We talk to Gerald Combs and Loris Degioanni, about creating Wireshark, the origins of network packet analysis, and how they want their shark to fly... When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

In the previous article, I discussed the installation of three open-source packages on a computer running Linux to capture useful network statistics. Using Linux is economical simply because it can ...

The overall equation is pretty simple: If you want to understand network traffic, you really should install Wireshark. And, if you really want to use Wireshark effectively, you should consider this ...

Network geeks among you may remember my article, “Linux Socket Filter: Sniffing Bytes over the Network”, in the June 2001 issue of LJ, regarding the use of the packet filter built inside the Linux ...

Packet capture is a mechanism that copies packets received from thenetwork and pushes them into user space making the frame available toan application for further analysis. These applications can be ...

I've spent the past six months or so playing with Ruby. I blame the July 2006 issue of Linux Journal for this hiatus from my programming language of choice, Perl, as that issue opened my eyes to the ...

In recent times, the security aspect of information technology has received considerable attention, and large organizations have dedicated security teams to keep tabs on vulnerabilities in their ...