1Sunday, July 22, 2018 2 Summary for 1.9.1 libpcap release 3 Mention pcap_get_required_select_timeout() in the main pcap man page 4 Fix pcap-usb-linux.c build on systems with musl 5 Fix assorted man page and other documentation issues 6 Plug assorted memory leaks 7 Documentation changes to use https: 8 Changes to how time stamp calculations are done 9 Lots of tweaks to make newer compilers happier and warning-free and 10 to fix instances of C undefined behavior 11 Warn if AC_PROG_CC_C99 can't enable C99 support 12 Rename pcap_set_protocol() to pcap_set_protocol_linux(). 13 Align pcap_t private data on an 8-byte boundary. 14 Fix various error messages 15 Use 64-bit clean API in dag_findalldevs() 16 Fix cleaning up after some errors 17 Work around some ethtool ioctl bugs in newer Linux kernels (GitHub 18 issue #689) 19 Add backwards compatibility sections to some man pages (GitHub issue 20 #745) 21 Fix autotool configuration on AIX and macOS 22 Don't export bpf_filter_with_aux_data() or struct bpf_aux_data; 23 they're internal-only and subject to change 24 Fix pcapng block size checking 25 On macOS, don't build rpcapd or test programs any fatter than they 26 need to be 27 Fix reading of capture statistics for Linux USB 28 Fix packet size values for Linux USB packets (GitHub issue #808) 29 Check only VID in VLAN test in filterss (GitHub issue #461) 30 Fix pcap_list_datalinks on 802.11 devices on macOS 31 Fix overflows with very large snapshot length in pcap file 32 Improve parsing of rpcapd configuration file (GitHub issue #767) 33 Handle systems without strlcpy() or strlcat() better 34 Fix crashes and other errors with invalid filter expressions 35 Fix use of uninitialized file descriptor in remote capture 36 Fix some CMake issues 37 Fix some divide-by-zero issues with the filter compiler 38 Work around a GNU libc bug in pcap_nametonetaddr() 39 Add support for DLT_LINUX_SLL2 40 Fix handling of the packet-count argument for Myricom SNF devices 41 Fix --disable-rdma in configure script (GitHub issue #782) 42 Fix compilation of TurboCap support (GitHub issue #764) 43 Constify first argument to pcap_findalldevs_ex() 44 Fix a number of issues when running rpcapd as an inetd-style daemon 45 Fix CMake issues with D-Bus libraries 46 In rpcapd, clean up termination of a capture session 47 Redo remote capture protocol negotiation 48 In rpcapd, report the same error for "invalid user name" and 49 "invalid password", to make brute-forcing harder 50 For remote captures, add an error code for "the server requires TLS" 51 Fix pcap_dump_fopen() on Windows to avoid clashes between 52 {Win,N}Pcap and application C runtimes 53 Fix exporting of functions from Windows DLLs (GitHub issue #810) 54 Fix building as part of Npcap 55 Allow rpcapd to rebind more rapidly 56 Fix building shared libpcap library on midipix (midipix.org) 57 Fix hack to detect UTF-16LE adapter names on Windows not to go past 58 the end of the string 59 Fix handling of "wireless WAN" (mobile phone network modems) on 60 Windows with WinPcap/Npcap (GitHub issue #824) 61 Have pcap_dump_open_append() create the dump file if it doesn't 62 exists (GitHub issue #247) 63 Fix the maxmum snapshot length for DLT_USBPCAP 64 Use -fPIC when building for 64-bit SPARC on Linux (GitHub issue #837) 65 Fix CMake 64-bit library installation directory on some Linux 66 distributions 67 Boost the TPACKET_V3 timeout to the maximum if a timeout of 0 was 68 specified 69 Five CVE-2019-15161, CVE-2019-15162, CVE-2019-15163, CVE-2019-15164, CVE-2019-15165 70 Fixes for CVE-2018-16301, errors in pcapng reading. 71 PCAPNG reader applies some sanity checks before doing malloc(). 72 73Sunday, June 24, 2018, by mcr@sandelman.ca 74 Summary for 1.9.0 libpcap release 75 Added testing system to libpcap, independent of tcpdump 76 Changes to how pcap_t is activated 77 Adding support for Large stream buffers on Endace DAG cards 78 Changes to BSD 3-clause license to 2-clause licence 79 Additions to TCP header parsing, per RFC3168 80 Add CMake build process (extensive number of changes) 81 Assign a value for OpenBSD DLT_OPENFLOW. 82 Support setting non-blocking mode before activating. 83 Extensive build support for Windows VS2010 and MINGW (many many changes, over many months) 84 Added RPCAPD support when --enable-remote (default no) 85 Add the rpcap daemon source and build instructions. 86 Put back the greasy "save the capture filter string so we can tweak it" 87 hack, that keeps libpcap from capturing rpcap traffic. 88 Fixes for captures on MacOS, utun0 89 fixes so that non-AF_INET addresses, are not ==AF_INET6 addresses. 90 Add a linktype for IBM SDLC frames containing SNA PDUs. 91 pcap_compile() in 1.8.0 and later is newly thread-safe. 92 bound snaplen for linux tpacket_v2 to ~64k 93 Make VLAN filter handle both metadata and inline tags 94 D-Bus captures can now be up to 128MB in size 95 Added LORATAP DLT value 96 Added DLT_VSOCK for http://qemu-project.org/Features/VirtioVsock 97 probe_devices() fixes not to overrun buffer for name of device 98 Add linux-specific pcap_set_protocol_linux() to allow specifying a specific capture protocol. 99 RDMA sniffing support for pcap 100 Add Nordic Semiconductor Bluetooth LE sniffer link-layer header type. 101 fixes for reading /etc/ethers 102 Make it possible to build on Windows without packet.dll. 103 Add tests for large file support on UN*X. 104 Solaris fixes to work with 2.8.6 105 configuration test now looks for header files, not capture devices present 106 Fix to work with Berkeley YACC. 107 fixes for DragonBSD compilation of pcap-netmap.c 108 Clean up the ether_hostton() stuff. 