1 Tuesday Sep. 2, 2014 mcr@sandelman.ca
2 Summary for 4.6.2 tcpdump release
3 fix out-of-source-tree builds: find libpcap that is out of source
4 better configure check for libsmi
6 Saturday Jul. 19, 2014 mcr@sandelman.ca
7 Summary for 4.6.1 tcpdump release
9 add a short option '#', same as long option '--number'
11 Wednesday Jul. 2, 2014 mcr@sandelman.ca
12 Summary for 4.6.0 tcpdump release
13 all of tcpdump is now using the new "NDO" code base (Thanks Denis!)
14 nflog, mobile, forces, pptp, AODV, AHCP, IPv6, OSPFv4, RPL, DHCPv6 enhancements/fixes
16 many new test cases: 82 in 4.5.1 to 133 in 4.6.0
17 many improvements to travis continuous integration system: OSX, and Coverity options
18 cleaned up some unnecessary header files
20 a number of unaligned access faults fixed
21 -A flag does not consider CR to be printable anymore
22 fx.lebail took over coverity baby sitting
23 default snapshot size increased to 256K for accomodate USB captures
24 WARNING: this release contains a lot of very worthwhile code churn.
26 Wednesday Jan. 15, 2014 guy@alum.mit.edu
27 Summary for 4.5.2 tcpdump release
31 Monday Nov. 11, 2013 mcr@sandelman.ca
32 Summary for 4.5.1 tcpdump release
35 Thursday Nov. 7, 2013 mcr@sandelman.ca and guy@alum.mit.edu.
36 Summary for 4.5.0 tcpdump release
37 some NFSv4 fixes for printing
38 fix printing of unknown TCP options, and tcp fast-open
39 fixes for syslog parser
40 some gcc-version-specific flag tuning
41 adopt MacOS deprecation workarounds for openssl
42 improvements to babel printing
43 add OpenFlow 1.0 (no SSL) and test cases
46 improvements to DHCPv6 decoder
47 clarify which autoconf is needed
48 Point users to the the-tcpdump-group repository on GitHub rather
49 than the mcr repository
51 Fixed IPv6 check on Solaris and other OSes requiring extra
53 Add support for VXLAN (draft-mahalingam-dutt-dcops-vxlan-03),
54 and add "vxlan" as an option for -T.
55 Add support for OTV (draft-hasmit-otv-04).
56 fixes for DLT_IEEE802_11_RADIO datalink types
59 Saturday April 6, 2013 guy@alum.mit.edu.
60 Summary for 4.4.0 tcpdump release
61 RPKI-RTR (RFC6810) is now official (TCP Port 323)
62 Fix detection of OpenSSL libcrypto.
63 Add DNSSL (RFC6106) support.
64 Add "radius" as an option for -T.
65 Update Action codes for handle_action function according to
67 Decode DHCPv6 AFTR-Name option (RFC6334).
69 Fix printing of infinite lifetime in ICMPv6.
70 Added support for SPB, SPBM Service Identifier, and Unicast
71 Address sub-TLV in ISIS.
72 Decode RIPv2 authentication up to RFC4822.
73 Fix RIP Request/full table decoding issues.
74 On Linux systems with cap-ng.h, drop root privileges
75 using Linux Capabilities.
76 Add support for reading multiple files.
77 Add MS NLB heartbeat printer.
78 Separate multiple nexthops in BGP.
80 Wednesday November 28, 2012 guy@alum.mit.edu.
81 Summary for 4.3.1 tcpdump release
82 Print "LLDP, length N" for LLDP packets even when not in verbose
83 mode, so something is printed even if only the timestamp is
86 Print NTP poll interval correctly (it's an exponent, so print
87 both its raw value and 2^value)
88 Document that "-e" is used to get MAC addresses
89 More clearly document that you need to escape or quote
90 backslashes in filter expressions on the command line
91 Fix some "the the" in the man page
92 Use the right maximum path length
93 Don't treat 192_1_2, when passed to -i, as an interface number
95 Friday April 3, 2012. mcr@sandelman.ca.
96 Summary for 4.3.0 tcpdump release
97 fixes for forces: SPARSE data (per RFC 5810)
98 some more test cases added
99 updates to documentation on -l, -U and -w flags.
100 Fix printing of BGP optional headers.
101 Tried to include DLT_PFSYNC support, failed due to headers required.
103 Fix LLDP Network Policy bit definitions.
104 fixes for IGMPv3's Max Response Time: it is in units of 0.1 second.
105 SIGUSR1 can be used rather than SIGINFO for stats
106 permit -n flag to affect print-ip for protocol numbers
107 ND_OPT_ADVINTERVAL is in milliseconds, not seconds
108 Teach PPPoE parser about RFC 4638
111 Friday December 9, 2011. guy@alum.mit.edu.
112 Summary for 4.2.1 tcpdump release
113 Only build the Babel printer if IPv6 is enabled.
114 Support Babel on port 6696 as well as 6697.
115 Include ppi.h in release tarball.
116 Include all the test files in the release tarball, and don't
117 "include" test files that no longer exist.
118 Don't assume we have <rpc/rpc.h> - check for it.
119 Support "-T carp" as a way of dissecting IP protocol 112 as CARP
121 Support Hilscher NetAnalyzer link-layer header format.
122 Constify some pointers and fix compiler warnings.
123 Get rid of never-true test.
124 Fix an unintended fall-through in a case statement in the ARP
126 Fix several cases where sizeof(sizeof(XXX)) was used when just
127 sizeof(XXX) was intended.
128 Make stricter sanity checks in the ES-IS printer.
129 Get rid of some GCCisms that caused builds to fai with compilers
130 that don't support them.
