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diff --git a/lib/libpcap/libpcap/CHANGES b/lib/libpcap/libpcap/CHANGES new file mode 100644 index 0000000..89e739c --- /dev/null +++ b/lib/libpcap/libpcap/CHANGES @@ -0,0 +1,988 @@ +Sunday, July 22, 2018 + Summary for 1.9.1 libpcap release + Mention pcap_get_required_select_timeout() in the main pcap man page + Fix pcap-usb-linux.c build on systems with musl + Fix assorted man page and other documentation issues + Plug assorted memory leaks + Documentation changes to use https: + Changes to how time stamp calculations are done + Lots of tweaks to make newer compilers happier and warning-free and + to fix instances of C undefined behavior + Warn if AC_PROG_CC_C99 can't enable C99 support + Rename pcap_set_protocol() to pcap_set_protocol_linux(). + Align pcap_t private data on an 8-byte boundary. + Fix various error messages + Use 64-bit clean API in dag_findalldevs() + Fix cleaning up after some errors + Work around some ethtool ioctl bugs in newer Linux kernels (GitHub + issue #689) + Add backwards compatibility sections to some man pages (GitHub issue + #745) + Fix autotool configuration on AIX and macOS + Don't export bpf_filter_with_aux_data() or struct bpf_aux_data; + they're internal-only and subject to change + Fix pcapng block size checking + On macOS, don't build rpcapd or test programs any fatter than they + need to be + Fix reading of capture statistics for Linux USB + Fix packet size values for Linux USB packets (GitHub issue #808) + Check only VID in VLAN test in filterss (GitHub issue #461) + Fix pcap_list_datalinks on 802.11 devices on macOS + Fix overflows with very large snapshot length in pcap file + Improve parsing of rpcapd configuration file (GitHub issue #767) + Handle systems without strlcpy() or strlcat() better + Fix crashes and other errors with invalid filter expressions + Fix use of uninitialized file descriptor in remote capture + Fix some CMake issues + Fix some divide-by-zero issues with the filter compiler + Work around a GNU libc bug in pcap_nametonetaddr() + Add support for DLT_LINUX_SLL2 + Fix handling of the packet-count argument for Myricom SNF devices + Fix --disable-rdma in configure script (GitHub issue #782) + Fix compilation of TurboCap support (GitHub issue #764) + Constify first argument to pcap_findalldevs_ex() + Fix a number of issues when running rpcapd as an inetd-style daemon + Fix CMake issues with D-Bus libraries + In rpcapd, clean up termination of a capture session + Redo remote capture protocol negotiation + In rpcapd, report the same error for "invalid user name" and + "invalid password", to make brute-forcing harder + For remote captures, add an error code for "the server requires TLS" + Fix pcap_dump_fopen() on Windows to avoid clashes between + {Win,N}Pcap and application C runtimes + Fix exporting of functions from Windows DLLs (GitHub issue #810) + Fix building as part of Npcap + Allow rpcapd to rebind more rapidly + Fix building shared libpcap library on midipix (midipix.org) + Fix hack to detect UTF-16LE adapter names on Windows not to go past + the end of the string + Fix handling of "wireless WAN" (mobile phone network modems) on + Windows with WinPcap/Npcap (GitHub issue #824) + Have pcap_dump_open_append() create the dump file if it doesn't + exists (GitHub issue #247) + Fix the maxmum snapshot length for DLT_USBPCAP + Use -fPIC when building for 64-bit SPARC on Linux (GitHub issue #837) + Fix CMake 64-bit library installation directory on some Linux + distributions + Boost the TPACKET_V3 timeout to the maximum if a timeout of 0 was + specified + Five CVE-2019-15161, CVE-2019-15162, CVE-2019-15163, CVE-2019-15164, CVE-2019-15165 + Fixes for CVE-2018-16301, errors in pcapng reading. + PCAPNG reader applies some sanity checks before doing malloc(). + +Sunday, June 24, 2018, by mcr@sandelman.ca + Summary for 1.9.0 libpcap release + Added testing system to libpcap, independent of tcpdump + Changes to how pcap_t is activated + Adding support for Large stream buffers on Endace DAG cards + Changes to BSD 3-clause license to 2-clause licence + Additions to TCP header parsing, per RFC3168 + Add CMake build process (extensive number of changes) + Assign a value for OpenBSD DLT_OPENFLOW. + Support setting non-blocking mode before activating. + Extensive build support for Windows VS2010 and MINGW (many many changes, over many months) + Added RPCAPD support when --enable-remote (default no) + Add the rpcap daemon source and build instructions. + Put back the greasy "save the capture filter string so we can tweak it" + hack, that keeps libpcap from capturing rpcap traffic. + Fixes for captures on MacOS, utun0 + fixes so that non-AF_INET addresses, are not ==AF_INET6 addresses. + Add a linktype for IBM SDLC frames