The 7th most popular network tool on Linux
Wireshark is the world's foremost network protocol analyzer, and is the de facto (and often de jure) standard across many industries and educational institutions. Wireshark development thrives thanks to the contributions of networking experts across the globe. It is the continuation of a project that started in 1998. Edit
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Did you create this app?| Website: | wireshark.org |
| Developer: | The Wireshark Community |
| License: | Free |
| Version: | 1.3.1 |
| Rating: | Features: Interface: Performance: Price/value: Overall: |
| Usage: | 3 weeks, 6 days, 16 hours, 17 minutes and 2 seconds |
| Usage since: | 03 May 2007 |
| Platform Usage: |
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I think Wireshark easily belongs to TOP 10 softwarelist in internet, if there is any. It has many useful functions and basic use is easy to learn.
lt-wireshark ought to be merged into this entry, since it's the executable used by SVN versions of Wireshark, and some packagings from various Linux distributions.
Utterly essential for anyone interested or involved in network security and analysis.
One of the best and most comprehensive tools available.
Use it for scanning ( + hacking ) security systems of applications. Thanks to the Stanford University.
Wireshark is a must have for anyone concerned about the security of their network. Use this is conjunction with your firewall logs (ie. ipfw.log) to more fully understand the communication exchange between you and the offending ip. I have a Mac, yet some box in Beijing was littering UDP packets concerning my Windows OS being infected by viruses: updated my firewall rules, contacted their isp with logfiles, and moved on.
Also useful for troubleshooting any network communication from web based apps to email servers...
The install was painless. One of my favourite features is the "use multiple files" with "ring buffer" selected. This allows you to have a rolling 24 hours of logs, as an example, allowing the app to run in X windows in the background while you go about your business.
Real memory footprint is fairly lean @ 39.48Mb to load, then seems to hold your temp buffer in memory so I'd recommend keeping your file sizes reasonable when performing a capture. CPU usage during capture in background rarely went above 10% ... occasionally spiked but never saw higher than 25.5% . Face it your browser is more resource intensive!
Excellent documentation from the menubar: man pages which open in your browser (file:///opt/local/share/wireshark/wireshark.html), a staggering list of supported protocols, even online manual (http://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsug_html_chunked/)
I've been using WPE Pro for some time, but this application is way better! It can do stuff I won't dream about before :-D
Spectacular for security analysis. Wonder where that shiny new program is sending your bits? Wonder why your wireless point is so slow, and what traffic is running over it? Fire up wireshark and find out. One of the most important peices of security analysis around.
Excellent for eavesdropping-- I mean, uh, network analysis.