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Summary for 0.9.7 libpcap release + + FIXED version file to be 0.9.7 instead of 0.9.5. + added flags/configuration for cloning bpf device. + added DLT_MTP2_WITH_PHDR support (PPI) + "fix" the "memory leak" in icode_to_fcode() -- documentation bug + Various link-layer types, with a pseudo-header, for SITA http://www.sita.aero/ + introduces support for the DAG ERF type TYPE_COLOR_MC_HDLC_POS. + Basic BPF filtering support for DLT_MTP2_WITH_PHDR is also added. + check for IPv4 and IPv6, even for DLT_RAW + add support for DLT_JUNIPER_ISM + Pick up changes from NetBSD: many from tron, christos, drochner + Allocate DLT_ for 802.15.4 without any header munging, for Mikko Saarnivala. + Header for 802.16 MAC Common Part Sublayer plus a radiotap radio header + +Wed. April 25, 2007. ken@xelerance.com. Summary for 0.9.6 libpcap release + + Put the public libpcap headers into a pcap subdirectory in both the + source directory and the target include directory, and have include + files at the top-level directory to include those headers, for + backwards compatibility. + Add Bluetooth support + Add USB capturing support on Linux + Add support for the binary USB sniffing interface in Linux + Add support for new FreeBSD BIOCSDIRECTION ioctl + Add additional filter operations for 802.11 frame types + Add support for filtering on MTP2 frame types + Propagate some changes from the main branch, so the x.9 branch has + all the DLT_ and LINKTYPE_ values that the main branch does + Reserved a DLT_ and SAVEFILE_ value for PPI (Per Packet Info) + encapsulated packets + Add LINKTYPE_ for IEEE 802.15.4, with address fields padded as done + by Linux drivers + Add LINKTYPE_ value corresponding to DLT_IEEE802_16_MAC_CPS. + Add DLT for IEEE 802.16 (WiMAX) MAC Common Part Sublayer + Add DLT for Bluetooth HCI UART transport layer + When building a shared library, build with "-fPIC" on Linux to support x86_64 + Link with "$(CC) -shared" rather than "ld -shared" when building a + ".so" shared library + Add support for autoconf 2.60 + Fixes to discard unread packets when changing filters + Changes to handle name changes in the DAG library resulting from + switching to libtool. + Add support for new DAG ERF types. + Add an explicit "-ldag" when building the shared library, so the DAG + library dependency is explicit. + Mac OSX fixes for dealing with "wlt" devices + Fixes in add_or_find_if() & pcap_findalldevs() to optimize generating + device lists + Fixed a bug in pcap_open_live(). The return value of PacketSetHwFilter + was not checked. + +Tue. September 19, 2006. ken@xelerance.com. Summary for 0.9.5 libpcap release + + Support for LAPD frames with vISDN + Support for ERF on channelized T1/E1 cards via DAG API + Fix capitalization that caused issues crossc compiling on Linux + Better failure detection on PacketGetAdapterNames() + Fixes for MPLS packet generation (link layer) + OP_PACKET now matches the beginning of the packet, instead of + beginning+link-layer + Add DLT/LINKTYPE for carrying FRF.16 Multi-link Frame Relay + Fix allocation of buffer for list of link-layer types + Added a new DLT and LINKTYPE value for ARINC 653 Interpartition Communcation Messages + Fixed a typo in a DLT value: it should start with DLT_ and not LINKTYPE_ + Redefined DLT_CAN20B and LINKTYPE_CAN20B as #190 (as this is the right value for CAN). + Added definition for DLT_A429 and LINKTYPE_A429 as #184. + Added a new DLT and LINKTYPE value for CAN v2.0B frames. + Add support for DLT_JUNIPER_VP. + Don't double-count received packets on Linux systems that + support the PACKET_STATISTICS