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Wireshark

Wireshark (known as Ethereal until a trademark dispute in Summer 2006) is a fantastic open source multi-platform network protocol analyzer. It allows you to examine data from a live network or from a capture file on disk. You can interactively browse the capture data, delving down into just the level of packet detail you need. Wireshark has several powerful features, including a rich display filter language and the ability to view the reconstructed stream of a TCP session. It also supports hundreds of protocols and media types. A tcpdump-like console version named tshark is included. One word of caution is that Wireshark has suffered from dozens of remotely exploitable security holes, so stay up-to-date and be wary of running it on untrusted or hostile networks (such as security conferences).

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Rating ★★★★★ (10)
Latest release 1.6.4
Nov. 18, 2011
(3 months ago)
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★★★★★ Palgye9

This is by far one of the most important tools for someone that is doing security work. I utilize this tool on every engagement I work, and for learning about new protocols. This is the "Don't leave home without it!"

★★★★★ Jason Hellenthal

Definitively a key application in most any networking role. A must have!

no rating Captain Harry

Great Job, keep up the good work.

Respectfully capt harry

no rating Duffnuts

As a firewall engineer this tool combined with tcpdump makes life so much easier for troubleshooting issues. Not only that the decoding is amazing!

★★★★★ Jorge

the swiss army for network troubleshooting and analysis.

★★★★★ Duff_Man

Simply the best

no rating tayeeb

new to Wireshark but boy its making my life easy to explore more n more, Great Tool. Bravo

★★★★★ Gary Herbstman

This is an amazing, feature rich, mature and highly useful tool for troubleshooting a wide variety of network problems. The Voip tools are an especially nice component, providing a way to handle an otherwise very tedious process. I would give it ten stars if I could. Thanks to everyone who soo much hard work into this project.

no rating r33per

Would be lost without it. From SPAN to sniffing to using with GNS3, this is an absolute must for every network engineer regardless of experience or skill.

★★★★★ Tom

The Best Ever Sniffer, could do my job without it !!!

★★★★★ deredes.net

The best sniffer. Thank you for this big security guide ....

★★★★★ Christopher

I agree with the above, Wireshark is a must have.

★★★★★ Shashidhar

thank you..thank you..thank you..thank you..thank you..thank you..thank you.. for making visualize pakets

★★★★★ sector6

Some weeks ago I installed wireshark without success. With your guide I was able to get it work.

Thanks

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