131 Fix typo in man page.
132 Added length checks to Babel printer.
134 Sunday July 24, 2011. mcr@sandelman.ca.
136 merged 802.15.4 decoder from Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov
138 updates to forces for new port numbers
139 Use "-H", not "-h", for the 802.11s option. (-h always help)
140 Better ICMPv6 checksum handling.
141 add support for the RPKI/Router Protocol, per -ietf-sidr-rpki-rtr-12
142 get rid of uuencoded pcap test files, git can do binary.
143 sFlow changes for 64-bit counters.
144 fixes for PPI packet header handling and printing.
145 Add DCB Exchange protocol (DCBX) version 1.01.
146 Babel dissector, from Juliusz Chroboczek and Grégoire Henry.
147 improvements to radiotap for rate values > 127.
148 Many improvements to ForCES decode, including fix SCTP TML port
149 updated RPL type code to RPL-17 draft
150 Improve printout of DHCPv6 options.
151 added support and test case for QinQ (802.1q VLAN) packets
152 Handle DLT_IEEE802_15_4_NOFCS like DLT_IEEE802_15_4.
153 Build fixes for Sparc and other machines with alignment restrictions.
154 Merged changes from Debian package.
155 PGM: Add ACK decoding and add PGMCC DATA and FEEDBACK options.
156 Build fixes for OSX (Snow Leopard and others)
157 Add support for IEEE 802.15.4 packets
159 Tue. July 20, 2010. guy@alum.mit.edu.
160 Summary for 4.1.2 tcpdump release
161 If -U is specified, flush the file after creating it, so it's
163 Fix TCP flags output description, and some typoes, in the man
165 Add a -h flag, and only attempt to recognize 802.11s mesh
167 When printing the link-layer type list, send *all* output to
169 Include the CFLAGS setting when configure was run in the
172 Thu. April 1, 2010. guy@alum.mit.edu.
173 Summary for 4.1.1 tcpdump release
174 Fix build on systems with PF, such as FreeBSD and OpenBSD.
175 Don't blow up if a zero-length link-layer address is passed to
178 Thu. March 11, 2010. ken@netfunctional.ca/guy@alum.mit.edu.
179 Summary for 4.1.0 tcpdump release
180 Fix printing of MAC addresses for VLAN frames with a length
182 Add some additional bounds checks and use the EXTRACT_ macros
184 Add a -b flag to print the AS number in BGP packets in ASDOT
185 notation rather than ASPLAIN notation
186 Add ICMPv6 RFC 5006 support
187 Decode the access flags in NFS access requests
188 Handle the new DLT_ for memory-mapped USB captures on Linux
189 Make the default snapshot (-s) the maximum
190 Print name of device (when -L is used)
191 Support for OpenSolaris (and SXCE build 125 and later)
193 Add support for RPL DIO
194 Add support for TCP User Timeout (UTO)
195 Add support for non-standard Ethertypes used by 3com PPPoE gear
196 Add support for 802.11n and 802.11s
197 Add support for Transparent Ethernet Bridge ethertype in GRE
198 Add 4 byte AS support for BGP printer
199 Add support for the MDT SAFI 66 BG printer
200 Add basic IPv6 support to print-olsr
202 Add printer for ForCES
203 Handle frames with an FCS
204 Handle 802.11n Control Wrapper, Block Acq Req and Block Ack frames
205 Fix TCP sequence number printing
206 Report 802.2 packets as 802.2 instead of 802.3
207 Don't include -L/usr/lib in LDFLAGS
208 On x86_64 Linux, look in lib64 directory too
209 Lots of code clean ups
211 Update testcases to make output changes
212 Fix compiling with/out smi (--with{,out}-smi)
213 Fix compiling without IPv6 support (--disable-ipv6)
215 Mon. October 27, 2008. ken@netfunctional.ca. Summary for 4.0.0 tcpdump release
216 Add support for Bluetooth Sniffing
217 Add support for Realtek Remote Control Protocol (openrrcp.org.ru)
218 Add support for 802.11 AVS
219 Add support for SMB over TCP
220 Add support for 4 byte BGP AS printing
221 Add support for compiling on case-insensitive file systems
222 Add support for ikev2 printing
223 Update support for decoding AFS
224 Update DHCPv6 printer
225 Use newer libpcap API's (allows -B option on all platforms)
226 Add -I to turn on monitor mode
227 Bugfixes in lldp, lspping, dccp, ESP, NFS printers
228 Cleanup unused files and various cruft
230 Mon. September 10, 2007. ken@xelerance.com. Summary for 3.9.8 tcpdump release
232 Rework OSPFv3 printer
233 Add support for Frame-Relay ARP
234 Decode DHCP Option 121 (RFC 3442 Classless Static Route)
235 Decode DHCP Option 249 (MS Classless Static Route) the same as Option 121
236 TLV: Add support for Juniper .pcap extensions
237 Print EGP header in new-world-order style
238 Converted print-isakmp.c to NETDISSECT
239 Moved AF specific stuff into af.h
240 Test subsystem now table driven, and saves outputs and diffs to one place
241 Require <net/pfvar.h> for pf definitions - allows reading of pflog formatted
242 libpcap files on an OS other than where the file was generated
245 Wed. July 23, 2007. mcr@xelerance.com. Summary for 3.9.7 libpcap release
247 NFS: Print unsigned values as such.
249 BGP: fixes for IPv6-less builds.
250 801.1ag: use standard codepoint.
251 use /dev/bpf on systems with such a device.
252 802.11: print QoS data, avoid dissect of no-data frame, ignore padding.
253 smb: make sure that we haven't gone past the end of the captured data.
254 smb: squelch an uninitialized complaint from coverity.
255 NFS: from NetBSD; don't interpret the reply as a possible NFS reply
256 if it got MSG_DENIED.
257 BGP: don't print TLV values that didn't fit, from www.digit-labs.org.
258 revised INSTALL.txt about libpcap dependancy.
