1 Tuesday January 9, 2001. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 3.6 release
2 Cleaned up documentation.
3 Promisc mode fixes for Linux
4 IPsec changes/cleanups.
5 Alignment fixes for picky architectures
7 Removed dependency on native headers for packet dissectors.
8 Removed Linux specific headers that were shipped
10 libpcap changes provide for exchanging capture files between
11 systems. Save files now have well known PACKET_ values instead of
12 depending upon system dependant mappings of DLT_* types.
14 Support for computing/checking IP and UDP/TCP checksums.
16 Updated autoconf stock files.
18 IPv6 improvements: dhcp (draft-15), mobile-ip6, ppp, ospf6,
20 Added dissector support for: ISOCLNS, Token Ring, IGMPv3, bxxp,
21 timed, vrrp, radius, chdlc, cnfp, cdp, IEEE802.1d, raw-AppleTalk
23 Added filtering support for: VLANs, ESIS, ISIS
25 Improvements to: print-telnet, IPTalk, bootp/dhcp, ECN, PPP,
28 HP-UX 11.0 -- find the right dlpi device.
29 Solaris 8 - IPv6 works
30 Linux - Added support for an "any" device to capture on all interfaces
32 Security fixes: buffer overrun audit done. Strcpy replaced with
33 strlcpy, sprintf replaced with snprintf.
34 Look for lex problems, and warn about them.
37 v3.5 Fri Jan 28 18:00:00 PST 2000
39 Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com>
40 - switch to config.h for autoconf
42 - Updated PIMv1, PIMv2, DVMRP, IGMP parsers, add Cisco Auto-RP parser
43 - Really fix the RIP printer
44 - Fix MAC address -> name translation.
45 - some -Wall -Wformat fixes
46 - update makemib to parse much of SMIv2
47 - Print TCP sequence # with -vv even if you normally wouldn't
48 - Print as much of IP/TCP/UDP headers as possible even if truncated.
51 - -X will make a ascii dump. from netbsd.
52 - telnet command sequence decoder (ff xx xx). from netbsd.
53 - print-bgp.c: improve options printing. ugly code exists for
54 unaligned option parsing (need some fix).
55 - const poisoning in SMB decoder.
56 - -Wall -Werror clean checks.
57 - bring in KAME IPv6/IPsec decoding code.
59 Assar Westerlund <assar@sics.se>
60 - SNMPv2 and SNMPv3 printer
61 - If compiled with libsmi, tcpdump can load MIBs on the fly to decode
63 - Incorporate NFS parsing code from NetBSD. Adds support for nfsv3.
65 - permit building in different directories.
67 Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
69 /afs/transarc.com/public/afs-contrib/tools/tcpdump for parsing
72 Andrew Tridgell <tridge@linuxcare.com>
75 Love <lha@stacken.kth.se>
76 - print-rx.c: add code for printing MakeDir and StoreStatus. Also
77 change date format to the right one.
79 Michael C. Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>
80 - Created tcpdump.org repository
82 v3.4 Sat Jul 25 12:40:55 PDT 1998
84 - Hardwire Linux slip support since it's too hard to detect.
86 - Redo configuration of "network" libraries (-lsocket and -lnsl) to
87 deal with IRIX. Thanks to John Hawkinson (jhawk@mit.edu)
89 - Added -a which tries to translate network and broadcast addresses to
90 names. Suggested by Rob van Nieuwkerk (robn@verdi.et.tudelft.nl)
92 - Added a configure option to disable gcc.
94 - Added a "raw" packet printer.
96 - Not having an interface address is no longer fatal. Requested by John
99 - Rework signal setup to accommodate Linux.
101 - OSPF truncation check fix. Also display the type of OSPF packets
102 using MD5 authentication. Thanks to Brian Wellington
105 - Fix truncation check bugs in the Kerberos printer. Reported by Ezra
106 Peisach (epeisach@mit.edu)
108 - Don't catch SIGHUP when invoked with nohup(1). Thanks to Dave Plonka
111 - Specify full install target as a way of detecting if install
112 directory does not exist. Thanks to Dave Plonka.
114 - Bit-swap FDDI addresses for BSD/OS too. Thanks to Paul Vixie
117 - Fix off-by-one bug when testing size of ethernet packets. Thanks to
118 Marty Leisner (leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com)
120 - Add a local autoconf macro to check for routines in libraries; the
121 autoconf version is broken (it only puts the library name in the
122 cache variable name). Thanks to John Hawkinson.
124 - Add a local autoconf macro to check for types; the autoconf version
125 is broken (it uses grep instead of actually compiling a code fragment).