getsockopt() argument on + PF_PACKET sockets. + Add support for DLT_IEEE802_11 and DLT_IEEE802_11_RADIO link + layers in Windows + Add support to build libpcap.lib and wpcap.dll under Cygnus and + MingW32. + +Mon. September 5, 2005. ken@xelerance.com. Summary for 0.9.4 libpcap release + + Support for radiotap on Linux (Mike Kershaw) + Fixes for HP-UX + Support for additional Juniper link-layer types + Fixes for filters on MPLS-encapsulated packets + "vlan" filter fixed + "pppoed" and "pppoes" filters added; the latter modifies later + parts of the filter expression to look at the PPP headers and + headers in the PPP payload + +Tue. July 5, 2005. ken@xelerance.com. Summary for 0.9.3 libpcap release + + Fixes for compiling on nearly every platform, + including improved 64bit support + MSDOS Support + Add support for sending packets + OpenBSD pf format support + IrDA capture (Linux only) + +Tue. March 30, 2004. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 3.8.3 release + + Fixed minor problem in gencode.c that would appear on 64-bit + platforms. + Version number is now sane. + +Mon. March 29, 2004. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 3.8.2 release + + updates for autoconf 2.5 + fixes for ppp interfaces for freebsd 4.1 + pcap gencode can generate code for 802.11, IEEE1394, and pflog. + +Wed. November 12, 2003. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 0.8 release + + added pcap_findalldevs() + Win32 patches from NetGroup, Politecnico di Torino (Italy) + OpenBSD pf, DLT_PFLOG added + Many changes to ATM support. + lookup pcap_lookupnet() + Added DLT_ARCNET_LINUX, DLT_ENC, DLT_IEEE802_11_RADIO, DLT_SUNATM, + DLT_IP_OVER_FC, DLT_FRELAY, others. + Sigh. More AIX wonderfulness. + Document updates. + Changes to API: pcap_next_ex(), pcap_breakloop(), pcap_dump_flush(), + pcap_list_datalinks(), pcap_set_datalink(), + pcap_lib_version(), pcap_datalink_val_to_name(), + pcap_datalink_name_to_val(), new error returns. + +Tuesday, February 25, 2003. fenner@research.att.com. 0.7.2 release + + Support link types that use 802.2 always, never, and sometimes. + Don't decrease the size of the BPF buffer from the default. + Support frame relay. + Handle 32-bit timestamps in DLPI, and pass the right buffer size. + Handle Linux systems with modern kernel but without + SOL_PACKET in the userland headers. + Linux support for ARPHRD_RAWHDLC. + Handle 32-bit timestamps in snoop. + Support eg (Octane/O2xxx/O3xxx Gigabit) devices. + Add new reserved DLT types. + +Monday October 23, 2001. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 0.7 release + + Added pcap_findalldevs() call to get list of interfaces in a MI way. + + pcap_stats() has been documented as to what its counters mean on + each platform. + +Tuesday January 9, 2001. guy@alum.mit.edu. Summary for 0.6 release + + New Linux libpcap implementation, which, in 2.2 and later + kernels, uses PF_PACKET sockets and supports kernel packet + filtering (if compiled into the kernel), and supports the "any" + device for capturing on all interfaces. Cleans up promiscuous + mode better on pre-2.2 kernels, and has various other fixes + (handles 2.4 ARPHRD_IEEE802_TR, handles ISDN devices better, + doesn't show duplicate packets on loopback interface, etc.). + + Fixed HP-UX libpcap implementation to correctly get the PPA for + an interface, to allow interfaces to be opened by interface name. + + libpcap savefiles have system-independent link-layer type values + in the header, rather than sometimes platform-dependent DLT_ + values, to make it easier to exchange capture files between + different OSes. + + Non-standard capture files produced by some