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Packet capture is the process of intercepting and logging traffic. As data streams flow across the network, the analyzer captures each packet and, if needed, decodes the packet's raw data, showing the values of various fields in the packet, and analyzes its content according to the appropriate RFC or other specifications.
Wireshark is a free and open-source packet analyzer.It is used for network troubleshooting, analysis, software and communications protocol development, and education. . Originally named Ethereal, the project was renamed Wireshark in May 2006 due to tradema
tcptrace is a free and open-source tool for analyzing TCP dump files. [1] [2] [3] It accepts as input files produced by packet-capture programs, including tcpdump, Wireshark, and snoop.
tcpdump, a tool for capturing and dumping packets for further analysis, and WinDump, the Windows port of tcpdump. Zeek, an intrusion detection system and network monitoring platform. URL Snooper, locate the URLs of audio and video files in order to allow recording them. WhatPulse, a statistical (input, network, uptime) measuring application.
Snort performs protocol analysis, content searching and matching. The program can also be used to detect probes or attacks , including, but not limited to, operating system fingerprinting attempts, semantic URL attacks , buffer overflows , server message block probes, and stealth port scans .
Free and open-source software portal; Scapy is a packet manipulation tool for computer networks, [3] [4] originally written in Python by Philippe Biondi. It can forge or decode packets, send them on the wire, capture them, and match requests and replies.
Omnipeek is a packet analyzer software tool from Savvius, a LiveAction company, [3] for network troubleshooting and protocol analysis. It supports an application programming interface (API) for plugins .
Zeek is a free and open-source software network analysis framework. Vern Paxson began development work on Zeek in 1995 at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. [3] Zeek is a network security monitor (NSM) but can also be used as a network intrusion detection system (NIDS). [4] The Zeek project releases the software under the BSD license.