
Under Windows 2000/XP (or greater), SmartSniff also allows you to capture TCP/IP packets You can also use SmartSniff with the capture driver of Microsoft Network Monitor, if it's installed on your system. SmartSniff can capture TCP/IP packets on any version of Windows operating system (Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003/2008/Vista/7/8)Īs long as WinPcap capture driver is installed and works properly with your network adapter. SmartSniff with /NoCapDriver, because the Microsoft Network Monitor Driver may not work properly when WinPcap is loaded too. If WinPcap is installed on your system, and you want to use the Microsoft Network Monitor Driver method, it's recommended to run The new version of Microsoft Network Monitor (3.x) is available to download from Microsoft Web site. Starting from version 1.60, SmartSniff can use this driver to capture the network traffic. Microsoft provides a new version of Microsoft Network Monitor driver (3.x) that is also supported under Windows 7/Vista/2008. Will automatically be installed on your system. When you run this tool in the first time, the Network Monitor Driver One of the tools in this package is netcap.exe.

Option 2 (XP Only) : Download and install the Windows XP Service Pack 2 Support Tools.Option 1: Install it from the CD-ROM of Windows 2000/XP according to the instructions in Microsoft Web site.Microsoft provides a free capture driver under Windows 2000/XP/2003 that can be used by SmartSniff,īut this driver is not installed by default, and you have to manually install it, by using one of the following options: Microsoft Network Monitor Driver (Only for Windows 2000/XP/2003):.It works better than the Raw Sockets method. This method is generally the preferred way to capture TCP/IP packets with SmartSniff, and (WinPcap is a free open-source capture driver.) In order to use it, you have to download and install WinPcap Capture Driver from This method has some limitations and problems.Īllows you to capture TCP/IP packets on all Windows operating systems. Raw Sockets (Only for Windows 2000/XP or greater):Īllows you to capture TCP/IP packets on your network without installingĪ capture driver.SmartSniff provides 3 methods for capturing TCP/IP packets :

HTTP, SMTP, POP3 and FTP.) or as hex dump. You can view the TCP/IP conversations in Ascii mode (for text-based protocols, like View the captured data as sequence of conversations between clients and servers.

SmartSniff is a network monitoring utility that allows you to capture TCP/IP packets that pass through your network adapter, and NK2Edit - Edit, merge and fix the AutoComplete files (.NK2) of Microsoft Outlook.CurrPorts - Monitoring Opened TCP/IP ports / connections on your network.LiveTcpUdpWatch - View all TCP/UDP activity on your system.AppNetworkCounter - Monitor network usage / bandwidth of every application on Windows.
