
Wireshark it’s available in official repository of Ubuntu 10.04, so to install it just do a : sudo aptitude install wireshark

people use it to learn network protocol internalsīeside these examples, Wireshark can be helpful in many other situations too.developers use it to debug protocol implementations.network security engineers use it to examine security problems.network administrators use it to troubleshoot network problems.Here are some examples people use Wireshark for: Trace files captured from your network can be opened in Wireshark and analysed right down to individual packet level. It provides low-level packet filtering and analytical capability. Wireshark (formerly known as Ethereal) has become the defacto, open-source standard for protocol analysis.

In this first article i’ll show you Wireshark an useful tool for network analysis. Indeed, several open source solutions are truly effective and can help the specialist networks in daily work. On the Internet there are hundreds of excellent open source tools and utilities that can be used for network analysis, but not many technicians use them.
