RIP Ethereal, Long Live Wireshark 47
teknogeek0 writes "From Newsforge (also owned by OSTG), it appears that popular open source network traffic analyzer Ethereal has changed it's name to Wireshark. The surprising move was due to Gerald Combs, the founder of the project, changing jobs and having to leave the Ethereal trademark behind. From the article: 'I recently accepted a job with CACE Technologies, best known for WinPcap .... The move also means a major change for the project. We're continuing development under the name Wireshark, at http://www.wireshark.org/. The web site, mailing lists, bug tracker, SVN repository, buildbot, and other resources are already in place.'"
Wireshark... (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:Wireshark... (Score:2, Funny)
Similar, alternative names... (Score:2)
Hmmm. Ok, those are crap, so I guess Wireshark isn't too awful.
Wrong ethereal link (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Wrong ethereal link (Score:1, Offtopic)
That's almost as annoying as "alot".
Re:Wrong ethereal link (Score:1)
Summary link is wrong (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Summary link is wrong (Score:2, Funny)
14 (Score:1, Funny)
Wrong link (Score:1, Redundant)
Re:Wrong link (Score:4, Informative)
trademark? (Score:1)
Re:trademark? (Score:5, Informative)
Yes, according to the article.
Several years ago, my former employer (NIS) registered trademarks for the Ethereal name and logo. At the time this provided valuable legal protection for the project. Unfortunately, when I left we weren't able to come to an agreement on the trademarks and they stayed behind.
It's a good article. You should read it.
Re:trademark? (Score:1)
Re:trademark? (Score:1, Redundant)
Yep, that pretty much sums it up.
From TFA:
"Several years ago, my former employer (NIS) registered trademarks for the Ethereal name and logo. At the time this provided valuable legal protection for the project. Unfortunately, when I left we weren't able to come to an agreement on the trademarks and they stayed behind."
Holding the ethereal trademark makes no sense (Score:5, Interesting)
So the only thing that makes sense to me is that they plan on forking the project and continuing the development - which really would not make sense, as the odds are such a move would be viewed with great disdain by the community, and in all likelihood the project will be outstripped by the new Wireshark project.
Re:Holding the ethereal trademark makes no sense (Score:3, Informative)
That's probably what's going on here. There's nothing preventing the guys who own the ethereal name from using it to label a totally different product.
Re:Holding the ethereal trademark makes no sense (Score:2)
From the wiresahrk FAQ
Re:Holding the ethereal trademark makes no sense (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Holding the ethereal trademark makes no sense (Score:3, Informative)
Unfortunate name? (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Unfortunate name? (Score:1)
Re:Unfortunate name? (Score:1)
No RIP? (Score:1)
I'd change my name, too...
Re:No RIP? (Score:1)
Obligatory Kent Brockman Quote (Score:1)
Gotta love Google (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Gotta love Google (Score:1)
Has the security improved? (Score:1, Flamebait)
Re:Has the security improved? (Score:1)
Re:Has the security improved? (Score:2)
From commit message removing Ethereal [openbsd.org]:
Re:Has the security improved? (Score:1)
There has been a number of dereference null pointer or forget to increase the loopcounter so end up in an infinite loop.
Very few stack or buffer overflows have been in ether^wireshark.
getting better or worse? Check out coverity which showed ethereal/wireshark having vastly fewer bugs per line of code than any other >1M loc project.
Including the *BSDs.
Why care so much about Coverity? (Score:2)
I've never used Coverity since it's impossible to get the program, but it wouldn't surprise me if it called anything that wasn't safe or good coding style a "bug". Like, yell at you if you use "strcpy". Or if you
Re:Why care so much about Coverity? (Score:2)
The Coverity program is useful for detecting some types of bugs in C and C++ programs. The OpenBSD developers has recently put effort into make lint [openbsd.org] more useful i.e. don't let you drown in false warnings.
I've
Re:Why care so much about Coverity? (Score:1)
Re:Why care so much about Coverity? (Score:1)
Re:Has the security improved? (Score:2)
People still use this? (Score:1, Troll)
Ethereal only in name (Score:2)
NIS may hire new developers and continue on where Combs left off. In this case, NIS may come out as Ethereal(tm) main branch, and WireShark may be seen as fork even though CACE is the one with original project lead, Co
man that sucks (Score:1)
NetSheep (Score:1)