1 Tue. July 20, 2010. guy@alum.mit.edu.
2 Summary for 4.1.2 tcpdump release
3 If -U is specified, flush the file after creating it, so it's
5 Fix TCP flags output description, and some typoes, in the man
7 Add a -h flag, and only attempt to recognize 802.11s mesh
9 When printing the link-layer type list, send *all* output to
11 Include the CFLAGS setting when configure was run in the
14 Thu. April 1, 2010. guy@alum.mit.edu.
15 Summary for 4.1.1 tcpdump release
16 Fix build on systems with PF, such as FreeBSD and OpenBSD.
17 Don't blow up if a zero-length link-layer address is passed to
20 Thu. March 11, 2010. ken@netfunctional.ca/guy@alum.mit.edu.
21 Summary for 4.1.0 tcpdump release
22 Fix printing of MAC addresses for VLAN frames with a length
24 Add some additional bounds checks and use the EXTRACT_ macros
26 Add a -b flag to print the AS number in BGP packets in ASDOT
27 notation rather than ASPLAIN notation
28 Add ICMPv6 RFC 5006 support
29 Decode the access flags in NFS access requests
30 Handle the new DLT_ for memory-mapped USB captures on Linux
31 Make the default snapshot (-s) the maximum
32 Print name of device (when -L is used)
33 Support for OpenSolaris (and SXCE build 125 and later)
35 Add support for RPL DIO
36 Add support for TCP User Timeout (UTO)
37 Add support for non-standard Ethertypes used by 3com PPPoE gear
38 Add support for 802.11n and 802.11s
39 Add support for Transparent Ethernet Bridge ethertype in GRE
40 Add 4 byte AS support for BGP printer
41 Add support for the MDT SAFI 66 BG printer
42 Add basic IPv6 support to print-olsr
44 Add printer for ForCES
45 Handle frames with an FCS
46 Handle 802.11n Control Wrapper, Block Acq Req and Block Ack frames
47 Fix TCP sequence number printing
48 Report 802.2 packets as 802.2 instead of 802.3
49 Don't include -L/usr/lib in LDFLAGS
50 On x86_64 Linux, look in lib64 directory too
51 Lots of code clean ups
53 Update testcases to make output changes
54 Fix compiling with/out smi (--with{,out}-smi)
55 Fix compiling without IPv6 support (--disable-ipv6)
57 Mon. October 27, 2008. ken@netfunctional.ca. Summary for 4.0.0 tcpdump release
58 Add support for Bluetooth Sniffing
59 Add support for Realtek Remote Control Protocol (openrrcp.org.ru)
60 Add support for 802.11 AVS
61 Add support for SMB over TCP
62 Add support for 4 byte BGP AS printing
63 Add support for compiling on case-insensitive file systems
64 Add support for ikev2 printing
65 Update support for decoding AFS
67 Use newer libpcap API's (allows -B option on all platforms)
68 Add -I to turn on monitor mode
69 Bugfixes in lldp, lspping, dccp, ESP, NFS printers
70 Cleanup unused files and various cruft
72 Mon. September 10, 2007. ken@xelerance.com. Summary for 3.9.8 tcpdump release
75 Add support for Frame-Relay ARP
76 Decode DHCP Option 121 (RFC 3442 Classless Static Route)
77 Decode DHCP Option 249 (MS Classless Static Route) the same as Option 121
78 TLV: Add support for Juniper .pcap extensions
79 Print EGP header in new-world-order style
80 Converted print-isakmp.c to NETDISSECT
81 Moved AF specific stuff into af.h
82 Test subsystem now table driven, and saves outputs and diffs to one place
83 Require <net/pfvar.h> for pf definitions - allows reading of pflog formatted
84 libpcap files on an OS other than where the file was generated
87 Wed. July 23, 2007. mcr@xelerance.com. Summary for 3.9.7 libpcap release
89 NFS: Print unsigned values as such.
91 BGP: fixes for IPv6-less builds.
92 801.1ag: use standard codepoint.
93 use /dev/bpf on systems with such a device.
94 802.11: print QoS data, avoid dissect of no-data frame, ignore padding.
95 smb: make sure that we haven't gone past the end of the captured data.
96 smb: squelch an uninitialized complaint from coverity.
97 NFS: from NetBSD; don't interpret the reply as a possible NFS reply
99 BGP: don't print TLV values that didn't fit, from www.digit-labs.org.
100 revised INSTALL.txt about libpcap dependancy.
102 Wed. April 25, 2007. ken@xelerance.com. Summary for 3.9.6 tcpdump release
103 Update man page to reflect changes to libpcap
104 Changes to both TCP and IP Printer Output
105 Fix a potential buffer overflow in the 802.11 printer
106 Print basic info about a few more Cisco LAN protocols.
108 ICMP MPLS rework of the extension code
109 bugfix: use the correct codepoint for the OSPF simple text auth token
110 entry, and use safeputs to print the password.
