For network admins and network security professionals, one of the most important tools to learn to use is Wireshark (formerly Ethereal), a free and open source network analyzer/packet sniffer software ...

Alex Taradov has designed a low-cost, open-source hardware USB sniffer compatible with the popular Wireshark packet capture ...

The overall equation is pretty simple: If you want to understand network traffic, you really should install Wireshark. And, if you really want to use Wireshark effectively, you should consider this ...

Vendors would have you believe you need to spend thousands of dollars on protocol analyzer software to troubleshoot Voice over IP (VoIP) networks. After all, voice quality suffers if packets are late, ...

Packet capture is one of the most fundamental and powerful ways to do network analysis. You can learn virtually anything about what is going on within a network by intercepting and examining the raw ...

Applications which use SNMP as a source of data are very popular way of keeping tabs on what is running on your network. Most of these types of applications can also send alerts when things go down or ...

Originally known as Ethereal, with a name change in 2006, Wireshark was created in 1997 by Gerald Combs, who remains the lead developer. The improvements in Wireshark 4.4.0 to the graph dialogs, ...

The Wireshark Foundation has published the first official certification for the popular open-source protocol analysis tool Wireshark: the Wireshark Certified Analyst (WCA). For this, candidates must ...