1 DayOfTheWeek, Month DD, YYYY / The Tcpdump Group
2 Summary for 5.0.0 tcpdump release (so far!)
3 Add protocol decoding for:
5 Refine protocol decoding for:
6 BFD: Add support for S-BFD and spell LAG in uppercase.
7 BGP: Parse BGP extended message support capability
8 BGP: Deprecate DPA, ADVERTISER and RCID_PATH path attributes
9 BGP: Print Enhanced route refresh capability
10 BGP: Print enhanced route refresh message subtype
11 BGP: Parse rfc9072 (Extended Optional Parameters Length for BGP OPEN Message)
12 BGP: Add support for BFD cease subcode
13 BGP: Add support for Hard Reset notification and GR N flag
14 BGP: Handle ORF in Route-Refresh messages
15 BGP: add dissector for BGPsec capability and path
16 BGP: Add Origin Validation State extended community
17 BGP: Add support for BGP Role capability and OTC attribute
18 BGP: Fix most printing code to print directly rather than filling
19 in a fixed-size buffer to be printed later
20 ICMP: add dissector for ICMP Interface Identification Object
21 ICMP: print RFC8335 PROBE extended echo/reply messages.
22 IEEE 802.11: include the Mesh ID field while printing management
24 NetFlow: Use tcp_flag_values[] for TCP flags.
25 NTP: Check that the entire extension field is in the capture even
27 NTP: Print kiss codes relevant for NTP debugging.
28 NTP: Use GET_U_1() to replace a direct dereference.
29 MPTCP: parse MPC data_len field, print flags from MP_CAPABLE option.
30 OSPF: Fix printing of Traffic Engineering Link TLVs to correctly
31 advance the packet data pointer
32 OSPF: Print more truncation indications
33 OSPF: Add more length checks
34 SLL2: Translate interface indices to names on Linux only.
35 RT6: Add a bounds check for the PadN TLV in Segment Routing Header.
36 TCP: Add support for the AE (AccECN) flag.
38 Add optional unit suffix on -C file size.
39 Add --print-sampling to print every Nth packet instead of all.
40 Add --lengths option to print the captured and original packet lengths.
41 Add --skip option to skip some packets before writing or printing.
42 Use a common routine to parse numerical arguments and check its
45 Drop support for building with versions of libpcap that don't
46 support all the libpcap 1.0 APIs.
47 Use %zu when printing a sizeof to squelch compiler warnings
48 Remove unused missing/strdup.c.
49 (FIXME: somebody please wrap the line below just before the release)
50 AODV, AppleTalk, BOOTP, CHDLC, DCCP, EAP, EGP, EIGRP, ForCES, Geneve, GRE, ICMP, Juniper, L2TP, LISP, mobile, MSDP, NetFlow, NFLOG, NTP, OLSR, pflog, PGM, RADIUS, RIP, RSVP, SCTP, SNMP, TCP, UDP, vsock: Modernize packet parsing style
51 DCCP, EGP: Replace custom code with tok2str()
52 UDP: Clean up address and port printing.
53 AppleTalk: Declutter appletalk.h.
54 IEEE 802.11: Simplify handle_action().
55 Provide GET_ macros for 4-byte and 8-byte floating-point numbers
56 and use them rather than custom code
57 Disregard setlinebuf(3), always use setvbuf(3).
58 Change Sun RPC code licence to BSD-3-Clause.
59 Use C99 macros to define 64-bit constants and maximum 64-bit
62 Autoconf: Remove detection of early IPv6 stacks.
63 Detect OS IPv6 support using AF_INET6 only.
64 Remove all remaining support for BSD/OS, IRIX, {OSF/1, Digital Unix,
65 Tru64 Unix}, SINIX and Ultrix.
66 Fix compiling on GNU/Hurd.
67 Make illumos build warning-free.
68 Makefile.in: Update the .c.o build rule (Remove hacks for old SunOS 4).
69 Autoconf: fix buggy tests for ether_ntohost().
70 Makefile.in: Do not install a version-suffixed tcpdump binary if the
71 .devel file does not exists.
72 tests: On HP-UX use "diff -c" by default.
73 autogen.sh: Allow to configure Autoconf warnings.
74 autogen.sh: Delete all trailing blank lines at end of configure.
76 man: Clarify the "any" pseudo-interface further.
78 DayOfTheWeek, Month DD, YYYY / The Tcpdump Group
79 Summary for 4.99.6 tcpdump release (so far!)
80 Refine protocol decoding for:
81 IPv6: Add a missing comma and remove a colon in the output.
82 TCP: Note if the Urgent Pointer is non-zero while URG flag not set,
83 if the verbose level is > 1 (option -vv and more).
84 TCP: Note if the Acknowledgment Number is non-zero while ACK flag not set,
85 if the verbose level is > 1 (option -vv and more).
86 TCP: Fix Reset segment processing.
87 IP, IPv6: Fix setting the snapshot length for the payload.
88 PTP: Remove spaces before colons in output.
89 PTP: Fix management packet fields.
91 Warn that options -A, -x[x] and -X[X] are mutually exclusive.
93 Fix '-tt' option printing when time > 2106-02-07T06:28:15Z.
94 Remove unused missing/snprintf.c.
96 Fixed to find wpcap.dll if WinPcap isn't installed and Npcap was
97 installed without the WinPcap API compatibility option. (GitHub
100 Makefile.in: Use a local libpcap in the releasecheck target.
101 CMake: Fix build with CMake 3.31.
102 autotools, CMake: don't separately test whether snprintf(3) is
103 available and whether it's suitable - the test for whether it's
104 suitable also fails if it's unavailable.
105 CMake: Skip snprintf(3) tests when cross-compiling.
106 autotools, CMake: fix issues with snprintf test and sanitizers.
107 CMake: check whether check_c_source_runs() works, treat the build
108 as a cross-compile if it doesn't work.
110 Friday, August 30, 2024 / The Tcpdump Group
111 Summary for 4.99.5 tcpdump release
112 Refine protocol decoding for:
113 Arista: Use the test .pcap file from pull request #955 (HwInfo).
114 BGP: Fix an undefined behavior when it tries to parse a too-short packet.
115 CARP: Print the protocol name before any GET_().
116 CDP: only hex-dump unknown TLVs in verbose mode.
117 DHCP: parse the SZTP redirect tag.
118 DHCPv6: client-id/server-id DUID type 2 correction; parse the user class,
119 boot file URL, and SZTP redirect options; add DUID-UUID printing
121 DNS: Detect and correctly handle too-short URI RRs.
122 EAP: Assign ndo_protocol in the eap_print() function.
123 ESP: Don't use EVP_add_cipher_alias() (fixes building on OpenBSD 7.5).
124 Frame Relay (Multilink): Fix the Timestamp Information Element printing.
125 ICMPv6: Fix printing the Home Agent Address Discovery Reply Message.
126 IEEE 802.11: no need for an element ID in the structures for IEs, make
127 the length in the IE structures a u_int, include the "TA" field while
128 printing Block Ack Control frame.
129 IP: Enable TSO (TCP Segmentation Offload) support; fix printing invalid
130 cases as invalid, not truncated; use ND_ICHECKMSG_ZU() to test the
132 IPv6: Fix printing invalid cases as invalid, not truncated; use
133 ND_ICHECKMSG_U() to print an invalid version.
134 IPv6: Fix invalid 32-bit versus 64-bit printouts of fragment headers.
135 ISAKMP: Fix printing Delete payload SPI when size is zero.
136 Kerberos: Print the protocol name, remove a redundant bounds check.
137 lwres: Fix an undefined behavior in pointer arithmetic.
138 OpenFlow 1.0: Fix indentation of PORT_MOD, improve handling of
139 some lengths, and fix handling of snapend.
140 TCP: Test ports < 1024 in port order to select the printer.
141 UDP: Move source port equal BCM_LI_PORT to bottom of long if else chain.
142 UDP: Test ports < 1024 in port order to select the printer.
143 LDP: Add missing fields of the Common Session Parameters TLV and fix the
144 offset for the A&D bits.
145 NFLOG: Use correct AF code points on all OSes.
146 NFS: Avoid printing non-ASCII characters.
147 OSPF: Pad TLVs in LS_OPAQUE_TYPE_RI to multiples of 4 bytes.
148 OSPF: Update LS-Ack printing not to run off the end of the packet.
149 OSPF6: Fix an undefined behavior.
150 pflog: use nd_ types in struct pfloghdr.
151 pflog: print some additional fields from the header (picked up
152 from the FreeBSD tcpdump).
153 pflog: handle all types of pflog files (as best as can be done)
154 pflog: print the ruleset if it's present, regardless of whether
155 the subrule is present (picked up from the OpenBSD tcpdump).
156 PPP: Check if there is some data to hexdump.
157 PPP: Remove an extra colon before LCP Callback Operation.
158 Use the buffer stack for de-escaping PPP; fixes CVE-2024-2397;
159 Note: This problem does not affect any tcpdump release.
160 PTP: Fix spelling of type SIGNALING, Parse major and minor version
161 correctly, Print majorSdoId field instead of just the first bit.
162 RIP: Make a couple trivial protocol updates.
163 RPKI-Router: Refine length and bounds checks.
164 RX: Use the "%Y-%m-%d" date format.
165 smbutil.c: Use the "%Y-%m-%d" date format.
166 SNMP: Fix two undefined behaviors.
167 Text protocols: Fix printing truncation if it is not the case.
168 ZEP: Use the "%Y-%m-%d" date format.
169 ZMTP: Replace custom code with bittok2str().
171 Print the supported time stamp types (-J) to stdout instead of stderr.
172 Print the list of data link types (-L) to stdout instead of stderr.
173 Use symmetrical quotation characters in error messages.
174 Update --version option to print 32/64-bit build and time_t size.
175 Improve error messages for invalid interface indexes specified
177 Support "3des" as an alias for "des_ede3_cbc" even if the crypto
178 library doesn't support adding aliases.
180 tcpdump: Fix a memory leak.
181 child_cleanup: reap as many child processes as possible.
182 Ignore failures when setting the default "any" device DLL to LINUX_SLL2.
183 Fix for backends which doesn't support capsicum.
184 Update ND_BYTES_BETWEEN() macro for better accuracy.
185 Update ND_BYTES_AVAILABLE_AFTER() macro for better accuracy.
186 Introduce new ND_ICHECK*() macros to deduplicate more code.
187 Skip privilege dropping when using -Z root on --with-user builds.
188 Add a nd_printjn() function.
189 Make nd_trunc_longjmp() not static inline.
190 Include <time.h> from netdissect.h.
191 Remove init_crc10_table() and the entourage.
192 Initialize tzcode early.
193 Capsicum support: Fix a 'not defined' macro error.
194 Update the "Error converting time" tests for packet times.
195 Fix warnings when building for 32-bit and defining _TIME_BITS=64.
196 Free interface list just before exiting where it wasn't being
198 Building and testing:
199 Add a configure option to help debugging (--enable-instrument-functions).
200 At build time require a proof of suitable snprintf(3) implementation in
201 libc (and document Solaris 9 as unsupported because of that).
202 Makefile.in: Add two "touch .devel" commands in the releasecheck target.
203 Autoconf: Get --with-user and --with-chroot right.
204 Autoconf: Fix --static-pcap-only test on Solaris 10.
205 Autoconf: Add some warning flags for clang 13 or newer.
206 Autoconf: Update config.{guess,sub}, timestamps 2024-01-01.
207 Autoconf: Add autogen.sh, remove configure and config.h.in and put
208 these generated files in the release tarball.
209 Autoconf: Update the install-sh script to the 2020-11-14.01 version.
210 configure: Apply autoupdate 2.69.
