Comparison of packet sniffers

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The following tables compare general and technical information for several packet sniffer software utilities. Please see the individual products' articles for further information. This article is not all-inclusive or necessarily up-to-date.

[edit] General information

Basic general information about the software—creator/company, license/price, etc.

	Creator	GUI / Console	Cost (USD)	Software license
Kismet	Mike Kershaw (dragorn)	Console	Free	GPL
snoop	Sun Microsystems	Console	Free	CDDL
tcpdump	The Tcpdump team	Console	Free	BSD license
Wireshark	The Wireshark team	GUI	Free	GPL

[edit] Operating system support

The utilities can run on these operating systems.

Client	Windows	Mac OS X	Linux	BSD	Solaris
Kismet	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
snoop					Yes
tcpdump	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Wireshark	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes