Packet Sender Alternatives

Wireshark is the world's most widely-used network protocol analyzer software. With Wireshark you can get a better understanding on what's happening on your network. The software let's you do deep analysis across hundreds of protocols at a microscopic level. Wireshark is free and open-source and has been in active development by contributions from volunteers across the globe since 1998. Today the software is used by commercial and non-profit enterprises, government agencies, and educational institutions.

With Netcat you can read and write data across network connections with the TCP/IP protocol. Netcat is a feature rich networking utility for macOS, Linux and Windows that is designed to a reliable tool that can be utilized by external programs and scripts. Netcat provides intricate tools for netowork debugging, network exploration and connection creation.

pwncat is a sophisticated bind and reverse shell handler with many features as well as a drop-in replacement or compatible complement to netcat, ncat or socat. pwncat is like netcat on steroids with Firewall, IDS/IPS evasion, bind and reverse shell, self-injecting shell and forwarding magic - and its fully scriptable with Python (PSE)