Colasoft Will be No Longer Silent, Starting a Network Analysis Market Storm with MAC Scanner Pro 2.2

June 18, 2009, Colasoft, Which specialized in network analysis field for more than 7 years, today announced that, they will take effective measures to seize network analysis and network monitoring market as soon as possible, the first bomb they will toss is to make MAC Scanner Pro 2.2 Free, which has 7 strong features that traditional MAC Scanner doesn’t have. This event signifies that Colasoft formally begins its powerful market development after years’ focused products developing.

Up to now, Colasoft has main product lines, Colasoft Network Analyzer - Capsa, Network Monitor – Unipeek MSN Monitor, Network Tools including Colasoft MAC Scanner, Colasoft Ping Tool, Colasoft Packet Builder, and Colasoft Packet Player. Its products have covered more than 60 countries worldwide and more than 55 Fortune 500 Enterprises like IBM, Airbus, and DELL are using Colasoft Network Analyzer-Capsa.

Compared with the network analysis Giant in this industry, – Wireshark, Colasoft has its irreplaceable characteristics and strengths. 1, Colasoft Network Analyzer is a Windows-based software, which make users more easily operate on Windows platform than Wireshark; 2, Colasoft Network Analyzer is an Easy – to – Use software, which doesn’t require users to have much specialized knowledge on network analysis.

About this market campaign, Colasoft is intending to induct current FREE MAC Scanner and Network Analyzer customers to recommend two of their contacts to download FREE MAC Scanner, consequently, get a MAC Scanner Pro 2.2 for FREE, this campaign will last two weeks from today on.

About Colasoft

Ever since 2001, Colasoft has been an innovative provider of all-in-one and easy-to-use network analyzer software for network administrators and IT managers to monitor network activities, analyze network performance, enhance network security, and troubleshoot network problems. Up to now, more than 5000 customers in over 70 countries trust the flagship product – Capsa as their network monitoring and troubleshooting solution. Colasoft also offers four free network utilities: Colasoft Packet Builder, Colasoft Packet Player, Colasoft MAC Scanner, and Colasoft Ping Tool. Learn more about Colasoft and its solutions, please visit http://www.colasoft.com/.

Introduce Four Free Network Tools to Network Administrators

Today, Let me introduce four FREE network tools to all network administrators, the tools from Colasoft are totally free and are widely used, don't miss them out, guys.

Colasoft MAC Scanner
Colasoft MAC Scanner is a scan tool used for scanning IP addresses and MAC addresses in a local network, which display scan results in a list, including IP address, MAC address, Host Name and Manufacture. It will group all IP addresses according to MAC address if a MAC address is configured with multiple IP addresses. The scanned results can be exported into .txt file for future reference.

Colasoft Ping Tool
Colasoft Ping Tool is powerful in supporting to ping multiple IP addresses simultaneously and comparing response time in a graphic chart. Users can view historical charts and save the charts to a *.bmp file. With this build-in tool, users are able to ping the IP addresses of captured packets in a protocol analyzer (e.g. Colasoft Network Analyzer) conveniently, including resource IP, destination IP or both.

Colasoft Packet Builder
Colasoft Packet Builder enables creating custom network packets; users can use this tool to check their network protection against attacks and intruders.Colasoft Packet Builder includes a very powerful editing feature. Besides common HEX editing raw data, it features a Decoding Editor allowing users to edit specific protocol field values much easier.

Users are also able to edit decoding information in two editors - Decode Editor and Hex Editor. Users can select one from the provided templates Ethernet Packet, ARP Packet, IP Packet, TCP Packet and UDP Packet, and change the parameters in the decoder editor, hexadecimal editor or ASCII editor to create a packet. Any changes will be immediately displayed in the other two windows. In addition to building packets, Colasoft Packet Builder also supports saving packets to packet files and sending packets to network.

Colasoft Packet Player
Colasoft Packet Player is a packet replayer which allows users to open captured packet trace files and play them back in the network. It supports many packet trace file formats created by sniffer softwares such as Colasoft Network Analyzer, Ethereal, Network General Sniffer and WildPackets EtherPeek/OmniPeek, etc.

Except sending packet files in original interval between loops, Colasoft Packet Player also supports sending packet files in burst mode and defining the delay between loops if the loop count is more than one.

How to Find MAC Address with Colasoft MAC Scanner and More

In computer networking, a Media Access Control address (MAC address) is a unique identifier assigned to most network adapters or network interface cards (NICs) by the manufacturer for identification, and used in the Media Access Control protocol sublayer. If assigned by the manufacturer, a MAC address usually encodes the manufacturer's registered identification number. It may also be known as an Ethernet Hardware Address (EHA), hardware address, adapter address, or physical address.

Since a MAC Address is unique for most network adapters or network interface cards (NICs), it is important for IT administrators to know all the MAC addresses in LAN so as to quickly locate a network device when a network issue arises. Luckily we have tools to help us out. Let’s see how we can easily find MAC address in LAN with Colasoft MAC Scanner.

Colasoft MAC Scanner is a Free software to find MAC address and IP address. It can automatically detect all subnets according to the IP addresses configured on multiple NICs of a machine and find MAC addresses and IP addresses of defined subnets as your need. Users can custom own scan process by specifying the subsequent threads.

Step 1. Download Colasoft MAC Scanner

Step2. Install Colasoft MAC Scanner

The installation of Colasoft MAC Scanner is quick and easy, it is suggested to install Colasoft MAC Scanner on a laptop as it only scans and finds MAC addresses and IP addresses in the subnet to which the laptop is connected.

Step3. Start a Scan

It’s easy and quick, just press the start button, the Colasoft MAC Scanner will scan and find MAC addresses and IP addresses in the subnet and list them out. The results can be “copy and paste” or exported for future reference.

Now the problem is: if a LAN is divided into several subnets, we’ll have to move the laptop around and scan each subnet in order to find all MAC addresses and IP addresses. Then what’s the solution?

Find MAC Address and IP Address with Colasoft Network Sniffer

Colasoft Network Sniffer allows us to find MAC addresses and IP addresses both local and remote in the network as long as there is network communication initiated.

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