Wireshark Reviews

There were many use cases of Wireshark. When I was working in Genpact, we were handling more than 850 projects. Wireshark was a great help when we could not open any website or URL given by customers because it was getting blocked.

Wireshark plays a very important part in resolving day-to-day KRAs. Wireshark is a helpful tool for anyone working with a firewall or proxy. When we put up a scan for a particular destination, the product shows the sync at a very granular level. It shows whether the packet has been received or acknowledged by the end server or not. One of the best things about the product is that we can use it to track whether an issue occurred due to the website. Sometimes, the acknowledgment does not happen, and the end server does not accept the request. We get a granular bifurcation of the logs to see at what step it is dropping the connection. Wireshark helps us to understand network traffic.

The product has been using the same GUI for many years. The product must make its GUI more interactive and user-friendly. Any IT person working on the product would understand the information displayed on the product, but the GUI is not that familiar.

I was using the solution on a day-to-day basis until October 2022. I have used it for more than six years. In my current organization, the product is used very less.

The product is very, very stable. It can pass large amounts of logs. I have used the solution for three to four days continuously. It does not hang while reading the logs or giving the output.

The solution is scalable. I was the solution architect at Genpact. Only the L3 employees who were reporting to me had access to Wireshark. A few L3 employees from the firewall team also had access to the tool. Approximately 13 to 14 people were using the product in my organization based on the approvals they received.

We used the product because it is the first tool used by everyone in security or networks during their initial stages. Everyone knows about Wireshark, its uses, and how simple it is for IT personnel to use it. It is easy to download, easy to configure, easy to look up, and easy to do anything. We don't have to rely on someone else to teach us how the product works.

The initial setup is very easy. Wireshark is a restricted tool. We cannot simply install it on our machine in a large organization. It is one of the highly restricted tools which we use. Getting approvals in large organizations is a challenging task. Even if the organization approves the installation of the tool, they will approve it for only three to six months. We have to renew the approvals every six months to keep the tool installed on our machines. It was challenging because it's a sniffing tool. It is a blacklisted tool in every organization.

It is an open-source solution. The product is 100% free. Wireshark has launched some paid features which we never tried. Usually, the features we require are available in the open-source version. We completely depended on the free tool. It gave us perfect outputs.

We get all details about the product on the Internet. People with at least two to three years of experience in IT know Wireshark and its uses. It is not difficult for them to understand the tool. I would recommend the product to anyone who comes to me with any network or Internet issues where they cannot access a certain website or application. On an application level, the solution works fantastically. Though we can get logs for the website, it is not easy to track applications. It's one of the best tools in the market, which can help us resolve issues at the application, user, and end server levels. Overall, I rate the product ten out of ten.

The primary purpose of Wireshark is to monitor network communications. For example, if we need to track our target in order to exploit it, or to understand our use cases, we can use Wireshark for both internal and external penetration testing. We can use Wireshark to capture communication from any IP, and if there is no encryption, we can also use it to retrieve client passwords. This is the main function of the solution.

Wireshark is very user-friendly; even someone with basic IT knowledge can use it. Wireshark has a large user interface and a good graphical user interface. Wireshark has all the features needed, such as sniffing the network, tracking packets, and sorting packets.

Previously, I have used Wireshark in some of the financial companies I have been involved with. For example, when I was employed at a bank, we used Wireshark. However, I have noticed that Wireshark is restricted when any sort of encryption is involved, such as XSL encryption or DLX. This means that Wireshark cannot be used to its full potential. Therefore, I think that Wireshark or the vendors should consider including features to penetrate firewalls and get the data, such as including any hash types.

I would like the ability to sniff user credentials, such as passwords, rather than clear text. Wireshark should be able to sniff basic encryption, such as 128 and 64-bit encryption, as other solutions do.

I have been using the solution for over ten years.

Wireshark is a stable solution.

I rarely need to contact technical support, as most issues can be resolved by looking at the Wireshark questions or FAQs. We can usually find solutions quickly.

Positive

The initial setup is very easy. We can send an executable file, we can just run the solution. Wireshark can be installed on a standalone workstation or if we want to create a server, we can also do that. The deployment takes around 30 minutes.

I give the solution a nine out of ten.

