Talk:Packet analyzer

Windows reported number of packets vs packet sniffers

Does anyone know why packet sniffers report about 5x more packets than MS Windows "Local Area Connection Status? 194.83.139.136 (talk) 11:13, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

Needs a solution to prevent packet sniffers getting in a network.

Self explanatory, really.

Network General isn't a sniffer

Network General is a maker of packet sniffers, not a sniffer itself. Guy Harris 01:47, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Dead link

During several automated bot runs the following external link was found to be unavailable. Please check if the link is in fact down and fix or remove it in that case!

• http://www.cr0.net:8040/code/network/
  • In Packet sniffer on Mon Jul 17 14:59:56 2006, Socket Error: (111, 'Connection refused')
  • In Packet sniffer on Thu Jul 27 00:38:20 2006, Socket Error: (111, 'Connection refused')

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maru (talk) contribs 04:38, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Dead link

During several automated bot runs the following external link was found to be unavailable. Please check if the link is in fact down and fix or remove it in that case!

• http://www.netwitness.com/products/products.html
  • In Packet sniffer on Mon Jul 17 15:00:27 2006, 404 Not Found
  • In Packet sniffer on Thu Jul 27 00:38:31 2006, 404 Not Found

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maru (talk) contribs 04:38, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Ethereal

Ethereal is now known as Wireshark. -- N3X15 ^{( Scream · Contribs)} 23:58, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Title

Why does 'Packet Sniffer' redirect to 'Packet sniffer'? Shouldn't it be the other war 'round? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Joeldipops (talk • contribs) 17:11, 5 June 2007 (UTC).

No. "Packet sniffer" is not a proper name, it's a category of software, so it's not capitalized. Guy Harris 20:16, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

Microsoft Network Monitor

Why Omit Microsoft NetMon? NetMon III does a better job of cracking MS protocols than Wireshark... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 207.108.217.94 (talk • contribs) 13:02, 11 June 2007 (UTC).

Because there's no Wikipedia page for it. All the links to external pages were removed in this change. Create a page for NetMon if you want it to be mentioned here. Guy Harris 20:16, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

Adding appropriate banners

Wanted to add something like these: {{WikiProject Internet}} {{WikiProject Software}} Both seem to be relevant to the topic of the article concerned. 88.105.37.22 (talk) 09:40, 19 July 2010 (UTC)

decoding

In the lead paragraph, shouldn't the term "decodes" refer/link to the opposite of encoding (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code) rather than to the cryptographic definition? In my experience, sniffers "un-encode" the encoded bits routinely and only rarely, if ever, do they "un-encrypt" packets.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Mrklaney (talk • contribs) 17:09, 24 March 2011 (UTC)

There are analyzers that do un-encrypt some packets when they can, but, yes, "decodes" in the sentence in question refers to showing the values of individual fields; I've expanded that sentence to make it clear, and removed the link to cryptography. Guy Harris (talk) 17:34, 24 March 2011 (UTC)

Merge from Packet capture

Packet capture does not appear to be a separate topic from Packet analyzer. All the independent references given in Packet capture also talk about analysis. -—Kvng 14:24, 19 January 2013 (UTC) Ankur Mhatre agress with this.