The Sikh Geek

A colleague of mine, Simon Mitchell of RootIT, informed me yesterday that Ethereal is now Wireshark and here is the press release. I’m not sure about the name change but it’s the same great product which every IT Consultant should be aware of. It’s a network packet sniffer so it can capture the network traffic on a LAN and decode it for you, as it has inbuilt knowledge of a wide variety protocols. It’s cross platform and so can run on Linux, Windows, Unix and others and it’s FREE!