EASY Monitoring of HOME Network what program to use other than snort?

RuthSam · Oct 10, 2016

Hi,

To be sure that no one has access to my home network I would like to know if somone knows of some software that can be installed and that will MONITOR ALL NETWORK traffic to and from my Internet router.

For some years I saw a program that showed each workstation, router etc on the network and what traffic is going through it, but I can't remmeber it's name any longer nor find it on Google.

I need something easy to install and use, not something very techy.. do you know of such please?

Wilson Grant Fisk · Oct 10, 2016

Wireshark https://www.wireshark.org/download.html
Spiceworks https://www.spiceworks.com/free-network-monitoring-management-software/
PRTG Network Monitor https://www.paessler.com/free_network_monitor
Nagios https://www.nagios.org/downloads/
Microsoft Network Monitor 3.4 http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=4865

RuthSam · Oct 10, 2016

thank you very much will have a look at all of the

Wilson Grant Fisk · Oct 10, 2016

RuthSam said:
thank you very much will have a look at all of the

There are plenty of other tools out there, if those are not suitable for you then let me know and I will make some more suggestions.

Aatrox · Oct 10, 2016

For WLAN you can manually add MAC addresses to your router and allow only them to connect to WLAN such as your phones and laptops. As for the programs, I used Wireshark while I was in college, it was a good tool as far as I can remember and it wasn't that hard to use.

RuthSam · Oct 10, 2016

Asif WILSON Khan said:
Microsoft Network Monitor 3.4 http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=4865

I just installed and looked into the above it spits out a lot of data, but it's difficult to see what exactly it shows.. so far I was only able to identity my MacBook, 2 workstations but no mobile phones or ipdas or servers was shown.

I need something that can draw up in "pictures" what devices are connected and what data they are sending. So that it is possible to see if somoene is sucking on my Internet or spy on the network.

Wilson Grant Fisk · Oct 10, 2016

Some of these offer both paid and free versions, a couple are pretty old so may not work

Try These first:
https://www.adremsoft.com/mynettoolset/
http://www.advanced-ip-scanner.com/index2.php
http://angryip.org/download/#windows
http://www.open-audit.org/
Then these:
http://www.mikrotik.com/thedude
https://www.netlimiter.com/
http://www.rawlogic.com/netbrute/
http://cheops-ng.sourceforge.net/index.php
https://www.opennms.org/en
http://www.networkview.com/
https://nmap.org/
An old version of Network Magic is here : https://web.archive.org/web/20080216234151/http://networkmagic.com/download/thankyou2.php?

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