1 Mon. December 21, 2009. ken@netfunctional.ca. Summary for 4.1 tcpdump release
2 Make the default snapshot (-s) the maximum
3 Print name of device (when -L is used)
4 Support for OpenSolaris (and SXCE build 125 and later)
6 Add support for RPL DIO
7 Add support for TCP User Timeout (UTO)
8 Add support for non-standard Ethertypes used by 3com PPPoE gear
9 Add support for 802.11n and 802.11s
10 Add support for Transparent Ethernet Bridge ethertype in GRE
11 Add 4 byte AS support for BGP printer
12 Add support for the MDT SAFI 66 BG printer
13 Add basic IPv6 support to print-olsr
15 Handle frames with an FCS
16 Handle 802.11n Control Wrapper, Block Acq Req and Block Ack frames
17 Fix TCP sequence number printing
18 Report 802.2 packets as 802.2 instead of 802.3
19 Don't include -L/usr/lib in LDFLAGS
20 On x86_64 Linux, look in lib64 directory too
21 Lots of code clean ups
23 Update testcases to make output changes
25 Mon. December 8, 2008. ken@netfunctional.ca. Summary for 4.0.1 tcpdump release
26 Fix compiling with/out smi (--with{,out}-smi)
27 Fix compiling without IPv6 support (--disable-ipv6)
29 Mon. October 27, 2008. ken@netfunctional.ca. Summary for 4.0.0 tcpdump release
30 Add support for Bluetooth Sniffing
31 Add support for Realtek Remote Control Protocol (openrrcp.org.ru)
32 Add support for 802.11 AVS
33 Add support for SMB over TCP
34 Add support for 4 byte BGP AS printing
35 Add support for compiling on case-insensitive file systems
36 Add support for ikev2 printing
37 Update support for decoding AFS
39 Use newer libpcap API's (allows -B option on all platforms)
40 Add -I to turn on monitor mode
41 Bugfixes in lldp, lspping, dccp, ESP, NFS printers
42 Cleanup unused files and various cruft
44 Mon. September 10, 2007. ken@xelerance.com. Summary for 3.9.8 tcpdump release
47 Add support for Frame-Relay ARP
48 Decode DHCP Option 121 (RFC 3442 Classless Static Route)
49 Decode DHCP Option 249 (MS Classless Static Route) the same as Option 121
50 TLV: Add support for Juniper .pcap extensions
51 Print EGP header in new-world-order style
52 Converted print-isakmp.c to NETDISSECT
53 Moved AF specific stuff into af.h
54 Test subsystem now table driven, and saves outputs and diffs to one place
55 Require <net/pfvar.h> for pf definitions - allows reading of pflog formatted
56 libpcap files on an OS other than where the file was generated
59 Wed. July 23, 2007. mcr@xelerance.com. Summary for 3.9.7 libpcap release
61 NFS: Print unsigned values as such.
63 BGP: fixes for IPv6-less builds.
64 801.1ag: use standard codepoint.
65 use /dev/bpf on systems with such a device.
66 802.11: print QoS data, avoid dissect of no-data frame, ignore padding.
67 smb: make sure that we haven't gone past the end of the captured data.
68 smb: squelch an uninitialized complaint from coverity.
69 NFS: from NetBSD; don't interpret the reply as a possible NFS reply
71 BGP: don't print TLV values that didn't fit, from www.digit-labs.org.
72 revised INSTALL.txt about libpcap dependancy.
74 Wed. April 25, 2007. ken@xelerance.com. Summary for 3.9.6 tcpdump release
75 Update man page to reflect changes to libpcap
76 Changes to both TCP and IP Printer Output
77 Fix a potential buffer overflow in the 802.11 printer
78 Print basic info about a few more Cisco LAN protocols.
80 ICMP MPLS rework of the extension code
81 bugfix: use the correct codepoint for the OSPF simple text auth token
82 entry, and use safeputs to print the password.
