Pcap.Net

WinPcap is considered one of the industry standards for link-layer network access in Windows. To put it simply, it acts as a driver with the role of extending the operating system so that it can provide low-level network access. Moreover, it comes with a dedicated library that allows developers to access the said network.

As the name suggests, Pcap.Net is a wrapper that embeds all WinPcap features as well as a packet interpretation framework. Thanks to the tool, users can get a full list of Live Devices on the local host, read packets from both offline and online devices and grab various statistics about the capture.

At the same time, users can work with different sampling methods, apply Berkeley Packet Filters, dump packets to Pcap files and send packets directly or via queues to Live Devices. According to the developer, the tool comes with two limitations, namely that it is not capable of simulating the remote Pcap and AirPcap features.

As previously mentioned, the utility also enables users to interpret the traffic captured and filtered as reliable as possible. The utility works with a wide variety of protocols, including, but not limited to Ethernet + VLAN, IPv4, IPv6, HTTP, DNS, UDP, ARP, TCP or ICMP.