
Ettercap
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| Fact | Ettercap | NETCAP |
|---|---|---|
| Purpose | Ettercap is a suite for man-in-the-middle testing with live connection sniffing, on-the-fly content filtering, protocol dissection, and network and host analysis. | NETCAP converts network packet streams into structured audit records for network analysis, security research, machine learning, and forensics. |
Ettercap suits network testing and analysis work involving live traffic, protocol dissection, or host and network inspection. It is aimed at users comfortable with supported systems and, for source builds, the listed development dependencies.
NETCAP suits network analysts, security researchers and forensic or machine-learning workflows that use packet captures. Core is available as an open-source CLI, while Pro adds investigation and analysis tools.