what is packet capturing

Cocoa Packet Analyzer 0.65
Cocoa Packet Analyzer is developed to be a useful native Mac OS X implementation of a network protocol analyzer and packet sniffer, which supports the industry-standard PCAP packet capture format for reading, capturing and writing packet trace files. more>>
Cocoa Packet Analyzer 0.65 is developed to be a useful native Mac OS X implementation of a network protocol analyzer and packet sniffer, which supports the industry-standard PCAP packet capture format for reading, capturing and writing packet trace files.
Major Features:
- Basic packet capturing (libPCAP/ tcpdump filter expressions can be used).
- Analyze and display packet trace files.
- Supports PCAP packet capture format.
- Quicklook plugin included - its basic but at least you can get an overview over packet trace files in finder.
Supported Types and Protocols:
- Ethertype ARP
- Ethertype IP (v4/ v6)
- Ethertype PPP
- Ethertype PPPoED/S
- Ethertype 802.1Q VLAN
- Linktype Loopback
- Linktype PPP
- IP-Protocol IP
- IP-Protocol TCP
- IP-Protocol UDP
- IP-Protocol ICMP
- IP-Protocol IGMP
- IP-Protocol L2TP
- PPPoE Discovery and Sessionstages
- PPP-Protocols: IP, LCP, IPCP, CCP, PAP, CHAP
- L2TP-Protocol (port based detection)
- RADIUS-Protocol (port based detection)
- SIP-Protocol (third party analyzer plugin)
Enhancements:
- added an option to save find queries.
- fixed some small memory leaks.
- optimized document types.
Cocoa Packet Analyzer 0.64 is a native Mac OS X implementation of a network protocol analyzer ... PCAP packet capture format for reading, capturing and writing packet trace files. SupportedLicense:Freeware
Cocoa Packet Analyzer is known as an easy-to-use native Mac OS X implementation of a network ... PCAP packet capture format for reading, capturing and writing packet trace files. MajorLicense:Freeware
Cocoa Packet Analyzer 0.62 is a full featured and advanced Mac OS X implementation of a network ... PCAP packet capture format for reading, capturing and writing packet trace files. SupportedLicense:Freeware
PCAP packet capture format for reading, capturing and writing packet trace files. Supported ... Basic packet capturing (libPCAP/ tcpdump filter expressions can be used). Analyze andLicense:Freeware
What You Hear Is What You Send 1.0
What You Hear Is What You Send - Email the info/song playing in iTunes more>>
The script offers two options: Send only the information, or send the information plus the mp3 file.
Completly freeware.

AirGrab Network Packet Analyzer 0.9
A professional network analyzer (also known as protocol analyzer and packet sniffer). more>>
A professional network analyzer (also known as protocol analyzer and packet sniffer), AirGrab Network Packet Analyzer performs real-time packet capturing, network monitoring, advanced protocol analyzing, in-depth packet decoding. It allows you to get a clear view of the complex network, conduct packet level analysis, and troubleshoot network problems. You can Analyze Network events, Network protocols, Packet details (packet decoding), Network conversations. No training needed, no profound background required, data are displayed in intuitive tables and graphs.

Packet Peeper 17.8.2008
Packet Peeper offers you a comprehensive network protocol analyzer (or packet sniffer), its features include TCP stream reassembly, privilege separation, simultaneous capture sessions, filters, Python plugins, and support for pcap capture files. more>> Packet Peeper 17.8.200 offers you a comprehensive network protocol analyzer (or "packet sniffer"), its features include TCP stream reassembly, privilege separation, simultaneous capture sessions, filters, Python plugins, and support for pcap capture files.
Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
Cocoa Iax Ping 1.0
This is actually the cocoa port of the lax ping file. more>>
Cocoa Iax Ping 1.0 is specially designed for Mac users. It improves your Internet experience because it is actually a cocoa port of the lax ping file. It basically sends a IAX ping message (a POKE packet) to the Asterisk server. If you get a reply, your firewall is correctly configured.
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RUMpacket is a simple program for Packet Radio for European TNCs more>>
t works with TNCs with "The Firmware" (TF) installed, using the Host Mode.
An autorouter is integrated, but there is no support for read or write files yet.
Enhancements:
- An other Bug fixed (Program did not response anymore)
- To do: Spy function works not satisfied.
Packtory 1
Packtory - Command line packet construction tool more>>
Equipped with a packet database manager and a checksum calculator, Packtory is a must have for any computer geek.
Packtory 1.0 is a tool for you to construct and send your TCP/IP packets. It gives you the ability ... Equipped with a packet database manager and a checksum calculator, Packtory is a must have forDisplayKit 1.0.1
DisplayKit - Project Builder framework enhancer more>>
DisplayKit may also be used to retrieve a list of all connected displays and get the individual attributes of each, such as color depth, screen width and height, and the corresponding CoreGraphics display ID, among others.
Enhancements:
- The latest release fixes a bug in the example app and incorporates new shell script build phases to streamline building and usage of the framework.
- I have also updated my contact information to reflect my new e-mail and web site addresses.
WhatRoute (OS X) 1.8.14
WhatRoute (OS X)is popular among many users as an easy-to-use and handy program which is designed to find the names of all the routers more>>
WhatRoute (OS X) 1.8.14 is popular among many users as an easy-to-use and handy program which is designed to find the names of all the routers through which an IP packet passes on the way from your Macintosh to the destination host.
Major Features:
- It can display these paths in tree form, or on a map of the world.
- In addition it measures the round-trip time from your Macintosh to the router thus enabling you to determine slow links (hops) in the Internet.
- It can also find dead links - routers that don't respond, etc.
- WhatRoute can also be configured to ping remote servers, perform DNS and Whois queries, or to work as Finger client.
Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.1
Screen Shot Folder Action 1.0
Screen Shot Folder Action - Automatically process a screen shot more>>
Screen Shots is very useful to track a project, settings, and the steps to a process by capturing images and explanations, and constructing a web site around them.
PacketForward 0.7.1
PacketForward - IP packet capture/forward application based on libpcap and libnet more>>
PakcetForward is a very useful command line tool that listens on one network interface for UDP and TCP packets and then injects them on the same or another network interface changing the destination address.
In order to get PacketForward to work, you have to have libpcap, libnet 1.0.2a and Nemesis installed on your system. BSD systems like Mac OS X have libcap preinstalled.
Enhancements:
- The makefile now uses the libpcap that is preinstalled on Mac OS X.
- The distributed Mac OS X (Intel) binary is now compiled to use the libpcap that is preinstalled on Mac OS X.
- Corrected minor errors in the readme file related to usage of PacketForward.
- Added a script to ease usage of PacketForward.

