What's new in SmartSniff 2.29
Aug 20, 2018
- Fixed bug from version 2.28: SmartSniff crashed when selecting loopback interface or other network interfaces without connection information.
New in SmartSniff 2.28 (Jul 25, 2018)
- The information of the selected network adapter is now displayed in the window title.
New in SmartSniff 2.27 (Mar 6, 2017)
- Fixed the lower pane to switch focus when pressing tab key.
New in SmartSniff 2.26 (Jul 20, 2016)
- SmartSniff now automatically loads the new version of WinPCap driver if it's installed on your system.
- SmartSniff now tries to load the dll of Network Monitor Driver 3.x (NmApi.dll) according to the installation path specified in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftNetmon3. This change should solve the problem with loading the Network Monitor Driver 3.x on some systems.
New in SmartSniff 2.25 (Sep 1, 2015)
- Added 4 columns to the adapters list in the 'Capture Options' window: 'Connection Name', 'MAC Address', 'Instance ID', 'Interface Guid'.
- When using WinPCap driver , SmartSniff now displays more accurate information in the adapters list of the 'Capture Options' window.
- Fixed the 'Retrieve process information while capturing packets' feature to work on Windows 10/8/7.
New in SmartSniff 2.20 (Jun 8, 2015)
- Added option to capture traffic on 127.0.0.1 (Loopback) to 'Raw Sockets' capture method (For Windows Vista or later).
New in SmartSniff 2.17 (May 4, 2015)
- Added 'Find In Upper Pane' option.
New in SmartSniff 2.16 (Jan 19, 2015)
- Fixed bug: SmartSniff failed to remember the last size/position of the main window if it was not located in the primary monitor.
New in SmartSniff 2.15 (Oct 27, 2014)
- Added 'Capture is Active' check-box (F11) under the File menu. You can now temporary suspend/resume the capture simply by pressing the F11 key.
New in SmartSniff 2.11 (Sep 29, 2014)
- Added 'Always On Top' option.
- Added secondary sorting support: You can now get a secondary sorting, by holding down the shift key while clicking the column header. Be aware that you only have to hold down the shift key when clicking the second/third/fourth column. To sort the first column you should not hold down the Shift key.
New in SmartSniff 2.10 (Apr 28, 2014)
- SmartSniff now allows you to automatically add it to the allowed programs list of Windows firewall when starting to capture and remove it when you stop capturing. This option is needed when using the 'Raw Socket' capture method while Windows firewall is turned on, because if SmartSniff is not added to Windows firewall, the incoming traffic is not captured at all.
New in SmartSniff 2.08 (Apr 1, 2014)
- SmartSniff now remembers the last file type you selected in 'Load Packets Data From File' option.
- Fixed the window title of 'Display Filter' option.
New in SmartSniff 2.07 (Jul 29, 2013)
- Fixed to flickering in the upper pane
New in SmartSniff 2.06 (Jul 9, 2013)
- Fixed to display HTTP POST URLs on 'URL List' display mode
New in SmartSniff 2.05 (Mar 4, 2013)
- Added 'Capture On Program Start' option.
- Added 'Mark Odd/Even Rows' option, under the View menu. When it's turned on, the odd and even rows are displayed in different color, to make it easier to read a single line.
New in SmartSniff 2.00 (Dec 4, 2012)
- Added support for GeoLite City database. You can now download the GeoLite City database (GeoLiteCity.dat.gz), put it in the same folder of smsniff.exe, and SmartSniff will automatically use it to get the country/city information for every IP address.
- Added 'Auto Size Columns+Headers' option, which allows you to automatically resize the columns according to the row values and column headers
New in SmartSniff 1.95 (Sep 27, 2012)
- Added Find option (Ctrl+F) to easily find text in the lower pane.
- Fixed issue: The properties dialog-box and other windows opened in the wrong monitor, on multi-monitors system.
New in SmartSniff 1.93 (Aug 6, 2012)
- Fixed bug: When opening the 'Capture Options' dialog-box after Network Monitor Driver 3.x was previously selected, SmartSniff switched back to Raw Sockets mode.
New in SmartSniff 1.92 (Dec 27, 2011)
- Added accelerator key to the 'URL List' mode (Ctrl+F4)
New in SmartSniff 1.91 (Nov 28, 2011)
- Fixed a crash problem occurred with some Web pages when using the 'Extract HTTP Files' option .
New in SmartSniff 1.90 (Nov 18, 2011)
- Added 'Put Icon On Tray' option.
New in SmartSniff 1.85 (Oct 5, 2011)
- Added 'Use DNS Queries & Cache For Host Names' option. When it's turned on, SmartSniff analyzes the captured DNS queries and uses them for displaying the local/remote host names. The internal DNS cache of Windows is also used.
New in SmartSniff 1.82 (Aug 31, 2011)
- Added 'Duration' column, which displays the difference between the capture time and last packet time
New in SmartSniff 1.81 (Aug 22, 2011)
- Updated the internal country names list (Added more 14 countries) for using with the IP to country file (IpToCountry.csv).
New in SmartSniff 1.80 (Aug 4, 2011)
- Added 'Extract HTTP Files' option (under the File menu), which allows you to easily extract all HTTP files stored in the selected streams, into the folder that you choose.
