Ethereal network analyzer reborn as Wireshark

Last week CACE Technologies, creator of the WinPcap packet capture utility, announced its hiring of Gerald Colms, creator of the immensely popular Ethereal network analyzer software. Along with Colms came Ethereal itself, and CACE has rebranded the tools as Wireshark. Wireshark is still a multi-platform, open source team, and CACE's FAQ calls it "almost (but not quite) a fork," because Colms has also brought with him "every member of [Ethereal's] core development team." Having used Wireshark on occasion to troubleshoot some thorny network issues, I'm glad the almost-fork is retaining its GNU license and development team, and I'm curious (and eager) to see where CASE will take the project.

Tags: ethereal, Gerald Colms, GeraldColms, gpl, opensource, winpcap, wireshark