Wireshark
Wireshark is an open source application used to analyze the data packet in your network. It can be applied in multiple ways, for example, network troubleshooting, security analysis, and network forensics. It was originally named Ethereal but was changed to Wireshark in 2006. It is a cross-platform software that can run on Microsoft Windows, Mac, different Linux distributions, and Unix-based systems. It is a GUI-based application, but it is also available to be used in terminal mode, by the name of T-Shark.
Let's now discuss some of the key features of Wireshark that make it popular with network administrators when it come network data packet analysis.
Key features
The following are some of the key features of Wireshark:
- Wireshark is an advanced application that understands different network protocols. It can identify the structure of the data packet and extract the available information from it.
- It can parse different fields out of the data packet, as per the standards of the networking...