LANView

LANView is a simple solution for network administration and management.

Features: LANView is a suite of tools for basic network administration tasks. The first task is one of network discovery, which is carried out easily with LANView, and it returns a list of IP addresses, MAC addresses, hostnames, users on the network, groups (and Workgroups) etc. This is done by the LAN Search utility. Other utilities include: Packet capture and analysis module; IP traffic generation for testing purposes; collection of IP statistics; monitoring of network connections; Port Scan; PING, and PING scan for each and every device on the network; and Windows Socket information and local information: each of these utilities is available as a separate tab, providing easy access to the desired utility. Each of these utilities also runs as a separate thread resulting in smaller resource overhead as well optimized performance on multi-core CPUs.

From a network management perspective it can be used for various tasks: broadcasting of important messages across the local network; remote shutdown and remote wakeup; finding a specified host; and performing SNMP audits. Report generation is simple in to TXT format and HTML format reports that include statistical graphs can be generated just as easily.

Overall: This is an excellent tool for hobbyists, network enthusiasts and to a limited extent for network administrators. Some network administrators may desire additional functionality as well as command line utilities. The user interface is a good one and it is fairly simple to get most tasks done (the fact that the utility tabs are on the left pane in a top-down feature is a great improvement other similar suite’s which put them up as left-right tabs that require scrolling; no scrolling is required here) . However, there is a limitation in terms of network visualization capabilities, as well as in which statistical information is displayed. As and when these improvements are mad this will become a 5 star effort.

LANView is a powerful tool for LAN administration. It can quickly obtain information about all hosts on a network, including IP addresses, MAC addresses, hostnames, users and groups. With LANView, capturing and analyzing network packets real time would be convenient. Additionally, you can also use it to scan port, broadcast message, remote shutdown, remote wakeup, lookup host, trace route, monitor connections, audit SNMP, find computer, ping, display network traffic, detects local host and get information about IP addresses, network adapter, Winsock, etc.