.
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.
- 4 PcapPlusPlus alternatives
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
- Mac
- Linux
- Android
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.
- - PcapPlusPlus is the most popular Android, Mac & Linux alternative to WinPcap.
PcapPlusPlus Features