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Comfortably monitor your network traffic in real-time with Sniffnet

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2 points by GyulyVGC 3 years ago · 4 comments

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GyulyVGCOP 3 years ago

Sniffnet is a simple yet insightful application to let you have a glance into your network traffic in a straightforward and appealing way

  • LinuxBender 3 years ago

    This looks interesting as an alternative to Wireshark. I noticed in the readme it has a menu to select "TCP", "UDP" or "both". If you select "All Protocols" does it also show ESP/IPSec or does it show ESP as "other"? The reason I ask is due to some cell phones encapsulating some traffic in a VPN tunnel unless it is blocked at which point I see it fall back to encapsulated UDP tunnels.

    • GyulyVGCOP 3 years ago

      For the moment, upper protocols are determined just by looking at the port numbers, so it is likely that the protocols you mentioned would be shown as "Other". I know this is not the best method to determine app protocols, but otherwise it would have been too complex to detect specific layer 7 protocols.

      • LinuxBender 3 years ago

        Makes sense. I am not a proper developer so I can not comment how difficult it would be to add that level of dissection in Rust. Here [1] is a page that describes how to utilize libpcap but I have no idea if that would be helpful or how difficult it would be to port this to Rust.

        [1] - https://www.tcpdump.org/pcap.html

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