111 Add support in pflog for additional values
112 Add support for OIF RSVP Extensions UNI 1.0 Rev. 2 and additional RSVP objects
113 Add support for the Message-id NACK c-type.
114 Add support for 802.3ah loopback ctrl msg
115 Add support for Multiple-STP as per 802.1s
116 Add support for rapid-SPT as per 802.1w
117 Add support for CFM Link-trace msg, Link-trace-Reply msg,
118 Sender-ID tlv, private tlv, port, interface status
119 Add support for unidirectional link detection as per
120 http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-foschiano-udld-02.txt
121 Add support for the olsr protocol as per RFC 3626 plus the LQ
122 extensions from olsr.org
123 Add support for variable-length checksum in DCCP, as per section 9 of
125 Add support for per-VLAN spanning tree and per-VLAN rapid spanning tree
126 Add support for Multiple-STP as per 802.1s
127 Add support for the cisco propriatry 'dynamic trunking protocol'
128 Add support for the cisco proprietary VTP protocol
129 Update dhcp6 options table as per IETF standardization activities
132 Tue. September 19, 2006. ken@xelerance.com. Summary for 3.9.5 tcpdump release
134 Fix compiling on AIX (, at end of ENUM)
135 Updated list of DNS RR typecodes
136 Use local Ethernet defs on WIN32
137 Add support for Frame-Relay ARP
138 Fixes for compiling under MSVC++
139 Add support for parsing Juniper .pcap files
140 Add support for FRF.16 Multilink Frame-Relay (DLT_MFR)
141 Rework the OSPFv3 printer
142 Fix printing for 4.4BSD/NetBSD NFS Filehandles
143 Add support for Cisco style NLPID encapsulation
144 Add cisco prop. eigrp related, extended communities
145 Add support for BGP signaled VPLS
146 Cleanup the bootp printer
147 Add support for PPP over Frame-Relay
148 Add some bounds checking to the IP options code, and clean up
149 the options output a bit.
150 Add additional modp groups to ISAKMP printer
151 Add support for Address-Withdraw and Label-Withdraw Msgs
152 Add support for the BFD Discriminator TLV
153 Fixes for 64bit compiling
154 Add support for PIMv2 checksum verification
155 Add support for further dissection of the IPCP Compression Option
156 Add support for Cisco's proposed VQP protocol
157 Add basic support for keyed authentication TCP option
158 Lots of minor cosmetic changes to output printers
161 Mon. September 19, 2005. ken@xelerance.com. Summary for 3.9.4 tcpdump release
162 Decoder support for more Juniper link-layer types
163 Fix a potential buffer overflow (although it can't occur in
165 Fix the handling of unknown management frame types in the 802.11
167 Add FRF.16 support, fix various Frame Relay bugs.
168 Add support for RSVP integrity objects, update fast-reroute
169 object printer to latest spec.
170 Clean up documentation of vlan filter expression, document mpls
172 Document new pppoed and pppoes filter expressions.
173 Update diffserver-TE codepoints as per RFC 4124.
174 Spelling fixes in ICMPv6.
175 Don't require any fields other than flags to be present in IS-IS
176 restart signaling TLVs, and only print the system ID in
177 those TLVs as system IDs, not as node IDs.
180 Tue. July 5, 2005. ken@xelerance.com. Summary for 3.9.3 tcpdump release
182 Option to chroot() when dropping privs
183 Fixes for compiling on nearly every platform,
184 including improved 64bit support
186 Support for sending packets
187 Many compliation fixes on most platforms
188 Fixes for recent version of GCC to eliminate warnings
189 Improved Unicode support
191 Decoders & DLT Changes, Updates and New:
193 Juniper ATM, FRF.15, FRF.16, PPPoE,
194 ML-FR, ML-PIC, ML-PPP, PL-PPP, LS-PIC
195 GGSN,ES,MONITOR,SERVICES
197 Axent Raptor/Symantec Firewall
199 ESP-in-UDP (RFC 3948)
201 LMP, LMP Service Discovery
207 LACP, MARKER as per 802.3ad
210 G.7041/Y.1303 Generic Framing Procedure
217 Tue. March 30, 2004. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 3.8.3 release
219 No changes from 3.8.2. Version bumped only to maintain consistency
222 Mon. March 29, 2004. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 3.8.2 release
224 Fixes for print-isakmp.c CVE: CAN-2004-0183, CAN-2004-0184
225 http://www.rapid7.com/advisories/R7-0017.html
226 IP-over-IEEE1394 printing.
227 some MINGW32 changes.
228 updates for autoconf 2.5
229 fixes for print-aodv.c - check for too short packets
230 formatting changes to print-ascii for hex output.
231 check for too short packets: print-bgp.c, print-bootp.c, print-cdp.c,
232 print-chdlc.c, print-domain.c, print-icmp.c, print-icmp6.c,
233 print-ip.c, print-lwres.c, print-ospf.c, print-pim.c,
234 print-ppp.c,print-pppoe.c, print-rsvp.c, print-wb.c
235 print-ether.c - better handling of unknown types.
