Ethereal now known as Wireshark
Well Ethereal one of the best known and widely used opensource security programs has been renamed to Wireshark. I have no idea why they would want to rename it as Ethereal is so widely known. Really seems kind of strange. Oh well, I am sure they have their reasons, but…… Anyhow, give the below noted link a read to get the full story. Man, this is like nmap calling itself packetwrench. Just doesn’t make sense…
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/6/prweb396098.htm
tutaepaki Says:
July 25th, 2006 at 9:13 pm
Hey Don,
I saw somewhere that the author moved companies, and took ethereal with him. Unfortunately, his previous employer owned the ethereal name.
regards
tut.
Don Parker Says:
July 26th, 2006 at 6:34 pm
Hi Tuta!
Bummer that the fellow owned the Ethereal name. Ah well, at least they are still offering a pretty excellent piece of s/w for free. Take care