Re: Future of Ethereal

Joerg Mayer <[email protected]> Thu, 27 Jul 2006 19:04:09 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.network.ethereal.user
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 05:03:44PM -0600, Fulkerson, Glen wrote:
> With the announcement that Gerald Combs has moved to CACE Technologies
> and started the Wireshark project, what is the future of Ethereal and
> what will be it's relationship to Wireshark?  Will Ethereal continue to
> be supported and will enhancements continue to be made to this product?

Well, the people who have the rights to the Ethereal name haven't let us
know what they intend to do with the name, but I doubt it. We (the
former Ethereal core developers) have completely abandoned Ethereal and
continue the development under the name of Wireshark, which is getting
back to speed.

Ciao
     Joerg
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Joerg Mayer                                           <[email protected]>
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