1 Tuesday April 14, 2015 guy@alum.mit.edu
2 Summary for 4.8.0 tcpdump release
3 Fix "-x" for Apple PKTAP and PPI packets
5 Friday April 10, 2015 guy@alum.mit.edu
6 Summary for 4.7.4 tcpdump release
7 RPKI to Router Protocol: Fix Segmentation Faults and other problems
8 RPKI to Router Protocol: print strings with fn_printn()
9 wb: fix some bounds checks
11 Wednesday March 11, 2015 mcr@sandelman.ca
12 Summary for 4.7.3 tcpdump release
13 Capsicum fixes for FreeBSD 10
15 Tuesday March 10, 2015 mcr@sandelman.ca
16 Summary for 4.7.2 tcpdump release
17 DCCP: update Packet Types with RFC4340/IANA names
18 fixes for CVE-2015-0261: IPv6 mobility header check issue
19 fixes for CVE-2015-2153, 2154, 2155: kday packets
21 Friday Nov. 12, 2014 guy@alum.mit.edu
22 Summary for 4.7.0 tcpdump release
23 changes to hex printing of CDP packets
25 Radius: update Packet Type Codes and Attribute Types with RFC/IANA names
26 Add a routine to print "text protocols", and add FTP/HTTP/SMTP/RTSP support.
27 improvements to telnet printer, even if not -v
28 omit length for bcp, print-tcp uses it
29 formatting fixes for a bunch of protocols
30 new bounds checks for a number of protocols
31 split netflow 1,6, and 6 dissector up.
32 added geneve dissector
33 CVE-2014-9140 PPP dissector fixed.
35 Tuesday Sep. 2, 2014 mcr@sandelman.ca
36 Summary for 4.6.2 tcpdump release
37 fix out-of-source-tree builds: find libpcap that is out of source
38 better configure check for libsmi
40 Saturday Jul. 19, 2014 mcr@sandelman.ca
41 Summary for 4.6.1 tcpdump release
42 added FreeBSD capsicum
43 add a short option '#', same as long option '--number'
45 Wednesday Jul. 2, 2014 mcr@sandelman.ca
46 Summary for 4.6.0 tcpdump release
47 all of tcpdump is now using the new "NDO" code base (Thanks Denis!)
48 nflog, mobile, forces, pptp, AODV, AHCP, IPv6, OSPFv4, RPL, DHCPv6 enhancements/fixes
50 many new test cases: 82 in 4.5.1 to 133 in 4.6.0
51 many improvements to travis continuous integration system: OSX, and Coverity options
52 cleaned up some unnecessary header files
54 a number of unaligned access faults fixed
55 -A flag does not consider CR to be printable anymore
56 fx.lebail took over coverity baby sitting
57 default snapshot size increased to 256K for accomodate USB captures
58 WARNING: this release contains a lot of very worthwhile code churn.
60 Wednesday Jan. 15, 2014 guy@alum.mit.edu
61 Summary for 4.5.2 tcpdump release
65 Monday Nov. 11, 2013 mcr@sandelman.ca
66 Summary for 4.5.1 tcpdump release
69 Thursday Nov. 7, 2013 mcr@sandelman.ca and guy@alum.mit.edu.
70 Summary for 4.5.0 tcpdump release
71 some NFSv4 fixes for printing
72 fix printing of unknown TCP options, and tcp fast-open
73 fixes for syslog parser
74 some gcc-version-specific flag tuning
75 adopt MacOS deprecation workarounds for openssl
76 improvements to babel printing
77 add OpenFlow 1.0 (no SSL) and test cases
80 improvements to DHCPv6 decoder
81 clarify which autoconf is needed
82 Point users to the the-tcpdump-group repository on GitHub rather
83 than the mcr repository
85 Fixed IPv6 check on Solaris and other OSes requiring extra
87 Add support for VXLAN (draft-mahalingam-dutt-dcops-vxlan-03),
88 and add "vxlan" as an option for -T.
89 Add support for OTV (draft-hasmit-otv-04).
90 fixes for DLT_IEEE802_11_RADIO datalink types
93 Saturday April 6, 2013 guy@alum.mit.edu.
94 Summary for 4.4.0 tcpdump release
95 RPKI-RTR (RFC6810) is now official (TCP Port 323)
96 Fix detection of OpenSSL libcrypto.
97 Add DNSSL (RFC6106) support.
98 Add "radius" as an option for -T.
99 Update Action codes for handle_action function according to
101 Decode DHCPv6 AFTR-Name option (RFC6334).
103 Fix printing of infinite lifetime in ICMPv6.
104 Added support for SPB, SPBM Service Identifier, and Unicast
105 Address sub-TLV in ISIS.
106 Decode RIPv2 authentication up to RFC4822.
107 Fix RIP Request/full table decoding issues.
108 On Linux systems with cap-ng.h, drop root privileges
109 using Linux Capabilities.
110 Add support for reading multiple files.
111 Add MS NLB heartbeat printer.
112 Separate multiple nexthops in BGP.
114 Wednesday November 28, 2012 guy@alum.mit.edu.
115 Summary for 4.3.1 tcpdump release
116 Print "LLDP, length N" for LLDP packets even when not in verbose
117 mode, so something is printed even if only the timestamp is
120 Print NTP poll interval correctly (it's an exponent, so print
121 both its raw value and 2^value)
122 Document that "-e" is used to get MAC addresses
123 More clearly document that you need to escape or quote
124 backslashes in filter expressions on the command line
125 Fix some "the the" in the man page
126 Use the right maximum path length
127 Don't treat 192_1_2, when passed to -i, as an interface number
129 Friday April 3, 2012. mcr@sandelman.ca.
130 Summary for 4.3.0 tcpdump release
131 fixes for forces: SPARSE data (per RFC 5810)
132 some more test cases added
133 updates to documentation on -l, -U and -w flags.
134 Fix printing of BGP optional headers.
135 Tried to include DLT_PFSYNC support, failed due to headers required.
137 Fix LLDP Network Policy bit definitions.
138 fixes for IGMPv3's Max Response Time: it is in units of 0.1 second.