211 CMake: improve the comment before project(tcpdump C).
212 Do not require vsnprintf().
213 tests: Use the -tttt option, by default, for the tests.
214 Autoconf, CMake: Get the size of a void * and a time_t.
215 Fix propagation of cc_werr_cflags() output.
216 Makefile.in: Fix the depend target.
217 mkdep: Exit with a non-zero status if a command fails.
218 Autoconf: use V_INCLS to update the list of include search paths.
219 Autoconf: don't put anything before -I and -L flags for local libpcap.
220 Autoconf, CMake: work around an Xcode 15+ issue.
221 Autoconf, CMake: use pkg-config and Homebrew when looking for
223 Fix Sun C invocation from CMake.
224 mkdep: Use TMPDIR if it is set and not null.
225 Add initial support for building with TinyCC.
226 Makefile.in: Use the variable MAKE instead of the make command.
227 Makefile.in: Add instrumentation configuration in releasecheck target.
228 Make various improvements to the TESTrun script.
229 Untangle detection of pcap_findalldevs().
230 Autoconf: don't use egrep, use $EGREP.
231 Autoconf: check for gethostbyaddr(), not gethostbyname().
232 Autoconf, CMake: search for gethostbyaddr() in libnetwork.
233 Make illumos build warning-free.
235 Fixed errors in doc/README.Win32.md and renamed it to README.windows.md.
236 Make various improvements to the man page.
237 Add initial README file for Haiku.
238 Make various improvements to CONTRIBUTING.md.
240 Friday, April 7, 2023 / The Tcpdump Group
241 Summary for 4.99.4 tcpdump release
243 Fix spaces before tabs in indentation.
245 LSP ping: Fix "Unused value" warnings from Coverity.
246 CVE-2023-1801: Fix an out-of-bounds write in the SMB printer.
247 DNS: sync resource types with IANA.
248 ICMPv6: Update the output to show a RPL DAO field name.
249 Geneve: Fix the Geneve UDP port test.
250 Building and testing:
251 Require at least autoconf 2.69.
252 Don't check for strftime(), as it's in C90 and beyond.
253 Update config.{guess,sub}, timestamps 2023-01-01,2023-01-21.
255 man: Document TCP flag names better.
257 Thursday, January 12, 2023 / The Tcpdump Group
258 Summary for 4.99.3 tcpdump release
260 PTP: Use the proper values for the control field and print un-allocated
261 values for the message field as "Reserved" instead of "none".
263 smbutil.c: Replace obsolete function call (asctime)
264 Building and testing:
265 cmake: Update the minimum required version to 2.8.12 (except Windows).
266 CI: Introduce and use TCPDUMP_CMAKE_TAINTED.
267 Makefile.in: Add the releasecheck target.
268 Makefile.in: Add "make -s install" in the releasecheck target.
269 Cirrus CI: Run the "make releasecheck" command in the Linux task.
270 Makefile.in: Add the whitespacecheck target.
271 Cirrus CI: Run the "make whitespacecheck" command in the Linux task.
272 Address all shellcheck warnings in update-test.sh.
273 Makefile.in: Get rid of a remain of gnuc.h.
275 Reformat the installation notes (INSTALL.txt) in Markdown.
276 Convert CONTRIBUTING to Markdown.
277 CONTRIBUTING.md: Document the use of "protocol: " in a commit summary.
278 Add a README file for NetBSD.
279 Fix CMake build to set man page section numbers in tcpdump.1
281 Saturday, December 31, 2022 / The Tcpdump Group
282 Summary for 4.99.2 tcpdump release
284 BGP: Update cease notification decoding to RFC 9003.
285 BGP: decode BGP link-bandwidth extended community properly.
286 BGP: Fix parsing the AIGP attribute
287 BGP: make sure the path attributes don't go past the end of the packet.
288 BGP: Shutdown message can be up to 255 bytes length according to rfc9003
289 DSA: correctly determine VID.
290 EAP: fix some length checks and output issues.
291 802.11: Fix the misleading comment regarding "From DS", "To DS" Frame
293 802.11: Fetch the CF and TIM IEs a field at a time.
294 802.15.4, BGP, LISP: fix some length checks, compiler warnings,
295 and undefined behavior warnings.
296 PFLOG: handle LINKTYPE_PFLOG/DLT_PFLOG files from all OSes on all
298 RRCP: support more Realtek protocols than just RRCP.
299 MPLS: show the EXP field as TC, as per RFC 5462.
300 ICMP: redo MPLS Extension code as general ICMP Extension code.
301 VQP: Do not print unknown error codes twice.
302 Juniper: Add some bounds checks.
303 Juniper: Don't treat known DLT_ types as "Unknown".
304 lwres: Fix a length check, update a variable type.
305 EAP: Fix some undefined behaviors at runtime.
306 Ethernet: Rework the length checks, add a length check.
307 IPX: Add two length checks.
308 Zephyr: Avoid printing non-ASCII characters.
309 VRRP: Print the protocol name before any GET_().
310 DCCP: Get rid of trailing commas in lists.
311 Juniper: Report invalid packets as invalid, not truncated.
312 IPv6: Remove an obsolete code in an always-false #if wrapper.
313 ISAKMP: Use GET_U_1() to replace a direct dereference.
314 RADIUS: Use GET_U_1() to replace a direct dereference.
315 TCP: Fix an invalid check.
316 RESP: Fix an invalid check.
317 RESP: Remove an unnecessary test.
318 Arista: Refine the output format and print HwInfo.
319 sFlow: add support for IPv6 agent, add a length check.
320 VRRP: add support for IPv6.
321 OSPF: Update to match the Router Properties registry.
322 OSPF: Remove two unnecessary dereferences.
323 OSPF: Add support bit Nt RFC3101.
324 OSPFv3: Remove two unnecessary dereferences.
325 ICMPv6: Fix output for Router Renumbering messages.
326 ICMPv6: Fix the Node Information flags.
327 ICMPv6: Remove an unused macro and extra blank lines.
328 ICMPv6: Add a length check in the rpl_dio_print() function.
329 ICMPv6: Use GET_IP6ADDR_STRING() in the rpl_dio_print() function.
330 IPv6: Add some checks for the Hop-by-Hop Options header
331 IPv6: Add a check for the Jumbo Payload Hop-by-Hop option.
332 NFS: Fix the format for printing an unsigned int
333 PTP: fix printing of the correction fields
334 PTP: Use ND_LCHECK_U for checking invalid length.
335 WHOIS: Add its own printer source file and printer function
336 MPTCP: print length before subtype inside MPTCP options
337 ESP: Add a workaround to a "use-of-uninitialized-value".
338 PPP: Add tests to avoid incorrectly re-entering ppp_hdlc().
339 PPP: Don't process further if protocol is unknown (-e option).
340 PPP: Change the pointer to packet data.
341 ZEP: Add three length checks.
342 Add some const qualifiers.
343 Building and testing:
344 Update config.guess and config.sub.
345 Use AS_HELP_STRING macro instead of AC_HELP_STRING.
346 Handle some Autoconf/make errors better.
347 Fix an error when cross-compiling.
348 Use "git archive" for the "make releasetar" process.
349 Remove the release candidate rcX targets.
350 Mend "make check" on Solaris 9 with Autoconf.
351 Address assorted compiler warnings.
352 Fix auto-enabling of Capsicum on FreeBSD with Autoconf.
353 Treat "msys" as Windows for test exit statuses.
354 Clean up some help messages in configure.
355 Use unified diff by default.
356 Remove awk code from mkdep.
357 Fix configure test errors with Clang 15
358 CMake: Prevent stripping of the RPATH on installation.
359 AppVeyor CI: update Npcap site, update to 1.12 SDK.
360 Cirrus CI: Use the same configuration as for the main branch.
361 CI: Add back running tcpdump -J/-L and capture, now with Cirrus VMs.
362 Remove four test files (They are now in the libpcap tests directory).
363 On Solaris, for 64-bit builds, use the 64-bit pcap-config.
364 Tell CMake not to check for a C++ compiler.
365 CMake: Add a way to request -Werror and equivalents.
366 configure: Special-case macOS /usr/bin/pcap-config as we do in CMake.
367 configure: Use pcap-config --static-pcap-only if available.
368 configure: Use ac_c_werror_flag to force unknown compiler flags to fail.
369 configure: Use AC_COMPILE_IFELSE() and AC_LANG_SOURCE() for testing
371 Run the test that fails on OpenBSD only if we're not on OpenBSD.
373 Fix some snapend-changing routines to protect against pointer
375 Use __func__ from C99 in some function calls.
376 Memory allocator: Update nd_add_alloc_list() to a static function.
377 addrtoname.c: Fix two invalid tests.
378 Use more S_SUCCESS and S_ERR_HOST_PROGRAM in main().
379 Add some comments about "don't use GET_IP6ADDR_STRING()".
380 Assign ndo->ndo_packetp in pretty_print_packet().
381 Add ND_LCHECKMSG_U, ND_LCHECK_U, ND_LCHECKMSG_ZU and ND_LCHECK_ZU macros.
382 Update tok2strbuf() to a static function.
383 netdissect.h: Keep the link-layer dissectors names sorted.
384 setsignal(): Set SA_RESTART on non-lethal signals (REQ_INFO, FLUSH_PCAP)
385 to avoid corrupting binary pcap output.
386 Use __builtin_unreachable().
387 Fail if nd_push_buffer() or nd_push_snaplen() fails.
388 Improve code style and fix many typos.
390 Some man page cleanups.
391 Update the print interface for the packet count to stdout.
392 Note that we require compilers to support at least some of C99.
393 Update AIX and Solaris-related specifics.
394 INSTALL.txt: Add doc/README.*, delete the deleted win32 directory.
395 Update README.md and README.Win32.md.
396 Update some comments with new RFC numbers.
398 Wednesday, June 9, 2021 by gharris
399 Summary for 4.99.1 tcpdump release
401 Squelch some compiler warnings
402 ICMP: Update the snapend for some nested IP packets.
403 MACsec: Update the snapend thus the ICV field is not payload
405 EIGRP: Fix packet header fields
406 SMB: Disable printer by default in CMake builds
407 OLSR: Print the protocol name even if the packet is invalid
408 MSDP: Print ": " before the protocol name
409 ESP: Remove padding, padding length and next header from the buffer
410 DHCPv6: Update the snapend for nested DHCPv6 packets
411 OpenFlow 1.0: Get snapend right for nested frames.
412 TCP: Update the snapend before decoding a MPTCP option
413 Ethernet, IEEE 802.15.4, IP, L2TP, TCP, ZEP: Add bounds checks
414 ForCES: Refine SPARSEDATA-TLV length check.
415 ASCII/hex: Use nd_trunc_longjmp() in truncation cases
416 GeoNet: Add a ND_TCHECK_LEN() call
417 Replace ND_TCHECK_/memcpy() pairs with GET_CPY_BYTES().
418 BGP: Fix overwrites of global 'astostr' temporary buffer
419 ARP: fix overwrites of static buffer in q922_string().
420 Frame Relay: have q922_string() handle errors better.
421 Building and testing:
422 Rebuild configure script when building release
423 Fix "make clean" for out-of-tree autotools builds
424 CMake: add stuff from CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH to PKG_CONFIG_PATH.
426 man: Update a reference as www.cifs.org is gone.
