Comparative Study on Packet Sniffing Tools

Abstract

With the advancement and widespread use of network technology, network administration, maintenance, and monitoring have become increasingly important in order to maintain the network running smoothly and increase economic efficiency. A packet sniffer is used for this purpose. Network monitoring relies on packet sniffing to troubleshoot and log issues. Both network software engineers and network administrators will gain from network activity. There are a few variety of packet sniffers on the market that can be used to do packet sniffing. The subject of this paper is the fundamentals of a packet sniffer; its operating principle; and the numerous packet sniffing tools and how they work, network monitoring and analysis capabilities.