139 SIGUSR1 can be used rather than SIGINFO for stats
140 permit -n flag to affect print-ip for protocol numbers
141 ND_OPT_ADVINTERVAL is in milliseconds, not seconds
142 Teach PPPoE parser about RFC 4638
145 Friday December 9, 2011. guy@alum.mit.edu.
146 Summary for 4.2.1 tcpdump release
147 Only build the Babel printer if IPv6 is enabled.
148 Support Babel on port 6696 as well as 6697.
149 Include ppi.h in release tarball.
150 Include all the test files in the release tarball, and don't
151 "include" test files that no longer exist.
152 Don't assume we have <rpc/rpc.h> - check for it.
153 Support "-T carp" as a way of dissecting IP protocol 112 as CARP
155 Support Hilscher NetAnalyzer link-layer header format.
156 Constify some pointers and fix compiler warnings.
157 Get rid of never-true test.
158 Fix an unintended fall-through in a case statement in the ARP
160 Fix several cases where sizeof(sizeof(XXX)) was used when just
161 sizeof(XXX) was intended.
162 Make stricter sanity checks in the ES-IS printer.
163 Get rid of some GCCisms that caused builds to fai with compilers
164 that don't support them.
165 Fix typo in man page.
166 Added length checks to Babel printer.
168 Sunday July 24, 2011. mcr@sandelman.ca.
170 merged 802.15.4 decoder from Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov
172 updates to forces for new port numbers
173 Use "-H", not "-h", for the 802.11s option. (-h always help)
174 Better ICMPv6 checksum handling.
175 add support for the RPKI/Router Protocol, per -ietf-sidr-rpki-rtr-12
176 get rid of uuencoded pcap test files, git can do binary.
177 sFlow changes for 64-bit counters.
178 fixes for PPI packet header handling and printing.
179 Add DCB Exchange protocol (DCBX) version 1.01.
180 Babel dissector, from Juliusz Chroboczek and Grégoire Henry.
181 improvements to radiotap for rate values > 127.
182 Many improvements to ForCES decode, including fix SCTP TML port
183 updated RPL type code to RPL-17 draft
184 Improve printout of DHCPv6 options.
185 added support and test case for QinQ (802.1q VLAN) packets
186 Handle DLT_IEEE802_15_4_NOFCS like DLT_IEEE802_15_4.
187 Build fixes for Sparc and other machines with alignment restrictions.
188 Merged changes from Debian package.
189 PGM: Add ACK decoding and add PGMCC DATA and FEEDBACK options.
190 Build fixes for OSX (Snow Leopard and others)
191 Add support for IEEE 802.15.4 packets
193 Tue. July 20, 2010. guy@alum.mit.edu.
194 Summary for 4.1.2 tcpdump release
195 If -U is specified, flush the file after creating it, so it's
197 Fix TCP flags output description, and some typoes, in the man
199 Add a -h flag, and only attempt to recognize 802.11s mesh
201 When printing the link-layer type list, send *all* output to
203 Include the CFLAGS setting when configure was run in the
206 Thu. April 1, 2010. guy@alum.mit.edu.
207 Summary for 4.1.1 tcpdump release
208 Fix build on systems with PF, such as FreeBSD and OpenBSD.
209 Don't blow up if a zero-length link-layer address is passed to
212 Thu. March 11, 2010. ken@netfunctional.ca/guy@alum.mit.edu.
213 Summary for 4.1.0 tcpdump release
214 Fix printing of MAC addresses for VLAN frames with a length
216 Add some additional bounds checks and use the EXTRACT_ macros
218 Add a -b flag to print the AS number in BGP packets in ASDOT
219 notation rather than ASPLAIN notation
220 Add ICMPv6 RFC 5006 support
221 Decode the access flags in NFS access requests
222 Handle the new DLT_ for memory-mapped USB captures on Linux
223 Make the default snapshot (-s) the maximum
224 Print name of device (when -L is used)
225 Support for OpenSolaris (and SXCE build 125 and later)
227 Add support for RPL DIO
228 Add support for TCP User Timeout (UTO)
229 Add support for non-standard Ethertypes used by 3com PPPoE gear
230 Add support for 802.11n and 802.11s
231 Add support for Transparent Ethernet Bridge ethertype in GRE
232 Add 4 byte AS support for BGP printer
233 Add support for the MDT SAFI 66 BG printer
234 Add basic IPv6 support to print-olsr
236 Add printer for ForCES
237 Handle frames with an FCS
238 Handle 802.11n Control Wrapper, Block Acq Req and Block Ack frames
239 Fix TCP sequence number printing
240 Report 802.2 packets as 802.2 instead of 802.3
241 Don't include -L/usr/lib in LDFLAGS
242 On x86_64 Linux, look in lib64 directory too
243 Lots of code clean ups
245 Update testcases to make output changes
246 Fix compiling with/out smi (--with{,out}-smi)
247 Fix compiling without IPv6 support (--disable-ipv6)
249 Mon. October 27, 2008. ken@netfunctional.ca. Summary for 4.0.0 tcpdump release
250 Add support for Bluetooth Sniffing
251 Add support for Realtek Remote Control Protocol (openrrcp.org.ru)
252 Add support for 802.11 AVS
253 Add support for SMB over TCP
254 Add support for 4 byte BGP AS printing
255 Add support for compiling on case-insensitive file systems
256 Add support for ikev2 printing
257 Update support for decoding AFS
258 Update DHCPv6 printer
259 Use newer libpcap API's (allows -B option on all platforms)
260 Add -I to turn on monitor mode
261 Bugfixes in lldp, lspping, dccp, ESP, NFS printers
262 Cleanup unused files and various cruft
264 Mon. September 10, 2007. ken@xelerance.com. Summary for 3.9.8 tcpdump release
266 Rework OSPFv3 printer
267 Add support for Frame-Relay ARP
268 Decode DHCP Option 121 (RFC 3442 Classless Static Route)
269 Decode DHCP Option 249 (MS Classless Static Route) the same as Option 121
270 TLV: Add support for Juniper .pcap extensions
271 Print EGP header in new-world-order style
272 Converted print-isakmp.c to NETDISSECT
273 Moved AF specific stuff into af.h
274 Test subsystem now table driven, and saves outputs and diffs to one place
275 Require <net/pfvar.h> for pf definitions - allows reading of pflog formatted
276 libpcap files on an OS other than where the file was generated
279 Wed. July 23, 2007. mcr@xelerance.com. Summary for 3.9.7 libpcap release
281 NFS: Print unsigned values as such.
283 BGP: fixes for IPv6-less builds.
284 801.1ag: use standard codepoint.
