cStatus

To keep track of any system vulnerabilities that can occur through the network, you can monitor the LAN to check for incoming connections using cStatus. It's a free and easy-to-use tool designed for TCP and ICMP ping monitoring. It provides statistical information and can generate charts using this data.

As far as the interface is concerned, cStatus has a simple window with a straightforward layout, where you can check out the host name and type of each connection, along with the last known status, send and lost packets, current, average, minimum and maximum RT, downtime, duration, description, and error message.

This information can be filtered by host, connection type (TCP or ICMP), description and status (alive, failing, failed). New entries can be added to this list by specifying the host name or IP address, timeout, interval, and number of retries before failure. Other settings revolve around the connection type and port, buffer size, TTL, history and alarms.

The networking application gives you the possibility to duplicate entries with one click, edit their properties at any time, and delete them from the list. You can reset history and plot a chart from an entry response time history. There are also various tools put at your disposal for scanning and calculating IP addresses, tracing routes, and viewing your IP info. The current configuration can be saved to file and later opened to pick up where you left off.

We haven't come across any compatibility issues with the newest Windows edition in our tests. The application performed network scans swiftly while remaining light on system resources consumption. Thanks to its intuitive interface and options, cStatus can be easily used of monitoring and scanning networks for TCP and ICMP connections.