260 Wed. April 25, 2007. ken@xelerance.com. Summary for 3.9.6 tcpdump release
261 Update man page to reflect changes to libpcap
262 Changes to both TCP and IP Printer Output
263 Fix a potential buffer overflow in the 802.11 printer
264 Print basic info about a few more Cisco LAN protocols.
266 ICMP MPLS rework of the extension code
267 bugfix: use the correct codepoint for the OSPF simple text auth token
268 entry, and use safeputs to print the password.
269 Add support in pflog for additional values
270 Add support for OIF RSVP Extensions UNI 1.0 Rev. 2 and additional RSVP objects
271 Add support for the Message-id NACK c-type.
272 Add support for 802.3ah loopback ctrl msg
273 Add support for Multiple-STP as per 802.1s
274 Add support for rapid-SPT as per 802.1w
275 Add support for CFM Link-trace msg, Link-trace-Reply msg,
276 Sender-ID tlv, private tlv, port, interface status
277 Add support for unidirectional link detection as per
278 http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-foschiano-udld-02.txt
279 Add support for the olsr protocol as per RFC 3626 plus the LQ
280 extensions from olsr.org
281 Add support for variable-length checksum in DCCP, as per section 9 of
283 Add support for per-VLAN spanning tree and per-VLAN rapid spanning tree
284 Add support for Multiple-STP as per 802.1s
285 Add support for the cisco propriatry 'dynamic trunking protocol'
286 Add support for the cisco proprietary VTP protocol
287 Update dhcp6 options table as per IETF standardization activities
290 Tue. September 19, 2006. ken@xelerance.com. Summary for 3.9.5 tcpdump release
292 Fix compiling on AIX (, at end of ENUM)
293 Updated list of DNS RR typecodes
294 Use local Ethernet defs on WIN32
295 Add support for Frame-Relay ARP
296 Fixes for compiling under MSVC++
297 Add support for parsing Juniper .pcap files
298 Add support for FRF.16 Multilink Frame-Relay (DLT_MFR)
299 Rework the OSPFv3 printer
300 Fix printing for 4.4BSD/NetBSD NFS Filehandles
301 Add support for Cisco style NLPID encapsulation
302 Add cisco prop. eigrp related, extended communities
303 Add support for BGP signaled VPLS
304 Cleanup the bootp printer
305 Add support for PPP over Frame-Relay
306 Add some bounds checking to the IP options code, and clean up
307 the options output a bit.
308 Add additional modp groups to ISAKMP printer
309 Add support for Address-Withdraw and Label-Withdraw Msgs
310 Add support for the BFD Discriminator TLV
311 Fixes for 64bit compiling
312 Add support for PIMv2 checksum verification
313 Add support for further dissection of the IPCP Compression Option
314 Add support for Cisco's proposed VQP protocol
315 Add basic support for keyed authentication TCP option
316 Lots of minor cosmetic changes to output printers
319 Mon. September 19, 2005. ken@xelerance.com. Summary for 3.9.4 tcpdump release
320 Decoder support for more Juniper link-layer types
321 Fix a potential buffer overflow (although it can't occur in
323 Fix the handling of unknown management frame types in the 802.11
325 Add FRF.16 support, fix various Frame Relay bugs.
326 Add support for RSVP integrity objects, update fast-reroute
327 object printer to latest spec.
328 Clean up documentation of vlan filter expression, document mpls
330 Document new pppoed and pppoes filter expressions.
331 Update diffserver-TE codepoints as per RFC 4124.
332 Spelling fixes in ICMPv6.
333 Don't require any fields other than flags to be present in IS-IS
334 restart signaling TLVs, and only print the system ID in
335 those TLVs as system IDs, not as node IDs.
338 Tue. July 5, 2005. ken@xelerance.com. Summary for 3.9.3 tcpdump release
340 Option to chroot() when dropping privs
341 Fixes for compiling on nearly every platform,
342 including improved 64bit support
344 Support for sending packets
345 Many compliation fixes on most platforms
346 Fixes for recent version of GCC to eliminate warnings
347 Improved Unicode support
349 Decoders & DLT Changes, Updates and New:
351 Juniper ATM, FRF.15, FRF.16, PPPoE,
352 ML-FR, ML-PIC, ML-PPP, PL-PPP, LS-PIC
353 GGSN,ES,MONITOR,SERVICES
355 Axent Raptor/Symantec Firewall
357 ESP-in-UDP (RFC 3948)
359 LMP, LMP Service Discovery
365 LACP, MARKER as per 802.3ad
368 G.7041/Y.1303 Generic Framing Procedure
375 Tue. March 30, 2004. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 3.8.3 release
377 No changes from 3.8.2. Version bumped only to maintain consistency
380 Mon. March 29, 2004. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 3.8.2 release
382 Fixes for print-isakmp.c CVE: CAN-2004-0183, CAN-2004-0184
383 http://www.rapid7.com/advisories/R7-0017.html
384 IP-over-IEEE1394 printing.
385 some MINGW32 changes.
386 updates for autoconf 2.5
387 fixes for print-aodv.c - check for too short packets
388 formatting changes to print-ascii for hex output.
389 check for too short packets: print-bgp.c, print-bootp.c, print-cdp.c,
390 print-chdlc.c, print-domain.c, print-icmp.c, print-icmp6.c,
391 print-ip.c, print-lwres.c, print-ospf.c, print-pim.c,
392 print-ppp.c,print-pppoe.c, print-rsvp.c, print-wb.c
393 print-ether.c - better handling of unknown types.
394 print-isoclns.c - additional decoding of types.
395 print-llc.c - strings for LLC names added.
396 print-pfloc.c - various enhancements
397 print-radius.c - better decoding to strings.
