Iedereen die dieper ingaat op het onderhouden van een netwerk of die communicatieproblemen op een netwerk probeert op te lossen, kan een zogenoemde packet-sniffer gebruiken. Het programma Wireshark is een voortzetting van het welbekende Ethereal en is in staat om de data die over het netwerk wordt verstuurd te analyseren en onderscheid te maken tussen de verschillende netwerkprotocollen, zodat het netwerkverkeer in zijn geheel gemonitord kan worden. Ook is het mogelijk om eerder opgeslagen dataverkeer als invoer voor het programma te gebruiken. Versie 0.99.8 is sinds kort beschikbaar en daar is de volgende changelog aan gehangen:
Bug Fixes:
The following vulnerabilities have been fixed. See the security advisory for details and a workaround.The following bugs have been fixed:
- The SCTP dissector could crash.
Versions affected: 0.99.5 to 0.99.7- The SNMP dissector could crash.
Versions affected: 0.99.6 to 0.99.7- The TFTP dissector could crash Wireshark on Ubuntu 7.10. (This appears to be a bug in the Cairo library on that platform.) Reported by Noam Rathaus.
Versions affected: 0.6.0 to 0.99.7New and Updated Features:
- Wireshark could crash when saving I/O graphs.
- Wireshark could crash when editing table-based preferences.
- Wireshark could crash when trying to play RTP streams.
- Wireshark could crash when trying to apply a display filter macro.
- Wireshark could crash in Turkish and other locales.
The following features are new (or have been significantly updated) since the last release:New Protocol Support:
- You can now have multiple configuration profiles.
- Temporary coloring rules have been added, which let you color or filter on a conversation.
- I/O graphs have been improved.
- Wireshark now has WLAN traffic statistics.
- The Wireshark GUI now supports RPCAP.
- Conversations and endpoints can now be limited to the current display filter.
- Experimental support for the NTAR/PcapNG file format has been added.
AiroPeek Remote Capture, China Mobile Point to Point, Distributed Lock Manager 3, EUTRAN X2 Application Protocol, Fieldbus Foundation, International Passenger Airline Reservation System/Airline Link Control, Microsoft DirectPlay, Path Computation Element communication Protocol, Real Time Messaging Protocol, S1 Application Protocol, Scripting Service Protocol, Societe Internationale de Telecommunications Aeronautiques, Unisys Transmittal System, Wi-fi Protected Setup
Updated Protocol Support:3G A11, 3GPP, ACN, ACP133, ALCAP, AMR, ANSI A, ANSI IS-637-A, ANSI MAP, ARP, ASAP, AVS WLAN, BACapp, BER, BOOTP, Bluetooth (HCI ACL, HCI CMD, HCI EVT, HCI SCO, L2CAP, SDP), CDP, CFM, CMS, COPS, Camel, Cisco ERSPAN, DAP, DCERPC SPOOLSS, DCERPC, DHCP, DHCPv6, DIAMETER, DMP, DTLS, E.164, EAP, ENIP, ENRP, EtherCAT, Ethernet, FMP, FTAM, GMRP, GRE, GSM MAP, GSM SMS, GSS-API, GTP, Gryphon, H.223, H.225, H.245, H.263, H.264, H.460, HCI H1, HTTP, ICMP, IEEE 802.11, IGMP, IPP, ISAKMP, ISUP, JFIF, JPEG, JXTA, Kerberos, LDAP, MP2T, MS MMS, MTP3MG, NBAP, NFS, NHRP, NetFlow, P7, PER, PIM, PKCS12, PPPoE, PTP, P_Mul, Q.932, Quakeworld, RANAP, RMT ALC, RMT LCT, ROS, RPC, RPL, RRC, RTCP, RTP, SCCP, SCTP, SDP, SLL, SMB, SMB2, SMPP, SMTP, SNMP, SRVLOC, SSL, STUN2, T.38, TCAP, TCP, TFTP, TiVoConnect, UCP, UDP-Lite, USB, VLAN, WBXML, X.411, X.420, X.509if, X.509sat
New and Updated Capture File Support:Catapult DCT2000, DBS Etherwatch, NTAR/PcapNG, TamoSoft CommView, Visual Networks