Linux tcpdumps, e.g. + the one from Red Hat Linux 6.2 and later, can now be read. + + Updated autoconf stock files. + + Filter expressions can filter on VLAN IDs and various OSI + protocols, and work on Token Ring (with non-source-routed + packets). + + "pcap_open_dead()" added to allow compiling filter expressions + to pcap code without opening a capture device or capture file. + + Header files fixed to allow use in C++ programs. + + Removed dependancy on native headers for packet layout. + Removed Linux specific headers that were shipped. + + Security fixes: Strcpy replaced with strlcpy, sprintf replaced + with snprintf. + + Fixed bug that could cause subsequent "pcap_compile()"s to fail + erroneously after one compile failed. + + Assorted other bug fixes. + + README.aix and README.linux files added to describe + platform-specific issues. + + "getifaddrs()" rather than SIOCGIFCONF used, if available. + +v0.5 Sat Jun 10 11:09:15 PDT 2000 + +itojun@iijlab.net +- Brought in KAME IPv6/IPsec bpf compiler. +- Fixes for NetBSD. +- Support added for OpenBSD DLT_LOOP and BSD/OS DLT_C_HDLC (Cisco HDLC), + and changes to work around different BSDs having different DLT_ types + with the same numeric value. + +Assar Westerlund <assar@sics.se> +- Building outside the source code tree fixed. +- Changed to write out time stamps with 32-bit seconds and microseconds + fields, regardless of whether those fields are 32 bits or 64 bits in + the OS's native "struct timeval". +- Changed "pcap_lookupdev()" to dynamically grow the buffer into which + the list of interfaces is read as necessary in order to hold the + entire list. + +Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com> +- Added a new "pcap_compile_nopcap()", which lets you compile a filter + expression into a BPF program without having an open live capture or + capture file. + +v0.4 Sat Jul 25 12:40:09 PDT 1998 + +- Fix endian problem with DLT_NULL devices. From FreeBSD via Bill + Fenner (fenner@parc.xerox.com) + +- Fix alignment problem with FDDI under DLPI. This was causing core + dumps under Solaris. + +- Added configure options to disable flex and bison. Resulted from a + bug report by barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett). Also added + options to disable gcc and to force a particular packet capture type. + +- Added support for Fore ATM interfaces (qaa and fa) under IRIX. Thanks + to John Hawkinson (jhawk@mit.edu) + +- Change Linux PPP and SLIP to use DLT_RAW since the kernel does not + supply any "link layer" data. + +- Change Linux to use SIOCGIFHWADDR ioctl to determine link layer type. + Thanks to Thomas Sailer (sailer@ife.ee.ethz.ch) + +- Change IRIX PPP to use DLT_RAW since the kernel does not supply any + "link layer" data. + +- Modified to support the new BSD/OS 2.1 PPP and SLIP link layer header + formats. + +- Added some new SGI snoop interface types. Thanks to Steve Alexander + (sca@refugee.engr.sgi.com) + +- Fixes for HP-UX 10.20 (which is similar to HP-UX 9). Thanks to + Richard Allen (ra@hp.is) and Steinar Haug (sthaug@nethelp.no) + +- Fddi supports broadcast as reported by Jeff Macdonald + (jeff@iacnet.com). Also correct ieee802 and arcnet. + +- Determine Linux pcap buffer size at run time or else it might not be + big enough for some interface types (e.g. FDDI). Thanks to Jes + Sorensen (Jes.Sorensen@cern.ch) + +- Fix some linux alignment problems. + +- Document promisc argument to pcap_open_live(). Reported by Ian Marsh + (ianm@sics.se) + +- Support Metricom radio packets under Linux. Thanks to Kevin Lai + (laik@gunpowder.stanford.edu) + +- Bind to interface name under Linux to avoid packets from