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

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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
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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.

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  1. 01
    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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  2. 02
    die.net English No trackers

    site news

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  3. 03
    curl curl.se Top 10K English No trackers

    curl

    command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax

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  4. 04
    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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  5. 05
    BarracudaCentral.org barracudacentral.org English 1 tracker

    BarracudaCentral.org - Technical Insight for Security Pros

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  6. 06
    Msys2 msys2.org English No trackers

    Getting Started - MSYS2

    Software Distribution and Building Platform for Windows

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    LZ4 lz4.org English No trackers

    LZ4 - Extremely fast compression

    Compression algorithm

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  8. 08
    Suhosin suhosin.org English No trackers

    Suhosin PHP hardening project

    Open source patch for PHP

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  9. 09
    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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  10. 10
    CPAN cpan.org Top 10K English 1 tracker

    The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network - www.cpan.org

    Perl package repository

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  11. 11
    getcomposer.org Top 10K English No trackers

    Composer

    A Dependency Manager for PHP

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  12. 12
    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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  13. 13
    Drupal drupal.org Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Client Challenge

    free and open-source web content management system

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  14. 14
    Swift swift.org English No trackers

    Swift Programming Language

    Swift is a general-purpose programming language built using a modern approach to safety, performance, and software design patterns.

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  15. 15
    mingw-w64.org English No trackers

    Introduction - mingw-w64

    A complete runtime environment for GCC & LLVM for 32-bit (x86), 64-bit (x64), and ARM64 Windows

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  16. 16
    The Lens lens.org English 1 tracker

    The Lens - Patent and Scholarly Search and Analysis

    The Lens serves all the patents and scholarly work in the world as an open and secure digital public good, with user privacy a paramount focus.

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  17. 17
    graphicsmagick.org English No trackers

    GraphicsMagick Image Processing System

    GraphicsMagick is a robust collection of tools and libraries to read, write, and manipulate an image in any of the more popular image formats including GIF, JPEG, JPEG-2000, PNG, PDF, and WebP. With GraphicsMagick you can create GIFs dynamically making it suitable for Web applications. You can also resize, rotate, sharpen, color reduce, or add special effects to an image and save your completed work in the same or differing image format.

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  18. 18
    CakePHP cakephp.org English 1 tracker

    CakePHP - Build fast, grow solid | PHP Framework | Home

    CakePHP is an open-source web, rapid development framework that makes building web applications simpler, faster and require less code. It follows the model–view–controller (MVC) . Manual for beginners now available and links towards the last version.

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  19. 19
    CodeIgniter codeigniter.com English No trackers

    Welcome to CodeIgniter

    The small framework with powerful features

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    PHP php.net Top 1K English 1 tracker

    PHP

    PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.

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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
9,195
Vector
384-d
Query
24 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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