The Wireshark network protocol analyzer has been used by networking professionals for the last two decades and today the technology is finally getting its own open source foundation. Wireshark got its ...

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I have just started a job with a company whose network spans several buildings in a campus-like setting. One of the tools I know I will need is a protocol analyzer. The current budget allows for me to ...

We all hope that our networks simply do what they are supposed to do, but often that is not the case. Two systems that should talk to each other don't; a network becomes saturated with traffic for no ...

Vendors would have you believe you need to spend thousands of dollars on protocol analyzer software to troubleshoot Voice over IP (VoIP) networks. After all, voice quality suffers if packets are late, ...