1 Monthday, Month DD, YYYY by gharris and denis
2 Summary for 5.0.0 tcpdump release (so far!)
4 Use %zu when printing a sizeof to squelch compiler warnings
5 AppleTalk, BOOTP, EGP, EIGRP, Geneve, L2TP, OLSR, PGM, RSVP, UDP: Modernize packet parsing style
6 EGP: Replace custom code with tok2str()
7 EIGRP: Get the packet header fields right.
8 UDP: Clean up address and port printing.
9 AppleTalk: Declutter appletalk.h.
10 OpenFlow 1.0: Fix indentation of PORT_MOD.
12 Monthday, Month DD, YYYY by gharris
13 Summary for 4.99.1 tcpdump release (so far!)
15 Squelch some compiler warnings
16 Rebuild configure script when building release
18 Fix a compile error with Sun C
20 Wednesday, December 30, 2020, by mcr@sandelman.ca, denis and fxl.
21 Summary for 4.99.0 tcpdump release
22 Improve the contents, wording and formatting of the man page.
23 Print unsupported link-layer protocol packets in hex.
24 Add support for new network protocols and DLTs: Arista, Autosar SOME/IP,
25 Broadcom LI and Ethernet switches tag, IEEE 802.15.9, IP-over-InfiniBand
26 (IPoIB), Linux SLL2, Linux vsockmon, MACsec, Marvell Distributed Switch
27 Architecture, OpenFlow 1.3, Precision Time Protocol (PTP), SSH, WHOIS,
28 ZigBee Encapsulation Protocol (ZEP).
29 Make protocol-specific updates for: AH, DHCP, DNS, ESP, FRF.16, HNCP,
30 ICMP6, IEEE 802.15.4, IPv6, IS-IS, Linux SLL, LLDP, LSP ping, MPTCP, NFS,
31 NSH, NTP, OSPF, OSPF6, PGM, PIM, PPTP, RADIUS, RSVP, Rx, SMB, UDLD,
34 Make SLL2 the default for Linux "any" pseudo-device.
35 Add --micro and --nano shorthands.
36 Add --count to print a counter only instead of decoding.
37 Add --print, to cause packet printing even with -w.
38 Add support for remote capture if libpcap supports it.
39 Display the "wireless" flag and connection status.
40 Flush the output packet buffer on a SIGUSR2.
41 Add the snapshot length to the "reading from file ..." message.
42 Fix local time printing (DST offset in timestamps).
43 Allow -C arguments > 2^31-1 GB if they can fit into a long.
44 Handle very large -f files by rejecting them.
45 Report periodic stats only when safe to do so.
46 Print the number of packets captured only as often as necessary.
47 With no -s, or with -s 0, don't specify the snapshot length with newer
49 Improve version and usage message printing.
51 Install into bindir, not sbindir.
52 autoconf: replace --with-system-libpcap with --disable-local-libpcap.
53 Require the compiler to support C99.
54 Better detect and use various C compilers and their features.
55 Add CMake as the second build system.
56 Make out-of-tree builds more reliable.
57 Use pkg-config to detect libpcap if available.
58 Improve Windows support.
59 Add more tests and improve the scripts that run them.
60 Test both with "normal" and "x87" floating-point.
61 Eliminate dependency on libdnet.
63 Print a proper error message about monitor mode VAP.
64 Use libcasper if available.
65 Fix failure to capture on RDMA device.
66 Include the correct capsicum header.
68 Start the transition to longjmp() for packet truncation handling.
69 Introduce new helper functions, including GET_*(), nd_print_protocol(),
70 nd_print_invalid(), nd_print_trunc(), nd_trunc_longjmp() and others.
71 Put integer signedness right in many cases.
72 Introduce nd_uint*, nd_mac_addr, nd_ipv4 and nd_ipv6 types to fix
73 alignment issues, especially on SPARC.
74 Fix many C compiler, Coverity, UBSan and cppcheck warnings.
75 Fix issues detected with AddressSanitizer.
76 Remove many workarounds for older compilers and OSes.
77 Add a sanity check on packet header length.
78 Add and remove plenty of bounds checks.
79 Clean up pcap_findalldevs() call to find the first interface.
80 Use a short timeout, rather than immediate mode, for text output.
81 Handle DLT_ENC files *not* written on the same OS and byte-order host.
82 Add, and use, macros to do locale-independent case mapping.
83 Use a table instead of getprotobynumber().
84 Get rid of ND_UNALIGNED and ND_TCHECK().
85 Make roundup2() generally available.
86 Resync SMI list against Wireshark.
89 Friday, September 20, 2019, by mcr@sandelman.ca
90 A huge thank you to Denis, Francois-Xavier and Guy who did much of the heavy lifting.
91 Summary for 4.9.3 tcpdump release
92 Fix buffer overflow/overread vulnerabilities:
94 CVE-2018-14468 (FrameRelay)
95 CVE-2018-14469 (IKEv1)
96 CVE-2018-14470 (BABEL)
97 CVE-2018-14466 (AFS/RX)
100 CVE-2018-14465 (RSVP)
103 CVE-2018-14463 (VRRP)
105 CVE-2018-10103 (SMB - partially fixed, but SMB printing disabled)
106 CVE-2018-10105 (SMB - too unreliably reproduced, SMB printing disabled)
107 CVE-2018-14880 (OSPF6)
110 CVE-2018-16227 (802.11)
111 CVE-2018-16229 (DCCP)
112 CVE-2018-16301 (was fixed in libpcap)
116 CVE-2018-16228 (HNCP)
118 CVE-2019-15167 (VRRP)
119 Fix for cmdline argument/local issues:
120 CVE-2018-14879 (tcpdump -V)
122 Sunday September 3, 2017 denis@ovsienko.info
123 Summary for 4.9.2 tcpdump release
124 Do not use getprotobynumber() for protocol name resolution. Do not do
125 any protocol name resolution if -n is specified.
