

Exports some or all packets in several capture file formats.Imports packets from text files containing hex dumps of packet data.Uses a network interface to capture live packet data.Wireshark and other packet capture programs.Opens files containing packet data captured with tcpdump/WinDump.It captures live packet data from a network interface.

Wireshark is available for Unix and Windows.Nevertheless, the dawn of Wireshark has enormously changed to the point that it is now available for free, open-source, and it has proven to be one of the best packet analyzers available in the market today. Sometime back, Wireshark and look-alike tools were either expensive, proprietary, or both.
