Overall Satisfaction with Wireshark
Wireshark is used in our organization for monitoring the network traffic and troubleshooting in case we are facing any network related issues. It is one the most used software which lets you dissect the network packet to the tiniest details and pull out any network related information. It is used by our department only and not by everyone across the organization. Our job requires making all the systems and communications across the systems to run smoothly. So we have a constant session running on all the systems via Wireshark and in case of any problem, we quickly dump all the network packets and filter its using amazing filter function of Wireshark and then find out the problem. Without software, it might take hours or even days to solve the problems.
- Light-weight software - Does not require high end specifications; also runs smoothly on Legacy systems
- Filter function - Lets you filter you packets from thousands to tens so as to find your target much easily
- Simultaneous capturing on all the network adapters - You can capture packets from all the Network Interface Cards (NIC's) at once.
- GUI of the software can improve a bit; like some more animations can be added to make it more user friendly
- Some more learning resources can be officially added; like filter query function is much advanced, but everyone does not know how to efficiently use it
- Themes can also be provided to users so that people who work on this software for hours can have a new experience by changing the colors of the software
- If your systems are not working, then of course it is one of the biggest impact on the business
- Imagine you are not able to send an email because of a network issue. This will definitely become a huge hindrance in your business
- Wireshark helps you with these types of problems and lets your business run smoothly
There are quite some softwares that provide this functionality, but by far Wireshark is the most renowned and reputable software for network packet analysis. Wireshark also has a big open source community available on the Internet which helps people with any sort of problems that they are facing. So I would definitely recommend using this software for any form of network learning/ troubleshooting.