TCP Server Terminal
Accept Incoming Connections Over TCP
Many terminal programs are limited in their ability to handle only outgoing connections, making it difficult to troubleshoot client-side issues. When trying to diagnose problems, receiving incoming connections is often the most effective way to pinpoint and resolve the root cause of the issue, but most tools don't provide this functionality.
How TCP Server Makes TCP Easy
The TCP Server plugin allows you to accept and manage incoming connections over TCP. It enables you to maintain multiple client connections at once, focus on specific client communications through filters, and gain full control over the TCP socket, like TCP Connection. This makes it an invaluable tool for troubleshooting and debugging client-side projects.
Why TCP Server?
Comprehensive TCP Socket Control
Gain complete control over the TCP socket, including:
- Choosing the local interface and port.
- Configuring the use of Nagle's algorithm for optimized packet delivery.
- Deciding how to terminate the connection, either gracefully or by sending a TCP RST.
This level of customization ensures a tailored approach to handling TCP communications, making it an indispensable tool for network professionals and enthusiasts alike.
Multi-Connection Handling with Filtering
The TCP Server plugin supports multiple simultaneous connections, enabling users to listen to extensive network activity efficiently. When the log becomes cluttered, users can apply filters to isolate and focus on specific conversations, ensuring precise data analysis without distractions.
Powerful & Beautiful Logging Engine
The Ninja Scroll logging engine is the heart of IO Ninja! It offers many unique and useful features you won't find in other TCP servers, such as interleaving binary data with informational messages for a clear timeline of events, switching between hex-view and plain-text view of binary data, a regex markup engine for highlighting data based on regular expressions, and many others!
Scriptability
With the Script Pane, you can generate TCP packets programmatically, wait for and react to TCP events, and automatically reply to incoming data, etc.
For more complex binary packets, you can describe the structure and methods for updating checksums or other auto-calculated fields as a Packet Template, then conveniently fill in the fields in a property grid.
Versatile Transmission Facilities
IO Ninja features convenient and powerful tools for preparing TCP packets before transmission. We offer a plain text editor with support for C ESC-sequences to encode special characters, a modern Unicode-enabled hex editor, and a file transmit feature.
A history of recently transmitted TCP packets is maintained, and you can also build your own libraries of commonly used packets — then send those packets with a mouse click!
Getting Started
Step 1. Start a Session
Begin by launching a TCP Server session.
Step 2. Select Adapter and Port
Select your preferred adapter and port, such as "All IPv4 adapters" and "2000".
Step 3. Start Listening
Click the "Listen" button, to the right of the port selection field.
Step 4. Analyze Incoming TCP Traffic
Analyze the log as TCP requests are made to the server.
Documentation
See Also
| Plugin | Relevance |
|---|---|
 TCP Proxy | An essential tool for inspecting data exchanged between two TCP nodes. |
 TCP Terminal | Connect, send and analyze TCP packets. |
 TCP Flow Monitor | Reconstruct TCP streams from packets captured via Pcap. |
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