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3 updated pcap-dag.c from Stephen Donnelly <stephen@endace.com>
4
5 Tue. March 25, 2009. ken@netfunctional.ca. Summary for 1.0.1 libpcap release
6 Install headers unconditionally, and include vlan.h/bluetooth.h if enabled
7 Autoconf fixes+cleanup
8 Support enabling/disabling bluetooth (--{en,dis}able-bluetooth)
9 Support disabling SITA support (--without-sita)
10 Return -1 on failure to create packet ring (if supported but creation failed)
11 Fix handling of 'any' device, so that it can be opened, and no longer
12 attempt to open it in Monitor mode
13 Add support for snapshot length for USB Memory-Mapped Interface
14 Fix configure and build on recent Linux kernels
15 Fix memory-mapped Linux capture to support pcap_next() and
16 pcap_next_ex()
17 Fixes for Linux USB capture
18 DLT: Add DLT_LINUX_EVDEV
19 DLT: Add DLT_GSMTAP_UM
20 DLT: Add DLT_GSMTAP_ABIS
21
22 Mon. October 27, 2008. ken@netfunctional.ca. Summary for 1.0.0 libpcap release
23 Compile with IPv6 support by default
24 Compile with large file support on by default
25 Add pcap-config script, which deals with -I/-L flags for compiling
26 DLT: Add IPMB
27 DLT: Add LAPD
28 DLT: Add AX25 (AX.25 w/KISS header)
29 DLT: Add JUNIPER_ST
30 802.15.4 support
31 Variable length 802.11 header support
32 X2E data type support
33 SITA ACN Interface support - see README.sita
34 Support for memory-mapped capture on Linux
35 Support for zerocopy BPF on platforms that support it
36 Support for setting buffer size when opening devices
37 Support for setting monitor mode when opening 802.11 devices
38 Better support for dealing with VLAN tagging/stripping on Linux
39 Fix dynamic library support on OSX
40 Return PCAP_ERROR_IFACE_NOT_UP if the interface isn't 'UP', so applications
41 can print better diagnostic information
42 Return PCAP_ERROR_PERM_DENIED if we don't have permission to open a device, so
43 applications can tell the user they need to go play with permissions
44 On Linux, ignore ENETDOWN so we can continue to capture packets if the
45 interface goes down and comes back up again.
46 On Linux, support new tpacket frame headers (2.6.27+)
47 On Mac OS X, add scripts for changing permissions on /dev/bpf* and launchd plist
48 On Solaris, support 'passive mode' on systems that support it
49 Fixes to autoconf and general build environment
50 Man page reorganization + cleanup
51 Autogenerate VERSION numbers better
52
53 Mon. September 10, 2007. ken@xelerance.com. Summary for 0.9.8 libpcap release
54 Change build process to put public libpcap headers into pcap subir
55 DLT: Add value for IPMI IPMB packets
56 DLT: Add value for u10 Networks boards
57 Require <net/pfvar.h> for pf definitions - allows reading of pflog formatted
58 libpcap files on an OS other than where the file was generated
59
60 Wed. April 25, 2007. ken@xelerance.com. Summary for 0.9.6 libpcap release
61
62 Put the public libpcap headers into a pcap subdirectory in both the
63 source directory and the target include directory, and have include
64 files at the top-level directory to include those headers, for
65 backwards compatibility.
66 Add Bluetooth support
67 Add USB capturing support on Linux
68 Add support for the binary USB sniffing interface in Linux
69 Add support for new FreeBSD BIOCSDIRECTION ioctl
70 Add additional filter operations for 802.11 frame types
71 Add support for filtering on MTP2 frame types
72 Propagate some changes from the main branch, so the x.9 branch has
73 all the DLT_ and LINKTYPE_ values that the main branch does
74 Reserved a DLT_ and SAVEFILE_ value for PPI (Per Packet Info)
75 encapsulated packets
76 Add LINKTYPE_ for IEEE 802.15.4, with address fields padded as done
77 by Linux drivers
78 Add LINKTYPE_ value corresponding to DLT_IEEE802_16_MAC_CPS.
79 Add DLT for IEEE 802.16 (WiMAX) MAC Common Part Sublayer
80 Add DLT for Bluetooth HCI UART transport layer
81 When building a shared library, build with "-fPIC" on Linux to support x86_64
82 Link with "$(CC) -shared" rather than "ld -shared" when building a
83 ".so" shared library
84 Add support for autoconf 2.60
85 Fixes to discard unread packets when changing filters
86 Changes to handle name changes in the DAG library resulting from
87 switching to libtool.
