One of the most widely used network protocol analyzer tools is finally getting a home of its own, after decades of corporate sponsorship. Wireshark got its start back in 1998, originally known as ...

This article explores how I have added some useful extensions to an open-source protocol analyzer in order to allow the extraction of OMG IDL (interface definition language) defined data types from ...

I have just started a job with a company whose network spans several buildings in a campus-like setting. One of the tools I know I will need is a protocol analyzer. The current budget allows for me to ...

Vendors would have you believe you need to spend thousands of dollars on protocol analyzer software to troubleshoot Voice over IP (VoIP) networks. After all, voice quality suffers if packets are late, ...

In today’s world, it seems that more of the people I run across do not feel they need — or, more accurately, don’t understand why they need — a protocol analyzer for their network. In the old days ...