There is a purpose for using Wireshark. If we don't know the purpose or our agenda, then why are we using it? The solution would be useless for us in this case. If we are following an example and are a SOC person, we just need to sniff the communication and confirm that it is stable. However, if we are general IT people and do not know the purpose, then Wireshark would be useless.

Our primary use case of this solution is for wired or wireless sniffing.

I have found the most valuable feature you can design your sniffer the way you want to. As I said, by default it will have all the legacy features or legacy or advanced features. So apart from that in your device, if you have a particular feature that is enabled, then you can modify it by changing the source code. It provides you with the source code. It is an open source so you can get a source code, you just need to create a plugin or API and point it to that source and you compile it.

In the future, it would be nice to see color coding. It is just black and white. 

I have been using Wireshark for the past fifteen years.

The stability is excellent and reflected in the automation integration.

If you are a good programmer everything is available online. There is a community-based option to ask questions and you will get answers.

The initial setup is straightforward. You type in Google or Bing Wireshark download. Then you will be taken to the Wireshark webpage and there is a tab called download. Download the latest stable version that is available. It is an EXE file or an MSF file.

For the initial stages, I prefer Wireshark but after six months to a year, I like to use OmniPeek. Wireshark is very easy to use and I would rate it an eight out of ten.

We're using an internal Wi-Fi card in the laptop, so we configure that particular wireless interface into monitoring mode, configure the channel, and use Wireshark for that specific interface. We can capture the packets and activities on that channel, analyze the packets for poor connections, etc.

What's best about Wireshark is that it doesn't require installation. It supports cards and monitoring permissions and is sufficient for appending and capturing activities. You won't need to install other tools to use Wireshark, so this saves you time. You can capture packets at any time from your laptop through Wireshark.

Wireshark is similar to an OS defense tool, meaning that it runs on an OS such as Ubuntu and Fedora, but I'm unsure if it's compatible with Windows or if it's a straightforward process to run it on Windows. Right now, my team needs to run Wireshark from a dongle to use it, so it's an OS-dependable tool, and that's an area for improvement.

I was unable to use Wireshark on Windows, and I couldn't capture it, as I'm unsure how to configure the wireless card into monitoring mode on Windows. The process was straightforward on Linux, but it wasn't the case on Windows OS. It seems Wireshark isn't compatible with all OS. For example, you can analyze the log, and you can analyze it on the Windows server, but you can't do a capture in Windows. Configuring Wireshark for Windows isn't as easy as configuring it for Linux.

What I'd like to see in the next release of Wireshark is the capability to capture packets from the ethernet.

I started using Wireshark six or seven years ago.

Wireshark is a stable product.

Wireshark is a scalable product.

I never needed to contact technical support for Wireshark.

My company uses Wireshark and has not tried a different solution. The biggest factor on why it decided to use Wireshark is because it's open-source software that doesn't require installation and a license, so anyone can use it.

Wireshark is pretty easy to set up. Its deployment doesn't take much time. It only takes ten to twenty minutes max to complete Wireshark deployment.

Wireshark is an open-source product, so it's free to use.

All people within my company use Wireshark, so that's two hundred users.

My advice to anyone looking into using Wireshark is that you should know how to configure the interface and the internal Wi-Fi card into monitoring mode, so you can capture via Wireshark. As Wireshark is a good tool, I'd recommend it to others, but you should have some knowledge of how to use it and how to configure it. Before implementing Wireshark, you need to know your objectives, working scenarios, what type of features you'd want to implement, and what changes you need to make.

I'd rate Wireshark eight out of ten because for you to configure and use it requires proper knowledge. It's straightforward to use if you have some knowledge of configuring it for monitoring.

I'm a customer of Wireshark.

Wireshark is a network analyzer used to capture traffic. It's used to analyze patterns in the network to check for any malicious traffic generated from devices or endpoints.

Wireshark is a good tool to start with network analyzing and packet capturing. The solution provides good performance and stability.

The solution’s user interface could be improved.

I have been using Wireshark since 2019.

Wireshark is a stable solution.

Wireshark is not a scalable solution. The tool's purpose is not to scale, and there is no use case to scale it.

The solution’s initial setup is straightforward.

I have deployed Wireshark on my laptop. You need to download the software from the web and then run it. It's free of charge, and there's no license involved. We need to enable the solution and run it to capture the traffic.

Wireshark is free of charge, and there's no license involved.

