1 DayOfTheWeek, Month DD, YYYY / The Tcpdump Group
2 Summary for 5.0.0 tcpdump release (so far!)
3 Add protocol decoding for:
5 Refine protocol decoding for:
6 BFD: Add support for S-BFD and spell LAG in uppercase.
7 BGP: Parse BGP extended message support capability
8 BGP: Deprecate DPA, ADVERTISER and RCID_PATH path attributes
9 BGP: Print Enhanced route refresh capability
10 BGP: Print enhanced route refresh message subtype
11 BGP: Parse rfc9072 (Extended Optional Parameters Length for BGP OPEN Message)
12 BGP: Add support for BFD cease subcode
13 BGP: Add support for Hard Reset notification and GR N flag
14 BGP: Handle ORF in Route-Refresh messages
15 BGP: add dissector for BGPsec capability and path
16 BGP: Add Origin Validation State extended community
17 BGP: Add support for BGP Role capability and OTC attribute
18 BGP: Fix most printing code to print directly rather than filling
19 in a fixed-size buffer to be printed later
20 ICMP: add dissector for ICMP Interface Identification Object
21 ICMP: print RFC8335 PROBE extended echo/reply messages.
22 IEEE 802.11: include the Mesh ID field while printing management
24 NetFlow: Use tcp_flag_values[] for TCP flags.
25 NTP: Check that the entire extension field is in the capture even
27 NTP: Print kiss codes relevant for NTP debugging.
28 NTP: Use GET_U_1() to replace a direct dereference.
29 MPTCP: parse MPC data_len field, print flags from MP_CAPABLE option.
30 OSPF: Fix printing of Traffic Engineering Link TLVs to correctly
31 advance the packet data pointer
32 OSPF: Print more truncation indications
33 OSPF: Add more length checks
34 pflog: Print some additional fields from the header (picked up
35 from the FreeBSD tcpdump).
36 pflog: Handle all types of pflog files (as best as can be done)
37 pflog: Print the ruleset if it's present, regardless of whether
38 the subrule is present (inspird by the OpenBSD tcpdump).
39 pflog: Handle OpenBSD's "rewritten" flag and addresses (adapted
40 from the OpenBSD tcpdump).
41 PTP: Refine timestamp printing.
42 SLL2: Translate interface indices to names on Linux only.
43 RT6: Add a bounds check for the PadN TLV in Segment Routing Header.
44 TCP: Add support for the AE (AccECN) flag.
46 Add --print-sampling to print every Nth packet instead of all.
47 Add --lengths option to print the captured and original packet lengths.
48 Add --skip option to skip some packets before writing or printing.
49 Use a common routine to parse numerical arguments and check its
52 Drop support for building with versions of libpcap that don't
53 support all the libpcap 1.0 APIs.
54 Use %zu when printing a sizeof to squelch compiler warnings
55 Remove unused missing/strdup.c.
56 (FIXME: somebody please wrap the line below just before the release)
57 AODV, AppleTalk, BOOTP, CHDLC, DCCP, EAP, EGP, EIGRP, ForCES, Geneve, GRE, ICMP, Juniper, L2TP, LISP, mobile, MSDP, NetFlow, NFLOG, NTP, OLSR, pflog, PGM, RADIUS, RIP, RSVP, SCTP, SNMP, TCP, UDP, vsock: Modernize packet parsing style
58 DCCP, EGP: Replace custom code with tok2str()
59 UDP: Clean up address and port printing.
60 AppleTalk: Declutter appletalk.h.
61 IEEE 802.11: Simplify handle_action().
62 Provide GET_ macros for 4-byte and 8-byte floating-point numbers
63 and use them rather than custom code
64 Disregard setlinebuf(3), always use setvbuf(3).
65 Change Sun RPC code licence to BSD-3-Clause.
66 Fix "ip broadcast" netmask byte order with the -f flag.
67 Remove pcap-missing.h.
69 Autoconf: Remove detection of early IPv6 stacks.
70 Detect OS IPv6 support using AF_INET6 only.
71 Remove all remaining support for BSD/OS, IRIX, {OSF/1, Digital Unix,
72 Tru64 Unix}, SINIX and Ultrix.
73 Fix compiling on GNU/Hurd.
74 Make illumos build warning-free.
75 Makefile.in: Update the .c.o build rule (Remove hacks for old SunOS 4).
76 Autoconf: fix buggy tests for ether_ntohost().
77 Makefile.in: Do not install a version-suffixed tcpdump binary if the
78 .devel file does not exists.
79 tests: On HP-UX use "diff -c" by default.
80 autogen.sh: Allow to configure Autoconf warnings.
81 autogen.sh: Delete all trailing blank lines at end of configure.
82 Reimplement the tests similarly to libpcap.
84 man: Clarify the "any" pseudo-interface further.
86 DayOfTheWeek, Month DD, YYYY / The Tcpdump Group
87 Summary for 4.99.6 tcpdump release (so far!)
88 Refine protocol decoding for:
89 DNS: Use ND_TCHECK_LEN() instead of a custom bounds check.
90 IPv6: Add a missing comma and remove a colon in the output.
91 TCP: Note if the Urgent Pointer is non-zero while URG flag not set,
92 if the verbose level is > 1 (option -vv and more).
93 TCP: Note if the Acknowledgment Number is non-zero while ACK flag not set,
94 if the verbose level is > 1 (option -vv and more).
95 TCP: Fix Reset segment processing.
96 IP, IPv6: Fix setting the snapshot length for the payload.
97 IP: Use ND_TTEST_LEN() instead of a custom bounds check.
98 frag6: Add a bounds check in non-verbose mode.
99 PTP: Remove spaces before colons in output.
100 PTP: Fix management packet fields.
101 ISO: Avoid undefined behavior and integer overflow in the fletcher
102 checksum calculation.
103 NFS: Delete dead code.
104 BOOTP: Use an uint16_t variable to get the result of a GET_BE_U_2().
105 ZEP: use the exissting NTP time formatting code.
106 NTP: Fix p_ntp_time_fmt() using epoch 1/epoch 2 convention (RFC 4330).
107 NTP: Update a field name with the RFC 5905 name (Origin Timestamp).
109 Add optional unit suffix on -C file size.
110 Improve the handling of size suffixes for -C.
111 Print errors for options -A, -x[x] and -X[X] (mutually exclusive).
112 Print errors about -C, -G and -z options usage.
113 For PCAP_ERROR_CAPTURE_NOTSUP, show the error message provided
114 by libpcap for that error if it's non-empty.
115 Update the -z option processing. Print "invalid option -- z" when it is.
117 Fix '-tt' option printing when time > 2106-02-07T06:28:15Z.
118 Add sub-second packet timestamp checks for invalid micro/nano.
119 Remove unused missing/snprintf.c.
120 Fix incompatible pointer types with time functions calls on Windows.
121 Use C99 macros to define 64-bit constants and maximum 64-bit values.
123 Fixed to find wpcap.dll if WinPcap isn't installed and Npcap was
124 installed without the WinPcap API compatibility option. (GitHub
126 Building and testing:
127 Makefile.in: Use a local libpcap in the releasecheck target.
128 CMake: Fix build with CMake 3.31.
129 autotools, CMake: don't separately test whether snprintf(3) is
130 available and whether it's suitable - the test for whether it's
131 suitable also fails if it's unavailable.
132 CMake: Skip snprintf(3) tests when cross-compiling.
133 autotools, CMake: fix issues with snprintf test and sanitizers.
134 CMake: check whether check_c_source_runs() works, treat the build
135 as a cross-compile if it doesn't work.
136 Autoconf: Use AC_SYS_YEAR2038_RECOMMENDED when possible if the
137 environment variable BUILD_YEAR2038 = yes (via autogen.sh).
138 Autoconf: Avoid incorrectly include the libpcap's config.h.
139 Require config.h to be from the tcpdump build.
141 Friday, August 30, 2024 / The Tcpdump Group
142 Summary for 4.99.5 tcpdump release
143 Refine protocol decoding for:
144 Arista: Use the test .pcap file from pull request #955 (HwInfo).
145 BGP: Fix an undefined behavior when it tries to parse a too-short packet.
146 CARP: Print the protocol name before any GET_().
147 CDP: only hex-dump unknown TLVs in verbose mode.
148 DHCP: parse the SZTP redirect tag.
149 DHCPv6: client-id/server-id DUID type 2 correction; parse the user class,
150 boot file URL, and SZTP redirect options; add DUID-UUID printing
152 DNS: Detect and correctly handle too-short URI RRs.
153 EAP: Assign ndo_protocol in the eap_print() function.
154 ESP: Don't use EVP_add_cipher_alias() (fixes building on OpenBSD 7.5).
155 Frame Relay (Multilink): Fix the Timestamp Information Element printing.
156 ICMPv6: Fix printing the Home Agent Address Discovery Reply Message.
157 IEEE 802.11: no need for an element ID in the structures for IEs, make
158 the length in the IE structures a u_int, include the "TA" field while
159 printing Block Ack Control frame.
160 IP: Enable TSO (TCP Segmentation Offload) support; fix printing invalid
161 cases as invalid, not truncated; use ND_ICHECKMSG_ZU() to test the
163 IPv6: Fix printing invalid cases as invalid, not truncated; use
164 ND_ICHECKMSG_U() to print an invalid version.
165 IPv6: Fix invalid 32-bit versus 64-bit printouts of fragment headers.
166 ISAKMP: Fix printing Delete payload SPI when size is zero.
167 Kerberos: Print the protocol name, remove a redundant bounds check.
168 lwres: Fix an undefined behavior in pointer arithmetic.
169 OpenFlow 1.0: Fix indentation of PORT_MOD, improve handling of
170 some lengths, and fix handling of snapend.
171 TCP: Test ports < 1024 in port order to select the printer.
172 UDP: Move source port equal BCM_LI_PORT to bottom of long if else chain.
173 UDP: Test ports < 1024 in port order to select the printer.
174 LDP: Add missing fields of the Common Session Parameters TLV and fix the
175 offset for the A&D bits.
176 NFLOG: Use correct AF code points on all OSes.
177 NFS: Avoid printing non-ASCII characters.
178 OSPF: Pad TLVs in LS_OPAQUE_TYPE_RI to multiples of 4 bytes.
179 OSPF: Update LS-Ack printing not to run off the end of the packet.
180 OSPF6: Fix an undefined behavior.
181 pflog: Use nd_ types in struct pfloghdr.
182 PPP: Check if there is some data to hexdump.
183 PPP: Remove an extra colon before LCP Callback Operation.
184 Use the buffer stack for de-escaping PPP; fixes CVE-2024-2397;
185 Note: This problem does not affect any tcpdump release.
186 PTP: Fix spelling of type SIGNALING, Parse major and minor version
187 correctly, Print majorSdoId field instead of just the first bit.
188 RIP: Make a couple trivial protocol updates.
189 RPKI-Router: Refine length and bounds checks.
190 RX: Use the "%Y-%m-%d" date format.
191 smbutil.c: Use the "%Y-%m-%d" date format.
192 SNMP: Fix two undefined behaviors.
193 Text protocols: Fix printing truncation if it is not the case.
194 ZEP: Use the "%Y-%m-%d" date format.
195 ZMTP: Replace custom code with bittok2str().
197 Print the supported time stamp types (-J) to stdout instead of stderr.
198 Print the list of data link types (-L) to stdout instead of stderr.
199 Use symmetrical quotation characters in error messages.
200 Update --version option to print 32/64-bit build and time_t size.
201 Improve error messages for invalid interface indexes specified
203 Support "3des" as an alias for "des_ede3_cbc" even if the crypto
204 library doesn't support adding aliases.
206 tcpdump: Fix a memory leak.
207 child_cleanup: reap as many child processes as possible.
