This paper is published in Volume-6, Issue-1, 2020
Area
Information Technology
Author
T. Prathyusha
Org/Univ
School of Information Technology, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Pub. Date
22 February, 2020
Paper ID
V6I1-1244
Publisher
Keywords
Sniffer, Sniffing, Packet sniffing, Web filter, Traffic monitor, firewall tester

Citationsacebook

IEEE
T. Prathyusha. Sniffer in a network, International Journal of Advance Research, Ideas and Innovations in Technology, www.IJARIIT.com.

APA
T. Prathyusha (2020). Sniffer in a network. International Journal of Advance Research, Ideas and Innovations in Technology, 6(1) www.IJARIIT.com.

MLA
T. Prathyusha. "Sniffer in a network." International Journal of Advance Research, Ideas and Innovations in Technology 6.1 (2020). www.IJARIIT.com.

Abstract

A sniffer is a device used to read, monitor and capture network data exchange between networking devices. These are generally used by network administrators to monitor the incoming and outgoing traffic in the network. It acts like a web filter, firewall tester and troubleshoots client-server relationships. If the packets are not encrypted, it gives you a full view of data inside the packet (passwords, PINs and privacy information). When the network is slow, we need to know the bandwidth of the network and is being used by whom. Sniffer can monitor the performance by hop-by-hop network path analysis and can minimize the downtime. If there is high traffic in the network it might be an indication of a hacker in the network, it can highlight the unusual spikes in the traffic. Here two sniffers are placed in between two routers to monitor the outgoing and incoming ICMP packets in a network.