CommView 5.5

CommView is a program for monitoring Internet and Local Area Network (LAN) activity capable of capturing and analyzing network packets. It gathers information about data passing through your dial-up connection or Ethernet card and decodes the analyzed data.

With CommView you can see the list of network connections and vital IP statistics and examine individual packets. Packets are decoded down to the lowest layer with full analysis of the most widespread protocols. Full access to raw data is also provided. Captured packets can be saved to log files for future analysis. A flexible system of filters makes it possible to drop packets you don't need or capture only those packets that you wish to capture. Configurable alarms can notify you about important events, such as suspicious packets, high bandwidth utilization, or unknown addresses.

CommView is a helpful tool for LAN administrators, security professionals, network programmers, or anyone who wants to have a full picture of the traffic going through one's PC or LAN segment. This application requires an Ethernet, Wireless Ethernet, or Token Ring network card supporting the NDIS 3.0 driver standard, or a standard dial-up adapter.

What you can do with CommView
View detailed IP connections statistics: IP addresses, ports, sessions, etc.
Reconstruct TCP sessions.
Map packets to the application that is sending or receiving them.
View protocols distribution, bandwidth utilization, and network nodes charts and tables.
Generate traffic reports in real time.
Browse captured and decoded packets in real time.
Search for strings or hex data in captured packet contents.
Import and export packets in Sniffer®, EtherPeek™, AiroPeek™, Observer®, NetMon, and Tcpdump formats, export packets in hex and text formats.
Configure alarms that can notify you about important events, such as suspicious packets, high bandwidth utilization, unknown addresses, etc.
Create your own plug-ins for decoding any protocol.
Exchange data with your application over TCP/IP.
Export any IP address to SmartWhois for quick, easy IP lookup.
Capture loopback traffic (a new, unique feature in version 4.1).
And much more!

CommView features full decoding of the following protocols: ARP, BCAST, BGP, BMP, CDP, DAYTIME, DDNS, DHCP, DIAG, DNS, EIGRP, FTP, G.723, GRE, H.225, H.261, H.263, H.323, HTTP, HTTPS, ICMP, ICQ, IGMP, IGRP, IMAP, IPsec, IPv4, IPv6, IPX, HSRP, LDAP, MS SQL, NCP, NDS, NetBIOS, NFS, NLSP, NNTP, NTP, OSPF, POP3, PPP, PPPoE, RARP, RADIUS, RDP, RIP, RIPX, RMCP, RPC, RSVP, RTP, RTCP, RTSP, SAP, SER, SIP, SMB, SMTP, SNA, SNMP, SNTP, SOCKS, SPX, SSH, TCP, TELNET, TFTP, TIME, TLS, UDP, VTP, WAP, WDOG, YMSG, 802.1Q, 802.1X.

Requirements:	Pentium II of higher, 32 RAM, 6 Mb HDD
Release Date:	March 21, 2007
Install Support:	Install and Uninstall
Platforms:	Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003 , Windows Vista Starter,Windows Vista Home Basic,Windows Vista Home Premium,Windows Vista Business,Windows Vista Enterprise,Windows Vista Ultimate,Windows Vista Home Basic x64,Windows Vista Home Premium x64,Windows Vista Business x64
Keyword:	Capturing,  Monitoring,  Network,  Packet,  Sniffer,  Traffic
Version 5.5 Changes:	Full IPv6 support throughout the application, UTF-8 support in TCP session reconstruction, optional reassembly of fragmented IP packets, A new alarm type: the application can pronounce messages, a few decoding and session reconstruction improvements, a few other bugfixes.
Users rating:	0/10