126 Improve errors detection in the test scripts.
127 Fix a segfault with OpenSSL 1.1 and improve OpenSSL usage.
128 Clean up IS-IS printing.
129 Fix buffer overflow vulnerabilities:
130 CVE-2017-11543 (SLIP)
131 CVE-2017-13011 (bittok2str_internal)
132 Fix infinite loop vulnerabilities:
133 CVE-2017-12989 (RESP)
134 CVE-2017-12990 (ISAKMP)
136 CVE-2017-12997 (LLDP)
137 Fix buffer over-read vulnerabilities:
138 CVE-2017-11541 (safeputs)
139 CVE-2017-11542 (PIMv1)
140 CVE-2017-12893 (SMB/CIFS)
141 CVE-2017-12894 (lookup_bytestring)
142 CVE-2017-12895 (ICMP)
143 CVE-2017-12896 (ISAKMP)
144 CVE-2017-12897 (ISO CLNS)
146 CVE-2017-12899 (DECnet)
147 CVE-2017-12900 (tok2strbuf)
148 CVE-2017-12901 (EIGRP)
149 CVE-2017-12902 (Zephyr)
150 CVE-2017-12985 (IPv6)
151 CVE-2017-12986 (IPv6 routing headers)
152 CVE-2017-12987 (IEEE 802.11)
153 CVE-2017-12988 (telnet)
155 CVE-2017-12992 (RIPng)
156 CVE-2017-12993 (Juniper)
158 CVE-2017-12996 (PIMv2)
159 CVE-2017-12998 (ISO IS-IS)
160 CVE-2017-12999 (ISO IS-IS)
161 CVE-2017-13000 (IEEE 802.15.4)
163 CVE-2017-13002 (AODV)
165 CVE-2017-13004 (Juniper)
167 CVE-2017-13006 (L2TP)
168 CVE-2017-13007 (Apple PKTAP)
169 CVE-2017-13008 (IEEE 802.11)
170 CVE-2017-13009 (IPv6 mobility)
171 CVE-2017-13010 (BEEP)
172 CVE-2017-13012 (ICMP)
174 CVE-2017-13014 (White Board)
176 CVE-2017-11543 (SLIP)
177 CVE-2017-13016 (ISO ES-IS)
178 CVE-2017-13017 (DHCPv6)
182 CVE-2017-13021 (ICMPv6)
184 CVE-2017-13023 (IPv6 mobility)
185 CVE-2017-13024 (IPv6 mobility)
186 CVE-2017-13025 (IPv6 mobility)
187 CVE-2017-13026 (ISO IS-IS)
188 CVE-2017-13027 (LLDP)
189 CVE-2017-13028 (BOOTP)
192 CVE-2017-13031 (IPv6 fragmentation header)
193 CVE-2017-13032 (RADIUS)
196 CVE-2017-13035 (ISO IS-IS)
197 CVE-2017-13036 (OSPFv3)
200 CVE-2017-13039 (ISAKMP)
201 CVE-2017-13040 (MPTCP)
202 CVE-2017-13041 (ICMPv6)
203 CVE-2017-13042 (HNCP)
205 CVE-2017-13044 (HNCP)
208 CVE-2017-13047 (ISO ES-IS)
209 CVE-2017-13048 (RSVP)
211 CVE-2017-13050 (RPKI-Router)
212 CVE-2017-13051 (RSVP)
215 CVE-2017-13054 (LLDP)
216 CVE-2017-13055 (ISO IS-IS)
217 CVE-2017-13687 (Cisco HDLC)
218 CVE-2017-13688 (OLSR)
219 CVE-2017-13689 (IKEv1)
220 CVE-2017-13690 (IKEv2)
221 CVE-2017-13725 (IPv6 routing headers)
223 Sunday July 23, 2017 denis@ovsienko.info
224 Summary for 4.9.1 tcpdump release
225 CVE-2017-11108/Fix bounds checking for STP.
226 Make assorted documentation updates and fix a few typos in tcpdump output.
227 Fixup -C for file size >2GB (GH #488).
228 Show AddressSanitizer presence in version output.
229 Fix a bug in test scripts (exposed in GH #613).
230 On FreeBSD adjust Capsicum capabilities for netmap.
231 On Linux fix a use-after-free when the requested interface does not exist.
233 Wednesday January 18, 2017 devel.fx.lebail@orange.fr
234 Summary for 4.9.0 tcpdump release
236 Fix some heap overflows found with American Fuzzy Lop by Hanno Boeck and others
237 (More information in the log with CVE-2016-* and CVE-2017-*)
238 Change the way protocols print link-layer addresses (Fix heap overflows
239 in CALM-FAST and GeoNetworking printers)
240 Pass correct caplen value to ether_print() and some other functions
241 Fix lookup_nsap() to match what isonsap_string() expects
242 Clean up relative time stamp printing (Fix an array overflow)
243 Fix some alignment issues with GCC on Solaris 10 SPARC
244 Add some ND_TTEST_/ND_TCHECK_ macros to simplify writing bounds checks
245 Add a fn_printztn() which returns the number of bytes processed
246 Add nd_init() and nd_cleanup() functions. Improve libsmi support
247 Add CONTRIBUTING file
248 Add a summary comment in all printers
249 Compile with more warning options in devel mode if supported (-Wcast-qual, ...)
250 Fix some leaks found by Valgrind/Memcheck
251 Fix a bunch of de-constifications
252 Squelch some Coverity warnings and some compiler warnings
253 Update Coverity and Travis-CI setup
254 Update Visual Studio files
257 Fix capsicum support to work with zerocopy buffers in bpf
258 Try opening interfaces by name first, then by name-as-index
259 Work around pcap_create() failures fetching time stamp type lists
260 Fix a segmentation fault with 'tcpdump -J'
261 Improve addrtostr6() bounds checking
262 Add exit_tcpdump() function
263 Don't drop CAP_SYS_CHROOT before chrooting
264 Fixes issue where statistics not reported when -G and -W options used
267 802.11: Beginnings of 11ac radiotap support
268 802.11: Check the Protected bit for management frames
269 802.11: Do bounds checking on last_presentp before dereferencing it (Fix a heap overflow)
270 802.11: Fix the radiotap printer to handle the special bits correctly
271 802.11: If we have the MCS field, it's 11n
272 802.11: Only print unknown frame type or subtype messages once
273 802.11: Radiotap dBm values get printed as dB; Update a test output accordingly
274 802.11: Source and destination addresses were backwards
275 AH: Add a bounds check
276 AH: Report to our caller that dissection failed if a bounds check fails
277 AP1394: Print src > dst, not dst > src
278 ARP: Don't assume the target hardware address is <= 6 octets long (Fix a heap overflow)
279 ATALK: Add bounds and length checks (Fix heap overflows)
280 ATM: Add some bounds checks (Fix a heap overflow)
281 ATM: Fix an incorrect bounds check
282 BFD: Update specification from draft to RFC 5880
283 BFD: Update to print optional authentication field
284 BGP: Add support for the AIGP attribute (RFC7311)
285 BGP: Print LARGE_COMMUNITY Path Attribute
286 BGP: Update BGP numbers from IANA; Print minor values for FSM notification
287 BOOTP: Add a bounds check
288 Babel: Add decoder for source-specific extension
289 CDP: Filter out non-printable characters
290 CFM: Fixes to match the IEEE standard, additional bounds and length checks
291 CSLIP: Add more bounds checks (Fix a heap overflow)
292 ClassicalIPoATM: Add a bounds check on LLC+SNAP header (Fix a heap overflow)
293 DHCP: Fix MUDURL and TZ options
294 DHCPv6: Process MUDURL and TZ options
295 DHCPv6: Update Status Codes with RFCs/IANA names
296 DNS: Represent the "DNSSEC OK" bit as "DO" instead of "OK". Add a test case
297 DTP: Improve packet integrity checks
298 EGP: Fix bounds checks
299 ESP: Don't use OpenSSL_add_all_algorithms() in OpenSSL 1.1.0 or later
300 Ethernet: Add some bounds checking before calling isoclns_print (Fix a heap overflow)
301 Ethernet: Print the Length/Type field as length when needed
302 FDDI: Fix -e output for FDDI
303 FR: Add some packet-length checks and improve Q.933 printing (Fix heap overflows)
304 GRE: Add some bounds checks (Fix heap overflows)
305 Geneve: Fix error message with invalid option length; Update list option classes
306 HNCP: Fix incorrect time interval format. Fix handling of IPv4 prefixes
307 ICMP6: Fetch a 32-bit big-endian quantity with EXTRACT_32BITS()
308 IGMP: Add a length check
309 IP: Add a bounds check (Fix a heap overflow)
310 IP: Check before fetching the protocol version (Fix a heap overflow)
311 IP: Don't try to dissect if IP version != 4 (Fix a heap overflow)
312 IP: Stop processing IPPROTO_ values once we hit IPPROTO_IPCOMP
313 IPComp: Check whether we have the CPI before we fetch it (Fix a heap overflow)
314 IPoFC: Fix -e output (IP-over-Fibre Channel)
315 IPv6: Don't overwrite the destination IPv6 address for routing headers
316 IPv6: Fix header printing
317 IPv6: Stop processing IPPROTO_ values once we hit IPPROTO_IPCOMP
318 ISAKMP: Clean up parsing of IKEv2 Security Associations
319 ISOCLNS/IS-IS: Add support for Purge Originator Identifier (RFC6232) and test cases
320 ISOCLNS/IS-IS: Don't overwrite packet data when checking the signature
321 ISOCLNS/IS-IS: Filter out non-printable characters
322 ISOCLNS/IS-IS: Fix segmentation faults
323 ISOCLNS/IS-IS: Have signature_verify() do the copying and clearing
324 ISOCLNS: Add some bounds checks
325 Juniper: Make sure a Juniper header TLV isn't bigger than what's left in the packet (Fix a heap overflow)
326 LLC/SNAP: With -e, print the LLC header before the SNAP header; without it, cut the SNAP header
327 LLC: Add a bounds check (Fix a heap overflow)
328 LLC: Clean up printing of LLC packets
329 LLC: Fix the printing of RFC 948-style IP packets
330 LLC: Skip the LLC and SNAP headers with -x for 802.11 and some other protocols
331 LLDP: Implement IANA OUI and LLDP MUD option
332 MPLS LSP ping: Update printing for RFC 4379, bug fixes, more bounds checks
333 MPLS: "length" is now the *remaining* packet length
334 MPLS: Add bounds and length checks (Fix a heap overflow)
335 NFS: Don't assume the ONC RPC header is nicely aligned
336 NFS: Don't overflow the Opaque_Handle buffer (Fix a segmentation fault)
