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What is Wireshark?

Wireshark is perhaps the world's most popular network packet analyzer used to troubleshoot and analyze network and application protocols across wide variety of technologies. Wireshark is free, open source, and available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and several Unix-like platforms, and it is continuously being improved and expanded by its original developer, Gerald Combs, and over 500 code contributors.   Wireshark has a rich feature set, including the ability to capture, save, and import packet files in a variety of formats. It provides an extensive filtering capability, detailed protocol information, statistics, and built-in analysis and packet coloring features to help you identify and analyze important events. This powerful analysis capability is available to anyone who is willing to invest a little time to learn Wireshark's basic features and how to interpret a relatively small set of core network and application protocols. Application developers can use Wireshark ...