1 @(#) $Header: /tcpdump/master/libpcap/CHANGES,v 1.59 2004-03-30 14:42:50 mcr Exp $ (LBL)
3 Tue. March 30, 2004. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 3.8.3 release
5 Fixed minor problem in gencode.c that would appear on 64-bit
7 Version number is now sane.
9 Mon. March 29, 2004. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 3.8.2 release
11 updates for autoconf 2.5
12 fixes for ppp interfaces for freebsd 4.1
13 pcap gencode can generate code for 802.11, IEEE1394, and pflog.
15 Wed. November 12, 2003. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 0.8 release
17 added pcap_findalldevs()
18 Win32 patches from NetGroup, Politecnico di Torino (Italy)
19 OpenBSD pf, DLT_PFLOG added
20 Many changes to ATM support.
21 lookup pcap_lookupnet()
22 Added DLT_ARCNET_LINUX, DLT_ENC, DLT_IEEE802_11_RADIO, DLT_SUNATM,
23 DLT_IP_OVER_FC, DLT_FRELAY, others.
24 Sigh. More AIX wonderfulness.
26 Changes to API: pcap_next_ex(), pcap_breakloop(), pcap_dump_flush(),
27 pcap_list_datalinks(), pcap_set_datalink(),
28 pcap_lib_version(), pcap_datalink_val_to_name(),
29 pcap_datalink_name_to_val(), new error returns.
31 Tuesday, February 25, 2003. fenner@research.att.com. 0.7.2 release
33 Support link types that use 802.2 always, never, and sometimes.
34 Don't decrease the size of the BPF buffer from the default.
36 Handle 32-bit timestamps in DLPI, and pass the right buffer size.
37 Handle Linux systems with modern kernel but without
38 SOL_PACKET in the userland headers.
39 Linux support for ARPHRD_RAWHDLC.
40 Handle 32-bit timestamps in snoop.
41 Support eg (Octane/O2xxx/O3xxx Gigabit) devices.
42 Add new reserved DLT types.
44 Monday October 23, 2001. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 0.7 release
46 Added pcap_findalldevs() call to get list of interfaces in a MI way.
48 pcap_stats() has been documented as to what its counters mean on
51 Tuesday January 9, 2001. guy@alum.mit.edu. Summary for 0.6 release
53 New Linux libpcap implementation, which, in 2.2 and later
54 kernels, uses PF_PACKET sockets and supports kernel packet
55 filtering (if compiled into the kernel), and supports the "any"
56 device for capturing on all interfaces. Cleans up promiscuous
57 mode better on pre-2.2 kernels, and has various other fixes
58 (handles 2.4 ARPHRD_IEEE802_TR, handles ISDN devices better,
59 doesn't show duplicate packets on loopback interface, etc.).
61 Fixed HP-UX libpcap implementation to correctly get the PPA for
62 an interface, to allow interfaces to be opened by interface name.
64 libpcap savefiles have system-independent link-layer type values
65 in the header, rather than sometimes platform-dependent DLT_
66 values, to make it easier to exchange capture files between
69 Non-standard capture files produced by some Linux tcpdumps, e.g.
70 the one from Red Hat Linux 6.2 and later, can now be read.
72 Updated autoconf stock files.
74 Filter expressions can filter on VLAN IDs and various OSI
75 protocols, and work on Token Ring (with non-source-routed
78 "pcap_open_dead()" added to allow compiling filter expressions
79 to pcap code without opening a capture device or capture file.
81 Header files fixed to allow use in C++ programs.
83 Removed dependancy on native headers for packet layout.
84 Removed Linux specific headers that were shipped.
86 Security fixes: Strcpy replaced with strlcpy, sprintf replaced
89 Fixed bug that could cause subsequent "pcap_compile()"s to fail
90 erroneously after one compile failed.
92 Assorted other bug fixes.
94 README.aix and README.linux files added to describe
95 platform-specific issues.