337 NFS: Don't run past the end of an NFSv3 file handle
338 OLSR: Add a test to cover a HNA sgw case
339 OLSR: Fix 'Advertised networks' count
340 OLSR: Fix printing of smart-gateway HNAs in IPv4
341 OSPF: Add a bounds check for the Hello packet options
342 OSPF: Do more bounds checking
343 OSPF: Fix a segmentation fault
344 OSPF: Fix printing 'ospf_topology_values' default
345 OTV: Add missing bounds checks
346 PGM: Print the formatted IP address, not the raw binary address, as a string
347 PIM: Add some bounds checking (Fix a heap overflow)
348 PIMv2: Fix checksumming of Register messages
349 PPP: Add some bounds checks (Fix a heap overflow)
350 PPP: Report invalid PAP AACK/ANAK packets
351 Q.933: Add a missing bounds check
352 RADIUS: Add Value 13 "VLAN" to Tunnel-Type attribute
353 RADIUS: Filter out non-printable characters
354 RADIUS: Translate UDP/1700 as RADIUS
355 RESP: Do better checking of RESP packets
356 RPKI-RTR: Add a return value check for "fn_printn" call
357 RPKI-RTR: Remove printing when truncated condition already detected
358 RPL: Fix 'Consistency Check' control code
359 RPL: Fix suboption print
360 RSVP: An INTEGRITY object in a submessage covers only the submessage
361 RSVP: Fix an infinite loop; Add bounds and length checks
362 RSVP: Fix some if statements missing brackets
363 RSVP: Have signature_verify() do the copying and clearing
364 RTCP: Add some bounds checks
365 RTP: Add some bounds checks, fix two segmentation faults
366 SCTP: Do more bounds checking
367 SFLOW: Fix bounds checking
368 SLOW: Fix bugs, add checks
369 SMB: Before fetching the flags2 field, make sure we have it
370 SMB: Do bounds checks on NBNS resource types and resource data lengths
371 SNMP: Clean up the "have libsmi but no modules loaded" case
372 SNMP: Clean up the object abbreviation list and fix the code to match them
373 SNMP: Do bounds checks when printing character and octet strings
374 SNMP: Improve ASN.1 bounds checks
375 SNMP: More bounds and length checks
376 STP: Add a bunch of bounds checks, and fix some printing (Fix heap overflows)
377 STP: Filter out non-printable characters
378 TCP: Add bounds and length checks for packets with TCP option 20
379 TCP: Correct TCP option Kind value for TCP Auth and add SCPS-TP
380 TCP: Fix two bounds checks (Fix heap overflows)
381 TCP: Make sure we have the data offset field before fetching it (Fix a heap overflow)
382 TCP: Put TCP-AO option decoding right
383 TFTP: Don't use strchr() to scan packet data (Fix a heap overflow)
384 Telnet: Add some bounds checks
385 TokenRing: Fix -e output
386 UDLD: Fix an infinite loop
387 UDP: Add a bounds check (Fix a heap overflow)
388 UDP: Check against the packet length first
389 VAT: Add some bounds checks
390 VTP: Add a test on Mgmt Domain Name length
391 VTP: Add bounds checks and filter out non-printable characters
392 VXLAN: Add a bound check and a test case
393 ZeroMQ: Fix an infinite loop
395 Tuesday October 25, 2016 mcr@sandelman.ca
396 Summary for 4.8.1 tcpdump release
397 Fix "-x" for Apple PKTAP and PPI packets
398 Improve separation frontend/backend (tcpdump/libnetdissect)
399 Fix display of timestamps with -tt, -ttt and -ttttt options
400 Add support for the Marvell Extended Distributed Switch Architecture header
401 Use PRIx64 to print a 64-bit number in hex.
402 Printer for HNCP (RFCs 7787 and 7788).
403 dagid is always an IPv6 address, not an opaque 128-bit string, and other fixes to RPL printer.
404 RSVP: Add bounds and length checks
405 OSPF: Do more bounds checking
406 Handle OpenSSL 1.1.x.
407 Initial support for the REdis Serialization Protocol known as RESP.
408 Add printing function for Generic Protocol Extension for VXLAN
409 draft-ietf-nvo3-vxlan-gpe-01
410 Network Service Header: draft-ietf-sfc-nsh-01
411 Don't recompile the filter if the new file has the same DLT.
412 Pass an adjusted struct pcap_pkthdr to the sub-printer.
413 Add three test cases for already fixed CVEs
415 CVE-2014-8768: Geonet
417 Don't do the DDP-over-UDP heuristic first: GitHub issue #499.
418 Use the new debugging routines in libpcap.
419 Harmonize TCP source or destination ports tests with UDP ones
420 Introduce data types to use for integral values in packet structures.
421 RSVP: Fix an infinite loop
422 Support of Type 3 and Type 4 LISP packets.
423 Don't require IPv6 library support in order to support IPv6 addresses.
424 Many many changes to support libnetdissect usage.
425 Add a test that makes unaligned accesses: GitHub issue #478.
426 add a DNSSEC test case: GH #445 and GH #467.
427 BGP: add decoding of ADD-PATH capability
428 fixes to LLC header printing, and RFC948-style IP packets
430 Friday April 10, 2015 guy@alum.mit.edu
431 Summary for 4.7.4 tcpdump release
432 RPKI to Router Protocol: Fix Segmentation Faults and other problems
433 RPKI to Router Protocol: print strings with fn_printn()
434 wb: fix some bounds checks
436 Wednesday March 11, 2015 mcr@sandelman.ca
437 Summary for 4.7.3 tcpdump release
438 Capsicum fixes for FreeBSD 10
440 Tuesday March 10, 2015 mcr@sandelman.ca
441 Summary for 4.7.2 tcpdump release
442 DCCP: update Packet Types with RFC4340/IANA names
443 fixes for CVE-2015-0261: IPv6 mobility header check issue
444 fixes for CVE-2015-2153, 2154, 2155: kday packets
446 Friday Nov. 12, 2014 guy@alum.mit.edu
447 Summary for 4.7.0 tcpdump release
448 changes to hex printing of CDP packets
450 Radius: update Packet Type Codes and Attribute Types with RFC/IANA names
451 Add a routine to print "text protocols", and add FTP/HTTP/SMTP/RTSP support.
452 improvements to telnet printer, even if not -v
453 omit length for bcp, print-tcp uses it
454 formatting fixes for a bunch of protocols
455 new bounds checks for a number of protocols
456 split netflow 1,6, and 6 dissector up.
457 added geneve dissector
458 CVE-2014-9140 PPP dissector fixed.
460 Tuesday Sep. 2, 2014 mcr@sandelman.ca
461 Summary for 4.6.2 tcpdump release
462 fix out-of-source-tree builds: find libpcap that is out of source
463 better configure check for libsmi
465 Saturday Jul. 19, 2014 mcr@sandelman.ca
466 Summary for 4.6.1 tcpdump release
467 added FreeBSD capsicum
468 add a short option '#', same as long option '--number'
470 Wednesday Jul. 2, 2014 mcr@sandelman.ca
471 Summary for 4.6.0 tcpdump release
472 all of tcpdump is now using the new "NDO" code base (Thanks Denis!)
473 nflog, mobile, forces, pptp, AODV, AHCP, IPv6, OSPFv4, RPL, DHCPv6 enhancements/fixes
475 many new test cases: 82 in 4.5.1 to 133 in 4.6.0
476 many improvements to travis continuous integration system: OSX, and Coverity options
477 cleaned up some unnecessary header files
479 a number of unaligned access faults fixed
480 -A flag does not consider CR to be printable anymore
481 fx.lebail took over coverity baby sitting
482 default snapshot size increased to 256K for accommodate USB captures
483 WARNING: this release contains a lot of very worthwhile code churn.
485 Wednesday Jan. 15, 2014 guy@alum.mit.edu
486 Summary for 4.5.2 tcpdump release
490 Monday Nov. 11, 2013 mcr@sandelman.ca
491 Summary for 4.5.1 tcpdump release
494 Thursday Nov. 7, 2013 mcr@sandelman.ca and guy@alum.mit.edu.
495 Summary for 4.5.0 tcpdump release
496 some NFSv4 fixes for printing
497 fix printing of unknown TCP options, and tcp fast-open
498 fixes for syslog parser
499 some gcc-version-specific flag tuning
500 adopt MacOS deprecation workarounds for openssl
501 improvements to babel printing
502 add OpenFlow 1.0 (no SSL) and test cases
504 added STBC Rx support
505 improvements to DHCPv6 decoder
506 clarify which autoconf is needed
507 Point users to the the-tcpdump-group repository on GitHub rather
508 than the mcr repository
510 Fixed IPv6 check on Solaris and other OSes requiring extra
511 networking libraries.
512 Add support for VXLAN (draft-mahalingam-dutt-dcops-vxlan-03),
513 and add "vxlan" as an option for -T.
514 Add support for OTV (draft-hasmit-otv-04).
515 fixes for DLT_IEEE802_11_RADIO datalink types
518 Saturday April 6, 2013 guy@alum.mit.edu.
519 Summary for 4.4.0 tcpdump release
520 RPKI-RTR (RFC6810) is now official (TCP Port 323)
521 Fix detection of OpenSSL libcrypto.
522 Add DNSSL (RFC6106) support.
523 Add "radius" as an option for -T.
524 Update Action codes for handle_action function according to
526 Decode DHCPv6 AFTR-Name option (RFC6334).
528 Fix printing of infinite lifetime in ICMPv6.
529 Added support for SPB, SPBM Service Identifier, and Unicast
530 Address sub-TLV in ISIS.
531 Decode RIPv2 authentication up to RFC4822.
532 Fix RIP Request/full table decoding issues.
533 On Linux systems with cap-ng.h, drop root privileges
534 using Linux Capabilities.