83 Add support in pflog for additional values
84 Add support for OIF RSVP Extensions UNI 1.0 Rev. 2 and additional RSVP objects
85 Add support for the Message-id NACK c-type.
86 Add support for 802.3ah loopback ctrl msg
87 Add support for Multiple-STP as per 802.1s
88 Add support for rapid-SPT as per 802.1w
89 Add support for CFM Link-trace msg, Link-trace-Reply msg,
90 Sender-ID tlv, private tlv, port, interface status
91 Add support for unidirectional link detection as per
92 http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-foschiano-udld-02.txt
93 Add support for the olsr protocol as per RFC 3626 plus the LQ
94 extensions from olsr.org
95 Add support for variable-length checksum in DCCP, as per section 9 of
97 Add support for per-VLAN spanning tree and per-VLAN rapid spanning tree
98 Add support for Multiple-STP as per 802.1s
99 Add support for the cisco propriatry 'dynamic trunking protocol'
100 Add support for the cisco proprietary VTP protocol
101 Update dhcp6 options table as per IETF standardization activities
104 Tue. September 19, 2006. ken@xelerance.com. Summary for 3.9.5 tcpdump release
106 Fix compiling on AIX (, at end of ENUM)
107 Updated list of DNS RR typecodes
108 Use local Ethernet defs on WIN32
109 Add support for Frame-Relay ARP
110 Fixes for compiling under MSVC++
111 Add support for parsing Juniper .pcap files
112 Add support for FRF.16 Multilink Frame-Relay (DLT_MFR)
113 Rework the OSPFv3 printer
114 Fix printing for 4.4BSD/NetBSD NFS Filehandles
115 Add support for Cisco style NLPID encapsulation
116 Add cisco prop. eigrp related, extended communities
117 Add support for BGP signaled VPLS
118 Cleanup the bootp printer
119 Add support for PPP over Frame-Relay
120 Add some bounds checking to the IP options code, and clean up
121 the options output a bit.
122 Add additional modp groups to ISAKMP printer
123 Add support for Address-Withdraw and Label-Withdraw Msgs
124 Add support for the BFD Discriminator TLV
125 Fixes for 64bit compiling
126 Add support for PIMv2 checksum verification
127 Add support for further dissection of the IPCP Compression Option
128 Add support for Cisco's proposed VQP protocol
129 Add basic support for keyed authentication TCP option
130 Lots of minor cosmetic changes to output printers
133 Mon. September 19, 2005. ken@xelerance.com. Summary for 3.9.4 tcpdump release
134 Decoder support for more Juniper link-layer types
135 Fix a potential buffer overflow (although it can't occur in
137 Fix the handling of unknown management frame types in the 802.11
139 Add FRF.16 support, fix various Frame Relay bugs.
140 Add support for RSVP integrity objects, update fast-reroute
141 object printer to latest spec.
142 Clean up documentation of vlan filter expression, document mpls
144 Document new pppoed and pppoes filter expressions.
145 Update diffserver-TE codepoints as per RFC 4124.
146 Spelling fixes in ICMPv6.
147 Don't require any fields other than flags to be present in IS-IS
148 restart signaling TLVs, and only print the system ID in
149 those TLVs as system IDs, not as node IDs.
152 Tue. July 5, 2005. ken@xelerance.com. Summary for 3.9.3 tcpdump release
154 Option to chroot() when dropping privs
155 Fixes for compiling on nearly every platform,
156 including improved 64bit support
158 Support for sending packets
159 Many compliation fixes on most platforms
160 Fixes for recent version of GCC to eliminate warnings
161 Improved Unicode support
163 Decoders & DLT Changes, Updates and New:
165 Juniper ATM, FRF.15, FRF.16, PPPoE,
166 ML-FR, ML-PIC, ML-PPP, PL-PPP, LS-PIC
167 GGSN,ES,MONITOR,SERVICES
169 Axent Raptor/Symantec Firewall
171 ESP-in-UDP (RFC 3948)
173 LMP, LMP Service Discovery
179 LACP, MARKER as per 802.3ad
182 G.7041/Y.1303 Generic Framing Procedure
189 Tue. March 30, 2004. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 3.8.3 release
191 No changes from 3.8.2. Version bumped only to maintain consistency
194 Mon. March 29, 2004. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 3.8.2 release
196 Fixes for print-isakmp.c CVE: CAN-2004-0183, CAN-2004-0184
197 http://www.rapid7.com/advisories/R7-0017.html
198 IP-over-IEEE1394 printing.
199 some MINGW32 changes.
200 updates for autoconf 2.5
201 fixes for print-aodv.c - check for too short packets
202 formatting changes to print-ascii for hex output.
203 check for too short packets: print-bgp.c, print-bootp.c, print-cdp.c,
204 print-chdlc.c, print-domain.c, print-icmp.c, print-icmp6.c,
205 print-ip.c, print-lwres.c, print-ospf.c, print-pim.c,
206 print-ppp.c,print-pppoe.c, print-rsvp.c, print-wb.c
207 print-ether.c - better handling of unknown types.
208 print-isoclns.c - additional decoding of types.
209 print-llc.c - strings for LLC names added.
210 print-pfloc.c - various enhancements
211 print-radius.c - better decoding to strings.
213 Wed. November 12, 2003. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 3.8 release
215 changed syntax of -E argument so that multiple SAs can be decrypted
216 fixes for Digital Unix headers and Documentation
218 CDP changes from Terry Kennedy <terry@tmk.com>.
219 IPv6 mobility updates from Kazushi Sugyo <sugyo@pb.jp.nec.com>
220 Fixes for ASN.1 decoder for 2.100.3 forms.
221 Added a count of packets received and processed to clarify numbers.
222 Incorporated WinDUMP patches for Win32 builds.
223 PPPoE payload length headers.
224 Fixes for HP C compiler builds.
225 Use new pcap_breakloop() and pcap_findalldevs() if we can.
226 BGP output split into multiple lines.
227 Fixes to 802.11 decoding.
228 Fixes to PIM decoder.
229 SuperH is a CPU that can't handle unaligned access. Many fixes for
230 unaligned access work.