containing SNA PDUs. + pcap_compile() in 1.8.0 and later is newly thread-safe. + bound snaplen for linux tpacket_v2 to ~64k + Make VLAN filter handle both metadata and inline tags + D-Bus captures can now be up to 128MB in size + Added LORATAP DLT value + Added DLT_VSOCK for http://qemu-project.org/Features/VirtioVsock + probe_devices() fixes not to overrun buffer for name of device + Add linux-specific pcap_set_protocol_linux() to allow specifying a specific capture protocol. + RDMA sniffing support for pcap + Add Nordic Semiconductor Bluetooth LE sniffer link-layer header type. + fixes for reading /etc/ethers + Make it possible to build on Windows without packet.dll. + Add tests for large file support on UN*X. + Solaris fixes to work with 2.8.6 + configuration test now looks for header files, not capture devices present + Fix to work with Berkeley YACC. + fixes for DragonBSD compilation of pcap-netmap.c + Clean up the ether_hostton() stuff. + Add an option to disable Linux memory-mapped capture support. + Add DAG API support checks. + Add Septel, Myricom SNF, and Riverbed TurboCap checks. + Add checks for Linux USB, Linux Bluetooth, D-Bus, and RDMA sniffing support. + Add a check for hardware time stamping on Linux. + Don't bother supporting pre-2005 Visual Studio. + Increased minimum autoconf version requirement to 2.64 + Add DLT value 273 for XRA-31 sniffer + Clean up handing of signal interrupts in pcap_read_nocb_remote(). + Use the XPG 4.2 versions of the networking APIs in Solaris. + Fix, and better explain, the "IPv6 means IPv6, not IPv4" option setting. + Explicitly warn that negative packet buffer timeouts should not be used. + rpcapd: Add support inetd-likes, including xinetd.conf, and systemd units + Rename DLT_IEEE802_15_4 to DLT_IEEE802_15_4_WITHFCS. + Add DISPLAYPORT AUX link type + Remove the sunos4 kernel modules and all references to them. + Add more interface flags to pcap_findalldevs(). + Summary for 1.9.0 libpcap release (to 2017-01-25 by guy@alum.mit.edu) + Man page improvements + Fix Linux cooked mode userspace filtering (GitHub pull request #429) + Fix compilation if IPv6 support not enabled + Fix some Linux memory-mapped capture buffer size issues + Don't fail if kernel filter can't be set on Linux (GitHub issue + #549) + Improve sorting of interfaces for pcap_findalldevs() + Don't list Linux usbmon devices if usbmon module isn't loaded + Report PCAP_ERROR_PERM_DENIED if no permission to open Linux usbmon + devices + Fix DLT_ type for Solaris IPNET devices + Always return an error message for errors finding DAG or Myricom + devices + If possible, don't require that a device be openable when + enumerating them for pcap_findalldevs() + Don't put incompletely-initialized addresses in the address list for + When finding Myricom devices, update description for regular + interfaces that are Myricom devices and handle SNF_FLAGS=0x2(port + aggregation enabled) + Fix compilation error in DAG support + Fix issues with CMake configuration + Add support for stream buffers larger than 2GB on newer DAG cards + Remove support for building against DAG versions without STREAMS + support (before dag-3.0.0 2007) + +Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2016 mcr@sandelman.ca + Summary for 1.8.1 libpcap release + Add a target in Makefile.in for Exuberant Ctags use: 'extags'. + Rename configure.in to configure.ac: autoconf 2.59 + Clean up the name-to-DLT mapping table. + Add some newer DLT_ values: IPMI_HPM_2,ZWAVE_R1_R2,ZWAVE_R3,WATTSTOPPER_DLM,ISO_14443,RDS + Clarify what the return values are for both success and failure. + Many changes to build on windows + Check for the "break the loop" condition in the inner loop for TPACKET_V3. + Fix handling of packet count in the TPACKET_V3 inner loop: GitHub issue #493. + Filter out duplicate looped back CAN frames. + Fix the handling of loopback filters for IPv6 packets. + Add a link-layer header type for RDS (IEC 62106) groups. + Use different intermediate folders for x86 and x64 builds on Windows. + On Linux, handle all CAN captures with pcap-linux.c, in cooked mode. + Removes the need for the "host-endian" link-layer header type. + Compile with '-Wused-but-marked-unused' in devel mode if supported + Have separate DLTs for big-endian and host-endian SocketCAN headers. + Reflect version.h being renamed to pcap_version.h. + Require that version.h be generated: all build procedures we support generate version.h (autoconf, CMake, MSVC)! + Properly check for sock_recv() errors. + Re-impose some of Winsock's limitations on sock_recv(). + Replace sprintf() with pcap_snprintf(). + Fix signature of pcap_stats_ex_remote(). + Initial cmake support for remote packet capture. + Have rpcap_remoteact_getsock() return a SOCKET and supply an "is active" flag. + Clean up {DAG, