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, ...

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The Wireshark network protocol analyzer has been used by networking professionals for the last two decades and today the technology is finally getting its own open source foundation. Wireshark got its ...

This week we attended SHARKFEST, the first conference for developers and users of the Wireshark open source protocol analyzer (formerly called Ethereal). Organized by CACE Technologies and Wireshark ...

Wireshark’s GUI is dead simple, with a three-pane window similar to most all products of its ilk. The upper pane displays summary details giving a quick handle on what’s going on; this includes the ...