Admin Tools

netcut is one of those tools that produces strong reactions depending on who’s looking at it. To a network administrator running a small office or […]

When an application talks to a server and something goes wrong, the interesting information is in the conversation nobody can see. Charles makes it visible […]

Cisco Packet Tracer is a powerful network simulation and visualization tool designed primarily for students, educators, and networking professionals who want to design, configure, and […]

DNS Jumper is the small portable utility that lets you change which DNS server your computer uses without diving into network adapter properties through Control […]

inSSIDer is a Wi-Fi scanner that turns the invisible radio chatter around your desk into something you can actually read. Fire it up and every […]

SuperScan is a TCP and UDP port scanner that also pulls information out of the hosts it finds. You feed it a single address, a […]

For roughly 14 years, WinPcap was the answer to a specific Windows problem. Linux and macOS had libpcap built into the operating system, giving every […]

Ubiquiti UniFi Controller is a device management tool that will help you manage your Ubiquity hardware and devices, control them remotely, diagnose problems, and visualize […]

Most VPN clients people install are either consumer products meant to mask IP addresses for privacy and streaming, or open-source utilities like OpenVPN meant to […]

When network engineers need to know what is actually happening on a wire, they open Wireshark. It captures every packet that crosses the network interface, […]

A debugging proxy that lets you inspect and edit traffic is useful. One that lets you write a program deciding what happens to every request […]

Learning network engineering used to require a rack of equipment in a spare room. GNS3 replaces that with a canvas where devices are dragged into […]

Want to know more about your network? With NetworkMiner, you’ll be able to attain information about your network, such as connected users and hosts. The […]

Working out what is actually on a network used to mean pinging addresses one after another and waiting. Angry IP Scanner removes the waiting by […]

Moving a file from one machine to another in the same room is a problem people solve absurdly. They email it to themselves, upload it […]