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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Wrong link by lazlo · 2006-06-09 08:36 · Score: 0, Redundant

Ethereal.org is definitely not a packet capture utility. Ethereal.com is what's sniffing the glue that holds the internet together.

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Re:trademark? by multiOSfreak · 2006-06-09 08:52 · Score: 0, Redundant

does his old job own the trademark or something?

Yep, that pretty much sums it up.

From TFA:
"Several years ago, my former employer (NIS) registered trademarks for the Ethereal name and logo. At the time this provided valuable legal protection for the project. Unfortunately, when I left we weren't able to come to an agreement on the trademarks and they stayed behind."

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