208 Ignore failures when setting the default "any" device DLL to LINUX_SLL2.
209 Fix for backends which doesn't support capsicum.
210 Update ND_BYTES_BETWEEN() macro for better accuracy.
211 Update ND_BYTES_AVAILABLE_AFTER() macro for better accuracy.
212 Introduce new ND_ICHECK*() macros to deduplicate more code.
213 Skip privilege dropping when using -Z root on --with-user builds.
214 Add a nd_printjn() function.
215 Make nd_trunc_longjmp() not static inline.
216 Include <time.h> from netdissect.h.
217 Remove init_crc10_table() and the entourage.
218 Initialize tzcode early.
219 Capsicum support: Fix a 'not defined' macro error.
220 Update the "Error converting time" tests for packet times.
221 Fix warnings when building for 32-bit and defining _TIME_BITS=64.
222 Free interface list just before exiting where it wasn't being
224 Building and testing:
225 Add a configure option to help debugging (--enable-instrument-functions).
226 At build time require a proof of suitable snprintf(3) implementation in
227 libc (and document Solaris 9 as unsupported because of that).
228 Makefile.in: Add two "touch .devel" commands in the releasecheck target.
229 Autoconf: Get --with-user and --with-chroot right.
230 Autoconf: Fix --static-pcap-only test on Solaris 10.
231 Autoconf: Add some warning flags for clang 13 or newer.
232 Autoconf: Update config.{guess,sub}, timestamps 2024-01-01.
233 Autoconf: Add autogen.sh, remove configure and config.h.in and put
234 these generated files in the release tarball.
235 Autoconf: Update the install-sh script to the 2020-11-14.01 version.
236 configure: Apply autoupdate 2.69.
237 CMake: improve the comment before project(tcpdump C).
238 Do not require vsnprintf().
239 tests: Use the -tttt option, by default, for the tests.
240 Autoconf, CMake: Get the size of a void * and a time_t.
241 Fix propagation of cc_werr_cflags() output.
242 Makefile.in: Fix the depend target.
243 mkdep: Exit with a non-zero status if a command fails.
244 Autoconf: use V_INCLS to update the list of include search paths.
245 Autoconf: don't put anything before -I and -L flags for local libpcap.
246 Autoconf, CMake: work around an Xcode 15+ issue.
247 Autoconf, CMake: use pkg-config and Homebrew when looking for
249 Fix Sun C invocation from CMake.
250 mkdep: Use TMPDIR if it is set and not null.
251 Add initial support for building with TinyCC.
252 Makefile.in: Use the variable MAKE instead of the make command.
253 Makefile.in: Add instrumentation configuration in releasecheck target.
254 Make various improvements to the TESTrun script.
255 Untangle detection of pcap_findalldevs().
256 Autoconf: don't use egrep, use $EGREP.
257 Autoconf: check for gethostbyaddr(), not gethostbyname().
258 Autoconf, CMake: search for gethostbyaddr() in libnetwork.
259 Make illumos build warning-free.
261 Fixed errors in doc/README.Win32.md and renamed it to README.windows.md.
262 Make various improvements to the man page.
263 Add initial README file for Haiku.
264 Make various improvements to CONTRIBUTING.md.
266 Friday, April 7, 2023 / The Tcpdump Group
267 Summary for 4.99.4 tcpdump release
269 Fix spaces before tabs in indentation.
271 LSP ping: Fix "Unused value" warnings from Coverity.
272 CVE-2023-1801: Fix an out-of-bounds write in the SMB printer.
273 DNS: sync resource types with IANA.
274 ICMPv6: Update the output to show a RPL DAO field name.
275 Geneve: Fix the Geneve UDP port test.
276 Building and testing:
277 Require at least autoconf 2.69.
278 Don't check for strftime(), as it's in C90 and beyond.
279 Update config.{guess,sub}, timestamps 2023-01-01,2023-01-21.
281 man: Document TCP flag names better.
283 Thursday, January 12, 2023 / The Tcpdump Group
284 Summary for 4.99.3 tcpdump release
286 PTP: Use the proper values for the control field and print un-allocated
287 values for the message field as "Reserved" instead of "none".
289 smbutil.c: Replace obsolete function call (asctime)
290 Building and testing:
291 cmake: Update the minimum required version to 2.8.12 (except Windows).
292 CI: Introduce and use TCPDUMP_CMAKE_TAINTED.
293 Makefile.in: Add the releasecheck target.
294 Makefile.in: Add "make -s install" in the releasecheck target.
295 Cirrus CI: Run the "make releasecheck" command in the Linux task.
296 Makefile.in: Add the whitespacecheck target.
297 Cirrus CI: Run the "make whitespacecheck" command in the Linux task.
298 Address all shellcheck warnings in update-test.sh.
299 Makefile.in: Get rid of a remain of gnuc.h.
301 Reformat the installation notes (INSTALL.txt) in Markdown.
302 Convert CONTRIBUTING to Markdown.
303 CONTRIBUTING.md: Document the use of "protocol: " in a commit summary.
304 Add a README file for NetBSD.
305 Fix CMake build to set man page section numbers in tcpdump.1
307 Saturday, December 31, 2022 / The Tcpdump Group
308 Summary for 4.99.2 tcpdump release
310 BGP: Update cease notification decoding to RFC 9003.
311 BGP: decode BGP link-bandwidth extended community properly.
312 BGP: Fix parsing the AIGP attribute
313 BGP: make sure the path attributes don't go past the end of the packet.
314 BGP: Shutdown message can be up to 255 bytes length according to rfc9003
315 DSA: correctly determine VID.
316 EAP: fix some length checks and output issues.
317 802.11: Fix the misleading comment regarding "From DS", "To DS" Frame
319 802.11: Fetch the CF and TIM IEs a field at a time.
320 802.15.4, BGP, LISP: fix some length checks, compiler warnings,
321 and undefined behavior warnings.
322 PFLOG: Handle LINKTYPE_PFLOG/DLT_PFLOG files from all OSes on all
324 RRCP: support more Realtek protocols than just RRCP.
325 MPLS: show the EXP field as TC, as per RFC 5462.
326 ICMP: redo MPLS Extension code as general ICMP Extension code.
327 VQP: Do not print unknown error codes twice.
328 Juniper: Add some bounds checks.
329 Juniper: Don't treat known DLT_ types as "Unknown".
330 lwres: Fix a length check, update a variable type.
331 EAP: Fix some undefined behaviors at runtime.
332 Ethernet: Rework the length checks, add a length check.
333 IPX: Add two length checks.
334 Zephyr: Avoid printing non-ASCII characters.
335 VRRP: Print the protocol name before any GET_().
336 DCCP: Get rid of trailing commas in lists.
337 Juniper: Report invalid packets as invalid, not truncated.
338 IPv6: Remove an obsolete code in an always-false #if wrapper.
339 ISAKMP: Use GET_U_1() to replace a direct dereference.
340 RADIUS: Use GET_U_1() to replace a direct dereference.
341 TCP: Fix an invalid check.
342 RESP: Fix an invalid check.
343 RESP: Remove an unnecessary test.
344 Arista: Refine the output format and print HwInfo.
345 sFlow: add support for IPv6 agent, add a length check.
346 VRRP: add support for IPv6.
347 OSPF: Update to match the Router Properties registry.
348 OSPF: Remove two unnecessary dereferences.
349 OSPF: Add support bit Nt RFC3101.
350 OSPFv3: Remove two unnecessary dereferences.
351 ICMPv6: Fix output for Router Renumbering messages.
352 ICMPv6: Fix the Node Information flags.
353 ICMPv6: Remove an unused macro and extra blank lines.
354 ICMPv6: Add a length check in the rpl_dio_print() function.
355 ICMPv6: Use GET_IP6ADDR_STRING() in the rpl_dio_print() function.
356 IPv6: Add some checks for the Hop-by-Hop Options header
357 IPv6: Add a check for the Jumbo Payload Hop-by-Hop option.
358 NFS: Fix the format for printing an unsigned int
359 PTP: fix printing of the correction fields
360 PTP: Use ND_LCHECK_U for checking invalid length.
361 WHOIS: Add its own printer source file and printer function
362 MPTCP: print length before subtype inside MPTCP options
363 ESP: Add a workaround to a "use-of-uninitialized-value".
364 PPP: Add tests to avoid incorrectly re-entering ppp_hdlc().
365 PPP: Don't process further if protocol is unknown (-e option).
366 PPP: Change the pointer to packet data.
367 ZEP: Add three length checks.
368 Add some const qualifiers.
369 Building and testing:
370 Update config.guess and config.sub.
371 Use AS_HELP_STRING macro instead of AC_HELP_STRING.
372 Handle some Autoconf/make errors better.
373 Fix an error when cross-compiling.
374 Use "git archive" for the "make releasetar" process.
375 Remove the release candidate rcX targets.
376 Mend "make check" on Solaris 9 with Autoconf.
377 Address assorted compiler warnings.
378 Fix auto-enabling of Capsicum on FreeBSD with Autoconf.
379 Treat "msys" as Windows for test exit statuses.
380 Clean up some help messages in configure.
381 Use unified diff by default.
382 Remove awk code from mkdep.
383 Fix configure test errors with Clang 15
384 CMake: Prevent stripping of the RPATH on installation.
385 AppVeyor CI: update Npcap site, update to 1.12 SDK.
386 Cirrus CI: Use the same configuration as for the main branch.
387 CI: Add back running tcpdump -J/-L and capture, now with Cirrus VMs.
388 Remove four test files (They are now in the libpcap tests directory).
389 On Solaris, for 64-bit builds, use the 64-bit pcap-config.
390 Tell CMake not to check for a C++ compiler.
391 CMake: Add a way to request -Werror and equivalents.
392 configure: Special-case macOS /usr/bin/pcap-config as we do in CMake.
393 configure: Use pcap-config --static-pcap-only if available.
394 configure: Use ac_c_werror_flag to force unknown compiler flags to fail.
395 configure: Use AC_COMPILE_IFELSE() and AC_LANG_SOURCE() for testing
397 Run the test that fails on OpenBSD only if we're not on OpenBSD.
399 Fix some snapend-changing routines to protect against pointer
401 Use __func__ from C99 in some function calls.
402 Memory allocator: Update nd_add_alloc_list() to a static function.
403 addrtoname.c: Fix two invalid tests.
404 Use more S_SUCCESS and S_ERR_HOST_PROGRAM in main().
405 Add some comments about "don't use GET_IP6ADDR_STRING()".
406 Assign ndo->ndo_packetp in pretty_print_packet().
407 Add ND_LCHECKMSG_U, ND_LCHECK_U, ND_LCHECKMSG_ZU and ND_LCHECK_ZU macros.
408 Update tok2strbuf() to a static function.
409 netdissect.h: Keep the link-layer dissectors names sorted.
410 setsignal(): Set SA_RESTART on non-lethal signals (REQ_INFO, FLUSH_PCAP)
411 to avoid corrupting binary pcap output.
