Now as part of Riverbed, the former CACE executives are continuing to push the open source Wireshark project forward. Those products have recently been integratedinto the larger Riverbed product portfolio. To that end CACE built a network analyzer called Pilot and a packet recorder called Shark appliance. “The model of CACE has been to enhance the Wireshark experience and build projects at the periphery with things that enhance the experience,” Degioanni said. ![]() Degionnia noted that the Wireshark network analyzer is a project that has fostered a great community, as developers around the world keep adding protocol support as new technologies emerge.įrom a commercial perspective, CACE and now Riverbed do not directly monetize or commercialize the core open source Wireshark project. The Wireshark community this week is gathering for the SharkFest conference, which is a proof point for the continuing strength of the community. “The project is one of the most successful in the open source world, that’s based on the fact that the community has always been strong,” Degioanni said. Wireshark supports 1,168 protocols and gets approximately 400,000 downloads a month. The tcpdump project in turn is also supplemented with the WinPcap effort for Windows, which was started by Loris Degioanni, who was also at CACE and is now part of Riverbed with McCanne and Combs. Steve McCanne, the CTO of Riverbed is the co-creator of the tcpdump command line packet analyzer. ![]() Riverbed’s open source networking credibility however goes back even further than the CACE acquisition. Riverbed’s involvement with Wireshark comes by way of its acquisition of CACE, a technology vendor whose executive team includes the founder of Wireshark, Gerald Combs. Riverbed is also a leading sponsor of one of the most popular open source network applications, the Wireshark packet and network analyzer. Riverbed is known in the market as a leading vendor of WAN optimization hardware solutions.
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