427 man: Update DNS sections
429 Fix a compile error with Sun C
431 Wednesday, December 30, 2020, by mcr@sandelman.ca, denis and fxl.
432 Summary for 4.99.0 tcpdump release
433 CVE-2018-16301: For the -F option handle large input files safely.
434 Improve the contents, wording and formatting of the man page.
435 Print unsupported link-layer protocol packets in hex.
436 Add support for new network protocols and DLTs: Arista, Autosar SOME/IP,
437 Broadcom LI and Ethernet switches tag, IEEE 802.15.9, IP-over-InfiniBand
438 (IPoIB), Linux SLL2, Linux vsockmon, MACsec, Marvell Distributed Switch
439 Architecture, OpenFlow 1.3, Precision Time Protocol (PTP), SSH, WHOIS,
440 ZigBee Encapsulation Protocol (ZEP).
441 Make protocol-specific updates for: AH, DHCP, DNS, ESP, FRF.16, HNCP,
442 ICMP6, IEEE 802.15.4, IPv6, IS-IS, Linux SLL, LLDP, LSP ping, MPTCP, NFS,
443 NSH, NTP, OSPF, OSPF6, PGM, PIM, PPTP, RADIUS, RSVP, Rx, SMB, UDLD,
446 Make SLL2 the default for Linux "any" pseudo-device.
447 Add --micro and --nano shorthands.
448 Add --count to print a counter only instead of decoding.
449 Add --print, to cause packet printing even with -w.
450 Add support for remote capture if libpcap supports it.
451 Display the "wireless" flag and connection status.
452 Flush the output packet buffer on a SIGUSR2.
453 Add the snapshot length to the "reading from file ..." message.
454 Fix local time printing (DST offset in timestamps).
455 Allow -C arguments > 2^31-1 GB if they can fit into a long.
456 Handle very large -f files by rejecting them.
457 Report periodic stats only when safe to do so.
458 Print the number of packets captured only as often as necessary.
459 With no -s, or with -s 0, don't specify the snapshot length with newer
461 Improve version and usage message printing.
462 Building and testing:
463 Install into bindir, not sbindir.
464 autoconf: replace --with-system-libpcap with --disable-local-libpcap.
465 Require the compiler to support C99.
466 Better detect and use various C compilers and their features.
467 Add CMake as the second build system.
468 Make out-of-tree builds more reliable.
469 Use pkg-config to detect libpcap if available.
470 Improve Windows support.
471 Add more tests and improve the scripts that run them.
472 Test both with "normal" and "x87" floating-point.
473 Eliminate dependency on libdnet.
475 Print a proper error message about monitor mode VAP.
476 Use libcasper if available.
477 Fix failure to capture on RDMA device.
478 Include the correct capsicum header.
480 Start the transition to longjmp() for packet truncation handling.
481 Introduce new helper functions, including GET_*(), nd_print_protocol(),
482 nd_print_invalid(), nd_print_trunc(), nd_trunc_longjmp() and others.
483 Put integer signedness right in many cases.
484 Introduce nd_uint*, nd_mac_addr, nd_ipv4 and nd_ipv6 types to fix
485 alignment issues, especially on SPARC.
486 Fix many C compiler, Coverity, UBSan and cppcheck warnings.
487 Fix issues detected with AddressSanitizer.
488 Remove many workarounds for older compilers and OSes.
489 Add a sanity check on packet header length.
490 Add and remove plenty of bounds checks.
491 Clean up pcap_findalldevs() call to find the first interface.
492 Use a short timeout, rather than immediate mode, for text output.
493 Handle DLT_ENC files *not* written on the same OS and byte-order host.
494 Add, and use, macros to do locale-independent case mapping.
495 Use a table instead of getprotobynumber().
496 Get rid of ND_UNALIGNED and ND_TCHECK().
497 Make roundup2() generally available.
498 Resync SMI list against Wireshark.
501 Friday, September 20, 2019, by mcr@sandelman.ca
502 A huge thank you to Denis, Francois-Xavier and Guy who did much of the heavy lifting.
503 Summary for 4.9.3 tcpdump release
504 Fix buffer overflow/overread vulnerabilities:
506 CVE-2018-14468 (FrameRelay)
507 CVE-2018-14469 (IKEv1)
508 CVE-2018-14470 (BABEL)
509 CVE-2018-14466 (AFS/RX)
511 CVE-2018-14462 (ICMP)
512 CVE-2018-14465 (RSVP)
515 CVE-2018-14463 (VRRP)
517 CVE-2018-10103 (SMB - partially fixed, but SMB printing disabled)
518 CVE-2018-10105 (SMB - too unreliably reproduced, SMB printing disabled)
519 CVE-2018-14880 (OSPF6)
522 CVE-2018-16227 (802.11)
523 CVE-2018-16229 (DCCP)
527 CVE-2018-16228 (HNCP)
529 CVE-2019-15167 (VRRP)
530 Fix for cmdline argument/local issues:
531 CVE-2018-14879 (tcpdump -V)
533 Sunday September 3, 2017 denis@ovsienko.info
534 Summary for 4.9.2 tcpdump release
535 Do not use getprotobynumber() for protocol name resolution. Do not do
536 any protocol name resolution if -n is specified.
537 Improve errors detection in the test scripts.
538 Fix a segfault with OpenSSL 1.1 and improve OpenSSL usage.
539 Clean up IS-IS printing.
540 Fix buffer overflow vulnerabilities:
541 CVE-2017-11543 (SLIP)
542 CVE-2017-13011 (bittok2str_internal)
543 Fix infinite loop vulnerabilities:
544 CVE-2017-12989 (RESP)
545 CVE-2017-12990 (ISAKMP)
547 CVE-2017-12997 (LLDP)
548 Fix buffer over-read vulnerabilities:
549 CVE-2017-11541 (safeputs)
550 CVE-2017-11542 (PIMv1)
551 CVE-2017-12893 (SMB/CIFS)
552 CVE-2017-12894 (lookup_bytestring)
553 CVE-2017-12895 (ICMP)
554 CVE-2017-12896 (ISAKMP)
555 CVE-2017-12897 (ISO CLNS)
557 CVE-2017-12899 (DECnet)
558 CVE-2017-12900 (tok2strbuf)
559 CVE-2017-12901 (EIGRP)
560 CVE-2017-12902 (Zephyr)
561 CVE-2017-12985 (IPv6)
562 CVE-2017-12986 (IPv6 routing headers)
563 CVE-2017-12987 (IEEE 802.11)
564 CVE-2017-12988 (telnet)
566 CVE-2017-12992 (RIPng)
567 CVE-2017-12993 (Juniper)
569 CVE-2017-12996 (PIMv2)
570 CVE-2017-12998 (ISO IS-IS)
571 CVE-2017-12999 (ISO IS-IS)
572 CVE-2017-13000 (IEEE 802.15.4)
574 CVE-2017-13002 (AODV)
576 CVE-2017-13004 (Juniper)
578 CVE-2017-13006 (L2TP)
579 CVE-2017-13007 (Apple PKTAP)
580 CVE-2017-13008 (IEEE 802.11)
581 CVE-2017-13009 (IPv6 mobility)
582 CVE-2017-13010 (BEEP)
583 CVE-2017-13012 (ICMP)
585 CVE-2017-13014 (White Board)
587 CVE-2017-11543 (SLIP)
588 CVE-2017-13016 (ISO ES-IS)
589 CVE-2017-13017 (DHCPv6)
593 CVE-2017-13021 (ICMPv6)
595 CVE-2017-13023 (IPv6 mobility)
596 CVE-2017-13024 (IPv6 mobility)
597 CVE-2017-13025 (IPv6 mobility)
598 CVE-2017-13026 (ISO IS-IS)
599 CVE-2017-13027 (LLDP)
600 CVE-2017-13028 (BOOTP)
603 CVE-2017-13031 (IPv6 fragmentation header)
604 CVE-2017-13032 (RADIUS)
607 CVE-2017-13035 (ISO IS-IS)
608 CVE-2017-13036 (OSPFv3)
611 CVE-2017-13039 (ISAKMP)
612 CVE-2017-13040 (MPTCP)
613 CVE-2017-13041 (ICMPv6)
614 CVE-2017-13042 (HNCP)
616 CVE-2017-13044 (HNCP)
619 CVE-2017-13047 (ISO ES-IS)
620 CVE-2017-13048 (RSVP)
622 CVE-2017-13050 (RPKI-Router)
623 CVE-2017-13051 (RSVP)
626 CVE-2017-13054 (LLDP)
627 CVE-2017-13055 (ISO IS-IS)
628 CVE-2017-13687 (Cisco HDLC)
629 CVE-2017-13688 (OLSR)
630 CVE-2017-13689 (IKEv1)
631 CVE-2017-13690 (IKEv2)
632 CVE-2017-13725 (IPv6 routing headers)
634 Sunday July 23, 2017 denis@ovsienko.info
635 Summary for 4.9.1 tcpdump release
636 CVE-2017-11108/Fix bounds checking for STP.
637 Make assorted documentation updates and fix a few typos in tcpdump output.
638 Fixup -C for file size >2GB (GH #488).
639 Show AddressSanitizer presence in version output.
640 Fix a bug in test scripts (exposed in GH #613).
641 On FreeBSD adjust Capsicum capabilities for netmap.
642 On Linux fix a use-after-free when the requested interface does not exist.
644 Wednesday January 18, 2017 devel.fx.lebail@orange.fr
645 Summary for 4.9.0 tcpdump release
647 Fix some heap overflows found with American Fuzzy Lop by Hanno Boeck and others
648 (More information in the log with CVE-2016-* and CVE-2017-*)
649 Change the way protocols print link-layer addresses (Fix heap overflows
650 in CALM-FAST and GeoNetworking printers)
