
In addition, some integrated sorting and filtering options. Wireshark is very similar to tcpdump, but has a graphical front-end.

It is the de facto (and often de jure) standard across many industries and educational institutions. It is cross-platform, using the GTK+ widget toolkit to implement its user interface, and using pcap to capture packets. The program lets you capture and interactively browse the traffic running on a computer network.

You can use it for network troubleshooting, analysis, software and communications protocol development, and education. Wireshark is the world’s foremost network protocol analyzer.