231 Fixes to Frame-Relay decoder for Q.933/922 frames.
232 Clarified when Solaris can do captures as non-root.
233 Added tests/ subdir for examples/regression tests.
234 New -U flag. -flush stdout after every packet
235 New -A flag -print ascii only
236 support for decoding IS-IS inside Cisco HDLC Frames
237 more verbosity for tftp decoder
240 cross compilation patches
241 RFC 3561 AODV support.
242 UDP/TCP pseudo-checksum properly for source-route options.
243 sanitized all files to modified BSD license
244 Add support for RFC 2625 IP-over-Fibre Channel.
245 fixes for DECnet support.
246 Support RFC 2684 bridging of Ethernet, 802.5 Token Ring, and FDDI.
247 RFC 2684 encapsulation of BPDUs.
249 Tuesday, February 25, 2003. fenner@research.att.com. 3.7.2 release
251 Fixed infinite loop when parsing malformed isakmp packets.
252 (reported by iDefense; already fixed in CVS)
253 Fixed infinite loop when parsing malformed BGP packets.
254 Fixed buffer overflow with certain malformed NFS packets.
255 Pretty-print unprintable network names in 802.11 printer.
256 Handle truncated nbp (appletalk) packets.
257 Updated DHCPv6 printer to match draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-22.txt
258 Print IP protocol name even if we don't have a printer for it.
259 Print IP protocol name or number for fragments.
260 Print the whole MPLS label stack, not just the top label.
261 Print request header and file handle for NFS v3 FSINFO and PATHCONF
263 Fix NFS packet truncation checks.
264 Handle "old" DR-Priority and Bidir-Capable PIM HELLO options.
265 Handle unknown RADIUS attributes properly.
266 Fix an ASN.1 parsing error that would cause e.g. the OID
267 2.100.3 to be misrepresented as 4.20.3 .
269 Monday, January 21, 2002. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 3.7 release
270 see http://www.tcpdump.org/cvs-log/2002-01-21.10:16:48.html for commit log.
272 Better OSI/802.2 support on Linux.
273 IEEE 802.11 support, from clenahan@fortresstech.com, achirica@ttd.net.
274 LLC SAP support for FDDI/token ring/RFC-1483 style ATM
275 BXXP protocol was replaced by the BEEP protocol;
276 improvements to SNAP demux.
277 Changes to "any" interface documentation.
278 Documentation on pcap_stats() counters.
279 Fix a memory leak found by Miklos Szeredi - pcap_ether_aton().
280 Added MPLS encapsulation decoding per RFC3032.
281 DNS dissector handles TKEY, TSIG and IXFR.
282 adaptive SLIP interface patch from Igor Khristophorov <igor@atdot.org>
283 SMB printing has much improved bounds checks
284 OUI 0x0000f8 decoded as encapsulated ethernet for Cisco-custom bridging
285 Zephyr support, from Nickolai Zeldovich <kolya@MIT.EDU>.
286 Solaris - devices with digits in them. Stefan Hudson <hudson@mbay.net>
287 IPX socket 0x85be is for Cisco EIGRP over IPX.
288 Improvements to fragmented ESP handling.
289 SCTP support from Armando L. Caro Jr. <acaro@mail.eecis.udel.edu>
290 Linux ARPHDR_ATM support fixed.
291 Added a "netbeui" keyword, which selects NetBEUI packets.
292 IPv6 ND improvements, MobileIP dissector, 2292bis-02 for RA option.
293 Handle ARPHDR_HDLC from Marcus Felipe Pereira <marcus@task.com.br>.
294 Handle IPX socket 0x553 -> NetBIOS-over-IPX socket, "nwlink-dgm"
295 Better Linux libc5 compat.
296 BIND9 lwres dissector added.
297 MIPS and SPARC get strict alignment macros (affects print-bgp.c)
298 Apple LocalTalk LINKTYPE_ reserved.
299 New time stamp formats documented.
300 DHCP6 updated to draft-22.txt spec.
301 ICMP types/codes now accept symbolic names.
302 Add SIGINFO handler from LBL
303 encrypted CIPE tunnels in IRIX, from Franz Schaefer <schaefer@mond.at>.
304 now we are -Wstrict-prototype clean.