236 print-isoclns.c - additional decoding of types.
237 print-llc.c - strings for LLC names added.
238 print-pfloc.c - various enhancements
239 print-radius.c - better decoding to strings.
241 Wed. November 12, 2003. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 3.8 release
243 changed syntax of -E argument so that multiple SAs can be decrypted
244 fixes for Digital Unix headers and Documentation
246 CDP changes from Terry Kennedy <terry@tmk.com>.
247 IPv6 mobility updates from Kazushi Sugyo <sugyo@pb.jp.nec.com>
248 Fixes for ASN.1 decoder for 2.100.3 forms.
249 Added a count of packets received and processed to clarify numbers.
250 Incorporated WinDUMP patches for Win32 builds.
251 PPPoE payload length headers.
252 Fixes for HP C compiler builds.
253 Use new pcap_breakloop() and pcap_findalldevs() if we can.
254 BGP output split into multiple lines.
255 Fixes to 802.11 decoding.
256 Fixes to PIM decoder.
257 SuperH is a CPU that can't handle unaligned access. Many fixes for
258 unaligned access work.
259 Fixes to Frame-Relay decoder for Q.933/922 frames.
260 Clarified when Solaris can do captures as non-root.
261 Added tests/ subdir for examples/regression tests.
262 New -U flag. -flush stdout after every packet
263 New -A flag -print ascii only
264 support for decoding IS-IS inside Cisco HDLC Frames
265 more verbosity for tftp decoder
268 cross compilation patches
269 RFC 3561 AODV support.
270 UDP/TCP pseudo-checksum properly for source-route options.
271 sanitized all files to modified BSD license
272 Add support for RFC 2625 IP-over-Fibre Channel.
273 fixes for DECnet support.
274 Support RFC 2684 bridging of Ethernet, 802.5 Token Ring, and FDDI.
275 RFC 2684 encapsulation of BPDUs.
277 Tuesday, February 25, 2003. fenner@research.att.com. 3.7.2 release
279 Fixed infinite loop when parsing malformed isakmp packets.
280 (reported by iDefense; already fixed in CVS)
281 Fixed infinite loop when parsing malformed BGP packets.
282 Fixed buffer overflow with certain malformed NFS packets.
283 Pretty-print unprintable network names in 802.11 printer.
284 Handle truncated nbp (appletalk) packets.
285 Updated DHCPv6 printer to match draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-22.txt
286 Print IP protocol name even if we don't have a printer for it.
287 Print IP protocol name or number for fragments.
288 Print the whole MPLS label stack, not just the top label.
289 Print request header and file handle for NFS v3 FSINFO and PATHCONF
291 Fix NFS packet truncation checks.
292 Handle "old" DR-Priority and Bidir-Capable PIM HELLO options.
293 Handle unknown RADIUS attributes properly.
294 Fix an ASN.1 parsing error that would cause e.g. the OID
295 2.100.3 to be misrepresented as 4.20.3 .
297 Monday, January 21, 2002. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 3.7 release
298 see http://www.tcpdump.org/cvs-log/2002-01-21.10:16:48.html for commit log.
300 Better OSI/802.2 support on Linux.
301 IEEE 802.11 support, from clenahan@fortresstech.com, achirica@ttd.net.
302 LLC SAP support for FDDI/token ring/RFC-1483 style ATM
303 BXXP protocol was replaced by the BEEP protocol;
304 improvements to SNAP demux.
305 Changes to "any" interface documentation.
306 Documentation on pcap_stats() counters.
307 Fix a memory leak found by Miklos Szeredi - pcap_ether_aton().
308 Added MPLS encapsulation decoding per RFC3032.
309 DNS dissector handles TKEY, TSIG and IXFR.
310 adaptive SLIP interface patch from Igor Khristophorov <igor@atdot.org>
311 SMB printing has much improved bounds checks
312 OUI 0x0000f8 decoded as encapsulated ethernet for Cisco-custom bridging
313 Zephyr support, from Nickolai Zeldovich <kolya@MIT.EDU>.
314 Solaris - devices with digits in them. Stefan Hudson <hudson@mbay.net>
315 IPX socket 0x85be is for Cisco EIGRP over IPX.
316 Improvements to fragmented ESP handling.
317 SCTP support from Armando L. Caro Jr. <acaro@mail.eecis.udel.edu>
318 Linux ARPHDR_ATM support fixed.
319 Added a "netbeui" keyword, which selects NetBEUI packets.
320 IPv6 ND improvements, MobileIP dissector, 2292bis-02 for RA option.
321 Handle ARPHDR_HDLC from Marcus Felipe Pereira <marcus@task.com.br>.
322 Handle IPX socket 0x553 -> NetBIOS-over-IPX socket, "nwlink-dgm"
323 Better Linux libc5 compat.
324 BIND9 lwres dissector added.
325 MIPS and SPARC get strict alignment macros (affects print-bgp.c)
326 Apple LocalTalk LINKTYPE_ reserved.
327 New time stamp formats documented.
328 DHCP6 updated to draft-22.txt spec.
329 ICMP types/codes now accept symbolic names.
330 Add SIGINFO handler from LBL
331 encrypted CIPE tunnels in IRIX, from Franz Schaefer <schaefer@mond.at>.
