tcpdump VS hcxtools

Compare tcpdump vs hcxtools and see what are their differences.

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tcpdump hcxtools
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2,552 1,878
1.7% -
9.5 9.0
6 days ago 9 days ago
C C
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later MIT License
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tcpdump

Posts with mentions or reviews of tcpdump. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-03.

hcxtools

Posts with mentions or reviews of hcxtools. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-16.
  • How to capture a handshake, I own a macOS
    5 projects | /r/hacking | 16 May 2023
    . . .´ · . . · `. wifite 2.2.5 : : : (¯) : : : automated wireless auditor `. · ` /¯\ ´ · .´ https://github.com/derv82/wifite2 ` /¯¯¯\ ´ [!] Error: Required app iwconfig was not found. install @ apt-get install wireless-tools [!] Warning: Recommended app bully was not found. install @ https://github.com/aanarchyy/bully [!] Warning: Recommended app pyrit was not found. install @ https://github.com/JPaulMora/Pyrit/wiki [!] Warning: Recommended app hcxdumptool was not found. install @ https://github.com/ZerBea/hcxdumptool [!] Warning: Recommended app hcxpcaptool was not found. install @ https://github.com/ZerBea/hcxtools [!] At least 1 Required app is missing. Wifite needs Required apps to run main:~ lung$
  • Some Pwnagotchi Pr0n ;-)
    2 projects | /r/pwnagotchi | 4 Jan 2023
    I really, really would love to get DiscoHash working but the pre-req of getting hcxtools built on the Pwnagotchi is currently broken.
  • Wifite Issues
    4 projects | /r/linuxquestions | 7 Apr 2022
    [!] Warning: Recommended app hcxpcaptool was not found. install @ https://github.com/ZerBea/hcxtools
  • How do i perform pmkid on ap?
    2 projects | /r/HowToHack | 8 Feb 2022
  • pcap file wont be converted
    1 project | /r/pwnagotchi | 16 Jul 2021
    > git clone https://github.com/ZerBea/hcxtools.git
  • At least 1 Required app is missing. Wifite needs Required apps to run
    7 projects | /r/Ubuntu | 26 Apr 2021
    [!] Error: Required app aircrack-ng was not found. install @ https://www.aircrack-ng.org/install.html [!] Error: Required app iwconfig was not found. install @ apt-get install wireless-tools [!] Error: Required app ifconfig was not found. install @ apt-get install net-tools [!] Warning: Recommended app reaver was not found. install @ https://github.com/t6x/reaver-wps-fork-t6x [!] Warning: Recommended app bully was not found. install @ https://github.com/aanarchyy/bully [!] Warning: Recommended app pyrit was not found. install @ https://github.com/JPaulMora/Pyrit/wiki [!] Warning: Recommended app tshark was not found. install @ apt-get install wireshark [!] Warning: Recommended app hashcat was not found. install @ https://hashcat.net/hashcat/ [!] Warning: Recommended app hcxdumptool was not found. install @ https://github.com/ZerBea/hcxdumptool [!] Warning: Recommended app hcxpcaptool was not found. install @ https://github.com/ZerBea/hcxtools [!] Warning: Recommended app macchanger was not found. install @ apt-get install macchanger [!] At least 1 Required app is missing. Wifite needs Required apps to run root@localhost:~/wifite2#

What are some alternatives?

When comparing tcpdump and hcxtools you can also consider the following projects:

libpcap - the LIBpcap interface to various kernel packet capture mechanism

esp32-wifi-penetration-tool - Exploring possibilities of ESP32 platform to attack on nearby Wi-Fi networks.

Wireshark - Read-only mirror of Wireshark's Git repository at https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark. ⚠️ GitHub won't let us disable pull requests. ⚠️ THEY WILL BE IGNORED HERE ⚠️ Upload them at GitLab instead.

pwnagotchi - (⌐■_■) pwnagotchi

binwalk - Firmware Analysis Tool

aircrack-ng - WiFi security auditing tools suite

ngrep - ngrep is like GNU grep applied to the network layer. It's a PCAP-based tool that allows you to specify an extended regular or hexadecimal expression to match against data payloads of packets. It understands many kinds of protocols, including IPv4/6, TCP, UDP, ICMPv4/6, IGMP and Raw, across a wide variety of interface types, and understands BPF filter logic in the same fashion as more common packet sniffing tools, such as tcpdump and snoop.

hcxdumptool - Small tool to capture packets from wlan devices.

wavedrom - :ocean: Digital timing diagram rendering engine

wifite2 - Rewrite of the popular wireless network auditor, "wifite"

bitfield - :cake: bit field diagram renderer

sngrep - Ncurses SIP Messages flow viewer