412 Use __builtin_unreachable().
413 Fail if nd_push_buffer() or nd_push_snaplen() fails.
414 Improve code style and fix many typos.
416 Some man page cleanups.
417 Update the print interface for the packet count to stdout.
418 Note that we require compilers to support at least some of C99.
419 Update AIX and Solaris-related specifics.
420 INSTALL.txt: Add doc/README.*, delete the deleted win32 directory.
421 Update README.md and README.Win32.md.
422 Update some comments with new RFC numbers.
424 Wednesday, June 9, 2021 by gharris
425 Summary for 4.99.1 tcpdump release
427 Squelch some compiler warnings
428 ICMP: Update the snapend for some nested IP packets.
429 MACsec: Update the snapend thus the ICV field is not payload
431 EIGRP: Fix packet header fields
432 SMB: Disable printer by default in CMake builds
433 OLSR: Print the protocol name even if the packet is invalid
434 MSDP: Print ": " before the protocol name
435 ESP: Remove padding, padding length and next header from the buffer
436 DHCPv6: Update the snapend for nested DHCPv6 packets
437 OpenFlow 1.0: Get snapend right for nested frames.
438 TCP: Update the snapend before decoding a MPTCP option
439 Ethernet, IEEE 802.15.4, IP, L2TP, TCP, ZEP: Add bounds checks
440 ForCES: Refine SPARSEDATA-TLV length check.
441 ASCII/hex: Use nd_trunc_longjmp() in truncation cases
442 GeoNet: Add a ND_TCHECK_LEN() call
443 Replace ND_TCHECK_/memcpy() pairs with GET_CPY_BYTES().
444 BGP: Fix overwrites of global 'astostr' temporary buffer
445 ARP: fix overwrites of static buffer in q922_string().
446 Frame Relay: have q922_string() handle errors better.
447 Building and testing:
448 Rebuild configure script when building release
449 Fix "make clean" for out-of-tree autotools builds
450 CMake: add stuff from CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH to PKG_CONFIG_PATH.
452 man: Update a reference as www.cifs.org is gone.
453 man: Update DNS sections
455 Fix a compile error with Sun C
457 Wednesday, December 30, 2020, by mcr@sandelman.ca, denis and fxl.
458 Summary for 4.99.0 tcpdump release
459 CVE-2018-16301: For the -F option handle large input files safely.
460 Improve the contents, wording and formatting of the man page.
461 Print unsupported link-layer protocol packets in hex.
462 Add support for new network protocols and DLTs: Arista, Autosar SOME/IP,
463 Broadcom LI and Ethernet switches tag, IEEE 802.15.9, IP-over-InfiniBand
464 (IPoIB), Linux SLL2, Linux vsockmon, MACsec, Marvell Distributed Switch
465 Architecture, OpenFlow 1.3, Precision Time Protocol (PTP), SSH, WHOIS,
466 ZigBee Encapsulation Protocol (ZEP).
467 Make protocol-specific updates for: AH, DHCP, DNS, ESP, FRF.16, HNCP,
468 ICMP6, IEEE 802.15.4, IPv6, IS-IS, Linux SLL, LLDP, LSP ping, MPTCP, NFS,
469 NSH, NTP, OSPF, OSPF6, PGM, PIM, PPTP, RADIUS, RSVP, Rx, SMB, UDLD,
472 Make SLL2 the default for Linux "any" pseudo-device.
473 Add --micro and --nano shorthands.
474 Add --count to print a counter only instead of decoding.
475 Add --print, to cause packet printing even with -w.
476 Add support for remote capture if libpcap supports it.
477 Display the "wireless" flag and connection status.
478 Flush the output packet buffer on a SIGUSR2.
479 Add the snapshot length to the "reading from file ..." message.
480 Fix local time printing (DST offset in timestamps).
481 Allow -C arguments > 2^31-1 GB if they can fit into a long.
482 Handle very large -f files by rejecting them.
483 Report periodic stats only when safe to do so.
484 Print the number of packets captured only as often as necessary.
485 With no -s, or with -s 0, don't specify the snapshot length with newer
487 Improve version and usage message printing.
488 Building and testing:
489 Install into bindir, not sbindir.
490 autoconf: replace --with-system-libpcap with --disable-local-libpcap.
491 Require the compiler to support C99.
492 Better detect and use various C compilers and their features.
493 Add CMake as the second build system.
494 Make out-of-tree builds more reliable.
495 Use pkg-config to detect libpcap if available.
496 Improve Windows support.
497 Add more tests and improve the scripts that run them.
498 Test both with "normal" and "x87" floating-point.
499 Eliminate dependency on libdnet.
501 Print a proper error message about monitor mode VAP.
502 Use libcasper if available.
503 Fix failure to capture on RDMA device.
504 Include the correct capsicum header.
506 Start the transition to longjmp() for packet truncation handling.
507 Introduce new helper functions, including GET_*(), nd_print_protocol(),
508 nd_print_invalid(), nd_print_trunc(), nd_trunc_longjmp() and others.
509 Put integer signedness right in many cases.
510 Introduce nd_uint*, nd_mac_addr, nd_ipv4 and nd_ipv6 types to fix
511 alignment issues, especially on SPARC.
512 Fix many C compiler, Coverity, UBSan and cppcheck warnings.
513 Fix issues detected with AddressSanitizer.
514 Remove many workarounds for older compilers and OSes.
515 Add a sanity check on packet header length.
516 Add and remove plenty of bounds checks.
517 Clean up pcap_findalldevs() call to find the first interface.
518 Use a short timeout, rather than immediate mode, for text output.
519 Handle DLT_ENC files *not* written on the same OS and byte-order host.
520 Add, and use, macros to do locale-independent case mapping.
521 Use a table instead of getprotobynumber().
522 Get rid of ND_UNALIGNED and ND_TCHECK().
523 Make roundup2() generally available.
524 Resync SMI list against Wireshark.
527 Friday, September 20, 2019, by mcr@sandelman.ca
528 A huge thank you to Denis, Francois-Xavier and Guy who did much of the heavy lifting.
529 Summary for 4.9.3 tcpdump release
530 Fix buffer overflow/overread vulnerabilities:
532 CVE-2018-14468 (FrameRelay)
533 CVE-2018-14469 (IKEv1)
534 CVE-2018-14470 (BABEL)
535 CVE-2018-14466 (AFS/RX)
537 CVE-2018-14462 (ICMP)
538 CVE-2018-14465 (RSVP)
541 CVE-2018-14463 (VRRP)
543 CVE-2018-10103 (SMB - partially fixed, but SMB printing disabled)
544 CVE-2018-10105 (SMB - too unreliably reproduced, SMB printing disabled)
545 CVE-2018-14880 (OSPF6)
548 CVE-2018-16227 (802.11)
549 CVE-2018-16229 (DCCP)
553 CVE-2018-16228 (HNCP)
555 CVE-2019-15167 (VRRP)
556 Fix for cmdline argument/local issues:
557 CVE-2018-14879 (tcpdump -V)
559 Sunday September 3, 2017 denis@ovsienko.info
560 Summary for 4.9.2 tcpdump release
561 Do not use getprotobynumber() for protocol name resolution. Do not do
562 any protocol name resolution if -n is specified.
563 Improve errors detection in the test scripts.
564 Fix a segfault with OpenSSL 1.1 and improve OpenSSL usage.
565 Clean up IS-IS printing.
566 Fix buffer overflow vulnerabilities:
567 CVE-2017-11543 (SLIP)
568 CVE-2017-13011 (bittok2str_internal)
569 Fix infinite loop vulnerabilities:
570 CVE-2017-12989 (RESP)
571 CVE-2017-12990 (ISAKMP)
573 CVE-2017-12997 (LLDP)
574 Fix buffer over-read vulnerabilities:
575 CVE-2017-11541 (safeputs)
576 CVE-2017-11542 (PIMv1)
577 CVE-2017-12893 (SMB/CIFS)
578 CVE-2017-12894 (lookup_bytestring)
579 CVE-2017-12895 (ICMP)
580 CVE-2017-12896 (ISAKMP)
581 CVE-2017-12897 (ISO CLNS)
583 CVE-2017-12899 (DECnet)
584 CVE-2017-12900 (tok2strbuf)
585 CVE-2017-12901 (EIGRP)
586 CVE-2017-12902 (Zephyr)
587 CVE-2017-12985 (IPv6)
588 CVE-2017-12986 (IPv6 routing headers)
589 CVE-2017-12987 (IEEE 802.11)
590 CVE-2017-12988 (telnet)
592 CVE-2017-12992 (RIPng)
593 CVE-2017-12993 (Juniper)
595 CVE-2017-12996 (PIMv2)
596 CVE-2017-12998 (ISO IS-IS)
597 CVE-2017-12999 (ISO IS-IS)
598 CVE-2017-13000 (IEEE 802.15.4)
600 CVE-2017-13002 (AODV)
602 CVE-2017-13004 (Juniper)
604 CVE-2017-13006 (L2TP)
605 CVE-2017-13007 (Apple PKTAP)
606 CVE-2017-13008 (IEEE 802.11)
607 CVE-2017-13009 (IPv6 mobility)
608 CVE-2017-13010 (BEEP)
609 CVE-2017-13012 (ICMP)
611 CVE-2017-13014 (White Board)
613 CVE-2017-11543 (SLIP)
614 CVE-2017-13016 (ISO ES-IS)
615 CVE-2017-13017 (DHCPv6)
619 CVE-2017-13021 (ICMPv6)
621 CVE-2017-13023 (IPv6 mobility)
622 CVE-2017-13024 (IPv6 mobility)
623 CVE-2017-13025 (IPv6 mobility)
624 CVE-2017-13026 (ISO IS-IS)
625 CVE-2017-13027 (LLDP)
626 CVE-2017-13028 (BOOTP)
629 CVE-2017-13031 (IPv6 fragmentation header)
630 CVE-2017-13032 (RADIUS)
633 CVE-2017-13035 (ISO IS-IS)
634 CVE-2017-13036 (OSPFv3)
637 CVE-2017-13039 (ISAKMP)
638 CVE-2017-13040 (MPTCP)
639 CVE-2017-13041 (ICMPv6)
640 CVE-2017-13042 (HNCP)
642 CVE-2017-13044 (HNCP)
645 CVE-2017-13047 (ISO ES-IS)
646 CVE-2017-13048 (RSVP)
648 CVE-2017-13050 (RPKI-Router)
649 CVE-2017-13051 (RSVP)
652 CVE-2017-13054 (LLDP)
653 CVE-2017-13055 (ISO IS-IS)
654 CVE-2017-13687 (Cisco HDLC)
655 CVE-2017-13688 (OLSR)
656 CVE-2017-13689 (IKEv1)
657 CVE-2017-13690 (IKEv2)
658 CVE-2017-13725 (IPv6 routing headers)
660 Sunday July 23, 2017 denis@ovsienko.info
661 Summary for 4.9.1 tcpdump release
662 CVE-2017-11108/Fix bounds checking for STP.
663 Make assorted documentation updates and fix a few typos in tcpdump output.
664 Fixup -C for file size >2GB (GH #488).
665 Show AddressSanitizer presence in version output.
666 Fix a bug in test scripts (exposed in GH #613).
667 On FreeBSD adjust Capsicum capabilities for netmap.
668 On Linux fix a use-after-free when the requested interface does not exist.
670 Wednesday January 18, 2017 devel.fx.lebail@orange.fr
671 Summary for 4.9.0 tcpdump release
673 Fix some heap overflows found with American Fuzzy Lop by Hanno Boeck and others
674 (More information in the log with CVE-2016-* and CVE-2017-*)
675 Change the way protocols print link-layer addresses (Fix heap overflows
676 in CALM-FAST and GeoNetworking printers)
