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diff --git a/net/wireshark/DESCR b/net/wireshark/DESCR index 24bb11a79ab..ccd6d02b24f 100644 --- a/net/wireshark/DESCR +++ b/net/wireshark/DESCR @@ -1,6 +1,11 @@ -Wireshark (formerly known as Ethereal) is a free network protocol analyzer for -Unix and Windows. It allows you to examine data from a live network or from a -capture file on disk. You can interactively browse the capture data, viewing -summary and detail information for each packet. Wireshark has several powerful -features, including a rich display filter language and the ability to view the -reconstructed stream of a TCP session. +Wireshark is a network traffic analyzer, or "sniffer", for Unix and +Unix-like operating systems. It uses GTK+, a graphical user interface +library, and libpcap, a packet capture and filtering library. + +The Wireshark distribution also comes with TShark, which is a +line-oriented sniffer (similar to Sun's snoop, or tcpdump) that uses the +same dissection, capture-file reading and writing, and packet filtering +code as Wireshark, and with editcap, which is a program to read capture +files and write the packets from that capture file, possibly in a +different capture file format, and with some packets possibly removed +from the capture. |