Sniffnet vs Suricata
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About Sniffnet
Sniffnet is a cross-platform application to comfortably monitor your internet traffic. Written in Rust for performance, it identifies 6000+ upper-layer protocols, provides real-time bandwidth charts, supports PCAP capture and export, does IP geolocation and ASN lookup, and sends custom notifications based on traffic thresholds. The GUI is clean and accessible to both security professionals doing traffic analysis and regular users who want visibility into what their machine is communicating with. Supports filtering by protocol, country, and application.
About Suricata
Suricata is a high-performance Network IDS, IPS, and Network Security Monitoring engine developed by the Open Information Security Foundation (OISF). It inspects network traffic using rules (compatible with Snort rules) and protocol analysis to detect threats including intrusion attempts, malware communication, policy violations, and data exfiltration. Suricata's multi-threaded architecture takes full advantage of modern multi-core hardware, achieving inspection speeds that single-threaded alternatives cannot match. Beyond IDS/IPS alerting, Suricata provides comprehensive protocol logging (HTTP, DNS, TLS, SMB, and more), file extraction from network traffic, and Lua scripting for custom detection logic. It supports AF_PACKET, PF_RING, and DPDK for high-speed packet acquisition, and outputs structured JSON logs (EVE format) that integrate cleanly with Elasticsearch, Splunk, and other SIEM platforms.
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