Historical packet sniffer and monitoring tool

1. HELP THIS PROJECT
2. I AND SNIFFIT
2. WHAT IS SNIFFIT?
3. BUILDING FROM SOURCE
4. LICENSE

1. HELP THIS PROJECT

Sniffit needs your help. If you are a programmer and if you wants to help a nice project, this is your opportunity.

My name is Eriberto and I am not a C developer. I imported Sniffit from Internet to GitHub (the original homepage and developer are inactive). After this, I applied all patches found in Debian project and other places for this program. All my initial work was registered in CHANGELOG file (version 0.4.0 and later releases). I also maintain Sniffit packaged in Debian[1].

If you are interested to help Sniffit, read the CONTRIBUTING.md file.

[1] https://packages.qa.debian.org/s/sniffit.html

2. I AND SNIFFIT

Well, sniffit is a very old packet sniffer, originally developed by Brecht Claerhout, between 1996 and 1998. This was the first program that I compiled in GNU/Linux (in 1997). So, I have a special fondness for this program. So, since 2015 I have maintained it as a package in Debian. Since November 2016 I am trying to maintain it in GitHub but I need help! Please, help this project (see above how to do it).

3. WHAT IS SNIFFIT?

sniffit is a packet sniffer for TCP/UDP/ICMP packets over IPv4. It is able to give you a very detailed technical info on these packets, as SEQ, ACK, TTL, Window, etc. The packet contents also can be viewed, in different formats (hex or plain text, etc.).

sniffit was originally developed by Brecht Claerhout. The initial homepage, now offline, was http://reptile.rug.ac.be/~coder/sniffit/sniffit.html.

4. BUILDING FROM SOURCE

Run ./autogen.sh to create the configure script, then run ./configure, make and make install.

This program depends of the libpcap and libncurses.

5. LICENSE

Sniffit is under BSD-3-Clause license.