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The SoftPerfect Network Protocol Analyzer is an advanced, professional tool for analyzing, debugging, maintaining and monitoring local networks and Internet connections. It captures the data passing through your dial-up connection or network Ethernet card, analyzes this data and then represents it in an easily readable form. The SoftPerfect Network Protocol Analyzer is a useful tool for network administrators, security specialists, network application developers and anyone who needs a comprehensive picture of the traffic passing through their network connection or segment of a local area network.

The SoftPerfect Network Protocol Analyzer presents the results of its network analysis in a convenient and easily understandable format. It also allows you to defragment and reassemble network packets into streams. The program can easily analyze network traffic based on a number of different Internet protocols as listed below.

The SoftPerfect Network Protocol Analyzer features full decoding of the following low level protocols: AH, ARP, BOOTP, DHCP, DNS, ESP, GRE, ICMP, ICMPv6, IP, IPv6, IPX, LLC, MSG, REVARP, RIP, SAP, SER, SNAP, SPX, TCP, UDP and VLAN. It also performs full reconstruction of top-level protocols such as HTTP, SMTP, POP, IMAP, FTP, TELNET and others.

The flexible system of fully configurable filters can be used to discard all network traffic except the specific traffic patterns you are interested in. The SoftPerfect Network Protocol Analyzer also has a special packet builder. This tool allows you to build your own custom network packets and send them into the network. You could use this packet builder feature to check your network for robustness against attacks and intruders.

The software supports Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista. It also requires a network connection which could be a wireless connection or a modem that conforms to the NDIS standard.


Key Features


Version History

2.5 January 06, 2007
  • Windows Vista compatibility improved
  • Improved loopback monitor
2.4 August 06, 2006
  • Windows Vista support
  • Windows XP x64 and Windows 2003 x64 support
  • Performance improvements (support of 1 Gbps connections)
  • New look
2.3 November 13, 2005
  • Advanced filtering implemented
  • Fixed minor bugs
2.2 July 22, 2005
  • VLAN protocol support;
  • DNS protocol support;
  • Loopback monitoring;
  • GZip and Deflate HTTP decoding support;
  • MRU list for filters and captures;
  • TCP session reconstruction improved.
2.1 October 10, 2004
  • BOOTP protocol support;
  • DHCP protocol support;
  • GREv1 protocol support.
2.0 July 01, 2004
  • Decoding engine completely rewritten;
  • Multiprocessor systems support;
  • IPv6/ICMPv6 support;
  • IPX support;
  • IEEE 802.3 support;
  • IPsec support;
  • Virtual adapters support (VMWare, VPC, etc);
  • Port reference;
  • Enhanced filtering added;
  • New protocols added: LLC/SNAP, SPX, RIP, SAP and others.
1.2 February 18, 2004
  • Enhanced find dialog;
  • Fixed small bugs;
  • Additional options added.
1.1 December 03, 2004
  • Address book added;
  • Enhanced data flows reconstructor;
  • Many analysis features added;
  • Enhanced filters;
  • Ethernet card vendor identifier.
1.0 Beta October 10, 2003
  • First public release;
  • Beta version;
  • Free to try version released.
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