Wireshark is a network packet analyzer. A network packet analyzer will try to capture network packets and tries to display that packet data as detailed as possible.You could think of a network packet analyzer as a measuring device used to examine what's going on inside a network cable, just like a voltmeter is used by an electrician to examine what's going on inside an electric cable (but at a higher level, of course).

Version 1.8.0 of the open source, cross-platform tool used for network troubleshooting, analysis, development and education also includes support for GeoIP IPv6 databases, and now allows users to add, edit and save packet and capture file annotations.

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