Show 108 – Wireshark With Gerald Combs

20 June 2012 by 12 Comments

Gerald Combs is Wireshark. From the original project that started over 15 years ago as Ethereal, Gerald has been leading the development of the Open Source packet sniffer that has become the standard tool for all network engineers.

  1. Some background on Gerald and history of the project.Wireshark
  2. What happened to Ethereal and some history about the naming of Wireshark ?
  3. What can you do with Wireshark for those people living under a rock who’ve never heard of it. What are your favorite features?
  4. What are some little known uses or features of Wireshark?
  5. New version coming out with new features.
  6. Sharkfest!
  7. Wireshark Certification

Sharkfest 2012

 

Sharkfest 2012

  • June 24th – 27th at UC Berkeley
  • 5th annual meeting of Wireshark software gurus, newbies, and fanatics

Join the global Wireshark® software developer and user community for four days of knowledge transfer and networking.

This year, our growing event features two fabulous keynote presenters – Cliff Stoll and Steve Riley, more session choices, and a separate hands-on lab track to accommodate more participants than ever before.

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About Greg Ferro

Greg Ferro is a Network Engineer/Architect, mostly focussed on Data Centre, Security Infrastructure, and recently Virtualization. He has over 20 years in IT, in wide range of employers working as a freelance consultant including Finance, Service Providers and Online Companies. He is CCIE#6920 and has a few ideas about the world, but not enough to really count.

He is a host on the Packet Pushers Podcast, blogger at EtherealMind.com and on Twitter @etherealmind and Google Plus.

  • mahesh

    hi!

    I don’t know how to listen to this podcast because i don’t see a player attached to it.Kindly help.

    • http://etherealmind.com Etherealmind

      Sorry – publishing error – fixed now.

  • techkid

    Where is the player?

    • http://etherealmind.com Etherealmind

      Sorry – publishing error – fixed now

  • comicboox

    I looked for the episode on iTunes and its not there. Probably not posted yet?.?

    • http://etherealmind.com Etherealmind

      Sorry- publishing error – fixed now.

  • Rob

    I couldnt get it from itunes either

  • http://twitter.com/vdm Vincent Murphy

    @techkid, @mahesh: For some reason they can’t or won’t put a player on the episode page. I was just looking at show 11 from 2010 and the same complaint is in the comments there! They don’t seem to get that not every listener is clicking through to iTunes, or that they might want to listen to one show without subscribing. Its a shame because they’re great shows.

    • http://packetpushers.net/author/ecbanks Ethan Banks

      Vincent, there is a player embedded at the bottom of the episode page, and every page in which there is an audio file component. We do “get it”, as we have a lot of click-thrus from folks that play via the web page. I use it myself from time to time.

      The embedded audio player is not a new feature, and people use it regularly. In this case, there was a publishing error when this show first hit, but the issue was corrected as soon as we realized it.

      • http://twitter.com/vdm Vincent Murphy

        I see the player now as well. Now that I have heard a few episodes I have subscribed in the new iOS Podcasts app. Thank you.

  • Dan

    Great show.

    Gerald tried not to talk about Pilot and Shark appliance. I think the networking community don’t know what a gem they are!

    I use them almost daily, and both products save me ton of time.

    I use the Shark appliance to capture lots of traffic, then I use Pilot to analyse the capture. I drill down to what I am looking for and then send the packets to wireshark.

    Pilot can deal with really large files at a very high speed. Impressive work!

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