ethereal now wireshark

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The world's most popular network protocol analyzer has a new home!

Gerald Combs, the creator of the Ethereal® network protocol analyzer, has accepted a position with CACE Technologies. CACE is best known for the popular WinPcap packet capture library.

Along with the move comes a new name for the project: Wireshark.

This site (http://www.wireshark.org/) is the new home of the project. We look forward to continuing our success as world-class network protocol analyzer under the new name, and we welcome you to join us.

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source: http://wireshark.org/

Urgh, I hate it when a product that is well known such as Ethereal goes and changes its name.

Great grab. Thanks for the heads up.

--Th13

And what a lousy new name if I do say so myself...wireshark..sounds so corporate..I'd almost have to say it's only a matter of time before we see a corporate offering.

Eh, at least I can rest assured knowing I no longer need to hear people butcher the pronounciation of "Ethereal" again.

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Originally posted here by Striek
Eh, at least I can rest assured knowing I no longer need to hear people butcher the pronounciation of "Ethereal" again.

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Was it Ether-Eel or E-thear-e-al??? And how can you assure that one or another is the correct pronounciation? (I've never looked through the FAQ to see if there was a pronounciation guide)... I was prefered pronounciation one and everyone I worked with previously used that one... However everyone I work with now seems to use pronounciation 2...

how to "say" it depends on the "rules" of your language.
;) As for the FAQ...

Ethernet history. Electrons bounding in the ether. But what if it was real... Ether- REAL. Not like any 2 HT but both. That is; the words Ether Real sound like both but more like your number 2.

The real luminous ether.

Confusing... this link is from the FAQ.


http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionar...ry&va=ethereal

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Originally posted here by RoadClosed
how to "say" it depends on the "rules" of your language.
;) As for the FAQ...

Ethernet history. Electrons bounding in the ether. But what if it was real... Ether- REAL. Not like any 2 HT but both. That is; the words Ether Real sound like both but more like your number 2.

The real luminous ether.

Confusing... this link is from the FAQ.


http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionar...ry&va=ethereal

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Ether-Real sounds more like my first (IMO)... Ether eel ether reel.... but me... I also think that the pronounciation of the world can't really be taken because this is a proper name... if there's one thing I've learned.. with proper names.. pronounciation goes out the Window.. even if it's a real word...

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Urgh, I hate it when a product that is well known such as Ethereal goes and changes its name.

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Well, I guess Wireshark does sound a bit more "macho" than Ethereal :) Don't know if that was their motivation though. It also makes the pronunciation less problematic.

You say tomato I say tomAHto, you say potato I say potAHto, let's call the whole thing off. :p

-Ginger Rogers, Fred Astaire

Like linux...Torvalds had an mp3 made of the correct pronunciation, hehe...

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Originally posted here by Vorlin
Like linux...Torvalds had an mp3 made of the correct pronunciation, hehe...

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Funny... because we were just discussing this last night... right in the audio file he said "and I pronounce it linux"... not the proper way :) You don't have a "correct" pronounciation on proper names.. you have an "accepted" pronounciation.... I could get into a whole debate on this if it's interesting enough.. but it should prolly have it's own thread.

Peace,
HT

Got it compiled on OS X. It seems a lot faster than ethereal.