109 Add an option to disable Linux memory-mapped capture support. 110 Add DAG API support checks. 111 Add Septel, Myricom SNF, and Riverbed TurboCap checks. 112 Add checks for Linux USB, Linux Bluetooth, D-Bus, and RDMA sniffing support. 113 Add a check for hardware time stamping on Linux. 114 Don't bother supporting pre-2005 Visual Studio. 115 Increased minimum autoconf version requirement to 2.64 116 Add DLT value 273 for XRA-31 sniffer 117 Clean up handing of signal interrupts in pcap_read_nocb_remote(). 118 Use the XPG 4.2 versions of the networking APIs in Solaris. 119 Fix, and better explain, the "IPv6 means IPv6, not IPv4" option setting. 120 Explicitly warn that negative packet buffer timeouts should not be used. 121 rpcapd: Add support inetd-likes, including xinetd.conf, and systemd units 122 Rename DLT_IEEE802_15_4 to DLT_IEEE802_15_4_WITHFCS. 123 Add DISPLAYPORT AUX link type 124 Remove the sunos4 kernel modules and all references to them. 125 Add more interface flags to pcap_findalldevs(). 126 Summary for 1.9.0 libpcap release (to 2017-01-25 by guy@alum.mit.edu) 127 Man page improvements 128 Fix Linux cooked mode userspace filtering (GitHub pull request #429) 129 Fix compilation if IPv6 support not enabled 130 Fix some Linux memory-mapped capture buffer size issues 131 Don't fail if kernel filter can't be set on Linux (GitHub issue 132 #549) 133 Improve sorting of interfaces for pcap_findalldevs() 134 Don't list Linux usbmon devices if usbmon module isn't loaded 135 Report PCAP_ERROR_PERM_DENIED if no permission to open Linux usbmon 136 devices 137 Fix DLT_ type for Solaris IPNET devices 138 Always return an error message for errors finding DAG or Myricom 139 devices 140 If possible, don't require that a device be openable when 141 enumerating them for pcap_findalldevs() 142 Don't put incompletely-initialized addresses in the address list for 143 When finding Myricom devices, update description for regular 144 interfaces that are Myricom devices and handle SNF_FLAGS=0x2(port 145 aggregation enabled) 146 Fix compilation error in DAG support 147 Fix issues with CMake configuration 148 Add support for stream buffers larger than 2GB on newer DAG cards 149 Remove support for building against DAG versions without STREAMS 150 support (before dag-3.0.0 2007) 151 152Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2016 mcr@sandelman.ca 153 Summary for 1.8.1 libpcap release 154 Add a target in Makefile.in for Exuberant Ctags use: 'extags'. 155 Rename configure.in to configure.ac: autoconf 2.59 156 Clean up the name-to-DLT mapping table. 157 Add some newer DLT_ values: IPMI_HPM_2,ZWAVE_R1_R2,ZWAVE_R3,WATTSTOPPER_DLM,ISO_14443,RDS 158 Clarify what the return values are for both success and failure. 159 Many changes to build on windows 160 Check for the "break the loop" condition in the inner loop for TPACKET_V3. 161 Fix handling of packet count in the TPACKET_V3 inner loop: GitHub issue #493. 162 Filter out duplicate looped back CAN frames. 163 Fix the handling of loopback filters for IPv6 packets. 164 Add a link-layer header type for RDS (IEC 62106) groups. 165 Use different intermediate folders for x86 and x64 builds on Windows. 166 On Linux, handle all CAN captures with pcap-linux.c, in cooked mode. 167 Removes the need for the "host-endian" link-layer header type. 168 Compile with '-Wused-but-marked-unused' in devel mode if supported 169 Have separate DLTs for big-endian and host-endian SocketCAN headers. 170 Reflect version.h being renamed to pcap_version.h. 171 Require that version.h be generated: all build procedures we support generate version.h (autoconf, CMake, MSVC)! 172 Properly check for sock_recv() errors. 173 Re-impose some of Winsock's limitations on sock_recv(). 174 Replace sprintf() with pcap_snprintf(). 175 Fix signature of pcap_stats_ex_remote(). 176 Initial cmake support for remote packet capture. 177 Have rpcap_remoteact_getsock() return a SOCKET and supply an "is active" flag. 178 Clean up {DAG, Septel, Myricom SNF}-only builds. 179 Do UTF-16-to-ASCII conversion into the right place. 180 pcap_create_interface() needs the interface name on Linux. 181 Clean up hardware time stamp support: the "any" device does not support any time stamp types. 182 Add support for capturing on FreeBSD usbusN interfaces. 183 Add a LINKTYPE/DLT_ value for FreeBSD USB. 184 Go back to using PCAP_API on Windows. 185 CMake support 186 Add TurboCap support from WinPcap. 187 Recognize 802.1ad nested VLAN tag in vlan filter. 188 189Thursday Sep. 3, 2015 guy@alum.mit.edu 190 Summary for 1.7.5 libpcap release 191 Man page cleanups. 192 Add some allocation failure checks. 193 Fix a number of Linux/ucLinux configure/build issues. 194 Fix some memory leaks. 195 Recognize 802.1ad nested VLAN tag in vlan filter. 196 Fix building Bluetooth Linux Monitor support with BlueZ 5.1+ 197 198Saturday Jun. 27, 2015 mcr@sandelman.ca 199 Summary for 1.7.4 libpcap release 200 Include fix for GitHub issue #424 -- out of tree builds. 201 202Friday Apr. 10, 2015 guy@alum.mit.edu 203 Summary for 1.7.3 libpcap release 204 Work around a Linux bonding driver bug. 205 206Thursday Feb. 12, 2015 guy@alum.mit.edu/mcr@sandelman.ca 207 Summary for 1.7.2 libpcap release 208 Support for filtering Geneve encapsulated packets. 