Ethereal Renamed Wireshark

Gerald Combs, creator of the Ethereal Protocol Analyzer, has accepted a position with CACE, makers of the WinPcap library. The core development team of Ethereal have joined with Combs to maintain and continue development of Ethereal, however, the project had to be forked and renamed due to a trademark dispute. So, an open source network protocol analyzer still exists and continues to be developed under the name Ethereal, but a duplicate of Ethereal, renamed Wireshark, will continue on down a different development path led by the team that got Ethereal where it is now to begin with. Both Ethereal and Wireshark will remain freely available as open source software. To learn more about installing and using Ethereal (or Wireshark), you can read Ethereal Packet Sniffing. For more details about Wireshark, read Profile: Wireshark Network Protocol Analyzer.