88 Add support for new DAG ERF types.
89 Add an explicit "-ldag" when building the shared library, so the DAG
90 library dependency is explicit.
91 Mac OSX fixes for dealing with "wlt" devices
92 Fixes in add_or_find_if() & pcap_findalldevs() to optimize generating
93 device lists
94 Fixed a bug in pcap_open_live(). The return value of PacketSetHwFilter
95 was not checked.
96
97 Tue. September 19, 2006. ken@xelerance.com. Summary for 0.9.5 libpcap release
98
99 Support for LAPD frames with vISDN
100 Support for ERF on channelized T1/E1 cards via DAG API
101 Fix capitalization that caused issues crossc compiling on Linux
102 Better failure detection on PacketGetAdapterNames()
103 Fixes for MPLS packet generation (link layer)
104 OP_PACKET now matches the beginning of the packet, instead of
105 beginning+link-layer
106 Add DLT/LINKTYPE for carrying FRF.16 Multi-link Frame Relay
107 Fix allocation of buffer for list of link-layer types
108 Added a new DLT and LINKTYPE value for ARINC 653 Interpartition Communcation Messages
109 Fixed a typo in a DLT value: it should start with DLT_ and not LINKTYPE_
110 Redefined DLT_CAN20B and LINKTYPE_CAN20B as #190 (as this is the right value for CAN).
111 Added definition for DLT_A429 and LINKTYPE_A429 as #184.
112 Added a new DLT and LINKTYPE value for CAN v2.0B frames.
113 Add support for DLT_JUNIPER_VP.
114 Don't double-count received packets on Linux systems that
115 support the PACKET_STATISTICS getsockopt() argument on
116 PF_PACKET sockets.
117 Add support for DLT_IEEE802_11 and DLT_IEEE802_11_RADIO link
118 layers in Windows
119 Add support to build libpcap.lib and wpcap.dll under Cygnus and
120 MingW32.
121
122 Mon. September 5, 2005. ken@xelerance.com. Summary for 0.9.4 libpcap release
123
124 Support for radiotap on Linux (Mike Kershaw)
125 Fixes for HP-UX
126 Support for additional Juniper link-layer types
127 Fixes for filters on MPLS-encapsulated packets
128 "vlan" filter fixed
129 "pppoed" and "pppoes" filters added; the latter modifies later
130 parts of the filter expression to look at the PPP headers and
131 headers in the PPP payload
132
133 Tue. July 5, 2005. ken@xelerance.com. Summary for 0.9.3 libpcap release
134
135 Fixes for compiling on nearly every platform,
136 including improved 64bit support
137 MSDOS Support
138 Add support for sending packets
139 OpenBSD pf format support
140 IrDA capture (Linux only)
141
142 Tue. March 30, 2004. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 3.8.3 release
143
144 Fixed minor problem in gencode.c that would appear on 64-bit
145 platforms.
146 Version number is now sane.
147
148 Mon. March 29, 2004. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 3.8.2 release
149
150 updates for autoconf 2.5
151 fixes for ppp interfaces for freebsd 4.1
152 pcap gencode can generate code for 802.11, IEEE1394, and pflog.
