Npcap is packet capture library for Windows operating system. Npcap is created and developed as a Nmap project. Npcap is based on WinPcap project which is currently not actively developed. The most important feature of Npcap is support for Windows 10 operating systems where WinPcap only supports up to Windows 7. Npcap Features Npcap provides a lot of powerful features according to WinPcap. Here are some of them. NDIS 6...
WinPcap is a network packet capture library designed for Windows operating systems. Wireshark is a popular packet capturing and security tool. Wireshark developers created the WinPcap in order to tap into the network of Windows systems and capture packets. Recently the development of the WinPcap is stopped with the version of WinPcap 4.1.3. WinPcap Development Stopped and Do not Supports Windows 10 For 15 years WinPcap was the defacto and...
Angry IP scanner is a very fast IP address and port scanner which is popular amongst systems administrators. It is cross-platform and lightweight where it can be installed easily. Angry IP scanner comes without a cost. Angry IP scanner can resolve NetBIOS protocol, computer names, workgroup name, currently logged in users. Results can be exported or saved in different formats like CSV, TXT, XML, etc. Download and Install For Windows...
Local Area Network is a computer network where computers in the same location or group are connected together and shares common communication lines. Local Area Network is mainly expressed as LAN which is a very popular term in computer network and IT. LAN Components LAN will have very simple topology where some equipment or components are used. In order to connect multiple computers in a single LAN, we can use...
Today Firewall is depicted as the main component of the security and networks. Firewalls provide a lot of different operations and features. In the old days, the firewall was simply used to block or allow some ports and management of the NAT. In these days there are a lot of different threats where the firewall is used to detect and stop these threats. Firewall Features Today modern firewall’s provides a...
Network Address Translation a.k.a. NAT is a process or technique used to change IP address and TCP port numbers by an intermediate device like firewall, router, modem etc. There are different use cases for NAT but the most popular one is to use a single WAN IP address for multiple servers and client which is located LAN. Topology NAT has the following topology in general. NAT will occur on the...
Technical or not most of the people know the router word. Those who know the router can understand a different thing from the word. In this tutorial, we will try to explain what is a router in a technical and non-technical way with router functions, router types and router security. What is a Router For? A router is a device which will connect different networks and the internet together. Typical...
nslookup is a very powerful tool used to get DNS realted information from DNS servers. We can get web server IP address, Mail Server IP address, Alternative IP addresses, DNS Management Information etc from DNS servers with the nslookup command. Query and Print A Type Records We will start with a simple and general example. We will query and list the A type of records. A type record is used to...
Telnet is a command line protocol used to manage different devices like Server, PC, Router, Switch, Camera, Firewall remotely. Telnet is a very simple protocol which provides simple remote connection and sending commands or data to the remote network connection. This makes telnet very popular among IT systems. Telnet generally comes after SSH for remote system management from the command line. History of Telnet Telnet protocol is created with the...
IP addresses are the core mechanism of the Computer networks. The IP address is used to specify the host to communicate and transmit data. There is two type of IP address configuration mechanism. Dynamic and Static. In this tutorial, we will examine the static IP address configuration. Static IP Address Static means stable or not changeable, fixed etc. Static IP addresses set to the host or interface and do not change during...