285 use /dev/bpf on systems with such a device.
286 802.11: print QoS data, avoid dissect of no-data frame, ignore padding.
287 smb: make sure that we haven't gone past the end of the captured data.
288 smb: squelch an uninitialized complaint from coverity.
289 NFS: from NetBSD; don't interpret the reply as a possible NFS reply
290 if it got MSG_DENIED.
291 BGP: don't print TLV values that didn't fit, from www.digit-labs.org.
292 revised INSTALL.txt about libpcap dependancy.
294 Wed. April 25, 2007. ken@xelerance.com. Summary for 3.9.6 tcpdump release
295 Update man page to reflect changes to libpcap
296 Changes to both TCP and IP Printer Output
297 Fix a potential buffer overflow in the 802.11 printer
298 Print basic info about a few more Cisco LAN protocols.
300 ICMP MPLS rework of the extension code
301 bugfix: use the correct codepoint for the OSPF simple text auth token
302 entry, and use safeputs to print the password.
303 Add support in pflog for additional values
304 Add support for OIF RSVP Extensions UNI 1.0 Rev. 2 and additional RSVP objects
305 Add support for the Message-id NACK c-type.
306 Add support for 802.3ah loopback ctrl msg
307 Add support for Multiple-STP as per 802.1s
308 Add support for rapid-SPT as per 802.1w
309 Add support for CFM Link-trace msg, Link-trace-Reply msg,
310 Sender-ID tlv, private tlv, port, interface status
311 Add support for unidirectional link detection as per
312 http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-foschiano-udld-02.txt
313 Add support for the olsr protocol as per RFC 3626 plus the LQ
314 extensions from olsr.org
315 Add support for variable-length checksum in DCCP, as per section 9 of
317 Add support for per-VLAN spanning tree and per-VLAN rapid spanning tree
318 Add support for Multiple-STP as per 802.1s
319 Add support for the cisco propriatry 'dynamic trunking protocol'
320 Add support for the cisco proprietary VTP protocol
321 Update dhcp6 options table as per IETF standardization activities
324 Tue. September 19, 2006. ken@xelerance.com. Summary for 3.9.5 tcpdump release
326 Fix compiling on AIX (, at end of ENUM)
327 Updated list of DNS RR typecodes
328 Use local Ethernet defs on WIN32
329 Add support for Frame-Relay ARP
330 Fixes for compiling under MSVC++
331 Add support for parsing Juniper .pcap files
332 Add support for FRF.16 Multilink Frame-Relay (DLT_MFR)
333 Rework the OSPFv3 printer
334 Fix printing for 4.4BSD/NetBSD NFS Filehandles
335 Add support for Cisco style NLPID encapsulation
336 Add cisco prop. eigrp related, extended communities
337 Add support for BGP signaled VPLS
338 Cleanup the bootp printer
339 Add support for PPP over Frame-Relay
340 Add some bounds checking to the IP options code, and clean up
341 the options output a bit.
342 Add additional modp groups to ISAKMP printer
343 Add support for Address-Withdraw and Label-Withdraw Msgs
344 Add support for the BFD Discriminator TLV
345 Fixes for 64bit compiling
346 Add support for PIMv2 checksum verification
347 Add support for further dissection of the IPCP Compression Option
348 Add support for Cisco's proposed VQP protocol
349 Add basic support for keyed authentication TCP option
350 Lots of minor cosmetic changes to output printers
353 Mon. September 19, 2005. ken@xelerance.com. Summary for 3.9.4 tcpdump release
354 Decoder support for more Juniper link-layer types
355 Fix a potential buffer overflow (although it can't occur in
357 Fix the handling of unknown management frame types in the 802.11
359 Add FRF.16 support, fix various Frame Relay bugs.
360 Add support for RSVP integrity objects, update fast-reroute
361 object printer to latest spec.
362 Clean up documentation of vlan filter expression, document mpls
364 Document new pppoed and pppoes filter expressions.
365 Update diffserver-TE codepoints as per RFC 4124.
366 Spelling fixes in ICMPv6.
367 Don't require any fields other than flags to be present in IS-IS
368 restart signaling TLVs, and only print the system ID in
369 those TLVs as system IDs, not as node IDs.
372 Tue. July 5, 2005. ken@xelerance.com. Summary for 3.9.3 tcpdump release
374 Option to chroot() when dropping privs
375 Fixes for compiling on nearly every platform,
376 including improved 64bit support
378 Support for sending packets
379 Many compliation fixes on most platforms
380 Fixes for recent version of GCC to eliminate warnings
381 Improved Unicode support
383 Decoders & DLT Changes, Updates and New:
385 Juniper ATM, FRF.15, FRF.16, PPPoE,
386 ML-FR, ML-PIC, ML-PPP, PL-PPP, LS-PIC
387 GGSN,ES,MONITOR,SERVICES
389 Axent Raptor/Symantec Firewall
391 ESP-in-UDP (RFC 3948)
393 LMP, LMP Service Discovery
399 LACP, MARKER as per 802.3ad
402 G.7041/Y.1303 Generic Framing Procedure
409 Tue. March 30, 2004. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 3.8.3 release
411 No changes from 3.8.2. Version bumped only to maintain consistency
414 Mon. March 29, 2004. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 3.8.2 release
416 Fixes for print-isakmp.c CVE: CAN-2004-0183, CAN-2004-0184
417 http://www.rapid7.com/advisories/R7-0017.html
418 IP-over-IEEE1394 printing.
419 some MINGW32 changes.
