Wireshark 1.0 Released

katterjohn writes "After almost 10 years of work, Wireshark 1.0 has been released. Wireshark is the award-winning protocol analyzer, formerly known as Ethereal. The release features several security fixes and an experimental package for Max OS X Intel."

Say ...

would this still be illegal in Germany?

Re:Say ...

I think they just decided that Scientology wasn't a religion, but a business cum Ponzi scheme in clerical collars.

Also I think what they prohibited wasn't the practice of Scientology per se, but the Church of Scientology as an organization. That the CoS believes you can't practice the 'religion' without them is kind of a separate issue. But if you want to sit in your house and think Scientology thoughts in Germany, I think you'd be protected. They just take a dim view of the whole converting-others-and-fleecing-them bit. Historically, even religiously tolerant societies have had different reactions to aggressive proselyting.

It is a bit arbitrary, since I could think of a few other religions that aren't a ton better, but you have to admit the CoS is particularly bald-faced.

More useful than you would think

Wireshark is far from being an egghead tool that only professionals might use. It's also useful for running aircrack-ng. I'm happy they've finally reached 1.0.

Re:More useful than you would think

And aircrack-ng is far from an egghead tool. It's useful for... wait a minute....

This is interesting?

Man, people have mod points burning holes in their keyboards tonight.

I fail to see anything at all "interesting in this". Taking advantage of other people because you are more knowledgeable than them, breaking the law, and then boasting about it on Slashdot is -5 Lame, especially when the level of expertise involved is what is usually ascribed to "script kiddies".

And no, you don't get a pass because it was the "only black hat thing I've ever done", like we believe that, and it sure sounds like the entire objective of your weak excuse for "black hat" action was to sniff their traffic, since changing their router setup was hardly necessary if you just wanted to steal access.

Maybe I'm just having an old man moment, but I kept expecting some kind of punch line in there, and it ended up just being "my neighbor left his garage door open, and I stole a six-pack out of his fridge". WTF is that about?

Award-winning?

Whenever some product claims to be "award-winning", I always wonder what that award is. It's like the word "professional", that also lost its meaning. So, anybody have any pointers to any kind of "award"?

Re:Award-winning?

Whenever some product claims to be "award-winning", I always wonder what that award is.

How could you wonder? It's "world famous"!

Re:Award-winning?

Why do you hang around /. if you don't have the occasional use for Ether^H^H^H^H^Wireshark. It does run on Windows nicely.

Award, hmmm, award ...

It really doesn't matter what awards WS has won.

It is a classic example of FOSS at its best. In the dim and distant past you paid serious money for packet capture software. Now you get the absolute dog's nadgers on a plate for nowt. It shows me everything from what a NetWare cluster is up to to a well, what more do you want? Also you can follow streams etc etc etc etc

I personally put it up there with Apache and Samba (oh and that Linux kernel thing) as important software. OK there are quite a few others but I trust you get my point.

Whenever someone says something like "Whenever some product claims to be "award-winning", I always wonder what that award is." I trust they know what they are on about.
 
... and PHP, Python, PERL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, *BSD, Firefox, KDE, Gnome, E{n} ...

By gum it's a good world when it comes to software.

AWARD - PAH - use the bloody thing and give out your own awards!

Yes, Yes, and it does... (Buried Lede?)

Now come on! What sort of a lede is that? Just a tease and no candy? What does Wireshark 1.0 DO for pete's sake?

Re:Yes, Yes, and it does... (Buried Lede?)

Now come on! What sort of a lede is that? Just a tease and no candy? What does Wireshark 1.0 DO for pete's sake? A quick read: "Network protocol analyzer for Windows and Unix that allows examination of data from a live network, or from a capture file on disk." Basically it is tcpdump with a GUI.

That is kind of like saying a bulldozer is like a shovel, but yellow.

Re:Yes, Yes, and it does... (Buried Lede?)

The previous version was 0.99.8 so 0.00.2 was added to make it 1.0.0

Thanks!

I'll be off to update mine today. It's the best improvement on tcpdump I've ever used.