399 Wed. November 12, 2003. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 3.8 release
401 changed syntax of -E argument so that multiple SAs can be decrypted
402 fixes for Digital Unix headers and Documentation
404 CDP changes from Terry Kennedy <terry@tmk.com>.
405 IPv6 mobility updates from Kazushi Sugyo <sugyo@pb.jp.nec.com>
406 Fixes for ASN.1 decoder for 2.100.3 forms.
407 Added a count of packets received and processed to clarify numbers.
408 Incorporated WinDUMP patches for Win32 builds.
409 PPPoE payload length headers.
410 Fixes for HP C compiler builds.
411 Use new pcap_breakloop() and pcap_findalldevs() if we can.
412 BGP output split into multiple lines.
413 Fixes to 802.11 decoding.
414 Fixes to PIM decoder.
415 SuperH is a CPU that can't handle unaligned access. Many fixes for
416 unaligned access work.
417 Fixes to Frame-Relay decoder for Q.933/922 frames.
418 Clarified when Solaris can do captures as non-root.
419 Added tests/ subdir for examples/regression tests.
420 New -U flag. -flush stdout after every packet
421 New -A flag -print ascii only
422 support for decoding IS-IS inside Cisco HDLC Frames
423 more verbosity for tftp decoder
426 cross compilation patches
427 RFC 3561 AODV support.
428 UDP/TCP pseudo-checksum properly for source-route options.
429 sanitized all files to modified BSD license
430 Add support for RFC 2625 IP-over-Fibre Channel.
431 fixes for DECnet support.
432 Support RFC 2684 bridging of Ethernet, 802.5 Token Ring, and FDDI.
433 RFC 2684 encapsulation of BPDUs.
435 Tuesday, February 25, 2003. fenner@research.att.com. 3.7.2 release
437 Fixed infinite loop when parsing malformed isakmp packets.
438 (reported by iDefense; already fixed in CVS)
439 Fixed infinite loop when parsing malformed BGP packets.
440 Fixed buffer overflow with certain malformed NFS packets.
441 Pretty-print unprintable network names in 802.11 printer.
442 Handle truncated nbp (appletalk) packets.
443 Updated DHCPv6 printer to match draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-22.txt
444 Print IP protocol name even if we don't have a printer for it.
445 Print IP protocol name or number for fragments.
446 Print the whole MPLS label stack, not just the top label.
447 Print request header and file handle for NFS v3 FSINFO and PATHCONF
449 Fix NFS packet truncation checks.
450 Handle "old" DR-Priority and Bidir-Capable PIM HELLO options.
451 Handle unknown RADIUS attributes properly.
452 Fix an ASN.1 parsing error that would cause e.g. the OID
453 2.100.3 to be misrepresented as 4.20.3 .
455 Monday, January 21, 2002. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 3.7 release
456 see http://www.tcpdump.org/cvs-log/2002-01-21.10:16:48.html for commit log.
458 Better OSI/802.2 support on Linux.
459 IEEE 802.11 support, from clenahan@fortresstech.com, achirica@ttd.net.
460 LLC SAP support for FDDI/token ring/RFC-1483 style ATM
461 BXXP protocol was replaced by the BEEP protocol;
462 improvements to SNAP demux.
463 Changes to "any" interface documentation.
464 Documentation on pcap_stats() counters.
465 Fix a memory leak found by Miklos Szeredi - pcap_ether_aton().
466 Added MPLS encapsulation decoding per RFC3032.
467 DNS dissector handles TKEY, TSIG and IXFR.
468 adaptive SLIP interface patch from Igor Khristophorov <igor@atdot.org>
469 SMB printing has much improved bounds checks
470 OUI 0x0000f8 decoded as encapsulated ethernet for Cisco-custom bridging
471 Zephyr support, from Nickolai Zeldovich <kolya@MIT.EDU>.
472 Solaris - devices with digits in them. Stefan Hudson <hudson@mbay.net>
473 IPX socket 0x85be is for Cisco EIGRP over IPX.
474 Improvements to fragmented ESP handling.
475 SCTP support from Armando L. Caro Jr. <acaro@mail.eecis.udel.edu>
476 Linux ARPHDR_ATM support fixed.
477 Added a "netbeui" keyword, which selects NetBEUI packets.
478 IPv6 ND improvements, MobileIP dissector, 2292bis-02 for RA option.
479 Handle ARPHDR_HDLC from Marcus Felipe Pereira <marcus@task.com.br>.
480 Handle IPX socket 0x553 -> NetBIOS-over-IPX socket, "nwlink-dgm"
481 Better Linux libc5 compat.
482 BIND9 lwres dissector added.
483 MIPS and SPARC get strict alignment macros (affects print-bgp.c)
484 Apple LocalTalk LINKTYPE_ reserved.
485 New time stamp formats documented.
486 DHCP6 updated to draft-22.txt spec.
487 ICMP types/codes now accept symbolic names.
488 Add SIGINFO handler from LBL
489 encrypted CIPE tunnels in IRIX, from Franz Schaefer <schaefer@mond.at>.
490 now we are -Wstrict-prototype clean.
491 NetBSD DLT_PPP_ETHER; adapted from Martin Husemann <martin@netbsd.org>.
492 PPPoE dissector cleaned up.
493 Support for LocalTalk hardware, from Uns Lider <unslider@miranda.org>.
494 In dissector, now the caller prints the IP addresses rather than proto.
495 cjclark@alum.mit.edu: print the IP proto for non-initial fragments.
496 LLC frames with a DSAP and LSAP of 0xe0 are IPX frames.
497 Linux cooked frames with a type value of LINUX_SLL_P_802_3 are IPX.
498 captures on the "any" device won't be done in promiscuous mode
499 Token Ring support on DLPI - Onno van der Linden <onno@simplex.nl>
500 ARCNet support, from NetBSD.
501 HSRP dissector, from Julian Cowley <julian@lava.net>.
502 Handle (GRE-encapsulated) PPTP
503 added -C option to rotate save file every optarg * 1,000,000 bytes.