677 Pass correct caplen value to ether_print() and some other functions
678 Fix lookup_nsap() to match what isonsap_string() expects
679 Clean up relative time stamp printing (Fix an array overflow)
680 Fix some alignment issues with GCC on Solaris 10 SPARC
681 Add some ND_TTEST_/ND_TCHECK_ macros to simplify writing bounds checks
682 Add a fn_printztn() which returns the number of bytes processed
683 Add nd_init() and nd_cleanup() functions. Improve libsmi support
684 Add CONTRIBUTING file
685 Add a summary comment in all printers
686 Compile with more warning options in devel mode if supported (-Wcast-qual, ...)
687 Fix some leaks found by Valgrind/Memcheck
688 Fix a bunch of de-constifications
689 Squelch some Coverity warnings and some compiler warnings
690 Update Coverity and Travis-CI setup
691 Update Visual Studio files
694 Fix capsicum support to work with zerocopy buffers in bpf
695 Try opening interfaces by name first, then by name-as-index
696 Work around pcap_create() failures fetching time stamp type lists
697 Fix a segmentation fault with 'tcpdump -J'
698 Improve addrtostr6() bounds checking
699 Add exit_tcpdump() function
700 Don't drop CAP_SYS_CHROOT before chrooting
701 Fixes issue where statistics not reported when -G and -W options used
704 802.11: Beginnings of 11ac radiotap support
705 802.11: Check the Protected bit for management frames
706 802.11: Do bounds checking on last_presentp before dereferencing it (Fix a heap overflow)
707 802.11: Fix the radiotap printer to handle the special bits correctly
708 802.11: If we have the MCS field, it's 11n
709 802.11: Only print unknown frame type or subtype messages once
710 802.11: Radiotap dBm values get printed as dB; Update a test output accordingly
711 802.11: Source and destination addresses were backwards
712 AH: Add a bounds check
713 AH: Report to our caller that dissection failed if a bounds check fails
714 AP1394: Print src > dst, not dst > src
715 ARP: Don't assume the target hardware address is <= 6 octets long (Fix a heap overflow)
716 ATALK: Add bounds and length checks (Fix heap overflows)
717 ATM: Add some bounds checks (Fix a heap overflow)
718 ATM: Fix an incorrect bounds check
719 BFD: Update specification from draft to RFC 5880
720 BFD: Update to print optional authentication field
721 BGP: Add support for the AIGP attribute (RFC7311)
722 BGP: Print LARGE_COMMUNITY Path Attribute
723 BGP: Update BGP numbers from IANA; Print minor values for FSM notification
724 BOOTP: Add a bounds check
725 Babel: Add decoder for source-specific extension
726 CDP: Filter out non-printable characters
727 CFM: Fixes to match the IEEE standard, additional bounds and length checks
728 CSLIP: Add more bounds checks (Fix a heap overflow)
729 ClassicalIPoATM: Add a bounds check on LLC+SNAP header (Fix a heap overflow)
730 DHCP: Fix MUDURL and TZ options
731 DHCPv6: Process MUDURL and TZ options
732 DHCPv6: Update Status Codes with RFCs/IANA names
733 DNS: Represent the "DNSSEC OK" bit as "DO" instead of "OK". Add a test case
734 DTP: Improve packet integrity checks
735 EGP: Fix bounds checks
736 ESP: Don't use OpenSSL_add_all_algorithms() in OpenSSL 1.1.0 or later
737 Ethernet: Add some bounds checking before calling isoclns_print (Fix a heap overflow)
738 Ethernet: Print the Length/Type field as length when needed
739 FDDI: Fix -e output for FDDI
740 FR: Add some packet-length checks and improve Q.933 printing (Fix heap overflows)
741 GRE: Add some bounds checks (Fix heap overflows)
742 Geneve: Fix error message with invalid option length; Update list option classes
743 HNCP: Fix incorrect time interval format. Fix handling of IPv4 prefixes
744 ICMP6: Fetch a 32-bit big-endian quantity with EXTRACT_32BITS()
745 IGMP: Add a length check
746 IP: Add a bounds check (Fix a heap overflow)
747 IP: Check before fetching the protocol version (Fix a heap overflow)
748 IP: Don't try to dissect if IP version != 4 (Fix a heap overflow)
749 IP: Stop processing IPPROTO_ values once we hit IPPROTO_IPCOMP
750 IPComp: Check whether we have the CPI before we fetch it (Fix a heap overflow)
751 IPoFC: Fix -e output (IP-over-Fibre Channel)
752 IPv6: Don't overwrite the destination IPv6 address for routing headers
753 IPv6: Fix header printing
754 IPv6: Stop processing IPPROTO_ values once we hit IPPROTO_IPCOMP
755 ISAKMP: Clean up parsing of IKEv2 Security Associations
756 ISOCLNS/IS-IS: Add support for Purge Originator Identifier (RFC6232) and test cases
757 ISOCLNS/IS-IS: Don't overwrite packet data when checking the signature
758 ISOCLNS/IS-IS: Filter out non-printable characters
759 ISOCLNS/IS-IS: Fix segmentation faults
760 ISOCLNS/IS-IS: Have signature_verify() do the copying and clearing
761 ISOCLNS: Add some bounds checks
762 Juniper: Make sure a Juniper header TLV isn't bigger than what's left in the packet (Fix a heap overflow)
763 LLC/SNAP: With -e, print the LLC header before the SNAP header; without it, cut the SNAP header
764 LLC: Add a bounds check (Fix a heap overflow)
765 LLC: Clean up printing of LLC packets
766 LLC: Fix the printing of RFC 948-style IP packets
767 LLC: Skip the LLC and SNAP headers with -x for 802.11 and some other protocols
768 LLDP: Implement IANA OUI and LLDP MUD option
769 MPLS LSP ping: Update printing for RFC 4379, bug fixes, more bounds checks
770 MPLS: "length" is now the *remaining* packet length
771 MPLS: Add bounds and length checks (Fix a heap overflow)
772 NFS: Don't assume the ONC RPC header is nicely aligned
773 NFS: Don't overflow the Opaque_Handle buffer (Fix a segmentation fault)
774 NFS: Don't run past the end of an NFSv3 file handle
775 OLSR: Add a test to cover a HNA sgw case
776 OLSR: Fix 'Advertised networks' count
777 OLSR: Fix printing of smart-gateway HNAs in IPv4
778 OSPF: Add a bounds check for the Hello packet options
779 OSPF: Do more bounds checking
780 OSPF: Fix a segmentation fault
781 OSPF: Fix printing 'ospf_topology_values' default
782 OTV: Add missing bounds checks
783 PGM: Print the formatted IP address, not the raw binary address, as a string
784 PIM: Add some bounds checking (Fix a heap overflow)
785 PIMv2: Fix checksumming of Register messages
786 PPP: Add some bounds checks (Fix a heap overflow)
787 PPP: Report invalid PAP AACK/ANAK packets
788 Q.933: Add a missing bounds check
789 RADIUS: Add Value 13 "VLAN" to Tunnel-Type attribute
790 RADIUS: Filter out non-printable characters
791 RADIUS: Translate UDP/1700 as RADIUS
792 RESP: Do better checking of RESP packets
793 RPKI-RTR: Add a return value check for "fn_printn" call
794 RPKI-RTR: Remove printing when truncated condition already detected
795 RPL: Fix 'Consistency Check' control code
796 RPL: Fix suboption print
797 RSVP: An INTEGRITY object in a submessage covers only the submessage
798 RSVP: Fix an infinite loop; Add bounds and length checks
799 RSVP: Fix some if statements missing brackets
800 RSVP: Have signature_verify() do the copying and clearing
801 RTCP: Add some bounds checks
802 RTP: Add some bounds checks, fix two segmentation faults
803 SCTP: Do more bounds checking
804 SFLOW: Fix bounds checking
805 SLOW: Fix bugs, add checks
806 SMB: Before fetching the flags2 field, make sure we have it
807 SMB: Do bounds checks on NBNS resource types and resource data lengths
808 SNMP: Clean up the "have libsmi but no modules loaded" case
809 SNMP: Clean up the object abbreviation list and fix the code to match them
810 SNMP: Do bounds checks when printing character and octet strings
811 SNMP: Improve ASN.1 bounds checks
812 SNMP: More bounds and length checks
813 STP: Add a bunch of bounds checks, and fix some printing (Fix heap overflows)
814 STP: Filter out non-printable characters
815 TCP: Add bounds and length checks for packets with TCP option 20
816 TCP: Correct TCP option Kind value for TCP Auth and add SCPS-TP
817 TCP: Fix two bounds checks (Fix heap overflows)
818 TCP: Make sure we have the data offset field before fetching it (Fix a heap overflow)
819 TCP: Put TCP-AO option decoding right
820 TFTP: Don't use strchr() to scan packet data (Fix a heap overflow)
821 Telnet: Add some bounds checks
822 TokenRing: Fix -e output
823 UDLD: Fix an infinite loop
824 UDP: Add a bounds check (Fix a heap overflow)
825 UDP: Check against the packet length first
826 VAT: Add some bounds checks
827 VTP: Add a test on Mgmt Domain Name length
828 VTP: Add bounds checks and filter out non-printable characters
829 VXLAN: Add a bound check and a test case
830 ZeroMQ: Fix an infinite loop
832 Tuesday October 25, 2016 mcr@sandelman.ca
833 Summary for 4.8.1 tcpdump release
834 Fix "-x" for Apple PKTAP and PPI packets
835 Improve separation frontend/backend (tcpdump/libnetdissect)
836 Fix display of timestamps with -tt, -ttt and -ttttt options
837 Add support for the Marvell Extended Distributed Switch Architecture header
838 Use PRIx64 to print a 64-bit number in hex.
839 Printer for HNCP (RFCs 7787 and 7788).
840 dagid is always an IPv6 address, not an opaque 128-bit string, and other fixes to RPL printer.
841 RSVP: Add bounds and length checks
842 OSPF: Do more bounds checking
843 Handle OpenSSL 1.1.x.
844 Initial support for the REdis Serialization Protocol known as RESP.
845 Add printing function for Generic Protocol Extension for VXLAN
846 draft-ietf-nvo3-vxlan-gpe-01
847 Network Service Header: draft-ietf-sfc-nsh-01
848 Don't recompile the filter if the new file has the same DLT.
849 Pass an adjusted struct pcap_pkthdr to the sub-printer.
850 Add three test cases for already fixed CVEs
852 CVE-2014-8768: Geonet
854 Don't do the DDP-over-UDP heuristic first: GitHub issue #499.
855 Use the new debugging routines in libpcap.
856 Harmonize TCP source or destination ports tests with UDP ones
857 Introduce data types to use for integral values in packet structures.
858 RSVP: Fix an infinite loop
859 Support of Type 3 and Type 4 LISP packets.
860 Don't require IPv6 library support in order to support IPv6 addresses.
861 Many many changes to support libnetdissect usage.
862 Add a test that makes unaligned accesses: GitHub issue #478.
863 add a DNSSEC test case: GH #445 and GH #467.
864 BGP: add decoding of ADD-PATH capability
865 fixes to LLC header printing, and RFC948-style IP packets
867 Friday April 10, 2015 guy@alum.mit.edu
868 Summary for 4.7.4 tcpdump release
869 RPKI to Router Protocol: Fix Segmentation Faults and other problems
870 RPKI to Router Protocol: print strings with fn_printn()
871 wb: fix some bounds checks
873 Wednesday March 11, 2015 mcr@sandelman.ca
874 Summary for 4.7.3 tcpdump release
875 Capsicum fixes for FreeBSD 10
877 Tuesday March 10, 2015 mcr@sandelman.ca
878 Summary for 4.7.2 tcpdump release
879 DCCP: update Packet Types with RFC4340/IANA names
880 fixes for CVE-2015-0261: IPv6 mobility header check issue
881 fixes for CVE-2015-2153, 2154, 2155: kday packets
883 Friday Nov. 12, 2014 guy@alum.mit.edu
884 Summary for 4.7.0 tcpdump release
885 changes to hex printing of CDP packets
887 Radius: update Packet Type Codes and Attribute Types with RFC/IANA names
888 Add a routine to print "text protocols", and add FTP/HTTP/SMTP/RTSP support.
889 improvements to telnet printer, even if not -v
890 omit length for bcp, print-tcp uses it
891 formatting fixes for a bunch of protocols
892 new bounds checks for a number of protocols
893 split netflow 1,6, and 6 dissector up.
894 added geneve dissector
895 CVE-2014-9140 PPP dissector fixed.
897 Tuesday Sep. 2, 2014 mcr@sandelman.ca
898 Summary for 4.6.2 tcpdump release
899 fix out-of-source-tree builds: find libpcap that is out of source
900 better configure check for libsmi
902 Saturday Jul. 19, 2014 mcr@sandelman.ca
903 Summary for 4.6.1 tcpdump release
904 added FreeBSD capsicum
905 add a short option '#', same as long option '--number'
907 Wednesday Jul. 2, 2014 mcr@sandelman.ca
908 Summary for 4.6.0 tcpdump release
909 all of tcpdump is now using the new "NDO" code base (Thanks Denis!)
