The Ethereal network protocol analyzer has changed its name to Wireshark.
The name might be new, but the software is the same. Wireshark's powerful features make it the tool of choice for network troubleshooting, protocol development, and education worldwide.
Wireshark was written by networking experts around the world, and is an example of the power of open source
Wireshark is used by network professionals around the world for analysis, troubleshooting, software and protocol development and education.
The program 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.

· Data can be captured "off the wire" from a live network connection, or read from a capture file.
· Wireshark can read capture files from 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, or Visual Networks' Visual UpTime. It can also read traces made from Lucent/Ascend WAN routers and Toshiba ISDN routers, as well as the text output from VMS's TCPIPtrace utility and the DBS Etherwatch utility for VMS. Any of these files can be compressed with gzip and Ethereal will decompress them on the fly.
· Live data can be read from Ethernet, FDDI, PPP, Token-Ring, IEEE 802.11, Classical IP over ATM, and loopback interfaces (at least on some platforms; not all of those types are supported on all platforms).
· Captured network data can be browsed via a GUI, or via the TTY-mode "tethereal" program.
· Capture files can be programmatically edited or converted via command-line switches to the "editcap" program.
· 602 protocols can currently be dissected
· Output can be saved or printed as plain text or PostScript.
· Data display can be refined using a display filter.
· Display filters can also be used to selectively highlight and color packet summary information.
· All or part of each captured network trace can be saved to disk.

Requirements:
· WinPcap 4.x

What's New in This Release:
· Bug Fixes
· The following vulnerabilities have been fixed. See the security advisory for details and a workaround.
· The Daintree SNA file parser could overflow a buffer. (Bug 4294)
· Versions affected: 1.2.0 to 1.2.4
· The SMB and SMB2 dissectors could crash. (Bug 4301)
· Versions affected: 0.9.0 to 1.2.4
· The IPMI dissector could crash on Windows. (Bug 4319)
· Versions affected: 1.2.0 to 1.2.4
The following bugs have been fixed:
· Wireshark does not graph rtp streams. (Bug 3801)
· Wireshark showing extraneous data in a TCP stream. (Bug 3955)
· Wrong decoding of gtp.target identification. (Bug 3974)
· TTE dissector bug. (Bug 4247)
· Upper case in Lua pref symbol causes Wireshark to crash. (Bug 4255)
· OpenBSD 4.5 build fails at epan/dissectors/packet-rpcap.c. (Bug 4258)
· Incorrect display of stream data using "Follow tcp stream" option. (Bug 4288)
· Custom RADIUS dictionary can cause a crash. (Bug 4316)
· New and Updated Features
· There are no new features in this release.
· New Protocol Support
· There are no new p...