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Welcome to WIRESHARKTips.com. Wireshark is a free packet sniffer computer application. 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 very similar to tcpdump, but it has a graphical front-end, and many more information sorting and filtering options. It allows the user to see all traffic being passed over the network (usually an Ethernet network but support is being added for others) by putting the network interface into promiscuous mode.

Here at WireSharkTips.com, We have an extensive collection of articles and resources at your fingertips to help with your Network Analysis and Troubleshooting tasks using Wireshark. Visit our WireShark Articles section for WireShark Tutorials and WireShark Training, or visit our Directory for extended information.

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Newest WireShark Article. Troubleshooting VoIP Problems Using Wireshark
Vendors would have you believe you need to spend thousands of dollars on protocol analyzer software to troubleshoot Voice over IP (VoIP) networks. After all, voice quality suffers if packets are late, ...
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WireShark Tips for Network Analysis Articles & Information.

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WireShark: General Questions

Q 1.1: What is Wireshark? A: Wireshark® is the world's most popular network protocol analyzer. It has a rich and powerful feature set and ...

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Downloading Wireshark

Q 2.1: Why do I get an error when I try to run the Win32 installer? A: The program you used to download it may have downloaded it incorrectly....

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WireShark Network Analysis: Help

INTRODUCTION The purpose of this document is to introduce the packet sniffer WIRESHARK. ...

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