910 nflog, mobile, forces, pptp, AODV, AHCP, IPv6, OSPFv4, RPL, DHCPv6 enhancements/fixes
912 many new test cases: 82 in 4.5.1 to 133 in 4.6.0
913 many improvements to travis continuous integration system: OSX, and Coverity options
914 cleaned up some unnecessary header files
916 a number of unaligned access faults fixed
917 -A flag does not consider CR to be printable anymore
918 fx.lebail took over coverity baby sitting
919 default snapshot size increased to 256K for accommodate USB captures
920 WARNING: this release contains a lot of very worthwhile code churn.
922 Wednesday Jan. 15, 2014 guy@alum.mit.edu
923 Summary for 4.5.2 tcpdump release
927 Monday Nov. 11, 2013 mcr@sandelman.ca
928 Summary for 4.5.1 tcpdump release
931 Thursday Nov. 7, 2013 mcr@sandelman.ca and guy@alum.mit.edu.
932 Summary for 4.5.0 tcpdump release
933 some NFSv4 fixes for printing
934 fix printing of unknown TCP options, and tcp fast-open
935 fixes for syslog parser
936 some gcc-version-specific flag tuning
937 adopt MacOS deprecation workarounds for openssl
938 improvements to babel printing
939 add OpenFlow 1.0 (no SSL) and test cases
941 added STBC Rx support
942 improvements to DHCPv6 decoder
943 clarify which autoconf is needed
944 Point users to the the-tcpdump-group repository on GitHub rather
945 than the mcr repository
947 Fixed IPv6 check on Solaris and other OSes requiring extra
948 networking libraries.
949 Add support for VXLAN (draft-mahalingam-dutt-dcops-vxlan-03),
950 and add "vxlan" as an option for -T.
951 Add support for OTV (draft-hasmit-otv-04).
952 fixes for DLT_IEEE802_11_RADIO datalink types
955 Saturday April 6, 2013 guy@alum.mit.edu.
956 Summary for 4.4.0 tcpdump release
957 RPKI-RTR (RFC6810) is now official (TCP Port 323)
958 Fix detection of OpenSSL libcrypto.
959 Add DNSSL (RFC6106) support.
960 Add "radius" as an option for -T.
961 Update Action codes for handle_action function according to
963 Decode DHCPv6 AFTR-Name option (RFC6334).
965 Fix printing of infinite lifetime in ICMPv6.
966 Added support for SPB, SPBM Service Identifier, and Unicast
967 Address sub-TLV in ISIS.
968 Decode RIPv2 authentication up to RFC4822.
969 Fix RIP Request/full table decoding issues.
970 On Linux systems with cap-ng.h, drop root privileges
971 using Linux Capabilities.
972 Add support for reading multiple files.
973 Add MS NLB heartbeat printer.
974 Separate multiple nexthops in BGP.
976 Wednesday November 28, 2012 guy@alum.mit.edu.
977 Summary for 4.3.1 tcpdump release
978 Print "LLDP, length N" for LLDP packets even when not in verbose
979 mode, so something is printed even if only the timestamp is
982 Print NTP poll interval correctly (it's an exponent, so print
983 both its raw value and 2^value)
984 Document that "-e" is used to get MAC addresses
985 More clearly document that you need to escape or quote
986 backslashes in filter expressions on the command line
987 Fix some "the the" in the man page
988 Use the right maximum path length
989 Don't treat 192_1_2, when passed to -i, as an interface number
991 Friday April 3, 2012. mcr@sandelman.ca.
992 Summary for 4.3.0 tcpdump release
993 fixes for forces: SPARSE data (per RFC 5810)
994 some more test cases added
995 updates to documentation on -l, -U and -w flags.
996 Fix printing of BGP optional headers.
997 Tried to include DLT_PFSYNC support, failed due to headers required.
999 Fix LLDP Network Policy bit definitions.
1000 fixes for IGMPv3's Max Response Time: it is in units of 0.1 second.
1001 SIGUSR1 can be used rather than SIGINFO for stats
1002 permit -n flag to affect print-ip for protocol numbers
1003 ND_OPT_ADVINTERVAL is in milliseconds, not seconds
1004 Teach PPPoE parser about RFC 4638
1007 Friday December 9, 2011. guy@alum.mit.edu.
1008 Summary for 4.2.1 tcpdump release
1009 Only build the Babel printer if IPv6 is enabled.
1010 Support Babel on port 6696 as well as 6697.
1011 Include ppi.h in release tarball.
1012 Include all the test files in the release tarball, and don't
1013 "include" test files that no longer exist.
1014 Don't assume we have <rpc/rpc.h> - check for it.
1015 Support "-T carp" as a way of dissecting IP protocol 112 as CARP
1017 Support Hilscher NetAnalyzer link-layer header format.
1018 Constify some pointers and fix compiler warnings.
1019 Get rid of never-true test.
1020 Fix an unintended fall-through in a case statement in the ARP
1022 Fix several cases where sizeof(sizeof(XXX)) was used when just
1023 sizeof(XXX) was intended.
1024 Make stricter sanity checks in the ES-IS printer.
1025 Get rid of some GCCisms that caused builds to fai with compilers
1026 that don't support them.
1027 Fix typo in man page.
1028 Added length checks to Babel printer.
1030 Sunday July 24, 2011. mcr@sandelman.ca.
1032 merged 802.15.4 decoder from Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov
1034 updates to forces for new port numbers
1035 Use "-H", not "-h", for the 802.11s option. (-h always help)
1036 Better ICMPv6 checksum handling.
1037 add support for the RPKI/Router Protocol, per -ietf-sidr-rpki-rtr-12
1038 get rid of uuencoded pcap test files, git can do binary.
1039 sFlow changes for 64-bit counters.
1040 fixes for PPI packet header handling and printing.
1041 Add DCB Exchange protocol (DCBX) version 1.01.
1042 Babel dissector, from Juliusz Chroboczek and Grégoire Henry.
1043 improvements to radiotap for rate values > 127.
1044 Many improvements to ForCES decode, including fix SCTP TML port
1045 updated RPL type code to RPL-17 draft
1046 Improve printout of DHCPv6 options.
1047 added support and test case for QinQ (802.1q VLAN) packets
1048 Handle DLT_IEEE802_15_4_NOFCS like DLT_IEEE802_15_4.
1049 Build fixes for Sparc and other machines with alignment restrictions.
1050 Merged changes from Debian package.
1051 PGM: Add ACK decoding and add PGMCC DATA and FEEDBACK options.
1052 Build fixes for OSX (Snow Leopard and others)
1053 Add support for IEEE 802.15.4 packets
1055 Tue. July 20, 2010. guy@alum.mit.edu.
1056 Summary for 4.1.2 tcpdump release
1057 If -U is specified, flush the file after creating it, so it's
1059 Fix TCP flags output description, and some typos, in the man
1061 Add a -h flag, and only attempt to recognize 802.11s mesh
1063 When printing the link-layer type list, send *all* output to
1065 Include the CFLAGS setting when configure was run in the
1068 Thu. April 1, 2010. guy@alum.mit.edu.
1069 Summary for 4.1.1 tcpdump release
1070 Fix build on systems with PF, such as FreeBSD and OpenBSD.
1071 Don't blow up if a zero-length link-layer address is passed to
1074 Thu. March 11, 2010. ken@netfunctional.ca/guy@alum.mit.edu.
1075 Summary for 4.1.0 tcpdump release
1076 Fix printing of MAC addresses for VLAN frames with a length
1078 Add some additional bounds checks and use the EXTRACT_ macros
1080 Add a -b flag to print the AS number in BGP packets in ASDOT
1081 notation rather than ASPLAIN notation
1082 Add ICMPv6 RFC 5006 support
1083 Decode the access flags in NFS access requests
1084 Handle the new DLT_ for memory-mapped USB captures on Linux
1085 Make the default snapshot (-s) the maximum
1086 Print name of device (when -L is used)
1087 Support for OpenSolaris (and SXCE build 125 and later)
1089 Add support for RPL DIO
1090 Add support for TCP User Timeout (UTO)
1091 Add support for non-standard Ethertypes used by 3com PPPoE gear
1092 Add support for 802.11n and 802.11s
1093 Add support for Transparent Ethernet Bridge ethertype in GRE
1094 Add 4 byte AS support for BGP printer
1095 Add support for the MDT SAFI 66 BG printer
1096 Add basic IPv6 support to print-olsr
1098 Add printer for ForCES
1099 Handle frames with an FCS
1100 Handle 802.11n Control Wrapper, Block Acq Req and Block Ack frames
1101 Fix TCP sequence number printing
1102 Report 802.2 packets as 802.2 instead of 802.3
1103 Don't include -L/usr/lib in LDFLAGS
1104 On x86_64 Linux, look in lib64 directory too
1105 Lots of code clean ups
1107 Update testcases to make output changes
1108 Fix compiling with/out smi (--with{,out}-smi)
1109 Fix compiling without IPv6 support (--disable-ipv6)
1111 Mon. October 27, 2008. ken@netfunctional.ca. Summary for 4.0.0 tcpdump release
1112 Add support for Bluetooth Sniffing
1113 Add support for Realtek Remote Control Protocol (openrrcp.org.ru)
1114 Add support for 802.11 AVS
1115 Add support for SMB over TCP
1116 Add support for 4 byte BGP AS printing
1117 Add support for compiling on case-insensitive file systems
1118 Add support for ikev2 printing
1119 Update support for decoding AFS
1120 Update DHCPv6 printer
1121 Use newer libpcap API's (allows -B option on all platforms)
1122 Add -I to turn on monitor mode
1123 Bugfixes in lldp, lspping, dccp, ESP, NFS printers
1124 Cleanup unused files and various cruft
1126 Mon. September 10, 2007. ken@xelerance.com. Summary for 3.9.8 tcpdump release
1128 Rework OSPFv3 printer
1129 Add support for Frame-Relay ARP
1130 Decode DHCP Option 121 (RFC 3442 Classless Static Route)
1131 Decode DHCP Option 249 (MS Classless Static Route) the same as Option 121
1132 TLV: Add support for Juniper .pcap extensions
1133 Print EGP header in new-world-order style
1134 Converted print-isakmp.c to NETDISSECT
1135 Moved AF specific stuff into af.h
1136 Test subsystem now table driven, and saves outputs and diffs to one place
1137 Require <net/pfvar.h> for pf definitions - allows reading of pflog formatted
1138 libpcap files on an OS other than where the file was generated
1141 Wed. July 23, 2007. mcr@xelerance.com. Summary for 3.9.7 libpcap release
1143 NFS: Print unsigned values as such.
1145 BGP: fixes for IPv6-less builds.
1146 801.1ag: use standard codepoint.
1147 use /dev/bpf on systems with such a device.
1148 802.11: print QoS data, avoid dissect of no-data frame, ignore padding.
1149 smb: make sure that we haven't gone past the end of the captured data.
1150 smb: squelch an uninitialized complaint from coverity.
1151 NFS: from NetBSD; don't interpret the reply as a possible NFS reply
1152 if it got MSG_DENIED.
1153 BGP: don't print TLV values that didn't fit, from www.digit-labs.org.
1154 revised INSTALL.txt about libpcap dependency.
1156 Wed. April 25, 2007. ken@xelerance.com. Summary for 3.9.6 tcpdump release
1157 Update man page to reflect changes to libpcap
1158 Changes to both TCP and IP Printer Output
1159 Fix a potential buffer overflow in the 802.11 printer
1160 Print basic info about a few more Cisco LAN protocols.
1162 ICMP MPLS rework of the extension code
1163 bugfix: use the correct codepoint for the OSPF simple text auth token
1164 entry, and use safeputs to print the password.
