Wireshark · Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Capture analysis

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Dec 2, 2008, at 11:48 AM, Martin Visser wrote:

> Just remember, Wireshark is much like a stethoscope to a cardiac  
> surgeon. Unfortunately to become a cardiac surgeon you need lots of  
> training and experience to understand what the stethoscope is  
> telling you!

Well, to be fair, a stethoscope can be used by a family doctor/general  
practitioner or a nurse or a physician's assistant or... - you still  
need some level of technical knowledge to use one, but you don't have  
to be a cardiac surgeon or cardiologist.

So you don't have to be, for example, a network protocol developer to  
use Wireshark, but you do need *some* level of understanding of the  
network protocols.