332 now we are -Wstrict-prototype clean.
333 NetBSD DLT_PPP_ETHER; adapted from Martin Husemann <martin@netbsd.org>.
334 PPPoE dissector cleaned up.
335 Support for LocalTalk hardware, from Uns Lider <unslider@miranda.org>.
336 In dissector, now the caller prints the IP addresses rather than proto.
337 cjclark@alum.mit.edu: print the IP proto for non-initial fragments.
338 LLC frames with a DSAP and LSAP of 0xe0 are IPX frames.
339 Linux cooked frames with a type value of LINUX_SLL_P_802_3 are IPX.
340 captures on the "any" device won't be done in promiscuous mode
341 Token Ring support on DLPI - Onno van der Linden <onno@simplex.nl>
342 ARCNet support, from NetBSD.
343 HSRP dissector, from Julian Cowley <julian@lava.net>.
344 Handle (GRE-encapsulated) PPTP
345 added -C option to rotate save file every optarg * 1,000,000 bytes.
346 support for "vrrp" name - NetBSD, by Klaus Klein <kleink@netbsd.org>.
347 PPTP support, from Motonori Shindo <mshindo@mshindo.net>.
348 IS-IS over PPP support, from Hannes Gredler <hannes@juniper.net>.
349 CNFP support for IPv6,format. Harry Raaymakers <harryr@connect.com.au>.
350 ESP printing updated to RFC2406.
351 HP-UX can now handle large number of PPAs.
353 L2TP dissector improvements from Motonori Shindo.
355 Tuesday January 9, 2001. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 3.6 release
356 Cleaned up documentation.
357 Promisc mode fixes for Linux
358 IPsec changes/cleanups.
359 Alignment fixes for picky architectures
361 Removed dependency on native headers for packet dissectors.
362 Removed Linux specific headers that were shipped
364 libpcap changes provide for exchanging capture files between
365 systems. Save files now have well known PACKET_ values instead of
366 depending upon system dependant mappings of DLT_* types.
368 Support for computing/checking IP and UDP/TCP checksums.
370 Updated autoconf stock files.
372 IPv6 improvements: dhcp (draft-15), mobile-ip6, ppp, ospf6,
374 Added dissector support for: ISOCLNS, Token Ring, IGMPv3, bxxp,
375 timed, vrrp, radius, chdlc, cnfp, cdp, IEEE802.1d, raw-AppleTalk
377 Added filtering support for: VLANs, ESIS, ISIS
379 Improvements to: print-telnet, IPTalk, bootp/dhcp, ECN, PPP,
382 HP-UX 11.0 -- find the right dlpi device.
383 Solaris 8 - IPv6 works
384 Linux - Added support for an "any" device to capture on all interfaces
386 Security fixes: buffer overrun audit done. Strcpy replaced with
387 strlcpy, sprintf replaced with snprintf.
388 Look for lex problems, and warn about them.
391 v3.5 Fri Jan 28 18:00:00 PST 2000
393 Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com>
394 - switch to config.h for autoconf
395 - unify RCSID strings
396 - Updated PIMv1, PIMv2, DVMRP, IGMP parsers, add Cisco Auto-RP parser
397 - Really fix the RIP printer
398 - Fix MAC address -> name translation.
399 - some -Wall -Wformat fixes
400 - update makemib to parse much of SMIv2
401 - Print TCP sequence # with -vv even if you normally wouldn't
402 - Print as much of IP/TCP/UDP headers as possible even if truncated.
405 - -X will make a ascii dump. from netbsd.
406 - telnet command sequence decoder (ff xx xx). from netbsd.
407 - print-bgp.c: improve options printing. ugly code exists for
408 unaligned option parsing (need some fix).
409 - const poisoning in SMB decoder.
410 - -Wall -Werror clean checks.
411 - bring in KAME IPv6/IPsec decoding code.
413 Assar Westerlund <assar@sics.se>
414 - SNMPv2 and SNMPv3 printer
415 - If compiled with libsmi, tcpdump can load MIBs on the fly to decode
417 - Incorporate NFS parsing code from NetBSD. Adds support for nfsv3.
419 - permit building in different directories.
421 Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
423 /afs/transarc.com/public/afs-contrib/tools/tcpdump for parsing
426 Andrew Tridgell <tridge@linuxcare.com>
429 Love <lha@stacken.kth.se>
430 - print-rx.c: add code for printing MakeDir and StoreStatus. Also
431 change date format to the right one.
