1 @(#) $Header: /tcpdump/master/libpcap/CHANGES,v 1.59.2.1 2005/07/05 21:04:27 mcr Exp $ (LBL)
3 Tue. July 5, 2005. ken@xelerance.com. Summary for 3.9.x tcpdump
5 Fixes for compiling on nearly every platform,
6 including improved 64bit support
8 Add support for sending packets
9 OpenBSD pf format support
10 IrDA capture (Linux only)
12 Tue. May 27, 2005. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 0.9.1 release
16 Tue. March 30, 2004. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 3.8.3 release
18 Fixed minor problem in gencode.c that would appear on 64-bit
20 Version number is now sane.
22 Mon. March 29, 2004. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 3.8.2 release
24 updates for autoconf 2.5
25 fixes for ppp interfaces for freebsd 4.1
26 pcap gencode can generate code for 802.11, IEEE1394, and pflog.
28 Wed. November 12, 2003. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 0.8 release
30 added pcap_findalldevs()
31 Win32 patches from NetGroup, Politecnico di Torino (Italy)
32 OpenBSD pf, DLT_PFLOG added
33 Many changes to ATM support.
34 lookup pcap_lookupnet()
35 Added DLT_ARCNET_LINUX, DLT_ENC, DLT_IEEE802_11_RADIO, DLT_SUNATM,
36 DLT_IP_OVER_FC, DLT_FRELAY, others.
37 Sigh. More AIX wonderfulness.
39 Changes to API: pcap_next_ex(), pcap_breakloop(), pcap_dump_flush(),
40 pcap_list_datalinks(), pcap_set_datalink(),
41 pcap_lib_version(), pcap_datalink_val_to_name(),
42 pcap_datalink_name_to_val(), new error returns.
44 Tuesday, February 25, 2003. fenner@research.att.com. 0.7.2 release
46 Support link types that use 802.2 always, never, and sometimes.
47 Don't decrease the size of the BPF buffer from the default.
49 Handle 32-bit timestamps in DLPI, and pass the right buffer size.
50 Handle Linux systems with modern kernel but without
51 SOL_PACKET in the userland headers.
52 Linux support for ARPHRD_RAWHDLC.
53 Handle 32-bit timestamps in snoop.
54 Support eg (Octane/O2xxx/O3xxx Gigabit) devices.
55 Add new reserved DLT types.
57 Monday October 23, 2001. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 0.7 release
59 Added pcap_findalldevs() call to get list of interfaces in a MI way.
61 pcap_stats() has been documented as to what its counters mean on
64 Tuesday January 9, 2001. guy@alum.mit.edu. Summary for 0.6 release
66 New Linux libpcap implementation, which, in 2.2 and later
67 kernels, uses PF_PACKET sockets and supports kernel packet
68 filtering (if compiled into the kernel), and supports the "any"
69 device for capturing on all interfaces. Cleans up promiscuous
70 mode better on pre-2.2 kernels, and has various other fixes
71 (handles 2.4 ARPHRD_IEEE802_TR, handles ISDN devices better,
72 doesn't show duplicate packets on loopback interface, etc.).
74 Fixed HP-UX libpcap implementation to correctly get the PPA for
75 an interface, to allow interfaces to be opened by interface name.
77 libpcap savefiles have system-independent link-layer type values
78 in the header, rather than sometimes platform-dependent DLT_
79 values, to make it easier to exchange capture files between
82 Non-standard capture files produced by some Linux tcpdumps, e.g.
83 the one from Red Hat Linux 6.2 and later, can now be read.
85 Updated autoconf stock files.
87 Filter expressions can filter on VLAN IDs and various OSI
88 protocols, and work on Token Ring (with non-source-routed
91 "pcap_open_dead()" added to allow compiling filter expressions
92 to pcap code without opening a capture device or capture file.
