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    Wireshark

    • Free • Open Source
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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    Wireshark info, screenshots & reviewsAlternatives to Wireshark
    Wireshark is the world's foremost network protocol analyzer. It lets you capture and interactively browse the traffic running on a computer network. It is the de facto (and often de jure) standard across many industries and educational institutions.


    Wireshark has a rich feature set which includes the following:

    -Deep inspection of hundreds of protocols, with more being added all the time
    -Live capture and offline analysis
    -Standard three-pane packet browser
    -Multi-platform: Runs on Windows, Linux, OS X, Solaris, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and many others
    -Captured network data can be browsed via a GUI, or via the TTY-mode TShark utility
    -The most powerful display filters in the industry
    -Rich VoIP analysis
    -Read/write many different capture file formats: tcpdump (libpcap), Pcap NG, Catapult DCT2000, Cisco Secure IDS iplog, Microsoft Network Monitor, Network General Sniffer® (compressed and uncompressed), Sniffer® Pro, and NetXray®, Network Instruments Observer, NetScreen snoop, Novell LANalyzer, RADCOM WAN/LAN Analyzer, Shomiti/Finisar Surveyor, Tektronix K12xx, Visual Networks Visual UpTime, WildPackets EtherPeek/TokenPeek/AiroPeek, and many others
    -Capture files compressed with gzip can be decompressed on the fly
    -Live data can be read from Ethernet, IEEE 802.11, PPP/HDLC, ATM, Bluetooth, USB, Token Ring, Frame Relay, FDDI, and others (depending on your platform)
    -Decryption support for many protocols, including IPsec, ISAKMP, Kerberos, SNMPv3, SSL/TLS, WEP, and WPA/WPA2
    -Coloring rules can be applied to the packet list for quick, intuitive analysis
    -Output can be exported to XML, PostScript®, CSV, or plain text
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    Features Vote on or suggest new features

    • Detailed packet analysis
    • Support for Android Things
    • Network Monitoring
    • Instagram integration
    • Work Item Tracking
    • Network usage history
    • Sniffer

    Comments and Reviews Post a comment / reviewSort: relevance • date

    evan
    Comment • over 10 years ago • 5 users agree and 1 doesn't • 0 replies
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    Great application. It's a bit much for mere mortals but that doesn't really matter.

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    JohnFastman
    Comment • almost 4 years ago • 3 users agree and 1 doesn't • 0 replies
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    Allows you to figure out who and which software is using your network. Helps detect intruders and software that spies on you.

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    Brioni1988
    Comment • about 4 years ago • 1 users agree • 0 replies
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    Does what it should on all platforms. Powerful protocol decoders.

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    karlblass
    Comment • almost 4 years ago • 1 users agree • 0 replies
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    For a network guy you have to have this software. Learn to use it. It's really fun.

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    ssbarnea
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    • Negative comment • 4 months ago • 0 replies
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    Something is really dodgy about last release of wireshark 3.4.0, the DMG is damaged (broken!)

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    Categories

    Network & Admin • Security & Privacy

    Tags

    • protocol
    • network-analyzer
    • network-security
    • troubleshooting
    • packet-capture
    • analyzer

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    Summary and Relevance

    Our users have written 6 comments and reviews about Wireshark, and it has gotten 786 likes

    • Open Source and Free product.
    • Average rating of 3
    • 55 alternatives listed

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    Wireshark was added to AlternativeTo by jerryji on Apr 17, 2009 and this page was last updated Mar 2, 2021.
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