Read/write many different capture file formatsĬapture files compressed with gzip can be decompressed on the fly The most powerful display filters in the industry Multi-platform: Runs on Windows, Linux, OS X, Solaris, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and many othersĬaptured network data can be browsed via a GUI, or via the TTY-mode TShark utility Wireshark is perhaps one of the best open source packet analyzers available today.ĭeep inspection of hundreds of protocols, with more being added all the time However, with the advent of Wireshark, all that has changed. In the past, such tools were either very expensive, proprietary, or both. 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).

A network packet analyzer will try to capture network packets and tries to display that packet data as detailed as possible.

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