A "dump" a day is a wonderful thing! A day is not complete without having used Wireshark.
November 29, 2017

A "dump" a day is a wonderful thing! A day is not complete without having used Wireshark.

Ari Robinson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Wireshark

Troubleshooting of reported issues and verification of facts (i.e. that a certain protocol is being used).
  • Very powerful and easy to use (once you understand the basic interface).
  • Free and easy to install.
  • Flexible and can be used in many different scenarios.
  • Bring back the Legacy option!
  • Improve the ease of use for some advanced functionality (such as decoding of video into H.264 or seeing the encryption type being used).
  • Sometimes the GUI can become non-responsive when using RDP.
  • Because it is free and can be used on almost any system, this has made it very easy to have external parties install it and quickly get us real and tangible information on what might be going on.
  • Due to its simple and powerful interface, it saves a lot of time when testing or triaging issues.
TCPtrace is great if needing to capture communication on the same machine.
Network Monitor was boring compared to 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.