multiple + interfaces on multi-homed hosts. Thanks to Kevin Lai + (laik@gunpowder.stanford.edu) + +- Change L_SET to SEEK_SET for HP-UX. Thanks to Roland Roberts + (rroberts@muller.com) + +- Fixed an uninitialized memory reference found by Kent Vander Velden + (graphix@iastate.edu) + +- Fixed lex pattern for IDs to allow leading digits. As reported by + Theo de Raadt (deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org) + +- Fixed Linux include file problems when using GNU libc. + +- Ifdef ARPHRD_FDDI since not all versions of the Linux kernel have it. + Reported reported by Eric Jacksch (jacksch@tenebris.ca) + +- Fixed bug in pcap_dispatch() that kept it from returning on packet + timeouts. + +- Changed ISLOOPBACK() macro when IFF_LOOPBACK isn't available to check + for "lo" followed by an eos or digit (newer versions of Linux + apparently call the loopback "lo" instead of "lo0"). + +- Fixed Linux networking include files to use ints instead of longs to + avoid problems with 64 bit longs on the alpha. Thanks to Cristian + Gafton (gafton@redhat.com) + +v0.3 Sat Nov 30 20:56:27 PST 1996 + +- Added Linux support. + +- Fixed savefile bugs. + +- Solaris x86 fix from Tim Rylance (t.rylance@elsevier.nl) + +- Add support for bpf kernel port filters. + +- Remove duplicate atalk protocol table entry. Thanks to Christian + Hopps (chopps@water.emich.edu) + +- Fixed pcap_lookupdev() to ignore nonexistent devices. This was + reported to happen under BSD/OS by David Vincenzetti + (vince@cryptonet.it) + +- Avoid solaris compiler warnings. Thanks to Bruce Barnett + (barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com) + +v0.2.1 Sun Jul 14 03:02:26 PDT 1996 + +- Fixes for HP-UX 10. Thanks in part to to Thomas Wolfram + (wolf@prz.tu-berlin.de) and Rick Jones (raj@hpisrdq.cup.hp.com) + +- Added support for SINIX. Thanks to Andrej Borsenkow + (borsenkow.msk@sni.de) + +- Fixes for AIX (although this system is not yet supported). Thanks to + John Hawkinson (jhawk@mit.edu) + +- Use autoconf's idea of the top level directory in install targets. + Thanks to John Hawkinson. + +- Add missing autoconf packet capture result message. Thanks to Bill + Fenner (fenner@parc.xerox.com) + +- Fixed padding problems in the pf module. + +- Fixed some more alignment problems on the alpha. + +- Added explicit netmask support. Thanks to Steve Nuchia + (steve@research.oknet.com) + +- Fixed to handle raw ip addresses such as 0.0.0.1 without "left + justifing" + +- Add "sca" keyword (for DEC cluster services) as suggested by Terry + Kennedy (terry@spcvxa.spc.edu) + +- Add "atalk" keyword as suggested by John Hawkinson. + +- Add "igrp" keyword. + +- Fixed HID definition in grammar.y to be a string, not a value. + +- Use $CC when checking gcc version. Thanks to Carl Lindberg + (carl_lindberg@blacksmith.com) + +- Removed obsolete reference to pcap_immediate() from the man page. + Michael Stolarchuk (mts@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu) + +- DLT_NULL has a 4 byte family header. Thanks to Jeffrey Honig + (jch@bsdi.com) + +v0.2 Sun Jun 23 02:28:42 PDT 1996 + +- Add support for HP-UX. Resulted from code contributed by Tom Murray + (tmurray@hpindck.cup.hp.com) and Philippe-Andri Prindeville + (philipp@res.enst.fr) + +- Update INSTALL with a reminder to install include files. Thanks to + Mark Andrews (mandrews@aw.sgi.com) + +- Fix bpf compiler alignment bug on the alpha. + +- Use autoconf to detect architectures that can't handle misaligned + accesses. + +- Added loopback support for snoop. Resulted from report Steve + Alexander (sca@engr.sgi.com) + +v0.1 Fri Apr 28 18:11:03 PDT 1995 + +- Fixed compiler