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:
The following bugs have been fixed:
· Wireshark could crash while decrypting Kerberos data.
· Address display filters hang Wireshark. (Bug 658)
· PSML - structure context node missing. (Bug 1564)
· Wireshark doesn't dynamically update the packet list. (Bug 1605)
· LUA: There's no tvb_get_stringz() equivalent. (Bug 2244)
· tvb_new_real_data is prone to memory leak. (Bug 3917)
· Malformed OPC UA traffic makes Wireshark "freeze". (Bug 3986)
· Analyze→Expert... doesn't show IP "Bad Checksum" errors. (Bug 4177)
· Wireshark can't decrypt WPA(2)-PSK when passphrase is 63 bytes. (Bug 4183)
· RTP stream analysis: Wrong jitter values after clicking the refresh button. (Bug 4340)
· Wireshark decodes bootp option 2 incorrectly. (Bug 4342)
· Deleting SMI modules causes Wireshark to crash. (Bug 4354)
· Wireshark decodes kerberos AS-REQ PADATA incorrect. (Bug 4363)
· PDML output from TShark includes invalid characters. (Bug 4402)
· Empty GPRS LLC S frames cause truncated data exception. (Bug 4417...