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What is Wireshark?

Wireshark is the world's foremost network protocol analyzer.

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Wireshark is the world's foremost network protocol analyzer.


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Wireshark is the world's foremost network protocol analyzer.

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Pratik N.
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Pratik N.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"The only tool to will be required to view your capture packets"
The ease at which this tool allow to capture and analyze data packets
Saurabh S.
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Saurabh S.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Review for wireshark"
The ease to monitor networks is handy. Informations captured are saviour
Ashish S.
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Ashish S.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Troubleshooting networks"
we can analyse the packet capture and find out the actual packet drop where it is getting dropped.
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Pratik N.
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Software Developer
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Wireshark?

The ease at which this tool allow to capture and analyze data packets Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Wireshark?

Somethimes it get difficult to view the capured the data packets due to lots of filters and options Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Wireshark solving and how is that benefiting you?

The most important problem it was solving for me was i was able to check the data packet that are going and coming to my network Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ashish S.
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Technical Solutions Engineer
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Wireshark?

we can analyse the packet capture and find out the actual packet drop where it is getting dropped. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Wireshark?

It is vast to analyse. We have to check the whole list of packet list to analyse. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Wireshark solving and how is that benefiting you?

whenever the customer says they are facing drops in there network we take the packet capture from source to destination and check the connections and handshakes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Information Technology and Services
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Wireshark?

Wireshark is very benevolent for disaster recovery.

Magnificent to effectively protect our network servers from phishing attacks.

Versatile and robust with firewalls to keep data safe. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Wireshark?

Pretty outstanding to ensure data security.

Intuitive and robust software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Wireshark solving and how is that benefiting you?

Wireshark is very versatile and secure with data protection.

Magnificent to effectively detect any phishing attacks.

Terrific with disaster recovery.

We got covered with backup and recovery of our network. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

hemsworth c.
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System Administrator
Security and Investigations
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Wireshark?

Love that's is open source no money spent and does spectacularly well with real-time network traffic monitoring.

Reliable for automated network investigation and give clear reports.

Very appealing with network data visibility. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Wireshark?

It's absolutely great for network data visualization.

Lightweight and robust tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Wireshark solving and how is that benefiting you?

It's a freaking and robust tool with quick identification of abnormal behavior in our network.

Free and open source.

Great for it's automated network investigation.

The Graphical user interface is awesome. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Saurabh S.
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DevOps Engineer
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Wireshark?

The ease to monitor networks is handy.

Informations captured are saviour Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Wireshark?

The part of integrating it becomes hectic with growing protocols rather than TCP UDP Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Wireshark solving and how is that benefiting you?

Packet transfer analysis made easy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Shashika E.
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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Wireshark?

This is very useful because of inbuilt filters which make the analyze easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Wireshark?

As a best network packets analyzing software there is no negative experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Wireshark solving and how is that benefiting you?

This is good in network attack detection using packet analysis. Further, this is useful for research purposes to analyse traffic patterns while implementing network intrusion detection systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Wireshark?

Thanks to its graphical interface, I have found Wireshark very easy to use as it allows for easy and efficient capturing and analyzing of data packets. It also provides an excellent network traffic analysis, making it helpful in troubleshooting issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Wireshark?

It can be slow or even crash when analyzing and capturing large amounts of data. It can also improve security. A very advanced knowledge of network protocols is required, making its use difficult. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Wireshark solving and how is that benefiting you?

We primarily use Wireshark to help identify network bottlenecks and the causes of slow or unstable performance. It also helps us identify connectivity issues with network devices on campus, such as IP configuration problems or issues with firewalls or routing protocols. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lavesh K.
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L1 NOC Engineer
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Wireshark?

Wireshark has graphical user interface and it is easy to use for packet capturing and analysis. It provides documentation and support resources. This makes users to learn from it and upgrade the skill level & knowledge. It is very powerful tool for troubleshooting network issues, security threats and analyzing performance. It supports wide range of protocols for analysis networks. It is very useful for network engineers and system administrator. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Wireshark?

Wireshark generates high amount of data and it difficult to find a perticular packet to new user and it difficult for beginners to navigate a software. It may require knowledge or training how to navigate the software. Also require hardware resources of computer systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Wireshark solving and how is that benefiting you?

This can beneficial for network engineers and system administrator to monitoring network system. It comes with wide range of network protocols. Also wireshark provides documentation and resources for beginners how to operate software. It captures the packet and analysis the performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sagar S.
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Automation Developer
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Wireshark?

I liked the detail table of the wireshark offers when I was trying to troubleshoot networking and packets for my test calls at my organization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Wireshark?

The UI of wireshare was very dated and sometimes made difficiult to debug my issues Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Wireshark solving and how is that benefiting you?

E2E calls for VOIP using streamlined tellecommunication devices required me to check logs and troubleshoot packet loss issues. I heavily used wireshark on a daily basis. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Wireshark?

Been a user of Wireshark for years now and never came across any issue so far:

1. Collect any ethernet packages, over different interfaces like USB, RJ45, and different VLANs at the same time.

2. Open and analyzing BUGs or tickets using Wireshark, time stamp, and search are great features

3. Of course, being open source allow customizing some plugins on top of Wireshark like SomeIP/SD which are very helpful

4. Filters and exporting the comments tracing the bug timestamp and finding the root cause are great options. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Wireshark?

I can not really think of something that I dislike, but when the logs are in GBs it becomes very very slow to open and apply the filter. If the tool can open the file and parse it in chunks would make it better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Wireshark solving and how is that benefiting you?

1. Trace traffic of Ethernet between different machines

2. Analyse BUGs and find the root cause of the issue (UDS, SomeIP, SD, ..etc)

3. Adding comments to generate a kind of report of your analysis. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.