[Justniffer][1] is a network protocol analyzer that can be used as alternative to Snort. It is a very popular network analyzer tool, it work interactively to trace/sniff a live network. It can capture traffic from a live environment, support “lipcap” a “tcpdump” file formats. It helps the users to perform analysis in a complex network where it is difficult to capture traffic with wireshark. Specially it help to analyze application layer traffic very significantly and can extract http contents like images, scripts, HTML etc easily. Justsniffer is helpful in understanding how communication occur among different components.
### Features ###
This is the advantage of Justniffer that it collect all traffic from a complex network without affecting system performance, and can save logs for future analysis, some of the important features of Justniffer are:
#### 1. Reliable TCP flow rebuilding ####
It can record and reassemble TCP segments and IP fragments using a portion of host Linux kernel.
#### 2. Logging ####
Log are saved for future analysis and can be customized as and when required.
#### 3. Extensible ####
Can be extended with external python, perl and bash scripts to get some additional results from analysis reports.
#### 4. Performance Management ####
Retrieve information on the basis of Connection time, close time, response time or request time etc.
### Installation ###
Justsniffer can be installed with ppa.
To add the repo, run:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:oreste-notelli/ppa
Update System:
$ sudo apt-get update
Install Justniffer tool:
$ sudo apt-get install justniffer
It failed to install in make then i run following command and try to reinstall service
$ sudo apt-get -f install
### Examples ###
First of all verify installed version of Justniffer with -V option, you will need super user privileges to utilize that tool.
Justniffer is a very nice tool for network testing. In my view users who are using Snort for network sniffing will know justniffer as an less complicated tool. It is provided with a lots of **FORMAT KEYWORDS** which are very helpful to retrieve data in specific formats as per your need. You can log your network in .cap file formats which can be analyzed later on to monitor network service performance.