What is the importance of 'Sniffing' a network?
Wireshark is used to monitor and analyze network protocols to directly view the contents of packets passing the network. Wireshark is used to monitor and analyze network protocols to directly view the contents of packets passing the network. Wireshark is a renewal of Tcpdump, with the look of the GUI (Graphical User Interface) and Wireshark can also run well on Linux operating system, Windows, BSD, Sun Solaris and Mac OS
Wireshark Features
- Live capture and offline analysis
- The most powerful display filters in the industry
- Rich VoIP analysis
- Standard three-pane packet browser
- Read/write many different capture file formats
- Deep inspection of hundreds of protocols, with more being added all the time, etc..