535 Add support for reading multiple files.
536 Add MS NLB heartbeat printer.
537 Separate multiple nexthops in BGP.
539 Wednesday November 28, 2012 guy@alum.mit.edu.
540 Summary for 4.3.1 tcpdump release
541 Print "LLDP, length N" for LLDP packets even when not in verbose
542 mode, so something is printed even if only the timestamp is
545 Print NTP poll interval correctly (it's an exponent, so print
546 both its raw value and 2^value)
547 Document that "-e" is used to get MAC addresses
548 More clearly document that you need to escape or quote
549 backslashes in filter expressions on the command line
550 Fix some "the the" in the man page
551 Use the right maximum path length
552 Don't treat 192_1_2, when passed to -i, as an interface number
554 Friday April 3, 2012. mcr@sandelman.ca.
555 Summary for 4.3.0 tcpdump release
556 fixes for forces: SPARSE data (per RFC 5810)
557 some more test cases added
558 updates to documentation on -l, -U and -w flags.
559 Fix printing of BGP optional headers.
560 Tried to include DLT_PFSYNC support, failed due to headers required.
562 Fix LLDP Network Policy bit definitions.
563 fixes for IGMPv3's Max Response Time: it is in units of 0.1 second.
564 SIGUSR1 can be used rather than SIGINFO for stats
565 permit -n flag to affect print-ip for protocol numbers
566 ND_OPT_ADVINTERVAL is in milliseconds, not seconds
567 Teach PPPoE parser about RFC 4638
570 Friday December 9, 2011. guy@alum.mit.edu.
571 Summary for 4.2.1 tcpdump release
572 Only build the Babel printer if IPv6 is enabled.
573 Support Babel on port 6696 as well as 6697.
574 Include ppi.h in release tarball.
575 Include all the test files in the release tarball, and don't
576 "include" test files that no longer exist.
577 Don't assume we have <rpc/rpc.h> - check for it.
578 Support "-T carp" as a way of dissecting IP protocol 112 as CARP
580 Support Hilscher NetAnalyzer link-layer header format.
581 Constify some pointers and fix compiler warnings.
582 Get rid of never-true test.
583 Fix an unintended fall-through in a case statement in the ARP
585 Fix several cases where sizeof(sizeof(XXX)) was used when just
586 sizeof(XXX) was intended.
587 Make stricter sanity checks in the ES-IS printer.
588 Get rid of some GCCisms that caused builds to fai with compilers
589 that don't support them.
590 Fix typo in man page.
591 Added length checks to Babel printer.
593 Sunday July 24, 2011. mcr@sandelman.ca.
595 merged 802.15.4 decoder from Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov
597 updates to forces for new port numbers
598 Use "-H", not "-h", for the 802.11s option. (-h always help)
599 Better ICMPv6 checksum handling.
600 add support for the RPKI/Router Protocol, per -ietf-sidr-rpki-rtr-12
601 get rid of uuencoded pcap test files, git can do binary.
602 sFlow changes for 64-bit counters.
603 fixes for PPI packet header handling and printing.
604 Add DCB Exchange protocol (DCBX) version 1.01.
605 Babel dissector, from Juliusz Chroboczek and Grégoire Henry.
606 improvements to radiotap for rate values > 127.
607 Many improvements to ForCES decode, including fix SCTP TML port
608 updated RPL type code to RPL-17 draft
609 Improve printout of DHCPv6 options.
610 added support and test case for QinQ (802.1q VLAN) packets
611 Handle DLT_IEEE802_15_4_NOFCS like DLT_IEEE802_15_4.
612 Build fixes for Sparc and other machines with alignment restrictions.
613 Merged changes from Debian package.
614 PGM: Add ACK decoding and add PGMCC DATA and FEEDBACK options.
615 Build fixes for OSX (Snow Leopard and others)
616 Add support for IEEE 802.15.4 packets
618 Tue. July 20, 2010. guy@alum.mit.edu.
619 Summary for 4.1.2 tcpdump release
620 If -U is specified, flush the file after creating it, so it's
622 Fix TCP flags output description, and some typos, in the man
624 Add a -h flag, and only attempt to recognize 802.11s mesh
626 When printing the link-layer type list, send *all* output to
628 Include the CFLAGS setting when configure was run in the
631 Thu. April 1, 2010. guy@alum.mit.edu.
632 Summary for 4.1.1 tcpdump release
633 Fix build on systems with PF, such as FreeBSD and OpenBSD.
634 Don't blow up if a zero-length link-layer address is passed to
637 Thu. March 11, 2010. ken@netfunctional.ca/guy@alum.mit.edu.
638 Summary for 4.1.0 tcpdump release
639 Fix printing of MAC addresses for VLAN frames with a length
641 Add some additional bounds checks and use the EXTRACT_ macros
643 Add a -b flag to print the AS number in BGP packets in ASDOT
644 notation rather than ASPLAIN notation
645 Add ICMPv6 RFC 5006 support
646 Decode the access flags in NFS access requests
647 Handle the new DLT_ for memory-mapped USB captures on Linux
648 Make the default snapshot (-s) the maximum
649 Print name of device (when -L is used)
650 Support for OpenSolaris (and SXCE build 125 and later)
652 Add support for RPL DIO
653 Add support for TCP User Timeout (UTO)
654 Add support for non-standard Ethertypes used by 3com PPPoE gear
655 Add support for 802.11n and 802.11s
656 Add support for Transparent Ethernet Bridge ethertype in GRE
657 Add 4 byte AS support for BGP printer
658 Add support for the MDT SAFI 66 BG printer
659 Add basic IPv6 support to print-olsr
661 Add printer for ForCES
662 Handle frames with an FCS
663 Handle 802.11n Control Wrapper, Block Acq Req and Block Ack frames
664 Fix TCP sequence number printing
665 Report 802.2 packets as 802.2 instead of 802.3
666 Don't include -L/usr/lib in LDFLAGS
667 On x86_64 Linux, look in lib64 directory too
668 Lots of code clean ups
670 Update testcases to make output changes
671 Fix compiling with/out smi (--with{,out}-smi)
672 Fix compiling without IPv6 support (--disable-ipv6)
674 Mon. October 27, 2008. ken@netfunctional.ca. Summary for 4.0.0 tcpdump release
675 Add support for Bluetooth Sniffing
676 Add support for Realtek Remote Control Protocol (openrrcp.org.ru)
677 Add support for 802.11 AVS
678 Add support for SMB over TCP
679 Add support for 4 byte BGP AS printing
680 Add support for compiling on case-insensitive file systems
681 Add support for ikev2 printing
682 Update support for decoding AFS
683 Update DHCPv6 printer
684 Use newer libpcap API's (allows -B option on all platforms)
685 Add -I to turn on monitor mode
686 Bugfixes in lldp, lspping, dccp, ESP, NFS printers
687 Cleanup unused files and various cruft
689 Mon. September 10, 2007. ken@xelerance.com. Summary for 3.9.8 tcpdump release
691 Rework OSPFv3 printer
692 Add support for Frame-Relay ARP
693 Decode DHCP Option 121 (RFC 3442 Classless Static Route)
694 Decode DHCP Option 249 (MS Classless Static Route) the same as Option 121
695 TLV: Add support for Juniper .pcap extensions
696 Print EGP header in new-world-order style
697 Converted print-isakmp.c to NETDISSECT
698 Moved AF specific stuff into af.h
699 Test subsystem now table driven, and saves outputs and diffs to one place
700 Require <net/pfvar.h> for pf definitions - allows reading of pflog formatted
701 libpcap files on an OS other than where the file was generated
704 Wed. July 23, 2007. mcr@xelerance.com. Summary for 3.9.7 libpcap release
706 NFS: Print unsigned values as such.
708 BGP: fixes for IPv6-less builds.
709 801.1ag: use standard codepoint.
710 use /dev/bpf on systems with such a device.
711 802.11: print QoS data, avoid dissect of no-data frame, ignore padding.
712 smb: make sure that we haven't gone past the end of the captured data.
713 smb: squelch an uninitialized complaint from coverity.
714 NFS: from NetBSD; don't interpret the reply as a possible NFS reply
715 if it got MSG_DENIED.
716 BGP: don't print TLV values that didn't fit, from www.digit-labs.org.
717 revised INSTALL.txt about libpcap dependency.
719 Wed. April 25, 2007. ken@xelerance.com. Summary for 3.9.6 tcpdump release
720 Update man page to reflect changes to libpcap
721 Changes to both TCP and IP Printer Output
722 Fix a potential buffer overflow in the 802.11 printer
723 Print basic info about a few more Cisco LAN protocols.
725 ICMP MPLS rework of the extension code
726 bugfix: use the correct codepoint for the OSPF simple text auth token
727 entry, and use safeputs to print the password.