420 updates for autoconf 2.5
421 fixes for print-aodv.c - check for too short packets
422 formatting changes to print-ascii for hex output.
423 check for too short packets: print-bgp.c, print-bootp.c, print-cdp.c,
424 print-chdlc.c, print-domain.c, print-icmp.c, print-icmp6.c,
425 print-ip.c, print-lwres.c, print-ospf.c, print-pim.c,
426 print-ppp.c,print-pppoe.c, print-rsvp.c, print-wb.c
427 print-ether.c - better handling of unknown types.
428 print-isoclns.c - additional decoding of types.
429 print-llc.c - strings for LLC names added.
430 print-pfloc.c - various enhancements
431 print-radius.c - better decoding to strings.
433 Wed. November 12, 2003. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 3.8 release
435 changed syntax of -E argument so that multiple SAs can be decrypted
436 fixes for Digital Unix headers and Documentation
438 CDP changes from Terry Kennedy <terry@tmk.com>.
439 IPv6 mobility updates from Kazushi Sugyo <sugyo@pb.jp.nec.com>
440 Fixes for ASN.1 decoder for 2.100.3 forms.
441 Added a count of packets received and processed to clarify numbers.
442 Incorporated WinDUMP patches for Win32 builds.
443 PPPoE payload length headers.
444 Fixes for HP C compiler builds.
445 Use new pcap_breakloop() and pcap_findalldevs() if we can.
446 BGP output split into multiple lines.
447 Fixes to 802.11 decoding.
448 Fixes to PIM decoder.
449 SuperH is a CPU that can't handle unaligned access. Many fixes for
450 unaligned access work.
451 Fixes to Frame-Relay decoder for Q.933/922 frames.
452 Clarified when Solaris can do captures as non-root.
453 Added tests/ subdir for examples/regression tests.
454 New -U flag. -flush stdout after every packet
455 New -A flag -print ascii only
456 support for decoding IS-IS inside Cisco HDLC Frames
457 more verbosity for tftp decoder
460 cross compilation patches
461 RFC 3561 AODV support.
462 UDP/TCP pseudo-checksum properly for source-route options.
463 sanitized all files to modified BSD license
464 Add support for RFC 2625 IP-over-Fibre Channel.
465 fixes for DECnet support.
466 Support RFC 2684 bridging of Ethernet, 802.5 Token Ring, and FDDI.
467 RFC 2684 encapsulation of BPDUs.
469 Tuesday, February 25, 2003. fenner@research.att.com. 3.7.2 release
471 Fixed infinite loop when parsing invalid isakmp packets.
472 (reported by iDefense; already fixed in CVS)
473 Fixed infinite loop when parsing invalid BGP packets.
474 Fixed buffer overflow with certain invalid NFS packets.
475 Pretty-print unprintable network names in 802.11 printer.
476 Handle truncated nbp (appletalk) packets.
477 Updated DHCPv6 printer to match draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-22.txt
478 Print IP protocol name even if we don't have a printer for it.
479 Print IP protocol name or number for fragments.
480 Print the whole MPLS label stack, not just the top label.
481 Print request header and file handle for NFS v3 FSINFO and PATHCONF
483 Fix NFS packet truncation checks.
484 Handle "old" DR-Priority and Bidir-Capable PIM HELLO options.
485 Handle unknown RADIUS attributes properly.
486 Fix an ASN.1 parsing error that would cause e.g. the OID
487 2.100.3 to be misrepresented as 4.20.3 .
489 Monday, January 21, 2002. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 3.7 release
490 see http://www.tcpdump.org/cvs-log/2002-01-21.10:16:48.html for commit log.
492 Better OSI/802.2 support on Linux.
493 IEEE 802.11 support, from clenahan@fortresstech.com, achirica@ttd.net.
494 LLC SAP support for FDDI/token ring/RFC-1483 style ATM
495 BXXP protocol was replaced by the BEEP protocol;
496 improvements to SNAP demux.
497 Changes to "any" interface documentation.
498 Documentation on pcap_stats() counters.
499 Fix a memory leak found by Miklos Szeredi - pcap_ether_aton().
500 Added MPLS encapsulation decoding per RFC3032.
501 DNS dissector handles TKEY, TSIG and IXFR.
502 adaptive SLIP interface patch from Igor Khristophorov <igor@atdot.org>
503 SMB printing has much improved bounds checks
504 OUI 0x0000f8 decoded as encapsulated ethernet for Cisco-custom bridging
505 Zephyr support, from Nickolai Zeldovich <kolya@MIT.EDU>.
506 Solaris - devices with digits in them. Stefan Hudson <hudson@mbay.net>
507 IPX socket 0x85be is for Cisco EIGRP over IPX.
508 Improvements to fragmented ESP handling.
509 SCTP support from Armando L. Caro Jr. <acaro@mail.eecis.udel.edu>
510 Linux ARPHDR_ATM support fixed.
511 Added a "netbeui" keyword, which selects NetBEUI packets.
512 IPv6 ND improvements, MobileIP dissector, 2292bis-02 for RA option.
513 Handle ARPHDR_HDLC from Marcus Felipe Pereira <marcus@task.com.br>.
514 Handle IPX socket 0x553 -> NetBIOS-over-IPX socket, "nwlink-dgm"
515 Better Linux libc5 compat.
516 BIND9 lwres dissector added.
517 MIPS and SPARC get strict alignment macros (affects print-bgp.c)
518 Apple LocalTalk LINKTYPE_ reserved.
519 New time stamp formats documented.
520 DHCP6 updated to draft-22.txt spec.
521 ICMP types/codes now accept symbolic names.
522 Add SIGINFO handler from LBL
523 encrypted CIPE tunnels in IRIX, from Franz Schaefer <schaefer@mond.at>.
524 now we are -Wstrict-prototype clean.
