[HN Gopher] Sniffnet - Comfortably monitor your internet traffic...
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       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.
        
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