libpcap, the current standard Unix library for packet capturing. Libpcap
is great in that it is very platform independent and has a wonderful
BPF optimizing engine. But it has some shortcomings as well. These
-shortcomings came to a head during the development of Ethereal
-(http://www.ethereal.com/), a packet analyzer. As such, I began developing
+shortcomings came to a head during the development of Wireshark
+(http://www.wireshark.org/), a packet analyzer. As such, I began developing
wiretap so that:
1. The library can easily be amended with new packet filtering objects.
Wiretap is very good at reading many file formats, as per #2
above. Wiretap has no filter capability at present; it currently doesn't
support packet capture, so it wouldn't be useful there, and filtering
-when reading a capture file is done by Ethereal, using a more powerful
+when reading a capture file is done by Wireshark, using a more powerful
filtering mechanism than that provided by BPF.