MacSniffer 1.0b1 review

MacSniffer is a front end to the built-in 'tcpdump' packet sniffer on Mac OS X.

License: Freeware OS: Mac OS X File size: 87K Developer: Brian Hill Price: $0.00 Updated: 21 Dec 2005

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MacSniffer is a front end to the built-in 'tcpdump' packet sniffer on Mac OS X. MacSniffer allows you to view all of the traffic on a network connection, such as ethernet.

MacSniffer includes a filter editing interface and a filter library to easily construct and reuse packet filters to view a subset of all the traffic on the connection, such as just that destined for a specific host or port.

You can choose the level of detail you want captured, from just the minimal packet headers (showing source and destination hosts and ports) up to a full hex and ASCII dump of the packet contents.

MacSniffer can be useful for diagnosing many network problems, debugging client/server programs, and scanning for particular network exploits in real time.