Wireshark

[peter grimes]

Anyone use recreationally or professionally?

I downloaded it just for fun, I don't really know what I'm looking at but I can see that it's an extremely powerful tool. It's a packet sniffer, right?

I had read about it all over the place, but the reason I finally installed it was because of a thread on reddit where a person pinged all the devices on the internet.

The timestamps increment in the billionths of a second, but the frames increment in millionths. Do these have to do with my wifi card or CPU?

 

[Mr.WorldWide]

I downloaded it back when I was still on a 56k connection but it didn't support modems so I uninstalled it later. I should reinstall it again now that I have broadband, you've piqued my interest.

 

[EvilLurksIntrnt]

Guys, do u happen to have any logs of gs communications with civ4?

 

[IglooDame]

I've used it at work occasionally, primarily to identify network connectivity breaks (that happen to be on cellular connections). Not sure what you mean about wifi vs CPU, though.

 

[Quintillus]

I've used it a little bit at work; IIRC I was attempting to analyze some traffic between my computer and the database server. It is quite powerful, but it's also very easy to get overloaded with data. You need to set up filters to narrow it down to anything near practical.

I use Fiddler much more often, since a lot of the work I do involves HTML, JSON, or JavaScript being sent to a browser (and the back end stuff tends to be easier to debug via Java or SQL errors). Fiddler only works via HTTP (and HTTPS if you configure it to do so), but is a much more practical tool if that's what you're dealing with. So, it really depends on what you're trying to do as to which is more appropriate.