Wireshark

Analyze Traffic across the Network. You can create your own filters with specific color codes to track the traffic of interest. The packet capture provides you all the details including the source, destination, protocol, ports and helps troubleshoot Network and Security related issues. This tool can also be used for Network and Security audits and Network Scans to monitor any rogue traffic.

Wireshark is great for forensic analysis of network traffic. If users are having issues, or if we are seeing connectivity issues for VPN users, or if there is suspicion of unexpected or unwanted traffic on the network, Wireshark can help to find the source of any/all of these. With filtering by key values, protocols, or IPs, this can be a very powerful tool.

Wireshark is excellent for analyzing traffic across your computer or network. When there are communication issues between software, scripts, router, and switches, Wireshark will help troubleshoot the issue at hand. Wireshark is great at analyzing a wide variety of protocols and packets that are transferred. However, there is a really steep learning curve bunched up with an interface that could be modernized.

I don't know of any other tool that works as well as Wireshark for packet capture an inspection. It's extremely easy to get up and running, and even with little to no knowledge of how to use the tool, you can be looking at all the traffic coming off a network interface.

Wireshark is great for enterprise networks with large amounts of data traversing the network that need a way to filter and inspect specific traffic by specific parameters (i.e. destination / source IP address, host, or type). There are use-cases for smaller environments, but the amount of time needed to learn how to effectively use the tool may not be beneficial for home / small office users.

Wireshark is well suited for situations where you have to get to the root cause of specific network issues. Things like why is the network running so slow or why is an application less responsive to this IP zone than others. It gets you to the packet level for better diagnostics and troubleshooting.

I'd always recommend Wireshark to colleagues if they're looking to analyze network traffic. They're a well know, trusted market leader in this space. I'd recommend that they watch a video demo on the product to get a better understanding of how to use it most effectively but if they were to commit some time to explore the product

If you need to analyze packet data across your network and want the low-level details, Wireshark is perfect for the job. It records the necessary data and presents it in a way that's relatively easy to read, analyze, and understand. It's got a ton of features (more than most people will ever need). However, if you're simply interested in HTTP traffic, I believe Fiddler is a slightly better choice, as it is more explicitly geared towards the HTTP protocol.

I don't believe Wireshark has "true" support as the software is open source. However, there is an active & friendly community around Wireshark that are more than happy to help answer questions. From a comprehensive Wiki and FAQ section on the site to the Ask a Question forum and bug tracker section, there's plenty of support options to make sure your questions and issues are addressed.

It is invaluable for capturing and analyzing network traffic and identifying issues with devices that are either malfunctioning, or possibly even set up as rogue devices on a network. Using the data from a packet analysis combined with logs and MAC tables from various network devices, it can be used to find specifically where a device might be located. It's not a "set it and forget it" application, but it is well suited for on-the-spot analysis.

I haven't had to contact their official support because there is a HUGE amount of documentation and community support available. I imagine that one would be hard pressed to find many issues where they might need to contact actual support.

Wireshark is a great tool to use after general network troubleshooting has taken place; checking subnet mask, default gateway, route table, etc. It can help identify breaks or hiccups in network communication, and narrow down where further investigation should be focused. It is not a good tool to use for general troubleshooting, you need to have a core knowledge of networking to find the tool valuable.

I have never engaged Wireshark support directly. Whenever I would run into a question or needed to learn about a certain feature, I was able to find the information I was looking for on tech blogs and forum posts by other network engineers. The Wireshark community has been more than enough whenever I had issues.

I use Wireshark nearly every day, it's the most important tool in my daily work as a network engineer to troubleshoot the real network problem in the production network. It helps me to look into the problematic protocol scenarios in the packet layer to understand where is the problem and how to fix.

Wireshark is well suited for scenarios in which the technical difficulties are being faced. A lot of times we are not aware of how computers actually talk with each other. With Wireshark, you can learn this topic in depth and help yourself and your colleagues in case anyone is facing any sort of networking related problems. Many people just use the computer system for basic tasks and often tend to get stuck on simple things like if the system is not able to retrieve the IP from the router. After you learn these concepts you can easily solve these problems. Wireshark is a bit of a technical software program and only intended for people who have a basic understanding/ background of computers. If not, this software might end up giving you a lot of information which will be really tough for you to understand. So I would recommend if you want to use this software and are interested in the concepts as mentioned before/ above, go through a quick course on computer networking concepts and you shall be good to start exploring Wireshark.

Wireshark is nicely laid out, integrates with Snort, Splunk, etc, and overall is great software. I am moving into a Critical Informatics role, or as a security analyst after graduation, and Wireshark will be one of my most solid backbone tools in pen testing. So using it on an educational platform has set me up for success once I get into a real-time environment.

Wireshark is best suited to capturing and analyzing network traffic data. It is not an intrusion detection system (IDS), or a honeypot, or any real-time security tool. Offline analysis is where Wireshark shines. Take a capture using it or some other tool and load it into Wireshark for extensive analysis. Wireshark is great for forensic analysis of network traffic. You can find malformed packets, attack signatures, suspicious traffic, etc. Nothing gets by Wireshark.

Wireshark is awesome for troubleshooting network issues. It gives you a direct view into what is happening on the wire. It takes the guesswork out of knowing what is happening on the wire - you can tell whether there are delays from web sites; file servers; voice issues. Yes - it is great for troubleshooting SIP traffic also.

It does not do massive file captures; it does not do a good job on massive packet capture files. If you are capturing traffic on a ten-gig or higher port, use tcpdump or some other mechanism to grab the data. Then use tshark (or one of the other included tools) to parse out what you need (time range, or specific type of traffic) to analyze inside wireshark.

Anytime you want to see what is happening between point A and point B on the network.
Obviously, it can't be used when trying to capture communication between one socket and another socket on the same machine.

It's one of the best network tools for our network engineers.

Wireshark can be used to find speed issues for an internal application slowing down between geographical locations. Wireshark works well for tracking down unmanaged switches and hubs that are causing issues in our network. If you have no idea what your are looking for, Wireshark may not be the way to go. Also when tracking issues with a web application, as there are easier tools to use for that.