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Wireshark
Wireshark is a network protocol analyzer, or "packet sniffer", that lets you capture and interactively browse the contents of network frames. The goal of the project is to create a commercial-quality packet analyzer for Unix, and the most useful packet analyzer on any platform.
Last updated 22 Nov, 2005
About
Leadership
- Gerald Combs - Maintainer
- See and the Authors file in the distribution for a complete list - Contributor
Requirements
- Python (to generate code) (Weak Prerequisite)
- Perl (to build documentation (Weak Prerequisite)
- zilb (to read gzip-compressed files on the fly) (Weak Prerequisite)
- NET-SNMP or CMU-SNMP libraries (to enable SNMP data decoding) (Weak Prerequisite)
- ADNS (for asynchronous name lookup) (Weak Prerequisite)
- PCRE (for the "matches" display filter) (Weak Prerequisite)
- GTK+ 1.2 or later (Source Requirement)
- libpcap (http://www.tcpdump.org/) (Source Requirement)
Related Projects
Versions
0.99.4
0.99.4 stable released 2006-08-20
- Released: 20 Aug, 2006
- Code Maturity: Stable
- Source Archive: http://www.wireshark.org/download/src/wireshark...
- Licenses: GPLv2orlater
- Interfaces: Command Line, X Window System
User Community and Support
User guide and Developer guide in various formats at http://www.wireshark.org/docs/