and optimizer bugs. The BPF filter engine uses unsigned + comparison operators, while the code generator and optimizer assumed + signed semantics in several places. Thanks to Charlie Slater + (cslater@imatek.com) for pointing this out. + +- Removed FDDI ifdef's, they aren't really needed. Resulted from report + by Gary Veum (veum@boa.gsfc.nasa.gov). + +- Add pcap-null.c which allows offline use of libpcap on systems that + don't support live package capture. This feature resulting from a + request from Jan van Oorschot (j.p.m.voorschot@et.tudelft.nl). + +- Make bpf_compile() reentrant. Fix thanks to Pascal Hennequin + (Pascal.Hennequin@hugo.int-evry.fr). + +- Port to GNU autoconf. + +- Fix pcap-dlpi.c to work with isdn. Resulted from report by Flemming + Johansen (fsj@csd.cri.dk). + +- Handle multi-digit interface unit numbers (aka ppa's) under dlpi. + Resulted from report by Daniel Ehrlich (ehrlich@cse.psu.edu). + +- Fix pcap-dlpi.c to work in non-promiscuous mode. Resulted from report + by Jeff Murphy (jcmurphy@acsu.buffalo.edu). + +- Add support for "long jumps". Thanks to Jeffrey Mogul + (mogul@pa.dec.com). + +- Fix minor problems when compiling with BDEBUG as noticed by Scott + Bertilson (scott@unet.umn.edu). + +- Declare sys_errlist "const char *const" to avoid problems under + FreeBSD. Resulted from report by jher@eden.com. + +v0.0.6 Fri Apr 28 04:07:13 PDT 1995 + +- Add missing variable declaration missing from 0.0.6 + +v0.0.5 Fri Apr 28 00:22:21 PDT 1995 + +- Workaround for problems when pcap_read() returns 0 due to the timeout + expiring. + +v0.0.4 Thu Apr 20 20:41:48 PDT 1995 + +- Change configuration to not use gcc v2 flags with gcc v1. + +- Fixed a bug in pcap_next(); if pcap_dispatch() returns 0, pcap_next() + should also return 0. Thanks to Richard Stevens (rstevens@noao.edu). + +- Fixed configure to test for snoop before dlpi to avoid problems under + IRIX 5. Thanks to J. Eric Townsend (jet@abulafia.genmagic.com). + +- Hack around deficiency in Ultrix's make. + +- Fix two bugs related to the Solaris pre-5.3.2 bufmod bug; handle + savefiles that have more than snapshot bytes of data in them (so we + can read old savefiles) and avoid writing such files. + +- Added checkioctl which is used with gcc to check that the + "fixincludes" script has been run. + +v0.0.3 Tue Oct 18 18:13:46 PDT 1994 + +- Fixed configure to test for snoop before dlpi to avoid problems under + IRIX 5. Thanks to J. Eric Townsend (jet@abulafia.genmagic.com). + +v0.0.2 Wed Oct 12 20:56:37 PDT 1994 + +- Implement timeout in the dlpi pcap_open_live(). Thanks to Richard + Stevens. + +- Determine pcap link type from dlpi media type. Resulted from report + by Mahesh Jethanandani (mahesh@npix.com). + +v0.0.1 Fri Jun 24 14:50:57 PDT 1994 + +- Fixed bug in nit_setflags() in pcap-snit.c. The streams ioctl timeout + wasn't being initialized sometimes resulting in an "NIOCSFLAGS: + Invalid argument" error under OSF/1. Reported by Matt Day + (mday@artisoft.com) and Danny Mitzel (dmitzel@whitney.hitc.com). + +- Turn on FDDI support by default. + +v0.0 Mon Jun 20 19:20:16 PDT 1994 + +- Initial release. + +- Fixed bug with greater/less keywords, reported by Mark Andrews + (mandrews@alias.com). + +- Fix bug where '|' was defined as BPF_AND instead of BPF_OR, reported + by Elan Amir (elan@leeb.cs.berkeley.edu). + +- Machines with little-endian byte ordering are supported thanks to + Jeff Mogul. + +- Add hack for version 2.3 savefiles which don't have caplen and len + swapped thanks to Vern Paxson. + +- Added "&&" and "||" aliases for "and" and "or" thanks to Vern Paxson. + +- Added length, inbound and outbound keywords. |
