It works with Mac, Linux, and Windows in exactly the same way and it can be used with an active network connection if you have more than one network card, so if you have an embedded network wifi card and an external wifi card you can analyze and receive the traffic from the same computer or if you are navigating the internet and need to analyze something you can capture traffic without needing to disconnect. Wireshark usually works where everything else fails. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It has one of the steepest learning curves ever before you feel competent at a beginner level it takes a long time and even when you have years using the tool you still feel that you need to learn a lot but it is a must-have for any network engineer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is the App to debug network issues. If you want to see if an Application or a computer or a switch, or the WiFi is failing this is the App that is going to give you a response.

When all other tools failed this usually gives you an answer. It's the lowest level you can go. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is hard to use, no way around it, you gain experience, you get to understand it well, but it isn't an easy application to use until you learn it well and it is also hard to teach.

I usually try other things before trying wireshark because... well... it's not easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Very good tool with an interface available for both Linux and Windows. Also, the command line tool is very strong and gives numerous opportunities for automation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Filter options for packets can be made simple and easy to understand Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It can be used to capture traffic & understand why the flow is failing. Can also be used to understand the application response time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It will be good if Wireshark results can be plotted into graphic charts which a L-1 Network engineer can also interpret rather than relying on 3rd party software Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Wireshark has been around for years. It's always been a great tool for network security and troubleshooting. Even though there's a bit of a learning curve if you're new to packet sniffing Wireshark has an intuitive layout and plenty of learning support resources. It's easy to run a trace and see exactly what's going on on your network whether it's work or home. Want to know exactly what those smarthome devices are sending and to where? Wireshark can tell you. Is Alexa really spying on you? Check her with Wireshark. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I really can't think of much to dislike about Wireshark. It's been around long enough that the kinks have been largely worked out. Yet they continue to refine it and add new features, which makes for a pretty polished piece of software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The interface is very simple and easy to learn. It is very helpful to resolve network-related troubleshooting and easy to use. It easily tracks the network traffic to control the real network flow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is complex in use for new members. We can not edit the information on the network. It does not work properly with macOS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It analyzes the server level packets too Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is not very user friendly and needs more network features to be added Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

With Wireshark and tshark, its CLI utility, you can easily and quickly troubleshoot errors and misconfigurations in your networks by simply start sniffing on a monitor span interface (supported by almost all switch) and you will see on the GUI all the real time traffic with the capability to add or remove read filter or capture filter without stopping the capture on the listening interface Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Report can not be exported in any graphical-intuitive format, only XML or RAW text, is a bad cons for people that need to export a record to show it to a person that doesn't have networking skills or knowledge Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

You can prepare and apply new complex filters without regular expressions and programming languages knowledge, is very useful when you have a lot of traffic from iot devices or raspberry pis and you want to debug each important packet to see if your application is working well as you designed, also useful to find ip addresses of devices you don't remember Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

working with huge capture files (>10GB) without specific splitting features is very hard, wireshark become laggy even with i7 as CPU and 32GB of Ram memory Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Wireshark is a awesome tool to capture network packets and analyze them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Tool is very good but some time when packets are captured in bulk or size of wireshark capture is big then it hangs while opening. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.