305 NetBSD DLT_PPP_ETHER; adapted from Martin Husemann <martin@netbsd.org>.
306 PPPoE dissector cleaned up.
307 Support for LocalTalk hardware, from Uns Lider <unslider@miranda.org>.
308 In dissector, now the caller prints the IP addresses rather than proto.
309 cjclark@alum.mit.edu: print the IP proto for non-initial fragments.
310 LLC frames with a DSAP and LSAP of 0xe0 are IPX frames.
311 Linux cooked frames with a type value of LINUX_SLL_P_802_3 are IPX.
312 captures on the "any" device won't be done in promiscuous mode
313 Token Ring support on DLPI - Onno van der Linden <onno@simplex.nl>
314 ARCNet support, from NetBSD.
315 HSRP dissector, from Julian Cowley <julian@lava.net>.
316 Handle (GRE-encapsulated) PPTP
317 added -C option to rotate save file every optarg * 1,000,000 bytes.
318 support for "vrrp" name - NetBSD, by Klaus Klein <kleink@netbsd.org>.
319 PPTP support, from Motonori Shindo <mshindo@mshindo.net>.
320 IS-IS over PPP support, from Hannes Gredler <hannes@juniper.net>.
321 CNFP support for IPv6,format. Harry Raaymakers <harryr@connect.com.au>.
322 ESP printing updated to RFC2406.
323 HP-UX can now handle large number of PPAs.
325 L2TP dissector improvements from Motonori Shindo.
327 Tuesday January 9, 2001. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 3.6 release
328 Cleaned up documentation.
329 Promisc mode fixes for Linux
330 IPsec changes/cleanups.
331 Alignment fixes for picky architectures
333 Removed dependency on native headers for packet dissectors.
334 Removed Linux specific headers that were shipped
336 libpcap changes provide for exchanging capture files between
337 systems. Save files now have well known PACKET_ values instead of
338 depending upon system dependant mappings of DLT_* types.
340 Support for computing/checking IP and UDP/TCP checksums.
342 Updated autoconf stock files.
344 IPv6 improvements: dhcp (draft-15), mobile-ip6, ppp, ospf6,
346 Added dissector support for: ISOCLNS, Token Ring, IGMPv3, bxxp,
347 timed, vrrp, radius, chdlc, cnfp, cdp, IEEE802.1d, raw-AppleTalk
349 Added filtering support for: VLANs, ESIS, ISIS
351 Improvements to: print-telnet, IPTalk, bootp/dhcp, ECN, PPP,
354 HP-UX 11.0 -- find the right dlpi device.
355 Solaris 8 - IPv6 works
356 Linux - Added support for an "any" device to capture on all interfaces
358 Security fixes: buffer overrun audit done. Strcpy replaced with
359 strlcpy, sprintf replaced with snprintf.
360 Look for lex problems, and warn about them.
363 v3.5 Fri Jan 28 18:00:00 PST 2000
365 Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com>
366 - switch to config.h for autoconf
367 - unify RCSID strings
368 - Updated PIMv1, PIMv2, DVMRP, IGMP parsers, add Cisco Auto-RP parser
369 - Really fix the RIP printer
370 - Fix MAC address -> name translation.
371 - some -Wall -Wformat fixes
372 - update makemib to parse much of SMIv2
373 - Print TCP sequence # with -vv even if you normally wouldn't
374 - Print as much of IP/TCP/UDP headers as possible even if truncated.
377 - -X will make a ascii dump. from netbsd.
378 - telnet command sequence decoder (ff xx xx). from netbsd.
379 - print-bgp.c: improve options printing. ugly code exists for
380 unaligned option parsing (need some fix).
381 - const poisoning in SMB decoder.
382 - -Wall -Werror clean checks.
383 - bring in KAME IPv6/IPsec decoding code.
385 Assar Westerlund <assar@sics.se>
386 - SNMPv2 and SNMPv3 printer
387 - If compiled with libsmi, tcpdump can load MIBs on the fly to decode
389 - Incorporate NFS parsing code from NetBSD. Adds support for nfsv3.
391 - permit building in different directories.
393 Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
395 /afs/transarc.com/public/afs-contrib/tools/tcpdump for parsing
398 Andrew Tridgell <tridge@linuxcare.com>
401 Love <lha@stacken.kth.se>
402 - print-rx.c: add code for printing MakeDir and StoreStatus. Also
403 change date format to the right one.
405 Michael C. Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>
406 - Created tcpdump.org repository
408 v3.4 Sat Jul 25 12:40:55 PDT 1998
410 - Hardwire Linux slip support since it's too hard to detect.
412 - Redo configuration of "network" libraries (-lsocket and -lnsl) to
413 deal with IRIX. Thanks to John Hawkinson (jhawk@mit.edu)
415 - Added -a which tries to translate network and broadcast addresses to
416 names. Suggested by Rob van Nieuwkerk (robn@verdi.et.tudelft.nl)
418 - Added a configure option to disable gcc.
420 - Added a "raw" packet printer.
