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Wireshark for Mac

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Wireshark for Mac

  -  66.2 MB  -  Open Source
The Ethereal network protocol analyzer has changed its name to Wireshark for Mac. The name might be new, but the software is the same. Wireshark's powerful features make it the tool of choice for network troubleshooting, protocol development, and education worldwide.

Wireshark for macOS was written by networking experts around the world, and is an example of the power of open source. The app is used by network professionals around the world for analysis, troubleshooting, software and protocol development and education.

The program has all of the standard features you would expect in a protocol analyzer, and several features not seen in any other product. Its open source license allows talented experts in the networking community to add enhancements.

Features and Highlights
  • Deep inspection of hundreds of protocols, with more being added all the time
  • Live capture and offline analysis
  • Standard three-pane packet browser
  • Multi-platform: Runs on Windows, Linux, macOS, Solaris, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and many others
  • Captured network data can be browsed via a GUI, or via the TTY-mode TShark utility
  • The most powerful display filters in the industry
  • Rich VoIP analysis
  • Read/write many different capture file formats: tcpdump (libpcap), Pcap NG, Catapult DCT2000, Cisco Secure IDS iplog, Microsoft Network Monitor, Network General Sniffer® (compressed and uncompressed), Sniffer® Pro, and NetXray®, Network Instruments Observer, NetScreen snoop, Novell LANalyzer, RADCOM WAN/LAN Analyzer, Shomiti/Finisar Surveyor, Tektronix K12xx, Visual Networks Visual UpTime, WildPackets EtherPeek/TokenPeek/AiroPeek, and many others
  • Capture files compressed with gzip can be decompressed on the fly
  • Live data can be read from Ethernet, IEEE 802.11, PPP/HDLC, ATM, Bluetooth, USB, Token Ring, Frame Relay, FDDI, and others (depending on your platform)
  • Decryption support for many protocols, including IPsec, ISAKMP, Kerberos, SNMPv3, SSL/TLS, WEP, and WPA/WPA2
  • Coloring rules can be applied to the packet list for quick, intuitive analysis
  • Output can be exported to XML, PostScript®, CSV, or plain text
Also Available: Download Wireshark for Windows

  • Wireshark 4.2.3 Screenshots

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What's new in this version:

Fixed:
- Capture start fails when file set enabled and file extension not supplied if directory contains a period
- Cannot drag and move custom filter buttons in toolbar
- Not equal won’t work when used with wlan.addr
- sshdump fails to connect with private key (ssh-rsa)
- ChmodBPF installation fails on macOS Sonoma 14.1.2
- Windows installers should check for Windows 8.1
- Fuzz job crash output: fuzz-2024-01-05-7725.pcap
- Fuzz job crash output: fuzz-2024-01-06-7734.pcap
- Incorrect recursion depth assert failure when dissecting a legitimate GOOSE message
- OPC UA - large read request is reported as malformed in 4.2.1 but not in 4.0.12
- TFTP dissector bug type listed as netscii instead of netascii doesn’t show all TFTP packets including TFTP blocks
- SMB1 replies from LAN Drive app only show up as NBSS Continuation Message
- ciscodump - older SSH key exchange algorithms not supported
- Problem decoding LAPB/X.25/FTAM after adding X.75 decoding
- Wireshark Filter not working
- CFLOW: failure to decode 0 length data fields of IPFIX variable length data types
- Copy …​as Printable Text Feature Missing in 4.1/4.2
- Export Objects - HTTP is missing some HTTP/2 files in a two-pass analysis
- ASAM-CMP Plugin: Malformed message, length mismatch if vendor defined data of status messages has odd length
- OSS-Fuzz 66561: wireshark:fuzzshark_ip_proto-udp: Null-dereference READ in wmem_map_lookup

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