SmartSniff allows you to capture TCP/IP packets that pass through your network adapter, and view the captured data as sequence of conversations between clients and servers. You can view the TCP/IP conversations in Ascii mode (for text-based protocols, like HTTP, SMTP, POP3 and FTP.) or as hex dump. (for non-text base protocols, like DNS)
System Requirements:
SmartSniff can capture TCP/IP packets on any 32-bit Windows operating system (Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP) as long as WinPcap capture driver is installed and works properly with your network adapter.
Under Windows 2000/XP (or greater), SmartSniff also allows you to capture TCP/IP packets without installing any capture driver, by using ‘Raw Sockets’ method. However, this capture method has some limitations and problems:
- Outgoing UDP and ICMP packets are not captured.
- On Windows XP SP1 outgoing packets are not captured at all – Thanks to Microsoft’s bug that appeared in SP1 update… This bug was fixed on SP2 update, but under Vista, Microsoft returned back the outgoing packets bug of XP/SP1.
- On Windows Vista with SP1, only UDP packets are captured. TCP packets are not captured at all.
What’s New in version 1.60:
- Added support for capturing with Microsoft Network Monitor 3.x driver. (Very useful for Windows Vista/7 users, because the old Network Monitor driver is not supported in these OS)
- For Microsoft Network Monitor 3.x driver, there is also ‘Wifi Monitor Mode’ button which only works under Windows 7/Vista, and only for wireless devices that supports ‘Monitor Mode’. When you switch the wireless card to monitor mode, SmartSniff can capture all unencrypted Wifi/TCP streams in the channel that you chose to monitor.
- Added support for opening the capture file (.cap) of Microsoft Network Monitor 3.x
- Added support for viewing the content of unencrypted Wifi/TCP streams. This feature works on WinPCap driver and Microsoft Network Monitor 3.x
- Added ‘Promiscuous Mode’ check-box for WinPCap and Microsoft Network Monitor 3.x driver. In the previous version, SmartSniff always turned on the ‘Promiscuous Mode’, but in some wireless adapters, the capture doesn’t work at all if Promiscuous Mode is turned on.
Homepage: http://www.nirsoft.net/
Download: smsniff.zip
File Size: 66.8KB
Copyright © 2008
Best Freeware Blog | Buy Laptop | Business Software Reviews | astaga.com lifestyle on the net