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Re: Subversion FAQ still mentions Ethereal, but it's called Wireshark for some time now ...

From: Karl Fogel <kfogel_at_red-bean.com>
Date: 2007-02-07 11:54:09 CET

Daniel Rall <dlr@collab.net> writes:
> On Sat, 03 Feb 2007, Ulf Lamping wrote:
>
>> Hi List!
>>
>> I'm not sure if this is the right list (couldn't find webmaster or
>> alike), so I'll just try it here :-)
>>
>>
>> The subversion FAQ mentions Ethereal at:
>> http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#ethereal
>>
>> More than half a year ago, the Ethereal project team moved over to the
>> new name Wireshark:
>>
>> http://www.wireshark.org/
>>
>> All development is done in Wireshark now, the Ethereal project is dead
>> in effect since that time.
>>
>> Could you update your FAQ page accordingly?
>
> http://www.ethereal.com/ was updated two months ago, and still appears
> to be current. It makes no mention of Wireshark...
>
> Is Wireshark a fork or something?

Note that this page

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethereal_%28software%29

redirects to the Wikipedia Wireshark page.

I don't know what's up with the Ethereal.com web pages (maybe Combs'
old employer still controls those pages or something?), but most of
the evidence does appear to point to Wireshark as the new live
project. If anyone can say for sure what's going on, please let us
know. Right now, our FAQ refers to Wireshark; we could update it to
simply describe the controversy, but that would seem like a losing
situation for users who just need a recommendation for a tool.

-Karl

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