

Microsoft provides a free capture driver under Windows 2000/XP/2003 that can be used by SmartSniff,īut this driver is not installed by default, and you have to manually install it, by using one of the following options: Microsoft Network Monitor Driver (Only for Windows 2000/XP/2003):.It works better than the Raw Sockets method. This method is generally the preferred way to capture TCP/IP packets with SmartSniff, and (WinPcap is a free open-source capture driver.) In order to use it, you have to download and install WinPcap Capture Driver from This method has some limitations and problems.Īllows you to capture TCP/IP packets on all Windows operating systems.

Raw Sockets (Only for Windows 2000/XP or greater):Īllows you to capture TCP/IP packets on your network without installingĪ capture driver.SmartSniff provides 3 methods for capturing TCP/IP packets : HTTP, SMTP, POP3 and FTP.) or as hex dump. You can view the TCP/IP conversations in Ascii mode (for text-based protocols, like View the captured data as sequence of conversations between clients and servers. SmartSniff is a network monitoring utility that allows you to capture TCP/IP packets that pass through your network adapter, and NK2Edit - Edit, merge and fix the AutoComplete files (.NK2) of Microsoft Outlook.CurrPorts - Monitoring Opened TCP/IP ports / connections on your network.LiveTcpUdpWatch - View all TCP/UDP activity on your system.AppNetworkCounter - Monitor network usage / bandwidth of every application on Windows.
