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Netcat is a featured networking utility which reads and writes data across network connections...

netcat Alternatives

The best netcat alternatives based on verified products, community votes, reviews and other factors.
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    Wireshark is a network protocol analyzer for Unix and Windows. It lets you capture and interactively browse the traffic running on a computer network.

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    tcpdump is a common packet analyzer that runs under the command line.

  3. Logit.io provides complete observability of logs, metrics and traces. The platform also offers alerting & monitoring, as well as Prometheus, OpenSearch & Grafana. Ingest any type of data to see real-time insights about your applications and services

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    socat is a relay for bidirectional data transfer between two independent data channels.

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    SmartSniff is a packet sniffer that capture TCP/IP packets and display them as sequence of conversations between clients and servers.

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    Ettercap is a suite for man in the middle attacks on LAN.

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    Do you need to map a specific TCP or UDP port on your machine to another port on another machine?

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    Simple Port Forwarding works with WebPages and not directly with your router.

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    NetworkMiner is a Network Forensic Analysis Tool (NFAT) for Windows.

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    Portfwd, Port Forwarding Daemon, stands for port forwarding daemon.

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    Nmap Free Security Scanner, Port Scanner, & Network Exploration Tool. Download open source software for Linux, Windows, UNIX, FreeBSD, etc.

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    Free open source tool to perform TCP based session relay

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    TheCodingMonkeys, authors of software like SubEthaEdit.

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    Ethereal® is used by network professionals around the world for troubleshooting, analysis...

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9 Best Angry IP Scanner Alternatives Reviewed 2021 (Free & Paid)
Netcat lacks a lot of the documentation you can easily find with software like AngryIP or Nmap which in my opinion is its biggest drawback. If you’re thinking about trying out Netcat, check out our Netcat Cheat Sheet to quickly pull up powerful and useful commands. Netcat is compatible with Windows, Linux, and macOS systems.
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Netcat is one of the oldest network tools in the "Unixverse", it's been there since 1995, and the last official version is from 2004. Although it has many forks and variants that work pretty well on modern operating systems, like ncat from the Nmap suite, or this alternative Netcat version from Mike Frysinger.
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