Wireshark Scalability

Rajendra Thakur - PeerSpot reviewer
Incident manager at Cisco

Almost everybody in our company is using the product. That's likely around 1,000 people. Here, we always work on the network devices, and we need to use this tool to understand if there is any issue with that network or if there is any issue with the calls. Therefore, almost everyone uses it within the network team.

In terms of scalability, if you look at it, there's no limit. There's no restriction on how many users can use it. However, it depends on the organization. If you need any approval to download it usually needs special permission. 

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DonniUgalde - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior I.T. Systems Engineer at Pro Techs MSP

I rate the tool’s scalability a six out of ten.

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Vijay Duggal - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Specialist at Squarepoint Capital

The scalability of the product can be improved. In my team, over 50 of us are using the solution.

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Kamal Kumar Verma - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Consultant at Genpact - Headstrong

The solution is scalable. I was the solution architect at Genpact. Only the L3 employees who were reporting to me had access to Wireshark. A few L3 employees from the firewall team also had access to the tool. Approximately 13 to 14 people were using the product in my organization based on the approvals they received.

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Heritier Daya - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Administrator at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

I would rate the scalability a nine out of ten. It is fine for me. In our team, we have around five end users using this solution.

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MF
Chief Technologist at a consumer goods company with 10,001+ employees

Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.

Around five people in my company use Wireshark.

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SS
Lead Engineer at NXP Semiconductors

Wireshark is a scalable product.

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DeepakKumar - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Lead Engineer at a wireless company with 10,001+ employees

The solution is scalable in the sense you can add it to however many laptops you need to. It's not like you have 500 people using the same Wireshark or using a common license. It is installed on everyone's PC and whoever wants to use it can. We are using the free version. Therefore, getting more people to put it on their PCs also doesn’t cost the company more.

In our company, about 150 people, or many a few more, are using the solution.

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Siwon Kang - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engeener at Mbition

Wireshark provides some macro functions and a custom parse protocol for the new protocols, so it's quite scalable.

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Sagar More - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Security Engineer at Ares Management Corporation

The solution is very scalable, you can capture traffic on any device regardless of your vendor. 

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Borislav Malinov - PeerSpot reviewer
Service Operations Manager at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

It's my understanding that the solution can scale. 

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MohamedEladawy - PeerSpot reviewer
Service Security Lead at Salam Technology

Wireshark is a scalable tool.

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SanjeevKumar19 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Support Engineer at AlgoSec

I would rate the scalability a nine out of ten. There is always room for improvement. 

It is easy to scale Wireshark. The GUI is very user-friendly. They have multiple videos online and on YouTube. Going through these resources provides a better understanding of Wireshark, its functionality, and how things operate within it. Essentially, it aligns with what we can learn from fundamental books or authoritative works.  

What we have analyzed on a theoretical basis, like the TCP handshake, SSL handshake, wireless controller handshake, SMTP handshake, and whatever we read in the books, we can technically see it in Wireshark each and every packet. For SSL, we can see multiple streams getting transmitted: server, client hello, client-server hello, then the client where Client Pre-shared. The client ciphers also send the TLS, TLS certificate SSL certificate. Then in the server, we can see the SSL certificate and the Cypress suite, which they want to negotiate on, and then their pre-master secret key, which is generated, and then the session keys are getting generated. So these are all the things that we read in our books; we can see it packet-wise, each and everything. The acknowledgment comes from their end, from the client or the server side. So we can see it is very much easy to use in Wireshark.

Gain practical knowledge of what we comprehend. Analogous to the basic mathematical concept of two plus two, this is a protocol-oriented understanding, similar to the alphabet in language. However, in the realm of networking, Wireshark proves highly beneficial. You can put into practice what you read in books by actively examining and validating it yourself.

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IS
Student at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

Scalability is good. I can capture as few or as many packets as I want. There's no issue at all. 

That said, I haven't worked on it professionally, so I cannot comment much on that right now from an organizational perspective.

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Harish (Kumar) - PeerSpot reviewer
Cyber Security and IT Head at a outsourcing company with 51-200 employees

Wireshark is a scalable solution. Almost all protocols are covered by Wireshark. 

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Aqeel Junaid - PeerSpot reviewer
Junior Executive - Information Security at sunshine holdings

Wireshark is not a scalable solution. The tool's purpose is not to scale, and there is no use case to scale it.

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VS
Software Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

I rate the tool’s scalability a nine out of ten. Around 10 to 15 people in my team use the solution.

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Hafiz Umar Farooq - PeerSpot reviewer
Founder & CEO at ITGAT

We have found this solution to be scalable across all operating systems.

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Chad Nel - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Administrator at YGtech

I probably won't be able to give good input on this, but I will give Wireshark eight out of 10 for scalability based on the limited time that I've used it.

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PraveenMoule - PeerSpot reviewer
System Network Administrator at Mungi Engineers Pvt. Ltd.

Wireshark is easy to scale.

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TN
Network Specialist at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

The scalability is pretty good. If I have a big file, I can always divide it into smaller ones. I haven't had any problems with opening big files.

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Ahmet Kilic - PeerSpot reviewer
Network and Security Unit Manager at Bankalararası Kart Merkezi (BKM)

Wireshark is scalable.

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VP
Network Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

In terms of scalability, I would rate the scalability a seven out of ten. It is difficult to scale this solution. 

The use cases I've worked on require deploying Wireshark independently on each node. However, if I want to deploy Wireshark on hundreds of devices and collect information at a single location for better network management, that capability is currently not available. We need Wireshark to run on all the devices and have one device act as a controller to collect and process the information.

Wireshark is popular among both individual users and enterprise organizations, but currently, it is mostly used individually for debugging network traffic.

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RD
Lead Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

The solution is scalable.

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it_user461535 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

Big trace files need to be chopped for analysis.

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Henry A. McKelvey - PeerSpot reviewer
NextGen TV (ATSC 3.0) Systems Engineer at PeerSpot

Great scalability, but they are beginning to sacrifice ease of use for complexity. That was why we needed to simplify things.

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AC
Founder and CEO at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

Scalability could be a challenge because you can analyze so much data with Wireshark, which can be hard if you don't have a very specific case or plan for it. 

If there is no automated solution, scalability could be a little bit difficult. It gives you more visibility into your network, and you can see the packets that are coming in and going out of the network. The only challenge is that if it is a big organization, there would be a lot to process. Having an automated solution on the side would probably help.

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YD
Sr. Security Engineer at SugarCRM

No issues with scalability.

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BW
Owner at QOS NETWORKING INC

The scalability is very good and it's simple to do.

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NN
Engineer at Mzinga

The solution is scalable and its capabilities are broad. 

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it_user260115 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

No scalability issues.

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it_user393891 - PeerSpot reviewer
ArcSight Engineer at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

No scalability issues.

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it_user148368 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager of Engineering at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
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Wireshark
March 2024
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