422 - Not having an interface address is no longer fatal. Requested by John
425 - Rework signal setup to accommodate Linux.
427 - OSPF truncation check fix. Also display the type of OSPF packets
428 using MD5 authentication. Thanks to Brian Wellington
431 - Fix truncation check bugs in the Kerberos printer. Reported by Ezra
432 Peisach (epeisach@mit.edu)
434 - Don't catch SIGHUP when invoked with nohup(1). Thanks to Dave Plonka
437 - Specify full install target as a way of detecting if install
438 directory does not exist. Thanks to Dave Plonka.
440 - Bit-swap FDDI addresses for BSD/OS too. Thanks to Paul Vixie
443 - Fix off-by-one bug when testing size of ethernet packets. Thanks to
444 Marty Leisner (leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com)
446 - Add a local autoconf macro to check for routines in libraries; the
447 autoconf version is broken (it only puts the library name in the
448 cache variable name). Thanks to John Hawkinson.
450 - Add a local autoconf macro to check for types; the autoconf version
451 is broken (it uses grep instead of actually compiling a code fragment).
453 - Modified to support the new BSD/OS 2.1 PPP and SLIP link layer header
456 - Extend OSF ip header workaround to versions 1 and 2.
458 - Fix some signed problems in the nfs printer. As reported by David
459 Sacerdote (davids@silence.secnet.com)
461 - Detect group wheel and use it as the default since BSD/OS' install
462 can't hack numeric groups. Reported by David Sacerdote.
464 - AIX needs special loader options. Thanks to Jonathan I. Kamens
467 - Fixed the nfs printer to print port numbers in decimal. Thanks to
468 Kent Vander Velden (graphix@iastate.edu)
470 - Find installed libpcap in /usr/local/lib when not using gcc.
472 - Disallow network masks with non-network bits set.
474 - Attempt to detect "egcs" versions of gcc.
476 - Add missing closing double quotes when displaying bootp strings.
477 Reported by Viet-Trung Luu (vluu@picard.math.uwaterloo.ca)
479 v3.3 Sat Nov 30 20:56:27 PST 1996
481 - Added Linux support.
483 - GRE encapsulated packet printer thanks to John Hawkinson
486 - Rewrite gmt2local() to avoid problematic os dependencies.
488 - Suppress nfs truncation message on errors.
490 - Add missing m4 quoting in AC_LBL_UNALIGNED_ACCESS autoconf macro.
491 Reported by Joachim Ott (ott@ardala.han.de)
493 - Enable "ip_hl vs. ip_vhl" workaround for OSF4 too.
495 - Print arp hardware type in host order. Thanks to Onno van der Linden
498 - Avoid solaris compiler warnings. Thanks to Bruce Barnett
499 (barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com)
501 - Fix rip printer to not print one more route than is actually in the
502 packet. Thanks to Jean-Luc Richier (Jean-Luc.Richier@imag.fr) and
503 Bill Fenner (fenner@parc.xerox.com)
505 - Use autoconf endian detection since BYTE_ORDER isn't defined on all systems.
507 - Fix dvmrp printer truncation checks and add a dvmrp probe printer.
508 Thanks to Danny J. Mitzel (mitzel@ipsilon.com)
510 - Rewrite ospf printer to improve truncation checks.
512 - Don't parse tcp options past the EOL. As noted by David Sacerdote
513 (davids@secnet.com). Also, check tcp options to make sure they ar
514 actually in the tcp header (in addition to the normal truncation
515 checks). Fix the SACK code to print the N blocks (instead of the
516 first block N times).
518 - Don't say really small UDP packets are truncated just because they
519 aren't big enough to be a RPC. As noted by David Sacerdote.
521 v3.2.1 Sun Jul 14 03:02:26 PDT 1996
523 - Added rfc1716 icmp codes as suggested by Martin Fredriksson
526 - Print mtu for icmp unreach need frag packets. Thanks to John
527 Hawkinson (jhawk@mit.edu)
529 - Decode icmp router discovery messages. Thanks to Jeffrey Honig
532 - Added a printer entry for DLT_IEEE802 as suggested by Tak Kushida
533 (kushida@trl.ibm.co.jp)
535 - Check igmp checksum if possible. Thanks to John Hawkinson.
537 - Made changes for SINIX. Thanks to Andrej Borsenkow
538 (borsenkow.msk@sni.de)
540 - Use autoconf's idea of the top level directory in install targets.
541 Thanks to John Hawkinson.
543 - Avoid infinite loop in tcp options printing code. Thanks to Jeffrey
544 Mogul (mogul@pa.dec.com)
546 - Avoid using -lsocket in IRIX 5.2 and earlier since it breaks snoop.
547 Thanks to John Hawkinson.
549 - Added some more packet truncation checks.
551 - On systems that have it, use sigset() instead of signal() since
552 signal() has different semantics on these systems.
