Sniffnet – monitor your Internet traffic

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I&#x27;d like to collect something at the router level to learn how my kids are using the Internet.<p>Like I&#x27;d like to know the sites being visited on different devices.<p>Is there any such thing possible?

I&#x27;d love a tool like this built into my router. OpenWRT maybe.<p>Ubiquiti&#x27;s routers have some monitoring tools like this but the reported data is completely wrong.

You may also want to look at the venerable EtherApe, that has been around for a while and is packaged for most distros<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;etherape.sourceforge.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;etherape.sourceforge.io&#x2F;</a>

What&#x27;s the point of monitoring your Internet traffic at the domain and IP level? If you want to stop sensitive data exfiltration, it doesn&#x27;t matter the domain (malicioussomething.com vs google.com) but the data in the packets, which apps like this rarely track.<p>How do people deal with this dichotomy?

What makes this better than tcpdump&#x2F;wireshark?

I&#x27;ve always wondered: is there a tool which could selectively block internet traffic on a per-domain basis via a GUI interface like the uMatrix browser extension does for websites?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;Ae4npRh.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;Ae4npRh.png</a><p>Obviously you can block hostnames quite easily via a hosts file, but it would be great if there was an easy-to-use GUI which could block stuff at the router level. If possible it could even inspect URIs to selectively block requests for certain file extensions etc.

Is it possible to select a pcap stream (named pipe or so) as input? With that I could monitor my routers interfaces.<p>Or are there other possibilities to monitor router interfaces with Stiffnet?

I&#x27;m looking for something similar that will run on my router and track the entire house. Any suggestions?

Looks really cool with a lot of information. Can someone who knows more than I detail out what the practical use cases of something like this would be?

I used brew install... which of these do I choose? I chose en0 and i get permission error (Libcap error, cannot open BPF device)<p>I have apple silicon<p>edit: i just used sudo ;p

is there a way to visualise networks (who talks to who) in a good way? i want source to be logs from my firewall.

Also, which package did you use to build this UI in rust? this is absolutely incredible. I love the vibe of it...

This feels like the same project as ntop. I&#x27;m curious what drove this one.

anyone have thoughts about this vs ntopng? any other alternatives?

Is there a way to see what applications are causing traffic?