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.
Open Source Wireshark AlternativesTop Network Analyzers & Network Monitors like Wireshark
The best open source alternative to Wireshark is tcpdump. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Wireshark and many of them is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Wireshark are NetworkMiner, Ettercap, PCAPdroid and Termshark.
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39 NetworkMiner alternativesNetworkMiner is a Network Forensic Analysis Tool (NFAT) for Windows. NetworkMiner can extract transmitted files and certificates from PCAP files containing HTTP, FTP, SMB, SMB2, TFTP and several other protocols.
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21 Ettercap alternativesEttercap 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.
45 PCAPdroid alternativesPCAPdroid 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.
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23 Sysdig alternativesSysdig is open source, system-level exploration: capture system state and activity from a running Linux instance, then save, filter and analyze. Think of it as strace + tcpdump + lsof + awesome sauce.
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- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
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- Mac
- Windows
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TraceWrangler is a network capture file toolkit running on Windows (or on Linux, using WINE) that supports PCAP as well as the new PCAPng file format, which is now the standard file format used by Wireshark.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Windows
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