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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14 by Ramble · 2006-06-09 08:36 · Score: 1, Funny

In other news, scientists have invented a time machine that allows people to travel back to when they are fourteen, a time when names like shark and Kill3r are cool.

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Re:Summary link is wrong by bsdluvr · 2006-06-09 09:04 · Score: 2, Funny

That guy at ethereal.org will be really surprised when he sees his server bill :-)
Re:Wireshark... by jcims · 2006-06-09 09:36 · Score: 2, Funny

Yeah, just ask the folks over at Joomla how to come up with a clever new name...
Gotta love Google by MeanMF · 2006-06-09 12:23 · Score: 2, Funny

"Did you mean: Wereshark"