525 NetBSD DLT_PPP_ETHER; adapted from Martin Husemann <martin@netbsd.org>.
526 PPPoE dissector cleaned up.
527 Support for LocalTalk hardware, from Uns Lider <unslider@miranda.org>.
528 In dissector, now the caller prints the IP addresses rather than proto.
529 cjclark@alum.mit.edu: print the IP proto for non-initial fragments.
530 LLC frames with a DSAP and LSAP of 0xe0 are IPX frames.
531 Linux cooked frames with a type value of LINUX_SLL_P_802_3 are IPX.
532 captures on the "any" device won't be done in promiscuous mode
533 Token Ring support on DLPI - Onno van der Linden <onno@simplex.nl>
534 ARCNet support, from NetBSD.
535 HSRP dissector, from Julian Cowley <julian@lava.net>.
536 Handle (GRE-encapsulated) PPTP
537 added -C option to rotate save file every optarg * 1,000,000 bytes.
538 support for "vrrp" name - NetBSD, by Klaus Klein <kleink@netbsd.org>.
539 PPTP support, from Motonori Shindo <mshindo@mshindo.net>.
540 IS-IS over PPP support, from Hannes Gredler <hannes@juniper.net>.
541 CNFP support for IPv6,format. Harry Raaymakers <harryr@connect.com.au>.
542 ESP printing updated to RFC2406.
543 HP-UX can now handle large number of PPAs.
545 L2TP dissector improvements from Motonori Shindo.
547 Tuesday January 9, 2001. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 3.6 release
548 Cleaned up documentation.
549 Promisc mode fixes for Linux
550 IPsec changes/cleanups.
551 Alignment fixes for picky architectures
553 Removed dependency on native headers for packet dissectors.
554 Removed Linux specific headers that were shipped
556 libpcap changes provide for exchanging capture files between
557 systems. Save files now have well known PACKET_ values instead of
558 depending upon system dependant mappings of DLT_* types.
560 Support for computing/checking IP and UDP/TCP checksums.
562 Updated autoconf stock files.
564 IPv6 improvements: dhcp (draft-15), mobile-ip6, ppp, ospf6,
566 Added dissector support for: ISOCLNS, Token Ring, IGMPv3, bxxp,
567 timed, vrrp, radius, chdlc, cnfp, cdp, IEEE802.1d, raw-AppleTalk
569 Added filtering support for: VLANs, ESIS, ISIS
571 Improvements to: print-telnet, IPTalk, bootp/dhcp, ECN, PPP,
574 HP-UX 11.0 -- find the right dlpi device.
575 Solaris 8 - IPv6 works
576 Linux - Added support for an "any" device to capture on all interfaces
578 Security fixes: buffer overrun audit done. Strcpy replaced with
579 strlcpy, sprintf replaced with snprintf.
580 Look for lex problems, and warn about them.
583 v3.5 Fri Jan 28 18:00:00 PST 2000
585 Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com>
586 - switch to config.h for autoconf
587 - unify RCSID strings
588 - Updated PIMv1, PIMv2, DVMRP, IGMP parsers, add Cisco Auto-RP parser
589 - Really fix the RIP printer
590 - Fix MAC address -> name translation.
591 - some -Wall -Wformat fixes
592 - update makemib to parse much of SMIv2
593 - Print TCP sequence # with -vv even if you normally wouldn't
594 - Print as much of IP/TCP/UDP headers as possible even if truncated.
597 - -X will make a ascii dump. from netbsd.
598 - telnet command sequence decoder (ff xx xx). from netbsd.
599 - print-bgp.c: improve options printing. ugly code exists for
600 unaligned option parsing (need some fix).
601 - const poisoning in SMB decoder.
602 - -Wall -Werror clean checks.
603 - bring in KAME IPv6/IPsec decoding code.
605 Assar Westerlund <assar@sics.se>
606 - SNMPv2 and SNMPv3 printer
607 - If compiled with libsmi, tcpdump can load MIBs on the fly to decode
609 - Incorporate NFS parsing code from NetBSD. Adds support for nfsv3.
611 - permit building in different directories.
613 Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
615 /afs/transarc.com/public/afs-contrib/tools/tcpdump for parsing
618 Andrew Tridgell <tridge@linuxcare.com>
621 Love <lha@stacken.kth.se>
622 - print-rx.c: add code for printing MakeDir and StoreStatus. Also
623 change date format to the right one.
625 Michael C. Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>
626 - Created tcpdump.org repository
628 v3.4 Sat Jul 25 12:40:55 PDT 1998
630 - Hardwire Linux slip support since it's too hard to detect.
632 - Redo configuration of "network" libraries (-lsocket and -lnsl) to
633 deal with IRIX. Thanks to John Hawkinson (jhawk@mit.edu)
635 - Added -a which tries to translate network and broadcast addresses to
636 names. Suggested by Rob van Nieuwkerk (robn@verdi.et.tudelft.nl)
638 - Added a configure option to disable gcc.
640 - Added a "raw" packet printer.
642 - Not having an interface address is no longer fatal. Requested by John
645 - Rework signal setup to accommodate Linux.
647 - OSPF truncation check fix. Also display the type of OSPF packets
648 using MD5 authentication. Thanks to Brian Wellington
651 - Fix truncation check bugs in the Kerberos printer. Reported by Ezra
652 Peisach (epeisach@mit.edu)
654 - Don't catch SIGHUP when invoked with nohup(1). Thanks to Dave Plonka
657 - Specify full install target as a way of detecting if install
658 directory does not exist. Thanks to Dave Plonka.
660 - Bit-swap FDDI addresses for BSD/OS too. Thanks to Paul Vixie
663 - Fix off-by-one bug when testing size of ethernet packets. Thanks to
664 Marty Leisner (leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com)
666 - Add a local autoconf macro to check for routines in libraries; the
667 autoconf version is broken (it only puts the library name in the
668 cache variable name). Thanks to John Hawkinson.
670 - Add a local autoconf macro to check for types; the autoconf version
671 is broken (it uses grep instead of actually compiling a code fragment).
673 - Modified to support the new BSD/OS 2.1 PPP and SLIP link layer header
676 - Extend OSF ip header workaround to versions 1 and 2.