504 support for "vrrp" name - NetBSD, by Klaus Klein <kleink@netbsd.org>.
505 PPTP support, from Motonori Shindo <mshindo@mshindo.net>.
506 IS-IS over PPP support, from Hannes Gredler <hannes@juniper.net>.
507 CNFP support for IPv6,format. Harry Raaymakers <harryr@connect.com.au>.
508 ESP printing updated to RFC2406.
509 HP-UX can now handle large number of PPAs.
511 L2TP dissector improvements from Motonori Shindo.
513 Tuesday January 9, 2001. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 3.6 release
514 Cleaned up documentation.
515 Promisc mode fixes for Linux
516 IPsec changes/cleanups.
517 Alignment fixes for picky architectures
519 Removed dependency on native headers for packet dissectors.
520 Removed Linux specific headers that were shipped
522 libpcap changes provide for exchanging capture files between
523 systems. Save files now have well known PACKET_ values instead of
524 depending upon system dependant mappings of DLT_* types.
526 Support for computing/checking IP and UDP/TCP checksums.
528 Updated autoconf stock files.
530 IPv6 improvements: dhcp (draft-15), mobile-ip6, ppp, ospf6,
532 Added dissector support for: ISOCLNS, Token Ring, IGMPv3, bxxp,
533 timed, vrrp, radius, chdlc, cnfp, cdp, IEEE802.1d, raw-AppleTalk
535 Added filtering support for: VLANs, ESIS, ISIS
537 Improvements to: print-telnet, IPTalk, bootp/dhcp, ECN, PPP,
540 HP-UX 11.0 -- find the right dlpi device.
541 Solaris 8 - IPv6 works
542 Linux - Added support for an "any" device to capture on all interfaces
544 Security fixes: buffer overrun audit done. Strcpy replaced with
545 strlcpy, sprintf replaced with snprintf.
546 Look for lex problems, and warn about them.
549 v3.5 Fri Jan 28 18:00:00 PST 2000
551 Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com>
552 - switch to config.h for autoconf
553 - unify RCSID strings
554 - Updated PIMv1, PIMv2, DVMRP, IGMP parsers, add Cisco Auto-RP parser
555 - Really fix the RIP printer
556 - Fix MAC address -> name translation.
557 - some -Wall -Wformat fixes
558 - update makemib to parse much of SMIv2
559 - Print TCP sequence # with -vv even if you normally wouldn't
560 - Print as much of IP/TCP/UDP headers as possible even if truncated.
563 - -X will make a ascii dump. from netbsd.
564 - telnet command sequence decoder (ff xx xx). from netbsd.
565 - print-bgp.c: improve options printing. ugly code exists for
566 unaligned option parsing (need some fix).
567 - const poisoning in SMB decoder.
568 - -Wall -Werror clean checks.
569 - bring in KAME IPv6/IPsec decoding code.
571 Assar Westerlund <assar@sics.se>
572 - SNMPv2 and SNMPv3 printer
573 - If compiled with libsmi, tcpdump can load MIBs on the fly to decode
575 - Incorporate NFS parsing code from NetBSD. Adds support for nfsv3.
577 - permit building in different directories.
579 Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
581 /afs/transarc.com/public/afs-contrib/tools/tcpdump for parsing
584 Andrew Tridgell <tridge@linuxcare.com>
587 Love <lha@stacken.kth.se>
588 - print-rx.c: add code for printing MakeDir and StoreStatus. Also
589 change date format to the right one.
591 Michael C. Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>
592 - Created tcpdump.org repository
594 v3.4 Sat Jul 25 12:40:55 PDT 1998
596 - Hardwire Linux slip support since it's too hard to detect.
598 - Redo configuration of "network" libraries (-lsocket and -lnsl) to
599 deal with IRIX. Thanks to John Hawkinson (jhawk@mit.edu)
601 - Added -a which tries to translate network and broadcast addresses to
602 names. Suggested by Rob van Nieuwkerk (robn@verdi.et.tudelft.nl)
604 - Added a configure option to disable gcc.
606 - Added a "raw" packet printer.
608 - Not having an interface address is no longer fatal. Requested by John
611 - Rework signal setup to accommodate Linux.
613 - OSPF truncation check fix. Also display the type of OSPF packets
614 using MD5 authentication. Thanks to Brian Wellington
617 - Fix truncation check bugs in the Kerberos printer. Reported by Ezra
618 Peisach (epeisach@mit.edu)
620 - Don't catch SIGHUP when invoked with nohup(1). Thanks to Dave Plonka
623 - Specify full install target as a way of detecting if install
624 directory does not exist. Thanks to Dave Plonka.
626 - Bit-swap FDDI addresses for BSD/OS too. Thanks to Paul Vixie
629 - Fix off-by-one bug when testing size of ethernet packets. Thanks to
630 Marty Leisner (leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com)
632 - Add a local autoconf macro to check for routines in libraries; the
633 autoconf version is broken (it only puts the library name in the
634 cache variable name). Thanks to John Hawkinson.
636 - Add a local autoconf macro to check for types; the autoconf version
637 is broken (it uses grep instead of actually compiling a code fragment).
639 - Modified to support the new BSD/OS 2.1 PPP and SLIP link layer header
642 - Extend OSF ip header workaround to versions 1 and 2.
644 - Fix some signed problems in the nfs printer. As reported by David
645 Sacerdote (davids@silence.secnet.com)
647 - Detect group wheel and use it as the default since BSD/OS' install
648 can't hack numeric groups. Reported by David Sacerdote.
650 - AIX needs special loader options. Thanks to Jonathan I. Kamens
653 - Fixed the nfs printer to print port numbers in decimal. Thanks to
654 Kent Vander Velden (graphix@iastate.edu)
656 - Find installed libpcap in /usr/local/lib when not using gcc.
658 - Disallow network masks with non-network bits set.