651 Pass correct caplen value to ether_print() and some other functions
652 Fix lookup_nsap() to match what isonsap_string() expects
653 Clean up relative time stamp printing (Fix an array overflow)
654 Fix some alignment issues with GCC on Solaris 10 SPARC
655 Add some ND_TTEST_/ND_TCHECK_ macros to simplify writing bounds checks
656 Add a fn_printztn() which returns the number of bytes processed
657 Add nd_init() and nd_cleanup() functions. Improve libsmi support
658 Add CONTRIBUTING file
659 Add a summary comment in all printers
660 Compile with more warning options in devel mode if supported (-Wcast-qual, ...)
661 Fix some leaks found by Valgrind/Memcheck
662 Fix a bunch of de-constifications
663 Squelch some Coverity warnings and some compiler warnings
664 Update Coverity and Travis-CI setup
665 Update Visual Studio files
668 Fix capsicum support to work with zerocopy buffers in bpf
669 Try opening interfaces by name first, then by name-as-index
670 Work around pcap_create() failures fetching time stamp type lists
671 Fix a segmentation fault with 'tcpdump -J'
672 Improve addrtostr6() bounds checking
673 Add exit_tcpdump() function
674 Don't drop CAP_SYS_CHROOT before chrooting
675 Fixes issue where statistics not reported when -G and -W options used
678 802.11: Beginnings of 11ac radiotap support
679 802.11: Check the Protected bit for management frames
680 802.11: Do bounds checking on last_presentp before dereferencing it (Fix a heap overflow)
681 802.11: Fix the radiotap printer to handle the special bits correctly
682 802.11: If we have the MCS field, it's 11n
683 802.11: Only print unknown frame type or subtype messages once
684 802.11: Radiotap dBm values get printed as dB; Update a test output accordingly
685 802.11: Source and destination addresses were backwards
686 AH: Add a bounds check
687 AH: Report to our caller that dissection failed if a bounds check fails
688 AP1394: Print src > dst, not dst > src
689 ARP: Don't assume the target hardware address is <= 6 octets long (Fix a heap overflow)
690 ATALK: Add bounds and length checks (Fix heap overflows)
691 ATM: Add some bounds checks (Fix a heap overflow)
692 ATM: Fix an incorrect bounds check
693 BFD: Update specification from draft to RFC 5880
694 BFD: Update to print optional authentication field
695 BGP: Add support for the AIGP attribute (RFC7311)
696 BGP: Print LARGE_COMMUNITY Path Attribute
697 BGP: Update BGP numbers from IANA; Print minor values for FSM notification
698 BOOTP: Add a bounds check
699 Babel: Add decoder for source-specific extension
700 CDP: Filter out non-printable characters
701 CFM: Fixes to match the IEEE standard, additional bounds and length checks
702 CSLIP: Add more bounds checks (Fix a heap overflow)
703 ClassicalIPoATM: Add a bounds check on LLC+SNAP header (Fix a heap overflow)
704 DHCP: Fix MUDURL and TZ options
705 DHCPv6: Process MUDURL and TZ options
706 DHCPv6: Update Status Codes with RFCs/IANA names
707 DNS: Represent the "DNSSEC OK" bit as "DO" instead of "OK". Add a test case
708 DTP: Improve packet integrity checks
709 EGP: Fix bounds checks
710 ESP: Don't use OpenSSL_add_all_algorithms() in OpenSSL 1.1.0 or later
711 Ethernet: Add some bounds checking before calling isoclns_print (Fix a heap overflow)
712 Ethernet: Print the Length/Type field as length when needed
713 FDDI: Fix -e output for FDDI
714 FR: Add some packet-length checks and improve Q.933 printing (Fix heap overflows)
715 GRE: Add some bounds checks (Fix heap overflows)
716 Geneve: Fix error message with invalid option length; Update list option classes
717 HNCP: Fix incorrect time interval format. Fix handling of IPv4 prefixes
718 ICMP6: Fetch a 32-bit big-endian quantity with EXTRACT_32BITS()
719 IGMP: Add a length check
720 IP: Add a bounds check (Fix a heap overflow)
721 IP: Check before fetching the protocol version (Fix a heap overflow)
722 IP: Don't try to dissect if IP version != 4 (Fix a heap overflow)
723 IP: Stop processing IPPROTO_ values once we hit IPPROTO_IPCOMP
724 IPComp: Check whether we have the CPI before we fetch it (Fix a heap overflow)
725 IPoFC: Fix -e output (IP-over-Fibre Channel)
726 IPv6: Don't overwrite the destination IPv6 address for routing headers
727 IPv6: Fix header printing
728 IPv6: Stop processing IPPROTO_ values once we hit IPPROTO_IPCOMP
729 ISAKMP: Clean up parsing of IKEv2 Security Associations
730 ISOCLNS/IS-IS: Add support for Purge Originator Identifier (RFC6232) and test cases
731 ISOCLNS/IS-IS: Don't overwrite packet data when checking the signature
732 ISOCLNS/IS-IS: Filter out non-printable characters
733 ISOCLNS/IS-IS: Fix segmentation faults
734 ISOCLNS/IS-IS: Have signature_verify() do the copying and clearing
735 ISOCLNS: Add some bounds checks
736 Juniper: Make sure a Juniper header TLV isn't bigger than what's left in the packet (Fix a heap overflow)
737 LLC/SNAP: With -e, print the LLC header before the SNAP header; without it, cut the SNAP header
738 LLC: Add a bounds check (Fix a heap overflow)
739 LLC: Clean up printing of LLC packets
740 LLC: Fix the printing of RFC 948-style IP packets
741 LLC: Skip the LLC and SNAP headers with -x for 802.11 and some other protocols
742 LLDP: Implement IANA OUI and LLDP MUD option
743 MPLS LSP ping: Update printing for RFC 4379, bug fixes, more bounds checks
744 MPLS: "length" is now the *remaining* packet length
745 MPLS: Add bounds and length checks (Fix a heap overflow)
746 NFS: Don't assume the ONC RPC header is nicely aligned
747 NFS: Don't overflow the Opaque_Handle buffer (Fix a segmentation fault)
748 NFS: Don't run past the end of an NFSv3 file handle
749 OLSR: Add a test to cover a HNA sgw case
750 OLSR: Fix 'Advertised networks' count
751 OLSR: Fix printing of smart-gateway HNAs in IPv4
752 OSPF: Add a bounds check for the Hello packet options
753 OSPF: Do more bounds checking
754 OSPF: Fix a segmentation fault
755 OSPF: Fix printing 'ospf_topology_values' default
756 OTV: Add missing bounds checks
757 PGM: Print the formatted IP address, not the raw binary address, as a string
758 PIM: Add some bounds checking (Fix a heap overflow)
759 PIMv2: Fix checksumming of Register messages
760 PPP: Add some bounds checks (Fix a heap overflow)
761 PPP: Report invalid PAP AACK/ANAK packets
762 Q.933: Add a missing bounds check
763 RADIUS: Add Value 13 "VLAN" to Tunnel-Type attribute
764 RADIUS: Filter out non-printable characters
765 RADIUS: Translate UDP/1700 as RADIUS
766 RESP: Do better checking of RESP packets
767 RPKI-RTR: Add a return value check for "fn_printn" call
768 RPKI-RTR: Remove printing when truncated condition already detected
769 RPL: Fix 'Consistency Check' control code
770 RPL: Fix suboption print
771 RSVP: An INTEGRITY object in a submessage covers only the submessage
772 RSVP: Fix an infinite loop; Add bounds and length checks
773 RSVP: Fix some if statements missing brackets
774 RSVP: Have signature_verify() do the copying and clearing
775 RTCP: Add some bounds checks
776 RTP: Add some bounds checks, fix two segmentation faults
777 SCTP: Do more bounds checking
778 SFLOW: Fix bounds checking
779 SLOW: Fix bugs, add checks
780 SMB: Before fetching the flags2 field, make sure we have it
781 SMB: Do bounds checks on NBNS resource types and resource data lengths
782 SNMP: Clean up the "have libsmi but no modules loaded" case
783 SNMP: Clean up the object abbreviation list and fix the code to match them
784 SNMP: Do bounds checks when printing character and octet strings
785 SNMP: Improve ASN.1 bounds checks
786 SNMP: More bounds and length checks
787 STP: Add a bunch of bounds checks, and fix some printing (Fix heap overflows)
788 STP: Filter out non-printable characters
789 TCP: Add bounds and length checks for packets with TCP option 20
790 TCP: Correct TCP option Kind value for TCP Auth and add SCPS-TP
791 TCP: Fix two bounds checks (Fix heap overflows)
792 TCP: Make sure we have the data offset field before fetching it (Fix a heap overflow)
793 TCP: Put TCP-AO option decoding right
794 TFTP: Don't use strchr() to scan packet data (Fix a heap overflow)
795 Telnet: Add some bounds checks
796 TokenRing: Fix -e output
797 UDLD: Fix an infinite loop
798 UDP: Add a bounds check (Fix a heap overflow)
799 UDP: Check against the packet length first
800 VAT: Add some bounds checks
801 VTP: Add a test on Mgmt Domain Name length
802 VTP: Add bounds checks and filter out non-printable characters
803 VXLAN: Add a bound check and a test case
804 ZeroMQ: Fix an infinite loop
806 Tuesday October 25, 2016 mcr@sandelman.ca
807 Summary for 4.8.1 tcpdump release
808 Fix "-x" for Apple PKTAP and PPI packets
809 Improve separation frontend/backend (tcpdump/libnetdissect)
810 Fix display of timestamps with -tt, -ttt and -ttttt options
811 Add support for the Marvell Extended Distributed Switch Architecture header
812 Use PRIx64 to print a 64-bit number in hex.
813 Printer for HNCP (RFCs 7787 and 7788).
814 dagid is always an IPv6 address, not an opaque 128-bit string, and other fixes to RPL printer.
815 RSVP: Add bounds and length checks
816 OSPF: Do more bounds checking
817 Handle OpenSSL 1.1.x.
818 Initial support for the REdis Serialization Protocol known as RESP.
819 Add printing function for Generic Protocol Extension for VXLAN
820 draft-ietf-nvo3-vxlan-gpe-01
821 Network Service Header: draft-ietf-sfc-nsh-01
822 Don't recompile the filter if the new file has the same DLT.
823 Pass an adjusted struct pcap_pkthdr to the sub-printer.
824 Add three test cases for already fixed CVEs
826 CVE-2014-8768: Geonet
828 Don't do the DDP-over-UDP heuristic first: GitHub issue #499.
829 Use the new debugging routines in libpcap.
830 Harmonize TCP source or destination ports tests with UDP ones
831 Introduce data types to use for integral values in packet structures.
832 RSVP: Fix an infinite loop
833 Support of Type 3 and Type 4 LISP packets.
834 Don't require IPv6 library support in order to support IPv6 addresses.
835 Many many changes to support libnetdissect usage.
836 Add a test that makes unaligned accesses: GitHub issue #478.
837 add a DNSSEC test case: GH #445 and GH #467.
838 BGP: add decoding of ADD-PATH capability
839 fixes to LLC header printing, and RFC948-style IP packets
841 Friday April 10, 2015 guy@alum.mit.edu
842 Summary for 4.7.4 tcpdump release
843 RPKI to Router Protocol: Fix Segmentation Faults and other problems
844 RPKI to Router Protocol: print strings with fn_printn()
845 wb: fix some bounds checks
847 Wednesday March 11, 2015 mcr@sandelman.ca
848 Summary for 4.7.3 tcpdump release
849 Capsicum fixes for FreeBSD 10
851 Tuesday March 10, 2015 mcr@sandelman.ca
852 Summary for 4.7.2 tcpdump release
853 DCCP: update Packet Types with RFC4340/IANA names
854 fixes for CVE-2015-0261: IPv6 mobility header check issue
855 fixes for CVE-2015-2153, 2154, 2155: kday packets
857 Friday Nov. 12, 2014 guy@alum.mit.edu
858 Summary for 4.7.0 tcpdump release
859 changes to hex printing of CDP packets
861 Radius: update Packet Type Codes and Attribute Types with RFC/IANA names
862 Add a routine to print "text protocols", and add FTP/HTTP/SMTP/RTSP support.
863 improvements to telnet printer, even if not -v
864 omit length for bcp, print-tcp uses it
865 formatting fixes for a bunch of protocols
866 new bounds checks for a number of protocols
867 split netflow 1,6, and 6 dissector up.
868 added geneve dissector
869 CVE-2014-9140 PPP dissector fixed.
871 Tuesday Sep. 2, 2014 mcr@sandelman.ca
872 Summary for 4.6.2 tcpdump release
873 fix out-of-source-tree builds: find libpcap that is out of source
874 better configure check for libsmi
876 Saturday Jul. 19, 2014 mcr@sandelman.ca
877 Summary for 4.6.1 tcpdump release
878 added FreeBSD capsicum
879 add a short option '#', same as long option '--number'
881 Wednesday Jul. 2, 2014 mcr@sandelman.ca
882 Summary for 4.6.0 tcpdump release
883 all of tcpdump is now using the new "NDO" code base (Thanks Denis!)
