The following categorization describe the contents of various Trinux packages and, in many cases, provides links back to the home pages of the original tools.
Orange packages are somewhere in between.
These tools put the NIC into the promiscuous mode to capture traffic at the link layer. Sniffing may or may not be legal on your network. The following tools are useful for discovering network and system vulnerabilities. Use of these tools may violate your organization's security policy. While none of these tools attempt to exploit vulnerabilities, these tools could crash servers or network devices.