14 DAY TRIAL // Don't look anymore for Ethereal, it has a new name. The world's most popular network protocol analyzer, Ethereal, is now called Wireshark. Gerald Combs, the creator of the Ethereal network protocol analyzer, has accepted a position with CACE Technologies. CACE is best known for the popular WinPcap packet capture library.
The project has a new home (http://www.wireshark.org), but the old web site (http://www.ethereal.com) is still working. The team looks forward to continuing their work on the successful world-class network protocol analyzer under the new name and they welcome any of you to join them.
You can read the full release announcement here.
Enhanced and improved, Wireshark is the ultimate tool of choice for network troubleshooting, protocol development, and education worldwide. Wireshark was written by networking experts around the world, and is an example of the power of open source. It runs on Linux, UNIX, Windows and other platforms.
Let's have a look at some of Wireshark's features:
￭ Standard three-pane packet browser ￭ Multi-platform: Runs on Windows, Linux, OS X, Solaris, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and many others ￭ Multi-interface: Along with a standard GUI, Wireshark includes TShark, a text-mode analyzer which is useful for remote capture, analysis, and scripting ￭ The most powerful display filters in the industry ￭ VoIP analysis ￭ Live capture and offline analysis are supported ￭ Read/write many different capture file formats: tcpdump (libpcap), NAI's Sniffer (compressed and uncompressed), Sniffer Pro, NetXray, Sun snoop and atmsnoop, Shomiti/Finisar Surveyor, AIX's iptrace, Microsoft's Network Monitor, ￭ Novell's LANalyzer, RADCOM's WAN/LAN Analyzer, HP-UX nettl, i4btrace from the ISDN4BSD project, Cisco Secure IDS iplog, the pppd log (pppdump-format), the AG Group's/WildPacket's EtherPeek/TokenPeek/AiroPeek, Visual Networks' Visual UpTime and many others ￭ Capture files compressed with gzip can be decompressed on the fly ￭ Hundreds of protocols are supported, with more being added all the time ￭ Coloring rules can be applied to the packet list, which eases analysisYou can download Wireshark now from Softpedia.