97 "getifaddrs()" rather than SIOCGIFCONF used, if available.
99 v0.5 Sat Jun 10 11:09:15 PDT 2000
102 - Brought in KAME IPv6/IPsec bpf compiler.
104 - Support added for OpenBSD DLT_LOOP and BSD/OS DLT_C_HDLC (Cisco HDLC),
105 and changes to work around different BSDs having different DLT_ types
106 with the same numeric value.
108 Assar Westerlund <assar@sics.se>
109 - Building outside the source code tree fixed.
110 - Changed to write out time stamps with 32-bit seconds and microseconds
111 fields, regardless of whether those fields are 32 bits or 64 bits in
112 the OS's native "struct timeval".
113 - Changed "pcap_lookupdev()" to dynamically grow the buffer into which
114 the list of interfaces is read as necessary in order to hold the
117 Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com>
118 - Added a new "pcap_compile_nopcap()", which lets you compile a filter
119 expression into a BPF program without having an open live capture or
122 v0.4 Sat Jul 25 12:40:09 PDT 1998
124 - Fix endian problem with DLT_NULL devices. From FreeBSD via Bill
125 Fenner (fenner@parc.xerox.com)
127 - Fix alignment problem with FDDI under DLPI. This was causing core
130 - Added configure options to disable flex and bison. Resulted from a
131 bug report by barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett). Also added
132 options to disable gcc and to force a particular packet capture type.
134 - Added support for Fore ATM interfaces (qaa and fa) under IRIX. Thanks
135 to John Hawkinson (jhawk@mit.edu)
137 - Change Linux PPP and SLIP to use DLT_RAW since the kernel does not
138 supply any "link layer" data.
140 - Change Linux to use SIOCGIFHWADDR ioctl to determine link layer type.
141 Thanks to Thomas Sailer (sailer@ife.ee.ethz.ch)
143 - Change IRIX PPP to use DLT_RAW since the kernel does not supply any
146 - Modified to support the new BSD/OS 2.1 PPP and SLIP link layer header
149 - Added some new SGI snoop interface types. Thanks to Steve Alexander
150 (sca@refugee.engr.sgi.com)
152 - Fixes for HP-UX 10.20 (which is similar to HP-UX 9). Thanks to
153 Richard Allen (ra@hp.is) and Steinar Haug (sthaug@nethelp.no)
155 - Fddi supports broadcast as reported by Jeff Macdonald
156 (jeff@iacnet.com). Also correct ieee802 and arcnet.
158 - Determine Linux pcap buffer size at run time or else it might not be
159 big enough for some interface types (e.g. FDDI). Thanks to Jes
160 Sorensen (Jes.Sorensen@cern.ch)
162 - Fix some linux alignment problems.
164 - Document promisc argument to pcap_open_live(). Reported by Ian Marsh
167 - Support Metricom radio packets under Linux. Thanks to Kevin Lai
168 (laik@gunpowder.stanford.edu)
170 - Bind to interface name under Linux to avoid packets from multiple
171 interfaces on multi-homed hosts. Thanks to Kevin Lai
172 (laik@gunpowder.stanford.edu)
174 - Change L_SET to SEEK_SET for HP-UX. Thanks to Roland Roberts
175 (rroberts@muller.com)
177 - Fixed an uninitialized memory reference found by Kent Vander Velden
178 (graphix@iastate.edu)
180 - Fixed lex pattern for IDs to allow leading digits. As reported by
181 Theo de Raadt (deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org)
183 - Fixed Linux include file problems when using GNU libc.
185 - Ifdef ARPHRD_FDDI since not all versions of the Linux kernel have it.
186 Reported reported by Eric Jacksch (jacksch@tenebris.ca)
188 - Fixed bug in pcap_dispatch() that kept it from returning on packet
191 - Changed ISLOOPBACK() macro when IFF_LOOPBACK isn't available to check
192 for "lo" followed by an eos or digit (newer versions of Linux
193 apparently call the loopback "lo" instead of "lo0").