1165 Add support in pflog for additional values
1166 Add support for OIF RSVP Extensions UNI 1.0 Rev. 2 and additional RSVP objects
1167 Add support for the Message-id NACK c-type.
1168 Add support for 802.3ah loopback ctrl msg
1169 Add support for Multiple-STP as per 802.1s
1170 Add support for rapid-SPT as per 802.1w
1171 Add support for CFM Link-trace msg, Link-trace-Reply msg,
1172 Sender-ID tlv, private tlv, port, interface status
1173 Add support for unidirectional link detection as per
1174 https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-foschiano-udld-02.txt
1175 Add support for the olsr protocol as per RFC 3626 plus the LQ
1176 extensions from olsr.org
1177 Add support for variable-length checksum in DCCP, as per section 9 of
1179 Add support for per-VLAN spanning tree and per-VLAN rapid spanning tree
1180 Add support for Multiple-STP as per 802.1s
1181 Add support for the cisco proprietary 'dynamic trunking protocol'
1182 Add support for the cisco proprietary VTP protocol
1183 Update dhcp6 options table as per IETF standardization activities
1186 Tue. September 19, 2006. ken@xelerance.com. Summary for 3.9.5 tcpdump release
1188 Fix compiling on AIX (, at end of ENUM)
1189 Updated list of DNS RR typecodes
1190 Use local Ethernet defs on WIN32
1191 Add support for Frame-Relay ARP
1192 Fixes for compiling under MSVC++
1193 Add support for parsing Juniper .pcap files
1194 Add support for FRF.16 Multilink Frame-Relay (DLT_MFR)
1195 Rework the OSPFv3 printer
1196 Fix printing for 4.4BSD/NetBSD NFS Filehandles
1197 Add support for Cisco style NLPID encapsulation
1198 Add cisco prop. eigrp related, extended communities
1199 Add support for BGP signaled VPLS
1200 Cleanup the bootp printer
1201 Add support for PPP over Frame-Relay
1202 Add some bounds checking to the IP options code, and clean up
1203 the options output a bit.
1204 Add additional modp groups to ISAKMP printer
1205 Add support for Address-Withdraw and Label-Withdraw Msgs
1206 Add support for the BFD Discriminator TLV
1207 Fixes for 64bit compiling
1208 Add support for PIMv2 checksum verification
1209 Add support for further dissection of the IPCP Compression Option
1210 Add support for Cisco's proposed VQP protocol
1211 Add basic support for keyed authentication TCP option
1212 Lots of minor cosmetic changes to output printers
1215 Mon. September 19, 2005. ken@xelerance.com. Summary for 3.9.4 tcpdump release
1216 Decoder support for more Juniper link-layer types
1217 Fix a potential buffer overflow (although it can't occur in
1219 Fix the handling of unknown management frame types in the 802.11
1221 Add FRF.16 support, fix various Frame Relay bugs.
1222 Add support for RSVP integrity objects, update fast-reroute
1223 object printer to latest spec.
1224 Clean up documentation of vlan filter expression, document mpls
1226 Document new pppoed and pppoes filter expressions.
1227 Update diffserver-TE codepoints as per RFC 4124.
1228 Spelling fixes in ICMPv6.
1229 Don't require any fields other than flags to be present in IS-IS
1230 restart signaling TLVs, and only print the system ID in
1231 those TLVs as system IDs, not as node IDs.
1234 Tue. July 5, 2005. ken@xelerance.com. Summary for 3.9.3 tcpdump release
1236 Option to chroot() when dropping privs
1237 Fixes for compiling on nearly every platform,
1238 including improved 64bit support
1240 Support for sending packets
1241 Many compilation fixes on most platforms
1242 Fixes for recent version of GCC to eliminate warnings
1243 Improved Unicode support
1245 Decoders & DLT Changes, Updates and New:
1247 Juniper ATM, FRF.15, FRF.16, PPPoE,
1248 ML-FR, ML-PIC, ML-PPP, PL-PPP, LS-PIC
1249 GGSN,ES,MONITOR,SERVICES
1251 Axent Raptor/Symantec Firewall
1253 ESP-in-UDP (RFC 3948)
1255 LMP, LMP Service Discovery
1261 LACP, MARKER as per 802.3ad
1264 G.7041/Y.1303 Generic Framing Procedure
1267 Radio - via radiotap
1271 Tue. March 30, 2004. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 3.8.3 release
1273 No changes from 3.8.2. Version bumped only to maintain consistency
1276 Mon. March 29, 2004. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 3.8.2 release
1278 Fixes for print-isakmp.c CVE: CAN-2004-0183, CAN-2004-0184
1279 https://web.archive.org/web/20160328035955/https://www.rapid7.com/resources/advisories/R7-0017.jsp
1280 IP-over-IEEE1394 printing.
1281 some MINGW32 changes.
1282 updates for autoconf 2.5
1283 fixes for print-aodv.c - check for too short packets
1284 formatting changes to print-ascii for hex output.
1285 check for too short packets: print-bgp.c, print-bootp.c, print-cdp.c,
1286 print-chdlc.c, print-domain.c, print-icmp.c, print-icmp6.c,
1287 print-ip.c, print-lwres.c, print-ospf.c, print-pim.c,
1288 print-ppp.c,print-pppoe.c, print-rsvp.c, print-wb.c
1289 print-ether.c - better handling of unknown types.
1290 print-isoclns.c - additional decoding of types.
1291 print-llc.c - strings for LLC names added.
1292 print-pfloc.c - various enhancements
1293 print-radius.c - better decoding to strings.
1295 Wed. November 12, 2003. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 3.8 release
1297 changed syntax of -E argument so that multiple SAs can be decrypted
1298 fixes for Digital Unix headers and Documentation
1300 CDP changes from Terry Kennedy <terry@tmk.com>.
1301 IPv6 mobility updates from Kazushi Sugyo <sugyo@pb.jp.nec.com>
1302 Fixes for ASN.1 decoder for 2.100.3 forms.
1303 Added a count of packets received and processed to clarify numbers.
1304 Incorporated WinDUMP patches for Win32 builds.
1305 PPPoE payload length headers.
1306 Fixes for HP C compiler builds.
1307 Use new pcap_breakloop() and pcap_findalldevs() if we can.
1308 BGP output split into multiple lines.
1309 Fixes to 802.11 decoding.
1310 Fixes to PIM decoder.
1311 SuperH is a CPU that can't handle unaligned access. Many fixes for
1312 unaligned access work.
1313 Fixes to Frame-Relay decoder for Q.933/922 frames.
1314 Clarified when Solaris can do captures as non-root.
1315 Added tests/ subdir for examples/regression tests.
1316 New -U flag. -flush stdout after every packet
1317 New -A flag -print ascii only
1318 support for decoding IS-IS inside Cisco HDLC Frames
1319 more verbosity for tftp decoder
1322 cross compilation patches
1323 RFC 3561 AODV support.
1324 UDP/TCP pseudo-checksum properly for source-route options.
1325 sanitized all files to modified BSD license
1326 Add support for RFC 2625 IP-over-Fibre Channel.
1327 fixes for DECnet support.
1328 Support RFC 2684 bridging of Ethernet, 802.5 Token Ring, and FDDI.
1329 RFC 2684 encapsulation of BPDUs.
1331 Tuesday, February 25, 2003. fenner@research.att.com. 3.7.2 release
1333 Fixed infinite loop when parsing invalid isakmp packets.
1334 (reported by iDefense; already fixed in CVS)
1335 Fixed infinite loop when parsing invalid BGP packets.
1336 Fixed buffer overflow with certain invalid NFS packets.
1337 Pretty-print unprintable network names in 802.11 printer.
1338 Handle truncated nbp (appletalk) packets.
1339 Updated DHCPv6 printer to match draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-22.txt
1340 Print IP protocol name even if we don't have a printer for it.
1341 Print IP protocol name or number for fragments.
1342 Print the whole MPLS label stack, not just the top label.
1343 Print request header and file handle for NFS v3 FSINFO and PATHCONF
1345 Fix NFS packet truncation checks.
1346 Handle "old" DR-Priority and Bidir-Capable PIM HELLO options.
1347 Handle unknown RADIUS attributes properly.
1348 Fix an ASN.1 parsing error that would cause e.g. the OID
1349 2.100.3 to be misrepresented as 4.20.3 .
1351 Monday, January 21, 2002. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 3.7 release
1352 keyword "ipx" added.
1353 Better OSI/802.2 support on Linux.
1354 IEEE 802.11 support, from clenahan@fortresstech.com, achirica@ttd.net.
1355 LLC SAP support for FDDI/token ring/RFC-1483 style ATM
1356 BXXP protocol was replaced by the BEEP protocol;
1357 improvements to SNAP demux.
1358 Changes to "any" interface documentation.
1359 Documentation on pcap_stats() counters.
1360 Fix a memory leak found by Miklos Szeredi - pcap_ether_aton().
1361 Added MPLS encapsulation decoding per RFC3032.
1362 DNS dissector handles TKEY, TSIG and IXFR.
1363 adaptive SLIP interface patch from Igor Khristophorov <igor@atdot.org>
1364 SMB printing has much improved bounds checks
1365 OUI 0x0000f8 decoded as encapsulated ethernet for Cisco-custom bridging
1366 Zephyr support, from Nickolai Zeldovich <kolya@MIT.EDU>.
1367 Solaris - devices with digits in them. Stefan Hudson <hudson@mbay.net>
1368 IPX socket 0x85be is for Cisco EIGRP over IPX.
1369 Improvements to fragmented ESP handling.
1370 SCTP support from Armando L. Caro Jr. <acaro@mail.eecis.udel.edu>
1371 Linux ARPHDR_ATM support fixed.
1372 Added a "netbeui" keyword, which selects NetBEUI packets.
1373 IPv6 ND improvements, MobileIP dissector, 2292bis-02 for RA option.
1374 Handle ARPHDR_HDLC from Marcus Felipe Pereira <marcus@task.com.br>.
1375 Handle IPX socket 0x553 -> NetBIOS-over-IPX socket, "nwlink-dgm"
1376 Better Linux libc5 compat.
1377 BIND9 lwres dissector added.
1378 MIPS and SPARC get strict alignment macros (affects print-bgp.c)
1379 Apple LocalTalk LINKTYPE_ reserved.
1380 New time stamp formats documented.
1381 DHCP6 updated to draft-22.txt spec.
1382 ICMP types/codes now accept symbolic names.
1383 Add SIGINFO handler from LBL
1384 encrypted CIPE tunnels in IRIX, from Franz Schaefer <schaefer@mond.at>.
1385 now we are -Wstrict-prototype clean.
1386 NetBSD DLT_PPP_ETHER; adapted from Martin Husemann <martin@netbsd.org>.
1387 PPPoE dissector cleaned up.
1388 Support for LocalTalk hardware, from Uns Lider <unslider@miranda.org>.
1389 In dissector, now the caller prints the IP addresses rather than proto.
1390 cjclark@alum.mit.edu: print the IP proto for non-initial fragments.
1391 LLC frames with a DSAP and LSAP of 0xe0 are IPX frames.
1392 Linux cooked frames with a type value of LINUX_SLL_P_802_3 are IPX.
1393 captures on the "any" device won't be done in promiscuous mode
1394 Token Ring support on DLPI - Onno van der Linden <onno@simplex.nl>
1395 ARCNet support, from NetBSD.
1396 HSRP dissector, from Julian Cowley <julian@lava.net>.
1397 Handle (GRE-encapsulated) PPTP
1398 added -C option to rotate save file every optarg * 1,000,000 bytes.
1399 support for "vrrp" name - NetBSD, by Klaus Klein <kleink@netbsd.org>.
