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Wireshark Celebrates 25th Anniversary with a New Foundation

No doubt, countless engineers and hackers remember the first time they used https://www.wireshark.org/, or — if they’re a bit older — Wireshark’s predecessor, Ethereal. The https://wiresharkfoundation.org/donate/ will house the Wireshark source code and assets, and manage the https://sharkfest.wireshark.org/sfus/, Wireshark’s developer and user conference (Singapore April 17-19 and San Diego June 10-15).

When network engineer https://www.linkedin.com/in/geraldcombs/ released first this code as open sourcehttps://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsug_html_chunked/ChIntroHistory.html, he democratized IP packet inspection for everyone.

Combs created Ethereal while working as an engineer for a Kansas City Internet Service Provider, for the purposes of troubleshooting.

But the thing is that the engine doesn’t really care if it’s packet data, it can be any sort of data you want.”