WireShark

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Thanks to Andrew Hall for his translation (french to english).

Description

Wireshark, formerly known as Ethereal, is a network traffic analyzer, also called a sniffer, originally designed for *nix operating systems. An adaptation for windows is also available. Wireshark can capture network frames for analysis using libpcap in *nix systems and WinPcap in Windows. Combining support for hundreds of protocols and a powerful filtering system, Wireshark is an indispensable tool for network administrators.

Installation

Install packages

Windows & OSX Installers for Windows and OSX can be downloaded from https://www.wireshark.org/#download

From repositories

Ubuntu
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wireshark-dev/stable
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install wireshark
Debian
$ sudo aptitude install wireshark
FreeBSD
$ sudo pkg_add -r wireshark
Red Hat
$ sudo yum install wireshark wireshark -qt

From Source

Unpack from compressed tar file

$ bzip2 -cd wireshark-2.0.5.tar.bz2 | tar xf -

Change directory to Wireshark source directory

$ cd wireshark-2.0.5

Configure source to build correctly with your version of Unix.

$ ./configure

Build sources

$ make

Install

$ make install

Run

$ wireshark

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