Wireshark is a network protocol analyzer (or "packet sniffer") that can be used for network analysis, troubleshooting, software development, education, etc.

WireShark is free software that sniffs packets on wireless networks. Learn tips on configuring and using this tool when analyzing and troubleshooting 802.11 wireless networks.

Wireshark is a very versatile utility to monitor all the neighborhood network activity, including disassembling packets and viewing data transmitted from anyone who is connected on your LAN (or Wireless LAN). I'm using Wireshark to monitor the activity of the network, and I explained the packets transmitted between the peers.

Wireshark is a network protocol analyzer (or "packet sniffer") that can be used for network analysis, troubleshooting, software development, education, etc. This guide shows how to install and use it on an Ubuntu 9.10 desktop to analyze the traffic on the local network card.

Any time I need network analysis I turn to Wireshark. Wireshark is, in my opinion, the defacto standard for network protocol analyzers. Not only is it incredibly powerful, useful, and user-friendly it is also FREE!

While I've known about the free, open-source desktop publishing application Scribus, until I happened across this article today I didn't know that Scribus is a cross-platform program that runs not just in Linux/Unix but also on computers using the Macintosh OS X and Microsoft Windows operating systems. That raises my opinion of Scribus immediately.

Wireshark is a useful tool in troubleshooting. Wireshark can decrypt SSL traffic as long as you have the server private key. This can be extremely useful, if you have to debug HTTPS traffic and cannot use HTTP instead.

There are many software available that we can purchase and use to get our job done. But what do you think about those softwares that are cross-platform and available for free as well. In simple words, Cross-platform can be defined as any software that can work on more than one operating system and specially are available for Windows, Mac and Linux environment.

Tcpdump, Snort and similar tools are great; administrators and programmers alike can leverage them for everything from basic packet header reading down to bit for bit analysis of what, when, where on a network. How do they work? If someone wished to include packet reading functionality in their own software(s) what might be the best method?