The Design and Implementation of a Packet Sniffer (PSniffer) Model for Network Security

Awodele Oludele; Otusile Oluwabukola

This paper presents another type of packet sniffer software that captures network data as well as provides sufficient means for the decision making process of an administrator. This work designed a new model and defined its benefits over existing packet sniffers; the model was developed in Java totally. The aim of this model is to rewrite C language sniffer models into Java, and also develop a model that consumes little memory on the hard disk. This model comprises of five independent modules that handles different tasks efficiently using Winpcap and JPCAP for sniffing. ARP cache poisoning method is used for sniffing in this model. The proposed system does not transmit any data onto the network, uses 1MB of the hard disk space, friendly GUI and it is very easy to install.

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• Volume 3 Issue 6, Nov. 2012

Year:

2012

Type of Publication:

Article

Keywords:

Network traffic; Packets; Packet capture; Packet sniffer

Journal:

IJECCE

Volume:

3

Number:

6

Pages:

1364-1367

Month:

Nov.