# caesar0301/awesome-pcaptools

A collection of tools developed by other researchers in the Computer Science area to process network traces. All the right reserved for the original authors.

Repository: https://github.com/caesar0301/awesome-pcaptools
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/awesome-pcaptools
Homepage: http://caesar0301.github.io/awesome-pcaptools
License: CC0-1.0
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2025-09-03T07:24:40+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 50/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 40, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5215, "days_push": 364, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3415, forks 479 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:03.702383+00:00)

## What it is
A curated awesome-list of tools for processing pcap files and analyzing network traffic, containing no source code itself. It catalogs traffic capture, analysis/inspection, DNS utilities, and file extraction tools contributed by researchers.

## Use cases
- find tools to analyze pcap packet captures
- discover network traffic analysis software
- compare packet sniffing and capture tools
- find DNS traffic inspection utilities
- extract files from network traces
- monitor network bandwidth on Linux

## When to choose
- you need a starting point to discover pcap processing tools
- researching network traffic analysis tooling options
- building a network forensics or monitoring toolkit

## When to avoid
- you need actual working software rather than a link list
- you need a maintained tool with support
- you need non-networking analysis tools

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: active
- function: developer-tools, networking, analytics, security
- domain: networking, security, developer-tools, awesome-lists
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: awesome-list, pcap, packet-capture, network-traffic-analysis, curated-list, traffic-analysis, dns, packet-inspection, linux

## Member repositories
- caesar0301/awesome-pcaptools (main) score 50

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:03.702383+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:38:28.289696+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/caesar0301/awesome-pcaptools (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:03.702383+00:00, sha dd3dd61e26b4)
  - homepage: http://caesar0301.github.io/awesome-pcaptools (fetched 2026-08-29T09:32:37.025709+00:00, sha 0192f1dbfeac)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.