Wireshark is a network packet analyzer. A network packet analyzer will try to capture network packets and tries to display that packet data as detailed as possible. You could think of a network packet analyzer as a measuring device used to examine what's going on inside a network cable, just like a voltmeter is used by an electrician to examine what's going on inside an electric cable (but at a higher level, of course). In the past, such tools were either very expensive, proprietary, or both. However, with the advent of Wireshark, all that has changed. Wireshark is perhaps one of the best open source packet analyzers available today.
- 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
- 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 platfrom)
- 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
Wireshark 4.4.0 changelog:
- Many improvements and fixes to the graphing dialogs, including I/O Graphs, Flow Graph / VoIP Calls, and TCP Stream Graphs.
- Wireshark now supports automatic profile switching. You can associate a display filter with a configuration profile, and when you open a capture file that matches the filter, Wireshark will automatically switch to that profile.
- Support for Lua 5.3 and 5.4 has been added, and support for Lua 5.1 and 5.2 has been removed. The Windows and macOS installers now ship with Lua 5.4.6.
- Improved display filter support for value strings (optional string representations for numeric fields).
- Display filter functions can be implemented as plugins, similar to protocol dissectors and file parsers.
- Display filters can be translated to pcap filters using Edit › Copy › Display filter as pcap filter if each display filter field has a corresponding pcap filter equivalent.
- Custom columns can be defined using any valid field expression, such as display filter functions, packet slices, arithmetic calculations, logical tests, raw byte addressing, and protocol layer modifiers.
- Custom output fields for tshark -e can also be defined using any valid field expression.
- Wireshark can be built with the zlib-ng instead of zlib for compressed file support. Zlib-ng is substantially faster than zlib. The official Windows and macOS packages include this feature.
- Many other improvements have been made. See the “New and Updated Features” section for more details.
Download: Wireshark 4.4.0 | 83.2 MB (Open Source)
Download: Portable Wireshark 4.4.0 | ARM64 Installer
View: Wireshark Website
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