127 - Modified to support the new BSD/OS 2.1 PPP and SLIP link layer header
130 - Extend OSF ip header workaround to versions 1 and 2.
132 - Fix some signed problems in the nfs printer. As reported by David
133 Sacerdote (davids@silence.secnet.com)
135 - Detect group wheel and use it as the default since BSD/OS' install
136 can't hack numeric groups. Reported by David Sacerdote.
138 - AIX needs special loader options. Thanks to Jonathan I. Kamens
141 - Fixed the nfs printer to print port numbers in decimal. Thanks to
142 Kent Vander Velden (graphix@iastate.edu)
144 - Find installed libpcap in /usr/local/lib when not using gcc.
146 - Disallow network masks with non-network bits set.
148 - Attempt to detect "egcs" versions of gcc.
150 - Add missing closing double quotes when displaying bootp strings.
151 Reported by Viet-Trung Luu (vluu@picard.math.uwaterloo.ca)
153 v3.3 Sat Nov 30 20:56:27 PST 1996
155 - Added Linux support.
157 - GRE encapsulated packet printer thanks to John Hawkinson
160 - Rewrite gmt2local() to avoid problematic os dependencies.
162 - Suppress nfs truncation message on errors.
164 - Add missing m4 quoting in AC_LBL_UNALIGNED_ACCESS autoconf macro.
165 Reported by Joachim Ott (ott@ardala.han.de)
167 - Enable "ip_hl vs. ip_vhl" workaround for OSF4 too.
169 - Print arp hardware type in host order. Thanks to Onno van der Linden
172 - Avoid solaris compiler warnings. Thanks to Bruce Barnett
173 (barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com)
175 - Fix rip printer to not print one more route than is actually in the
176 packet. Thanks to Jean-Luc Richier (Jean-Luc.Richier@imag.fr) and
177 Bill Fenner (fenner@parc.xerox.com)
179 - Use autoconf endian detection since BYTE_ORDER isn't defined on all systems.
181 - Fix dvmrp printer truncation checks and add a dvmrp probe printer.
182 Thanks to Danny J. Mitzel (mitzel@ipsilon.com)
184 - Rewrite ospf printer to improve truncation checks.
186 - Don't parse tcp options past the EOL. As noted by David Sacerdote
187 (davids@secnet.com). Also, check tcp options to make sure they ar
188 actually in the tcp header (in addition to the normal truncation
189 checks). Fix the SACK code to print the N blocks (instead of the
190 first block N times).
192 - Don't say really small UDP packets are truncated just because they
193 aren't big enough to be a RPC. As noted by David Sacerdote.
195 v3.2.1 Sun Jul 14 03:02:26 PDT 1996
197 - Added rfc1716 icmp codes as suggested by Martin Fredriksson
200 - Print mtu for icmp unreach need frag packets. Thanks to John
201 Hawkinson (jhawk@mit.edu)
203 - Decode icmp router discovery messages. Thanks to Jeffrey Honig
206 - Added a printer entry for DLT_IEEE802 as suggested by Tak Kushida
207 (kushida@trl.ibm.co.jp)
209 - Check igmp checksum if possible. Thanks to John Hawkinson.
211 - Made changes for SINIX. Thanks to Andrej Borsenkow
212 (borsenkow.msk@sni.de)
214 - Use autoconf's idea of the top level directory in install targets.
215 Thanks to John Hawkinson.
217 - Avoid infinite loop in tcp options printing code. Thanks to Jeffrey
218 Mogul (mogul@pa.dec.com)
220 - Avoid using -lsocket in IRIX 5.2 and earlier since it breaks snoop.
221 Thanks to John Hawkinson.
223 - Added some more packet truncation checks.
225 - On systems that have it, use sigset() instead of signal() since
226 signal() has different semantics on these systems.
228 - Fixed some more alignment problems on the alpha.
230 - Add code to massage unprintable characters in the domain and ipx
231 printers. Thanks to John Hawkinson.
233 - Added explicit netmask support. Thanks to Steve Nuchia
234 (steve@research.oknet.com)
236 - Add "sca" keyword (for DEC cluster services) as suggested by Terry
237 Kennedy (terry@spcvxa.spc.edu)
239 - Add "atalk" keyword as suggested by John Hawkinson.
241 - Added an igrp printer. Thanks to Francis Dupont
242 (francis.dupont@inria.fr)
244 - Print IPX net numbers in hex a la Novell Netware. Thanks to Terry
245 Kennedy (terry@spcvxa.spc.edu)
247 - Fixed snmp extended tag field parsing bug. Thanks to Pascal Hennequin
248 (pascal.hennequin@hugo.int-evry.fr)
250 - Added some ETHERTYPEs missing on some systems.
