PACKET SNIFFER ABSTRACT

This project is intended to develop a tool called Packet Sniffer. The Packet Sniffer allowsthe computer to examine and analyze all the traffic passing by its network connection. It decodesthe network traffic and makes sense of it.W h e n i t i s s e t u p o n a computer, the network interface of the computer is s e t t o pro miscuous mode, listening to all the traffic on the network rather than just those packets destined for it. Packet Sniffer is a tool that sniffs without modifying the networks packet inanyway. It merely makes a copy of each packet flowing through the network interface and findsthe source and destination Ethernet addresses of the packets. It also decodes the protocols in the packets given below:ARP (Address Resolution Protocol), RARP (Reverse Address Resolution Protocol), IP (InternetProtocol), TCP (Transmission Control Protocol), U DP (User Datagram Protocol), ICMP(Internet Control Message Protocol) and IGMP (Internet Group Message Protocol).The output is appended into normal text file, so that the network administrator canunderstand the network traffic and later analyze it