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Wireshark

The world's foremost network protocol analyzer

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Overview

What Wireshark does

Wireshark is the world's most popular network protocol analyzer. It lets you capture and interactively browse network traffic, helping you understand what's happening on your network at a microscopic level.

What people use it for

  • Network Security
  • Packet Analysis
  • Open Source

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The honest half

Where it falls short

Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Wireshark.

  • Free and open source under the GNU GPL; downloadable without paying any license fee, no commercial tier

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What people choose instead of Wireshark

Each pairing was judged by two reviewers asking whether a buyer would genuinely weigh the two against each other. The ones that failed were deleted rather than published.

Pricing

What Wireshark costs

Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.

Free & Open Source

Free

  • Full functionality
  • Deep inspection
  • Live capture
  • Offline analysis
  • Rich VoIP analysis
  • Export capabilities

Capabilities

Features

  • Deep packet inspection

    Deep packet inspection capability

  • Live capture

    Live capture capability

  • Offline analysis

    Offline analysis capability

  • 3000+ protocol support

    3000+ protocol support capability

  • Rich display filters

    Rich display filters capability

  • VoIP analysis

    VoIP analysis capability

  • Decryption support

    Decryption support capability

  • Scripting with Lua

    Scripting with Lua capability

  • tcpdump

    Integration with tcpdump

  • TShark

    Integration with TShark

  • Nmap

    Integration with Nmap

  • Snort

    Integration with Snort

Behind it

Who makes Wireshark

Company
Wireshark Foundation
Based in
Global (Open Source)
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