Editor Profile - Tim O’Neill is an independent technology consultant. He has over 30 years experience working in the WAN, Analog, ISDN, ATM and LAN test market. Tim has worked with companies like Navtel, Network General, Ganymede and ClearSight Networks and is now helping companies get lab recognition and technology verification. Tim is also the Chief Contributing Editor for LoveMyTool.com, a website designed to help network managers gain access to valuable information and real solution stories from other customers. Tim is a patent holding, published and degreed engineer, who has seen this technology grow from Teletype (current loop) data analysis to today’s 10 Gigabit LAN’s focused on business applications with heavy compliance demands.
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There is more to come with Wireshark
Wireshark 1.3.1 is only a sample of what is to come in Q1, 2010 in version 1.4.x!
There will be plenty of surprises
As you all know the developer’s version of Wireshark 1.3.1 has been released but I can tell you that it is only a taste of what is to come.
First - What are the major new items in Version 1.3.1?
- The packet list internals have been rewritten and are now more efficient and therefore quicker for capture and review speed. (See test article by Tony Fortunato)
- Python scripting support has been added.
- Capturing from pipes on Windows has been improved.
- Many memory leaks have been fixed.
- The latest version of WinPcap 4.1.1
- Full Windows 7 support
- And more….
Before 1.3.1 was released Gerald Combs, the founder of Wireshark asked if I could test some of the items in V1.3.1 that will be enhanced and coming in the future version 1.4.X which is due out in Q1, 2010. Well I could not, so I called Tony Fortunato, one of my Best of the Best analysts, a well known trainer, a trusted friend and the founder of The Technology Firm.
So Tony, the ever skeptic, immediately and I must say excitedly agreed to set up and run this most important test that is only a sample of what is to come in the next full version of Wireshark early in 2010. The results Tony and I saw blew us away. The results are in Tony’s article "Real-World Testing of Wireshark 1.3.1".
Great Job, Tony!!
Gerald told me that the biggest feature for 1.4.x is going to be the speed that it has in downloading trace files, along with many new enhancements that will be included in 1.4.x but that the developers version 1.3.1 has a sample of the speed that will be in 1.4.x.
In Tony’s test you will see that almost literally the speed was enhanced so that the load time was almost half of the previous versions.
This is just one of the many new features that are to come. I wonder with all these changes if the new version if it should be called 2.0?
As I see it, this new version has all the marks of a major version change.
To Gerald and the Wireshark Team – Great job and we cannot wait to see what other delights that Wireshark X.X.X in Q1 has in store for us!!
I wish you all Great Success with Less Stress!
Have a Great Thanksgiving Holiday. The Oldcommguy™
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