Ethereal changes name to Wireshark

JDMurray

For those of us who use the Ethereal packet sniffer, it's now named Wireshark. Spinning-off the product with a new name was evidently the result of a trademark conflict between the creator of Ethereal and the owner of the Ethereal trademark itself. More on this here here: http://trends.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/06/09/1349255&from=rss

The latest release of Wireshark (0.99.2) is available from: http://www.wireshark.org/

Ethereal is still available from http://www.ethereal.com/. However, with the entire Ethereal development team moving to Wireshark, I am not sure if there will be any future releases of Ethereal.

If you don't know much about packet sniffers, check out Packet School 101: http://www.chrissanders.org/?p=47

TheShadow

Thanks for the heads up JD

!30

nice to know , thank's !

Danman32

Yes, thanks. Ethereal er um WireShark is the best bargain in town! Great product even if you had to pay something for it.

The only complaint I have about it is that the building of pre-capture filters could be made to operate like the post-capture filter, with a pick list and such.

Humper

I believe the name changed happen a little while ago. If you haven't used Ethereal yet you should !!!

JDMurray

The name changed happened in May, I believe. I only became aware of it when I saw a posting on digg.com. I had just updated to Ethereal 0.99.0, but there was no mention on the Ethereal web site of the split.

And I really like Ethereal too. It was the only sniffer tool I found that could make me give up NetXRay (http://www.netxray.co.uk/).

KGhaleon

Did they only change the name? Sounds more suspicious now.
Wire...shark? What if we're on a WLAN?

KG

JDMurray

If it didn't work with 802.11 then it'd be named Wiredshark.

But thankfully 802.11 is supported, so there's no need for a WirelessShark (although it would be a really cool if they did make one).

Humper

You should try tcpdump / windump...It's old skool and the filters are hella fun to play with.