209 Generalize encapsulation handling, fixing some bugs. 210 Don't add null addresses to address lists. 211 Add pcap_dump_open_append() to open for appending. 212 Fix the swapping of isochronous descriptors in Linux USB. 213 Attempt to handle TPACKET_V1 with 32-bit userland and 64-bit kernel. 214 215Wednesday Nov. 12, 2014 guy@alum.mit.edu/mcr@sandelman.ca 216 Summary for 1.7.0 libpcap release 217 Fix handling of zones for BPF on Solaris 218 new DLT for ZWAVE 219 clarifications for read timeouts. 220 Use BPF extensions in compiled filters, fixing VLAN filters 221 some fixes to compilation without stdint.h 222 EBUSY can now be returned by SNFv3 code. 223 Fix the range checks in BPF loads 224 Various DAG fixes. 225 Various Linux fixes. 226 227Monday Aug. 12, 2014 guy@alum.mit.edu 228 Summary for 1.6.2 libpcap release 229 Don't crash on filters testing a non-existent link-layer type 230 field. 231 Fix sending in non-blocking mode on Linux with memory-mapped 232 capture. 233 Fix timestamps when reading pcap-ng files on big-endian 234 machines. 235 236Saturday Jul. 19, 2014 mcr@sandelman.ca 237 Summary for 1.6.1 libpcap release 238 some fixes for the any device 239 changes for how --enable-XXX (--enable-sniffing, --enable-can) works 240 241Wednesday Jul. 2, 2014 mcr@sandelman.ca 242 Summary for 1.6.0 libpcap release 243 Don't support D-Bus sniffing on OS X 244 fixes for byte order issues with NFLOG captures 245 Handle using cooked mode for DLT_NETLINK in activate_new(). 246 on platforms where you can not capture on down interfaces, do not list them 247 but: do list interfaces which are down, if you can capture on them! 248 249Wednesday December 18, 2013 guy@alum.mit.edu 250Summary for 1.5.3 libpcap release 251 Don't let packets that don't match the current filter get to the 252 application when TPACKET_V3 is used. (GitHub issue #331) 253 Fix handling of pcap_loop()/pcap_dispatch() with a packet count 254 of 0 on some platforms (including Linux with TPACKET_V3). 255 (GitHub issue #333) 256 Work around TPACKET_V3 deficiency that causes packets to be lost 257 when a timeout of 0 is specified. (GitHub issue #335) 258 Man page formatting fixes. 259 260Wednesday December 4, 2013 guy@alum.mit.edu 261Summary for 1.5.2 libpcap release 262 Fix libpcap to work when compiled with TPACKET_V3 support and 263 running on a kernel without TPACKET_V3 support. (GitHub 264 issue #329) 265 266Wednesday November 20, 2013 guy@alum.mit.edu 267Summary for 1.5.1 libpcap release 268 Report an error, rather than crashing, if an IPv6 address is 269 used for link-layer filtering. (Wireshark bug 9376) 270 271Wednesday October 30, 2013 guy@alum.mit.edu 272Summary for 1.5.0 libpcap release 273 TPACKET_V3 support added for Linux 274 Point users to the the-tcpdump-group repository on GitHub rather 275 than the mcr repository 276 Checks added for malloc()/realloc()/etc. failures 277 Fixed build on Solaris 11 278 Support filtering filtering E1 SS7 traffic on MTP2 layer Annex A 279 Use "ln -s" to link man pages by default 280 Add support for getting nanosecond-resolution time stamps when 281 capturing and reading capture files 282 Many changes to autoconf to deal better with non-GCC compilers 283 added many new DLT types 284 285Saturday April 6, 2013 guy@alum.mit.edu 286Summary for 1.4.0 libpcap release 287 Add netfilter/nfqueue interface. 288 If we don't have support for IPv6 address resolution, support, 289 in filter expressions, what IPv6 stuff we can. 290 Fix pcap-config to include -lpthread if canusb support is 291 present 292 Try to fix "pcap_parse not defined" problems when --without-flex 293 and --without-bison are used when you have Flex and Bison 294 Fix some issues with the pcap_loop man page. 295 Fix pcap_getnonblock() and pcap_setnonblock() to fill in the 296 supplied error message buffer 297 Fix typo that, it appeared, would cause pcap-libdlpi.c not to 298 compile (perhaps systems with libdlpi also have BPF and use 299 that instead) 300 Catch attempts to call pcap_compile() on a non-activated pcap_t 301 Fix crash on Linux with CAN-USB support without usbfs 302 Fix addition of VLAN tags for Linux cooked captures 303 Check for both EOPNOTSUPP and EINVAL after SIOCETHTOOL ioctl, so 304 that the driver can report either one if it doesn't support 305 SIOCETHTOOL 306 Add DLT_INFINIBAND and DLT_SCTP 307 Describe "proto XXX" and "protochain XXX" in the pcap-filter man 308 page 309 Handle either directories, or symlinks to directories, that 310 correspond to interfaces in /sys/class/net 311 Fix handling of VLAN tag insertion to check, on Linux 3.x 312 kernels, for VLAN tag valid flag 313 Clean up some man pages 314 Support libnl3 as well as libnl1 and libnl2 on Linux 315 Fix handling of Bluetooth devices on 3.x Linux kernels 316 317Friday March 30, 2012. mcr@sandelman.ca 318Summary for 1.3.0 libpcap release 319 Handle DLT_PFSYNC in {FreeBSD, other *BSD+Mac OS X, other}. 320 Linux: Don't fail if netfilter isn't enabled in the kernel. 321 Add new link-layer type for NFC Forum LLCP. 322 Put the CANUSB stuff into EXTRA_DIST, so it shows up in the release tarball. 323 Add LINKTYPE_NG40/DLT_NG40. 324 Add DLT_MPEG_2_TS/LINKTYPE_MPEG_2_TS for MPEG-2 transport streams. 325 [PATCH] Fix AIX-3.5 crash with read failure during stress 326 AIX fixes. 327 Introduce --disable-shared configure option. 328 Added initial support for canusb devices. 329 Include the pcap(3PCAP) additions as 1.2.1 changes. 330 many updates to documentation: pcap.3pcap.in 331 Improve 'inbound'/'outbound' capture filters under Linux. 