728 Add support in pflog for additional values
729 Add support for OIF RSVP Extensions UNI 1.0 Rev. 2 and additional RSVP objects
730 Add support for the Message-id NACK c-type.
731 Add support for 802.3ah loopback ctrl msg
732 Add support for Multiple-STP as per 802.1s
733 Add support for rapid-SPT as per 802.1w
734 Add support for CFM Link-trace msg, Link-trace-Reply msg,
735 Sender-ID tlv, private tlv, port, interface status
736 Add support for unidirectional link detection as per
737 https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-foschiano-udld-02.txt
738 Add support for the olsr protocol as per RFC 3626 plus the LQ
739 extensions from olsr.org
740 Add support for variable-length checksum in DCCP, as per section 9 of
742 Add support for per-VLAN spanning tree and per-VLAN rapid spanning tree
743 Add support for Multiple-STP as per 802.1s
744 Add support for the cisco propriatry 'dynamic trunking protocol'
745 Add support for the cisco proprietary VTP protocol
746 Update dhcp6 options table as per IETF standardization activities
749 Tue. September 19, 2006. ken@xelerance.com. Summary for 3.9.5 tcpdump release
751 Fix compiling on AIX (, at end of ENUM)
752 Updated list of DNS RR typecodes
753 Use local Ethernet defs on WIN32
754 Add support for Frame-Relay ARP
755 Fixes for compiling under MSVC++
756 Add support for parsing Juniper .pcap files
757 Add support for FRF.16 Multilink Frame-Relay (DLT_MFR)
758 Rework the OSPFv3 printer
759 Fix printing for 4.4BSD/NetBSD NFS Filehandles
760 Add support for Cisco style NLPID encapsulation
761 Add cisco prop. eigrp related, extended communities
762 Add support for BGP signaled VPLS
763 Cleanup the bootp printer
764 Add support for PPP over Frame-Relay
765 Add some bounds checking to the IP options code, and clean up
766 the options output a bit.
767 Add additional modp groups to ISAKMP printer
768 Add support for Address-Withdraw and Label-Withdraw Msgs
769 Add support for the BFD Discriminator TLV
770 Fixes for 64bit compiling
771 Add support for PIMv2 checksum verification
772 Add support for further dissection of the IPCP Compression Option
773 Add support for Cisco's proposed VQP protocol
774 Add basic support for keyed authentication TCP option
775 Lots of minor cosmetic changes to output printers
778 Mon. September 19, 2005. ken@xelerance.com. Summary for 3.9.4 tcpdump release
779 Decoder support for more Juniper link-layer types
780 Fix a potential buffer overflow (although it can't occur in
782 Fix the handling of unknown management frame types in the 802.11
784 Add FRF.16 support, fix various Frame Relay bugs.
785 Add support for RSVP integrity objects, update fast-reroute
786 object printer to latest spec.
787 Clean up documentation of vlan filter expression, document mpls
789 Document new pppoed and pppoes filter expressions.
790 Update diffserver-TE codepoints as per RFC 4124.
791 Spelling fixes in ICMPv6.
792 Don't require any fields other than flags to be present in IS-IS
793 restart signaling TLVs, and only print the system ID in
794 those TLVs as system IDs, not as node IDs.
797 Tue. July 5, 2005. ken@xelerance.com. Summary for 3.9.3 tcpdump release
799 Option to chroot() when dropping privs
800 Fixes for compiling on nearly every platform,
801 including improved 64bit support
803 Support for sending packets
804 Many compliation fixes on most platforms
805 Fixes for recent version of GCC to eliminate warnings
806 Improved Unicode support
808 Decoders & DLT Changes, Updates and New:
810 Juniper ATM, FRF.15, FRF.16, PPPoE,
811 ML-FR, ML-PIC, ML-PPP, PL-PPP, LS-PIC
812 GGSN,ES,MONITOR,SERVICES
814 Axent Raptor/Symantec Firewall
816 ESP-in-UDP (RFC 3948)
818 LMP, LMP Service Discovery
824 LACP, MARKER as per 802.3ad
827 G.7041/Y.1303 Generic Framing Procedure
834 Tue. March 30, 2004. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 3.8.3 release
836 No changes from 3.8.2. Version bumped only to maintain consistency
839 Mon. March 29, 2004. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 3.8.2 release
841 Fixes for print-isakmp.c CVE: CAN-2004-0183, CAN-2004-0184
842 https://web.archive.org/web/20160328035955/https://www.rapid7.com/resources/advisories/R7-0017.jsp
843 IP-over-IEEE1394 printing.
844 some MINGW32 changes.
845 updates for autoconf 2.5
846 fixes for print-aodv.c - check for too short packets
847 formatting changes to print-ascii for hex output.
848 check for too short packets: print-bgp.c, print-bootp.c, print-cdp.c,
849 print-chdlc.c, print-domain.c, print-icmp.c, print-icmp6.c,
850 print-ip.c, print-lwres.c, print-ospf.c, print-pim.c,
851 print-ppp.c,print-pppoe.c, print-rsvp.c, print-wb.c
852 print-ether.c - better handling of unknown types.
853 print-isoclns.c - additional decoding of types.
854 print-llc.c - strings for LLC names added.
855 print-pfloc.c - various enhancements
856 print-radius.c - better decoding to strings.
858 Wed. November 12, 2003. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 3.8 release
860 changed syntax of -E argument so that multiple SAs can be decrypted
861 fixes for Digital Unix headers and Documentation
863 CDP changes from Terry Kennedy <terry@tmk.com>.
864 IPv6 mobility updates from Kazushi Sugyo <sugyo@pb.jp.nec.com>
865 Fixes for ASN.1 decoder for 2.100.3 forms.
866 Added a count of packets received and processed to clarify numbers.
867 Incorporated WinDUMP patches for Win32 builds.
868 PPPoE payload length headers.
869 Fixes for HP C compiler builds.
870 Use new pcap_breakloop() and pcap_findalldevs() if we can.
871 BGP output split into multiple lines.
872 Fixes to 802.11 decoding.
873 Fixes to PIM decoder.
874 SuperH is a CPU that can't handle unaligned access. Many fixes for
875 unaligned access work.
876 Fixes to Frame-Relay decoder for Q.933/922 frames.
877 Clarified when Solaris can do captures as non-root.
878 Added tests/ subdir for examples/regression tests.
879 New -U flag. -flush stdout after every packet
880 New -A flag -print ascii only
881 support for decoding IS-IS inside Cisco HDLC Frames
882 more verbosity for tftp decoder
885 cross compilation patches
886 RFC 3561 AODV support.
887 UDP/TCP pseudo-checksum properly for source-route options.
888 sanitized all files to modified BSD license
889 Add support for RFC 2625 IP-over-Fibre Channel.
890 fixes for DECnet support.
891 Support RFC 2684 bridging of Ethernet, 802.5 Token Ring, and FDDI.
892 RFC 2684 encapsulation of BPDUs.
894 Tuesday, February 25, 2003. fenner@research.att.com. 3.7.2 release
896 Fixed infinite loop when parsing invalid isakmp packets.
897 (reported by iDefense; already fixed in CVS)
898 Fixed infinite loop when parsing invalid BGP packets.
899 Fixed buffer overflow with certain invalid NFS packets.
900 Pretty-print unprintable network names in 802.11 printer.
901 Handle truncated nbp (appletalk) packets.
902 Updated DHCPv6 printer to match draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-22.txt
903 Print IP protocol name even if we don't have a printer for it.
904 Print IP protocol name or number for fragments.
905 Print the whole MPLS label stack, not just the top label.
906 Print request header and file handle for NFS v3 FSINFO and PATHCONF
908 Fix NFS packet truncation checks.
909 Handle "old" DR-Priority and Bidir-Capable PIM HELLO options.
910 Handle unknown RADIUS attributes properly.
911 Fix an ASN.1 parsing error that would cause e.g. the OID
912 2.100.3 to be misrepresented as 4.20.3 .
914 Monday, January 21, 2002. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 3.7 release
916 Better OSI/802.2 support on Linux.
917 IEEE 802.11 support, from clenahan@fortresstech.com, achirica@ttd.net.
918 LLC SAP support for FDDI/token ring/RFC-1483 style ATM
919 BXXP protocol was replaced by the BEEP protocol;
920 improvements to SNAP demux.
