Thu. April 1, 2010. guy@alum.mit.edu. Summary for 1.1.1 libpcap release Update CHANGES to reflect more of the changes in 1.1.0. Fix build on RHEL5. Fix shared library build on AIX. Thu. March 11, 2010. ken@netfunctional.ca/guy@alum.mit.edu. Summary for 1.1.0 libpcap release Add SocketCAN capture support Add Myricom SNF API support Update Endace DAG and ERF support Add support for shared libraries on Solaris, HP-UX, and AIX Build, install, and un-install shared libraries by default; don't build/install shared libraries on platforms we don't support Fix building from a directory other than the source directory Fix compiler warnings and builds on some platforms Update config.guess and config.sub Support monitor mode on mac80211 devices on Linux Fix USB memory-mapped capturing on Linux; it requires a new DLT_ value On Linux, scan /sys/class/net for devices if we have it; scan it, or /proc/net/dev if we don't have /sys/class/net, even if we have getifaddrs(), as it'll find interfaces with no addresses Add limited support for reading pcap-ng files Fix BPF driver-loading error handling on AIX Support getting the full-length interface description on FreeBSD In the lexical analyzer, free up any addrinfo structure we got back from getaddrinfo(). Add support for BPF and libdlpi in OpenSolaris (and SXCE) Hyphenate "link-layer" everywhere Add /sys/kernel/debug/usb/usbmon to the list of usbmon locations In pcap_read_linux_mmap(), if there are no frames available, call poll() even if we're in non-blocking mode, so we pick up errors, and check for the errors in question. Note that poll() works on BPF devices is Snow Leopard If an ENXIO or ENETDOWN is received, it may mean the device has gone away. Deal with it. For BPF, raise the default capture buffer size to from 32k to 512k Support ps_ifdrop on Linux Added a bunch of #ifdef directives to make wpcap.dll (WinPcap) compile under cygwin. Changes to Linux mmapped captures. Fix bug where create_ring would fail for particular snaplen and buffer size combinations Update pcap-config so that it handles libpcap requiring additional libraries Add workaround for threadsafeness on Windows Add missing mapping for DLT_ENC <-> LINKTYPE_ENC DLT: Add DLT_CAN_SOCKETCAN DLT: Add Solaris ipnet Don't check for DLT_IPNET if it's not defined Add link-layer types for Fibre Channel FC-2 Add link-layer types for Wireless HART Add link-layer types for AOS Add link-layer types for DECT Autoconf fixes (AIX, HP-UX, OSF/1, Tru64 cleanups) Install headers unconditionally, and include vlan.h/bluetooth.h if enabled Autoconf fixes+cleanup Support enabling/disabling bluetooth (--{en,dis}able-bluetooth) Support disabling SITA support (--without-sita) Return -1 on failure to create packet ring (if supported but creation failed) Fix handling of 'any' device, so that it can be opened, and no longer attempt to open it in Monitor mode Add support for snapshot length for USB Memory-Mapped Interface Fix configure and build on recent Linux kernels Fix memory-mapped Linux capture to support pcap_next() and pcap_next_ex() Fixes for Linux USB capture DLT: Add DLT_LINUX_EVDEV DLT: Add DLT_GSMTAP_UM DLT: Add DLT_GSMTAP_ABIS Mon. October 27, 2008. ken@netfunctional.ca. Summary for 1.0.0 libpcap release Compile with IPv6 support by default Compile with large file support on by default Add pcap-config script, which deals with -I/-L flags for compiling DLT: Add IPMB DLT: Add LAPD DLT: Add AX25 (AX.25 w/KISS header) DLT: Add JUNIPER_ST 802.15.4 support Variable length 802.11 header support X2E data type support SITA ACN Interface support - see README.sita Support for memory-mapped capture on Linux Support for zerocopy BPF on platforms that support it Support for setting buffer size when opening devices Support for setting monitor mode when opening 802.11 devices Better support for dealing with VLAN tagging/stripping on Linux Fix dynamic library support on OSX Return PCAP_ERROR_IFACE_NOT_UP if the interface isn't 'UP', so applications can print better diagnostic information Return PCAP_ERROR_PERM_DENIED if we don't have permission to open a device, so applications can tell the user they need to go play with permissions On Linux, ignore ENETDOWN so we can continue to capture packets if the interface goes down and comes back up again. On Linux, support new tpacket frame headers (2.6.27+) On Mac OS X, add scripts for changing permissions on /dev/bpf* and launchd plist On Solaris, support 'passive mode' on systems that support it Fixes to autoconf and general build environment Man page reorganization + cleanup Autogenerate VERSION numbers better Mon. September 10, 2007. ken@xelerance.com. Summary for 0.9.8 libpcap release Change build process to put public libpcap headers into pcap subir DLT: Add value for IPMI IPMB packets DLT: Add value for u10 Networks boards Require for pf definitions - allows reading of pflog formatted libpcap files on an OS other than where the file was generated 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 - 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 - 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.