153
154 Wed. November 12, 2003. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 0.8 release
155
156 added pcap_findalldevs()
157 Win32 patches from NetGroup, Politecnico di Torino (Italy)
158 OpenBSD pf, DLT_PFLOG added
159 Many changes to ATM support.
160 lookup pcap_lookupnet()
161 Added DLT_ARCNET_LINUX, DLT_ENC, DLT_IEEE802_11_RADIO, DLT_SUNATM,
162 DLT_IP_OVER_FC, DLT_FRELAY, others.
163 Sigh. More AIX wonderfulness.
164 Document updates.
165 Changes to API: pcap_next_ex(), pcap_breakloop(), pcap_dump_flush(),
166 pcap_list_datalinks(), pcap_set_datalink(),
167 pcap_lib_version(), pcap_datalink_val_to_name(),
168 pcap_datalink_name_to_val(), new error returns.
169
170 Tuesday, February 25, 2003. fenner@research.att.com. 0.7.2 release
171
172 Support link types that use 802.2 always, never, and sometimes.
173 Don't decrease the size of the BPF buffer from the default.
174 Support frame relay.
175 Handle 32-bit timestamps in DLPI, and pass the right buffer size.
176 Handle Linux systems with modern kernel but without
177 SOL_PACKET in the userland headers.
178 Linux support for ARPHRD_RAWHDLC.
179 Handle 32-bit timestamps in snoop.
180 Support eg (Octane/O2xxx/O3xxx Gigabit) devices.
181 Add new reserved DLT types.
182
183 Monday October 23, 2001. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 0.7 release
184
185 Added pcap_findalldevs() call to get list of interfaces in a MI way.
186
187 pcap_stats() has been documented as to what its counters mean on
188 each platform.
189
190 Tuesday January 9, 2001. guy@alum.mit.edu. Summary for 0.6 release
191
192 New Linux libpcap implementation, which, in 2.2 and later
193 kernels, uses PF_PACKET sockets and supports kernel packet
194 filtering (if compiled into the kernel), and supports the "any"
195 device for capturing on all interfaces. Cleans up promiscuous
196 mode better on pre-2.2 kernels, and has various other fixes
197 (handles 2.4 ARPHRD_IEEE802_TR, handles ISDN devices better,
198 doesn't show duplicate packets on loopback interface, etc.).
199
200 Fixed HP-UX libpcap implementation to correctly get the PPA for
201 an interface, to allow interfaces to be opened by interface name.
202
203 libpcap savefiles have system-independent link-layer type values
204 in the header, rather than sometimes platform-dependent DLT_
205 values, to make it easier to exchange capture files between
206 different OSes.
207
208 Non-standard capture files produced by some Linux tcpdumps, e.g.
209 the one from Red Hat Linux 6.2 and later, can now be read.
210
211 Updated autoconf stock files.
212
213 Filter expressions can filter on VLAN IDs and various OSI
214 protocols, and work on Token Ring (with non-source-routed
215 packets).
216
217 "pcap_open_dead()" added to allow compiling filter expressions
218 to pcap code without opening a capture device or capture file.
219
220 Header files fixed to allow use in C++ programs.
221
222 Removed dependancy on native headers for packet layout.
223 Removed Linux specific headers that were shipped.
224
225 Security fixes: Strcpy replaced with strlcpy, sprintf replaced
226 with snprintf.
227
228 Fixed bug that could cause subsequent "pcap_compile()"s to fail
229 erroneously after one compile failed.
230
231 Assorted other bug fixes.
232
233 README.aix and README.linux files added to describe
234 platform-specific issues.
235
236 "getifaddrs()" rather than SIOCGIFCONF used, if available.
237
238 v0.5 Sat Jun 10 11:09:15 PDT 2000
239
240 itojun@iijlab.net
241 - Brought in KAME IPv6/IPsec bpf compiler.
242 - Fixes for NetBSD.
243 - Support added for OpenBSD DLT_LOOP and BSD/OS DLT_C_HDLC (Cisco HDLC),
244 and changes to work around different BSDs having different DLT_ types
245 with the same numeric value.
246
247 Assar Westerlund <assar@sics.se>
248 - Building outside the source code tree fixed.
