We read with pleasure in Softpedia which is now available for download Wireshark 2.2.3, which is a maintenance version of this tool and is loaded with the correction of more than 19 bugs and the update of various implemented protocols.
What is Wireshark?
Wireshark is a tool that works as a network protocol analyzer, allowing to capture and analyze in real time, in an interactive way, the traffic that passes through a network. It is the most popular tool of this type. It runs on Windows, Mac, Linux and UNIX. Experts in fullfilment of security requirements, professionals in networks and educators use it regularly. It is free software, under the GNU GPL 2.
With this tool we will be able to analyze all the data packets that enter and leave any of our network interfaces (Ethernet or Wi-Fi cards). You can see this information in real time, and it can be filtered in real time as well. It is found in the repositories of the most popular books.
Wireshark 2.2.3 Features
- Improvements in the stability, reliability and security of the application.
- Correction of vulnerabilities.
- Fixed over 19 app bugs.
- The following protocols have been updated: BGP, BOOTP / DHCP, BTLE, DICOM, DOF, Echo, GTP, ICMP, Radiotap, RLC, RPC over RDMA, RTCP, SMB, TCP, UFTP4 and VXLAN.
How to download Wireshark 2.2.3?
The version of Wireshark 2.2.3 we can download it from here.. In the same way, in the next few hours, most of the distros will update the corresponding packages in their managers.
It is not an emergency version, so we can safely wait for it to be available to be updated from the default manager of our favorite distro.
You can read the release note here.We hope you enjoy this platform that has served more than one of them to monitor their networks. It is also worth recommending that we make legal use of this tool, because it is well known that several people use it to spy on the private information of users of public networks.