Screenshot Plus Widget 3.0
Screenshot Plus Widget can take full screen captures, grab portions of the screen, and even capture windows, desktop icons and other widgets more>>
Screenshot Plus Widget 3.0 is a powerful tool which can take full screen captures, grab portions of the screen, and even capture windows, desktop icons and other widgets.
Major Features:
- Captures may be saved to the clipboard or to the hard drive, or they may be imported to any application directly from the widget.
- Screenshot Plus Widget, by default, displays a preview of captures taken. For a truly streamlined workflow, it also offers the option to save or import immediately after capturing; in literally one-click, anything on the screen can be ready for editing or stocked away in your photo album.
- Captures may be saved in the formats: png, tiff, jpg, jp2, pdf, gif, bmp or pict. The latest version supports the English, Traditional Chinese, Spanish and French languages.
- Compatible with Mac OS X Leopard.
- Language support for English, Japanese, Traditional Chinese, Spanish, and French.
- Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
Smack XmlBeans 0.0.5
Free software that provides access to the Smack XMPP client library packet extensions more>>
Enhancements:
- Improved README file.
- Cleaned up build.xml.
- Version number moved from build.xml to project.properties.
- Added ant target fill_javadoc_since_tag to auto fill javadoc SINCE tag.
- Corrected copyright record. 0.0.4 Configuration files are fixed. README file is changed. XmlBeansExtensionsListenerWrapper.java is added. SVN properties are set
- Javadocs are added to the package. 0.0.3
- The project is completely reorganized. Project environment tuning.
- Interface XmlBeansExtensionsListener added.
EyeTV plugin SDK 1.0
EyeTV plugin SDK - Receives plugged and unplugged notifications more>>
- EyeTV 200 (analog)
- EyeTV 300/310 (DVB-S)
- EyeTV 400/410 (DVB-T)
- EyeTV 500 (ATSC)
The plug-in receives plugged and unplugged notifications. It can request or release individual PIDs within the MPEG-2 transport stream, and most importantly, it has access to transport stream packets in real time, as they arrive from the device.
EyeTV plugin SDK is called before EyeTV looks at the packets, so it is even possible to modify the data.
The SDK includes a plug-in sample Xcode project as an easy way to demonstrate EyeTV plug-in functionality. This plug-in displays information about the captured MPEG-2 transport stream.
JxCapture 1.3.1
Now you can make screen captures of API for Java applications. more>> Now you can make screen captures of API for Java applications.
JxCapture is a free Java library that provides a comprehensive screen capture API for Java applications.
You can capture any graphic element on the screen, whether an entire window or just a single object on it, and save it as a java.awt.image.BufferedImage object for further manipulation in Java code.
Main features:
Multiple screen capture operations allow you to capture whatever you want on the screen in many different ways, including:
- Capturing a full-screen (multiple monitors are also supported).
- Active window capture.
- Object capture of any UI element like window, button, menu, etc.
- Rectangular region capture.
- Extensive capture options like capture transparent windows, mouse cursor inclusion, easy-to-set keyboard shortcuts, etc.
Enhancements
- Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.4 (Platforms: PPC G4, G5).
- Resolved the problem with incorrect colors of taken screenshots (Platforms: PPC G4, G5).