249 - Changed to write out time stamps with 32-bit seconds and microseconds
250 fields, regardless of whether those fields are 32 bits or 64 bits in
251 the OS's native "struct timeval".
252 - Changed "pcap_lookupdev()" to dynamically grow the buffer into which
253 the list of interfaces is read as necessary in order to hold the
254 entire list.
255
256 Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com>
257 - Added a new "pcap_compile_nopcap()", which lets you compile a filter
258 expression into a BPF program without having an open live capture or
259 capture file.
260
261 v0.4 Sat Jul 25 12:40:09 PDT 1998
262
263 - Fix endian problem with DLT_NULL devices. From FreeBSD via Bill
264 Fenner (fenner@parc.xerox.com)
265
266 - Fix alignment problem with FDDI under DLPI. This was causing core
267 dumps under Solaris.
268
269 - Added configure options to disable flex and bison. Resulted from a
270 bug report by barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett). Also added
271 options to disable gcc and to force a particular packet capture type.
272
273 - Added support for Fore ATM interfaces (qaa and fa) under IRIX. Thanks
274 to John Hawkinson (jhawk@mit.edu)
275
276 - Change Linux PPP and SLIP to use DLT_RAW since the kernel does not
277 supply any "link layer" data.
278
279 - Change Linux to use SIOCGIFHWADDR ioctl to determine link layer type.
280 Thanks to Thomas Sailer (sailer@ife.ee.ethz.ch)
281
282 - Change IRIX PPP to use DLT_RAW since the kernel does not supply any
283 "link layer" data.
284
285 - Modified to support the new BSD/OS 2.1 PPP and SLIP link layer header
286 formats.
287
288 - Added some new SGI snoop interface types. Thanks to Steve Alexander
289 (sca@refugee.engr.sgi.com)
290
291 - Fixes for HP-UX 10.20 (which is similar to HP-UX 9). Thanks to
292 Richard Allen (ra@hp.is) and Steinar Haug (sthaug@nethelp.no)
293
294 - Fddi supports broadcast as reported by Jeff Macdonald
295 (jeff@iacnet.com). Also correct ieee802 and arcnet.
296
297 - Determine Linux pcap buffer size at run time or else it might not be
298 big enough for some interface types (e.g. FDDI). Thanks to Jes
299 Sorensen (Jes.Sorensen@cern.ch)
300
301 - Fix some linux alignment problems.
302
303 - Document promisc argument to pcap_open_live(). Reported by Ian Marsh
304 (ianm@sics.se)
305
306 - Support Metricom radio packets under Linux. Thanks to Kevin Lai
307 (laik@gunpowder.stanford.edu)
308
309 - Bind to interface name under Linux to avoid packets from multiple
310 interfaces on multi-homed hosts. Thanks to Kevin Lai
311 (laik@gunpowder.stanford.edu)
312
313 - Change L_SET to SEEK_SET for HP-UX. Thanks to Roland Roberts
314 (rroberts@muller.com)
315
316 - Fixed an uninitialized memory reference found by Kent Vander Velden
317 (graphix@iastate.edu)
318
319 - Fixed lex pattern for IDs to allow leading digits. As reported by
320 Theo de Raadt (deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org)
321
322 - Fixed Linux include file problems when using GNU libc.
323
324 - Ifdef ARPHRD_FDDI since not all versions of the Linux kernel have it.
325 Reported reported by Eric Jacksch (jacksch@tenebris.ca)
326
327 - Fixed bug in pcap_dispatch() that kept it from returning on packet
328 timeouts.
329
330 - Changed ISLOOPBACK() macro when IFF_LOOPBACK isn't available to check
331 for "lo" followed by an eos or digit (newer versions of Linux
332 apparently call the loopback "lo" instead of "lo0").
333
334 - Fixed Linux networking include files to use ints instead of longs to
335 avoid problems with 64 bit longs on the alpha. Thanks to Cristian
336 Gafton (gafton@redhat.com)
337
338 v0.3 Sat Nov 30 20:56:27 PST 1996
339
340 - Added Linux support.