1400 PPTP support, from Motonori Shindo <mshindo@mshindo.net>.
1401 IS-IS over PPP support, from Hannes Gredler <hannes@juniper.net>.
1402 CNFP support for IPv6,format. Harry Raaymakers <harryr@connect.com.au>.
1403 ESP printing updated to RFC2406.
1404 HP-UX can now handle large number of PPAs.
1406 L2TP dissector improvements from Motonori Shindo.
1408 Tuesday January 9, 2001. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 3.6 release
1409 Cleaned up documentation.
1410 Promisc mode fixes for Linux
1411 IPsec changes/cleanups.
1412 Alignment fixes for picky architectures
1414 Removed dependency on native headers for packet dissectors.
1415 Removed Linux specific headers that were shipped
1417 libpcap changes provide for exchanging capture files between
1418 systems. Save files now have well known PACKET_ values instead of
1419 depending upon system dependent mappings of DLT_* types.
1421 Support for computing/checking IP and UDP/TCP checksums.
1423 Updated autoconf stock files.
1425 IPv6 improvements: dhcp (draft-15), mobile-ip6, ppp, ospf6,
1427 Added dissector support for: ISOCLNS, Token Ring, IGMPv3, bxxp,
1428 timed, vrrp, radius, chdlc, cnfp, cdp, IEEE802.1d, raw-AppleTalk
1430 Added filtering support for: VLANs, ESIS, ISIS
1432 Improvements to: print-telnet, IPTalk, bootp/dhcp, ECN, PPP,
1435 HP-UX 11.0 -- find the right dlpi device.
1436 Solaris 8 - IPv6 works
1437 Linux - Added support for an "any" device to capture on all interfaces
1439 Security fixes: buffer overrun audit done. Strcpy replaced with
1440 strlcpy, sprintf replaced with snprintf.
1441 Look for lex problems, and warn about them.
1444 v3.5 Fri Jan 28 18:00:00 PST 2000
1446 Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com>
1447 - switch to config.h for autoconf
1448 - unify RCSID strings
1449 - Updated PIMv1, PIMv2, DVMRP, IGMP parsers, add Cisco Auto-RP parser
1450 - Really fix the RIP printer
1451 - Fix MAC address -> name translation.
1452 - some -Wall -Wformat fixes
1453 - update makemib to parse much of SMIv2
1454 - Print TCP sequence # with -vv even if you normally wouldn't
1455 - Print as much of IP/TCP/UDP headers as possible even if truncated.
1458 - -X will make a ascii dump. from netbsd.
1459 - telnet command sequence decoder (ff xx xx). from netbsd.
1460 - print-bgp.c: improve options printing. ugly code exists for
1461 unaligned option parsing (need some fix).
1462 - const poisoning in SMB decoder.
1463 - -Wall -Werror clean checks.
1464 - bring in KAME IPv6/IPsec decoding code.
1466 Assar Westerlund <assar@sics.se>
1467 - SNMPv2 and SNMPv3 printer
1468 - If compiled with libsmi, tcpdump can load MIBs on the fly to decode
1470 - Incorporate NFS parsing code from NetBSD. Adds support for nfsv3.
1472 - permit building in different directories.
1474 Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
1476 /afs/transarc.com/public/afs-contrib/tools/tcpdump for parsing
1479 Andrew Tridgell <tridge@linuxcare.com>
1482 Love <lha@stacken.kth.se>
1483 - print-rx.c: add code for printing MakeDir and StoreStatus. Also
1484 change date format to the right one.
1486 Michael C. Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>
1487 - Created tcpdump.org repository
1489 v3.4 Sat Jul 25 12:40:55 PDT 1998
1491 - Hardwire Linux slip support since it's too hard to detect.
1493 - Redo configuration of "network" libraries (-lsocket and -lnsl) to
1494 deal with IRIX. Thanks to John Hawkinson (jhawk@mit.edu)
1496 - Added -a which tries to translate network and broadcast addresses to
1497 names. Suggested by Rob van Nieuwkerk (robn@verdi.et.tudelft.nl)
1499 - Added a configure option to disable gcc.
1501 - Added a "raw" packet printer.
1503 - Not having an interface address is no longer fatal. Requested by John
1506 - Rework signal setup to accommodate Linux.
1508 - OSPF truncation check fix. Also display the type of OSPF packets
1509 using MD5 authentication. Thanks to Brian Wellington
1512 - Fix truncation check bugs in the Kerberos printer. Reported by Ezra
1513 Peisach (epeisach@mit.edu)
1515 - Don't catch SIGHUP when invoked with nohup(1). Thanks to Dave Plonka
1518 - Specify full install target as a way of detecting if install
1519 directory does not exist. Thanks to Dave Plonka.
1521 - Bit-swap FDDI addresses for BSD/OS too. Thanks to Paul Vixie
1524 - Fix off-by-one bug when testing size of ethernet packets. Thanks to
1525 Marty Leisner (leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com)
1527 - Add a local autoconf macro to check for routines in libraries; the
1528 autoconf version is broken (it only puts the library name in the
1529 cache variable name). Thanks to John Hawkinson.
1531 - Add a local autoconf macro to check for types; the autoconf version
1532 is broken (it uses grep instead of actually compiling a code fragment).
1534 - Modified to support the new BSD/OS 2.1 PPP and SLIP link layer header
1537 - Extend OSF ip header workaround to versions 1 and 2.
1539 - Fix some signed problems in the nfs printer. As reported by David
1540 Sacerdote (davids@silence.secnet.com)
1542 - Detect group wheel and use it as the default since BSD/OS' install
1543 can't hack numeric groups. Reported by David Sacerdote.
1545 - AIX needs special loader options. Thanks to Jonathan I. Kamens
1548 - Fixed the nfs printer to print port numbers in decimal. Thanks to
1549 Kent Vander Velden (graphix@iastate.edu)
1551 - Find installed libpcap in /usr/local/lib when not using gcc.
1553 - Disallow network masks with non-network bits set.
1555 - Attempt to detect "egcs" versions of gcc.
1557 - Add missing closing double quotes when displaying bootp strings.
1558 Reported by Viet-Trung Luu (vluu@picard.math.uwaterloo.ca)
1560 v3.3 Sat Nov 30 20:56:27 PST 1996
1562 - Added Linux support.
1564 - GRE encapsulated packet printer thanks to John Hawkinson
1567 - Rewrite gmt2local() to avoid problematic os dependencies.
1569 - Suppress nfs truncation message on errors.
1571 - Add missing m4 quoting in AC_LBL_UNALIGNED_ACCESS autoconf macro.
1572 Reported by Joachim Ott (ott@ardala.han.de)
1574 - Enable "ip_hl vs. ip_vhl" workaround for OSF4 too.
1576 - Print arp hardware type in host order. Thanks to Onno van der Linden
1579 - Avoid solaris compiler warnings. Thanks to Bruce Barnett
1580 (barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com)
1582 - Fix rip printer to not print one more route than is actually in the
1583 packet. Thanks to Jean-Luc Richier (Jean-Luc.Richier@imag.fr) and
1584 Bill Fenner (fenner@parc.xerox.com)
1586 - Use autoconf endian detection since BYTE_ORDER isn't defined on all systems.
1588 - Fix dvmrp printer truncation checks and add a dvmrp probe printer.
1589 Thanks to Danny J. Mitzel (mitzel@ipsilon.com)
1591 - Rewrite ospf printer to improve truncation checks.
1593 - Don't parse tcp options past the EOL. As noted by David Sacerdote
1594 (davids@secnet.com). Also, check tcp options to make sure they ar
1595 actually in the tcp header (in addition to the normal truncation
1596 checks). Fix the SACK code to print the N blocks (instead of the
1597 first block N times).
1599 - Don't say really small UDP packets are truncated just because they
1600 aren't big enough to be a RPC. As noted by David Sacerdote.
1602 v3.2.1 Sun Jul 14 03:02:26 PDT 1996
1604 - Added rfc1716 icmp codes as suggested by Martin Fredriksson
1607 - Print mtu for icmp unreach need frag packets. Thanks to John
1608 Hawkinson (jhawk@mit.edu)
1610 - Decode icmp router discovery messages. Thanks to Jeffrey Honig
1613 - Added a printer entry for DLT_IEEE802 as suggested by Tak Kushida
1614 (kushida@trl.ibm.co.jp)
1616 - Check igmp checksum if possible. Thanks to John Hawkinson.
1618 - Made changes for SINIX. Thanks to Andrej Borsenkow
1619 (borsenkow.msk@sni.de)
1621 - Use autoconf's idea of the top level directory in install targets.
1622 Thanks to John Hawkinson.
1624 - Avoid infinite loop in tcp options printing code. Thanks to Jeffrey
1625 Mogul (mogul@pa.dec.com)
1627 - Avoid using -lsocket in IRIX 5.2 and earlier since it breaks snoop.
1628 Thanks to John Hawkinson.
1630 - Added some more packet truncation checks.
1632 - On systems that have it, use sigset() instead of signal() since
1633 signal() has different semantics on these systems.
1635 - Fixed some more alignment problems on the alpha.
1637 - Add code to massage unprintable characters in the domain and ipx
1638 printers. Thanks to John Hawkinson.
1640 - Added explicit netmask support. Thanks to Steve Nuchia
1641 (steve@research.oknet.com)
1643 - Add "sca" keyword (for DEC cluster services) as suggested by Terry
1644 Kennedy (terry@spcvxa.spc.edu)
1646 - Add "atalk" keyword as suggested by John Hawkinson.
1648 - Added an igrp printer. Thanks to Francis Dupont
1649 (francis.dupont@inria.fr)
1651 - Print IPX net numbers in hex a la Novell Netware. Thanks to Terry
1652 Kennedy (terry@spcvxa.spc.edu)
1654 - Fixed snmp extended tag field parsing bug. Thanks to Pascal Hennequin
1655 (pascal.hennequin@hugo.int-evry.fr)
1657 - Added some ETHERTYPEs missing on some systems.
1659 - Added truncated packet macros and various checks.
1661 - Fixed endian problems with the DECnet printer.
1663 - Use $CC when checking gcc version. Thanks to Carl Lindberg
1664 (carl_lindberg@blacksmith.com)
1666 - Fixes for AIX (although this system is not yet supported). Thanks to
1669 - Fix bugs in the autoconf misaligned accesses code fragment.
1671 - Include sys/param.h to get BYTE_ORDER in a few places. Thanks to
1672 Pavlin Ivanov Radoslavov (pavlin@cs.titech.ac.jp)
1674 v3.2 Sun Jun 23 02:28:10 PDT 1996
1676 - Print new icmp unreachable codes as suggested by Martin Fredriksson
1677 (martin@msp.se). Also print code value when unknown for icmp redirect
1680 - Fix an alignment endian bug in getname(). Thanks to John Hawkinson.
1682 - Define "new" domain record types if not found in arpa/nameserv.h.
1683 Resulted from a suggestion from John Hawkinson (jhawk@mit.edu). Also
1684 fixed an endian bug when printing mx record and added some new record
1687 - Added RIP V2 support. Thanks to Jeffrey Honig (jch@bsdi.com)
1689 - Added T/TCP options printing. As suggested by Richard Stevens
1692 - Use autoconf to detect architectures that can't handle misaligned
1695 v3.1 Thu Jun 13 20:59:32 PDT 1996
1697 - Changed u_int32/int32 to u_int32_t/int32_t to be consistent with bsd
1698 and bind (as suggested by Charles Hannum).
1700 - Port to GNU autoconf.
1702 - Add support for printing DVMRP and PIM traffic thanks to
1703 Havard Eidnes (Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no).
1705 - Fix AppleTalk, IPX and DECnet byte order problems due to wrong endian
1706 define being referenced. Reported by Terry Kennedy.
1708 - Minor fixes to the man page thanks to Mark Andrews.
