Capsa (software)

This article is about the line of network analyzers from Colasoft. For the city in Tunisia originally named Capsa, see Gafsa.

Capsa Network Analyzer
Developer(s)	Colasoft LLC
Stable release	8.3 / 29 March 2016 (2016-03-29)
Operating system	Microsoft Windows
Type	Packet analyzer
License	Freeware Shareware
Website	www.colasoft.com/capsa/

Capsa is the name for a family of packet analyzer developed by Colasoft for network administrators to monitor, troubleshoot and analyze wired & wireless networks. Currently, there are three editions available: Capsa Enterprise Edition, Capsa Professional Edition, and Capsa Free Edition.

Functionality

Wired & wireless network real-time packet capturing -- (Packets never lies)
Traffic & bandwidth monitoring -- (Which machines are downloading or watching online videos?)
Advanced protocol analysis -- (What network protocols are used in your network? HTTP - web browsing, MSN - chatting.)
Multiple network behavior monitoring -- (What the users are doing: web browsing, chatting?)
Expert network diagnosis -- (Are there any attacks and problems in my network?)
Network activity logging -- (Who and when visited which website/chatted with whom/sent email to whom?)
Email contents preservation -- (Need to save a copy of all emails' contents sent/received by your employee in your network as evidence?)
Quick & intuitive reports -- (Need rich charts and graphs in your presentations and reports? )
In-depth packet decoding -- (What is the original information in network communications?)

Advance Features

Captures packets from a single or multiple network adapters
Analyzes the header & contents of each packet
Provides statistics on MAC & IP address
Analyze Protocol (Data link -> Application Layer)
Diagnoses 40 kinds of network problems
Presents statistics in graphs
Alerts Computer network anomalies
Outputs packets & logs to files
Logs DNS, web browsing, Email, FTP & IM services

Capsa Enterprise Edition

Capsa Enterprise Edition is the flagship of Colasoft Capsa packet analyzer family, it supports both Ethernet and WLAN networks. It performs real-time packet capturing and analysis as well as supporting past-events analysis. It is marketed as a tool for enterprise network administrator to help them deal with daily network work, various kinds of network problem and maintain a productive enterprise network.

Capsa Professional Edition

Capsa Professional Edition is an Ethernet packet analyzer designed for networking professionals or small business network administrators. It is marketed as a network tool for network monitoring, troubleshooting and analyzing purposes.

Capsa Free Edition

Capsa Free Edition is a freeware Ethernet packet analyzer designed by Colasoft for personal use. It is marketed as a tool for network geeks to learn protocols, packets, and other networking related knowledge, and it is free of charge for personal or family users' network monitoring or troubleshooting needs. Anyone can download Capsa Free Edition at Colasoft website for any legal noncommercial use.

Comparison of editions

Feature	Enterprise Edition	Professional Edition
Monitors WiFi Connections	Yes	No
IP Addresses Monitored	Unlimited	Unlimited
Session Timeout Length	Unlimited	Unlimited
Adapter Monitors	Yes	Yes
Manually Save Files	Yes	Yes
Run Multiple Projects	Yes	Yes
Support Multiple Adapters	Yes	Yes
Support Network TAP	Yes	Yes
Printing	Yes	Yes
Export Data	Yes	Yes
Log output function	Yes	Yes
Reports	Yes	No
Diagnosis Function	Yes	No
Security Analysis Profile	Yes	No
Custom Reports	Yes	No
Packet auto-output function	Yes	No
Auto-Scheduling	Yes	No
ARP Attack View	Yes	No
Worm View	Yes	No
DoS Attacking View	Yes	No
DoS Attacked View	Yes	No
TCP Port Scan View	Yes	No
Suspicious Conversation View	Yes	No

Source:^[1]

References

↑ "Capsa - Compare Editions". Colasoft. Retrieved March 29, 2016.

External links

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