Difference between torch and sniffer mikrotik?

Question

linux

MikroTik hardware has Torch and Sniffer tools, what is the difference between them? After all, both of them show connections of hosts and ports?

Answer 1

Torch is a real-time traffic monitoring tool that can be used to monitor the flow of traffic through an interface.
You can monitor traffic classified by protocol name, source address, destination address, port. The torch shows the protocols you have selected and the baud rate for each.
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Packet Sniffer is a tool , which can collect and parse packets sent and received by a specific interface. the packet sniffer uses the libpcap format.
https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Troubleshoot...