554 - Fixed some more alignment problems on the alpha.
556 - Add code to massage unprintable characters in the domain and ipx
557 printers. Thanks to John Hawkinson.
559 - Added explicit netmask support. Thanks to Steve Nuchia
560 (steve@research.oknet.com)
562 - Add "sca" keyword (for DEC cluster services) as suggested by Terry
563 Kennedy (terry@spcvxa.spc.edu)
565 - Add "atalk" keyword as suggested by John Hawkinson.
567 - Added an igrp printer. Thanks to Francis Dupont
568 (francis.dupont@inria.fr)
570 - Print IPX net numbers in hex a la Novell Netware. Thanks to Terry
571 Kennedy (terry@spcvxa.spc.edu)
573 - Fixed snmp extended tag field parsing bug. Thanks to Pascal Hennequin
574 (pascal.hennequin@hugo.int-evry.fr)
576 - Added some ETHERTYPEs missing on some systems.
578 - Added truncated packet macros and various checks.
580 - Fixed endian problems with the DECnet printer.
582 - Use $CC when checking gcc version. Thanks to Carl Lindberg
583 (carl_lindberg@blacksmith.com)
585 - Fixes for AIX (although this system is not yet supported). Thanks to
588 - Fix bugs in the autoconf misaligned accesses code fragment.
590 - Include sys/param.h to get BYTE_ORDER in a few places. Thanks to
591 Pavlin Ivanov Radoslavov (pavlin@cs.titech.ac.jp)
593 v3.2 Sun Jun 23 02:28:10 PDT 1996
595 - Print new icmp unreachable codes as suggested by Martin Fredriksson
596 (martin@msp.se). Also print code value when unknown for icmp redirect
599 - Fix an alignment endian bug in getname(). Thanks to John Hawkinson.
601 - Define "new" domain record types if not found in arpa/nameserv.h.
602 Resulted from a suggestion from John Hawkinson (jhawk@mit.edu). Also
603 fixed an endian bug when printing mx record and added some new record
606 - Added RIP V2 support. Thanks to Jeffrey Honig (jch@bsdi.com)
608 - Added T/TCP options printing. As suggested by Richard Stevens
611 - Use autoconf to detect architectures that can't handle misaligned
614 v3.1 Thu Jun 13 20:59:32 PDT 1996
616 - Changed u_int32/int32 to u_int32_t/int32_t to be consistent with bsd
617 and bind (as suggested by Charles Hannum).
619 - Port to GNU autoconf.
621 - Add support for printing DVMRP and PIM traffic thanks to
622 Havard Eidnes (Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no).
624 - Fix AppleTalk, IPX and DECnet byte order problems due to wrong endian
625 define being referenced. Reported by Terry Kennedy.
627 - Minor fixes to the man page thanks to Mark Andrews.
629 - Endian fixes to RTP and vat packet dumpers, thanks to Bruce Mah
630 (bmah@cs.berkeley.edu).
632 - Added support for new dns types, thanks to Rainer Orth.
634 - Fixed tftp_print() to print the block number for ACKs.
636 - Document -dd and -ddd. Resulted from a bug report from Charlie Slater
637 (cslater@imatek.com).
639 - Check return status from malloc/calloc/etc.
641 - Check return status from pcap_loop() so we can print an error and
642 exit with a bad status if there were problems.
644 - Bail if ip option length is <= 0. Resulted from a bug report from
645 Darren Reed (darrenr@vitruvius.arbld.unimelb.edu.au).
647 - Print out a little more information for sun rpc packets.
649 - Add suport for Kerberos 4 thanks to John Hawkinson (jhawk@mit.edu).
651 - Fixed the Fix EXTRACT_SHORT() and EXTRACT_LONG() macros (which were
652 wrong on little endian machines).
654 - Fixed alignment bug in ipx_decode(). Thanks to Matt Crawford
657 - Fix ntp_print() to not print garbage when the stratum is
658 "unspecified." Thanks to Deus Ex Machina (root@belle.bork.com).
660 - Rewrote tcp options printer code to check for truncation. Added
661 selective acknowledgment case.
663 - Fixed an endian bug in the ospf printer. Thanks to Jeffrey C Honig
666 - Fix rip printer to handle 4.4 BSD sockaddr struct which only uses one
667 octet for the sa_family member. Thanks to Yoshitaka Tokugawa
670 - Don't checksum ip header if we don't have all of it. Thanks to John
671 Hawkinson (jhawk@mit.edu).
673 - Print out hostnames if possible in egp printer. Thanks to Jeffrey
677 v3.1a1 Wed May 3 19:21:11 PDT 1995
679 - Include time.h when SVR4 is defined to avoid problems under Solaris
682 - Fix etheraddr_string() in the ETHER_SERVICE to return the saved
683 strings, not the local buffer. Thanks to Stefan Petri
684 (petri@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de).
