net/wireshark 4.4.5 DragonFly

Powerful network analyzer/capture tool

System: DragonFly
Repository: DPorts
Maintainer: [email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
License: GPLv2
Categories: net
Package size: 26169.5 KiB, 145565.0 KiB installed

Description

A network analyzer that lets you capture and interactively browse the contents of packets from a variety of network interface types. Packet data can be read from a file, or live from a local network interface.

In the other systems

The newest version among them is 4.6.9, as upstream numbers it.

System

Port

Version

Vulnerabilities

Status

Maintainer

Last update

DragonFly

net/wireshark

4.4.5 behind since 2026-07-09

none known

[email protected]

FreeBSD

net/wireshark

4.6.9 newest

none known

[email protected]

2026-09-24

OpenBSD

net/wireshark

4.6.9 newest

no data

Stuart Henderson <[email protected]>

2026-10-14

NetBSD

net/wireshark

4.6.8nb1 behind since 2026-09-24

none known

[email protected]

2026-09-29

MidnightBSD

net/wireshark

3.4.3_1 behind since 2026-07-09

no data

[email protected]

2026-09-06

HardenedBSD

net/wireshark

4.6.9 newest

no data

[email protected]

GhostBSD

net/wireshark

4.6.8 behind since 2026-09-24

no data

[email protected]

Compare across BSDs

Install

Binary package:

pkg install wireshark

From DPorts:

cd /usr/dports/net/wireshark && make install clean

Dependency graph

Ports that need it on the left, what it needs to run on the right; at most 8 of each. "Dependencies" below lists them all.

graph LR
  me["net/wireshark"]
  u0["net/py-pyshark"] --> me
  u1["net/termshark"] --> me
  me --> d0["archivers/brotli"]
  me --> d1["archivers/liblz4"]
  me --> d2["archivers/snappy"]
  me --> d3["archivers/zstd"]
  me --> d4["audio/bcg729"]
  me --> d5["audio/opus"]
  me --> d6["audio/speexdsp"]
  me --> d7["comms/spandsp"]
  me -.-> dmore(["21 more"])
  classDef this fill:#ab2b28,color:#ffffff,stroke:#ab2b28
  class me this

Configuration

No options to configure.

Service scripts: none
Flavors: wireshark-nox11-4.4.5

Message after installing

In order for wireshark be able to capture packets when used by unprivileged
user, /dev/bpf should be in network group and have read-write permissions.
For example:

# chgrp network /dev/bpf*
# chmod g+r /dev/bpf*
# chmod g+w /dev/bpf*

In order for this to persist across reboots, add the following to
/etc/devfs.conf:

own  bpf* root:network
perm bpf* 0660