660 - Attempt to detect "egcs" versions of gcc.
662 - Add missing closing double quotes when displaying bootp strings.
663 Reported by Viet-Trung Luu (vluu@picard.math.uwaterloo.ca)
665 v3.3 Sat Nov 30 20:56:27 PST 1996
667 - Added Linux support.
669 - GRE encapsulated packet printer thanks to John Hawkinson
672 - Rewrite gmt2local() to avoid problematic os dependencies.
674 - Suppress nfs truncation message on errors.
676 - Add missing m4 quoting in AC_LBL_UNALIGNED_ACCESS autoconf macro.
677 Reported by Joachim Ott (ott@ardala.han.de)
679 - Enable "ip_hl vs. ip_vhl" workaround for OSF4 too.
681 - Print arp hardware type in host order. Thanks to Onno van der Linden
684 - Avoid solaris compiler warnings. Thanks to Bruce Barnett
685 (barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com)
687 - Fix rip printer to not print one more route than is actually in the
688 packet. Thanks to Jean-Luc Richier (Jean-Luc.Richier@imag.fr) and
689 Bill Fenner (fenner@parc.xerox.com)
691 - Use autoconf endian detection since BYTE_ORDER isn't defined on all systems.
693 - Fix dvmrp printer truncation checks and add a dvmrp probe printer.
694 Thanks to Danny J. Mitzel (mitzel@ipsilon.com)
696 - Rewrite ospf printer to improve truncation checks.
698 - Don't parse tcp options past the EOL. As noted by David Sacerdote
699 (davids@secnet.com). Also, check tcp options to make sure they ar
700 actually in the tcp header (in addition to the normal truncation
701 checks). Fix the SACK code to print the N blocks (instead of the
702 first block N times).
704 - Don't say really small UDP packets are truncated just because they
705 aren't big enough to be a RPC. As noted by David Sacerdote.
707 v3.2.1 Sun Jul 14 03:02:26 PDT 1996
709 - Added rfc1716 icmp codes as suggested by Martin Fredriksson
712 - Print mtu for icmp unreach need frag packets. Thanks to John
713 Hawkinson (jhawk@mit.edu)
715 - Decode icmp router discovery messages. Thanks to Jeffrey Honig
718 - Added a printer entry for DLT_IEEE802 as suggested by Tak Kushida
719 (kushida@trl.ibm.co.jp)
721 - Check igmp checksum if possible. Thanks to John Hawkinson.
723 - Made changes for SINIX. Thanks to Andrej Borsenkow
724 (borsenkow.msk@sni.de)
726 - Use autoconf's idea of the top level directory in install targets.
727 Thanks to John Hawkinson.
729 - Avoid infinite loop in tcp options printing code. Thanks to Jeffrey
730 Mogul (mogul@pa.dec.com)
732 - Avoid using -lsocket in IRIX 5.2 and earlier since it breaks snoop.
733 Thanks to John Hawkinson.
735 - Added some more packet truncation checks.
737 - On systems that have it, use sigset() instead of signal() since
738 signal() has different semantics on these systems.
740 - Fixed some more alignment problems on the alpha.
742 - Add code to massage unprintable characters in the domain and ipx
743 printers. Thanks to John Hawkinson.
745 - Added explicit netmask support. Thanks to Steve Nuchia
746 (steve@research.oknet.com)
748 - Add "sca" keyword (for DEC cluster services) as suggested by Terry
749 Kennedy (terry@spcvxa.spc.edu)
751 - Add "atalk" keyword as suggested by John Hawkinson.
753 - Added an igrp printer. Thanks to Francis Dupont
754 (francis.dupont@inria.fr)
756 - Print IPX net numbers in hex a la Novell Netware. Thanks to Terry
757 Kennedy (terry@spcvxa.spc.edu)
759 - Fixed snmp extended tag field parsing bug. Thanks to Pascal Hennequin
760 (pascal.hennequin@hugo.int-evry.fr)
762 - Added some ETHERTYPEs missing on some systems.
764 - Added truncated packet macros and various checks.
766 - Fixed endian problems with the DECnet printer.
768 - Use $CC when checking gcc version. Thanks to Carl Lindberg
769 (carl_lindberg@blacksmith.com)
771 - Fixes for AIX (although this system is not yet supported). Thanks to
774 - Fix bugs in the autoconf misaligned accesses code fragment.
776 - Include sys/param.h to get BYTE_ORDER in a few places. Thanks to
777 Pavlin Ivanov Radoslavov (pavlin@cs.titech.ac.jp)
779 v3.2 Sun Jun 23 02:28:10 PDT 1996
781 - Print new icmp unreachable codes as suggested by Martin Fredriksson
782 (martin@msp.se). Also print code value when unknown for icmp redirect
785 - Fix an alignment endian bug in getname(). Thanks to John Hawkinson.
787 - Define "new" domain record types if not found in arpa/nameserv.h.
788 Resulted from a suggestion from John Hawkinson (jhawk@mit.edu). Also
789 fixed an endian bug when printing mx record and added some new record
792 - Added RIP V2 support. Thanks to Jeffrey Honig (jch@bsdi.com)
794 - Added T/TCP options printing. As suggested by Richard Stevens
797 - Use autoconf to detect architectures that can't handle misaligned
800 v3.1 Thu Jun 13 20:59:32 PDT 1996
802 - Changed u_int32/int32 to u_int32_t/int32_t to be consistent with bsd
803 and bind (as suggested by Charles Hannum).
805 - Port to GNU autoconf.
807 - Add support for printing DVMRP and PIM traffic thanks to
808 Havard Eidnes (Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no).
810 - Fix AppleTalk, IPX and DECnet byte order problems due to wrong endian
811 define being referenced. Reported by Terry Kennedy.
813 - Minor fixes to the man page thanks to Mark Andrews.
