Packet Sniffers

packet-cd produces a Linux kernel module that provides packet writing support for CD-R/W drives, enabling ordinary read-write mount of CD-ROM drives capable of supporting packet/incremental recording. Platforms: *nix

Packet generator for security research (currently RADIUS protocol). Create either large highly variable test runs or short programs demonstrating a characteristic sequence of packets. Platforms: *nix

AirGrab Network Packet Analyzer is a professional network analyzer (also known as protocol analyzer and packet sniffer), AirGrab Network Packet Analyzer performs real-time packet capturing, network monitoring, advanced protocol analyzing, in-depth packet decoding. It allows you to get a clear... Platforms: Mac

Wake-on-LAN Packet sniffer is designed to troubleshoot and setup Wake-on-LAN entire your Network. It allows to check whether the target machine recieve the packet. Program will display all incoming "Magic Packets". Platforms: Windows

Cat Karat Packet Builder is a custom network packets generator for Win32. Use this tool to check network protection against attacks and intruders. Protocols : IP, TCP, UDP, ICMP, IGMP, ARP, VLAN, MPLS, BPDU, etc. Platforms: Windows

fl0p is a passive L7 flow fingerprinter that examines TCP/UDP/ICMP packet sequences. It can also can peek into cryptographic tunnels, can tell human beings and robots apart, and performs a couple of other infosec-related tricks. This approach differs from the techniques used by most other... Platforms: *nix

Hafiye is a POSIX-compliant, customizable TCP/IP packet sniffer. When I looked at the source code for various famous sniffers, Ive noticed that they all had all seperate .C files for interpreting various protocols. Why not have a sniffer that can understand user-supplied protocol details? Here it... Platforms: *nix

Net::Packet::CDP::TypeSoftwareVersion is a Perl module for Cisco Discovery Protocol Software Version extension header. SYNOPSIS use Net::Packet::Consts qw(:cdp); require Net::Packet::CDP::TypeSoftwareVersion; # Build a layer my $layer = Net::Packet::CDP::TypeSoftwareVersion->new( type =>... Platforms: *nix

Cocoa Packet Analyzer is a native Mac OS X implementation of a network protocol analyzer and packet sniffer. It uses the industry-standard PCAP packet capture format for reading, capturing and writing packet trace files.Supports the Cocoa bundles technology for creating TCP/IP application layer... Platforms: Mac

WinPcap is the industry-standard tool for link-layer network access in Windows environments: it allows applications to capture and transmit network packets bypassing the protocol stack, and has additional useful features, including kernel-level packet filtering, a network statistics engine and... Platforms: Windows

A Java CIGI packet stuffer which supports encoding/decoding a limited number of CIGI 3.3 packets. The library is licensed under the LGPL. Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

jpcap is a set of Java classes which provide an interface and system for network packet capture. A protocol library and tool for visualizing network traffic is included.jpcap utilizes libpcap, a widely deployed system library for packet capture. Platforms: Windows, Mac, Solaris, Linux

Generic packet visualization tool for generating flow diagrams from formatted logs. Can be used for cache coherency diagrams, software interaction diagrams or to plot network communications. Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

Provides access to the Smack XMPP client library packet extensions via XMLBeans binding framework. Mapper converts XML Beans document objects to the Smack packet extensions and vice versa. Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

pksh, the Packet Shell, is a hack of the Unix tcsh shell for packets, bytes, hosts and protocols counts mainly implemented to include passive network monitoring functionalities into a shell. pksh is: * a shell * a pcap-based network sniffer, like the popular tcpdump and ntop * a query... Platforms: *nix

Easy yet advanced, quad-mode packet analyzer, Mode 1 (Packet Interceptor) While in this mode, PIAFCTM captures and analyzes network data packets. PIAFCTM allows you to view special information encoded in each packet such as the source and destination IP addresses, the source and destination... Platforms: Windows

PRTG Traffic Grapher is an easy to use Windows application for monitoring and classifying bandwidth usage. It provides system administrators with live readings and long-term usage trends for their network devices. PRTG is mainly used for bandwidth usage monitoring, but may also be used to monitor... Platforms: Windows

Free software serial port monitor, Com Rs232 sniffer with communication packet data analyzer. This monitoring utility can spy, capture, view, analyze, test com ports activity performing com port connection and traffic analysis with data acquisition and control. You can use this system as device... Platforms: Windows

Aimwatch is a packet sniffer designed to reconstruct AOL Instant Messenger and ICQ information by passively collecting packets from the network.. Platforms: *nix

HardWall Firewall is an iptables firewall script that provides port forwarding, packet filtering, stateful packet inspection, port redirection, masquerading, SNAT, DNAT, NAT, and bridging. HardWall Firewall functions as both a workstation firewall and an IP forwarding firewall. Whats New in... Platforms: *nix