[SATLUG] Ethereal -> WireShark

[Brian Brice]

On 6/12/06, Luis Garza <luis at luisgarza.com> wrote:
> Has anyone seen this?
>
> It looks like the creator of Ethereal has changed employers and is (or
> trying) to take Ethereal with him.  It seems that he could not take the
> domain name ith him so now he has Wireshark.
>
> Question:  Is Ethereal dead?  Is Wireshark taking it over?  Or is this a
> branch of Ethereal?
>

Looks like just a renaming of ethereal.  According to wireshark's FAQ:

Q 1.2: What's up with the name change? Is Wireshark a fork?

A: In May of 2006, the original author of Ethereal(r) went to work for
CACE Technologies (best known for WinPcap). At that time he started
the Wireshark open-source project.

Wireshark is almost (but not quite) a fork. Normally a "fork" of an
open source project results in two names, web sites, development
teams, support infrastructures, etc. This is the case with Wireshark
except for one notable exception -- every member of the core
development team is now working on Wireshark.

-- 
Brian Brice
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