686 - Detect when pcap raises the snaplen (e.g. with snit). Print a warning
687 that the selected value was not used. Thanks to Pascal Hennequin
688 (Pascal.Hennequin@hugo.int-evry.fr).
690 - Add a truncated packet test to print-nfs.c. Thanks to Pascal Hennequin.
692 - BYTEORDER -> BYTE_ORDER Thanks to Terry Kennedy (terry@spcvxa.spc.edu).
694 v3.0.3 Sun Oct 1 18:35:00 GMT 1995
696 - Although there never was a 3.0.3 release, the linux boys cleverly
697 "released" one in late 1995.
699 v3.0.2 Thu Apr 20 21:28:16 PDT 1995
701 - Change configuration to not use gcc v2 flags with gcc v1.
703 - Redo gmt2local() so that it works under BSDI (which seems to return
704 an empty timezone struct from gettimeofday()). Based on report from
705 Terry Kennedy (terry@spcvxa.spc.edu).
707 - Change configure to recognize IP[0-9]* as "mips" SGI hardware. Based
708 on report from Mark Andrews (mandrews@alias.com).
710 - Don't pass cc flags to gcc. Resulted from a bug report from Rainer
711 Orth (ro@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de).
713 - Fixed printout of connection id for uncompressed tcp slip packets.
714 Resulted from a bug report from Richard Stevens (rstevens@noao.edu).
716 - Hack around deficiency in Ultrix's make.
718 - Add ETHERTYPE_TRAIL define which is missing from irix5.
720 v3.0.1 Wed Aug 31 22:42:26 PDT 1994
722 - Fix problems with gcc2 vs. malloc() and read() prototypes under SunOS 4.
724 v3.0 Mon Jun 20 19:23:27 PDT 1994
726 - Added support for printing tcp option timestamps thanks to
727 Mark Andrews (mandrews@alias.com).
729 - Reorganize protocol dumpers to take const pointers to packets so they
730 never change the contents (i.e., they used to do endian conversions
731 in place). Previously, whenever more than one pass was taken over
732 the packet, the packet contents would be dumped incorrectly (i.e.,
733 the output form -x would be wrong on little endian machines because
734 the protocol dumpers would modify the data). Thanks to Charles Hannum
735 (mycroft@gnu.ai.mit.edu) for reporting this problem.
737 - Added support for decnet protocol dumping thanks to Jeff Mogul
740 - Fix bug that caused length of packet to be incorrectly printed
741 (off by ether header size) for unknown ethernet types thanks
742 to Greg Miller (gmiller@kayak.mitre.org).
744 - Added support for IPX protocol dumping thanks to Brad Parker
747 - Added check to verify IP header checksum under -v thanks to
748 Brad Parker (brad@fcr.com).
750 - Move packet capture code to new libpcap library (which is
751 packaged separately).
753 - Prototype everything and assume an ansi compiler.
755 - print-arp.c: Print hardware ethernet addresses if they're not
758 - print-bootp.c: Decode the cmu vendor field. Add RFC1497 tags.
759 Many helpful suggestions from Gordon Ross (gwr@jericho.mc.com).
761 - print-fddi.c: Improvements. Thanks to Jeffrey Mogul
764 - print-icmp.c: Byte swap netmask before printing. Thanks to
765 Richard Stevens (rstevens@noao.edu). Print icmp type when unknown.
767 - print-ip.c: Print the inner ip datagram of ip-in-ip encapsulated packets.
768 By default, only the inner packet is dumped, appended with the token
769 "(encap)". Under -v, both the inner and output packets are dumped
770 (on the same line). Note that the filter applies to the original packet,
771 not the encapsulated packet. So if you run tcpdump on a net with an
772 IP Multicast tunnel, you cannot filter out the datagrams using the
773 conventional syntax. (You can filter away all the ip-in-ip traffic
774 with "not ip proto 4".)
776 - print-nfs.c: Keep pending rpc's in circular table. Add generic
777 nfs header and remove os dependences. Thanks to Jeffrey Mogul.
779 - print-ospf.c: Improvements. Thanks to Jeffrey Mogul.
781 - tcpdump.c: Add -T flag allows interpretation of "vat", "wb", "rpc"
782 (sunrpc) and rtp packets. Added "inbound" and "outbound" keywords
783 Add && and || operators
785 v2.2.1 Tue Jun 6 17:57:22 PDT 1992
787 - Fix bug with -c flag.
789 v2.2 Fri May 22 17:19:41 PDT 1992
791 - savefile.c: Remove hack that shouldn't have been exported. Add
794 - Added the 'icmp' keyword. For example, 'icmp[0] != 8 and icmp[0] != 0'
795 matches non-echo/reply ICMP packets.
797 - Many improvements to filter code optimizer.
