[HN Gopher] Sniffnet - Comfortably monitor your internet traffic... ___________________________________________________________________ Sniffnet - Comfortably monitor your internet traffic (like Wireshark) Author : kristianpaul Score : 79 points Date : 2023-07-14 19:20 UTC (3 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.sniffnet.net) (TXT) w3m dump (www.sniffnet.net) | danielvaughn wrote: | I'm curious how this holds up against something like Charles | Proxy. | petters wrote: | Does it support installing a certificate for inspection of https | traffic? (Like mitmproxy) | 1vuio0pswjnm7 wrote: | Anything wrong with mitmproxy (not a user myself, just curious) | PradeetPatel wrote: | Nothing in particular, although it's UI is quite dated and | not very user friendly. | lucb1e wrote: | The screenshot shows traffic volume per destination. I don't | see a feature that would require traffic decryption nor any | mention of how to install a cert, so I assume no. What would | you want traffic decryption for? | 1vuio0pswjnm7 wrote: | "What would you want decryption for?" | | Not OP, but here's a Google employee explaining why one would | want to decrypt traffic. | | https://web.archive.org/web/20220813220108if_/https://medium. | .. | | More from F5. | | https://www.f5.com/solutions/use-cases/ssl-visibility | tguvot wrote: | it feels like its more "like ntop" and not "like wireshark" | ivanstegic wrote: | Sounds perfect for a container and raspberry Pi! | kristianpaul wrote: | "If you're looking for a quick and easy way to monitor your | network traffic, this cross-platform app written in Rust | definitely passes the Sniff Test" | unixhero wrote: | Application layer protocols are inferred from the transport port | numbers, following the convention maintained by IANA. | buildbot wrote: | For the CLI, I recently found bandwich: | https://github.com/imsnif/bandwhich | | The cargo install is currently borked but the prebuilt bin works | fine. | AstraZenecat wrote: | can I ask why one would use this over wireshark? | zamadatix wrote: | Despite the title there is really not much relation beyond both | tools monitor traffic. In general though, I'd say Wireshark is | geared towards inspecting specific things while this is geared | towards being a dashboard and filter of your overall network's | internet traffic. | bazmattaz wrote: | Would love to see a tutorial for getting this setup on a | raspberry pi with a web GUI on a local IP | 1970-01-01 wrote: | Just tried it, and it works. This would be an amazing tool on a | home router. | synergy20 wrote: | openwrt has things like this for a while, via its web interface | fiddyschmitt wrote: | Can it throttle individual connections like NetLimiter? | candiddevmike wrote: | jnettop works really well from the commandline. Does what it says | on the tin--like top, only for network traffic. | acrophiliac wrote: | This question probably identifies me as a dinosaur, but ... is | there a user manual? I didn't see one in the README or on the web | site. | smartmic wrote: | Hey, you greybeard. I couldn't find a manual either on first | glance but, hey, we know about Github stars and see many | colorful emoji and symbols on the frontpage. | | No, irony left aside. I also miss the clean, boring but highly | useful landing pages of old-school utility programs. A short | description and a well written man page was all we needed, plus | some screenshots for TUI/GUI programs. | | My feeling is that especially Rust enthusiasts like emoji, | colors and banners a lot. But maybe I am also just getting | old... | skinner927 wrote: | Any time I see an emoji, I just want to turn away. I don't | know why I'm so resistant to them. Possibly because I feel I | can't take anyone seriously who would bother to pull up an | on-screen keyboard just to add a little rocket ship to a line | for almost no reason. | kunwon1 wrote: | I learned Perl as a first programming language, and to this | day I maintain that their documentation is better than that | of any other language I've tried. Putting a synopsis with | example syntax at the very beginning is, IMO, the ideal. | | Example at [1]. I can take this and run with it, after | reading for less than 15 seconds I know enough to start | working. | | [1] https://metacpan.org/release/TIMB/DBI-1.616/view/DBI.pm | kaueg wrote: | In the past i was looking for a network sniffer software to | detect DDoS attacks that works on Windows. To manually monitor a | game server i was running, Sniffnet worked well even durring DDoS | attacks. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-07-14 23:00 UTC)