252 - Added truncated packet macros and various checks.
254 - Fixed endian problems with the DECnet printer.
256 - Use $CC when checking gcc version. Thanks to Carl Lindberg
257 (carl_lindberg@blacksmith.com)
259 - Fixes for AIX (although this system is not yet supported). Thanks to
262 - Fix bugs in the autoconf misaligned accesses code fragment.
264 - Include sys/param.h to get BYTE_ORDER in a few places. Thanks to
265 Pavlin Ivanov Radoslavov (pavlin@cs.titech.ac.jp)
267 v3.2 Sun Jun 23 02:28:10 PDT 1996
269 - Print new icmp unreachable codes as suggested by Martin Fredriksson
270 (martin@msp.se). Also print code value when unknown for icmp redirect
273 - Fix an alignment endian bug in getname(). Thanks to John Hawkinson.
275 - Define "new" domain record types if not found in arpa/nameserv.h.
276 Resulted from a suggestion from John Hawkinson (jhawk@mit.edu). Also
277 fixed an endian bug when printing mx record and added some new record
280 - Added RIP V2 support. Thanks to Jeffrey Honig (jch@bsdi.com)
282 - Added T/TCP options printing. As suggested by Richard Stevens
285 - Use autoconf to detect architectures that can't handle misaligned
288 v3.1 Thu Jun 13 20:59:32 PDT 1996
290 - Changed u_int32/int32 to u_int32_t/int32_t to be consistent with bsd
291 and bind (as suggested by Charles Hannum).
293 - Port to GNU autoconf.
295 - Add support for printing DVMRP and PIM traffic thanks to
296 Havard Eidnes (Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no).
298 - Fix AppleTalk, IPX and DECnet byte order problems due to wrong endian
299 define being referenced. Reported by Terry Kennedy.
301 - Minor fixes to the man page thanks to Mark Andrews.
303 - Endian fixes to RTP and vat packet dumpers, thanks to Bruce Mah
304 (bmah@cs.berkeley.edu).
306 - Added support for new dns types, thanks to Rainer Orth.
308 - Fixed tftp_print() to print the block number for ACKs.
310 - Document -dd and -ddd. Resulted from a bug report from Charlie Slater
311 (cslater@imatek.com).
313 - Check return status from malloc/calloc/etc.
315 - Check return status from pcap_loop() so we can print an error and
316 exit with a bad status if there were problems.
318 - Bail if ip option length is <= 0. Resulted from a bug report from
319 Darren Reed (darrenr@vitruvius.arbld.unimelb.edu.au).
321 - Print out a little more information for sun rpc packets.
323 - Add suport for Kerberos 4 thanks to John Hawkinson (jhawk@mit.edu).
325 - Fixed the Fix EXTRACT_SHORT() and EXTRACT_LONG() macros (which were
326 wrong on little endian machines).
328 - Fixed alignment bug in ipx_decode(). Thanks to Matt Crawford
331 - Fix ntp_print() to not print garbage when the stratum is
332 "unspecified." Thanks to Deus Ex Machina (root@belle.bork.com).
334 - Rewrote tcp options printer code to check for truncation. Added
335 selective acknowledgment case.
337 - Fixed an endian bug in the ospf printer. Thanks to Jeffrey C Honig
340 - Fix rip printer to handle 4.4 BSD sockaddr struct which only uses one
341 octet for the sa_family member. Thanks to Yoshitaka Tokugawa
344 - Don't checksum ip header if we don't have all of it. Thanks to John
345 Hawkinson (jhawk@mit.edu).
347 - Print out hostnames if possible in egp printer. Thanks to Jeffrey
351 v3.1a1 Wed May 3 19:21:11 PDT 1995
353 - Include time.h when SVR4 is defined to avoid problems under Solaris
356 - Fix etheraddr_string() in the ETHER_SERVICE to return the saved
357 strings, not the local buffer. Thanks to Stefan Petri
358 (petri@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de).
360 - Detect when pcap raises the snaplen (e.g. with snit). Print a warning
361 that the selected value was not used. Thanks to Pascal Hennequin
362 (Pascal.Hennequin@hugo.int-evry.fr).
364 - Add a truncated packet test to print-nfs.c. Thanks to Pascal Hennequin.
366 - BYTEORDER -> BYTE_ORDER Thanks to Terry Kennedy (terry@spcvxa.spc.edu).
368 v3.0.3 Sun Oct 1 18:35:00 GMT 1995
370 - Although there never was a 3.0.3 release, the linux boys cleverly
371 "released" one in late 1995.
