Laura Wrote A Book
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Laura Chappell wrote a book about Wireshark: Wireshark Network Analysis (The Official Wireshark Certified Network Analyst Study Guide). In typical Laura fashion, it is amazingly comprehensive, covering everything you need to know to use Wireshark effectively. My review copy is massive. It broke the plastic binder:
The History of Wireshark in 3 minutes
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Video
Few days ago, I learned about a cool visualization program called Codeswarm which, surprisingly, is made by a guy that lives in Davis California like me. Codeswarm can be fed with the logs from a source code repository and produces an animated history of that source code. Soon enough, my weekend project became the creation a video that would condense the 11+ years of the Wiresahrk source code in 3 minutes. The result can be seen here: http://www.vimeo.com/9329501.
Comments 🔗Comment by Stephen Fisher on 2010-02-09 17:02:04 +0000 🔗That has to be the most awesome geek thing I’ve seen lately ;).
Comment by Mike on 2010-02-10 04:34:28 +0000 🔗WOW! very nice
Comment by Chris Maynard on 2010-02-14 20:08:37 +0000 🔗Very impressive! So impressive that I had to go create one of my own. Thanks for the inspiration.
Comment by Elliott Aldrich on 2010-02-15 10:14:11 +0000 🔗That is fantastic!
Loris – Is the music created and synced by Codeswarm or did you add that yourself later? There are some moments where the music really enhances the visuals well.
Comment by Loris Degioanni on 2010-02-15 10:35:58 +0000 🔗Codeswarm creates the animation only.
Running Wireshark as You
Running Wireshark on Linux involves an interesting challenge1: Capturing packets requires root access, but Wireshark is big program and we strongly recommend against running it with elevated privileges. On Linux it’s common to see Wireshark running as root, but this is nearly unheard for similarly-sized applications like Firefox and GIMP. How can we avoid running Wireshark as root?