433 Michael C. Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>
434 - Created tcpdump.org repository
436 v3.4 Sat Jul 25 12:40:55 PDT 1998
438 - Hardwire Linux slip support since it's too hard to detect.
440 - Redo configuration of "network" libraries (-lsocket and -lnsl) to
441 deal with IRIX. Thanks to John Hawkinson (jhawk@mit.edu)
443 - Added -a which tries to translate network and broadcast addresses to
444 names. Suggested by Rob van Nieuwkerk (robn@verdi.et.tudelft.nl)
446 - Added a configure option to disable gcc.
448 - Added a "raw" packet printer.
450 - Not having an interface address is no longer fatal. Requested by John
453 - Rework signal setup to accommodate Linux.
455 - OSPF truncation check fix. Also display the type of OSPF packets
456 using MD5 authentication. Thanks to Brian Wellington
459 - Fix truncation check bugs in the Kerberos printer. Reported by Ezra
460 Peisach (epeisach@mit.edu)
462 - Don't catch SIGHUP when invoked with nohup(1). Thanks to Dave Plonka
465 - Specify full install target as a way of detecting if install
466 directory does not exist. Thanks to Dave Plonka.
468 - Bit-swap FDDI addresses for BSD/OS too. Thanks to Paul Vixie
471 - Fix off-by-one bug when testing size of ethernet packets. Thanks to
472 Marty Leisner (leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com)
474 - Add a local autoconf macro to check for routines in libraries; the
475 autoconf version is broken (it only puts the library name in the
476 cache variable name). Thanks to John Hawkinson.
478 - Add a local autoconf macro to check for types; the autoconf version
479 is broken (it uses grep instead of actually compiling a code fragment).
481 - Modified to support the new BSD/OS 2.1 PPP and SLIP link layer header
484 - Extend OSF ip header workaround to versions 1 and 2.
486 - Fix some signed problems in the nfs printer. As reported by David
487 Sacerdote (davids@silence.secnet.com)
489 - Detect group wheel and use it as the default since BSD/OS' install
490 can't hack numeric groups. Reported by David Sacerdote.
492 - AIX needs special loader options. Thanks to Jonathan I. Kamens
495 - Fixed the nfs printer to print port numbers in decimal. Thanks to
496 Kent Vander Velden (graphix@iastate.edu)
498 - Find installed libpcap in /usr/local/lib when not using gcc.
500 - Disallow network masks with non-network bits set.
502 - Attempt to detect "egcs" versions of gcc.
504 - Add missing closing double quotes when displaying bootp strings.
505 Reported by Viet-Trung Luu (vluu@picard.math.uwaterloo.ca)
507 v3.3 Sat Nov 30 20:56:27 PST 1996
509 - Added Linux support.
511 - GRE encapsulated packet printer thanks to John Hawkinson
514 - Rewrite gmt2local() to avoid problematic os dependencies.
516 - Suppress nfs truncation message on errors.
518 - Add missing m4 quoting in AC_LBL_UNALIGNED_ACCESS autoconf macro.
519 Reported by Joachim Ott (ott@ardala.han.de)
521 - Enable "ip_hl vs. ip_vhl" workaround for OSF4 too.
523 - Print arp hardware type in host order. Thanks to Onno van der Linden
526 - Avoid solaris compiler warnings. Thanks to Bruce Barnett
527 (barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com)
529 - Fix rip printer to not print one more route than is actually in the
530 packet. Thanks to Jean-Luc Richier (Jean-Luc.Richier@imag.fr) and
531 Bill Fenner (fenner@parc.xerox.com)
533 - Use autoconf endian detection since BYTE_ORDER isn't defined on all systems.
535 - Fix dvmrp printer truncation checks and add a dvmrp probe printer.
536 Thanks to Danny J. Mitzel (mitzel@ipsilon.com)
538 - Rewrite ospf printer to improve truncation checks.
540 - Don't parse tcp options past the EOL. As noted by David Sacerdote
541 (davids@secnet.com). Also, check tcp options to make sure they ar
542 actually in the tcp header (in addition to the normal truncation
543 checks). Fix the SACK code to print the N blocks (instead of the
544 first block N times).
546 - Don't say really small UDP packets are truncated just because they
547 aren't big enough to be a RPC. As noted by David Sacerdote.
549 v3.2.1 Sun Jul 14 03:02:26 PDT 1996
551 - Added rfc1716 icmp codes as suggested by Martin Fredriksson
554 - Print mtu for icmp unreach need frag packets. Thanks to John
555 Hawkinson (jhawk@mit.edu)
557 - Decode icmp router discovery messages. Thanks to Jeffrey Honig
560 - Added a printer entry for DLT_IEEE802 as suggested by Tak Kushida
561 (kushida@trl.ibm.co.jp)
563 - Check igmp checksum if possible. Thanks to John Hawkinson.
565 - Made changes for SINIX. Thanks to Andrej Borsenkow
566 (borsenkow.msk@sni.de)
568 - Use autoconf's idea of the top level directory in install targets.
