Top 15 Most Popular Packet Capture Softwares | Dec 2024

Here are the top 15 most popular packet capture softwares as derived from our TpSort Score which is a continually popular score, it denotes an estimated popularity of a software.

1. PacketsDump

PacketsDump Packetsdump is a free sniffer tool, it is also a general purpose network diagnostic tool for LAN administrators, security professionals, programmers and students who are interested in network traffic transmitted between PC and the whole LAN. There are some typical uses of Packetsdump:- Packets Capture and Playback- In-depth Packet Decoding-......

2. Pypacker

Pypacker Pypacker is a fast and simple packet creation and parsing library for Python. It lets you create packets manually by defining every aspect of all header data and dissect packets by parsing captured packet bytes.Currently minimum supported protocols are: Ethernet, IP, ICMP, TCP, UDP, HTTP, ARP, STP, OSPF, PPP, PPPoE,......

3. Intercepter-NG

Intercepter-NG Intercepter-NG is a multifunctional network toolkit for various types of IT specialists.The main purpose is to recover *interesting* data from the network stream and perform different kinds of MiTM attacks. Intercepter-NG offers the following features: + Sniffing passwords\hashes of the types: ICQ\IRC\AIM\FTP\IMAP\POP3\SMTP\LDAP\BNC\SOCKS\HTTP\WWW\NNTP\CVS\TELNET\MRA\DC++\VNC\MYSQL\ORACLE\NTLM\KRB5\RADIUS + Sniffing chat messages of: ICQ\AIM\JABBER\YAHOO\MSN\IRC\MRA +......

4. darkstat

darkstat darkstat is a packet sniffer which runs as a background process, captures network traffic, calculates statistics and serves them to a web browser.......

5. CloudShark

CloudShark A web based platform that lets you view, analyze, and share packet capture files in a browser. Works in Safari for iPad and iPhone.......

6. BandwidthD

BandwidthD BandwidthD tracks usage of TCP/IP network subnets and builds html files with graphs to display utilization. Charts are built by individual IPs, and by default display utilization over 2 day, 8 day, 40 day, and 400 day periods. Furthermore, each ip address's utilization can be logged out at intervals of......

7. PacketSled

PacketSled PacketSled is next generation network forensics and breach detection. Continuously monitor for advanced threats and policy violations missed by other defenses, then analyze and remediate in record time. PacketSled provides three types of threat detection: IOC signature matching, file extraction and analysis and behavioral analytics. PacketSled's network forensics platform provides......

8. trafshow

trafshow TrafShow continuously display the information regarding packet traffic on the configured network interface that match the boolean expression. It periodically sorts and updates this information. This funny program may be useful for locating suspicious network traffic on the net or to evaluate current utilization of the network interface.......

9. tcpflow

tcpflow tcpflow, a TCP Flow Recorder, is a program that captures data transmitted as part of TCP connections (flows), and stores the data in a way that is convenient for protocol analysis or debugging. A program like 'tcpdump' shows a summary of packets seen on the wire, but usually doesn't store......

10. Pirni Pro

Pirni Pro Pirni Pro is a network security tool designed for iOS, and specifically for iPhone and iPod Touch devices. It is capable of intercepting traffic on a wireless network segment, capturing passwords, and regular expressions entered by the user.The core system of Pirni, written in C, is open-source software, and licensed......

11. Ethereal

Ethereal Ethereal® is used by network professionals around the world for troubleshooting, analysis, software and protocol development, and education. It has all of the standard features you would expect in a protocol analyzer, and several features not seen in any other product. Its open source license allows talented experts in the......

12. packeth

packeth packeth is GUI and CLI packet generator tool for ethernet. Primary it is developed and maintained for Linux, but some ports for Windows and MAC have also be done. It allows you to create and send any possible packet or sequence of packets on the ethernet link. Main advantages are......

13. Packet Peeper

Packet Peeper Packet Peeper is a free network protocol analyzer (packet sniffer) for Mac OS X. TCP stream reassembly.Privilege separation.Simultaneous capture sessions.Filters, which may be defined at any time. Packet Peeper uses the same syntax as tcpdump and Wireshark (or any other program that uses the libpcap library). For documentation see the......

14. RawCap

RawCap RawCap is a free command line sniffer for network activity on Windows.Properties of RawCap:Can sniff any interface that has got an IP address, including 127.0.0.1 (localhost/loopback)RawCap.exe is just 23 kBNo external libraries or DLL's needed other than .NET Framework 2.0No installation required, just download RawCap.exe and sniffCan sniff most interface......

15. Microsoft Message Analyzer

Microsoft Message Analyzer Message Analyzer enables you to capture, display, and analyze protocol messaging traffic; and to trace and assess system events and other messages from Windows components.official blog: http://blogs.technet.com/b/messageanalyzer/......