332 Note the cleanup of handling of new DLT_/LINKTYPE_ values. 333 On Lion, don't build for PPC. 334 For mac80211 devices we need to clean up monitor mode on exit. 335 336Friday December 9, 2011. guy@alum.mit.edu. 337Summary for 1.2.1 libpcap release 338 Update README file. 339 Fix typoes in README.linux file. 340 Clean up some compiler warnings. 341 Fix Linux compile problems and tests for ethtool.h. 342 Treat Debian/kFreeBSD and GNU/Hurd as systems with GNU 343 toolchains. 344 Support 802.1 QinQ as a form of VLAN in filters. 345 Treat "carp" as equivalent to "vrrp" in filters. 346 Fix code generated for "ip6 protochain". 347 Add some new link-layer header types. 348 Support capturing NetFilter log messages on Linux. 349 Clean up some error messages. 350 Turn off monitor mode on exit for mac80211 interfaces on Linux. 351 Fix problems turning monitor mode on for non-mac80211 interfaces 352 on Linux. 353 Properly fail if /sys/class/net or /proc/net/dev exist but can't 354 be opened. 355 Fail if pcap_activate() is called on an already-activated 356 pcap_t, and add a test program for that. 357 Fix filtering in pcap-ng files. 358 Don't build for PowerPC on Mac OS X Lion. 359 Simplify handling of new DLT_/LINKTYPE_ values. 360 Expand pcap(3PCAP) man page. 361 362Sunday July 24, 2011. mcr@sandelman.ca. 363Summary for 1.2 libpcap release 364 All of the changes listed below for 1.1.1 and 1.1.2. 365 Changes to error handling for pcap_findalldevs(). 366 Fix the calculation of the frame size in memory-mapped captures. 367 Add a link-layer header type for STANAG 5066 D_PDUs. 368 Add a link-layer type for a variant of 3GPP TS 27.010. 369 Noted real nature of LINKTYPE_ARCNET. 370 Add a link-layer type for DVB-CI. 371 Fix configure-script discovery of VLAN acceleration support. 372 see http://netoptimizer.blogspot.com/2010/09/tcpdump-vs-vlan-tags.html 373 Linux, HP-UX, AIX, NetBSD and OpenBSD compilation/conflict fixes. 374 Protect against including AIX 5.x's <net/bpf.h> having been included. 375 Add DLT_DBUS, for raw D-Bus messages. 376 Treat either EPERM or EACCES as "no soup for you". 377 Changes to permissions on DLPI systems. 378 Add DLT_IEEE802_15_4_NOFCS for 802.15.4 interfaces. 379 380Fri. August 6, 2010. guy@alum.mit.edu. 381Summary for 1.1.2 libpcap release 382 Return DLT_ values, not raw LINKTYPE_ values from 383 pcap_datalink() when reading pcap-ng files 384 Add support for "wlan ra" and "wlan ta", to check the RA and TA 385 of WLAN frames that have them 386 Don't crash if "wlan addr{1,2,3,4}" are used without 802.11 387 headers 388 Do filtering on USB and Bluetooth capturing 389 On FreeBSD/SPARC64, use -fPIC - it's apparently necessary 390 Check for valid port numbers (fit in a 16-bit unsigned field) in 391 "port" filters 392 Reject attempts to put savefiles into non-blocking mode 393 Check for "no such device" for the "get the media types" ioctl 394 in *BSD 395 Improve error messages from bpf_open(), and let it do the error 396 handling 397 Return more specific errors from pcap_can_set_rfmon(); fix 398 documentation 399 Update description fetching code for FreeBSD, fix code for 400 OpenBSD 401 Ignore /sys/net/dev files if we get ENODEV for them, not just 402 ENXIO; fixes handling of bonding devices on Linux 403 Fix check for a constant 0 argument to BPF_DIV 404 Use the right version of ar when cross-building 405 Free any filter set on a savefile when the savefile is closed 406 Include the CFLAGS setting when configure was run in the 407 compiler flags 408 Add support for 802.15.4 interfaces on Linux 409 410Thu. April 1, 2010. guy@alum.mit.edu. 411Summary for 1.1.1 libpcap release 412 Update CHANGES to reflect more of the changes in 1.1.0. 413 Fix build on RHEL5. 414 Fix shared library build on AIX. 415 416Thu. March 11, 2010. ken@netfunctional.ca/guy@alum.mit.edu. 417Summary for 1.1.0 libpcap release 418 Add SocketCAN capture support 419 Add Myricom SNF API support 420 Update Endace DAG and ERF support 421 Add support for shared libraries on Solaris, HP-UX, and AIX 422 Build, install, and un-install shared libraries by default; 423 don't build/install shared libraries on platforms we don't support 424 Fix building from a directory other than the source directory 425 Fix compiler warnings and builds on some platforms 426 Update config.guess and config.sub 427 Support monitor mode on mac80211 devices on Linux 428 Fix USB memory-mapped capturing on Linux; it requires a new DLT_ 429 value 430 On Linux, scan /sys/class/net for devices if we have it; scan 431 it, or /proc/net/dev if we don't have /sys/class/net, even if 432 we have getifaddrs(), as it'll find interfaces with no 433 addresses 434 Add limited support for reading pcap-ng files 435 Fix BPF driver-loading error handling on AIX 436 Support getting the full-length interface description on FreeBSD 437 In the lexical analyzer, free up any addrinfo structure we got back 438 from getaddrinfo(). 439 Add support for BPF and libdlpi in OpenSolaris (and SXCE) 440 Hyphenate "link-layer" everywhere 441 Add /sys/kernel/debug/usb/usbmon to the list of usbmon locations 442 In pcap_read_linux_mmap(), if there are no frames available, call 443 poll() even if we're in non-blocking mode, so we pick up 444 errors, and check for the errors in question. 