Cocoa Packet Analyzer for Mac

1.90

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Not dead yet ;-) There's a new version 1.90 on the linked website...

Good alternative for WireShark

Have you considered integrating dtrace scripts into your data gathering process with this tool? soconnect_mac.d is exceptionally useful and there are some others enumerated at: http://dtrace.org/blogs/brendan/2011/10/10/top-10-dtrace-scripts-for-mac-os-x/ I find the usefulness of these to be quite extreme in debugging and finding information that does not usually lend itself readily, even through normal packet analyzation. A number of useful scripts from the DTrace Book can be found at: http://www.dtracebook.com/images/dtbook_scripts.tar.gz

Works well, and a useful tool to have at hand. I also use WireShark, but for quick packet captures, I prefer CPA. I very much appreciate developers who put out utilities like this without charging--value that can't be beat.

What are the industrial co-operations use your software??

Pretty nice application but cannot find any capturing interface on a MBP with Lion. Any clue? Am I missing anything?

Nice! Not as feature complete as WireShark, but it sure beats firing up X11 if you need to sniff some packets! :) If the missing WireShark features could be added (follow conversation, protocol hierarchy, etc etc), I'd never fire up WireShark again.

Download site overwhelmed? Try http://bit.ly/crMYgS This is from that "other" Mac software update site, not the developer at http://www.tastycocoabytes.com/cpa/ Someone else needs to mirror this.

Awesome. Works like a charm. Easy and clean. And MacOS native. I really prefer this over the WireShark distribution, which requires X11 and has a pretty bad GUI. For my needs, CocoaPacketAnalyzer is the best choice.

Awesome, new version works a lot smoother, would freeze up with only 100 packets captured, now it can handle a thousand and decode in a second, awesome work !