341
342 - Fixed savefile bugs.
343
344 - Solaris x86 fix from Tim Rylance (t.rylance@elsevier.nl)
345
346 - Add support for bpf kernel port filters.
347
348 - Remove duplicate atalk protocol table entry. Thanks to Christian
349 Hopps (chopps@water.emich.edu)
350
351 - Fixed pcap_lookupdev() to ignore nonexistent devices. This was
352 reported to happen under BSD/OS by David Vincenzetti
353 (vince@cryptonet.it)
354
355 - Avoid solaris compiler warnings. Thanks to Bruce Barnett
356 (barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com)
357
358 v0.2.1 Sun Jul 14 03:02:26 PDT 1996
359
360 - Fixes for HP-UX 10. Thanks in part to to Thomas Wolfram
361 (wolf@prz.tu-berlin.de) and Rick Jones (raj@hpisrdq.cup.hp.com)
362
363 - Added support for SINIX. Thanks to Andrej Borsenkow
364 (borsenkow.msk@sni.de)
365
366 - Fixes for AIX (although this system is not yet supported). Thanks to
367 John Hawkinson (jhawk@mit.edu)
368
369 - Use autoconf's idea of the top level directory in install targets.
370 Thanks to John Hawkinson.
371
372 - Add missing autoconf packet capture result message. Thanks to Bill
373 Fenner (fenner@parc.xerox.com)
374
375 - Fixed padding problems in the pf module.
376
377 - Fixed some more alignment problems on the alpha.
378
379 - Added explicit netmask support. Thanks to Steve Nuchia
380 (steve@research.oknet.com)
381
382 - Fixed to handle raw ip addresses such as 0.0.0.1 without "left
383 justifing"
384
385 - Add "sca" keyword (for DEC cluster services) as suggested by Terry
386 Kennedy (terry@spcvxa.spc.edu)
387
388 - Add "atalk" keyword as suggested by John Hawkinson.
389
390 - Add "igrp" keyword.
391
392 - Fixed HID definition in grammar.y to be a string, not a value.
393
394 - Use $CC when checking gcc version. Thanks to Carl Lindberg
395 (carl_lindberg@blacksmith.com)
396
397 - Removed obsolete reference to pcap_immediate() from the man page.
398 Michael Stolarchuk (mts@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu)
399
400 - DLT_NULL has a 4 byte family header. Thanks to Jeffrey Honig
401 (jch@bsdi.com)
402
403 v0.2 Sun Jun 23 02:28:42 PDT 1996
404
405 - Add support for HP-UX. Resulted from code contributed by Tom Murray
406 (tmurray@hpindck.cup.hp.com) and Philippe-Andri Prindeville
407 (philipp@res.enst.fr)
408
409 - Update INSTALL with a reminder to install include files. Thanks to
410 Mark Andrews (mandrews@aw.sgi.com)
411
412 - Fix bpf compiler alignment bug on the alpha.
413
414 - Use autoconf to detect architectures that can't handle misaligned
415 accesses.
416
417 - Added loopback support for snoop. Resulted from report Steve
418 Alexander (sca@engr.sgi.com)
419
420 v0.1 Fri Apr 28 18:11:03 PDT 1995
421
422 - Fixed compiler and optimizer bugs. The BPF filter engine uses unsigned
423 comparison operators, while the code generator and optimizer assumed
424 signed semantics in several places. Thanks to Charlie Slater
425 (cslater@imatek.com) for pointing this out.
426
427 - Removed FDDI ifdef's, they aren't really needed. Resulted from report
428 by Gary Veum (veum@boa.gsfc.nasa.gov).
429
430 - Add pcap-null.c which allows offline use of libpcap on systems that
431 don't support live package capture. This feature resulting from a
432 request from Jan van Oorschot (j.p.m.voorschot@et.tudelft.nl).
433
434 - Make bpf_compile() reentrant. Fix thanks to Pascal Hennequin
435 (Pascal.Hennequin@hugo.int-evry.fr).