921 Changes to "any" interface documentation.
922 Documentation on pcap_stats() counters.
923 Fix a memory leak found by Miklos Szeredi - pcap_ether_aton().
924 Added MPLS encapsulation decoding per RFC3032.
925 DNS dissector handles TKEY, TSIG and IXFR.
926 adaptive SLIP interface patch from Igor Khristophorov <igor@atdot.org>
927 SMB printing has much improved bounds checks
928 OUI 0x0000f8 decoded as encapsulated ethernet for Cisco-custom bridging
929 Zephyr support, from Nickolai Zeldovich <kolya@MIT.EDU>.
930 Solaris - devices with digits in them. Stefan Hudson <hudson@mbay.net>
931 IPX socket 0x85be is for Cisco EIGRP over IPX.
932 Improvements to fragmented ESP handling.
933 SCTP support from Armando L. Caro Jr. <acaro@mail.eecis.udel.edu>
934 Linux ARPHDR_ATM support fixed.
935 Added a "netbeui" keyword, which selects NetBEUI packets.
936 IPv6 ND improvements, MobileIP dissector, 2292bis-02 for RA option.
937 Handle ARPHDR_HDLC from Marcus Felipe Pereira <marcus@task.com.br>.
938 Handle IPX socket 0x553 -> NetBIOS-over-IPX socket, "nwlink-dgm"
939 Better Linux libc5 compat.
940 BIND9 lwres dissector added.
941 MIPS and SPARC get strict alignment macros (affects print-bgp.c)
942 Apple LocalTalk LINKTYPE_ reserved.
943 New time stamp formats documented.
944 DHCP6 updated to draft-22.txt spec.
945 ICMP types/codes now accept symbolic names.
946 Add SIGINFO handler from LBL
947 encrypted CIPE tunnels in IRIX, from Franz Schaefer <schaefer@mond.at>.
948 now we are -Wstrict-prototype clean.
949 NetBSD DLT_PPP_ETHER; adapted from Martin Husemann <martin@netbsd.org>.
950 PPPoE dissector cleaned up.
951 Support for LocalTalk hardware, from Uns Lider <unslider@miranda.org>.
952 In dissector, now the caller prints the IP addresses rather than proto.
953 cjclark@alum.mit.edu: print the IP proto for non-initial fragments.
954 LLC frames with a DSAP and LSAP of 0xe0 are IPX frames.
955 Linux cooked frames with a type value of LINUX_SLL_P_802_3 are IPX.
956 captures on the "any" device won't be done in promiscuous mode
957 Token Ring support on DLPI - Onno van der Linden <onno@simplex.nl>
958 ARCNet support, from NetBSD.
959 HSRP dissector, from Julian Cowley <julian@lava.net>.
960 Handle (GRE-encapsulated) PPTP
961 added -C option to rotate save file every optarg * 1,000,000 bytes.
962 support for "vrrp" name - NetBSD, by Klaus Klein <kleink@netbsd.org>.
963 PPTP support, from Motonori Shindo <mshindo@mshindo.net>.
964 IS-IS over PPP support, from Hannes Gredler <hannes@juniper.net>.
965 CNFP support for IPv6,format. Harry Raaymakers <harryr@connect.com.au>.
966 ESP printing updated to RFC2406.
967 HP-UX can now handle large number of PPAs.
969 L2TP dissector improvements from Motonori Shindo.
971 Tuesday January 9, 2001. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 3.6 release
972 Cleaned up documentation.
973 Promisc mode fixes for Linux
974 IPsec changes/cleanups.
975 Alignment fixes for picky architectures
977 Removed dependency on native headers for packet dissectors.
978 Removed Linux specific headers that were shipped
980 libpcap changes provide for exchanging capture files between
981 systems. Save files now have well known PACKET_ values instead of
982 depending upon system dependent mappings of DLT_* types.
984 Support for computing/checking IP and UDP/TCP checksums.
986 Updated autoconf stock files.
988 IPv6 improvements: dhcp (draft-15), mobile-ip6, ppp, ospf6,
990 Added dissector support for: ISOCLNS, Token Ring, IGMPv3, bxxp,
991 timed, vrrp, radius, chdlc, cnfp, cdp, IEEE802.1d, raw-AppleTalk
993 Added filtering support for: VLANs, ESIS, ISIS
995 Improvements to: print-telnet, IPTalk, bootp/dhcp, ECN, PPP,
998 HP-UX 11.0 -- find the right dlpi device.
999 Solaris 8 - IPv6 works
1000 Linux - Added support for an "any" device to capture on all interfaces
1002 Security fixes: buffer overrun audit done. Strcpy replaced with
1003 strlcpy, sprintf replaced with snprintf.
1004 Look for lex problems, and warn about them.
1007 v3.5 Fri Jan 28 18:00:00 PST 2000
1009 Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com>
1010 - switch to config.h for autoconf
1011 - unify RCSID strings
1012 - Updated PIMv1, PIMv2, DVMRP, IGMP parsers, add Cisco Auto-RP parser
1013 - Really fix the RIP printer
1014 - Fix MAC address -> name translation.
1015 - some -Wall -Wformat fixes
1016 - update makemib to parse much of SMIv2
1017 - Print TCP sequence # with -vv even if you normally wouldn't
1018 - Print as much of IP/TCP/UDP headers as possible even if truncated.
1021 - -X will make a ascii dump. from netbsd.
1022 - telnet command sequence decoder (ff xx xx). from netbsd.
1023 - print-bgp.c: improve options printing. ugly code exists for
1024 unaligned option parsing (need some fix).
1025 - const poisoning in SMB decoder.
1026 - -Wall -Werror clean checks.
1027 - bring in KAME IPv6/IPsec decoding code.
1029 Assar Westerlund <assar@sics.se>
1030 - SNMPv2 and SNMPv3 printer
1031 - If compiled with libsmi, tcpdump can load MIBs on the fly to decode
1033 - Incorporate NFS parsing code from NetBSD. Adds support for nfsv3.
1035 - permit building in different directories.
1037 Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
1039 /afs/transarc.com/public/afs-contrib/tools/tcpdump for parsing
1042 Andrew Tridgell <tridge@linuxcare.com>
1045 Love <lha@stacken.kth.se>
1046 - print-rx.c: add code for printing MakeDir and StoreStatus. Also
1047 change date format to the right one.
1049 Michael C. Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>
1050 - Created tcpdump.org repository
1052 v3.4 Sat Jul 25 12:40:55 PDT 1998
1054 - Hardwire Linux slip support since it's too hard to detect.
1056 - Redo configuration of "network" libraries (-lsocket and -lnsl) to
1057 deal with IRIX. Thanks to John Hawkinson (jhawk@mit.edu)
1059 - Added -a which tries to translate network and broadcast addresses to
1060 names. Suggested by Rob van Nieuwkerk (robn@verdi.et.tudelft.nl)
1062 - Added a configure option to disable gcc.
1064 - Added a "raw" packet printer.
1066 - Not having an interface address is no longer fatal. Requested by John
1069 - Rework signal setup to accommodate Linux.
1071 - OSPF truncation check fix. Also display the type of OSPF packets
1072 using MD5 authentication. Thanks to Brian Wellington
1075 - Fix truncation check bugs in the Kerberos printer. Reported by Ezra
1076 Peisach (epeisach@mit.edu)
1078 - Don't catch SIGHUP when invoked with nohup(1). Thanks to Dave Plonka
1081 - Specify full install target as a way of detecting if install
1082 directory does not exist. Thanks to Dave Plonka.
1084 - Bit-swap FDDI addresses for BSD/OS too. Thanks to Paul Vixie
1087 - Fix off-by-one bug when testing size of ethernet packets. Thanks to
1088 Marty Leisner (leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com)
1090 - Add a local autoconf macro to check for routines in libraries; the
1091 autoconf version is broken (it only puts the library name in the
1092 cache variable name). Thanks to John Hawkinson.
1094 - Add a local autoconf macro to check for types; the autoconf version
1095 is broken (it uses grep instead of actually compiling a code fragment).
1097 - Modified to support the new BSD/OS 2.1 PPP and SLIP link layer header
1100 - Extend OSF ip header workaround to versions 1 and 2.
1102 - Fix some signed problems in the nfs printer. As reported by David
1103 Sacerdote (davids@silence.secnet.com)
1105 - Detect group wheel and use it as the default since BSD/OS' install
1106 can't hack numeric groups. Reported by David Sacerdote.
1108 - AIX needs special loader options. Thanks to Jonathan I. Kamens
1111 - Fixed the nfs printer to print port numbers in decimal. Thanks to
1112 Kent Vander Velden (graphix@iastate.edu)
1114 - Find installed libpcap in /usr/local/lib when not using gcc.
1116 - Disallow network masks with non-network bits set.
1118 - Attempt to detect "egcs" versions of gcc.
1120 - Add missing closing double quotes when displaying bootp strings.
1121 Reported by Viet-Trung Luu (vluu@picard.math.uwaterloo.ca)
1123 v3.3 Sat Nov 30 20:56:27 PST 1996
1125 - Added Linux support.
1127 - GRE encapsulated packet printer thanks to John Hawkinson
1130 - Rewrite gmt2local() to avoid problematic os dependencies.