884 nflog, mobile, forces, pptp, AODV, AHCP, IPv6, OSPFv4, RPL, DHCPv6 enhancements/fixes
886 many new test cases: 82 in 4.5.1 to 133 in 4.6.0
887 many improvements to travis continuous integration system: OSX, and Coverity options
888 cleaned up some unnecessary header files
890 a number of unaligned access faults fixed
891 -A flag does not consider CR to be printable anymore
892 fx.lebail took over coverity baby sitting
893 default snapshot size increased to 256K for accommodate USB captures
894 WARNING: this release contains a lot of very worthwhile code churn.
896 Wednesday Jan. 15, 2014 guy@alum.mit.edu
897 Summary for 4.5.2 tcpdump release
901 Monday Nov. 11, 2013 mcr@sandelman.ca
902 Summary for 4.5.1 tcpdump release
905 Thursday Nov. 7, 2013 mcr@sandelman.ca and guy@alum.mit.edu.
906 Summary for 4.5.0 tcpdump release
907 some NFSv4 fixes for printing
908 fix printing of unknown TCP options, and tcp fast-open
909 fixes for syslog parser
910 some gcc-version-specific flag tuning
911 adopt MacOS deprecation workarounds for openssl
912 improvements to babel printing
913 add OpenFlow 1.0 (no SSL) and test cases
915 added STBC Rx support
916 improvements to DHCPv6 decoder
917 clarify which autoconf is needed
918 Point users to the the-tcpdump-group repository on GitHub rather
919 than the mcr repository
921 Fixed IPv6 check on Solaris and other OSes requiring extra
922 networking libraries.
923 Add support for VXLAN (draft-mahalingam-dutt-dcops-vxlan-03),
924 and add "vxlan" as an option for -T.
925 Add support for OTV (draft-hasmit-otv-04).
926 fixes for DLT_IEEE802_11_RADIO datalink types
929 Saturday April 6, 2013 guy@alum.mit.edu.
930 Summary for 4.4.0 tcpdump release
931 RPKI-RTR (RFC6810) is now official (TCP Port 323)
932 Fix detection of OpenSSL libcrypto.
933 Add DNSSL (RFC6106) support.
934 Add "radius" as an option for -T.
935 Update Action codes for handle_action function according to
937 Decode DHCPv6 AFTR-Name option (RFC6334).
939 Fix printing of infinite lifetime in ICMPv6.
940 Added support for SPB, SPBM Service Identifier, and Unicast
941 Address sub-TLV in ISIS.
942 Decode RIPv2 authentication up to RFC4822.
943 Fix RIP Request/full table decoding issues.
944 On Linux systems with cap-ng.h, drop root privileges
945 using Linux Capabilities.
946 Add support for reading multiple files.
947 Add MS NLB heartbeat printer.
948 Separate multiple nexthops in BGP.
950 Wednesday November 28, 2012 guy@alum.mit.edu.
951 Summary for 4.3.1 tcpdump release
952 Print "LLDP, length N" for LLDP packets even when not in verbose
953 mode, so something is printed even if only the timestamp is
956 Print NTP poll interval correctly (it's an exponent, so print
957 both its raw value and 2^value)
958 Document that "-e" is used to get MAC addresses
959 More clearly document that you need to escape or quote
960 backslashes in filter expressions on the command line
961 Fix some "the the" in the man page
962 Use the right maximum path length
963 Don't treat 192_1_2, when passed to -i, as an interface number
965 Friday April 3, 2012. mcr@sandelman.ca.
966 Summary for 4.3.0 tcpdump release
967 fixes for forces: SPARSE data (per RFC 5810)
968 some more test cases added
969 updates to documentation on -l, -U and -w flags.
970 Fix printing of BGP optional headers.
971 Tried to include DLT_PFSYNC support, failed due to headers required.
973 Fix LLDP Network Policy bit definitions.
974 fixes for IGMPv3's Max Response Time: it is in units of 0.1 second.
975 SIGUSR1 can be used rather than SIGINFO for stats
976 permit -n flag to affect print-ip for protocol numbers
977 ND_OPT_ADVINTERVAL is in milliseconds, not seconds
978 Teach PPPoE parser about RFC 4638
981 Friday December 9, 2011. guy@alum.mit.edu.
982 Summary for 4.2.1 tcpdump release
983 Only build the Babel printer if IPv6 is enabled.
984 Support Babel on port 6696 as well as 6697.
985 Include ppi.h in release tarball.
986 Include all the test files in the release tarball, and don't
987 "include" test files that no longer exist.
988 Don't assume we have <rpc/rpc.h> - check for it.
989 Support "-T carp" as a way of dissecting IP protocol 112 as CARP
991 Support Hilscher NetAnalyzer link-layer header format.
992 Constify some pointers and fix compiler warnings.
993 Get rid of never-true test.
994 Fix an unintended fall-through in a case statement in the ARP
996 Fix several cases where sizeof(sizeof(XXX)) was used when just
997 sizeof(XXX) was intended.
998 Make stricter sanity checks in the ES-IS printer.
999 Get rid of some GCCisms that caused builds to fai with compilers
1000 that don't support them.
1001 Fix typo in man page.
1002 Added length checks to Babel printer.
1004 Sunday July 24, 2011. mcr@sandelman.ca.
1006 merged 802.15.4 decoder from Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov
1008 updates to forces for new port numbers
1009 Use "-H", not "-h", for the 802.11s option. (-h always help)
1010 Better ICMPv6 checksum handling.
1011 add support for the RPKI/Router Protocol, per -ietf-sidr-rpki-rtr-12
1012 get rid of uuencoded pcap test files, git can do binary.
1013 sFlow changes for 64-bit counters.
1014 fixes for PPI packet header handling and printing.
1015 Add DCB Exchange protocol (DCBX) version 1.01.
1016 Babel dissector, from Juliusz Chroboczek and Grégoire Henry.
1017 improvements to radiotap for rate values > 127.
1018 Many improvements to ForCES decode, including fix SCTP TML port
1019 updated RPL type code to RPL-17 draft
1020 Improve printout of DHCPv6 options.
1021 added support and test case for QinQ (802.1q VLAN) packets
1022 Handle DLT_IEEE802_15_4_NOFCS like DLT_IEEE802_15_4.
1023 Build fixes for Sparc and other machines with alignment restrictions.
1024 Merged changes from Debian package.
1025 PGM: Add ACK decoding and add PGMCC DATA and FEEDBACK options.
1026 Build fixes for OSX (Snow Leopard and others)
1027 Add support for IEEE 802.15.4 packets
1029 Tue. July 20, 2010. guy@alum.mit.edu.
1030 Summary for 4.1.2 tcpdump release
1031 If -U is specified, flush the file after creating it, so it's
1033 Fix TCP flags output description, and some typos, in the man
1035 Add a -h flag, and only attempt to recognize 802.11s mesh
1037 When printing the link-layer type list, send *all* output to
1039 Include the CFLAGS setting when configure was run in the
1042 Thu. April 1, 2010. guy@alum.mit.edu.
1043 Summary for 4.1.1 tcpdump release
1044 Fix build on systems with PF, such as FreeBSD and OpenBSD.
1045 Don't blow up if a zero-length link-layer address is passed to
1048 Thu. March 11, 2010. ken@netfunctional.ca/guy@alum.mit.edu.
1049 Summary for 4.1.0 tcpdump release
1050 Fix printing of MAC addresses for VLAN frames with a length
1052 Add some additional bounds checks and use the EXTRACT_ macros
1054 Add a -b flag to print the AS number in BGP packets in ASDOT
1055 notation rather than ASPLAIN notation
1056 Add ICMPv6 RFC 5006 support
1057 Decode the access flags in NFS access requests
1058 Handle the new DLT_ for memory-mapped USB captures on Linux
1059 Make the default snapshot (-s) the maximum
1060 Print name of device (when -L is used)
1061 Support for OpenSolaris (and SXCE build 125 and later)
1063 Add support for RPL DIO
1064 Add support for TCP User Timeout (UTO)
1065 Add support for non-standard Ethertypes used by 3com PPPoE gear
1066 Add support for 802.11n and 802.11s
1067 Add support for Transparent Ethernet Bridge ethertype in GRE
1068 Add 4 byte AS support for BGP printer
1069 Add support for the MDT SAFI 66 BG printer
1070 Add basic IPv6 support to print-olsr
1072 Add printer for ForCES
1073 Handle frames with an FCS
1074 Handle 802.11n Control Wrapper, Block Acq Req and Block Ack frames
1075 Fix TCP sequence number printing
1076 Report 802.2 packets as 802.2 instead of 802.3
1077 Don't include -L/usr/lib in LDFLAGS
1078 On x86_64 Linux, look in lib64 directory too
1079 Lots of code clean ups
1081 Update testcases to make output changes
1082 Fix compiling with/out smi (--with{,out}-smi)
1083 Fix compiling without IPv6 support (--disable-ipv6)
1085 Mon. October 27, 2008. ken@netfunctional.ca. Summary for 4.0.0 tcpdump release
1086 Add support for Bluetooth Sniffing
1087 Add support for Realtek Remote Control Protocol (openrrcp.org.ru)
1088 Add support for 802.11 AVS
1089 Add support for SMB over TCP
1090 Add support for 4 byte BGP AS printing
1091 Add support for compiling on case-insensitive file systems
1092 Add support for ikev2 printing
1093 Update support for decoding AFS
1094 Update DHCPv6 printer
1095 Use newer libpcap API's (allows -B option on all platforms)
1096 Add -I to turn on monitor mode
1097 Bugfixes in lldp, lspping, dccp, ESP, NFS printers
1098 Cleanup unused files and various cruft
1100 Mon. September 10, 2007. ken@xelerance.com. Summary for 3.9.8 tcpdump release
1102 Rework OSPFv3 printer
1103 Add support for Frame-Relay ARP
1104 Decode DHCP Option 121 (RFC 3442 Classless Static Route)
1105 Decode DHCP Option 249 (MS Classless Static Route) the same as Option 121
1106 TLV: Add support for Juniper .pcap extensions
1107 Print EGP header in new-world-order style
1108 Converted print-isakmp.c to NETDISSECT
1109 Moved AF specific stuff into af.h
1110 Test subsystem now table driven, and saves outputs and diffs to one place
1111 Require <net/pfvar.h> for pf definitions - allows reading of pflog formatted
1112 libpcap files on an OS other than where the file was generated
1115 Wed. July 23, 2007. mcr@xelerance.com. Summary for 3.9.7 libpcap release
1117 NFS: Print unsigned values as such.
1119 BGP: fixes for IPv6-less builds.
1120 801.1ag: use standard codepoint.
1121 use /dev/bpf on systems with such a device.
1122 802.11: print QoS data, avoid dissect of no-data frame, ignore padding.
1123 smb: make sure that we haven't gone past the end of the captured data.
1124 smb: squelch an uninitialized complaint from coverity.
1125 NFS: from NetBSD; don't interpret the reply as a possible NFS reply
1126 if it got MSG_DENIED.
1127 BGP: don't print TLV values that didn't fit, from www.digit-labs.org.
1128 revised INSTALL.txt about libpcap dependency.
1130 Wed. April 25, 2007. ken@xelerance.com. Summary for 3.9.6 tcpdump release
1131 Update man page to reflect changes to libpcap
1132 Changes to both TCP and IP Printer Output
1133 Fix a potential buffer overflow in the 802.11 printer
1134 Print basic info about a few more Cisco LAN protocols.
1136 ICMP MPLS rework of the extension code
1137 bugfix: use the correct codepoint for the OSPF simple text auth token
1138 entry, and use safeputs to print the password.