436
437 - Port to GNU autoconf.
438
439 - Fix pcap-dlpi.c to work with isdn. Resulted from report by Flemming
440 Johansen (fsj@csd.cri.dk).
441
442 - Handle multi-digit interface unit numbers (aka ppa's) under dlpi.
443 Resulted from report by Daniel Ehrlich (ehrlich@cse.psu.edu).
444
445 - Fix pcap-dlpi.c to work in non-promiscuous mode. Resulted from report
446 by Jeff Murphy (jcmurphy@acsu.buffalo.edu).
447
448 - Add support for "long jumps". Thanks to Jeffrey Mogul
449 (mogul@pa.dec.com).
450
451 - Fix minor problems when compiling with BDEBUG as noticed by Scott
452 Bertilson (scott@unet.umn.edu).
453
454 - Declare sys_errlist "const char *const" to avoid problems under
455 FreeBSD. Resulted from report by jher@eden.com.
456
457 v0.0.6 Fri Apr 28 04:07:13 PDT 1995
458
459 - Add missing variable declaration missing from 0.0.6
460
461 v0.0.5 Fri Apr 28 00:22:21 PDT 1995
462
463 - Workaround for problems when pcap_read() returns 0 due to the timeout
464 expiring.
465
466 v0.0.4 Thu Apr 20 20:41:48 PDT 1995
467
468 - Change configuration to not use gcc v2 flags with gcc v1.
469
470 - Fixed a bug in pcap_next(); if pcap_dispatch() returns 0, pcap_next()
471 should also return 0. Thanks to Richard Stevens (rstevens@noao.edu).
472
473 - Fixed configure to test for snoop before dlpi to avoid problems under
474 IRIX 5. Thanks to J. Eric Townsend (jet@abulafia.genmagic.com).
475
476 - Hack around deficiency in Ultrix's make.
477
478 - Fix two bugs related to the Solaris pre-5.3.2 bufmod bug; handle
479 savefiles that have more than snapshot bytes of data in them (so we
480 can read old savefiles) and avoid writing such files.
481
482 - Added checkioctl which is used with gcc to check that the
483 "fixincludes" script has been run.
484
485 v0.0.3 Tue Oct 18 18:13:46 PDT 1994
486
487 - Fixed configure to test for snoop before dlpi to avoid problems under
488 IRIX 5. Thanks to J. Eric Townsend (jet@abulafia.genmagic.com).
489
490 v0.0.2 Wed Oct 12 20:56:37 PDT 1994
491
492 - Implement timeout in the dlpi pcap_open_live(). Thanks to Richard
493 Stevens.
494
495 - Determine pcap link type from dlpi media type. Resulted from report
496 by Mahesh Jethanandani (mahesh@npix.com).
497
498 v0.0.1 Fri Jun 24 14:50:57 PDT 1994
499
500 - Fixed bug in nit_setflags() in pcap-snit.c. The streams ioctl timeout
501 wasn't being initialized sometimes resulting in an "NIOCSFLAGS:
502 Invalid argument" error under OSF/1. Reported by Matt Day
503 (mday@artisoft.com) and Danny Mitzel (dmitzel@whitney.hitc.com).
504
505 - Turn on FDDI support by default.
506
507 v0.0 Mon Jun 20 19:20:16 PDT 1994
508
509 - Initial release.
510
511 - Fixed bug with greater/less keywords, reported by Mark Andrews
512 (mandrews@alias.com).
513
514 - Fix bug where '|' was defined as BPF_AND instead of BPF_OR, reported
515 by Elan Amir (elan@leeb.cs.berkeley.edu).
516
517 - Machines with little-endian byte ordering are supported thanks to
518 Jeff Mogul.
519
520 - Add hack for version 2.3 savefiles which don't have caplen and len
521 swapped thanks to Vern Paxson.
522
523 - Added "&&" and "||" aliases for "and" and "or" thanks to Vern Paxson.
524
525 - Added length, inbound and outbound keywords.