94 Header files fixed to allow use in C++ programs.
96 Removed dependancy on native headers for packet layout.
97 Removed Linux specific headers that were shipped.
99 Security fixes: Strcpy replaced with strlcpy, sprintf replaced
102 Fixed bug that could cause subsequent "pcap_compile()"s to fail
103 erroneously after one compile failed.
105 Assorted other bug fixes.
107 README.aix and README.linux files added to describe
108 platform-specific issues.
110 "getifaddrs()" rather than SIOCGIFCONF used, if available.
112 v0.5 Sat Jun 10 11:09:15 PDT 2000
115 - Brought in KAME IPv6/IPsec bpf compiler.
117 - Support added for OpenBSD DLT_LOOP and BSD/OS DLT_C_HDLC (Cisco HDLC),
118 and changes to work around different BSDs having different DLT_ types
119 with the same numeric value.
121 Assar Westerlund <assar@sics.se>
122 - Building outside the source code tree fixed.
123 - Changed to write out time stamps with 32-bit seconds and microseconds
124 fields, regardless of whether those fields are 32 bits or 64 bits in
125 the OS's native "struct timeval".
126 - Changed "pcap_lookupdev()" to dynamically grow the buffer into which
127 the list of interfaces is read as necessary in order to hold the
130 Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com>
131 - Added a new "pcap_compile_nopcap()", which lets you compile a filter
132 expression into a BPF program without having an open live capture or
135 v0.4 Sat Jul 25 12:40:09 PDT 1998
137 - Fix endian problem with DLT_NULL devices. From FreeBSD via Bill
138 Fenner (fenner@parc.xerox.com)
140 - Fix alignment problem with FDDI under DLPI. This was causing core
143 - Added configure options to disable flex and bison. Resulted from a
144 bug report by barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett). Also added
145 options to disable gcc and to force a particular packet capture type.
147 - Added support for Fore ATM interfaces (qaa and fa) under IRIX. Thanks
148 to John Hawkinson (jhawk@mit.edu)
150 - Change Linux PPP and SLIP to use DLT_RAW since the kernel does not
151 supply any "link layer" data.
153 - Change Linux to use SIOCGIFHWADDR ioctl to determine link layer type.
154 Thanks to Thomas Sailer (sailer@ife.ee.ethz.ch)
156 - Change IRIX PPP to use DLT_RAW since the kernel does not supply any
159 - Modified to support the new BSD/OS 2.1 PPP and SLIP link layer header
162 - Added some new SGI snoop interface types. Thanks to Steve Alexander
163 (sca@refugee.engr.sgi.com)
165 - Fixes for HP-UX 10.20 (which is similar to HP-UX 9). Thanks to
166 Richard Allen (ra@hp.is) and Steinar Haug (sthaug@nethelp.no)
168 - Fddi supports broadcast as reported by Jeff Macdonald
169 (jeff@iacnet.com). Also correct ieee802 and arcnet.
171 - Determine Linux pcap buffer size at run time or else it might not be
172 big enough for some interface types (e.g. FDDI). Thanks to Jes
173 Sorensen (Jes.Sorensen@cern.ch)
175 - Fix some linux alignment problems.
177 - Document promisc argument to pcap_open_live(). Reported by Ian Marsh
180 - Support Metricom radio packets under Linux. Thanks to Kevin Lai
181 (laik@gunpowder.stanford.edu)
183 - Bind to interface name under Linux to avoid packets from multiple
184 interfaces on multi-homed hosts. Thanks to Kevin Lai
185 (laik@gunpowder.stanford.edu)
187 - Change L_SET to SEEK_SET for HP-UX. Thanks to Roland Roberts
188 (rroberts@muller.com)
190 - Fixed an uninitialized memory reference found by Kent Vander Velden
191 (graphix@iastate.edu)
193 - Fixed lex pattern for IDs to allow leading digits. As reported by
194 Theo de Raadt (deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org)
196 - Fixed Linux include file problems when using GNU libc.
198 - Ifdef ARPHRD_FDDI since not all versions of the Linux kernel have it.
