Professional Look at Net

Professional Look at Net is a comprehensive program for scanning networks, ports and packets. It is easy to install and set up.

The app is wrapped in a standard interface with a well-defined layout; you can scan the network to get a list of hosts with the simple click of a button.

You can view online and offline traffic, trace the route to an IP, as well as use the Ping function. Locating the ports of a particular IP address is possible through the context menu.

You can send a single or batch of IPv4 packets and Ethernet frames, along with a timeout interval (in batch mode). Alternatively, you can select what packets to send.

The bottom part of the screen reveals packets in hexadecimal code, data in ASCII, together with a HEX editor. Port scanning requires you to input the port range and scan method (quick or normal), while filters may be set for TCP I, TCP II, UDP, ICMP, Ethernet, IPv4 and IPv4; for example, you can capture traffic direct, multicast or broadcast, in Ethernet's case.

Professional Look at Net packs a few customization options that let you make the tool stay on top of other frames, create an icon in the system tray area, enable a virtual adapter, choose the scan mode between normal and silent, as well as switch to a different color scheme, just to name a few. The list of hosts, host information or ports scanning log can be saved to file for further analysis.

The straightforward application includes a user manual, has a good response time and finishes a scanning job rapidly. No error dialogs have been shown in our tests and the program did not hang or crash; we haven't encountered any issues. To conclude, Professional Look at Net supplies users of any skill level with powerful tools for monitoring computers via LAN.