1139 Add support in pflog for additional values
1140 Add support for OIF RSVP Extensions UNI 1.0 Rev. 2 and additional RSVP objects
1141 Add support for the Message-id NACK c-type.
1142 Add support for 802.3ah loopback ctrl msg
1143 Add support for Multiple-STP as per 802.1s
1144 Add support for rapid-SPT as per 802.1w
1145 Add support for CFM Link-trace msg, Link-trace-Reply msg,
1146 Sender-ID tlv, private tlv, port, interface status
1147 Add support for unidirectional link detection as per
1148 https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-foschiano-udld-02.txt
1149 Add support for the olsr protocol as per RFC 3626 plus the LQ
1150 extensions from olsr.org
1151 Add support for variable-length checksum in DCCP, as per section 9 of
1153 Add support for per-VLAN spanning tree and per-VLAN rapid spanning tree
1154 Add support for Multiple-STP as per 802.1s
1155 Add support for the cisco proprietary 'dynamic trunking protocol'
1156 Add support for the cisco proprietary VTP protocol
1157 Update dhcp6 options table as per IETF standardization activities
1160 Tue. September 19, 2006. ken@xelerance.com. Summary for 3.9.5 tcpdump release
1162 Fix compiling on AIX (, at end of ENUM)
1163 Updated list of DNS RR typecodes
1164 Use local Ethernet defs on WIN32
1165 Add support for Frame-Relay ARP
1166 Fixes for compiling under MSVC++
1167 Add support for parsing Juniper .pcap files
1168 Add support for FRF.16 Multilink Frame-Relay (DLT_MFR)
1169 Rework the OSPFv3 printer
1170 Fix printing for 4.4BSD/NetBSD NFS Filehandles
1171 Add support for Cisco style NLPID encapsulation
1172 Add cisco prop. eigrp related, extended communities
1173 Add support for BGP signaled VPLS
1174 Cleanup the bootp printer
1175 Add support for PPP over Frame-Relay
1176 Add some bounds checking to the IP options code, and clean up
1177 the options output a bit.
1178 Add additional modp groups to ISAKMP printer
1179 Add support for Address-Withdraw and Label-Withdraw Msgs
1180 Add support for the BFD Discriminator TLV
1181 Fixes for 64bit compiling
1182 Add support for PIMv2 checksum verification
1183 Add support for further dissection of the IPCP Compression Option
1184 Add support for Cisco's proposed VQP protocol
1185 Add basic support for keyed authentication TCP option
1186 Lots of minor cosmetic changes to output printers
1189 Mon. September 19, 2005. ken@xelerance.com. Summary for 3.9.4 tcpdump release
1190 Decoder support for more Juniper link-layer types
1191 Fix a potential buffer overflow (although it can't occur in
1193 Fix the handling of unknown management frame types in the 802.11
1195 Add FRF.16 support, fix various Frame Relay bugs.
1196 Add support for RSVP integrity objects, update fast-reroute
1197 object printer to latest spec.
1198 Clean up documentation of vlan filter expression, document mpls
1200 Document new pppoed and pppoes filter expressions.
1201 Update diffserver-TE codepoints as per RFC 4124.
1202 Spelling fixes in ICMPv6.
1203 Don't require any fields other than flags to be present in IS-IS
1204 restart signaling TLVs, and only print the system ID in
1205 those TLVs as system IDs, not as node IDs.
1208 Tue. July 5, 2005. ken@xelerance.com. Summary for 3.9.3 tcpdump release
1210 Option to chroot() when dropping privs
1211 Fixes for compiling on nearly every platform,
1212 including improved 64bit support
1214 Support for sending packets
1215 Many compilation fixes on most platforms
1216 Fixes for recent version of GCC to eliminate warnings
1217 Improved Unicode support
1219 Decoders & DLT Changes, Updates and New:
1221 Juniper ATM, FRF.15, FRF.16, PPPoE,
1222 ML-FR, ML-PIC, ML-PPP, PL-PPP, LS-PIC
1223 GGSN,ES,MONITOR,SERVICES
1225 Axent Raptor/Symantec Firewall
1227 ESP-in-UDP (RFC 3948)
1229 LMP, LMP Service Discovery
1235 LACP, MARKER as per 802.3ad
1238 G.7041/Y.1303 Generic Framing Procedure
1241 Radio - via radiotap
1245 Tue. March 30, 2004. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 3.8.3 release
1247 No changes from 3.8.2. Version bumped only to maintain consistency
1250 Mon. March 29, 2004. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 3.8.2 release
1252 Fixes for print-isakmp.c CVE: CAN-2004-0183, CAN-2004-0184
1253 https://web.archive.org/web/20160328035955/https://www.rapid7.com/resources/advisories/R7-0017.jsp
1254 IP-over-IEEE1394 printing.
1255 some MINGW32 changes.
1256 updates for autoconf 2.5
1257 fixes for print-aodv.c - check for too short packets
1258 formatting changes to print-ascii for hex output.
1259 check for too short packets: print-bgp.c, print-bootp.c, print-cdp.c,
1260 print-chdlc.c, print-domain.c, print-icmp.c, print-icmp6.c,
1261 print-ip.c, print-lwres.c, print-ospf.c, print-pim.c,
1262 print-ppp.c,print-pppoe.c, print-rsvp.c, print-wb.c
1263 print-ether.c - better handling of unknown types.
1264 print-isoclns.c - additional decoding of types.
1265 print-llc.c - strings for LLC names added.
1266 print-pfloc.c - various enhancements
1267 print-radius.c - better decoding to strings.
1269 Wed. November 12, 2003. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 3.8 release
1271 changed syntax of -E argument so that multiple SAs can be decrypted
1272 fixes for Digital Unix headers and Documentation
1274 CDP changes from Terry Kennedy <terry@tmk.com>.
1275 IPv6 mobility updates from Kazushi Sugyo <sugyo@pb.jp.nec.com>
1276 Fixes for ASN.1 decoder for 2.100.3 forms.
1277 Added a count of packets received and processed to clarify numbers.
1278 Incorporated WinDUMP patches for Win32 builds.
1279 PPPoE payload length headers.
1280 Fixes for HP C compiler builds.
1281 Use new pcap_breakloop() and pcap_findalldevs() if we can.
1282 BGP output split into multiple lines.
1283 Fixes to 802.11 decoding.
1284 Fixes to PIM decoder.
1285 SuperH is a CPU that can't handle unaligned access. Many fixes for
1286 unaligned access work.
1287 Fixes to Frame-Relay decoder for Q.933/922 frames.
1288 Clarified when Solaris can do captures as non-root.
1289 Added tests/ subdir for examples/regression tests.
1290 New -U flag. -flush stdout after every packet
1291 New -A flag -print ascii only
1292 support for decoding IS-IS inside Cisco HDLC Frames
1293 more verbosity for tftp decoder
1296 cross compilation patches
1297 RFC 3561 AODV support.
1298 UDP/TCP pseudo-checksum properly for source-route options.
1299 sanitized all files to modified BSD license
1300 Add support for RFC 2625 IP-over-Fibre Channel.
1301 fixes for DECnet support.
1302 Support RFC 2684 bridging of Ethernet, 802.5 Token Ring, and FDDI.
1303 RFC 2684 encapsulation of BPDUs.
1305 Tuesday, February 25, 2003. fenner@research.att.com. 3.7.2 release
1307 Fixed infinite loop when parsing invalid isakmp packets.
1308 (reported by iDefense; already fixed in CVS)
1309 Fixed infinite loop when parsing invalid BGP packets.
1310 Fixed buffer overflow with certain invalid NFS packets.
1311 Pretty-print unprintable network names in 802.11 printer.
1312 Handle truncated nbp (appletalk) packets.
1313 Updated DHCPv6 printer to match draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-22.txt
1314 Print IP protocol name even if we don't have a printer for it.
1315 Print IP protocol name or number for fragments.
1316 Print the whole MPLS label stack, not just the top label.
1317 Print request header and file handle for NFS v3 FSINFO and PATHCONF
1319 Fix NFS packet truncation checks.
1320 Handle "old" DR-Priority and Bidir-Capable PIM HELLO options.
1321 Handle unknown RADIUS attributes properly.
1322 Fix an ASN.1 parsing error that would cause e.g. the OID
1323 2.100.3 to be misrepresented as 4.20.3 .
1325 Monday, January 21, 2002. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 3.7 release
1326 keyword "ipx" added.
1327 Better OSI/802.2 support on Linux.
1328 IEEE 802.11 support, from clenahan@fortresstech.com, achirica@ttd.net.
1329 LLC SAP support for FDDI/token ring/RFC-1483 style ATM
1330 BXXP protocol was replaced by the BEEP protocol;
1331 improvements to SNAP demux.
1332 Changes to "any" interface documentation.
1333 Documentation on pcap_stats() counters.
1334 Fix a memory leak found by Miklos Szeredi - pcap_ether_aton().
1335 Added MPLS encapsulation decoding per RFC3032.
1336 DNS dissector handles TKEY, TSIG and IXFR.
1337 adaptive SLIP interface patch from Igor Khristophorov <igor@atdot.org>
1338 SMB printing has much improved bounds checks
1339 OUI 0x0000f8 decoded as encapsulated ethernet for Cisco-custom bridging
1340 Zephyr support, from Nickolai Zeldovich <kolya@MIT.EDU>.
1341 Solaris - devices with digits in them. Stefan Hudson <hudson@mbay.net>
1342 IPX socket 0x85be is for Cisco EIGRP over IPX.
1343 Improvements to fragmented ESP handling.
1344 SCTP support from Armando L. Caro Jr. <acaro@mail.eecis.udel.edu>
1345 Linux ARPHDR_ATM support fixed.
1346 Added a "netbeui" keyword, which selects NetBEUI packets.
1347 IPv6 ND improvements, MobileIP dissector, 2292bis-02 for RA option.
1348 Handle ARPHDR_HDLC from Marcus Felipe Pereira <marcus@task.com.br>.
1349 Handle IPX socket 0x553 -> NetBIOS-over-IPX socket, "nwlink-dgm"
1350 Better Linux libc5 compat.
1351 BIND9 lwres dissector added.
1352 MIPS and SPARC get strict alignment macros (affects print-bgp.c)
1353 Apple LocalTalk LINKTYPE_ reserved.
1354 New time stamp formats documented.
1355 DHCP6 updated to draft-22.txt spec.
1356 ICMP types/codes now accept symbolic names.
1357 Add SIGINFO handler from LBL
1358 encrypted CIPE tunnels in IRIX, from Franz Schaefer <schaefer@mond.at>.
1359 now we are -Wstrict-prototype clean.
1360 NetBSD DLT_PPP_ETHER; adapted from Martin Husemann <martin@netbsd.org>.
1361 PPPoE dissector cleaned up.
1362 Support for LocalTalk hardware, from Uns Lider <unslider@miranda.org>.
1363 In dissector, now the caller prints the IP addresses rather than proto.
1364 cjclark@alum.mit.edu: print the IP proto for non-initial fragments.
1365 LLC frames with a DSAP and LSAP of 0xe0 are IPX frames.
1366 Linux cooked frames with a type value of LINUX_SLL_P_802_3 are IPX.
1367 captures on the "any" device won't be done in promiscuous mode
1368 Token Ring support on DLPI - Onno van der Linden <onno@simplex.nl>
1369 ARCNet support, from NetBSD.
1370 HSRP dissector, from Julian Cowley <julian@lava.net>.
1371 Handle (GRE-encapsulated) PPTP
1372 added -C option to rotate save file every optarg * 1,000,000 bytes.
1373 support for "vrrp" name - NetBSD, by Klaus Klein <kleink@netbsd.org>.
1374 PPTP support, from Motonori Shindo <mshindo@mshindo.net>.
1375 IS-IS over PPP support, from Hannes Gredler <hannes@juniper.net>.
1376 CNFP support for IPv6,format. Harry Raaymakers <harryr@connect.com.au>.
1377 ESP printing updated to RFC2406.
1378 HP-UX can now handle large number of PPAs.
1380 L2TP dissector improvements from Motonori Shindo.
1382 Tuesday January 9, 2001. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 3.6 release
1383 Cleaned up documentation.
1384 Promisc mode fixes for Linux
1385 IPsec changes/cleanups.
1386 Alignment fixes for picky architectures
1388 Removed dependency on native headers for packet dissectors.
1389 Removed Linux specific headers that were shipped
1391 libpcap changes provide for exchanging capture files between
1392 systems. Save files now have well known PACKET_ values instead of
1393 depending upon system dependent mappings of DLT_* types.