373 v3.0.2 Thu Apr 20 21:28:16 PDT 1995
375 - Change configuration to not use gcc v2 flags with gcc v1.
377 - Redo gmt2local() so that it works under BSDI (which seems to return
378 an empty timezone struct from gettimeofday()). Based on report from
379 Terry Kennedy (terry@spcvxa.spc.edu).
381 - Change configure to recognize IP[0-9]* as "mips" SGI hardware. Based
382 on report from Mark Andrews (mandrews@alias.com).
384 - Don't pass cc flags to gcc. Resulted from a bug report from Rainer
385 Orth (ro@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de).
387 - Fixed printout of connection id for uncompressed tcp slip packets.
388 Resulted from a bug report from Richard Stevens (rstevens@noao.edu).
390 - Hack around deficiency in Ultrix's make.
392 - Add ETHERTYPE_TRAIL define which is missing from irix5.
394 v3.0.1 Wed Aug 31 22:42:26 PDT 1994
396 - Fix problems with gcc2 vs. malloc() and read() prototypes under SunOS 4.
398 v3.0 Mon Jun 20 19:23:27 PDT 1994
400 - Added support for printing tcp option timestamps thanks to
401 Mark Andrews (mandrews@alias.com).
403 - Reorganize protocol dumpers to take const pointers to packets so they
404 never change the contents (i.e., they used to do endian conversions
405 in place). Previously, whenever more than one pass was taken over
406 the packet, the packet contents would be dumped incorrectly (i.e.,
407 the output form -x would be wrong on little endian machines because
408 the protocol dumpers would modify the data). Thanks to Charles Hannum
409 (mycroft@gnu.ai.mit.edu) for reporting this problem.
411 - Added support for decnet protocol dumping thanks to Jeff Mogul
414 - Fix bug that caused length of packet to be incorrectly printed
415 (off by ether header size) for unknown ethernet types thanks
416 to Greg Miller (gmiller@kayak.mitre.org).
418 - Added support for IPX protocol dumping thanks to Brad Parker
421 - Added check to verify IP header checksum under -v thanks to
422 Brad Parker (brad@fcr.com).
424 - Move packet capture code to new libpcap library (which is
425 packaged separately).
427 - Prototype everything and assume an ansi compiler.
429 - print-arp.c: Print hardware ethernet addresses if they're not
432 - print-bootp.c: Decode the cmu vendor field. Add RFC1497 tags.
433 Many helpful suggestions from Gordon Ross (gwr@jericho.mc.com).
435 - print-fddi.c: Improvements. Thanks to Jeffrey Mogul
438 - print-icmp.c: Byte swap netmask before printing. Thanks to
439 Richard Stevens (rstevens@noao.edu). Print icmp type when unknown.
441 - print-ip.c: Print the inner ip datagram of ip-in-ip encapsulated packets.
442 By default, only the inner packet is dumped, appended with the token
443 "(encap)". Under -v, both the inner and output packets are dumped
444 (on the same line). Note that the filter applies to the original packet,
445 not the encapsulated packet. So if you run tcpdump on a net with an
446 IP Multicast tunnel, you cannot filter out the datagrams using the
447 conventional syntax. (You can filter away all the ip-in-ip traffic
448 with "not ip proto 4".)
450 - print-nfs.c: Keep pending rpc's in circular table. Add generic
451 nfs header and remove os dependences. Thanks to Jeffrey Mogul.
453 - print-ospf.c: Improvements. Thanks to Jeffrey Mogul.
455 - tcpdump.c: Add -T flag allows interpretation of "vat", "wb", "rpc"
456 (sunrpc) and rtp packets. Added "inbound" and "outbound" keywords
457 Add && and || operators
459 v2.2.1 Tue Jun 6 17:57:22 PDT 1992
461 - Fix bug with -c flag.
463 v2.2 Fri May 22 17:19:41 PDT 1992
465 - savefile.c: Remove hack that shouldn't have been exported. Add
468 - Added the 'icmp' keyword. For example, 'icmp[0] != 8 and icmp[0] != 0'
469 matches non-echo/reply ICMP packets.
471 - Many improvements to filter code optimizer.
473 - Added 'multicast' keyword and extended the 'broadcast' keyword can now be
474 so that protocol qualifications are allowed. For example, "ip broadcast"
475 and "ether multicast" are valid filters.
477 - Added support for monitoring the loopback interface (i.e. 'tcpdump -i lo').
478 Jeffrey Honig (jch@MITCHELL.CIT.CORNELL.EDU) contributed the kernel
479 patches to netinet/if_loop.c.
