Wireshark (previously known as Ethereal)
Novell Cool Solutions: Cool Tool
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In Brief
Multi-platform protocol analyzer.
Vitals
- Functional Categories:
- Server Utilities
- Workgroup
| Posted: | 6 Feb 2006 |
| License: | GNU General Public License |
| Download: | http://www.wireshark.org/download.html |
| Home Page: | http://www.wireshark.org/ |
| Publisher: | CACE Technologies |
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Details
Domnic Mendes, who had a positive experience with this tool, thought Wireshark would be a good addition to Cool Tools.
Wireshark is one of the world's foremost network protocol analyzers, and is the standard in many parts of the industry. It is the continuation of a project that started in 1998. Hundreds of developers around the world have contributed to it, and it it still under active development.
Wireshark has a rich feature set which includes the following:
- 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 analysis
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Reader Comments
- Ethereal is great, but you forgot one of the best reasons why: It decodes NCP, NDPS, NDS, NMAS and pretty much all Novell protocols. If you're actually managing a Novell network, it wil outperform many commercial sniffers. Also, the current version is 0.10.14.