What literature about sniffers, network analyzers can be read?

Question

Information Security

Please advise literature, articles about software network analyzers (sniffers, network traffic analyzers). We need information about the principles of operation of these programs, the features of their development, information security issues.

Answer 1

Let me ask a leading question - what is a network, what are network protocols, what are they, how do they interact, how are they managed - have you already learned? Simple - if "yes" then you should already know the answers to most of your questions. And if "no" - then you need to start not with sniffers, but with what I wrote about. And you can even start with the classics:
V. Olifer, N. Olifer “Computer networks. Principles, technologies, protocols.