Sniffnet vs Wireshark
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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 Wireshark
Wireshark is the world's most popular network protocol analyzer. It lets you capture and interactively browse the traffic running on a computer network. It has a rich feature set including deep inspection of hundreds of protocols, live capture and offline analysis, rich VoIP analysis, read/write support for many capture file formats, and powerful display filters. Wireshark is essential for network troubleshooting, security analysis, software development, and education.
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