Security wise, this has had many fixes from past versions and is much safer even though with PROPER use, it's not really unsafe anyway.

I've been using it for some time, although I don't always have a use for it but thought I'd review it anyway as I was very happy to have a 64 bit version now. Any of these files can be compressed with gzip and Wireshark will decompress them on the fly.įirst of all, this is not something that can just be used and looked at, you have to learn how to interpret the capture, use the filters, basically, if you don't know much about packets or how connections work, information travels, you will have to do a lot of reading to use something like this correctly. Wireshark can also read traces made from Lucent/Ascend WAN routers and Toshiba ISDN routers. The program,can read capture files from tcpdump (libpcap), NAI Sniffer (compressed and uncompressed), Sniffer Pro, NetXray, snoop, Shomiti Surveyor, AIX s iptrace, Microsoft Network Monitor, Novell s LANalyzer, RADCOM s WAN/LAN Analyzer, HP-UX nettl, ISDN4BSD, Cisco Secure IDS iplog, the pppd log (pppdump-format), and the AG Group s/Wildpacket Etherpeek. Wireshark has several powerful features, including a rich display filter language and the ability to view the reconstructed stream of a TCP session. You can interactively browse the capture data and view summary and detail information for each packet. Wireshark is a network protocol analyzer that enables you to capture and examine data from a live network or from a capture file on disk.

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