Comparison of packet sniffers

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The following tables compare general and technical information for several packet sniffer software utilities. Please see the individual products' articles for further information. This article is not all-inclusive or necessarily up-to-date.

General information

Basic general information about the software—creator/company, license/price, etc.

Creator GUI / Console Cost (USD) Software license
Kismet Mike Kershaw (dragorn) Console Free GPL
snoop Sun Microsystems Console Free CDDL
tcpdump The Tcpdump team Console Free BSD license
Wireshark The Wireshark team Both Free GPL

Operating system support

The utilities can run on these operating systems.

Client Windows Mac OS X Linux BSD Solaris
Kismet Yes Yes Yes Yes
snoop Yes
tcpdump Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Wireshark Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.


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