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
8.67/10.00 (72 votes)

Homepage:
http://www.wireshark.org/
Tar/GZ:
http://www.wireshark.org/download/src/wireshark-1.0.4.tar.gz
Tar/BZ2:
http://www.wireshark.org/download/src/wireshark-1.0.4.tar.bz2
OS X package:
http://www.wireshark.org/[..]wnload/osx/Wireshark%201.0.4%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	1.0.4	21-Oct-2008	GNU General Public License (GPL)
Development	1.1.0	15-Sep-2008	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Releases

Version	Focus	Date
1.0.4	Major security fixes	21-Oct-2008 05:44
1.0.3	Major security fixes	04-Sep-2008 08:47
1.0.2	Minor security fixes	11-Jul-2008 07:07
1.0.1	Minor security fixes	01-Jul-2008 07:44
1.0.0	Minor security fixes	09-Apr-2008 20:54
0.99.8	Minor security fixes	28-Feb-2008 01:22
0.99.7	Major security fixes	18-Dec-2007 21:53
0.99.6	Minor security fixes	05-Jul-2007 22:06
0.99.5	Minor security fixes	02-Feb-2007 20:00
0.99.4	Minor security fixes	01-Nov-2006 18:34

 Articles referencing this project

Debian: New wireshark packages fix several vulnerabilities by Patrick Lenz , in Security Tue, Dec 2nd 2008 09:16 Red Hat: Updated wireshark packages fix several security issues by Patrick Lenz , in Security Sun, Oct 5th 2008 18:10 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 [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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