Wireshark Reviews

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.

I use Wireshark for DT inspection of several protocols and choose different color patterns to make it easy to see the various protocols. It also involves live analysis because I can see the live analysis on the Internet. The main task of Wireshark is to inspect the throttle and live data, and it's doing them.

I like the filtering feature as we can filter data easily. This feature is also available in tcpdump, but it's a simple piece of software. Wireshark is more advanced and has many features. It allows you to filter a lot of things. The output can be filtered easily.

The most important feature is colorization. If I say, "Okay, this particular SMB protocol in red, it will show me red." It's easy to identify that protocol or capture data. 

It would be better if they offered a hybrid version like My Cloud Control.

I have been working with Wireshark for about five years.

Wireshark is a stable solution.

Wireshark is a scalable solution. Almost all protocols are covered by Wireshark. 

I have never contacted technical support. If I have an issue with some functionality or operation, I use Wireshark's community support or Google the information I need.

I was working with Nmap and Cisco Analyzer, but then I started working with Wireshark. Before that, I used another packet analyzer called tcpdump, which is similar to Wireshark.

The initial setup is straightforward. I just downloaded the software and installed it. I completed the whole process within two minutes. It's very simple.

I implemented this solution. 

I am using the free version of this solution.

It's a user-friendly solution. I can start by capturing the interface's data because it will show me the number of interferences. Then I have to select and begin the inspection.

On a scale from one to ten, I would give Wireshark an eight.

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 use the solution to analyze packet captures that I receive from customers. It can also be used for troubleshooting networking issues.

The session-level filtering features are valuable. Life would be tough without Wireshark.

The decryption of encrypted packets could be better.

I have been using the solution for about eight years.

I rate the tool’s stability a nine out of ten.

I rate the tool’s scalability a nine out of ten. Around 10 to 15 people in my team use the solution.

I have explored Microsoft Message Analyzer.

The initial setup is simple.

I work for Cisco. We use a custom version of Wireshark, which is built within Cisco. I might be using functions that don’t exist in the community version. I haven't contacted the support team. When I had an issue a few years ago, I contacted the person who developed it. I recommend the solution to others. Overall, I rate the product a nine out of ten.

We use this solution for troubleshooting network issues.

The strongest feature of this solution, is the ability it gives us to carry out deep-packet inspections on our network, particularly when a function isn't performing as it should.

We would like the product to be developed so that it doesn't rely on internet access for installation. We would like to see all of the components required to be integrated into the installer.

We have been working with this solution for around three years.

This is a very stable product.

We have found this solution to be scalable across all operating systems.

The initial setup of this solution is very simple.

We are using a freeware version of this solution, so there are no licence costs involved.

We would rate this solution a nine out of ten.

Wireshark is a tool for ARP scanning. I started using Wireshark back when I had a YouTube channel. It was mostly a security channel to show people how easily you can get hacked and how to hack. I was doing some research for my videos. I didn't know much about security, but I was interested in it, and Wireshark was one of the software solutions that kept popping up.

I watched some videos on how to use it and incorporated that into some of my videos. When I discovered something funny on my network a couple of years later, I decided to reinstall Wireshark to run some scans and found the culprit.

 It's all on-premises. Here in South Africa, a couple of companies have migrated to the cloud, but that's quite expensive for many of them. It's much easier and cheaper to buy a server and host everything locally. The only thing they keep in the cloud is email because on-premise email is just horrible. Most of my clients are on-premises. One or two has Azure or something like that.

Wireshark has a lot of features. It's a powerful tool if you're familiar with it. You can see everything on the network with it.

The average person would probably find Wireshark hard to use. When I first installed it, I was overwhelmed by all the data it was shooting out. It doesn't make sense until you start doing some research and figure out what everything means. It isn't the most user-friendly tool. It just provides so much information. 

I'm probably not familiar with it enough to say what features it's missing, but it could be a bit more accessible to the average system administrator having issues on their network so they can pull it out and run some scans.

I rate Wireshark eight out of 10 for stability.

I probably won't be able to give good input on this, but I will give Wireshark eight out of 10 for scalability based on the limited time that I've used it.

I also use MikroTik. It's easy because I've been working with it for years, so it's hard for me to compare it with Wireshark, which I only learned to make my YouTube videos and used a couple of times in the past. 

I'd say Wireshark and Nmap are more advanced and in-depth than using MikroTik by itself, but I haven't encountered a problem I couldn't resolve without using Wireshark. The exception is when a client doesn't have MikroTik, and they use a plain router or something like that. Obviously, I would need to pull out the other tools. MikroTik does what I need it to do. 

Wireshark uses a simple "next, next, finish" installer. Any person who can read can install it.

I rate Wireshark eight out of 10. It has much more network functionality than MikroTik, but the downside is a person has to learn it to use it correctly. Maybe make it my New Year's resolution to watch a tutorial on how to use it and start using it more in the new year.

I mainly use Wireshark for knowledge purposes, debugging, and to view what's going on in the network.

Wireshark's best features are that it lets us see what traffic is in the network and what data should be encrypted.

Wireshark could be improved with a delay option when getting data automatically. It could also work faster.

I've been working with Wireshark for over five years.

Wireshark is stable.

Wireshark is easy to scale.

Previously, I used Microsoft Network Monitor but switched to Wireshark because it's open-source and richer in features.

The initial setup is pretty simple.

I implemented Wireshark myself.

Wireshark is open-source and free of charge.

Wireshark is a very nice product that's really easy to use from the start. I would rate it nine out of ten.

This solution is deployed on-premises.

Wireshark provides many different functions which are very useful for my job. There are a lot of features, and I still haven't used everything yet. It's easy to troubleshoot issues because there's a large online community.

DNS could be improved.

I have been using this solution for 10 years.

The scalability is pretty good. If I have a big file, I can always divide it into smaller ones. I haven't had any problems with opening big files.

There's a big community of people on the internet involved in Wireshark. There are a lot of free resources on Wireshark. If I ever need anything, I just search on YouTube, and there are people that are analyzing or troubleshooting a particular issue with DNS or with retransmission, etc.

Setup is very easy. It's simple to install it on your PC.

We have a software team that automatically installs the solution on our PC, and a variety of my colleagues use it for troubleshooting. There are multiple teams involved.

Deployment was done in-house.

Wireshark is free software, so you don't have to pay any licensing fee. Individual people can use it and then donate to Wireshark.

I would rate this solution 10 out of 10. 

Wireshark is very good for network engineers. It's free software, and you can install it very easily, and there are a lot of features. I mainly use Wireshark in Windows. My advice is to do research on the internet, especially on YouTube, if you have any troubleshooting issues.

It's a very popular solution, and if you're able to, I think it would be helpful to donate to the organization so people can continue to develop Wireshark.