Gerald Combs
Author of Wireshark
Making packet analysis free, and keeping it free
Rating
88Impact score
Domains
Packet analysisProtocol dissectionOpen source
Scouting report
Started Ethereal in 1998 because commercial protocol analysers cost more than his employer would spend, renamed it Wireshark in 2006 after a trademark problem, and has shepherded it ever since through thousands of contributed protocol dissectors. It is the default answer to “what is actually on the wire” for network engineers and incident responders alike.
Curator’s note
The tool you reach for when nobody can agree on what the traffic is doing.
Sources
- 01Wireshark en.wikipedia.org
- 02Wireshark project wireshark.org