Program information 
- Softonic Rating:
- License:
- Free (GPL)
- Added:
- February 7, 2007
- Updated:
- March 3, 2008
- Publisher:
- Website
- File size:
- 20.3 MB
- Downloads:
- 2,056
“Powerful multiplatform analysis”
Wireshark is used by network professionals around the world for troubleshooting, analysis, software and protocol development, and education. It has all of the standard features you would expect in a protocol analyzer, and several features not seen in any other product. Its open source license allows talented experts in the networking community to add enhancements. It runs on all popular computing platforms, including Unix, Linux, and Windows.
Languages:
English
Notes:
Name changed from Ethereal to Wireshark in June 2006. Wireshark's ability to capture traffic on 802.11 networks on Windows is limited by the support offered by the Windows drivers for 802.11 adapters. On Windows, you will not be able to capture management or control frames, and you might not even be able to capture in promiscuous mode, so you might only be able to capture traffic to and from the machine running Wireshark. If you want to use a PC running Wireshark to monitor 802.11 traffic to or from other machines, rather than using Wireshark only to look at traffic to and from the machine on which you're running Wireshark, you should seriously consider running it on a recent version of Linux or of one of the free-software BSDs, rather than on Windows.
Recent changes in Wireshark:
- Security-related vulnerabilities in the HTTP, DCP ETSI, SSL, DHCP, and MMS dissectors have been fixed along with the iSeries file reader
OS requirements for Wireshark:
- OS: Win98/98SE/Me/2000/XP/2003
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