1710 - Endian fixes to RTP and vat packet dumpers, thanks to Bruce Mah
1711 (bmah@cs.berkeley.edu).
1713 - Added support for new dns types, thanks to Rainer Orth.
1715 - Fixed tftp_print() to print the block number for ACKs.
1717 - Document -dd and -ddd. Resulted from a bug report from Charlie Slater
1718 (cslater@imatek.com).
1720 - Check return status from malloc/calloc/etc.
1722 - Check return status from pcap_loop() so we can print an error and
1723 exit with a bad status if there were problems.
1725 - Bail if ip option length is <= 0. Resulted from a bug report from
1726 Darren Reed (darrenr@vitruvius.arbld.unimelb.edu.au).
1728 - Print out a little more information for sun rpc packets.
1730 - Add support for Kerberos 4 thanks to John Hawkinson (jhawk@mit.edu).
1732 - Fixed the Fix EXTRACT_SHORT() and EXTRACT_LONG() macros (which were
1733 wrong on little endian machines).
1735 - Fixed alignment bug in ipx_decode(). Thanks to Matt Crawford
1738 - Fix ntp_print() to not print garbage when the stratum is
1739 "unspecified." Thanks to Deus Ex Machina (root@belle.bork.com).
1741 - Rewrote tcp options printer code to check for truncation. Added
1742 selective acknowledgment case.
1744 - Fixed an endian bug in the ospf printer. Thanks to Jeffrey C Honig
1747 - Fix rip printer to handle 4.4 BSD sockaddr struct which only uses one
1748 octet for the sa_family member. Thanks to Yoshitaka Tokugawa
1751 - Don't checksum ip header if we don't have all of it. Thanks to John
1752 Hawkinson (jhawk@mit.edu).
1754 - Print out hostnames if possible in egp printer. Thanks to Jeffrey
1755 Honig (jhc@bsdi.com)
1758 v3.1a1 Wed May 3 19:21:11 PDT 1995
1760 - Include time.h when SVR4 is defined to avoid problems under Solaris
1763 - Fix etheraddr_string() in the ETHER_SERVICE to return the saved
1764 strings, not the local buffer. Thanks to Stefan Petri
1765 (petri@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de).
1767 - Detect when pcap raises the snaplen (e.g. with snit). Print a warning
1768 that the selected value was not used. Thanks to Pascal Hennequin
1769 (Pascal.Hennequin@hugo.int-evry.fr).
1771 - Add a truncated packet test to print-nfs.c. Thanks to Pascal Hennequin.
1773 - BYTEORDER -> BYTE_ORDER Thanks to Terry Kennedy (terry@spcvxa.spc.edu).
1775 v3.0.3 Sun Oct 1 18:35:00 GMT 1995
1777 - Although there never was a 3.0.3 release, the linux boys cleverly
1778 "released" one in late 1995.
1780 v3.0.2 Thu Apr 20 21:28:16 PDT 1995
1782 - Change configuration to not use gcc v2 flags with gcc v1.
1784 - Redo gmt2local() so that it works under BSDI (which seems to return
1785 an empty timezone struct from gettimeofday()). Based on report from
1786 Terry Kennedy (terry@spcvxa.spc.edu).
1788 - Change configure to recognize IP[0-9]* as "mips" SGI hardware. Based
1789 on report from Mark Andrews (mandrews@alias.com).
1791 - Don't pass cc flags to gcc. Resulted from a bug report from Rainer
1792 Orth (ro@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de).
1794 - Fixed printout of connection id for uncompressed tcp slip packets.
1795 Resulted from a bug report from Richard Stevens (rstevens@noao.edu).
1797 - Hack around deficiency in Ultrix's make.
1799 - Add ETHERTYPE_TRAIL define which is missing from irix5.
1801 v3.0.1 Wed Aug 31 22:42:26 PDT 1994
1803 - Fix problems with gcc2 vs. malloc() and read() prototypes under SunOS 4.
1805 v3.0 Mon Jun 20 19:23:27 PDT 1994
1807 - Added support for printing tcp option timestamps thanks to
1808 Mark Andrews (mandrews@alias.com).
1810 - Reorganize protocol dumpers to take const pointers to packets so they
1811 never change the contents (i.e., they used to do endian conversions
1812 in place). Previously, whenever more than one pass was taken over
1813 the packet, the packet contents would be dumped incorrectly (i.e.,
1814 the output form -x would be wrong on little endian machines because
1815 the protocol dumpers would modify the data). Thanks to Charles Hannum
1816 (mycroft@gnu.ai.mit.edu) for reporting this problem.
1818 - Added support for decnet protocol dumping thanks to Jeff Mogul
1821 - Fix bug that caused length of packet to be incorrectly printed
1822 (off by ether header size) for unknown ethernet types thanks
1823 to Greg Miller (gmiller@kayak.mitre.org).
1825 - Added support for IPX protocol dumping thanks to Brad Parker
1828 - Added check to verify IP header checksum under -v thanks to
1829 Brad Parker (brad@fcr.com).
1831 - Move packet capture code to new libpcap library (which is
1832 packaged separately).
1834 - Prototype everything and assume an ansi compiler.
1836 - print-arp.c: Print hardware ethernet addresses if they're not
1839 - print-bootp.c: Decode the cmu vendor field. Add RFC1497 tags.
1840 Many helpful suggestions from Gordon Ross (gwr@jericho.mc.com).
1842 - print-fddi.c: Improvements. Thanks to Jeffrey Mogul
1845 - print-icmp.c: Byte swap netmask before printing. Thanks to
1846 Richard Stevens (rstevens@noao.edu). Print icmp type when unknown.
1848 - print-ip.c: Print the inner ip datagram of ip-in-ip encapsulated packets.
1849 By default, only the inner packet is dumped, appended with the token
1850 "(encap)". Under -v, both the inner and output packets are dumped
1851 (on the same line). Note that the filter applies to the original packet,
1852 not the encapsulated packet. So if you run tcpdump on a net with an
1853 IP Multicast tunnel, you cannot filter out the datagrams using the
1854 conventional syntax. (You can filter away all the ip-in-ip traffic
1855 with "not ip proto 4".)
1857 - print-nfs.c: Keep pending rpc's in circular table. Add generic
1858 nfs header and remove os dependences. Thanks to Jeffrey Mogul.
1860 - print-ospf.c: Improvements. Thanks to Jeffrey Mogul.
1862 - tcpdump.c: Add -T flag allows interpretation of "vat", "wb", "rpc"
1863 (sunrpc) and rtp packets. Added "inbound" and "outbound" keywords
1864 Add && and || operators
1866 v2.2.1 Tue Jun 6 17:57:22 PDT 1992
1868 - Fix bug with -c flag.
1870 v2.2 Fri May 22 17:19:41 PDT 1992
1872 - savefile.c: Remove hack that shouldn't have been exported. Add
1875 - Added the 'icmp' keyword. For example, 'icmp[0] != 8 and icmp[0] != 0'
1876 matches non-echo/reply ICMP packets.
1878 - Many improvements to filter code optimizer.
1880 - Added 'multicast' keyword and extended the 'broadcast' keyword can now be
1881 so that protocol qualifications are allowed. For example, "ip broadcast"
1882 and "ether multicast" are valid filters.
1884 - Added support for monitoring the loopback interface (i.e. 'tcpdump -i lo').
1885 Jeffrey Honig (jch@MITCHELL.CIT.CORNELL.EDU) contributed the kernel
1886 patches to netinet/if_loop.c.
1888 - Added support for the Ungermann-Bass Ethernet on IBM/PC-RTs running AOS.
1889 Contact Jeffrey Honig (jch@MITCHELL.CIT.CORNELL.EDU) for the diffs.
1891 - Added EGP and OSPF printers, thanks to Jeffrey Honig.
1893 v2.1 Tue Jan 28 11:00:14 PST 1992
1895 - Internal release (never publicly exported).
1897 v2.0.1 Sun Jan 26 21:10:10 PDT
1899 - Various byte ordering fixes.
1901 - Add truncation checks.
1903 - inet.c: Support BSD style SIOCGIFCONF.
1905 - nametoaddr.c: Handle multi addresses for single host.
1907 - optimize.c: Rewritten.
1909 - pcap-bpf.c: don't choke when we get ptraced. only set promiscuous
1912 - print-atal.c: Fix an alignment bug (thanks to
1913 stanonik@nprdc.navy.mil) Add missing printf() argument.
1915 - print-bootp.c: First attempt at decoding the vendor buffer.
1917 - print-domain.c: Fix truncation checks.
1919 - print-icmp.c: Calculate length of packets from the ip header.
1921 - print-ip.c: Print frag id in decimal (so it's easier to match up
1922 with non-frags). Add support for ospf, egp and igmp.
1924 - print-nfs.c: Lots of changes.
1926 - print-ntp.c: Make some verbose output depend on -v.
1928 - print-snmp.c: New version from John LoVerso.
1930 - print-tcp.c: Print rfc1072 tcp options.
1932 - tcpdump.c: Print "0x" prefix for %x formats. Always print 6 digits
1933 (microseconds) worth of precision. Fix uid bugs.
1935 - A packet dumper has been added (thanks to Jeff Mogul of DECWRL).
1936 With this option, you can create an architecture independent binary
1937 trace file in real time, without the overhead of the packet printer.
1938 At a later time, the packets can be filtered (again) and printed.
1940 - BSD is supported. You must have BPF in your kernel.
1941 Since the filtering is now done in the kernel, fewer packets are
1942 dropped. In fact, with BPF and the packet dumper option, a measly
1943 Sun 3/50 can keep up with a busy network.
1945 - Compressed SLIP packets can now be dumped, provided you use our
1946 SLIP software and BPF. These packets are dumped as any other IP
1947 packet; the compressed headers are dumped with the '-e' option.
1949 - Machines with little-endian byte ordering are supported (thanks to
1952 - Ultrix 4.0 is supported (also thanks to Jeff Mogul).
1954 - IBM RT and Stanford Enetfilter support has been added by
1955 Rayan Zachariassen <rayan@canet.ca>. tcpdump has been tested under
1956 both the vanilla Enetfilter interface, and the extended interface
1957 (#ifdef'd by IBMRTPC) present in the MERIT version of the Enetfilter.
1959 - TFTP packets are now printed (requests only).
1961 - BOOTP packets are now printed.
1963 - SNMP packets are now printed. (thanks to John LoVerso of Xylogics).
1965 - Sparc architectures, including the Sparcstation-1, are now
1966 supported thanks to Steve McCanne and Craig Leres.
1968 - SunOS 4 is now supported thanks to Micky Liu of Columbia
1969 University (micky@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu).
1971 - IP options are now printed.
1973 - RIP packets are now printed.
1975 - There's a -v flag that prints out more information than the
1976 default (e.g., it will enable printing of IP ttl, tos and id)
1977 and -q flag that prints out less (e.g., it will disable
1978 interpretation of AppleTalk-in-UDP).
1980 - The grammar has undergone substantial changes (if you have an
1981 earlier version of tcpdump, you should re-read the manual
1984 The most useful change is the addition of an expression
1985 syntax that lets you filter on arbitrary fields or values in the
1986 packet. E.g., "ip[0] > 0x45" would print only packets with IP
1987 options, "tcp[13] & 3 != 0" would print only TCP SYN and FIN
1990 The most painful change is that concatenation no longer means
1991 "and" -- e.g., you have to say "host foo and port bar" instead
1992 of "host foo port bar". The up side to this down is that
1993 repeated qualifiers can be omitted, making most filter
1994 expressions shorter. E.g., you can now say "ip host foo and
1995 (bar or baz)" to look at ip traffic between hosts foo and bar or
1996 between hosts foo and baz. [The old way of saying this was "ip
1997 host foo and (ip host bar or ip host baz)".]
1999 v2.0 Sun Jan 13 12:20:40 PST 1991
2001 - Initial public release.