Wireshark

The Q3 2007 issue of Novell Connection Magazine features an article by Wireshark University's Laura Chappell showing how to track down TCP performance issues using Wireshark. It and many other books, articles, and videos are listed in our bibliography.

A new Windows installer (wireshark-setup-0.99.6a.exe) has been released in order to fix a problem with updating from WinPcap 4.0 to 4.0.1. There are no other changes in this release. The source code and U3 packages have not changed. For a complete ... [More] list of changes, please refer to the 0.99.6 release notes. Official releases are available right now from the download page. [Less]

Wireshark 0.99.6 has been released. Security-related vulnerabilities in the HTTP, DCP ETSI, SSL, DHCP, and MMS dissectors have been fixed along with the iSeries file reader. See the advisory for details. This release adds the ability to change ... [More] columns without restarting Wireshark, display filter macros, HTTP object export, upper() and lower() display filter modifiers, and many more features. For a complete list of changes, please refer to the 0.99.6 release notes. Official releases are available right now from the download page. [Less]

The Q3 2007 issue of Novell Connection Magazine features a video by Wireshark University's Laura Chappell showing how to build firewall ACL rules using Wireshark. It and several past videos are listed in our bibliography.

Ken Thompson (no, not that one) has written an article at The Code Project that shows how to write a protocol dissector for Wireshark.

The upcoming LinuxWorld Expo will feature two Wireshark sessions: Hands-On: Advanced Network Forensics Using Wireshark and Introduction to Network Forensics Using Wireshark. Both sessions will be taught by Laura Chappell and Gerald Combs. See you there!

A WPA Pre-shared Key Generator has been added to the site. It can be used to convert a WPA passphrase SSID combination to a 256-bit pre-shared key used for encryption and decryption. It can also be used to work around a bug in Wireshark 0.99.5 which prevents passphrases containing the colon character ':' from being used.

No Starch Press has published Practical Packet Analysis: Using Wireshark to Solve Real-World Network Problems by Chris Sanders. Chris is known for his popular protocol analysis tutorial series.

eWEEK Labs has declared Wireshark one of The Most Important Open-Source Apps of All Time. According to eWEEK, we are one of "the applications that have moved open-source technologies from corporate curiosities to integral enterprise tools." …although we're not sure why OpenSSH and OpenSSL were forced to share a slide.

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