678 - Fix some signed problems in the nfs printer. As reported by David
679 Sacerdote (davids@silence.secnet.com)
681 - Detect group wheel and use it as the default since BSD/OS' install
682 can't hack numeric groups. Reported by David Sacerdote.
684 - AIX needs special loader options. Thanks to Jonathan I. Kamens
687 - Fixed the nfs printer to print port numbers in decimal. Thanks to
688 Kent Vander Velden (graphix@iastate.edu)
690 - Find installed libpcap in /usr/local/lib when not using gcc.
692 - Disallow network masks with non-network bits set.
694 - Attempt to detect "egcs" versions of gcc.
696 - Add missing closing double quotes when displaying bootp strings.
697 Reported by Viet-Trung Luu (vluu@picard.math.uwaterloo.ca)
699 v3.3 Sat Nov 30 20:56:27 PST 1996
701 - Added Linux support.
703 - GRE encapsulated packet printer thanks to John Hawkinson
706 - Rewrite gmt2local() to avoid problematic os dependencies.
708 - Suppress nfs truncation message on errors.
710 - Add missing m4 quoting in AC_LBL_UNALIGNED_ACCESS autoconf macro.
711 Reported by Joachim Ott (ott@ardala.han.de)
713 - Enable "ip_hl vs. ip_vhl" workaround for OSF4 too.
715 - Print arp hardware type in host order. Thanks to Onno van der Linden
718 - Avoid solaris compiler warnings. Thanks to Bruce Barnett
719 (barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com)
721 - Fix rip printer to not print one more route than is actually in the
722 packet. Thanks to Jean-Luc Richier (Jean-Luc.Richier@imag.fr) and
723 Bill Fenner (fenner@parc.xerox.com)
725 - Use autoconf endian detection since BYTE_ORDER isn't defined on all systems.
727 - Fix dvmrp printer truncation checks and add a dvmrp probe printer.
728 Thanks to Danny J. Mitzel (mitzel@ipsilon.com)
730 - Rewrite ospf printer to improve truncation checks.
732 - Don't parse tcp options past the EOL. As noted by David Sacerdote
733 (davids@secnet.com). Also, check tcp options to make sure they ar
734 actually in the tcp header (in addition to the normal truncation
735 checks). Fix the SACK code to print the N blocks (instead of the
736 first block N times).
738 - Don't say really small UDP packets are truncated just because they
739 aren't big enough to be a RPC. As noted by David Sacerdote.
741 v3.2.1 Sun Jul 14 03:02:26 PDT 1996
743 - Added rfc1716 icmp codes as suggested by Martin Fredriksson
746 - Print mtu for icmp unreach need frag packets. Thanks to John
747 Hawkinson (jhawk@mit.edu)
749 - Decode icmp router discovery messages. Thanks to Jeffrey Honig
752 - Added a printer entry for DLT_IEEE802 as suggested by Tak Kushida
753 (kushida@trl.ibm.co.jp)
755 - Check igmp checksum if possible. Thanks to John Hawkinson.
757 - Made changes for SINIX. Thanks to Andrej Borsenkow
758 (borsenkow.msk@sni.de)
760 - Use autoconf's idea of the top level directory in install targets.
761 Thanks to John Hawkinson.
763 - Avoid infinite loop in tcp options printing code. Thanks to Jeffrey
764 Mogul (mogul@pa.dec.com)
766 - Avoid using -lsocket in IRIX 5.2 and earlier since it breaks snoop.
767 Thanks to John Hawkinson.
769 - Added some more packet truncation checks.
771 - On systems that have it, use sigset() instead of signal() since
772 signal() has different semantics on these systems.
774 - Fixed some more alignment problems on the alpha.
776 - Add code to massage unprintable characters in the domain and ipx
777 printers. Thanks to John Hawkinson.
779 - Added explicit netmask support. Thanks to Steve Nuchia
780 (steve@research.oknet.com)
782 - Add "sca" keyword (for DEC cluster services) as suggested by Terry
783 Kennedy (terry@spcvxa.spc.edu)
785 - Add "atalk" keyword as suggested by John Hawkinson.
787 - Added an igrp printer. Thanks to Francis Dupont
788 (francis.dupont@inria.fr)
790 - Print IPX net numbers in hex a la Novell Netware. Thanks to Terry
791 Kennedy (terry@spcvxa.spc.edu)
793 - Fixed snmp extended tag field parsing bug. Thanks to Pascal Hennequin
794 (pascal.hennequin@hugo.int-evry.fr)
796 - Added some ETHERTYPEs missing on some systems.
798 - Added truncated packet macros and various checks.
800 - Fixed endian problems with the DECnet printer.
802 - Use $CC when checking gcc version. Thanks to Carl Lindberg
803 (carl_lindberg@blacksmith.com)
805 - Fixes for AIX (although this system is not yet supported). Thanks to
808 - Fix bugs in the autoconf misaligned accesses code fragment.
810 - Include sys/param.h to get BYTE_ORDER in a few places. Thanks to
811 Pavlin Ivanov Radoslavov (pavlin@cs.titech.ac.jp)
813 v3.2 Sun Jun 23 02:28:10 PDT 1996
815 - Print new icmp unreachable codes as suggested by Martin Fredriksson
816 (martin@msp.se). Also print code value when unknown for icmp redirect
819 - Fix an alignment endian bug in getname(). Thanks to John Hawkinson.
821 - Define "new" domain record types if not found in arpa/nameserv.h.
822 Resulted from a suggestion from John Hawkinson (jhawk@mit.edu). Also
823 fixed an endian bug when printing mx record and added some new record
826 - Added RIP V2 support. Thanks to Jeffrey Honig (jch@bsdi.com)
828 - Added T/TCP options printing. As suggested by Richard Stevens
831 - Use autoconf to detect architectures that can't handle misaligned
834 v3.1 Thu Jun 13 20:59:32 PDT 1996
836 - Changed u_int32/int32 to u_int32_t/int32_t to be consistent with bsd
837 and bind (as suggested by Charles Hannum).
839 - Port to GNU autoconf.
