How to monitor data packets on Mac OS X

If you have multiple workstations, several machines that manage the Internet, or you need to connect to multiple networks frequently, you will find the tool for monitoring data packets useful sooner or later.

New users may want to know how to use such a tool? The following are some columns you can use it to do:

· Monitor network usage

· Conduct network data statistics

· Analyze network faults

· Identify suspicious content

· View what other users are doing

There are many tools and software with the above features on Mac OS X. However, if you are looking for Free Software, Packer Peeper is one of your preferred options. It is open source and has powerful functions.

Nowadays, using free wireless networks while drinking coffee in a local coffee shop has become a common phenomenon. If you enable Packet Peeper and select the random capture mode, you can not only view your own data packets, but also the data packets of others in the coffee shop.

As you can see above, the Packet Peeper user interface is easy to use.

If you understand how the tool captures your network communication, you may be more cautious when you connect to the free network next time. After all, you won't be the only one who uses the tool. For example, if you are viewing a POP email account-this account sends the user name and password to the server in plain text format, you will find that Packet Peeper can intercept the user name and password.

You can save the captured data packets for analysis. Especially when you need to analyze data communication between multiple networks immediately, but you need to capture all the information before analyzing it.

If you want to know more details, you can obtain more detailed information. Shows what the TCP data stream is like.

If you have enough space, it is not difficult to analyze data packets. The preview content of the data packet is described in a separate window. To meet the page size requirements, I reduced the page size proportionally, but you can see that you can get more information on the screen.

You can set many options before starting the capture phase. The longer you monitor the data packets, the more you will find the information useful.