1395 Support for computing/checking IP and UDP/TCP checksums.
1397 Updated autoconf stock files.
1399 IPv6 improvements: dhcp (draft-15), mobile-ip6, ppp, ospf6,
1401 Added dissector support for: ISOCLNS, Token Ring, IGMPv3, bxxp,
1402 timed, vrrp, radius, chdlc, cnfp, cdp, IEEE802.1d, raw-AppleTalk
1404 Added filtering support for: VLANs, ESIS, ISIS
1406 Improvements to: print-telnet, IPTalk, bootp/dhcp, ECN, PPP,
1409 HP-UX 11.0 -- find the right dlpi device.
1410 Solaris 8 - IPv6 works
1411 Linux - Added support for an "any" device to capture on all interfaces
1413 Security fixes: buffer overrun audit done. Strcpy replaced with
1414 strlcpy, sprintf replaced with snprintf.
1415 Look for lex problems, and warn about them.
1418 v3.5 Fri Jan 28 18:00:00 PST 2000
1420 Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com>
1421 - switch to config.h for autoconf
1422 - unify RCSID strings
1423 - Updated PIMv1, PIMv2, DVMRP, IGMP parsers, add Cisco Auto-RP parser
1424 - Really fix the RIP printer
1425 - Fix MAC address -> name translation.
1426 - some -Wall -Wformat fixes
1427 - update makemib to parse much of SMIv2
1428 - Print TCP sequence # with -vv even if you normally wouldn't
1429 - Print as much of IP/TCP/UDP headers as possible even if truncated.
1432 - -X will make a ascii dump. from netbsd.
1433 - telnet command sequence decoder (ff xx xx). from netbsd.
1434 - print-bgp.c: improve options printing. ugly code exists for
1435 unaligned option parsing (need some fix).
1436 - const poisoning in SMB decoder.
1437 - -Wall -Werror clean checks.
1438 - bring in KAME IPv6/IPsec decoding code.
1440 Assar Westerlund <assar@sics.se>
1441 - SNMPv2 and SNMPv3 printer
1442 - If compiled with libsmi, tcpdump can load MIBs on the fly to decode
1444 - Incorporate NFS parsing code from NetBSD. Adds support for nfsv3.
1446 - permit building in different directories.
1448 Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
1450 /afs/transarc.com/public/afs-contrib/tools/tcpdump for parsing
1453 Andrew Tridgell <tridge@linuxcare.com>
1456 Love <lha@stacken.kth.se>
1457 - print-rx.c: add code for printing MakeDir and StoreStatus. Also
1458 change date format to the right one.
1460 Michael C. Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>
1461 - Created tcpdump.org repository
1463 v3.4 Sat Jul 25 12:40:55 PDT 1998
1465 - Hardwire Linux slip support since it's too hard to detect.
1467 - Redo configuration of "network" libraries (-lsocket and -lnsl) to
1468 deal with IRIX. Thanks to John Hawkinson (jhawk@mit.edu)
1470 - Added -a which tries to translate network and broadcast addresses to
1471 names. Suggested by Rob van Nieuwkerk (robn@verdi.et.tudelft.nl)
1473 - Added a configure option to disable gcc.
1475 - Added a "raw" packet printer.
1477 - Not having an interface address is no longer fatal. Requested by John
1480 - Rework signal setup to accommodate Linux.
1482 - OSPF truncation check fix. Also display the type of OSPF packets
1483 using MD5 authentication. Thanks to Brian Wellington
1486 - Fix truncation check bugs in the Kerberos printer. Reported by Ezra
1487 Peisach (epeisach@mit.edu)
1489 - Don't catch SIGHUP when invoked with nohup(1). Thanks to Dave Plonka
1492 - Specify full install target as a way of detecting if install
1493 directory does not exist. Thanks to Dave Plonka.
1495 - Bit-swap FDDI addresses for BSD/OS too. Thanks to Paul Vixie
1498 - Fix off-by-one bug when testing size of ethernet packets. Thanks to
1499 Marty Leisner (leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com)
1501 - Add a local autoconf macro to check for routines in libraries; the
1502 autoconf version is broken (it only puts the library name in the
1503 cache variable name). Thanks to John Hawkinson.
1505 - Add a local autoconf macro to check for types; the autoconf version
1506 is broken (it uses grep instead of actually compiling a code fragment).
1508 - Modified to support the new BSD/OS 2.1 PPP and SLIP link layer header
1511 - Extend OSF ip header workaround to versions 1 and 2.
1513 - Fix some signed problems in the nfs printer. As reported by David
1514 Sacerdote (davids@silence.secnet.com)
1516 - Detect group wheel and use it as the default since BSD/OS' install
1517 can't hack numeric groups. Reported by David Sacerdote.
1519 - AIX needs special loader options. Thanks to Jonathan I. Kamens
1522 - Fixed the nfs printer to print port numbers in decimal. Thanks to
1523 Kent Vander Velden (graphix@iastate.edu)
1525 - Find installed libpcap in /usr/local/lib when not using gcc.
1527 - Disallow network masks with non-network bits set.
1529 - Attempt to detect "egcs" versions of gcc.
1531 - Add missing closing double quotes when displaying bootp strings.
1532 Reported by Viet-Trung Luu (vluu@picard.math.uwaterloo.ca)
1534 v3.3 Sat Nov 30 20:56:27 PST 1996
1536 - Added Linux support.
1538 - GRE encapsulated packet printer thanks to John Hawkinson
1541 - Rewrite gmt2local() to avoid problematic os dependencies.
1543 - Suppress nfs truncation message on errors.
1545 - Add missing m4 quoting in AC_LBL_UNALIGNED_ACCESS autoconf macro.
1546 Reported by Joachim Ott (ott@ardala.han.de)
1548 - Enable "ip_hl vs. ip_vhl" workaround for OSF4 too.
1550 - Print arp hardware type in host order. Thanks to Onno van der Linden
1553 - Avoid solaris compiler warnings. Thanks to Bruce Barnett
1554 (barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com)
1556 - Fix rip printer to not print one more route than is actually in the
1557 packet. Thanks to Jean-Luc Richier (Jean-Luc.Richier@imag.fr) and
1558 Bill Fenner (fenner@parc.xerox.com)
1560 - Use autoconf endian detection since BYTE_ORDER isn't defined on all systems.
1562 - Fix dvmrp printer truncation checks and add a dvmrp probe printer.
1563 Thanks to Danny J. Mitzel (mitzel@ipsilon.com)
1565 - Rewrite ospf printer to improve truncation checks.
1567 - Don't parse tcp options past the EOL. As noted by David Sacerdote
1568 (davids@secnet.com). Also, check tcp options to make sure they ar
1569 actually in the tcp header (in addition to the normal truncation
1570 checks). Fix the SACK code to print the N blocks (instead of the
1571 first block N times).
1573 - Don't say really small UDP packets are truncated just because they
1574 aren't big enough to be a RPC. As noted by David Sacerdote.
1576 v3.2.1 Sun Jul 14 03:02:26 PDT 1996
1578 - Added rfc1716 icmp codes as suggested by Martin Fredriksson
1581 - Print mtu for icmp unreach need frag packets. Thanks to John
1582 Hawkinson (jhawk@mit.edu)
1584 - Decode icmp router discovery messages. Thanks to Jeffrey Honig
1587 - Added a printer entry for DLT_IEEE802 as suggested by Tak Kushida
1588 (kushida@trl.ibm.co.jp)
1590 - Check igmp checksum if possible. Thanks to John Hawkinson.
1592 - Made changes for SINIX. Thanks to Andrej Borsenkow
1593 (borsenkow.msk@sni.de)
1595 - Use autoconf's idea of the top level directory in install targets.
1596 Thanks to John Hawkinson.
1598 - Avoid infinite loop in tcp options printing code. Thanks to Jeffrey
1599 Mogul (mogul@pa.dec.com)
1601 - Avoid using -lsocket in IRIX 5.2 and earlier since it breaks snoop.
1602 Thanks to John Hawkinson.
1604 - Added some more packet truncation checks.
1606 - On systems that have it, use sigset() instead of signal() since
1607 signal() has different semantics on these systems.
1609 - Fixed some more alignment problems on the alpha.
1611 - Add code to massage unprintable characters in the domain and ipx
1612 printers. Thanks to John Hawkinson.
1614 - Added explicit netmask support. Thanks to Steve Nuchia
1615 (steve@research.oknet.com)
1617 - Add "sca" keyword (for DEC cluster services) as suggested by Terry
1618 Kennedy (terry@spcvxa.spc.edu)
1620 - Add "atalk" keyword as suggested by John Hawkinson.
1622 - Added an igrp printer. Thanks to Francis Dupont
1623 (francis.dupont@inria.fr)
1625 - Print IPX net numbers in hex a la Novell Netware. Thanks to Terry
1626 Kennedy (terry@spcvxa.spc.edu)
1628 - Fixed snmp extended tag field parsing bug. Thanks to Pascal Hennequin
1629 (pascal.hennequin@hugo.int-evry.fr)
1631 - Added some ETHERTYPEs missing on some systems.
1633 - Added truncated packet macros and various checks.
1635 - Fixed endian problems with the DECnet printer.
1637 - Use $CC when checking gcc version. Thanks to Carl Lindberg
1638 (carl_lindberg@blacksmith.com)
1640 - Fixes for AIX (although this system is not yet supported). Thanks to
1643 - Fix bugs in the autoconf misaligned accesses code fragment.
1645 - Include sys/param.h to get BYTE_ORDER in a few places. Thanks to
1646 Pavlin Ivanov Radoslavov (pavlin@cs.titech.ac.jp)
1648 v3.2 Sun Jun 23 02:28:10 PDT 1996
1650 - Print new icmp unreachable codes as suggested by Martin Fredriksson
1651 (martin@msp.se). Also print code value when unknown for icmp redirect
1654 - Fix an alignment endian bug in getname(). Thanks to John Hawkinson.
1656 - Define "new" domain record types if not found in arpa/nameserv.h.
1657 Resulted from a suggestion from John Hawkinson (jhawk@mit.edu). Also
1658 fixed an endian bug when printing mx record and added some new record
1661 - Added RIP V2 support. Thanks to Jeffrey Honig (jch@bsdi.com)
1663 - Added T/TCP options printing. As suggested by Richard Stevens
1666 - Use autoconf to detect architectures that can't handle misaligned
1669 v3.1 Thu Jun 13 20:59:32 PDT 1996
1671 - Changed u_int32/int32 to u_int32_t/int32_t to be consistent with bsd
1672 and bind (as suggested by Charles Hannum).
1674 - Port to GNU autoconf.
1676 - Add support for printing DVMRP and PIM traffic thanks to
1677 Havard Eidnes (Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no).
1679 - Fix AppleTalk, IPX and DECnet byte order problems due to wrong endian
1680 define being referenced. Reported by Terry Kennedy.
1682 - Minor fixes to the man page thanks to Mark Andrews.
1684 - Endian fixes to RTP and vat packet dumpers, thanks to Bruce Mah
1685 (bmah@cs.berkeley.edu).
1687 - Added support for new dns types, thanks to Rainer Orth.
1689 - Fixed tftp_print() to print the block number for ACKs.