815 - Endian fixes to RTP and vat packet dumpers, thanks to Bruce Mah
816 (bmah@cs.berkeley.edu).
818 - Added support for new dns types, thanks to Rainer Orth.
820 - Fixed tftp_print() to print the block number for ACKs.
822 - Document -dd and -ddd. Resulted from a bug report from Charlie Slater
823 (cslater@imatek.com).
825 - Check return status from malloc/calloc/etc.
827 - Check return status from pcap_loop() so we can print an error and
828 exit with a bad status if there were problems.
830 - Bail if ip option length is <= 0. Resulted from a bug report from
831 Darren Reed (darrenr@vitruvius.arbld.unimelb.edu.au).
833 - Print out a little more information for sun rpc packets.
835 - Add suport for Kerberos 4 thanks to John Hawkinson (jhawk@mit.edu).
837 - Fixed the Fix EXTRACT_SHORT() and EXTRACT_LONG() macros (which were
838 wrong on little endian machines).
840 - Fixed alignment bug in ipx_decode(). Thanks to Matt Crawford
843 - Fix ntp_print() to not print garbage when the stratum is
844 "unspecified." Thanks to Deus Ex Machina (root@belle.bork.com).
846 - Rewrote tcp options printer code to check for truncation. Added
847 selective acknowledgment case.
849 - Fixed an endian bug in the ospf printer. Thanks to Jeffrey C Honig
852 - Fix rip printer to handle 4.4 BSD sockaddr struct which only uses one
853 octet for the sa_family member. Thanks to Yoshitaka Tokugawa
856 - Don't checksum ip header if we don't have all of it. Thanks to John
857 Hawkinson (jhawk@mit.edu).
859 - Print out hostnames if possible in egp printer. Thanks to Jeffrey
863 v3.1a1 Wed May 3 19:21:11 PDT 1995
865 - Include time.h when SVR4 is defined to avoid problems under Solaris
868 - Fix etheraddr_string() in the ETHER_SERVICE to return the saved
869 strings, not the local buffer. Thanks to Stefan Petri
870 (petri@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de).
872 - Detect when pcap raises the snaplen (e.g. with snit). Print a warning
873 that the selected value was not used. Thanks to Pascal Hennequin
874 (Pascal.Hennequin@hugo.int-evry.fr).
876 - Add a truncated packet test to print-nfs.c. Thanks to Pascal Hennequin.
878 - BYTEORDER -> BYTE_ORDER Thanks to Terry Kennedy (terry@spcvxa.spc.edu).
880 v3.0.3 Sun Oct 1 18:35:00 GMT 1995
882 - Although there never was a 3.0.3 release, the linux boys cleverly
883 "released" one in late 1995.
885 v3.0.2 Thu Apr 20 21:28:16 PDT 1995
887 - Change configuration to not use gcc v2 flags with gcc v1.
889 - Redo gmt2local() so that it works under BSDI (which seems to return
890 an empty timezone struct from gettimeofday()). Based on report from
891 Terry Kennedy (terry@spcvxa.spc.edu).
893 - Change configure to recognize IP[0-9]* as "mips" SGI hardware. Based
894 on report from Mark Andrews (mandrews@alias.com).
896 - Don't pass cc flags to gcc. Resulted from a bug report from Rainer
897 Orth (ro@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de).
899 - Fixed printout of connection id for uncompressed tcp slip packets.
900 Resulted from a bug report from Richard Stevens (rstevens@noao.edu).
902 - Hack around deficiency in Ultrix's make.
904 - Add ETHERTYPE_TRAIL define which is missing from irix5.
906 v3.0.1 Wed Aug 31 22:42:26 PDT 1994
908 - Fix problems with gcc2 vs. malloc() and read() prototypes under SunOS 4.
910 v3.0 Mon Jun 20 19:23:27 PDT 1994
912 - Added support for printing tcp option timestamps thanks to
913 Mark Andrews (mandrews@alias.com).
915 - Reorganize protocol dumpers to take const pointers to packets so they
916 never change the contents (i.e., they used to do endian conversions
917 in place). Previously, whenever more than one pass was taken over
918 the packet, the packet contents would be dumped incorrectly (i.e.,
919 the output form -x would be wrong on little endian machines because
920 the protocol dumpers would modify the data). Thanks to Charles Hannum
921 (mycroft@gnu.ai.mit.edu) for reporting this problem.
923 - Added support for decnet protocol dumping thanks to Jeff Mogul
926 - Fix bug that caused length of packet to be incorrectly printed
927 (off by ether header size) for unknown ethernet types thanks
928 to Greg Miller (gmiller@kayak.mitre.org).
930 - Added support for IPX protocol dumping thanks to Brad Parker
933 - Added check to verify IP header checksum under -v thanks to
934 Brad Parker (brad@fcr.com).
936 - Move packet capture code to new libpcap library (which is
937 packaged separately).
939 - Prototype everything and assume an ansi compiler.
941 - print-arp.c: Print hardware ethernet addresses if they're not
944 - print-bootp.c: Decode the cmu vendor field. Add RFC1497 tags.
945 Many helpful suggestions from Gordon Ross (gwr@jericho.mc.com).
947 - print-fddi.c: Improvements. Thanks to Jeffrey Mogul
950 - print-icmp.c: Byte swap netmask before printing. Thanks to
951 Richard Stevens (rstevens@noao.edu). Print icmp type when unknown.
953 - print-ip.c: Print the inner ip datagram of ip-in-ip encapsulated packets.
954 By default, only the inner packet is dumped, appended with the token
955 "(encap)". Under -v, both the inner and output packets are dumped
956 (on the same line). Note that the filter applies to the original packet,
957 not the encapsulated packet. So if you run tcpdump on a net with an
958 IP Multicast tunnel, you cannot filter out the datagrams using the
959 conventional syntax. (You can filter away all the ip-in-ip traffic
960 with "not ip proto 4".)
