Ethereal changes name to Wireshark
June 11th, 2006
Ethereal is a must-have piece of software for anyone working with anything even remotely related to networking.
Ethereal is a network “sniffer” that records and analyzes everything that goes through your network interface and displays this information intelligently and visually-friendly according to the network layers and protocols used.
I think it’s the de-facto standard for sniffing, both on Windows and on Linux.
Anyhow, Gerald Combs, founder of the Ethereal project caused a flurry of excitement among users and developers Wednesday when he announced on the Ethereal developers mailing list that he was changing jobs, moving to a new location, and taking the project and its core developers with him as he leaves.
From now on - Use Wireshark! 
Read the whole article over at NewsForge.
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September 7th, 2006 at 13:15
While Ethereal is indeed a friendly a quite suitable sniffer for most uses,
I must point out that ther is other far more proffetional sniffer’s (sniffer pro, etherpeek and more)