569 Thanks to John Hawkinson.
571 - Avoid infinite loop in tcp options printing code. Thanks to Jeffrey
572 Mogul (mogul@pa.dec.com)
574 - Avoid using -lsocket in IRIX 5.2 and earlier since it breaks snoop.
575 Thanks to John Hawkinson.
577 - Added some more packet truncation checks.
579 - On systems that have it, use sigset() instead of signal() since
580 signal() has different semantics on these systems.
582 - Fixed some more alignment problems on the alpha.
584 - Add code to massage unprintable characters in the domain and ipx
585 printers. Thanks to John Hawkinson.
587 - Added explicit netmask support. Thanks to Steve Nuchia
588 (steve@research.oknet.com)
590 - Add "sca" keyword (for DEC cluster services) as suggested by Terry
591 Kennedy (terry@spcvxa.spc.edu)
593 - Add "atalk" keyword as suggested by John Hawkinson.
595 - Added an igrp printer. Thanks to Francis Dupont
596 (francis.dupont@inria.fr)
598 - Print IPX net numbers in hex a la Novell Netware. Thanks to Terry
599 Kennedy (terry@spcvxa.spc.edu)
601 - Fixed snmp extended tag field parsing bug. Thanks to Pascal Hennequin
602 (pascal.hennequin@hugo.int-evry.fr)
604 - Added some ETHERTYPEs missing on some systems.
606 - Added truncated packet macros and various checks.
608 - Fixed endian problems with the DECnet printer.
610 - Use $CC when checking gcc version. Thanks to Carl Lindberg
611 (carl_lindberg@blacksmith.com)
613 - Fixes for AIX (although this system is not yet supported). Thanks to
616 - Fix bugs in the autoconf misaligned accesses code fragment.
618 - Include sys/param.h to get BYTE_ORDER in a few places. Thanks to
619 Pavlin Ivanov Radoslavov (pavlin@cs.titech.ac.jp)
621 v3.2 Sun Jun 23 02:28:10 PDT 1996
623 - Print new icmp unreachable codes as suggested by Martin Fredriksson
624 (martin@msp.se). Also print code value when unknown for icmp redirect
627 - Fix an alignment endian bug in getname(). Thanks to John Hawkinson.
629 - Define "new" domain record types if not found in arpa/nameserv.h.
630 Resulted from a suggestion from John Hawkinson (jhawk@mit.edu). Also
631 fixed an endian bug when printing mx record and added some new record
634 - Added RIP V2 support. Thanks to Jeffrey Honig (jch@bsdi.com)
636 - Added T/TCP options printing. As suggested by Richard Stevens
639 - Use autoconf to detect architectures that can't handle misaligned
642 v3.1 Thu Jun 13 20:59:32 PDT 1996
644 - Changed u_int32/int32 to u_int32_t/int32_t to be consistent with bsd
645 and bind (as suggested by Charles Hannum).
647 - Port to GNU autoconf.
649 - Add support for printing DVMRP and PIM traffic thanks to
650 Havard Eidnes (Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no).
652 - Fix AppleTalk, IPX and DECnet byte order problems due to wrong endian
653 define being referenced. Reported by Terry Kennedy.
655 - Minor fixes to the man page thanks to Mark Andrews.
657 - Endian fixes to RTP and vat packet dumpers, thanks to Bruce Mah
658 (bmah@cs.berkeley.edu).
660 - Added support for new dns types, thanks to Rainer Orth.
662 - Fixed tftp_print() to print the block number for ACKs.
664 - Document -dd and -ddd. Resulted from a bug report from Charlie Slater
665 (cslater@imatek.com).
667 - Check return status from malloc/calloc/etc.
669 - Check return status from pcap_loop() so we can print an error and
670 exit with a bad status if there were problems.
672 - Bail if ip option length is <= 0. Resulted from a bug report from
673 Darren Reed (darrenr@vitruvius.arbld.unimelb.edu.au).
675 - Print out a little more information for sun rpc packets.
677 - Add suport for Kerberos 4 thanks to John Hawkinson (jhawk@mit.edu).
679 - Fixed the Fix EXTRACT_SHORT() and EXTRACT_LONG() macros (which were
680 wrong on little endian machines).
682 - Fixed alignment bug in ipx_decode(). Thanks to Matt Crawford
685 - Fix ntp_print() to not print garbage when the stratum is
686 "unspecified." Thanks to Deus Ex Machina (root@belle.bork.com).
688 - Rewrote tcp options printer code to check for truncation. Added
689 selective acknowledgment case.
691 - Fixed an endian bug in the ospf printer. Thanks to Jeffrey C Honig
694 - Fix rip printer to handle 4.4 BSD sockaddr struct which only uses one
695 octet for the sa_family member. Thanks to Yoshitaka Tokugawa
698 - Don't checksum ip header if we don't have all of it. Thanks to John
699 Hawkinson (jhawk@mit.edu).
701 - Print out hostnames if possible in egp printer. Thanks to Jeffrey
705 v3.1a1 Wed May 3 19:21:11 PDT 1995
707 - Include time.h when SVR4 is defined to avoid problems under Solaris
710 - Fix etheraddr_string() in the ETHER_SERVICE to return the saved
711 strings, not the local buffer. Thanks to Stefan Petri
712 (petri@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de).
