Tuesday, May 3, 2011

What is Tshark?


           TShark is a network protocol analyzer. It lets you capture packet data from a live network, or read packets from a previously saved capture file, either printing a decoded form of those packets to the standard output or writing the packets to a file. Packet capturing is performed with the pcap library. The capture filter syntax follows the rules of the pcap library. This syntax is different from the read filter syntax. A read filter can also be specified when capturing, and only packets that pass the read filter will be displayed or saved to the output file; note, however, that capture filters are much more efficient than read filters, and it may be more difficult for TShark to keep up with a busy network if a read filter is specified for a live capture.

The following are some of its features:
• Work on UNIX and Windows
• It can capture live packet from a network interface
• It describes very detailed information, which is very important to measure the performance metrics.
• It shows various statistics.

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