NETWORK PACKET SNIFFER

Abstract

Packet sniffing is a technique for exploiting each packet as it travels over the network. Network analysis is one of the most difficult issues that network managers encounter. Existing technologies for network traffic analysis provide very little information, which would be massive data if it were all kept for subsequent study, making it impossible to evaluate. The goal of this research is to present a sniffing tool that can collect both IPv4 and IPv6 packets. The suggested tool uses the socket class in Visual Studio to access the collected packets. The first scenario involves capturing packets and identifying the ports, protocols, and packets utilized in IPV4. The second scenario, on the other hand, examines IPV6 in the same way. The number of captured protocols and the utilized ports for both source and destination ports differ from IPv4 to IPv6.