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Overview

Packetyzer provides a Windows user interface for the Ethereal packet capture and dissection library. Ethereal is used by network professionals around the world for troubleshooting, analysis, software and protocol development, and education. Ethereal has all of the standard features expected in a protocol analyzer, and several features not otherwise available.

We've taken advantage of Ethereal's open source license to add a Windows front end to extend its use. Packetyzer can capture from virtually any network adapter and supports many advanced features. Packetyzer is free and open source, and is licensed under the GPL. Take a tour of Packetyzer.

Features:

Windows GUI — Windows GUI for the Ethereal packet analysis engine to troubleshoot and examine network and security problems
Rich protocol support — Decodes more than 750 protocols, including IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN management frame, IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN, 802.1q Virtual LAN, 802.1x Authentication, and many more
Sophisticated packet filtering — Filters and searched for packets on many criteria
Detailed packet capture — Captures live packet data from a network interface and displays packets with detailed protocol information
Very configurable — Configure capture sessions and examine the captured packets
Import/export flexibility — Open packets from a large number of other capture programs and save packets captured in a large number of formats of other capture programs
Packetyzer can read capture files in the following formats:
- tcpdump (libpcap) and Etherea
- Sun snoop and atmsnoop
- Shomiti/Finisar Surveyor
- Novell's LANalyzer
- NAI's Sniffer™ (compressed or uncompressed)
- Microsoft Network Monitor
- AIX's iptrace
- NetXray™
- Sniffer™ Pro
- RADCOM's WAN/LAN Analyzer
- Lucent/Ascend WAN router debug output
- HP-UX nettl
- Cisco Secure IDS iplog
- The pppd log (pppdump-format)
- Dump output from Toshiba's ISDN routers
- i4btrace from the ISDN4BSD project
- WildPackets EtherPeek and AiroPeek
- Visual Networks' Visual UpTime
Packetyzer supports all protocols which are supported by Ethereal, including IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN management frame, IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN, 802.1q Virtual LAN, 802.1x Authentication, and many more. For more information, view the complete list of supported protocols.