Software Pick of the Day: Ethereal

Whether developing a simple network application or trying to debug network traffic, there is one tool that I turn to right away. Ethereal is an open source application that analyzes IP based traffic over an Ethernet port, giving you a complete capture of the traffic going on in your network. I use it pretty regularly when testing out my client and server applications. This full featured network protocol analyzer is one of the best and its also free to use on any platform. Check it out here.