841 - Add support for printing DVMRP and PIM traffic thanks to
842 Havard Eidnes (Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no).
844 - Fix AppleTalk, IPX and DECnet byte order problems due to wrong endian
845 define being referenced. Reported by Terry Kennedy.
847 - Minor fixes to the man page thanks to Mark Andrews.
849 - Endian fixes to RTP and vat packet dumpers, thanks to Bruce Mah
850 (bmah@cs.berkeley.edu).
852 - Added support for new dns types, thanks to Rainer Orth.
854 - Fixed tftp_print() to print the block number for ACKs.
856 - Document -dd and -ddd. Resulted from a bug report from Charlie Slater
857 (cslater@imatek.com).
859 - Check return status from malloc/calloc/etc.
861 - Check return status from pcap_loop() so we can print an error and
862 exit with a bad status if there were problems.
864 - Bail if ip option length is <= 0. Resulted from a bug report from
865 Darren Reed (darrenr@vitruvius.arbld.unimelb.edu.au).
867 - Print out a little more information for sun rpc packets.
869 - Add suport for Kerberos 4 thanks to John Hawkinson (jhawk@mit.edu).
871 - Fixed the Fix EXTRACT_SHORT() and EXTRACT_LONG() macros (which were
872 wrong on little endian machines).
874 - Fixed alignment bug in ipx_decode(). Thanks to Matt Crawford
877 - Fix ntp_print() to not print garbage when the stratum is
878 "unspecified." Thanks to Deus Ex Machina (root@belle.bork.com).
880 - Rewrote tcp options printer code to check for truncation. Added
881 selective acknowledgment case.
883 - Fixed an endian bug in the ospf printer. Thanks to Jeffrey C Honig
886 - Fix rip printer to handle 4.4 BSD sockaddr struct which only uses one
887 octet for the sa_family member. Thanks to Yoshitaka Tokugawa
890 - Don't checksum ip header if we don't have all of it. Thanks to John
891 Hawkinson (jhawk@mit.edu).
893 - Print out hostnames if possible in egp printer. Thanks to Jeffrey
897 v3.1a1 Wed May 3 19:21:11 PDT 1995
899 - Include time.h when SVR4 is defined to avoid problems under Solaris
902 - Fix etheraddr_string() in the ETHER_SERVICE to return the saved
903 strings, not the local buffer. Thanks to Stefan Petri
904 (petri@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de).
906 - Detect when pcap raises the snaplen (e.g. with snit). Print a warning
907 that the selected value was not used. Thanks to Pascal Hennequin
908 (Pascal.Hennequin@hugo.int-evry.fr).
910 - Add a truncated packet test to print-nfs.c. Thanks to Pascal Hennequin.
912 - BYTEORDER -> BYTE_ORDER Thanks to Terry Kennedy (terry@spcvxa.spc.edu).
914 v3.0.3 Sun Oct 1 18:35:00 GMT 1995
916 - Although there never was a 3.0.3 release, the linux boys cleverly
917 "released" one in late 1995.
919 v3.0.2 Thu Apr 20 21:28:16 PDT 1995
921 - Change configuration to not use gcc v2 flags with gcc v1.
923 - Redo gmt2local() so that it works under BSDI (which seems to return
924 an empty timezone struct from gettimeofday()). Based on report from
925 Terry Kennedy (terry@spcvxa.spc.edu).
927 - Change configure to recognize IP[0-9]* as "mips" SGI hardware. Based
928 on report from Mark Andrews (mandrews@alias.com).
930 - Don't pass cc flags to gcc. Resulted from a bug report from Rainer
931 Orth (ro@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de).
933 - Fixed printout of connection id for uncompressed tcp slip packets.
934 Resulted from a bug report from Richard Stevens (rstevens@noao.edu).
936 - Hack around deficiency in Ultrix's make.
938 - Add ETHERTYPE_TRAIL define which is missing from irix5.
940 v3.0.1 Wed Aug 31 22:42:26 PDT 1994
942 - Fix problems with gcc2 vs. malloc() and read() prototypes under SunOS 4.
944 v3.0 Mon Jun 20 19:23:27 PDT 1994
946 - Added support for printing tcp option timestamps thanks to
947 Mark Andrews (mandrews@alias.com).
949 - Reorganize protocol dumpers to take const pointers to packets so they
950 never change the contents (i.e., they used to do endian conversions
951 in place). Previously, whenever more than one pass was taken over
952 the packet, the packet contents would be dumped incorrectly (i.e.,
953 the output form -x would be wrong on little endian machines because
954 the protocol dumpers would modify the data). Thanks to Charles Hannum
955 (mycroft@gnu.ai.mit.edu) for reporting this problem.
957 - Added support for decnet protocol dumping thanks to Jeff Mogul
960 - Fix bug that caused length of packet to be incorrectly printed
961 (off by ether header size) for unknown ethernet types thanks
962 to Greg Miller (gmiller@kayak.mitre.org).
964 - Added support for IPX protocol dumping thanks to Brad Parker
967 - Added check to verify IP header checksum under -v thanks to
968 Brad Parker (brad@fcr.com).
970 - Move packet capture code to new libpcap library (which is
971 packaged separately).
973 - Prototype everything and assume an ansi compiler.
975 - print-arp.c: Print hardware ethernet addresses if they're not
978 - print-bootp.c: Decode the cmu vendor field. Add RFC1497 tags.
979 Many helpful suggestions from Gordon Ross (gwr@jericho.mc.com).
981 - print-fddi.c: Improvements. Thanks to Jeffrey Mogul
984 - print-icmp.c: Byte swap netmask before printing. Thanks to
985 Richard Stevens (rstevens@noao.edu). Print icmp type when unknown.
987 - print-ip.c: Print the inner ip datagram of ip-in-ip encapsulated packets.
988 By default, only the inner packet is dumped, appended with the token
989 "(encap)". Under -v, both the inner and output packets are dumped
990 (on the same line). Note that the filter applies to the original packet,
991 not the encapsulated packet. So if you run tcpdump on a net with an
992 IP Multicast tunnel, you cannot filter out the datagrams using the
993 conventional syntax. (You can filter away all the ip-in-ip traffic
994 with "not ip proto 4".)