Downloads

The site is slow at the moment, if you want to download the thing, skip the chase and go straight to http://sourceforge.net/projects/wireshark/ [sourceforge.net]

Re:Downloads

One might want to use the "-mit Lasern" flag, of course.

and yet...

I wish I could sniff on multiple interfaces.

Or exclude specific interfaces from the pseudo-device available in some versions (like my linux copy)

Or filter out duplicate packets (not retransmissions, but the literal same packet: I bridged two interfaces, and the pseudo-device captures both the bridge and the bridge member)

Or just add localhost to a bridge.. why I can't do this is outside my understanding (until someone gives a crafty answer)

Or even just route all traffic destined for localhost through a physical interface first (I just want to capture all my packets, including localhost and a bridge with several ethernet members, but only once!)

Ah, it's on the wishlist. For another day, perhaps...

Re:and yet...

those features will be available in Wireshark 2.0, forecast for release in 2018 at their current pace

Re:and yet...

:Or just add localhost to a bridge.. why I can't do this is outside my understanding (until someone gives a crafty answer)

It's a simple reason. Bridging is a layer 2 technology, as IP is layer 3. As I expected, a "localhost" on Linux does not have a MAC address (required for layer 2).

The difference between F/OSS and commercial

This project took 10 years of continuous development and public testing to reach a 1.0 release. This timeframe is not atypical; F/OSS 1.0 releases are usually stable, reliable, and heavily featured. Some projects never make a 2.0 release, instead making point releases on top of 1.0 indefinately.

The 1.0 release of most commercial software comes after extremely limited public testing, and the developers scramble to make a 2.0 release within a year. Commercial 1.0 releases are frequently buggy and have obvious gaps in functionality, which are often not completely addressed in 2.0.

Re:The difference between F/OSS and commercial

his point is that the quality of these sorts of F/OSS releases is often on par with a commercial product that would now be release 8.12 - not just 8.0 feature-wise, but .12 because of the stability. when you go to show your phb why your company should use wireshark, tell them its only 1.0 and yet already has tons of features and stability not found in commercial products at 8.12 releases

Download link

wireshark-setup-1.0.0.exe [sourceforge.net]

Useful in Biztalk

I do a lot of Biztalk dev and I often need to send data to remote HTTP locations. Usually the outgoing message is transformed inside an outgoing pipeline and it is not always easy to see exactly what is being sent to the client. This is where WireShark has come in handy. I just monitor my ethernet interface for a few seconds. The results are usually colour coded and easy to read. Very useful tool.

Re:Useful in Biztalk

A dev after my own heart! I use it to capture ASP.NET web service requests as it's far easier to deal with than WSE3 tracing or serializing objects before passing them to the web proxy (which usually leaves you without namespaces anyway).

Over the years, I've found protocol analyzers to be indispensable for developing and debugging modern MS-based network apps. They hide so damned much from the developers these days, often times it's the only way to see what's really going on.

Helped me at work

Long story short: I had a SQL client app that tried to connect to the SQL server with a hard-coded password. I needed to know the password to set on the server. Fired up wireshark, found the password, set said password on the server, and it was a go.

Re:Helped me at work

Another story:
I was picking up my wireless from my neighbor and my roommate was using my computer for internet access via crossover cable.

I needed to know the contents of his AIM messages so I fired up Wireshark.

If other companies made Wireshark

Adobe: v1.0 is released; a week later 1.0.1 is released. A few months after that, 1.0.2. Then three years go by, and suddenly it's at 2.0, which is broken from the install.

Microsoft: v1.0 is released; no one buys it. v2.0 is released; it's still not really usable. v3.0 comes out, and people suddenly line up for it around the block. v3.0SP1 is released and fixes most of the really bad bugs while introducing a few others, some random security vulnerabilities, invalidating half the licenses of all previous versions, and causes DrDOS to crash.

Apple: v1.0 is released, but it has a bug so Apple pulls it from the download server for a few hours, after which a patched version replaces it, with the same exact version number, and no mention of any bugfix in the release notes. Any mention of any alleged switcheroo or the problem that existed in the first 1.0 release is ruthlessly and systematically quashed in the support forums on Apple's website; unfortunately, their lawyers can't censor the entire net.