Dealing with complex situations in any network infrastructure without Wireshark leaves you at a sharp disadvantage, that is how good Wireshark is, there are other tools that can increase visibility or extend the functionality of it, but the core of dealing with a hard problem is usually dealt with Wireshark. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

If you are starting your analysis with Wireshark then you are doing it wrong, it is the best tool to understand the fine details and a fantastic option to understand the why of something, but if the problem is that you have a broken antenna for example you should do a physical check first and then try to look why you have a bad signal. You will probably still get the same result(the signal is bad) but using Wireshark for a task like that is like killing an ant with a shotgun, it will work eventually but there are a lot of easier ways to do it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Wireshark allows to capture all type of packet data in network traffic.

Captured packets can be store on physical hard drive for analyzing and troubleshooting the network problems.

Wireshark is free of codes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Wireshark should improve the the user interface.

It's difficult to read the encrypted network traffic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It has been one of the first sniffing tool, it makes difficult things simple, outstanding GUI Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I cannot find any weakness in the product Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I found a bug in the network of a hospital after several days of my team trying to figure out an intermittent issue thanks to the packet capture and analysis done with Wireshark, when everything else has failed it is a tool that has not let me down so far in more than 8 years working as a network engineer, in that specific case after we figured out the bug we gave the doctors a workaround that allowed them to avoid drop calls in literal life or death situations, I'm proud of it until today even when that happened several years ago. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's the most powerful tool for network analysis and a real swiss knife, but is also the hardest to use if you are using Wireshark for easy tasks you are either learning how to use it or want to verify that the other tool is working correctly because it is really time-consuming to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like its packet capturing and analyzing technique. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is a bit complex to use, especially for a new person. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Wireshark is a great tool for troubleshooting network situations and problems. It solved the problem of troubleshooting where you needed to know the direction and course a packet takes in the network which helps with the ability to know where problems lie in the network. The filter is the best feature I like. You can filter by ip and protocol. The simple grammar is easy to learn and very powerful to filter the packets. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It would be very nice to have the feature of crafting/modifying the packet and replay the packet to the network. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Wireshark is very usefull to find out the drop traffic and trace the route path of Network flow. It ise very easy to use and simple manage. It provides live logs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Logs is continue flowing, because of it size of the file get large. Rest of the features is good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Wireshark is very easy to use and dissects network traffic with all of the latest protocols. Wireshark provides the ability to customize the application through their open source platform, allowing users to develop and test different types of network signatures and dissectors. Additionally, network traffic packet files can be easily saved and created, allowing Wireshark to share the network data between other applications that are able to interpret the network traffic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The user interface for Wireshark is becoming a bit outdated. It would be nice if Wireshark had a more modern interface. When running a custom version of Wireshark, it constantly prompts the user to update the software when it detects that it is outdated, but it is not easy to upgrade while running a custom build. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It usually finds the problem when everything else has failed, if a network device is getting disconnected or a client is refusing to connect when every other is working correctly it is usually the only tool that can catch the real issue at frame or packet level, it might not be able to fix it since it could be an error in the software or hardware of the device but at least will catch something to look for later in an in-depth analysis Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is the last tool that you want to use and for a good reason, it's just slower and harder to use than the alternatives no one is actually using wireshark as a first tool for troubleshooting unless they are learning or trying to break into a network Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

This tool has all the options that you need to do deep packet inspection including a builtin option for Voice call and QoS. I use it for SIP calls inspection and This makes my life a lot easier to see the whole call flow and each header in the IP and SIP packet. This tool is free and always has a stable release to work with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes, It has a problem resolving the IP addresses via using the host file. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.