Snoop (software)

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Developer(s) Sun Microsystems
Stable release
Solaris 10 / December 11, 2006 (2006-12-11)
Operating system Solaris
Type Packet analyzer
License CDDL
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Snoop software is a command line packet analyzer included in the Solaris Operating System created by Sun Microsystems. Its source code was available via the OpenSolaris project.

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