GitHub - GyulyVGC/sniffnet: Application to comfortably monitor your network traf...

Application to comfortably monitor your network traffic
Multithreaded, cross-platform, reliable

Help fund Sniffnet's Development

Sniffnet is a fully free, open-source software which needs your support to be maintained on a regular basis.

If you appreciate Sniffnet, please consider donating: this is the only way for me to keep working on this project, constantly improving and expanding it.

A special mention goes to these awesome organizations and folks who are sponsoring Sniffnet:

Installation

You can install Sniffnet in one of the following ways:

from GitHub releases from Crates.io 

cargo install sniffnet

from Homebrew

brew install sniffnet

on Arch Linux

pacman -S sniffnet

Required dependencies

Depending on your operating system, you may need to install some dependencies to run Sniffnet:

Windows dependencies Linux dependencies 

sudo apt-get install libpcap-dev

sudo setcap cap_net_raw,cap_net_admin=eip your/Sniffnet/executable/path

sudo apt-get install libasound2-dev

sudo apt-get install libfontconfig libfontconfig1-dev

MacOS dependencies 

Features

• choose a network adapter of your PC to inspect
• select a set of filters to apply to the observed traffic
• view overall statistics about your Internet traffic
• view real-time charts about traffic intensity (bytes and packets per second, incoming and outgoing)
• get details about domain names and network providers of the hosts you are exchanging traffic with
• identify connections in your local network
• get information about the country of the remote hosts (IP geolocation)
• save your favorite network hosts
• set custom notifications to inform you when defined network events occur
• choose the style that fits you the most from 4 different available themes
• inspect each of your network connections in real time
• save complete textual report with detailed information for each network connection:
  • source and destination IP addresses
  • source and destination ports
  • carried protocols
  • amount of exchanged packets and bytes
  • initial and final timestamp of information exchange
• ... and more!

IP geolocation and network providers (ASN)

See details

Supported application layer protocols

See details

Keyboard shortcuts

See details

Troubleshooting

See details

sudo apt-get install libasound2-dev

Acknowledgements

• A big shout-out to all the contributors of Sniffnet!

• The graphical user interface has been realized with iced, a cross-platform GUI library for Rust focused on simplicity and type-safety

• Last but not least, thanks to every single stargazer: all forms of support made it possible to keep improving Sniffnet!