714 - Detect when pcap raises the snaplen (e.g. with snit). Print a warning
715 that the selected value was not used. Thanks to Pascal Hennequin
716 (Pascal.Hennequin@hugo.int-evry.fr).
718 - Add a truncated packet test to print-nfs.c. Thanks to Pascal Hennequin.
720 - BYTEORDER -> BYTE_ORDER Thanks to Terry Kennedy (terry@spcvxa.spc.edu).
722 v3.0.3 Sun Oct 1 18:35:00 GMT 1995
724 - Although there never was a 3.0.3 release, the linux boys cleverly
725 "released" one in late 1995.
727 v3.0.2 Thu Apr 20 21:28:16 PDT 1995
729 - Change configuration to not use gcc v2 flags with gcc v1.
731 - Redo gmt2local() so that it works under BSDI (which seems to return
732 an empty timezone struct from gettimeofday()). Based on report from
733 Terry Kennedy (terry@spcvxa.spc.edu).
735 - Change configure to recognize IP[0-9]* as "mips" SGI hardware. Based
736 on report from Mark Andrews (mandrews@alias.com).
738 - Don't pass cc flags to gcc. Resulted from a bug report from Rainer
739 Orth (ro@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de).
741 - Fixed printout of connection id for uncompressed tcp slip packets.
742 Resulted from a bug report from Richard Stevens (rstevens@noao.edu).
744 - Hack around deficiency in Ultrix's make.
746 - Add ETHERTYPE_TRAIL define which is missing from irix5.
748 v3.0.1 Wed Aug 31 22:42:26 PDT 1994
750 - Fix problems with gcc2 vs. malloc() and read() prototypes under SunOS 4.
752 v3.0 Mon Jun 20 19:23:27 PDT 1994
754 - Added support for printing tcp option timestamps thanks to
755 Mark Andrews (mandrews@alias.com).
757 - Reorganize protocol dumpers to take const pointers to packets so they
758 never change the contents (i.e., they used to do endian conversions
759 in place). Previously, whenever more than one pass was taken over
760 the packet, the packet contents would be dumped incorrectly (i.e.,
761 the output form -x would be wrong on little endian machines because
762 the protocol dumpers would modify the data). Thanks to Charles Hannum
763 (mycroft@gnu.ai.mit.edu) for reporting this problem.
765 - Added support for decnet protocol dumping thanks to Jeff Mogul
768 - Fix bug that caused length of packet to be incorrectly printed
769 (off by ether header size) for unknown ethernet types thanks
770 to Greg Miller (gmiller@kayak.mitre.org).
772 - Added support for IPX protocol dumping thanks to Brad Parker
775 - Added check to verify IP header checksum under -v thanks to
776 Brad Parker (brad@fcr.com).
778 - Move packet capture code to new libpcap library (which is
779 packaged separately).
781 - Prototype everything and assume an ansi compiler.
783 - print-arp.c: Print hardware ethernet addresses if they're not
786 - print-bootp.c: Decode the cmu vendor field. Add RFC1497 tags.
787 Many helpful suggestions from Gordon Ross (gwr@jericho.mc.com).
789 - print-fddi.c: Improvements. Thanks to Jeffrey Mogul
792 - print-icmp.c: Byte swap netmask before printing. Thanks to
793 Richard Stevens (rstevens@noao.edu). Print icmp type when unknown.
795 - print-ip.c: Print the inner ip datagram of ip-in-ip encapsulated packets.
796 By default, only the inner packet is dumped, appended with the token
797 "(encap)". Under -v, both the inner and output packets are dumped
798 (on the same line). Note that the filter applies to the original packet,
799 not the encapsulated packet. So if you run tcpdump on a net with an
800 IP Multicast tunnel, you cannot filter out the datagrams using the
801 conventional syntax. (You can filter away all the ip-in-ip traffic
802 with "not ip proto 4".)
804 - print-nfs.c: Keep pending rpc's in circular table. Add generic
805 nfs header and remove os dependences. Thanks to Jeffrey Mogul.
807 - print-ospf.c: Improvements. Thanks to Jeffrey Mogul.
809 - tcpdump.c: Add -T flag allows interpretation of "vat", "wb", "rpc"
810 (sunrpc) and rtp packets. Added "inbound" and "outbound" keywords
811 Add && and || operators
813 v2.2.1 Tue Jun 6 17:57:22 PDT 1992
815 - Fix bug with -c flag.
817 v2.2 Fri May 22 17:19:41 PDT 1992
819 - savefile.c: Remove hack that shouldn't have been exported. Add
822 - Added the 'icmp' keyword. For example, 'icmp[0] != 8 and icmp[0] != 0'
823 matches non-echo/reply ICMP packets.
