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Network Analyzers

Network Monitor – real-time network connection monitoring tool

December 4, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet, Security

Network Monitor is real-time network connection monitoring tool displaying active connections with live I/O statistics

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Network Analyzers

16 Best Free and Open Source Network Analyzers

October 14, 2024 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup, Security

A network analyzer (also known as a packet analyzer, packet sniffer, or protocol analyzer) is software that intercepts and logs traffic that passes over a computer network or part of a network.

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Network Analyzers

tcpflow – TCP/IP packet demultiplexer

October 10, 2024 Steve Emms Security

tcpflow is a program that captures data transmitted as part of TCP connections (flows), and stores the data.

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Network Analyzers

jomon – network forensics and sniffer tool

October 7, 2024 Steve Emms Security

Jomon is a network forensics and passive sniffer tool. It monitors all incoming/outgoing network traffic, without the use of libpcap.

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Network Analyzers

Wireshark – network packet analyzer

November 5, 2023 Steve Emms Security

Wireshark is a network packet analyzer. A network packet analyzer captures network packets and tries to display that packet data as detailed as possible.

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Network Analyzers

netsniff-ng – Swiss army knife for network plumbing

November 5, 2023 Steve Emms Security

netsniff-ng is a performant network analyzer and networking toolkit. It’s described as the Swiss army knife for network packets.

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Network Analyzers

darkstat – captures network traffic

November 5, 2023 Steve Emms Security

darkstat is a network statistics gatherer. It captures network traffic on a specified interface, calculates statistics about usage, and serves reports over HTTP.

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Network Analyzers

dsniff – collection of tools for network auditing and penetration testing

November 5, 2023 Steve Emms Security

dsniff is a collection of tools for network auditing and penetration testing. dsniff, filesnarf, mailsnarf, msgsnarf, urlsnarf, and webspy passively monitor.

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Network Analyzers

ngrep – grep applied to the network layer

November 5, 2023 Steve Emms Security

ngrep strives to provide most of GNU grep’s common features, applying them to the network layer. ngrep is a pcap-aware tool.

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Network Analyzers

tcpdump – command-line packet analyzer

November 5, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Security

tcpdump is a common computer network debugging tool that runs under the command line. Intercept and display TCP/IP and other packets.

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Network Analyzers

sniffit – CORBA based sniffer system

November 5, 2023 Steve Emms Security

sniffIt is a Distributed Sniffer System. Capture network traffic from an unique machine using a graphical client application.

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Network Analyzers

EtherApe – graphical network monitor

November 5, 2023 Steve Emms Security

EtherApe is a network traffic browser. It displays network activity graphically.

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Network Analyzers

Justniffer – network TCP Packet Sniffer

November 5, 2023 Steve Emms Security

justniffer is a network protocol analyzer that captures network traffic and produces logs.

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Network Analyzers

sniffer – alternative network traffic sniffer

November 5, 2023 Steve Emms Security

sniffer is an alternative network traffic sniffer that’s designed for network troubleshooting.

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Network Analyzers

sniffglue – secure multithreaded packet sniffer

November 5, 2023 Steve Emms Security

sniffglue is a network sniffer. Network packets are parsed concurrently using a thread pool to utilize all cpu cores.

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Kismet – networking software

November 5, 2023 Steve Emms Security

Kismet is an 802.11 layer2 wireless network detector, sniffer, and intrusion detection system. It works with wireless cards which supports raw monitoring.

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Ettercap – comprehensive suite for man in the middle attacks

November 5, 2023 Steve Emms Security

Ettercap 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 tricks.

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IPTraf-ng – console based network statistic monitoring utility

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

IPTraf-ng is a console based network statistic monitoring utility. It’s a fork of IPTraf.

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