Capsa Packet Sniffer

Capsa is an easy-to-use Ethernet packet sniffer (network analyzer or network sniffer) for network monitoring and troubleshooting purposes. It performs real-time packet capturing, 24/7 network monitoring, advanced protocol analyzing, in-depth packet decoding, and automatic expert diagnosing. By giving you insights into all of your network`s operations, Capsa makes it easy to isolate and solve network problems, identify network bottleneck and bandwidth use, and detect network vulnerabilities.

Key features of Capsa include:

- Capture and save data transmitted over local networks and conduct both real-time and post-event analysis
- Identify and analyze more than 300 network protocols, as well as network applications based on the protocols
- Monitor network bandwidth and usage by capturing data packets transmitted over the network and providing summary and decoding information about these packets
- View network statistics at a single glance, allowing easy capture and interpretation of network utilization data
- Monitor internet, email and instant messaging traffic, helping keep employee productivity to a maximum
- Diagnose and repair network problems in seconds by detecting and locating suspicious hosts
- Map out the details, including traffic, IP address, and MAC, of each host on the network, allowing for easy identification of each host and the traffic that passes through each
- Visualize the entire network in an ellipse that shows the connections and traffic between each host

Whether you`re a network administrator who needs to identify, diagnose, and solve network problems quickly, an IT professional who wants to monitor user activities on the network, a security manager who needs to ensure that the corporation`s communications assets are safe, or a consultant who has to quickly solve network problems for clients, Capsa has the tools that you need.

Capsa runs under Windows XP/Vista/7. You can download a trial version from: http://www.colasoft.com