tcpdump.org

tcpdump

Who runs tcpdump, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest network packet analysis alternatives.

Who’s behind it
Not stated
Online since
Unknown
Trackers
Prices
No pricing page
Last price change
–
Closest alternative
Wireshark

Measured from tcpdump’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs tcpdump

tcpdump tcpdump.org

Web site of Tcpdump and Libpcap

Wikidata: data-network packet analyzer

Company
No imprint we could read
Online since
Not in the Internet Archive
Audience
In English

02 · Privacy

What tcpdump tracks

What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.

trackers that follow visitors

None of the 19 alternatives below has fewer; 5 have more.

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Cookie banner
None found

We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on tcpdump’s homepage.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to tcpdump

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to tcpdump, thumbs down if it isn’t.

No ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English
  1. 01
    Wireshark wireshark.org Top 10K

    network traffic analyzer

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  2. 02
    Nmap nmap.org English 1 tracker

    Nmap: the Network Mapper - Free Security Scanner

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

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  3. 03
    die.net English No trackers

    site news

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  4. 04
    tcl-lang.org No trackers

    Tcl Developer Site

    scripting language

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  5. 05
    zlib zlib.net Top 10K No trackers

    zlib Home Site

    lossless compression library

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  6. 06
    pugixml.org No trackers

    pugixml.org - Home

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  7. 07
    curl curl.se Top 10K English No trackers

    curl

    command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax

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  8. 08
    MetaCPAN metacpan.org English No trackers

    Search the CPAN - metacpan.org

    open source search engine for the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN)

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  9. 09
    libpng.org Top 10K No trackers

    libpng.org: top level

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  10. 10
    BarracudaCentral.org barracudacentral.org English 1 tracker

    BarracudaCentral.org - Technical Insight for Security Pros

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  11. 11
    FreeTDS.org freetds.org Top 10K No trackers

    FreeTDS.org

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  12. 12
    Msys2 msys2.org English No trackers

    Getting Started - MSYS2

    Software Distribution and Building Platform for Windows

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  13. 13
    ijg.org Top 10K No trackers

    Independent JPEG Group

    C programming language library for JPEG images, from IJG

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  14. 14
    LZ4 lz4.org English No trackers

    LZ4 - Extremely fast compression

    Compression algorithm

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  15. 15
    Suhosin suhosin.org English No trackers

    Suhosin PHP hardening project

    Open source patch for PHP

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  16. 16
    OpenLDAP openldap.org Top 10K No trackers

    OpenLDAP, Main Page

    The Open Source for LDAP software and information. Home of OpenLDAP.

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  17. 17
    sqlite.org Top 10K No trackers

    SQLite Home Page

    serverless relational database management system (RDBMS)

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  18. 18
    Kubernetes kubernetes.io Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Kubernetes

    Kubernetes, also known as K8s, is an open source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. It groups containers that make up an application into logical units for easy management and discovery. Kubernetes builds upon 15 years of experience of running production workloads at Google, combined with best-of-breed ideas and practices from the community. Planet scaleDesigned on the same principles that allow Google to run billions of containers a week, Kubernetes can scale without increasing your operations team.

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  19. 19
    FileHippo filehippo.com English 4 trackers

    FileHippo.com - Download free software for Windows

    Looking to download safe free versions of the latest software for Windows, freeware, shareware and demo programs from a reputable download site? Visit FileHippo today.

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  20. 20
    Drupal drupal.org Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Client Challenge

    free and open-source web content management system

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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles tcpdump’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones tcpdump uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.

04 · History

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what tcpdump adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.

05 · Details

How we measure

Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.

The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 2 technologies
Neighbours
k = 20
Sites searched
9,192
Vector
384-d
Query
34 ms

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to tcpdump’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.

similarity × popularity

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