Wireshark · Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] How widespread is sniffer talent?

[Zhenyu Zhao <zzhao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I second your estimate. I think most IT professionals don't 
need to employ any sniffer to solve their problems. Nowadys the IT 
network architecture are built upon layers upon layers upon layers and 
most people work on high level stuff and the necessity to delve into the lower levels is 
minimal. Also from my own experience it really takes strong motivation to 
understand the protocol to even think of using sniffers

Regards

Zhen

On Tue, 8 Sep 2009, Ryan Zuidema wrote:

> General questions,
>
> In my IT experience I have found very few people that know/use sniffers. I'd
> estimate roughly 1 in 40 IT industry pros actually know how to utilize a
> tool such as Wireshark. Seems odd considering how useful it is. So to the
> Wireshark community I ask the following questions:
>
> Does your experience match my estimated ratio?
>
> Why is a tool that's so useful not more widespread?
>
>
>
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