996 - print-nfs.c: Keep pending rpc's in circular table. Add generic
997 nfs header and remove os dependences. Thanks to Jeffrey Mogul.
999 - print-ospf.c: Improvements. Thanks to Jeffrey Mogul.
1001 - tcpdump.c: Add -T flag allows interpretation of "vat", "wb", "rpc"
1002 (sunrpc) and rtp packets. Added "inbound" and "outbound" keywords
1003 Add && and || operators
1005 v2.2.1 Tue Jun 6 17:57:22 PDT 1992
1007 - Fix bug with -c flag.
1009 v2.2 Fri May 22 17:19:41 PDT 1992
1011 - savefile.c: Remove hack that shouldn't have been exported. Add
1014 - Added the 'icmp' keyword. For example, 'icmp[0] != 8 and icmp[0] != 0'
1015 matches non-echo/reply ICMP packets.
1017 - Many improvements to filter code optimizer.
1019 - Added 'multicast' keyword and extended the 'broadcast' keyword can now be
1020 so that protocol qualifications are allowed. For example, "ip broadcast"
1021 and "ether multicast" are valid filters.
1023 - Added support for monitoring the loopback interface (i.e. 'tcpdump -i lo').
1024 Jeffrey Honig (jch@MITCHELL.CIT.CORNELL.EDU) contributed the kernel
1025 patches to netinet/if_loop.c.
1027 - Added support for the Ungermann-Bass Ethernet on IBM/PC-RTs running AOS.
1028 Contact Jeffrey Honig (jch@MITCHELL.CIT.CORNELL.EDU) for the diffs.
1030 - Added EGP and OSPF printers, thanks to Jeffrey Honig.
1032 v2.1 Tue Jan 28 11:00:14 PST 1992
1034 - Internal release (never publically exported).
1036 v2.0.1 Sun Jan 26 21:10:10 PDT
1038 - Various byte ordering fixes.
1040 - Add truncation checks.
1042 - inet.c: Support BSD style SIOCGIFCONF.
1044 - nametoaddr.c: Handle multi addresses for single host.
1046 - optimize.c: Rewritten.
1048 - pcap-bpf.c: don't choke when we get ptraced. only set promiscuous
1051 - print-atal.c: Fix an alignment bug (thanks to
1052 stanonik@nprdc.navy.mil) Add missing printf() argument.
1054 - print-bootp.c: First attempt at decoding the vendor buffer.
1056 - print-domain.c: Fix truncation checks.
1058 - print-icmp.c: Calculate length of packets from the ip header.
1060 - print-ip.c: Print frag id in decimal (so it's easier to match up
1061 with non-frags). Add support for ospf, egp and igmp.
1063 - print-nfs.c: Lots of changes.
1065 - print-ntp.c: Make some verbose output depend on -v.
1067 - print-snmp.c: New version from John LoVerso.
1069 - print-tcp.c: Print rfc1072 tcp options.
1071 - tcpdump.c: Print "0x" prefix for %x formats. Always print 6 digits
1072 (microseconds) worth of precision. Fix uid bugs.
1074 - A packet dumper has been added (thanks to Jeff Mogul of DECWRL).
1075 With this option, you can create an architecture independent binary
1076 trace file in real time, without the overhead of the packet printer.
1077 At a later time, the packets can be filtered (again) and printed.
1079 - BSD is supported. You must have BPF in your kernel.
1080 Since the filtering is now done in the kernel, fewer packets are
1081 dropped. In fact, with BPF and the packet dumper option, a measly
1082 Sun 3/50 can keep up with a busy network.
1084 - Compressed SLIP packets can now be dumped, provided you use our
1085 SLIP software and BPF. These packets are dumped as any other IP
1086 packet; the compressed headers are dumped with the '-e' option.
1088 - Machines with little-endian byte ordering are supported (thanks to
1091 - Ultrix 4.0 is supported (also thanks to Jeff Mogul).
1093 - IBM RT and Stanford Enetfilter support has been added by
1094 Rayan Zachariassen <rayan@canet.ca>. Tcpdump has been tested under
1095 both the vanilla Enetfilter interface, and the extended interface
1096 (#ifdef'd by IBMRTPC) present in the MERIT version of the Enetfilter.
1098 - TFTP packets are now printed (requests only).
1100 - BOOTP packets are now printed.
1102 - SNMP packets are now printed. (thanks to John LoVerso of Xylogics).
1104 - Sparc architectures, including the Sparcstation-1, are now
1105 supported thanks to Steve McCanne and Craig Leres.
1107 - SunOS 4 is now supported thanks to Micky Liu of Columbia
1108 University (micky@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu).
1110 - IP options are now printed.
1112 - RIP packets are now printed.
1114 - There's a -v flag that prints out more information than the
1115 default (e.g., it will enable printing of IP ttl, tos and id)
1116 and -q flag that prints out less (e.g., it will disable
1117 interpretation of AppleTalk-in-UDP).
1119 - The grammar has undergone substantial changes (if you have an
1120 earlier version of tcpdump, you should re-read the manual
1123 The most useful change is the addition of an expression
1124 syntax that lets you filter on arbitrary fields or values in the
1125 packet. E.g., "ip[0] > 0x45" would print only packets with IP
1126 options, "tcp[13] & 3 != 0" would print only TCP SYN and FIN
1129 The most painful change is that concatenation no longer means
1130 "and" -- e.g., you have to say "host foo and port bar" instead
1131 of "host foo port bar". The up side to this down is that
1132 repeated qualifiers can be omitted, making most filter
1133 expressions shorter. E.g., you can now say "ip host foo and
1134 (bar or baz)" to look at ip traffic between hosts foo and bar or
1135 between hosts foo and baz. [The old way of saying this was "ip
1136 host foo and (ip host bar or ip host baz)".]
1138 v2.0 Sun Jan 13 12:20:40 PST 1991
1140 - Initial public release.