Wireshark is the world’s foremost network protocol analyzer, and is the de facto (and often de jure) standard across many industries and educational institutions. TCPView provides a more informative and conveniently presented subset of the Netstat program that ships with Windows. On Windows Server 2008, Vista, NT, 2000 and XP TCPView also reports the name of the process that owns the endpoint. TCPView is a Windows program that will show you detailed listings of all TCP and UDP endpoints on your system, including the local and remote addresses and state of TCP connections. Filezilla supports FTP proxy servers and it extremely useful when operating a FTP client from behind an FTP proxy appliance. It uses Secure Shell (SSH) and supports, in addition to Secure FTP, also legacy SCP protocol.įilezilla is a free FTP solution available in both client and server packages. Beyond this, WinSCP offers basic file manager functionality. Its main function is the secure file transfer between a local and a remote computer.

WinSCP is an open source free SFTP client and FTP client for Windows. It also supports a myriad of program languages so it can mark up your code as your type. Vim is a great tool that can easily and quickly open the largest files possible. There’s nothing worse than trying to open a 100+ MB log file with Microsoft Word or Notepad only to have it hang the system on you. It is an improved version of the vi editor distributed with most UNIX systems. Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. I’ve broken this page into two categories, freeware tools and commercial tools and/or applications. This is work in progress so please don’t hate me if I missed something obvious. I’d like to share my list of tools and perhaps hear about some new ones that I don’t yet know about.

Over the years I’ve developed a toolkit of utilities to help make my job of being an Information Technology professional easier.

Tcpview vs wireshark