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Packet visualization with Rumint

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One of the tools recommended in Chris Sander’s Practical Packet Analysis book is called Rumint.

Rumint is a free, open source packet visualization tool available for Microsoft Windows (written in Visual Basic.)

Roomint’s author, Greg Conti, has a book to be published by No Starch Press called Security Data Visualization.

One problem I’ve run into with Rumint is that it doesn’t work on my setup. I run Windows XP and I’ve got WinPCap 4.0.1. It looks to me like a problem between Rumint and the latest version of WinPCap. The problem is that Rumint won’t show any network interfaces to sniff, so obviously things don’t work too well. ;)

Various packet visualizations

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This entry was posted on Thursday, August 23rd, 2007 @ 2:56 pm on the category Protocol Analysis. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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3 Comments

  1. GReg says:

    I just updated Rumint (v2.14) with a new network interface library, it should now work fine with WinPcap 4.01. The updated version is available at http://www.rumint.org. Thanks. Greg

    Quote | Posted September 19, 2007, 1:16 am
  2. Jack Hughes says:

    @Greg: that’s great…I will check it out and report back. Thanks!

    Quote | Posted September 19, 2007, 8:21 am
  3. Rumint now works with WinPcap 4.0.1 says:

    [...] Conti has released a new version of rumint that now works with WinPcap 4.0.1. If you tried rumint before and had problems, I suggest you give it another [...]

    Quote | Posted September 19, 2007, 10:49 am

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