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wireshark-4.6.8

graphical network protocol analyzer, Qt user-interface

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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

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