481 - Added support for the Ungermann-Bass Ethernet on IBM/PC-RTs running AOS.
482 Contact Jeffrey Honig (jch@MITCHELL.CIT.CORNELL.EDU) for the diffs.
484 - Added EGP and OSPF printers, thanks to Jeffrey Honig.
486 v2.1 Tue Jan 28 11:00:14 PST 1992
488 - Internal release (never publically exported).
490 v2.0.1 Sun Jan 26 21:10:10 PDT
492 - Various byte ordering fixes.
494 - Add truncation checks.
496 - inet.c: Support BSD style SIOCGIFCONF.
498 - nametoaddr.c: Handle multi addresses for single host.
500 - optimize.c: Rewritten.
502 - pcap-bpf.c: don't choke when we get ptraced. only set promiscuous
505 - print-atal.c: Fix an alignment bug (thanks to
506 stanonik@nprdc.navy.mil) Add missing printf() argument.
508 - print-bootp.c: First attempt at decoding the vendor buffer.
510 - print-domain.c: Fix truncation checks.
512 - print-icmp.c: Calculate length of packets from the ip header.
514 - print-ip.c: Print frag id in decimal (so it's easier to match up
515 with non-frags). Add support for ospf, egp and igmp.
517 - print-nfs.c: Lots of changes.
519 - print-ntp.c: Make some verbose output depend on -v.
521 - print-snmp.c: New version from John LoVerso.
523 - print-tcp.c: Print rfc1072 tcp options.
525 - tcpdump.c: Print "0x" prefix for %x formats. Always print 6 digits
526 (microseconds) worth of precision. Fix uid bugs.
528 - A packet dumper has been added (thanks to Jeff Mogul of DECWRL).
529 With this option, you can create an architecture independent binary
530 trace file in real time, without the overhead of the packet printer.
531 At a later time, the packets can be filtered (again) and printed.
533 - BSD is supported. You must have BPF in your kernel.
534 Since the filtering is now done in the kernel, fewer packets are
535 dropped. In fact, with BPF and the packet dumper option, a measly
536 Sun 3/50 can keep up with a busy network.
538 - Compressed SLIP packets can now be dumped, provided you use our
539 SLIP software and BPF. These packets are dumped as any other IP
540 packet; the compressed headers are dumped with the '-e' option.
542 - Machines with little-endian byte ordering are supported (thanks to
545 - Ultrix 4.0 is supported (also thanks to Jeff Mogul).
547 - IBM RT and Stanford Enetfilter support has been added by
548 Rayan Zachariassen <rayan@canet.ca>. Tcpdump has been tested under
549 both the vanilla Enetfilter interface, and the extended interface
550 (#ifdef'd by IBMRTPC) present in the MERIT version of the Enetfilter.
552 - TFTP packets are now printed (requests only).
554 - BOOTP packets are now printed.
556 - SNMP packets are now printed. (thanks to John LoVerso of Xylogics).
558 - Sparc architectures, including the Sparcstation-1, are now
559 supported thanks to Steve McCanne and Craig Leres.
561 - SunOS 4 is now supported thanks to Micky Liu of Columbia
562 University (micky@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu).
564 - IP options are now printed.
566 - RIP packets are now printed.
568 - There's a -v flag that prints out more information than the
569 default (e.g., it will enable printing of IP ttl, tos and id)
570 and -q flag that prints out less (e.g., it will disable
571 interpretation of AppleTalk-in-UDP).
573 - The grammar has undergone substantial changes (if you have an
574 earlier version of tcpdump, you should re-read the manual
577 The most useful change is the addition of an expression
578 syntax that lets you filter on arbitrary fields or values in the
579 packet. E.g., "ip[0] > 0x45" would print only packets with IP
580 options, "tcp[13] & 3 != 0" would print only TCP SYN and FIN
583 The most painful change is that concatenation no longer means
584 "and" -- e.g., you have to say "host foo and port bar" instead
585 of "host foo port bar". The up side to this down is that
586 repeated qualifiers can be omitted, making most filter
587 expressions shorter. E.g., you can now say "ip host foo and
588 (bar or baz)" to look at ip traffic between hosts foo and bar or
589 between hosts foo and baz. [The old way of saying this was "ip
590 host foo and (ip host bar or ip host baz)".]
592 v2.0 Sun Jan 13 12:20:40 PST 1991
594 - Initial public release.
596 @(#) $Header: /tcpdump/master/tcpdump/CHANGES,v 1.78 2001-01-10 05:30:07 guy Exp $ (LBL)