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It allows the user to see traffic load on a network over time in graphical form. It was originally developed by Tobias Oetiker and Dave Rand to monitor router traffic, but has developed into a tool that can create graphs and statistics for almost anything. MRTG is written in Perl and can run on Windows, Linux, Unix, Mac OS and NetWare.
Cacti is an open-source, web-based network monitoring, performance, fault and configuration management framework designed as a front-end application for the open-source, industry-standard data logging tool RRDtool. [3] Cacti allows a user to poll services at predetermined intervals and graph the resulting data. Through the use of Cacti plugins ...
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 trademark issues. [5]
PRTG (Paessler Router Traffic Grapher) is a network monitoring software developed by Paessler GmbH. It monitors system conditions like bandwidth usage or uptime and collect statistics from miscellaneous hosts such as switches, routers, servers, and other devices and applications.
Snort is a free open source network intrusion detection system (IDS) and intrusion prevention system (IPS) [4] created in 1998 by Martin Roesch, founder and former CTO of Sourcefire. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Snort is now developed by Cisco , which purchased Sourcefire in 2013.
Free and open-source software portal; 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 tool is often used for network troubleshooting. By showing a list of routers traversed, and the average round-trip time as well as packet loss to each router, it allows users to identify links between two given routers responsible for certain fractions of the overall latency or packet loss through the network. [ 4 ]
EtherApe, a graphical tool for monitoring network traffic and bandwidth usage in real time. Firesheep, a discontinued extension for the Firefox web browser that captured packets and performed session hijacking; iftop, a tool for displaying bandwidth usage (like top for network traffic) Kismet, for 802.11 wireless LANs