About:
Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) is a network protocol analyzer, or "packet sniffer", that lets you capture and interactively browse the contents of network frames. The goal of the project is to create a commercial-quality packet analyzer for Unix, and the most useful packet analyzer on any platform.

Author:
Gerald Combs [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.65/10.00 (71 votes)

Homepage:
http://www.wireshark.org/
Tar/GZ:
http://www.wireshark.org/download/src/wireshark-1.0.2.tar.gz
Tar/BZ2:
http://www.wireshark.org/download/src/wireshark-1.0.2.tar.bz2
OS X package:
http://www.wireshark.org/[..]wnload/osx/Wireshark%201.0.2%20Intel.dmg
Purchase:
http://www.cacetech.com/
CVS tree (cvsweb):
http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/viewvc.py/trunk/
Bug tracker:
http://bugs.wireshark.org/
Mailing list archive:
http://www.wireshark.org/lists/
Mirror site:
http://wireshark.osmirror.nl/

Trove categories: [change]

[Environment]		Console (Text Based), Win32 (MS Windows), X11 Applications :: GTK
[Intended Audience]		End Users/Desktop, System Administrators
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Operating System]		MacOS X, Microsoft :: Windows :: Windows NT/2000/XP, POSIX
[Programming Language]		C
[Topic]		System :: Networking :: Monitoring

Dependencies: [change]
GLib (required)
GTK+ (recommended)
libpcap (recommended)
[download links]

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	1.0.2	11-Jul-2008	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Articles referencing this project

Debian: New wireshark packages fix denial of service by Patrick Lenz , in Security Tue, Jan 8th 2008 06:27 Red Hat: New Wireshark packages fix various security vulnerabilities by Patrick Lenz , in Security Sun, Nov 18th 2007 13:16 Red Hat: New Wireshark packages fix various security vulnerabilities by Patrick Lenz , in Security Sun, Nov 11th 2007 01:01 Debian: New wireshark packages fix denial of service by Patrick Lenz , in Security Sun, Jul 1st 2007 13:51 Red Hat: New Wireshark packages fix various security vulnerabilities by Patrick Lenz , in Security Wed, Mar 21st 2007 03:24

SuSE: New ethereal packages fix remote denial of service by Patrick Lenz , in Security Sun, Nov 19th 2006 05:51 Red Hat: New Wireshark packages fix various security vulnerabilities by Patrick Lenz , in Security Thu, Nov 9th 2006 23:52 Debian: New ethereal packages fix denial of service by Patrick Lenz , in Security Thu, Nov 9th 2006 23:27 Red Hat: New Wireshark packages fix various security vulnerabilities by Patrick Lenz , in Security Tue, Sep 12th 2006 15:22 [more articles]

 Comments

[»] Awesome Program
by Mike Wilson - Jan 10th 2001 15:06:09

This is an awesome program, It's the nicest for trimming down those lingering packets on your network. Keep up the good work!!

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