195 - Fixed Linux networking include files to use ints instead of longs to
196 avoid problems with 64 bit longs on the alpha. Thanks to Cristian
197 Gafton (gafton@redhat.com)
199 v0.3 Sat Nov 30 20:56:27 PST 1996
201 - Added Linux support.
203 - Fixed savefile bugs.
205 - Solaris x86 fix from Tim Rylance (t.rylance@elsevier.nl)
207 - Add support for bpf kernel port filters.
209 - Remove duplicate atalk protocol table entry. Thanks to Christian
210 Hopps (chopps@water.emich.edu)
212 - Fixed pcap_lookupdev() to ignore nonexistent devices. This was
213 reported to happen under BSD/OS by David Vincenzetti
216 - Avoid solaris compiler warnings. Thanks to Bruce Barnett
217 (barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com)
219 v0.2.1 Sun Jul 14 03:02:26 PDT 1996
221 - Fixes for HP-UX 10. Thanks in part to to Thomas Wolfram
222 (wolf@prz.tu-berlin.de) and Rick Jones (raj@hpisrdq.cup.hp.com)
224 - Added support for SINIX. Thanks to Andrej Borsenkow
225 (borsenkow.msk@sni.de)
227 - Fixes for AIX (although this system is not yet supported). Thanks to
228 John Hawkinson (jhawk@mit.edu)
230 - Use autoconf's idea of the top level directory in install targets.
231 Thanks to John Hawkinson.
233 - Add missing autoconf packet capture result message. Thanks to Bill
234 Fenner (fenner@parc.xerox.com)
236 - Fixed padding problems in the pf module.
238 - Fixed some more alignment problems on the alpha.
240 - Added explicit netmask support. Thanks to Steve Nuchia
241 (steve@research.oknet.com)
243 - Fixed to handle raw ip addresses such as 0.0.0.1 without "left
246 - Add "sca" keyword (for DEC cluster services) as suggested by Terry
247 Kennedy (terry@spcvxa.spc.edu)
249 - Add "atalk" keyword as suggested by John Hawkinson.
251 - Add "igrp" keyword.
253 - Fixed HID definition in grammar.y to be a string, not a value.
255 - Use $CC when checking gcc version. Thanks to Carl Lindberg
256 (carl_lindberg@blacksmith.com)
258 - Removed obsolete reference to pcap_immediate() from the man page.
259 Michael Stolarchuk (mts@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu)
261 - DLT_NULL has a 4 byte family header. Thanks to Jeffrey Honig
264 v0.2 Sun Jun 23 02:28:42 PDT 1996
266 - Add support for HP-UX. Resulted from code contributed by Tom Murray
267 (tmurray@hpindck.cup.hp.com) and Philippe-Andri Prindeville
268 (philipp@res.enst.fr)
270 - Update INSTALL with a reminder to install include files. Thanks to
271 Mark Andrews (mandrews@aw.sgi.com)
273 - Fix bpf compiler alignment bug on the alpha.
275 - Use autoconf to detect architectures that can't handle misaligned
278 - Added loopback support for snoop. Resulted from report Steve
279 Alexander (sca@engr.sgi.com)
281 v0.1 Fri Apr 28 18:11:03 PDT 1995
283 - Fixed compiler and optimizer bugs. The BPF filter engine uses unsigned
284 comparison operators, while the code generator and optimizer assumed
285 signed semantics in several places. Thanks to Charlie Slater
286 (cslater@imatek.com) for pointing this out.
288 - Removed FDDI ifdef's, they aren't really needed. Resulted from report
289 by Gary Veum (veum@boa.gsfc.nasa.gov).
291 - Add pcap-null.c which allows offline use of libpcap on systems that
292 don't support live package capture. This feature resulting from a
293 request from Jan van Oorschot (j.p.m.voorschot@et.tudelft.nl).
