Portable Network Tools Category


Wireshark – Network Protocol Analyzer

Wireshark is a Free and Portable Network Protocol Analyzer. It can be used to capture and examine network traffic (packet data) from a live running network. Cool options such as display filters are available to help isolate the network traffic sections you wish to monitor. If you have ever needed to find out exactly what information is being sent to and from your computer and where this information is being sent to or coming from on a network or over the internet, you need Wireshark.

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IPInfoOffline – IP Information Tool

IPInfoOffline - IP Information Tool

IPInfoOffline is a Free Portable Software that allows you to view detailed information about IP addresses, without connecting to a server on the net. Created by Nirsoft, IPInfoOffline queries a built in database containing information about each IP address. IP block range, Organization, Assigned Date, Country Name, and Country Code are displayed. This information can then be copied to a clipboard, or saved to a xml, html, csv or text file for future reference.

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MACAddressView – MAC Address Tool

MACAddressView - MAC Address Tool

MACAddressView is a Portable and Free MAC Address Tool created by NirSoft. It can be used to Lookup MAC Addresses and find MAC Address Information for network adapters. Information such as company details (company name, address, and country) by the MAC address of the product. MACAddressView utilizes it's own internal MAC addresses database to display the information about the MAC Address.

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eToolz – Network Tools

eToolz - Network Tools

eToolz is a Free Portable Software that contains many essential network tools. Authors Quote "The Most Important Network Tools in One Application". eToolz contains networking tools like a Ping ToolTraceroute Tool, DNS Lookup Tool, Whois Tool, Pagerank Checker, Mail Checker, HTTP Header Information Checker and much more. A tiny and super useful Portable Application worth adding to anyone's collection.

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Connection Monitor

Connection Monitor

Connection Monitor is a Free Stand Alone Portable utility that can be used to monitor inbound and outbound socket connections. knowing which network and internet connections are taking place can help you keep your network secure. Connection Monitor scans existing connections and displays the local address and port, remote address and port, TCP UDP protocol and status of those connections.

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VB IP Ping

VB IP Ping

VB Ping is a Free Portable Ping tool that enables it's user to quickly and easily Ping an IP Address while logging the Ping results. VB Ping can be run in either manual mode or automatic mode and can log Date, IP Address, Data Sent, Return Status, Address (dec), Round Trip Time, Data Packet Size, Data Returned, and Pointers.  Number of pings can be set between 1-10000 and a timer or delay of between 5-120 seconds can be determined.

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Network Stuff

Network Stuff

Network Stuff is a Free Portable Network Tool that can be used to perform various network diagnostic functions such as Telnet, Ping, Traceroute, Whois, DNS resolver, retreive MAC address, retreive IP address, view TCP/UDP/ICMP stats and much more. A very handy portable network diagnostic tool to add to your arsenal.

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LAN Search Pro – Portable File Search

LAN Search Pro - Portable File Search

LAN Search Pro is a free Portable File Search tool that enables it's user to quickly search for specific file names or file types across an entire LAN (local area network). Once files have been found, the user can open and view, move, copy or rename the items. Here are some examples of how this Portable File Searching utility might be used.

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WirelessNetView – Portable Wireless Network Monitor

WirelessNetView - Portable Wireless Network Monitor

WirelessNetView is a Free Portable Wireless Network Monitor that can be used to detect and monitor any wireless networks that may surround you. This application can be stored and run entirely from a portable USB device. When a wireless network is detected, the SSID, MAC address, signal quality, channel frequency and number, detection counter, RSSI, authentication algorithm, and cipher algorithm can be retrieved and displayed.

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BluetoothView – Portable Bluetooth Monitor

BluetoothView - Portable Bluetooth Monitor

BluetoothView is a Free portable application that can be used to detect any bluetooth activity surrounding you. If a Bluetooth device is detected, BluetooothView will display the name, address, device type, and detection times. The tool can be setup to notify it's user when a new Bluetooth device is detected, by displaying a notification in your taskbar or by playing a sound. This tool runs in the background and can be stored and launched from a portable device.

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WirelessKeyView – Recover Wireless Network Keys

WirelessKeyView - Recover Wireless Network Keys

WirelessKeyView is a Free portable tool created by NirSoft that can be used to recover lost Network Keys. It recovers all wireless network keys (WEP/WPA) that have been stored in your PC via the Wireless Zero Configuration service of Windows XP or the WLAN AutoConfig service of Windows Vista. You can either copy individual keys to the clipboard or export all keys to a text, xml or html file.

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Look@LAN Portable Network Monitor

Look@LAN Portable Network Monitor

Look@LAN is a Portable application that allows a user to monitor which clients are connected to a local network. Look@LAN will display the IP addresses of any computer attached to your local network and will determine if the machines are online or offline and can display if the computer is using a Windows operating system or not. You can limit scan ranges based on IP address, network adapter, or port types. Plus the utility ships with ping, traceroute, and a tree-based network viewer already built in.

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NetSetMan – Portable Network Settings Manager

NetSetMan - Portable Network Settings Manager

NetSetMan is a neat little FREE portable tool that allows a user to quickly and easily manage a network configuration on the fly. It's great for those that might use a different connection to connect at multiple locations. You can set up to 6 different connection profiles and switch between them via a single click activate button. NetSetMan requires roughly 2.5MB for completely stand alone portable installation.

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TCPView – Portable Endpoint Process Monitor

TCPView - Portable Endpoint Process Monitor

TCPView is a portable tool that can be used to display a detailed list and current state of all TCP and UDP endpoint connections and the process name running each endpoint. TCPView provides more informative information than the Netstat program that ships with Windows and includes a command line version called Tcpvcon that offers the same functionality. This portable Connection Monitor requires 328KB for complete stand alone portable installation.

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FollowMeIP – Display External IP Address

FollowMeIP - Display External IP Address

FollowMeIP is a FREE Portable IP tool that can be used to quickly display your external IP address for reference. It works even if your computer system is behind a firewall or router and can be docked in the taskbar for quick retrieval. Very useful for monitoring your broadcasted IP address for game servers and other services. This application requires only 152KB of free space for completely portable installation.

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Angry IP Scanner

Angry IP Scanner

Angry IP Scanner is a FREE portable IP address and port scanner that was designed to be fast and very simple to use. IP Scanner pings an IP addresses to see if it is alive, then it resolves the hostname, determines the MAC address and scans for open ports. Additional plugins are available to help gather more data about each host. This tool is commonly used by network administrators around the world. It requires roughly 888KB for complete stand alone installation.

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SoftPerfect – Portable Network Scanner

SoftPerfect - Portable Network Scanner

SoftPerfect Network Scanner is a portable IP, NetBIOS and SNMP scanner that supports remote shutdown and Wake On LAN. It was created for system administrators and users who are interested in heightened computer security. The Network Scanner pings computers, scans for listening TCP ports and can display any resources that are shared on your network. SoftPerfect also allows you to mount shared folders as network drives, check for a user defined port and report back if one is open, resolve host names and autodetect your PC's local and external IP addresses.

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SmartSniff – Network Packet Sniffer

SmartSniff - Network Packet Sniffer

SmartSniff is a network packet sniffer TCP/IP packet capture program that enables you to monitor all traffic, open ports and more that pass through your computer's network adapter. All without installing a capture driver or installing to your computer. SmartSniff can be carried with you and run directly and portably from a USB flash drive.

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