799 - Added 'multicast' keyword and extended the 'broadcast' keyword can now be
800 so that protocol qualifications are allowed. For example, "ip broadcast"
801 and "ether multicast" are valid filters.
803 - Added support for monitoring the loopback interface (i.e. 'tcpdump -i lo').
804 Jeffrey Honig (jch@MITCHELL.CIT.CORNELL.EDU) contributed the kernel
805 patches to netinet/if_loop.c.
807 - Added support for the Ungermann-Bass Ethernet on IBM/PC-RTs running AOS.
808 Contact Jeffrey Honig (jch@MITCHELL.CIT.CORNELL.EDU) for the diffs.
810 - Added EGP and OSPF printers, thanks to Jeffrey Honig.
812 v2.1 Tue Jan 28 11:00:14 PST 1992
814 - Internal release (never publically exported).
816 v2.0.1 Sun Jan 26 21:10:10 PDT
818 - Various byte ordering fixes.
820 - Add truncation checks.
822 - inet.c: Support BSD style SIOCGIFCONF.
824 - nametoaddr.c: Handle multi addresses for single host.
826 - optimize.c: Rewritten.
828 - pcap-bpf.c: don't choke when we get ptraced. only set promiscuous
831 - print-atal.c: Fix an alignment bug (thanks to
832 stanonik@nprdc.navy.mil) Add missing printf() argument.
834 - print-bootp.c: First attempt at decoding the vendor buffer.
836 - print-domain.c: Fix truncation checks.
838 - print-icmp.c: Calculate length of packets from the ip header.
840 - print-ip.c: Print frag id in decimal (so it's easier to match up
841 with non-frags). Add support for ospf, egp and igmp.
843 - print-nfs.c: Lots of changes.
845 - print-ntp.c: Make some verbose output depend on -v.
847 - print-snmp.c: New version from John LoVerso.
849 - print-tcp.c: Print rfc1072 tcp options.
851 - tcpdump.c: Print "0x" prefix for %x formats. Always print 6 digits
852 (microseconds) worth of precision. Fix uid bugs.
854 - A packet dumper has been added (thanks to Jeff Mogul of DECWRL).
855 With this option, you can create an architecture independent binary
856 trace file in real time, without the overhead of the packet printer.
857 At a later time, the packets can be filtered (again) and printed.
859 - BSD is supported. You must have BPF in your kernel.
860 Since the filtering is now done in the kernel, fewer packets are
861 dropped. In fact, with BPF and the packet dumper option, a measly
862 Sun 3/50 can keep up with a busy network.
864 - Compressed SLIP packets can now be dumped, provided you use our
865 SLIP software and BPF. These packets are dumped as any other IP
866 packet; the compressed headers are dumped with the '-e' option.
868 - Machines with little-endian byte ordering are supported (thanks to
871 - Ultrix 4.0 is supported (also thanks to Jeff Mogul).
873 - IBM RT and Stanford Enetfilter support has been added by
874 Rayan Zachariassen <rayan@canet.ca>. Tcpdump has been tested under
875 both the vanilla Enetfilter interface, and the extended interface
876 (#ifdef'd by IBMRTPC) present in the MERIT version of the Enetfilter.
878 - TFTP packets are now printed (requests only).
880 - BOOTP packets are now printed.
882 - SNMP packets are now printed. (thanks to John LoVerso of Xylogics).
884 - Sparc architectures, including the Sparcstation-1, are now
885 supported thanks to Steve McCanne and Craig Leres.
887 - SunOS 4 is now supported thanks to Micky Liu of Columbia
888 University (micky@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu).
890 - IP options are now printed.
892 - RIP packets are now printed.
894 - There's a -v flag that prints out more information than the
895 default (e.g., it will enable printing of IP ttl, tos and id)
896 and -q flag that prints out less (e.g., it will disable
897 interpretation of AppleTalk-in-UDP).
899 - The grammar has undergone substantial changes (if you have an
900 earlier version of tcpdump, you should re-read the manual
903 The most useful change is the addition of an expression
904 syntax that lets you filter on arbitrary fields or values in the
905 packet. E.g., "ip[0] > 0x45" would print only packets with IP
906 options, "tcp[13] & 3 != 0" would print only TCP SYN and FIN
909 The most painful change is that concatenation no longer means
910 "and" -- e.g., you have to say "host foo and port bar" instead
911 of "host foo port bar". The up side to this down is that
912 repeated qualifiers can be omitted, making most filter
913 expressions shorter. E.g., you can now say "ip host foo and
914 (bar or baz)" to look at ip traffic between hosts foo and bar or
915 between hosts foo and baz. [The old way of saying this was "ip
916 host foo and (ip host bar or ip host baz)".]
918 v2.0 Sun Jan 13 12:20:40 PST 1991
920 - Initial public release.