5 Best Wireshark alternative packet sniffers

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Wireshark

Wireshark & Alternative tools FAQs ⭐Can Wireshark do deep packet inspection or do I need something else?⭐Is Wireshark a vulnerability scanner?⭐Is Wireshark good at port scanning?⭐Which tool is a command line alternative to Wireshark?

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Ettercap

Ettercap uses the libpcap library to capture data packet traces. The Ettercap software itself can create several network attacks including ARP poisoning and MAC address masquerading. Ettercap is a powerful hacker tool with many more facilities than those of Wireshark. It can capture SSL security certificates, alter packet contents in transit, drop connections, and capture passwords. System defenders also get useful facilities in Ettercap. It can identify malicious users and isolate them from the network. If you want to gather evidence, you can track the actions of suspicious users and record their deeds instead of banning them. Ettercap is way more powerful than Wireshark.

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Kismet

Kismet’s data collector doesn’t probe networks like other packet sniffers, so intrusion detection systems can’t spot its activities. This makes it a powerful tool for hackers who have access to a computer that is connected to the network. Standard network monitoring systems will spot the presence of the device on which Kismet is running, but won’t see that the program is gathering data packets on the network. The default mode of Kismet only collects packet headers, but it can also be used to reap network traffic dumps which captures all packets including the data payloads. Packets can be analyzed, sorted, filtered, and saved to a capture file. If you don’t like the front end of Kismet, you can open a saved file in a different tool for analysis.

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SmartSniff

SmartSniff works on Windows environments. The packet sniffer works on wired networks and is free to use. The collector can operate on wireless networks but only those wifi systems that include the computer that hosts the sniffer program.

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Etherape

EtherApe is a free utility that runs on Linux, Unix, and Mac OS. It creates a network map by picking up connected devices’ messages. The hosts on the network are plotted on the map and labeled with their IP addresses. EtherApe then captures all of the packets traveling between those hosts and displays them on the map in real-time. Each transfer is depicted by a color, which represents its protocol or application.

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Savvius Omnipeek A traffic analyzer with a packet capture add-on that has detailed packet analysis functions. This tool installs on Windows.

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WinPcap

The program includes a collector. However, this native system isn’t very effective and it is more usual to install WinPcap to gather packets. Packets get captured on demand — you turn the capture on and then off in the console. The top pane of the console shows connections between computers. When you click on one of these records, the traffic of that connection displays in the bottom panel. Plain text traffic is shown as is and you can view encrypted packets as a hexadecimal data dump. Captured data can be filtered to show only TCP, UDP, or ICMP packets and each packet gets tagged according to the application that it relates to. You can save packets to a pcap file to be reloaded into the interface later, or for analysis with a different tool.

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