I would recommend the solution to other users. Wireshark is a good tool to start with network analyzing and packet capturing. You can use Wireshark for packet capturing to find the root cause of any issues in the network.

Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

I have been using Wireshark for the packet tracing, and it has helped me to find out whatever site, et cetera. It is useful, basically capturing packets of data on the network.

It helps us to identify the source the packet is originating from and it also helps us to know about the return time of the packet from when the packet is going from our computer to when it reaches the destination IP address. It helps diagnose internet connectivity problems and also helps us to know what the website data consists of and how much data is in the website.

And it also helps us to know about the various protocols which are being utilized when we are connecting to the internet. We also get to know what bites, et cetera, are present in our data or if there is any malicious packet that is not supposed to come in. Based on it, we can configure our firewall. 

It's helping me to get to know about the packet data. I'm getting to know about the source destination IP, for example. That's quite useful to me. 

Overall, it's a great product. 

The initial setup is simple. 

It is stable. 

Whenever we select one of the packets, in terms of the number of bytes, for example, there are three planes, and in the detailed plane, I have to count the number of bytes manually. 

Also, sometimes when I'm trying to select the number of bytes, the selection does not go properly. If we were to go on selecting it, the number of bytes also showed up as to how many bytes have been selected in the detailed plane.

I've been using the solution for four months.

It's quite stable. I don't have any issues with Wireshark while running it. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. 

Scalability is good. I can capture as few or as many packets as I want. There's no issue at all. 

That said, I haven't worked on it professionally, so I cannot comment much on that right now from an organizational perspective.

I've never called technical support. I can't speak to how helpful or responsive they are. 

I did not use another similar product before. 

The implementation process is not complex at all. You just have to click on the interface, and your Wireshark starts capturing the packets. 

I'm not aware of the exact pricing. 

I'm an end-user. I'm using it at my college.

I would recommend Wireshark for various network diagnostic purposes.

I'd rate the solution nine out of ten.

We use Wireshark to check the network traffic, and if there's any network problem or issue, we can check it through the tool. We also use Wireshark during analysis, to check if there's any network connectivity or attempts from the malware to communicate with the C&C server. We use the tool for further analysis and investigation.

I find Wireshark a very useful tool. Its best feature is that it allows me to deeply understand what's going on at the packet level, as well as any adverse signatures that I can analyze. When I need to create an IPS rule, I need to check the traffic deeply to get more insights about the actual traffic, what's the name of certain flags, etc., and I'm able to do all that through Wireshark.

The tool is also user-friendly.

A room for improvement in Wireshark is its ease of use for beginners. It could be better. Another room for improvement in the tool is for it to provide more details about the traffic load.

At the moment, Wireshark is adequate for me, so there isn't anything I'd like added to it in its next version.

I've been using Wireshark for a long time, so I can't remember the exact number of years I've been using it.

Wireshark is a stable tool. I didn't see any issues with its stability.

Wireshark is a scalable tool.

We never raised an issue or ticket with the Wireshark technical support team.

The setup process for Wireshark was very simple.

We're using the free version of Wireshark.

We didn't try to use other solutions apart from Wireshark.

Two hundred people use Wireshark within the company.

My rating for Wireshark is a nine out of ten because I like it and I use it so much.

I'm only a user of Wireshark.

I use Wireshark to analyze packets, especially network packets.

Wireshark's best feature is that it's adaptive, which means it's the go-to tool for network-related developers, as when the new protocol comes up, it's rapidly applied to the system, so I can just look into the packet. For example, I'm working in the automotive industry, and Wireshark supports some IP protocols, which not many tools do.

Wireshark's UI isn't easy to handle and doesn't have as nice a view as Omnipeek.

I've been using Wireshark for over twelve years.

Wireshark is stable. When it changed its UI from a legacy one to the acute, there were some crashes, but that was a while ago, and now it's pretty much stable.

Wireshark provides some macro functions and a custom parse protocol for the new protocols, so it's quite scalable.

As it's open-source, Wireshark's customer service isn't as sophisticated as private products. Developers are welcome to contribute their help, but if no one is interested in your particular issue, there's likely no mode to come up with a solution. 

The initial setup was straightforward and only took a couple of minutes to complete.

We use the free, open-source version of Wireshark.

The most important thing for new users of Wireshark is to get used to the filtering functions because all the filters are based on command input, so the ability to organize the right filter is essential. I would rate Wireshark eight out of ten.