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Wireshark (aka Ethereal) is a free packet sniffer computer application. It is
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used for network troubleshooting, analysis, software and communications
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protocol development, and education. In June 2006 the project was
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renamed from Ethereal due to trademark issues.
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2010-05-11 22:26:00 +02:00
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The functionality Wireshark provides is very similar to tcpdump, but it has
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a graphical front-end, and many more information sorting and filtering
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options. It allows the user to see all traffic being passed over the network
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(usually an Ethernet network but support is being added for others) by
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putting the network interface into promiscuous mode.
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2010-05-11 22:26:00 +02:00
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Wireshark uses the cross-platform GTK+ widget toolkit. Its powerful features
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make it the tool of choice for network troubleshooting, protocol development,
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and education worldwide.
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