445 Note that poll() works on BPF devices is Snow Leopard 446 If an ENXIO or ENETDOWN is received, it may mean the device has 447 gone away. Deal with it. 448 For BPF, raise the default capture buffer size to from 32k to 512k 449 Support ps_ifdrop on Linux 450 Added a bunch of #ifdef directives to make wpcap.dll (WinPcap) compile 451 under cygwin. 452 Changes to Linux mmapped captures. 453 Fix bug where create_ring would fail for particular snaplen and 454 buffer size combinations 455 Update pcap-config so that it handles libpcap requiring 456 additional libraries 457 Add workaround for threadsafeness on Windows 458 Add missing mapping for DLT_ENC <-> LINKTYPE_ENC 459 DLT: Add DLT_CAN_SOCKETCAN 460 DLT: Add Solaris ipnet 461 Don't check for DLT_IPNET if it's not defined 462 Add link-layer types for Fibre Channel FC-2 463 Add link-layer types for Wireless HART 464 Add link-layer types for AOS 465 Add link-layer types for DECT 466 Autoconf fixes (AIX, HP-UX, OSF/1, Tru64 cleanups) 467 Install headers unconditionally, and include vlan.h/bluetooth.h if 468 enabled 469 Autoconf fixes+cleanup 470 Support enabling/disabling bluetooth (--{en,dis}able-bluetooth) 471 Support disabling SITA support (--without-sita) 472 Return -1 on failure to create packet ring (if supported but 473 creation failed) 474 Fix handling of 'any' device, so that it can be opened, and no longer 475 attempt to open it in Monitor mode 476 Add support for snapshot length for USB Memory-Mapped Interface 477 Fix configure and build on recent Linux kernels 478 Fix memory-mapped Linux capture to support pcap_next() and 479 pcap_next_ex() 480 Fixes for Linux USB capture 481 DLT: Add DLT_LINUX_EVDEV 482 DLT: Add DLT_GSMTAP_UM 483 DLT: Add DLT_GSMTAP_ABIS 484 485Mon. October 27, 2008. ken@netfunctional.ca. Summary for 1.0.0 libpcap release 486 Compile with IPv6 support by default 487 Compile with large file support on by default 488 Add pcap-config script, which deals with -I/-L flags for compiling 489 DLT: Add IPMB 490 DLT: Add LAPD 491 DLT: Add AX25 (AX.25 w/KISS header) 492 DLT: Add JUNIPER_ST 493 802.15.4 support 494 Variable length 802.11 header support 495 X2E data type support 496 SITA ACN Interface support - see README.sita 497 Support for memory-mapped capture on Linux 498 Support for zerocopy BPF on platforms that support it 499 Support for setting buffer size when opening devices 500 Support for setting monitor mode when opening 802.11 devices 501 Better support for dealing with VLAN tagging/stripping on Linux 502 Fix dynamic library support on OSX 503 Return PCAP_ERROR_IFACE_NOT_UP if the interface isn't 'UP', so applications 504 can print better diagnostic information 505 Return PCAP_ERROR_PERM_DENIED if we don't have permission to open a device, so 506 applications can tell the user they need to go play with permissions 507 On Linux, ignore ENETDOWN so we can continue to capture packets if the 508 interface goes down and comes back up again. 509 On Linux, support new tpacket frame headers (2.6.27+) 510 On Mac OS X, add scripts for changing permissions on /dev/bpf* and launchd plist 511 On Solaris, support 'passive mode' on systems that support it 512 Fixes to autoconf and general build environment 513 Man page reorganization + cleanup 514 Autogenerate VERSION numbers better 515 516Mon. September 10, 2007. ken@xelerance.com. Summary for 0.9.8 libpcap release 517 Change build process to put public libpcap headers into pcap subir 518 DLT: Add value for IPMI IPMB packets 519 DLT: Add value for u10 Networks boards 520 Require <net/pfvar.h> for pf definitions - allows reading of pflog formatted 521 libpcap files on an OS other than where the file was generated 522 523Wed. April 25, 2007. ken@xelerance.com. Summary for 0.9.6 libpcap release 524 525 Put the public libpcap headers into a pcap subdirectory in both the 526 source directory and the target include directory, and have include 527 files at the top-level directory to include those headers, for 528 backwards compatibility. 529 Add Bluetooth support 530 Add USB capturing support on Linux 531 Add support for the binary USB sniffing interface in Linux 532 Add support for new FreeBSD BIOCSDIRECTION ioctl 533 Add additional filter operations for 802.11 frame types 534 Add support for filtering on MTP2 frame types 535 Propagate some changes from the main branch, so the x.9 branch has 536 all the DLT_ and LINKTYPE_ values that the main branch does 537 Reserved a DLT_ and SAVEFILE_ value for PPI (Per Packet Info) 538 encapsulated packets 539 Add LINKTYPE_ for IEEE 802.15.4, with address fields padded as done 540 by Linux drivers 541 Add LINKTYPE_ value corresponding to DLT_IEEE802_16_MAC_CPS. 542 Add DLT for IEEE 802.16 (WiMAX) MAC Common Part Sublayer 543 Add DLT for Bluetooth HCI UART transport layer 544 When building a shared library, build with "-fPIC" on Linux to support x86_64 545 Link with "$(CC) -shared" rather than "ld -shared" when building a 546 ".so" shared library 547 Add support for autoconf 2.60 548 Fixes to discard unread packets when changing filters 549 Changes to handle name changes in the DAG library resulting from 550 switching to libtool. 551 Add support for new DAG ERF types. 552 Add an explicit "-ldag" when building the shared library, so the DAG 553 library dependency is explicit. 554 Mac OSX fixes for dealing with "wlt" devices 555 Fixes in add_or_find_if() & pcap_findalldevs() to optimize generating 556 device lists 557 Fixed a bug in pcap_open_live(). The return value of PacketSetHwFilter 558 was not checked. 