199 Reported reported by Eric Jacksch (jacksch@tenebris.ca)
201 - Fixed bug in pcap_dispatch() that kept it from returning on packet
204 - Changed ISLOOPBACK() macro when IFF_LOOPBACK isn't available to check
205 for "lo" followed by an eos or digit (newer versions of Linux
206 apparently call the loopback "lo" instead of "lo0").
208 - Fixed Linux networking include files to use ints instead of longs to
209 avoid problems with 64 bit longs on the alpha. Thanks to Cristian
210 Gafton (gafton@redhat.com)
212 v0.3 Sat Nov 30 20:56:27 PST 1996
214 - Added Linux support.
216 - Fixed savefile bugs.
218 - Solaris x86 fix from Tim Rylance (t.rylance@elsevier.nl)
220 - Add support for bpf kernel port filters.
222 - Remove duplicate atalk protocol table entry. Thanks to Christian
223 Hopps (chopps@water.emich.edu)
225 - Fixed pcap_lookupdev() to ignore nonexistent devices. This was
226 reported to happen under BSD/OS by David Vincenzetti
229 - Avoid solaris compiler warnings. Thanks to Bruce Barnett
230 (barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com)
232 v0.2.1 Sun Jul 14 03:02:26 PDT 1996
234 - Fixes for HP-UX 10. Thanks in part to to Thomas Wolfram
235 (wolf@prz.tu-berlin.de) and Rick Jones (raj@hpisrdq.cup.hp.com)
237 - Added support for SINIX. Thanks to Andrej Borsenkow
238 (borsenkow.msk@sni.de)
240 - Fixes for AIX (although this system is not yet supported). Thanks to
241 John Hawkinson (jhawk@mit.edu)
243 - Use autoconf's idea of the top level directory in install targets.
244 Thanks to John Hawkinson.
246 - Add missing autoconf packet capture result message. Thanks to Bill
247 Fenner (fenner@parc.xerox.com)
249 - Fixed padding problems in the pf module.
251 - Fixed some more alignment problems on the alpha.
253 - Added explicit netmask support. Thanks to Steve Nuchia
254 (steve@research.oknet.com)
256 - Fixed to handle raw ip addresses such as 0.0.0.1 without "left
259 - Add "sca" keyword (for DEC cluster services) as suggested by Terry
260 Kennedy (terry@spcvxa.spc.edu)
262 - Add "atalk" keyword as suggested by John Hawkinson.
264 - Add "igrp" keyword.
266 - Fixed HID definition in grammar.y to be a string, not a value.
268 - Use $CC when checking gcc version. Thanks to Carl Lindberg
269 (carl_lindberg@blacksmith.com)
271 - Removed obsolete reference to pcap_immediate() from the man page.
272 Michael Stolarchuk (mts@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu)
274 - DLT_NULL has a 4 byte family header. Thanks to Jeffrey Honig
277 v0.2 Sun Jun 23 02:28:42 PDT 1996
279 - Add support for HP-UX. Resulted from code contributed by Tom Murray
280 (tmurray@hpindck.cup.hp.com) and Philippe-Andri Prindeville
281 (philipp@res.enst.fr)
283 - Update INSTALL with a reminder to install include files. Thanks to
284 Mark Andrews (mandrews@aw.sgi.com)
286 - Fix bpf compiler alignment bug on the alpha.
288 - Use autoconf to detect architectures that can't handle misaligned
291 - Added loopback support for snoop. Resulted from report Steve
292 Alexander (sca@engr.sgi.com)
294 v0.1 Fri Apr 28 18:11:03 PDT 1995
296 - Fixed compiler and optimizer bugs. The BPF filter engine uses unsigned
297 comparison operators, while the code generator and optimizer assumed
298 signed semantics in several places. Thanks to Charlie Slater
299 (cslater@imatek.com) for pointing this out.
301 - Removed FDDI ifdef's, they aren't really needed. Resulted from report
302 by Gary Veum (veum@boa.gsfc.nasa.gov).
