Sniffnet is a network monitoring tool to help you easily keep track of your internet traffic.
Whether you want to gather statistics, or you need to inspect more in depth what’s going on in your network, this app will get you covered.
Sniffnet is a technical tool, but at the same time it strongly focuses on the overall user experience: most of the network analyzers out there are cumbersome to use, while one of Sniffnet’s cornerstones is to be usable with ease by everyone.
This is free and open source software.
Features include:
- Choose a network adapter of your PC to inspect.
- Select a set of filters to apply to the observed traffic.
- View overall statistics about your Internet traffic.
- View real-time charts about traffic intensity.
- Keep an eye on your network even when the application is minimized.
- Export comprehensive capture reports as PCAP files.
- Identify 6000+ upper layer services, protocols, trojans, and worms.
- Find out domain name and ASN of the hosts you are exchanging traffic with.
- Identify connections in your local network.
- Discover the geographical location of the remote hosts.
- Save your favorite network hosts.
- Inspect each of your network connections in real time.
- Set custom notifications to inform you when defined network events occur.
- Choose the style that fits you the most, including custom themes support.
Website: sniffnet.app
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Giuliano Bellini and contributors
License: Apache License 2.0 or MIT License
Sniffnet is written in Rust. Learn Rust with our recommended free books and free tutorials
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Thanks I didn’t know about this 🙂
By the way the GitHub link is wrong, here’s the right one
Thanks, GitHub link now fixed.