Wireshark Reviews and Ratings

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it mainly for interrogation, analysis, and monitoring of network packets. Additionally where there are issues we use it for troubleshooting and remediating these issues. It's easy to use with a practical and straightforward GUI, which is simple to get accustomed to. Additionally with it being open source costs are almost minimal and it still performs as efficiently, reliably, and admirably as paid-for commercial off-the-shelf software competitors.

Likelihood to Recommend

Wireshark being an open source tool means that we have a cost-efficient, reliable, trustworthy, and efficient network sniffing and analysing tool, which monitors all our network traffic reliably and in real-time. Troubleshooting and remediation of network packets is done easily and systematically. The filtering of packets is simple and allows for a better, more in-depth analysis. Real-time capture of events and excellent report-deriving capabilities are two further facets of the software.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I work as a VoIP specialist in contact centers. It regularly happens that I have to study SIP calls to identify faults on gateways during Trunk installation. Wireshark is required.The most common cases are failures linked to firewalls or protocol parameters which are not respected. It also happens that we have to study packet losses between equipments

Likelihood to Recommend

I have to admit that tracking voIP calls is very easy in Wireshark, as well as SIP messages

The dedicated menu is very complete and also allows statistical monitoring.

On the other hand, it is sometimes complicated to follow exchanges linked to a certificate

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The scope of our use case spans across our entire organization, from troubleshooting specific issues to ensuring secure and efficient network communication. When issues arise, Wireshark helps us pinpoint bottlenecks, latency, and dropped packets. We diagnose connectivity problems, misconfigurations, and performance issues across our network. Wireshark aids our security team in: Detecting suspicious or malicious activity (e.g., unauthorized access, data exfiltration).Investigating security incidents by analyzing captured packets.

Likelihood to Recommend

Wireshark excels in scenarios such as diagnosing network performance bottlenecks, investigating security incidents, and verifying protocol compliance during development. It's invaluable for detecting sources of latency, uncovering unauthorized access attempts, and ensuring protocols are implemented correctly. However, Wireshark is less ideal for continuous real-time network monitoring or high-throughput environments due to its potential performance drag and substantial data storage needs. Additionally, its utility is limited in analyzing encrypted traffic without access to decryption keys, which can significantly impede its effectiveness in such contexts.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Receiving the TCAP messages has been never easy. This opensource tool easily capture TCAP during the calls for me on different INAP services. We also easily evaluate messages through Wireshark now. And we keep track of packet data information exchange between different networks very conveniently. Wireshark helps us now to easily debug the network data exchange issues and fix them quickly.

Likelihood to Recommend

We found a bug in the network of our organization due to an intermittent issue thanks to Wireshark analysis. This tool has never let me down all these 02 years. Packet capturing and analyzing the traffic flow are the best usage I take out of Wireshark and I have been able to rely on this always.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Wireshark software is used every day by me and my IT team as a specific tool for capturing and analyzing traffic on our networks. It is super intuitive and complete to identify the different types of protocols that travel through our network and identify anomalies, failures, and prevention of attack problems. We have been using Wireshark for about 3 years, and only with this tool do we have deep details of the inbound and outbound traffic of our lan and wlan network, and we do daily analysis and reports to always seek the best performance and security.

Likelihood to Recommend

Wireshark is made up of advanced features for capturing packets and analyzing network protocols and can be used to capture different network cards and technologies such as wifi and BlueTooth. We recommend the use of this tool by all IT professionals as it is fundamental for the security of the network and identifies everything that is traveling on the network by protocol, ports, and IPs and then analyzes it to solve problems and security flaws with the internet.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I have used Wireshark to investigate network issues and mostly find lost IPs on the network. The GUI is amazing as well as the command line's speed works wonders. I also used Wireshark to capture packets to analyse if there were too many DNS requests going through to the local DNS server.

While saying that, I only used it primarily to get a deep understanding of our network.

Likelihood to Recommend

If someone needs to deep dive into the network to check for causes of latency and slow speed cropping up when people get working, they definitely need Wireshark. I have used it in an office of 25 users, with each having a computer on the wired network and a mobile phone on the WiFi. I use Wireshark to check the network status and Meraki & Umbrella to implement policies.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Its port scans help you find the problem quickly. Recently I had to analyze a company because there was so much traffic on the network.

Likelihood to Recommend

It allows us to follow the trace of the TCP stream packets, we can see everything related to said packet, the before and after, being able to apply custom filters to them without losing the flow.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Wireshark in a multitude of ways. First, we troubleshoot connectivity issues with it, second, we use it for Firewall ruleset tests and third we use it to monitor odd traffic patterns. We find it most helpful when setting up a new product and a vendor is blaming something on our firewall and we can then show them the logs that the traffic is getting through to their side but no response.

Likelihood to Recommend

When I want to see what type of traffic is leaving a workstation, Wireshark is second to none. However, if I want to see images, it then becomes much more difficult to render the images.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Wireshark in our organization to troubleshoot network-related issues, such as when setting up a new site-to-site VPN tunnel and for some reason the connection is not being established. Wireshark would be used to actually gather and examine the packets to see determine why the connection is not being established and to resolve the issue based on the actual captured traffic.

Likelihood to Recommend

Wireshark is well suited for network troubleshooting scenarios, such as when setting up a VPN site to site tunnel and having issues connecting, whether the connection is failing at the outset, or if the failure is occurring several steps in, e.g. at the second IKE proposal etc. It provides excellent insight into issues like this. Another example is when VPN users fail to connect via VPN client, so the troubleshooting steps would be similar.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have been using Wireshark for a few years, it allows us to take a deep view of out network and analyze what is being sent and received. We use it a lot when trying to trouble shoot connections that aren't acting how they are programmed to work. It also lets us troubleshoot our microwave network when our routers aren't working properly.

Likelihood to Recommend

On different occasions we have had issues with our Microwave router Gui, where it can ping the ip but can't access the web interface. We used Wireshark to see the type of traffic that is being sent and received that allows us to eliminate certain problems and narrow down to the solution.