RIP Ethereal, Long Live Wireshark

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday June 9, 2006 @08:24AM from the shark-made-of-wires dept.

teknogeek0 writes "From Newsforge (also owned by OSTG), it appears that popular open source network traffic analyzer Ethereal has changed it's name to Wireshark. The surprising move was due to Gerald Combs, the founder of the project, changing jobs and having to leave the Ethereal trademark behind. From the article: 'I recently accepted a job with CACE Technologies, best known for WinPcap .... The move also means a major change for the project. We're continuing development under the name Wireshark, at http://www.wireshark.org/. The web site, mailing lists, bug tracker, SVN repository, buildbot, and other resources are already in place.'"

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Has the security improved? by Beryllium+Sphere(tm) · 2006-06-09 12:47 · Score: 0, Flamebait

A couple of years ago the OpenBSD folks yanked Ethereal out of their ports tree, complaining of a terrifying number of exploits and a fix rate that didn't meet their expectations. Did that change?