1132 - Suppress nfs truncation message on errors.
1134 - Add missing m4 quoting in AC_LBL_UNALIGNED_ACCESS autoconf macro.
1135 Reported by Joachim Ott (ott@ardala.han.de)
1137 - Enable "ip_hl vs. ip_vhl" workaround for OSF4 too.
1139 - Print arp hardware type in host order. Thanks to Onno van der Linden
1142 - Avoid solaris compiler warnings. Thanks to Bruce Barnett
1143 (barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com)
1145 - Fix rip printer to not print one more route than is actually in the
1146 packet. Thanks to Jean-Luc Richier (Jean-Luc.Richier@imag.fr) and
1147 Bill Fenner (fenner@parc.xerox.com)
1149 - Use autoconf endian detection since BYTE_ORDER isn't defined on all systems.
1151 - Fix dvmrp printer truncation checks and add a dvmrp probe printer.
1152 Thanks to Danny J. Mitzel (mitzel@ipsilon.com)
1154 - Rewrite ospf printer to improve truncation checks.
1156 - Don't parse tcp options past the EOL. As noted by David Sacerdote
1157 (davids@secnet.com). Also, check tcp options to make sure they ar
1158 actually in the tcp header (in addition to the normal truncation
1159 checks). Fix the SACK code to print the N blocks (instead of the
1160 first block N times).
1162 - Don't say really small UDP packets are truncated just because they
1163 aren't big enough to be a RPC. As noted by David Sacerdote.
1165 v3.2.1 Sun Jul 14 03:02:26 PDT 1996
1167 - Added rfc1716 icmp codes as suggested by Martin Fredriksson
1170 - Print mtu for icmp unreach need frag packets. Thanks to John
1171 Hawkinson (jhawk@mit.edu)
1173 - Decode icmp router discovery messages. Thanks to Jeffrey Honig
1176 - Added a printer entry for DLT_IEEE802 as suggested by Tak Kushida
1177 (kushida@trl.ibm.co.jp)
1179 - Check igmp checksum if possible. Thanks to John Hawkinson.
1181 - Made changes for SINIX. Thanks to Andrej Borsenkow
1182 (borsenkow.msk@sni.de)
1184 - Use autoconf's idea of the top level directory in install targets.
1185 Thanks to John Hawkinson.
1187 - Avoid infinite loop in tcp options printing code. Thanks to Jeffrey
1188 Mogul (mogul@pa.dec.com)
1190 - Avoid using -lsocket in IRIX 5.2 and earlier since it breaks snoop.
1191 Thanks to John Hawkinson.
1193 - Added some more packet truncation checks.
1195 - On systems that have it, use sigset() instead of signal() since
1196 signal() has different semantics on these systems.
1198 - Fixed some more alignment problems on the alpha.
1200 - Add code to massage unprintable characters in the domain and ipx
1201 printers. Thanks to John Hawkinson.
1203 - Added explicit netmask support. Thanks to Steve Nuchia
1204 (steve@research.oknet.com)
1206 - Add "sca" keyword (for DEC cluster services) as suggested by Terry
1207 Kennedy (terry@spcvxa.spc.edu)
1209 - Add "atalk" keyword as suggested by John Hawkinson.
1211 - Added an igrp printer. Thanks to Francis Dupont
1212 (francis.dupont@inria.fr)
1214 - Print IPX net numbers in hex a la Novell Netware. Thanks to Terry
1215 Kennedy (terry@spcvxa.spc.edu)
1217 - Fixed snmp extended tag field parsing bug. Thanks to Pascal Hennequin
1218 (pascal.hennequin@hugo.int-evry.fr)
1220 - Added some ETHERTYPEs missing on some systems.
1222 - Added truncated packet macros and various checks.
1224 - Fixed endian problems with the DECnet printer.
1226 - Use $CC when checking gcc version. Thanks to Carl Lindberg
1227 (carl_lindberg@blacksmith.com)
1229 - Fixes for AIX (although this system is not yet supported). Thanks to
1232 - Fix bugs in the autoconf misaligned accesses code fragment.
1234 - Include sys/param.h to get BYTE_ORDER in a few places. Thanks to
1235 Pavlin Ivanov Radoslavov (pavlin@cs.titech.ac.jp)
1237 v3.2 Sun Jun 23 02:28:10 PDT 1996
1239 - Print new icmp unreachable codes as suggested by Martin Fredriksson
1240 (martin@msp.se). Also print code value when unknown for icmp redirect
1243 - Fix an alignment endian bug in getname(). Thanks to John Hawkinson.
1245 - Define "new" domain record types if not found in arpa/nameserv.h.
1246 Resulted from a suggestion from John Hawkinson (jhawk@mit.edu). Also
1247 fixed an endian bug when printing mx record and added some new record
1250 - Added RIP V2 support. Thanks to Jeffrey Honig (jch@bsdi.com)
1252 - Added T/TCP options printing. As suggested by Richard Stevens
1255 - Use autoconf to detect architectures that can't handle misaligned
1258 v3.1 Thu Jun 13 20:59:32 PDT 1996
1260 - Changed u_int32/int32 to u_int32_t/int32_t to be consistent with bsd
1261 and bind (as suggested by Charles Hannum).
1263 - Port to GNU autoconf.
1265 - Add support for printing DVMRP and PIM traffic thanks to
1266 Havard Eidnes (Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no).
1268 - Fix AppleTalk, IPX and DECnet byte order problems due to wrong endian
1269 define being referenced. Reported by Terry Kennedy.
1271 - Minor fixes to the man page thanks to Mark Andrews.
1273 - Endian fixes to RTP and vat packet dumpers, thanks to Bruce Mah
1274 (bmah@cs.berkeley.edu).
1276 - Added support for new dns types, thanks to Rainer Orth.
1278 - Fixed tftp_print() to print the block number for ACKs.
1280 - Document -dd and -ddd. Resulted from a bug report from Charlie Slater
1281 (cslater@imatek.com).
1283 - Check return status from malloc/calloc/etc.
1285 - Check return status from pcap_loop() so we can print an error and
1286 exit with a bad status if there were problems.
1288 - Bail if ip option length is <= 0. Resulted from a bug report from
1289 Darren Reed (darrenr@vitruvius.arbld.unimelb.edu.au).
1291 - Print out a little more information for sun rpc packets.
1293 - Add support for Kerberos 4 thanks to John Hawkinson (jhawk@mit.edu).
1295 - Fixed the Fix EXTRACT_SHORT() and EXTRACT_LONG() macros (which were
1296 wrong on little endian machines).
1298 - Fixed alignment bug in ipx_decode(). Thanks to Matt Crawford
1301 - Fix ntp_print() to not print garbage when the stratum is
1302 "unspecified." Thanks to Deus Ex Machina (root@belle.bork.com).
1304 - Rewrote tcp options printer code to check for truncation. Added
1305 selective acknowledgment case.
1307 - Fixed an endian bug in the ospf printer. Thanks to Jeffrey C Honig
1310 - Fix rip printer to handle 4.4 BSD sockaddr struct which only uses one
1311 octet for the sa_family member. Thanks to Yoshitaka Tokugawa
1314 - Don't checksum ip header if we don't have all of it. Thanks to John
1315 Hawkinson (jhawk@mit.edu).
1317 - Print out hostnames if possible in egp printer. Thanks to Jeffrey
1318 Honig (jhc@bsdi.com)
1321 v3.1a1 Wed May 3 19:21:11 PDT 1995
1323 - Include time.h when SVR4 is defined to avoid problems under Solaris
1326 - Fix etheraddr_string() in the ETHER_SERVICE to return the saved
1327 strings, not the local buffer. Thanks to Stefan Petri
1328 (petri@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de).
1330 - Detect when pcap raises the snaplen (e.g. with snit). Print a warning
1331 that the selected value was not used. Thanks to Pascal Hennequin
1332 (Pascal.Hennequin@hugo.int-evry.fr).
1334 - Add a truncated packet test to print-nfs.c. Thanks to Pascal Hennequin.
1336 - BYTEORDER -> BYTE_ORDER Thanks to Terry Kennedy (terry@spcvxa.spc.edu).
1338 v3.0.3 Sun Oct 1 18:35:00 GMT 1995
1340 - Although there never was a 3.0.3 release, the linux boys cleverly
1341 "released" one in late 1995.
1343 v3.0.2 Thu Apr 20 21:28:16 PDT 1995
1345 - Change configuration to not use gcc v2 flags with gcc v1.
1347 - Redo gmt2local() so that it works under BSDI (which seems to return
1348 an empty timezone struct from gettimeofday()). Based on report from
1349 Terry Kennedy (terry@spcvxa.spc.edu).
1351 - Change configure to recognize IP[0-9]* as "mips" SGI hardware. Based
1352 on report from Mark Andrews (mandrews@alias.com).