295 - Make bpf_compile() reentrant. Fix thanks to Pascal Hennequin
296 (Pascal.Hennequin@hugo.int-evry.fr).
298 - Port to GNU autoconf.
300 - Fix pcap-dlpi.c to work with isdn. Resulted from report by Flemming
301 Johansen (fsj@csd.cri.dk).
303 - Handle multi-digit interface unit numbers (aka ppa's) under dlpi.
304 Resulted from report by Daniel Ehrlich (ehrlich@cse.psu.edu).
306 - Fix pcap-dlpi.c to work in non-promiscuous mode. Resulted from report
307 by Jeff Murphy (jcmurphy@acsu.buffalo.edu).
309 - Add support for "long jumps". Thanks to Jeffrey Mogul
312 - Fix minor problems when compiling with BDEBUG as noticed by Scott
313 Bertilson (scott@unet.umn.edu).
315 - Declare sys_errlist "const char *const" to avoid problems under
316 FreeBSD. Resulted from report by jher@eden.com.
318 v0.0.6 Fri Apr 28 04:07:13 PDT 1995
320 - Add missing variable declaration missing from 0.0.6
322 v0.0.5 Fri Apr 28 00:22:21 PDT 1995
324 - Workaround for problems when pcap_read() returns 0 due to the timeout
327 v0.0.4 Thu Apr 20 20:41:48 PDT 1995
329 - Change configuration to not use gcc v2 flags with gcc v1.
331 - Fixed a bug in pcap_next(); if pcap_dispatch() returns 0, pcap_next()
332 should also return 0. Thanks to Richard Stevens (rstevens@noao.edu).
334 - Fixed configure to test for snoop before dlpi to avoid problems under
335 IRIX 5. Thanks to J. Eric Townsend (jet@abulafia.genmagic.com).
337 - Hack around deficiency in Ultrix's make.
339 - Fix two bugs related to the Solaris pre-5.3.2 bufmod bug; handle
340 savefiles that have more than snapshot bytes of data in them (so we
341 can read old savefiles) and avoid writing such files.
343 - Added checkioctl which is used with gcc to check that the
344 "fixincludes" script has been run.
346 v0.0.3 Tue Oct 18 18:13:46 PDT 1994
348 - Fixed configure to test for snoop before dlpi to avoid problems under
349 IRIX 5. Thanks to J. Eric Townsend (jet@abulafia.genmagic.com).
351 v0.0.2 Wed Oct 12 20:56:37 PDT 1994
353 - Implement timeout in the dlpi pcap_open_live(). Thanks to Richard
356 - Determine pcap link type from dlpi media type. Resulted from report
357 by Mahesh Jethanandani (mahesh@npix.com).
359 v0.0.1 Fri Jun 24 14:50:57 PDT 1994
361 - Fixed bug in nit_setflags() in pcap-snit.c. The streams ioctl timeout
362 wasn't being initialized sometimes resulting in an "NIOCSFLAGS:
363 Invalid argument" error under OSF/1. Reported by Matt Day
364 (mday@artisoft.com) and Danny Mitzel (dmitzel@whitney.hitc.com).
366 - Turn on FDDI support by default.
368 v0.0 Mon Jun 20 19:20:16 PDT 1994
372 - Fixed bug with greater/less keywords, reported by Mark Andrews
373 (mandrews@alias.com).
375 - Fix bug where '|' was defined as BPF_AND instead of BPF_OR, reported
376 by Elan Amir (elan@leeb.cs.berkeley.edu).
378 - Machines with little-endian byte ordering are supported thanks to
381 - Add hack for version 2.3 savefiles which don't have caplen and len
382 swapped thanks to Vern Paxson.
384 - Added "&&" and "||" aliases for "and" and "or" thanks to Vern Paxson.
386 - Added length, inbound and outbound keywords.