SmartSniff, a smarter packet sniffer than Ethereal/Wireshark

Last Friday I posted a list of free packet sniffers. There, I promised to write about my favorite tool. You might have guessed that it is Ethereal since it probably is the most popular free network packet sniffer. It has many feature which its free rivals lack. This is also true for the free sniffer [...]

Free packet sniffers for Windows

A packet sniffer is used to analyze the network traffic. Sometimes they are also called network analyzers, protocol analyzers or ethernet sniffers. System administrators usually use them to analyze the behavior of an application or device causing network problems. I made a list of free packet sniffer tools for Windows. The descriptions are taken from [...]

OmniPeek Personal - free network monitor, better than Wireshark

WildPackets Omnipeek Personal is a free network monitoring tool for personal use. The .Net 2.0 tool has many features which most free packet sniffers/packet analyzers lack, especially when it comes to statistical analysis and visualization. Omnipeek is even better than Ethereal/Wireshark.
However, the personal version of Omnipeek has two limitations compared to the commercial version. [...]

Scheduling your FTP downloads

Recently I had the need to download from my company’s servers some files on daily basis. I had to replicate some data at my home server (I work from my home cause as I said on “About“, I can’t stand Athens). The operation normally takes a couple of hours on my 1Mb ADSL connection, so [...]

J2ME VNC Remote Desktop: Control your computer’s mouse and keyboard from your Mobile phone

J2ME VNC is an open source mobile software that allows you to remotely access your desktop computer with any VNC compatible software installed on it from your mobile phone (Symbian or some Windows Mobile devices) which supports J2ME (Java 2 Micro Edition). You can then control the mouse and keyboard of your desktop computer and [...]

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