825 - Many improvements to filter code optimizer.
827 - Added 'multicast' keyword and extended the 'broadcast' keyword can now be
828 so that protocol qualifications are allowed. For example, "ip broadcast"
829 and "ether multicast" are valid filters.
831 - Added support for monitoring the loopback interface (i.e. 'tcpdump -i lo').
832 Jeffrey Honig (jch@MITCHELL.CIT.CORNELL.EDU) contributed the kernel
833 patches to netinet/if_loop.c.
835 - Added support for the Ungermann-Bass Ethernet on IBM/PC-RTs running AOS.
836 Contact Jeffrey Honig (jch@MITCHELL.CIT.CORNELL.EDU) for the diffs.
838 - Added EGP and OSPF printers, thanks to Jeffrey Honig.
840 v2.1 Tue Jan 28 11:00:14 PST 1992
842 - Internal release (never publically exported).
844 v2.0.1 Sun Jan 26 21:10:10 PDT
846 - Various byte ordering fixes.
848 - Add truncation checks.
850 - inet.c: Support BSD style SIOCGIFCONF.
852 - nametoaddr.c: Handle multi addresses for single host.
854 - optimize.c: Rewritten.
856 - pcap-bpf.c: don't choke when we get ptraced. only set promiscuous
859 - print-atal.c: Fix an alignment bug (thanks to
860 stanonik@nprdc.navy.mil) Add missing printf() argument.
862 - print-bootp.c: First attempt at decoding the vendor buffer.
864 - print-domain.c: Fix truncation checks.
866 - print-icmp.c: Calculate length of packets from the ip header.
868 - print-ip.c: Print frag id in decimal (so it's easier to match up
869 with non-frags). Add support for ospf, egp and igmp.
871 - print-nfs.c: Lots of changes.
873 - print-ntp.c: Make some verbose output depend on -v.
875 - print-snmp.c: New version from John LoVerso.
877 - print-tcp.c: Print rfc1072 tcp options.
879 - tcpdump.c: Print "0x" prefix for %x formats. Always print 6 digits
880 (microseconds) worth of precision. Fix uid bugs.
882 - A packet dumper has been added (thanks to Jeff Mogul of DECWRL).
883 With this option, you can create an architecture independent binary
884 trace file in real time, without the overhead of the packet printer.
885 At a later time, the packets can be filtered (again) and printed.
887 - BSD is supported. You must have BPF in your kernel.
888 Since the filtering is now done in the kernel, fewer packets are
889 dropped. In fact, with BPF and the packet dumper option, a measly
890 Sun 3/50 can keep up with a busy network.
892 - Compressed SLIP packets can now be dumped, provided you use our
893 SLIP software and BPF. These packets are dumped as any other IP
894 packet; the compressed headers are dumped with the '-e' option.
896 - Machines with little-endian byte ordering are supported (thanks to
899 - Ultrix 4.0 is supported (also thanks to Jeff Mogul).
901 - IBM RT and Stanford Enetfilter support has been added by
902 Rayan Zachariassen <rayan@canet.ca>. Tcpdump has been tested under
903 both the vanilla Enetfilter interface, and the extended interface
904 (#ifdef'd by IBMRTPC) present in the MERIT version of the Enetfilter.
906 - TFTP packets are now printed (requests only).
908 - BOOTP packets are now printed.
910 - SNMP packets are now printed. (thanks to John LoVerso of Xylogics).
912 - Sparc architectures, including the Sparcstation-1, are now
913 supported thanks to Steve McCanne and Craig Leres.
915 - SunOS 4 is now supported thanks to Micky Liu of Columbia
916 University (micky@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu).
918 - IP options are now printed.
920 - RIP packets are now printed.
922 - There's a -v flag that prints out more information than the
923 default (e.g., it will enable printing of IP ttl, tos and id)
924 and -q flag that prints out less (e.g., it will disable
925 interpretation of AppleTalk-in-UDP).
927 - The grammar has undergone substantial changes (if you have an
928 earlier version of tcpdump, you should re-read the manual
931 The most useful change is the addition of an expression
932 syntax that lets you filter on arbitrary fields or values in the
933 packet. E.g., "ip[0] > 0x45" would print only packets with IP
934 options, "tcp[13] & 3 != 0" would print only TCP SYN and FIN
937 The most painful change is that concatenation no longer means
938 "and" -- e.g., you have to say "host foo and port bar" instead
939 of "host foo port bar". The up side to this down is that
940 repeated qualifiers can be omitted, making most filter
941 expressions shorter. E.g., you can now say "ip host foo and
942 (bar or baz)" to look at ip traffic between hosts foo and bar or
943 between hosts foo and baz. [The old way of saying this was "ip
944 host foo and (ip host bar or ip host baz)".]
946 v2.0 Sun Jan 13 12:20:40 PST 1991
948 - Initial public release.