559 560Tue. September 19, 2006. ken@xelerance.com. Summary for 0.9.5 libpcap release 561 562 Support for LAPD frames with vISDN 563 Support for ERF on channelized T1/E1 cards via DAG API 564 Fix capitalization that caused issues crossc compiling on Linux 565 Better failure detection on PacketGetAdapterNames() 566 Fixes for MPLS packet generation (link layer) 567 OP_PACKET now matches the beginning of the packet, instead of 568 beginning+link-layer 569 Add DLT/LINKTYPE for carrying FRF.16 Multi-link Frame Relay 570 Fix allocation of buffer for list of link-layer types 571 Added a new DLT and LINKTYPE value for ARINC 653 Interpartition Communcation Messages 572 Fixed a typo in a DLT value: it should start with DLT_ and not LINKTYPE_ 573 Redefined DLT_CAN20B and LINKTYPE_CAN20B as #190 (as this is the right value for CAN). 574 Added definition for DLT_A429 and LINKTYPE_A429 as #184. 575 Added a new DLT and LINKTYPE value for CAN v2.0B frames. 576 Add support for DLT_JUNIPER_VP. 577 Don't double-count received packets on Linux systems that 578 support the PACKET_STATISTICS getsockopt() argument on 579 PF_PACKET sockets. 580 Add support for DLT_IEEE802_11 and DLT_IEEE802_11_RADIO link 581 layers in Windows 582 Add support to build libpcap.lib and wpcap.dll under Cygnus and 583 MingW32. 584 585Mon. September 5, 2005. ken@xelerance.com. Summary for 0.9.4 libpcap release 586 587 Support for radiotap on Linux (Mike Kershaw) 588 Fixes for HP-UX 589 Support for additional Juniper link-layer types 590 Fixes for filters on MPLS-encapsulated packets 591 "vlan" filter fixed 592 "pppoed" and "pppoes" filters added; the latter modifies later 593 parts of the filter expression to look at the PPP headers and 594 headers in the PPP payload 595 596Tue. July 5, 2005. ken@xelerance.com. Summary for 0.9.3 libpcap release 597 598 Fixes for compiling on nearly every platform, 599 including improved 64bit support 600 MSDOS Support 601 Add support for sending packets 602 OpenBSD pf format support 603 IrDA capture (Linux only) 604 605Tue. March 30, 2004. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 3.8.3 release 606 607 Fixed minor problem in gencode.c that would appear on 64-bit 608 platforms. 609 Version number is now sane. 610 611Mon. March 29, 2004. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 3.8.2 release 612 613 updates for autoconf 2.5 614 fixes for ppp interfaces for freebsd 4.1 615 pcap gencode can generate code for 802.11, IEEE1394, and pflog. 616 617Wed. November 12, 2003. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 0.8 release 618 619 added pcap_findalldevs() 620 Win32 patches from NetGroup, Politecnico di Torino (Italy) 621 OpenBSD pf, DLT_PFLOG added 622 Many changes to ATM support. 623 lookup pcap_lookupnet() 624 Added DLT_ARCNET_LINUX, DLT_ENC, DLT_IEEE802_11_RADIO, DLT_SUNATM, 625 DLT_IP_OVER_FC, DLT_FRELAY, others. 626 Sigh. More AIX wonderfulness. 627 Document updates. 628 Changes to API: pcap_next_ex(), pcap_breakloop(), pcap_dump_flush(), 629 pcap_list_datalinks(), pcap_set_datalink(), 630 pcap_lib_version(), pcap_datalink_val_to_name(), 631 pcap_datalink_name_to_val(), new error returns. 632 633Tuesday, February 25, 2003. fenner@research.att.com. 0.7.2 release 634 635 Support link types that use 802.2 always, never, and sometimes. 636 Don't decrease the size of the BPF buffer from the default. 637 Support frame relay. 638 Handle 32-bit timestamps in DLPI, and pass the right buffer size. 639 Handle Linux systems with modern kernel but without 640 SOL_PACKET in the userland headers. 641 Linux support for ARPHRD_RAWHDLC. 642 Handle 32-bit timestamps in snoop. 643 Support eg (Octane/O2xxx/O3xxx Gigabit) devices. 644 Add new reserved DLT types. 645 646Monday October 23, 2001. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 0.7 release 647 648 Added pcap_findalldevs() call to get list of interfaces in a MI way. 649 650 pcap_stats() has been documented as to what its counters mean on 651 each platform. 652 653Tuesday January 9, 2001. guy@alum.mit.edu. Summary for 0.6 release 654 655 New Linux libpcap implementation, which, in 2.2 and later 656 kernels, uses PF_PACKET sockets and supports kernel packet 657 filtering (if compiled into the kernel), and supports the "any" 658 device for capturing on all interfaces. Cleans up promiscuous 659 mode better on pre-2.2 kernels, and has various other fixes 660 (handles 2.4 ARPHRD_IEEE802_TR, handles ISDN devices better, 661 doesn't show duplicate packets on loopback interface, etc.). 662 663 Fixed HP-UX libpcap implementation to correctly get the PPA for 664 an interface, to allow interfaces to be opened by interface name. 665 666 libpcap savefiles have system-independent link-layer type values 667 in the header, rather than sometimes platform-dependent DLT_ 668 values, to make it easier to exchange capture files between 669 different OSes. 670 671 Non-standard capture files produced by some Linux tcpdumps, e.g. 672 the one from Red Hat Linux 6.2 and later, can now be read. 673 674 Updated autoconf stock files. 675 676 Filter expressions can filter on VLAN IDs and various OSI 677 protocols, and work on Token Ring (with non-source-routed 678 packets). 679 680 "pcap_open_dead()" added to allow compiling filter expressions 681 to pcap code without opening a capture device or capture file. 682 683 Header files fixed to allow use in C++ programs. 684 685 Removed dependancy on native headers for packet layout. 686 Removed Linux specific headers that were shipped. 687 688 Security fixes: Strcpy replaced with strlcpy, sprintf replaced 689 with snprintf. 