Cross-platform tools

The following tools are available in both UNIX and Windows versions.

Tool	Description
Wireshark	Wireshark is an open source network protocol analyzer for both UNIX and Windows. It allows you to examine data from a live network or a capture file on disk. For information and downloads, see http://www.wireshark.org/download.html.
Tcpdump/Windump	Tcpdump (and its Windows version, Windump) are network traffic analysis tools. These tools can be used to watch and diagnose network traffic according to various complex rules. You can download Tcpdump from http://www.tcpdump.org. You can download Windump from http://www.winpcap.org/windump. Note: Tcpdump comes with most Linux distributions by default.

Tool

Description

Wireshark

Wireshark is an open source network protocol analyzer for both UNIX and Windows. It allows you to examine data from a live network or a capture file on disk.

For information and downloads, see http://www.wireshark.org/download.html.

Tcpdump/Windump

Tcpdump (and its Windows version, Windump) are network traffic analysis tools. These tools can be used to watch and diagnose network traffic according to various complex rules.

You can download Tcpdump from http://www.tcpdump.org.

You can download Windump from http://www.winpcap.org/windump.

Note: Tcpdump comes with most Linux distributions by default.