1354 - Don't pass cc flags to gcc. Resulted from a bug report from Rainer
1355 Orth (ro@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de).
1357 - Fixed printout of connection id for uncompressed tcp slip packets.
1358 Resulted from a bug report from Richard Stevens (rstevens@noao.edu).
1360 - Hack around deficiency in Ultrix's make.
1362 - Add ETHERTYPE_TRAIL define which is missing from irix5.
1364 v3.0.1 Wed Aug 31 22:42:26 PDT 1994
1366 - Fix problems with gcc2 vs. malloc() and read() prototypes under SunOS 4.
1368 v3.0 Mon Jun 20 19:23:27 PDT 1994
1370 - Added support for printing tcp option timestamps thanks to
1371 Mark Andrews (mandrews@alias.com).
1373 - Reorganize protocol dumpers to take const pointers to packets so they
1374 never change the contents (i.e., they used to do endian conversions
1375 in place). Previously, whenever more than one pass was taken over
1376 the packet, the packet contents would be dumped incorrectly (i.e.,
1377 the output form -x would be wrong on little endian machines because
1378 the protocol dumpers would modify the data). Thanks to Charles Hannum
1379 (mycroft@gnu.ai.mit.edu) for reporting this problem.
1381 - Added support for decnet protocol dumping thanks to Jeff Mogul
1384 - Fix bug that caused length of packet to be incorrectly printed
1385 (off by ether header size) for unknown ethernet types thanks
1386 to Greg Miller (gmiller@kayak.mitre.org).
1388 - Added support for IPX protocol dumping thanks to Brad Parker
1391 - Added check to verify IP header checksum under -v thanks to
1392 Brad Parker (brad@fcr.com).
1394 - Move packet capture code to new libpcap library (which is
1395 packaged separately).
1397 - Prototype everything and assume an ansi compiler.
1399 - print-arp.c: Print hardware ethernet addresses if they're not
1402 - print-bootp.c: Decode the cmu vendor field. Add RFC1497 tags.
1403 Many helpful suggestions from Gordon Ross (gwr@jericho.mc.com).
1405 - print-fddi.c: Improvements. Thanks to Jeffrey Mogul
1408 - print-icmp.c: Byte swap netmask before printing. Thanks to
1409 Richard Stevens (rstevens@noao.edu). Print icmp type when unknown.
1411 - print-ip.c: Print the inner ip datagram of ip-in-ip encapsulated packets.
1412 By default, only the inner packet is dumped, appended with the token
1413 "(encap)". Under -v, both the inner and output packets are dumped
1414 (on the same line). Note that the filter applies to the original packet,
1415 not the encapsulated packet. So if you run tcpdump on a net with an
1416 IP Multicast tunnel, you cannot filter out the datagrams using the
1417 conventional syntax. (You can filter away all the ip-in-ip traffic
1418 with "not ip proto 4".)
1420 - print-nfs.c: Keep pending rpc's in circular table. Add generic
1421 nfs header and remove os dependences. Thanks to Jeffrey Mogul.
1423 - print-ospf.c: Improvements. Thanks to Jeffrey Mogul.
1425 - tcpdump.c: Add -T flag allows interpretation of "vat", "wb", "rpc"
1426 (sunrpc) and rtp packets. Added "inbound" and "outbound" keywords
1427 Add && and || operators
1429 v2.2.1 Tue Jun 6 17:57:22 PDT 1992
1431 - Fix bug with -c flag.
1433 v2.2 Fri May 22 17:19:41 PDT 1992
1435 - savefile.c: Remove hack that shouldn't have been exported. Add
1438 - Added the 'icmp' keyword. For example, 'icmp[0] != 8 and icmp[0] != 0'
1439 matches non-echo/reply ICMP packets.
1441 - Many improvements to filter code optimizer.
1443 - Added 'multicast' keyword and extended the 'broadcast' keyword can now be
1444 so that protocol qualifications are allowed. For example, "ip broadcast"
1445 and "ether multicast" are valid filters.
1447 - Added support for monitoring the loopback interface (i.e. 'tcpdump -i lo').
1448 Jeffrey Honig (jch@MITCHELL.CIT.CORNELL.EDU) contributed the kernel
1449 patches to netinet/if_loop.c.
1451 - Added support for the Ungermann-Bass Ethernet on IBM/PC-RTs running AOS.
1452 Contact Jeffrey Honig (jch@MITCHELL.CIT.CORNELL.EDU) for the diffs.
1454 - Added EGP and OSPF printers, thanks to Jeffrey Honig.
1456 v2.1 Tue Jan 28 11:00:14 PST 1992
1458 - Internal release (never publicly exported).
1460 v2.0.1 Sun Jan 26 21:10:10 PDT
1462 - Various byte ordering fixes.
1464 - Add truncation checks.
1466 - inet.c: Support BSD style SIOCGIFCONF.
1468 - nametoaddr.c: Handle multi addresses for single host.
1470 - optimize.c: Rewritten.
1472 - pcap-bpf.c: don't choke when we get ptraced. only set promiscuous
1475 - print-atal.c: Fix an alignment bug (thanks to
1476 stanonik@nprdc.navy.mil) Add missing printf() argument.
1478 - print-bootp.c: First attempt at decoding the vendor buffer.
1480 - print-domain.c: Fix truncation checks.
1482 - print-icmp.c: Calculate length of packets from the ip header.
1484 - print-ip.c: Print frag id in decimal (so it's easier to match up
1485 with non-frags). Add support for ospf, egp and igmp.
1487 - print-nfs.c: Lots of changes.
1489 - print-ntp.c: Make some verbose output depend on -v.
1491 - print-snmp.c: New version from John LoVerso.
1493 - print-tcp.c: Print rfc1072 tcp options.
1495 - tcpdump.c: Print "0x" prefix for %x formats. Always print 6 digits
1496 (microseconds) worth of precision. Fix uid bugs.
1498 - A packet dumper has been added (thanks to Jeff Mogul of DECWRL).
1499 With this option, you can create an architecture independent binary
1500 trace file in real time, without the overhead of the packet printer.
1501 At a later time, the packets can be filtered (again) and printed.
1503 - BSD is supported. You must have BPF in your kernel.
1504 Since the filtering is now done in the kernel, fewer packets are
1505 dropped. In fact, with BPF and the packet dumper option, a measly
1506 Sun 3/50 can keep up with a busy network.
1508 - Compressed SLIP packets can now be dumped, provided you use our
1509 SLIP software and BPF. These packets are dumped as any other IP
1510 packet; the compressed headers are dumped with the '-e' option.
1512 - Machines with little-endian byte ordering are supported (thanks to
1515 - Ultrix 4.0 is supported (also thanks to Jeff Mogul).
1517 - IBM RT and Stanford Enetfilter support has been added by
1518 Rayan Zachariassen <rayan@canet.ca>. Tcpdump has been tested under
1519 both the vanilla Enetfilter interface, and the extended interface
1520 (#ifdef'd by IBMRTPC) present in the MERIT version of the Enetfilter.
1522 - TFTP packets are now printed (requests only).
1524 - BOOTP packets are now printed.
1526 - SNMP packets are now printed. (thanks to John LoVerso of Xylogics).
1528 - Sparc architectures, including the Sparcstation-1, are now
1529 supported thanks to Steve McCanne and Craig Leres.
1531 - SunOS 4 is now supported thanks to Micky Liu of Columbia
1532 University (micky@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu).
1534 - IP options are now printed.
1536 - RIP packets are now printed.
1538 - There's a -v flag that prints out more information than the
1539 default (e.g., it will enable printing of IP ttl, tos and id)
1540 and -q flag that prints out less (e.g., it will disable
1541 interpretation of AppleTalk-in-UDP).
1543 - The grammar has undergone substantial changes (if you have an
1544 earlier version of tcpdump, you should re-read the manual
1547 The most useful change is the addition of an expression
1548 syntax that lets you filter on arbitrary fields or values in the
1549 packet. E.g., "ip[0] > 0x45" would print only packets with IP
1550 options, "tcp[13] & 3 != 0" would print only TCP SYN and FIN
1553 The most painful change is that concatenation no longer means
1554 "and" -- e.g., you have to say "host foo and port bar" instead
1555 of "host foo port bar". The up side to this down is that
1556 repeated qualifiers can be omitted, making most filter
1557 expressions shorter. E.g., you can now say "ip host foo and
1558 (bar or baz)" to look at ip traffic between hosts foo and bar or
1559 between hosts foo and baz. [The old way of saying this was "ip
1560 host foo and (ip host bar or ip host baz)".]
1562 v2.0 Sun Jan 13 12:20:40 PST 1991
1564 - Initial public release.
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