304 - Add pcap-null.c which allows offline use of libpcap on systems that
305 don't support live package capture. This feature resulting from a
306 request from Jan van Oorschot (j.p.m.voorschot@et.tudelft.nl).
308 - Make bpf_compile() reentrant. Fix thanks to Pascal Hennequin
309 (Pascal.Hennequin@hugo.int-evry.fr).
311 - Port to GNU autoconf.
313 - Fix pcap-dlpi.c to work with isdn. Resulted from report by Flemming
314 Johansen (fsj@csd.cri.dk).
316 - Handle multi-digit interface unit numbers (aka ppa's) under dlpi.
317 Resulted from report by Daniel Ehrlich (ehrlich@cse.psu.edu).
319 - Fix pcap-dlpi.c to work in non-promiscuous mode. Resulted from report
320 by Jeff Murphy (jcmurphy@acsu.buffalo.edu).
322 - Add support for "long jumps". Thanks to Jeffrey Mogul
325 - Fix minor problems when compiling with BDEBUG as noticed by Scott
326 Bertilson (scott@unet.umn.edu).
328 - Declare sys_errlist "const char *const" to avoid problems under
329 FreeBSD. Resulted from report by jher@eden.com.
331 v0.0.6 Fri Apr 28 04:07:13 PDT 1995
333 - Add missing variable declaration missing from 0.0.6
335 v0.0.5 Fri Apr 28 00:22:21 PDT 1995
337 - Workaround for problems when pcap_read() returns 0 due to the timeout
340 v0.0.4 Thu Apr 20 20:41:48 PDT 1995
342 - Change configuration to not use gcc v2 flags with gcc v1.
344 - Fixed a bug in pcap_next(); if pcap_dispatch() returns 0, pcap_next()
345 should also return 0. Thanks to Richard Stevens (rstevens@noao.edu).
347 - Fixed configure to test for snoop before dlpi to avoid problems under
348 IRIX 5. Thanks to J. Eric Townsend (jet@abulafia.genmagic.com).
350 - Hack around deficiency in Ultrix's make.
352 - Fix two bugs related to the Solaris pre-5.3.2 bufmod bug; handle
353 savefiles that have more than snapshot bytes of data in them (so we
354 can read old savefiles) and avoid writing such files.
356 - Added checkioctl which is used with gcc to check that the
357 "fixincludes" script has been run.
359 v0.0.3 Tue Oct 18 18:13:46 PDT 1994
361 - Fixed configure to test for snoop before dlpi to avoid problems under
362 IRIX 5. Thanks to J. Eric Townsend (jet@abulafia.genmagic.com).
364 v0.0.2 Wed Oct 12 20:56:37 PDT 1994
366 - Implement timeout in the dlpi pcap_open_live(). Thanks to Richard
369 - Determine pcap link type from dlpi media type. Resulted from report
370 by Mahesh Jethanandani (mahesh@npix.com).
372 v0.0.1 Fri Jun 24 14:50:57 PDT 1994
374 - Fixed bug in nit_setflags() in pcap-snit.c. The streams ioctl timeout
375 wasn't being initialized sometimes resulting in an "NIOCSFLAGS:
376 Invalid argument" error under OSF/1. Reported by Matt Day
377 (mday@artisoft.com) and Danny Mitzel (dmitzel@whitney.hitc.com).
379 - Turn on FDDI support by default.
381 v0.0 Mon Jun 20 19:20:16 PDT 1994
385 - Fixed bug with greater/less keywords, reported by Mark Andrews
386 (mandrews@alias.com).
388 - Fix bug where '|' was defined as BPF_AND instead of BPF_OR, reported
389 by Elan Amir (elan@leeb.cs.berkeley.edu).
391 - Machines with little-endian byte ordering are supported thanks to
394 - Add hack for version 2.3 savefiles which don't have caplen and len
395 swapped thanks to Vern Paxson.
397 - Added "&&" and "||" aliases for "and" and "or" thanks to Vern Paxson.
399 - Added length, inbound and outbound keywords.