Wireshark 1.4.2

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Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) is a network protocol analyzer for Unix and Windows. It allows you to examine data from a live network or from a capture file on disk. You can interactively browse the capture data, viewing summary and detail information for each packet. Has several powerful features, including a rich display filter language and the ability to view the reconstructed stream of a TCP session.

  • License: open source
  • Updated: Jul 21, 2009
  • Publisher: Gerald Combs

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Rated 50/50 by war593122 at Apr 30, 2008

"Save maximized sate" is useless. Does nothing! :( New website sucks!!

Rated 50/50 by DSimpson21 at Nov 5, 2008

"This is free? Amazing, must have for network engineers" I have used it to troubleshoot a variety of issue. Easy, easy, easy to setup and quickly perform packet level inspection. I keep it on my laptop for field work. A bit on the simple side. Must have. Its free, why not? Great tool if you are just learning about packet level inspection.

Rated 30/50 by josemoreno854 at Nov 27, 2008

"not very well" platform, and grafics lock this page: www.x0101.com

Rated 50/50 by pacificwalter at Jan 15, 2009

"Excellent tool" Probably the best of the network tools. Crashes occasionally. If you are trying to figure out problems on your network, get this (wireshark) and network investigator and networkminer (sourceforge). All excellent.

Rated 50/50 by 64ninjas at Jan 16, 2009

excellent program, does what I need and helps me resolve connection issues and more.. UI on this site sucks, if I wanted neowin.net I'd go to neowin.net

Rated 50/50 by Ehuggz at Mar 17, 2009

"Excellent source of networking details." Strong filtering capabilities. Colored conversations easily seperate information. Detailed drilldown capabilities. Now supports wireless traffic as well as wired. Filtering language is not intuitive. Free, detailed network traffic breakdown by conversation, traffic type, etc. An invaluable tool when needed. Excellent tool for troubleshooting connection issues where details are not available from carrier or local network team.

Rated 40/50 by vince2000 at Sep 8, 2009

"Captures and identifies perfectly" It does exactly what it was made to do. capture packets, identify the protocol and you can search on virtually any criteria. There isn't much to dislike.

Rated 40/50 by Herman8r at Oct 23, 2009

Through 3 moves in 14 months, Wireshark helped me locate available networks in each neighborhood. Running multiple connections is easier and more accurate with Wireshark's easily read interface.Searches results can be saved, and printed out as well. Once I was familiar with the software, I found No Faults with it. A wonderful Free tool that's simple to read and configure, and I'm sure the Pro Version is well worth your money !

Rated 40/50 by Tisiphne at Apr 8, 2010

While Wireshark has an intuitive, easy-to-read log interface, it also has plenty of capacity for complex searches and in-depth packet analysis. It uses the standard pcap file, so it can export to and import data from other applications with ease. Copy-paste has never been implemented quite right, other programs have better application-specific filters and parsers (although the ability to export pcap files makes this fairly irrelevant). Wireshark in all its incarnations is one of the oldest and most widely-used packet-sniffers available. It is a tool that every network and security administrator should have on-hand. Its also a great starting place for people studying networks to get a better grasp of what packets traverse certain parts of a network, and why.

Rated 50/50 by Adrian_C88 at Jun 10, 2010

Great product. I use it to test individual connections within my business network. Labels source and destination IP's, port connections, etc... This is a must for network IT's. When printing, it doesn't format it neatly. descriptions can be a little confusing. Great product. Will continue to use.

Rated 40/50 by HStables at Aug 23, 2010

Very simple to use and works very well. I use it primarily for trouble shooting network operation and congestion. Works great for monitoring wireless traffic on our network to see any problem areas or who is using up the bandwidth in real time. Have not used many of its features as of yet to find any bad areas.

Rated 40/50 by savio_kill at Sep 8, 2010

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Rated 50/50 by Bush29kt at Oct 27, 2010

The ability to monitor network traffic flow and see if there is not any traffic Too much data so the need to learn how to filter out what traffic to look for The program is good because it gives someone the information about uploads and downloads

Rated 50/50 by RexBrown at Mar 10, 2011

Wireshark has the ability to analyze packets at a low level as well as a wide selection of filtering criteria which make finding a particular packet in a flood of others. It is a complicated interface, however, if the user understands the information being parsed it is not too difficult to wade through it.

Rated 50/50 by Poseidyon at Jul 12, 2011

Too useful a break on through in the machine code , new WS website sux , true .