690 691 Fixed bug that could cause subsequent "pcap_compile()"s to fail 692 erroneously after one compile failed. 693 694 Assorted other bug fixes. 695 696 README.aix and README.linux files added to describe 697 platform-specific issues. 698 699 "getifaddrs()" rather than SIOCGIFCONF used, if available. 700 701v0.5 Sat Jun 10 11:09:15 PDT 2000 702 703itojun@iijlab.net 704- Brought in KAME IPv6/IPsec bpf compiler. 705- Fixes for NetBSD. 706- Support added for OpenBSD DLT_LOOP and BSD/OS DLT_C_HDLC (Cisco HDLC), 707 and changes to work around different BSDs having different DLT_ types 708 with the same numeric value. 709 710Assar Westerlund <assar@sics.se> 711- Building outside the source code tree fixed. 712- Changed to write out time stamps with 32-bit seconds and microseconds 713 fields, regardless of whether those fields are 32 bits or 64 bits in 714 the OS's native "struct timeval". 715- Changed "pcap_lookupdev()" to dynamically grow the buffer into which 716 the list of interfaces is read as necessary in order to hold the 717 entire list. 718 719Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com> 720- Added a new "pcap_compile_nopcap()", which lets you compile a filter 721 expression into a BPF program without having an open live capture or 722 capture file. 723 724v0.4 Sat Jul 25 12:40:09 PDT 1998 725 726- Fix endian problem with DLT_NULL devices. From FreeBSD via Bill 727 Fenner (fenner@parc.xerox.com) 728 729- Fix alignment problem with FDDI under DLPI. This was causing core 730 dumps under Solaris. 731 732- Added configure options to disable flex and bison. Resulted from a 733 bug report by barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett). Also added 734 options to disable gcc and to force a particular packet capture type. 735 736- Added support for Fore ATM interfaces (qaa and fa) under IRIX. Thanks 737 to John Hawkinson (jhawk@mit.edu) 738 739- Change Linux PPP and SLIP to use DLT_RAW since the kernel does not 740 supply any "link layer" data. 741 742- Change Linux to use SIOCGIFHWADDR ioctl to determine link layer type. 743 Thanks to Thomas Sailer (sailer@ife.ee.ethz.ch) 744 745- Change IRIX PPP to use DLT_RAW since the kernel does not supply any 746 "link layer" data. 747 748- Modified to support the new BSD/OS 2.1 PPP and SLIP link layer header 749 formats. 750 751- Added some new SGI snoop interface types. Thanks to Steve Alexander 752 (sca@refugee.engr.sgi.com) 753 754- Fixes for HP-UX 10.20 (which is similar to HP-UX 9). Thanks to 755 Richard Allen (ra@hp.is) and Steinar Haug (sthaug@nethelp.no) 756 757- Fddi supports broadcast as reported by Jeff Macdonald 758 (jeff@iacnet.com). Also correct ieee802 and arcnet. 759 760- Determine Linux pcap buffer size at run time or else it might not be 761 big enough for some interface types (e.g. FDDI). Thanks to Jes 762 Sorensen (Jes.Sorensen@cern.ch) 763 764- Fix some linux alignment problems. 765 766- Document promisc argument to pcap_open_live(). Reported by Ian Marsh 767 (ianm@sics.se) 768 769- Support Metricom radio packets under Linux. Thanks to Kevin Lai 770 (laik@gunpowder.stanford.edu) 771 772- Bind to interface name under Linux to avoid packets from multiple 773 interfaces on multi-homed hosts. Thanks to Kevin Lai 774 (laik@gunpowder.stanford.edu) 775 776- Change L_SET to SEEK_SET for HP-UX. Thanks to Roland Roberts 777 (rroberts@muller.com) 778 779- Fixed an uninitialized memory reference found by Kent Vander Velden 780 (graphix@iastate.edu) 781 782- Fixed lex pattern for IDs to allow leading digits. As reported by 783 Theo de Raadt (deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org) 784 785- Fixed Linux include file problems when using GNU libc. 786 787- Ifdef ARPHRD_FDDI since not all versions of the Linux kernel have it. 788 Reported reported by Eric Jacksch (jacksch@tenebris.ca) 789 790- Fixed bug in pcap_dispatch() that kept it from returning on packet 791 timeouts. 792 793- Changed ISLOOPBACK() macro when IFF_LOOPBACK isn't available to check 794 for "lo" followed by an eos or digit (newer versions of Linux 795 apparently call the loopback "lo" instead of "lo0"). 796 797- Fixed Linux networking include files to use ints instead of longs to 798 avoid problems with 64 bit longs on the alpha. Thanks to Cristian 799 Gafton (gafton@redhat.com) 800 801v0.3 Sat Nov 30 20:56:27 PST 1996 802 803- Added Linux support. 804 805- Fixed savefile bugs. 806 807- Solaris x86 fix from Tim Rylance (t.rylance@elsevier.nl) 808 809- Add support for bpf kernel port filters. 810 811- Remove duplicate atalk protocol table entry. Thanks to Christian 812 Hopps (chopps@water.emich.edu) 813 814- Fixed pcap_lookupdev() to ignore nonexistent devices. This was 815 reported to happen under BSD/OS by David Vincenzetti 816 (vince@cryptonet.it) 817 818- Avoid solaris compiler warnings. Thanks to Bruce Barnett 819 (barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com) 820 821v0.2.1 Sun Jul 14 03:02:26 PDT 1996 822 823- Fixes for HP-UX 10. Thanks in part to to Thomas Wolfram 824 (wolf@prz.tu-berlin.de) and Rick Jones (raj@hpisrdq.cup.hp.com) 825 826- Added support for SINIX. Thanks to Andrej Borsenkow 827 (borsenkow.msk@sni.de) 828 829- Fixes for AIX (although this system is not yet supported). Thanks to 830 John Hawkinson (jhawk@mit.edu) 831 832- Use autoconf's idea of the top level directory in install targets. 833 Thanks to John Hawkinson. 