Project Summary
Ettercap is a network sniffer/interceptor/logger for ethernet LANs. It supports active and passive dissection of many protocols (even ciphered ones, like SSH and HTTPS). Data injection in an established connection and filtering on the fly is also possible, keeping the connection synchronized. Many sniffing modes were implemented to give you a powerful and complete sniffing suite. Plugins are supported. It has the ability to check whether you are in a switched LAN or not, and to use OS fingerprints (active or passive) to let you know the geometry of the LAN.
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by a average size development team
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took an estimated 17 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in October, 2011
ending with its most recent commit about 1 month ago
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