1691 - Document -dd and -ddd. Resulted from a bug report from Charlie Slater
1692 (cslater@imatek.com).
1694 - Check return status from malloc/calloc/etc.
1696 - Check return status from pcap_loop() so we can print an error and
1697 exit with a bad status if there were problems.
1699 - Bail if ip option length is <= 0. Resulted from a bug report from
1700 Darren Reed (darrenr@vitruvius.arbld.unimelb.edu.au).
1702 - Print out a little more information for sun rpc packets.
1704 - Add support for Kerberos 4 thanks to John Hawkinson (jhawk@mit.edu).
1706 - Fixed the Fix EXTRACT_SHORT() and EXTRACT_LONG() macros (which were
1707 wrong on little endian machines).
1709 - Fixed alignment bug in ipx_decode(). Thanks to Matt Crawford
1712 - Fix ntp_print() to not print garbage when the stratum is
1713 "unspecified." Thanks to Deus Ex Machina (root@belle.bork.com).
1715 - Rewrote tcp options printer code to check for truncation. Added
1716 selective acknowledgment case.
1718 - Fixed an endian bug in the ospf printer. Thanks to Jeffrey C Honig
1721 - Fix rip printer to handle 4.4 BSD sockaddr struct which only uses one
1722 octet for the sa_family member. Thanks to Yoshitaka Tokugawa
1725 - Don't checksum ip header if we don't have all of it. Thanks to John
1726 Hawkinson (jhawk@mit.edu).
1728 - Print out hostnames if possible in egp printer. Thanks to Jeffrey
1729 Honig (jhc@bsdi.com)
1732 v3.1a1 Wed May 3 19:21:11 PDT 1995
1734 - Include time.h when SVR4 is defined to avoid problems under Solaris
1737 - Fix etheraddr_string() in the ETHER_SERVICE to return the saved
1738 strings, not the local buffer. Thanks to Stefan Petri
1739 (petri@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de).
1741 - Detect when pcap raises the snaplen (e.g. with snit). Print a warning
1742 that the selected value was not used. Thanks to Pascal Hennequin
1743 (Pascal.Hennequin@hugo.int-evry.fr).
1745 - Add a truncated packet test to print-nfs.c. Thanks to Pascal Hennequin.
1747 - BYTEORDER -> BYTE_ORDER Thanks to Terry Kennedy (terry@spcvxa.spc.edu).
1749 v3.0.3 Sun Oct 1 18:35:00 GMT 1995
1751 - Although there never was a 3.0.3 release, the linux boys cleverly
1752 "released" one in late 1995.
1754 v3.0.2 Thu Apr 20 21:28:16 PDT 1995
1756 - Change configuration to not use gcc v2 flags with gcc v1.
1758 - Redo gmt2local() so that it works under BSDI (which seems to return
1759 an empty timezone struct from gettimeofday()). Based on report from
1760 Terry Kennedy (terry@spcvxa.spc.edu).
1762 - Change configure to recognize IP[0-9]* as "mips" SGI hardware. Based
1763 on report from Mark Andrews (mandrews@alias.com).
1765 - Don't pass cc flags to gcc. Resulted from a bug report from Rainer
1766 Orth (ro@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de).
1768 - Fixed printout of connection id for uncompressed tcp slip packets.
1769 Resulted from a bug report from Richard Stevens (rstevens@noao.edu).
1771 - Hack around deficiency in Ultrix's make.
1773 - Add ETHERTYPE_TRAIL define which is missing from irix5.
1775 v3.0.1 Wed Aug 31 22:42:26 PDT 1994
1777 - Fix problems with gcc2 vs. malloc() and read() prototypes under SunOS 4.
1779 v3.0 Mon Jun 20 19:23:27 PDT 1994
1781 - Added support for printing tcp option timestamps thanks to
1782 Mark Andrews (mandrews@alias.com).
1784 - Reorganize protocol dumpers to take const pointers to packets so they
1785 never change the contents (i.e., they used to do endian conversions
1786 in place). Previously, whenever more than one pass was taken over
1787 the packet, the packet contents would be dumped incorrectly (i.e.,
1788 the output form -x would be wrong on little endian machines because
1789 the protocol dumpers would modify the data). Thanks to Charles Hannum
1790 (mycroft@gnu.ai.mit.edu) for reporting this problem.
1792 - Added support for decnet protocol dumping thanks to Jeff Mogul
1795 - Fix bug that caused length of packet to be incorrectly printed
1796 (off by ether header size) for unknown ethernet types thanks
1797 to Greg Miller (gmiller@kayak.mitre.org).
1799 - Added support for IPX protocol dumping thanks to Brad Parker
1802 - Added check to verify IP header checksum under -v thanks to
1803 Brad Parker (brad@fcr.com).
1805 - Move packet capture code to new libpcap library (which is
1806 packaged separately).
1808 - Prototype everything and assume an ansi compiler.
1810 - print-arp.c: Print hardware ethernet addresses if they're not
1813 - print-bootp.c: Decode the cmu vendor field. Add RFC1497 tags.
1814 Many helpful suggestions from Gordon Ross (gwr@jericho.mc.com).
1816 - print-fddi.c: Improvements. Thanks to Jeffrey Mogul
1819 - print-icmp.c: Byte swap netmask before printing. Thanks to
1820 Richard Stevens (rstevens@noao.edu). Print icmp type when unknown.
1822 - print-ip.c: Print the inner ip datagram of ip-in-ip encapsulated packets.
1823 By default, only the inner packet is dumped, appended with the token
1824 "(encap)". Under -v, both the inner and output packets are dumped
1825 (on the same line). Note that the filter applies to the original packet,
1826 not the encapsulated packet. So if you run tcpdump on a net with an
1827 IP Multicast tunnel, you cannot filter out the datagrams using the
1828 conventional syntax. (You can filter away all the ip-in-ip traffic
1829 with "not ip proto 4".)
1831 - print-nfs.c: Keep pending rpc's in circular table. Add generic
1832 nfs header and remove os dependences. Thanks to Jeffrey Mogul.
1834 - print-ospf.c: Improvements. Thanks to Jeffrey Mogul.
1836 - tcpdump.c: Add -T flag allows interpretation of "vat", "wb", "rpc"
1837 (sunrpc) and rtp packets. Added "inbound" and "outbound" keywords
1838 Add && and || operators
1840 v2.2.1 Tue Jun 6 17:57:22 PDT 1992
1842 - Fix bug with -c flag.
1844 v2.2 Fri May 22 17:19:41 PDT 1992
1846 - savefile.c: Remove hack that shouldn't have been exported. Add
1849 - Added the 'icmp' keyword. For example, 'icmp[0] != 8 and icmp[0] != 0'
1850 matches non-echo/reply ICMP packets.
1852 - Many improvements to filter code optimizer.
1854 - Added 'multicast' keyword and extended the 'broadcast' keyword can now be
1855 so that protocol qualifications are allowed. For example, "ip broadcast"
1856 and "ether multicast" are valid filters.
1858 - Added support for monitoring the loopback interface (i.e. 'tcpdump -i lo').
1859 Jeffrey Honig (jch@MITCHELL.CIT.CORNELL.EDU) contributed the kernel
1860 patches to netinet/if_loop.c.
1862 - Added support for the Ungermann-Bass Ethernet on IBM/PC-RTs running AOS.
1863 Contact Jeffrey Honig (jch@MITCHELL.CIT.CORNELL.EDU) for the diffs.
1865 - Added EGP and OSPF printers, thanks to Jeffrey Honig.
1867 v2.1 Tue Jan 28 11:00:14 PST 1992
1869 - Internal release (never publicly exported).
1871 v2.0.1 Sun Jan 26 21:10:10 PDT
1873 - Various byte ordering fixes.
1875 - Add truncation checks.
1877 - inet.c: Support BSD style SIOCGIFCONF.
1879 - nametoaddr.c: Handle multi addresses for single host.
1881 - optimize.c: Rewritten.
1883 - pcap-bpf.c: don't choke when we get ptraced. only set promiscuous
1886 - print-atal.c: Fix an alignment bug (thanks to
1887 stanonik@nprdc.navy.mil) Add missing printf() argument.
1889 - print-bootp.c: First attempt at decoding the vendor buffer.
1891 - print-domain.c: Fix truncation checks.
1893 - print-icmp.c: Calculate length of packets from the ip header.
1895 - print-ip.c: Print frag id in decimal (so it's easier to match up
1896 with non-frags). Add support for ospf, egp and igmp.
1898 - print-nfs.c: Lots of changes.
1900 - print-ntp.c: Make some verbose output depend on -v.
1902 - print-snmp.c: New version from John LoVerso.
1904 - print-tcp.c: Print rfc1072 tcp options.
1906 - tcpdump.c: Print "0x" prefix for %x formats. Always print 6 digits
1907 (microseconds) worth of precision. Fix uid bugs.
1909 - A packet dumper has been added (thanks to Jeff Mogul of DECWRL).
1910 With this option, you can create an architecture independent binary
1911 trace file in real time, without the overhead of the packet printer.
1912 At a later time, the packets can be filtered (again) and printed.
1914 - BSD is supported. You must have BPF in your kernel.
1915 Since the filtering is now done in the kernel, fewer packets are
1916 dropped. In fact, with BPF and the packet dumper option, a measly
1917 Sun 3/50 can keep up with a busy network.
1919 - Compressed SLIP packets can now be dumped, provided you use our
1920 SLIP software and BPF. These packets are dumped as any other IP
1921 packet; the compressed headers are dumped with the '-e' option.
1923 - Machines with little-endian byte ordering are supported (thanks to
1926 - Ultrix 4.0 is supported (also thanks to Jeff Mogul).
1928 - IBM RT and Stanford Enetfilter support has been added by
1929 Rayan Zachariassen <rayan@canet.ca>. tcpdump has been tested under
1930 both the vanilla Enetfilter interface, and the extended interface
1931 (#ifdef'd by IBMRTPC) present in the MERIT version of the Enetfilter.
1933 - TFTP packets are now printed (requests only).
1935 - BOOTP packets are now printed.
1937 - SNMP packets are now printed. (thanks to John LoVerso of Xylogics).
1939 - Sparc architectures, including the Sparcstation-1, are now
1940 supported thanks to Steve McCanne and Craig Leres.
1942 - SunOS 4 is now supported thanks to Micky Liu of Columbia
1943 University (micky@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu).
1945 - IP options are now printed.
1947 - RIP packets are now printed.
1949 - There's a -v flag that prints out more information than the
1950 default (e.g., it will enable printing of IP ttl, tos and id)
1951 and -q flag that prints out less (e.g., it will disable
1952 interpretation of AppleTalk-in-UDP).
1954 - The grammar has undergone substantial changes (if you have an
1955 earlier version of tcpdump, you should re-read the manual
1958 The most useful change is the addition of an expression
1959 syntax that lets you filter on arbitrary fields or values in the
1960 packet. E.g., "ip[0] > 0x45" would print only packets with IP
1961 options, "tcp[13] & 3 != 0" would print only TCP SYN and FIN
1964 The most painful change is that concatenation no longer means
1965 "and" -- e.g., you have to say "host foo and port bar" instead
1966 of "host foo port bar". The up side to this down is that
1967 repeated qualifiers can be omitted, making most filter
1968 expressions shorter. E.g., you can now say "ip host foo and
1969 (bar or baz)" to look at ip traffic between hosts foo and bar or
1970 between hosts foo and baz. [The old way of saying this was "ip
1971 host foo and (ip host bar or ip host baz)".]
1973 v2.0 Sun Jan 13 12:20:40 PST 1991
1975 - Initial public release.