962 - print-nfs.c: Keep pending rpc's in circular table. Add generic
963 nfs header and remove os dependences. Thanks to Jeffrey Mogul.
965 - print-ospf.c: Improvements. Thanks to Jeffrey Mogul.
967 - tcpdump.c: Add -T flag allows interpretation of "vat", "wb", "rpc"
968 (sunrpc) and rtp packets. Added "inbound" and "outbound" keywords
969 Add && and || operators
971 v2.2.1 Tue Jun 6 17:57:22 PDT 1992
973 - Fix bug with -c flag.
975 v2.2 Fri May 22 17:19:41 PDT 1992
977 - savefile.c: Remove hack that shouldn't have been exported. Add
980 - Added the 'icmp' keyword. For example, 'icmp[0] != 8 and icmp[0] != 0'
981 matches non-echo/reply ICMP packets.
983 - Many improvements to filter code optimizer.
985 - Added 'multicast' keyword and extended the 'broadcast' keyword can now be
986 so that protocol qualifications are allowed. For example, "ip broadcast"
987 and "ether multicast" are valid filters.
989 - Added support for monitoring the loopback interface (i.e. 'tcpdump -i lo').
990 Jeffrey Honig (jch@MITCHELL.CIT.CORNELL.EDU) contributed the kernel
991 patches to netinet/if_loop.c.
993 - Added support for the Ungermann-Bass Ethernet on IBM/PC-RTs running AOS.
994 Contact Jeffrey Honig (jch@MITCHELL.CIT.CORNELL.EDU) for the diffs.
996 - Added EGP and OSPF printers, thanks to Jeffrey Honig.
998 v2.1 Tue Jan 28 11:00:14 PST 1992
1000 - Internal release (never publically exported).
1002 v2.0.1 Sun Jan 26 21:10:10 PDT
1004 - Various byte ordering fixes.
1006 - Add truncation checks.
1008 - inet.c: Support BSD style SIOCGIFCONF.
1010 - nametoaddr.c: Handle multi addresses for single host.
1012 - optimize.c: Rewritten.
1014 - pcap-bpf.c: don't choke when we get ptraced. only set promiscuous
1017 - print-atal.c: Fix an alignment bug (thanks to
1018 stanonik@nprdc.navy.mil) Add missing printf() argument.
1020 - print-bootp.c: First attempt at decoding the vendor buffer.
1022 - print-domain.c: Fix truncation checks.
1024 - print-icmp.c: Calculate length of packets from the ip header.
1026 - print-ip.c: Print frag id in decimal (so it's easier to match up
1027 with non-frags). Add support for ospf, egp and igmp.
1029 - print-nfs.c: Lots of changes.
1031 - print-ntp.c: Make some verbose output depend on -v.
1033 - print-snmp.c: New version from John LoVerso.
1035 - print-tcp.c: Print rfc1072 tcp options.
1037 - tcpdump.c: Print "0x" prefix for %x formats. Always print 6 digits
1038 (microseconds) worth of precision. Fix uid bugs.
1040 - A packet dumper has been added (thanks to Jeff Mogul of DECWRL).
1041 With this option, you can create an architecture independent binary
1042 trace file in real time, without the overhead of the packet printer.
1043 At a later time, the packets can be filtered (again) and printed.
1045 - BSD is supported. You must have BPF in your kernel.
1046 Since the filtering is now done in the kernel, fewer packets are
1047 dropped. In fact, with BPF and the packet dumper option, a measly
1048 Sun 3/50 can keep up with a busy network.
1050 - Compressed SLIP packets can now be dumped, provided you use our
1051 SLIP software and BPF. These packets are dumped as any other IP
1052 packet; the compressed headers are dumped with the '-e' option.
1054 - Machines with little-endian byte ordering are supported (thanks to
1057 - Ultrix 4.0 is supported (also thanks to Jeff Mogul).
1059 - IBM RT and Stanford Enetfilter support has been added by
1060 Rayan Zachariassen <rayan@canet.ca>. Tcpdump has been tested under
1061 both the vanilla Enetfilter interface, and the extended interface
1062 (#ifdef'd by IBMRTPC) present in the MERIT version of the Enetfilter.
1064 - TFTP packets are now printed (requests only).
1066 - BOOTP packets are now printed.
1068 - SNMP packets are now printed. (thanks to John LoVerso of Xylogics).
1070 - Sparc architectures, including the Sparcstation-1, are now
1071 supported thanks to Steve McCanne and Craig Leres.
1073 - SunOS 4 is now supported thanks to Micky Liu of Columbia
1074 University (micky@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu).
1076 - IP options are now printed.
1078 - RIP packets are now printed.
1080 - There's a -v flag that prints out more information than the
1081 default (e.g., it will enable printing of IP ttl, tos and id)
1082 and -q flag that prints out less (e.g., it will disable
1083 interpretation of AppleTalk-in-UDP).
1085 - The grammar has undergone substantial changes (if you have an
1086 earlier version of tcpdump, you should re-read the manual
1089 The most useful change is the addition of an expression
1090 syntax that lets you filter on arbitrary fields or values in the
1091 packet. E.g., "ip[0] > 0x45" would print only packets with IP
1092 options, "tcp[13] & 3 != 0" would print only TCP SYN and FIN
1095 The most painful change is that concatenation no longer means
1096 "and" -- e.g., you have to say "host foo and port bar" instead
1097 of "host foo port bar". The up side to this down is that
1098 repeated qualifiers can be omitted, making most filter
1099 expressions shorter. E.g., you can now say "ip host foo and
1100 (bar or baz)" to look at ip traffic between hosts foo and bar or
1101 between hosts foo and baz. [The old way of saying this was "ip
1102 host foo and (ip host bar or ip host baz)".]
1104 v2.0 Sun Jan 13 12:20:40 PST 1991
1106 - Initial public release.
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