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SmartSniff vs Wireshark

SmartSniff

nirsoft.net

Wireshark

wireshark.org

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FigureSmartSniffWireshark
Price from—Free
Free plan—Yes
Free trial——
Open source—Yes
WindowsYesYes
macOS—Yes
Linux—Yes
API—Yes
Self-hosted—Yes
Plans published12
Spec score · Network Packet Analyzer Software5.8 (#32)8.3 (#10)
Founded20011998

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SmartSniff

  • FreewarePriced on request

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Wireshark

  • WiresharkFree
  • WiresharkFree

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Wireshark

Wireshark is a free network protocol analyzer for capturing and examining network traffic. It supports live capture and offline analysis through a graphical interface or the TShark terminal utility, and can inspect hundreds of protocols. Display filters narrow what appears during analysis, though their syntax differs from capture filters. Wireshark reads and writes capture formats including pcap and pcapng, and can decompress gzip-compressed files. Analysis features include VoIP tools, packet coloring rules, and exports to XML, PostScript, CSV, or plain text. It can decrypt traffic for protocols including IPsec, Kerberos, SSL/TLS, WEP, and WPA/WPA2. The software is available for Linux, macOS, and Windows under GNU General Public License version 2, with no license fee for the full version. Windows packages include Npcap, which is needed for live packet capture. What a capture can show depends on the operating system, capture library, network interface, and network configuration; switched networks may not expose unicast traffic between other ports. Community help is available through a Q&A site and users mailing list.

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