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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tcpflow – TCP/IP packet demultiplexer
tcpflow is a program that captures data transmitted as part of TCP connections (flows), and stores the data.
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jomon – network forensics and sniffer tool
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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Wireshark – network packet analyzer
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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netsniff-ng – Swiss army knife for network plumbing
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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darkstat – captures network traffic
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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dsniff – collection of tools for network auditing and penetration testing
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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ngrep – grep applied to the network layer
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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tcpdump – command-line packet analyzer
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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sniffit – CORBA based sniffer system
sniffIt is a Distributed Sniffer System. Capture network traffic from an unique machine using a graphical client application.
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