Wireshark

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Wireshark Wireshark GUI Developer(s) The Wireshark team Stable release 1.8.7 / May 17, 2013 (2013-05-17) Preview release 1.10.0rc2 / May 22, 2013 (2013-05-22) Written in C Operating system Cross-platform Type Packet analyzer License GNU General Public License Website www.wireshark.org

Wireshark is a free and open-source packet analyzer. It is used for network troubleshooting, analysis, software and communications protocol development, and education. Originally named Ethereal, in May 2006 the project was renamed Wireshark due to trademark issues.

Wireshark is cross-platform, using the GTK+ widget toolkit to implement its user interface, and using pcap to capture packets; it runs on various Unix-like operating systems including Linux, OS X, BSD, and Solaris, and on Microsoft Windows. There is also a terminal-based (non-GUI) version called TShark. Wireshark, and the other programs distributed with it such as TShark, are free software, released under the terms of the GNU General Public License.