wireshark-4.6.9

Current snapshot · amd64

graphical network protocol analyzer, Qt user-interface

Project homepage: https://www.wireshark.org/

Description

Wireshark is a network capture tool and protocol analyzer, including decoders for very many common and less-common protocols. This package contains the main program providing the graphical user interface; other parts are in the tshark package which may be installed separately if using the software on a system without X.

Package information

Ports path
net/wireshark
Package architecture
amd64
Maintainer
Stuart Henderson <stu.ports@spacehopper.org>
Categories
net, security, x11, lang/lua, lang/python
Available flavors
no_x11

Ports list build and test dependencies as well as runtime dependencies. pkg_add selects those needed for installation.

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OpenBSD README

This README contains unresolved ports variables; replace them before using its commands.

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| Running wireshark on OpenBSD
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Packet dissectors (here in Wireshark, and in other programs such as tcpdump)
have a long history of security problems. In Wireshark, these are isolated
from the packet capture code (which must have root privileges) by using a
separate program, dumpcap, to run the capture.

${TRUEPREFIX}/bin/dumpcap has been installed setuid root, with read/execute
access granted only to users in the _wireshark group. For normal interactive
use of Wireshark, add your username to this group:

  usermod -G _wireshark username

If you will only run Wireshark offline on files captured using tcpdump -w,
this step is not necessary.

DO NOT RUN WIRESHARK AS ROOT!

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