New in SmartSniff 1.79 (Jul 5, 2011)
- Fixed bug: 'Restart Capture' option caused SmartSniff to crash in some circumstances
New in SmartSniff 1.78 (Jun 3, 2011)
- Added 'Restart Capture' option (Ctrl+R), which stops the capture and then immediately starts it again.
New in SmartSniff 1.77 (May 8, 2011)
- Increased the size of total filter string (Capture Filter and Display Filter) that can be saved into the .cfg file.
New in SmartSniff 1.76 (Apr 10, 2011)
- When 'Retrieve process information while capturing packets' option is turned on, the 'Process User' column now displays the user name of the specified process.
New in SmartSniff 1.75 (Mar 14, 2011)
- Added 'Decompress HTTP Responses' option. When it's turned on, HTTP responses compressed with gzip are automatically detected, and displayed in decompressed form
New in SmartSniff 1.72 (Oct 4, 2010)
- Fixed bug: The status bar packets counter displayed a little higher value than the total packets counters in the upper pane table
New in SmartSniff 1.71 (Sep 16, 2010)
- Added 'Hide Lower Pane' option (under the Options menu), which is useful when you work in statistics only mode, and you don't need the lower pane.
New in SmartSniff 1.70 (Sep 8, 2010)
- Added 'Display only active connections' in Advanced Options window. When this options is turned on, SmartSniff automatically hide all streams that their connection was closed. This means that SmartSniff will only display the streams that their connection is still opened.
New in SmartSniff 1.65 (Sep 1, 2010)
- Added support for .csv files in 'Save Packet Summaries' option.
- Added 'Add Header Line To CSV/Tab-Delimited File' option. When this option is turned on, the column names are added as the first line when you export to csv or tab-delimited file.
New in SmartSniff 1.63 (Jul 14, 2010)
- Added 'Automatically Scroll Down in Live Mode' option, under the Options menu
New in SmartSniff 1.62 (Jul 14, 2010)
- Added 'Automatically Scroll Down in Live Mode' option, under the Options menu
New in SmartSniff 1.62 (Jun 3, 2010)
- Added /StartCapture and /LoadConfig command-line options.
- Added x64 version of SmartSniff, to work with Microsoft Network Monitor Driver 3.x on Windows x64.
New in SmartSniff 1.60 (Mar 19, 2010)
- Added support for capturing with Microsoft Network Monitor 3.x driver. (Very useful for Windows Vista/7 users, because the old Network Monitor driver is not supported in these OS)
- For Microsoft Network Monitor 3.x driver, there is also 'Wifi Monitor Mode' button which only works under Windows 7/Vista, and only for wireless devices that supports 'Monitor Mode'.
- When you switch the wireless card to monitor mode, SmartSniff can capture all unencrypted Wifi/TCP streams in the channel that you chose to monitor.
- Added support for opening the capture file (.cap) of Microsoft Network Monitor 3.x
- Added support for viewing the content of unencrypted Wifi/TCP streams. This feature works on WinPCap driver and Microsoft Network Monitor 3.x
- Added 'Promiscuous Mode' check-box for WinPCap and Microsoft Network Monitor 3.x driver. In the previous version, SmartSniff always turned on the 'Promiscuous Mode', but in some wireless adapters, the capture doesn't work at all if Promiscuous Mode is turned on.
New in SmartSniff 1.52 (Dec 28, 2009)
- In 'Export TCP/IP Steams' - Added 2 new file types - 'Raw Data Files - Local' and 'Raw Data Files - Remote' for exporting only one side of the stream.
New in SmartSniff 1.51 (Aug 28, 2009)
- Added Drag & Drop support - you can now drag .ssp file from Explorer into the window of SmartSniff
New in SmartSniff 1.50 (May 25, 2009)
- Added 'Last Packet Time' column - Displays the date/time of the last packet received.
- Added 'Data Speed' column - Displays the calculated speed of the TCP connection in KB per second.
New in SmartSniff 1.45 (Jan 19, 2009)
- New option: Display Outgoing/Incoming Data - When this option is turned on, separated values for outgoing and incoming packets are displayed for the following columns: 'Packets', 'Data Size', and 'Total Size'. The values are displayed in the following format: {Outgoing ; Incoming}
New in SmartSniff 1.40 (Aug 6, 2008)
- Added local/remote MAC addresses (relevant only for local network, and it doesn't work with raw sockets)
- Added IPNetInfo integration - When you put IPNetInfo utility in the same folder of SmartSniff, You can view the information about the remote IP addresses.
- Added IP Country columns to display the country name of IP addresses.
New in SmartSniff 1.37 (May 7, 2008)
- Fixed bug: The main window lost the focus when the user switched to another application and then returned back to SmartSniff
New in SmartSniff 1.36 (Jan 25, 2008)
- Fixed bug: SmartSniff hang when you work with 'URL List' mode.
New in SmartSniff 1.35 (Dec 18, 2007)
- New Display Mode - 'URL List': Allows you to view the list of URLs for the select TCP/IP items (only for HTTP protocol)
- Increased the buffer of raw sockets to avoid packet loss.
- The configuration is now saved to a file, instead of the Registry.
New in SmartSniff 1.32 (Aug 27, 2007)
- Fixed bug: Wrong capture time displayed when "Only display TCP/IP statistic..." option was selected.
- Added 'Summary Mode' in Advanced Options - Allows you to view general TCP/IP statistics by addresses only, without adding a separated line for each connection.