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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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About Wireshark

About Wireshark Wireshark is the world's foremost network protocol analyzer, and is the de facto (and often de jure) standard across many industries and educational institutions. Wireshark development th...

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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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Wireshark 1.4.0, 1.2.11, and 1.0.16 Released

Wireshark 1.4.0, 1.2.11, and 1.0.16 have been released. Installers for Windows, Mac OS X 10.5.5 and above (Intel and PPC), and source code are now available. New in 1.4.0 The packet list internal...


"Wireshark Antivirus" Malware

A piece of malware calling itself "Wireshark Antivirus" has been infecting computers recently. It attempts to get you to pay for fake antivirus software. To be clear, CACE Technologies and the Wiresh...


We're SourceForge.net's Project of the Month!

Wireshark is featured as the August 2010 SourceForge.net Project of the Month! Many thanks to SourceForge for hosting various bits of the project over the years.


End of Life Announcement for Wireshark 1.0

Wireshark 1.0.0 was released on March 31, 2008. It was the last release to support GTK+ 1.0. As a courtesy to those users it will be supported for 30 months. This support period will end on September...


Wireshark 1.2.10, 1.0.15, and 1.4.0rc2 Released

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