Sniff-em

Watching over the outgoing and incoming data bits across a network can be a complicated job, particularly if the appropriate means of tracking the traffic are not available. Nonetheless, there are quite a few applications that were designed with this purpose in mind, so getting the best one is only a matter of personal choice.

Sniff-em is a utility that, as it's name suggests, can detect data exchanges over a network and it is quite helpful when it comes to decoding and analyzing that information. The interface is build with ease of use as the primary focus and the practical layout accommodates all the features of the program.

The configuration is very important and once all the appropriate parameters are set in good order, Sniff-em can be left to its devices to capture packets and display the data in a readable form for further analysis.

Able to run in two modes, normal and logging only, this tool supports filtering, so the user can create and load software filters or use the available hardware ones. The 'Statistics' module of Sniff-em will present the traffic related information as totals for captured bytes and packets, while also offering the possibility to ignore the software filtering when considering the results.

A really useful characteristic is the ability to export all the data it acquires and store it in one of the 3 formats available. More precisely, the user can output HTML, CSV or TXT files which contain the information captured by Sniff-em so it can be sent to other persons or simply kept in store for later use.