834 835- Add missing autoconf packet capture result message. Thanks to Bill 836 Fenner (fenner@parc.xerox.com) 837 838- Fixed padding problems in the pf module. 839 840- Fixed some more alignment problems on the alpha. 841 842- Added explicit netmask support. Thanks to Steve Nuchia 843 (steve@research.oknet.com) 844 845- Fixed to handle raw ip addresses such as 0.0.0.1 without "left 846 justifing" 847 848- Add "sca" keyword (for DEC cluster services) as suggested by Terry 849 Kennedy (terry@spcvxa.spc.edu) 850 851- Add "atalk" keyword as suggested by John Hawkinson. 852 853- Add "igrp" keyword. 854 855- Fixed HID definition in grammar.y to be a string, not a value. 856 857- Use $CC when checking gcc version. Thanks to Carl Lindberg 858 (carl_lindberg@blacksmith.com) 859 860- Removed obsolete reference to pcap_immediate() from the man page. 861 Michael Stolarchuk (mts@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu) 862 863- DLT_NULL has a 4 byte family header. Thanks to Jeffrey Honig 864 (jch@bsdi.com) 865 866v0.2 Sun Jun 23 02:28:42 PDT 1996 867 868- Add support for HP-UX. Resulted from code contributed by Tom Murray 869 (tmurray@hpindck.cup.hp.com) and Philippe-Andri Prindeville 870 (philipp@res.enst.fr) 871 872- Update INSTALL with a reminder to install include files. Thanks to 873 Mark Andrews (mandrews@aw.sgi.com) 874 875- Fix bpf compiler alignment bug on the alpha. 876 877- Use autoconf to detect architectures that can't handle misaligned 878 accesses. 879 880- Added loopback support for snoop. Resulted from report Steve 881 Alexander (sca@engr.sgi.com) 882 883v0.1 Fri Apr 28 18:11:03 PDT 1995 884 885- Fixed compiler and optimizer bugs. The BPF filter engine uses unsigned 886 comparison operators, while the code generator and optimizer assumed 887 signed semantics in several places. Thanks to Charlie Slater 888 (cslater@imatek.com) for pointing this out. 889 890- Removed FDDI ifdef's, they aren't really needed. Resulted from report 891 by Gary Veum (veum@boa.gsfc.nasa.gov). 892 893- Add pcap-null.c which allows offline use of libpcap on systems that 894 don't support live package capture. This feature resulting from a 895 request from Jan van Oorschot (j.p.m.voorschot@et.tudelft.nl). 896 897- Make bpf_compile() reentrant. Fix thanks to Pascal Hennequin 898 (Pascal.Hennequin@hugo.int-evry.fr). 899 900- Port to GNU autoconf. 901 902- Fix pcap-dlpi.c to work with isdn. Resulted from report by Flemming 903 Johansen (fsj@csd.cri.dk). 904 905- Handle multi-digit interface unit numbers (aka ppa's) under dlpi. 906 Resulted from report by Daniel Ehrlich (ehrlich@cse.psu.edu). 907 908- Fix pcap-dlpi.c to work in non-promiscuous mode. Resulted from report 909 by Jeff Murphy (jcmurphy@acsu.buffalo.edu). 910 911- Add support for "long jumps". Thanks to Jeffrey Mogul 912 (mogul@pa.dec.com). 913 914- Fix minor problems when compiling with BDEBUG as noticed by Scott 915 Bertilson (scott@unet.umn.edu). 916 917- Declare sys_errlist "const char *const" to avoid problems under 918 FreeBSD. Resulted from report by jher@eden.com. 919 920v0.0.6 Fri Apr 28 04:07:13 PDT 1995 921 922- Add missing variable declaration missing from 0.0.6 923 924v0.0.5 Fri Apr 28 00:22:21 PDT 1995 925 926- Workaround for problems when pcap_read() returns 0 due to the timeout 927 expiring. 928 929v0.0.4 Thu Apr 20 20:41:48 PDT 1995 930 931- Change configuration to not use gcc v2 flags with gcc v1. 932 933- Fixed a bug in pcap_next(); if pcap_dispatch() returns 0, pcap_next() 934 should also return 0. Thanks to Richard Stevens (rstevens@noao.edu). 935 936- Fixed configure to test for snoop before dlpi to avoid problems under 937 IRIX 5. Thanks to J. Eric Townsend (jet@abulafia.genmagic.com). 938 939- Hack around deficiency in Ultrix's make. 940 941- Fix two bugs related to the Solaris pre-5.3.2 bufmod bug; handle 942 savefiles that have more than snapshot bytes of data in them (so we 943 can read old savefiles) and avoid writing such files. 944 945- Added checkioctl which is used with gcc to check that the 946 "fixincludes" script has been run. 947 948v0.0.3 Tue Oct 18 18:13:46 PDT 1994 949 950- Fixed configure to test for snoop before dlpi to avoid problems under 951 IRIX 5. Thanks to J. Eric Townsend (jet@abulafia.genmagic.com). 952 953v0.0.2 Wed Oct 12 20:56:37 PDT 1994 954 955- Implement timeout in the dlpi pcap_open_live(). Thanks to Richard 956 Stevens. 957 958- Determine pcap link type from dlpi media type. Resulted from report 959 by Mahesh Jethanandani (mahesh@npix.com). 960 961v0.0.1 Fri Jun 24 14:50:57 PDT 1994 962 963- Fixed bug in nit_setflags() in pcap-snit.c. The streams ioctl timeout 964 wasn't being initialized sometimes resulting in an "NIOCSFLAGS: 965 Invalid argument" error under OSF/1. Reported by Matt Day 966 (mday@artisoft.com) and Danny Mitzel (dmitzel@whitney.hitc.com). 967 968- Turn on FDDI support by default. 969 970v0.0 Mon Jun 20 19:20:16 PDT 1994 971 972- Initial release. 973 974- Fixed bug with greater/less keywords, reported by Mark Andrews 975 (mandrews@alias.com). 976 977- Fix bug where '|' was defined as BPF_AND instead of BPF_OR, reported 978 by Elan Amir (elan@leeb.cs.berkeley.edu). 979 980- Machines with little-endian byte ordering are supported thanks to 981 Jeff Mogul. 982 983- Add hack for version 2.3 savefiles which don't have caplen and len 984 swapped thanks to Vern Paxson. 985 986- Added "&&" and "||" aliases for "and" and "or" thanks to Vern Paxson. 987 988- Added length, inbound and outbound keywords. 989