Design and Implementation of Network Sniffing
System in LAN
Abstract
With the rapid development and extensive application of computer network technology, the security problem of network becomes more important. Network sniffer is an important issue and technique in the domain of system security, so it has strong realism application background. Network sniffer is a way which is used in network monitor, load analysis; at the same time it is also a way which is used by hacker to get the information illegally. Network sniffer tools snap packets to get the network’s current status by the shared characteristic of the network transmission medium. It provides a useful tool for network manager which can help them inspect and analyze the information of network; simultaneously hackers also get some important information, so threaten system security.
Packet capturing technology is the basis for designing analyzing software. WinPcap is one of the excellent packet capturing architectures under Windows. This paper analyzes packet capturing principle in detail combined with the structure and functions of the software and introduces its application in designing a network security and watch system. The fundamental principle of this system is to capture all packets of the local network using WinPcap library, and perform protocol analyzing and decoding on these packets, so can monitor the network on real-time and find its problem and alarm automatically. The result from the application in LAN also confirms that the system is steady and very effective.
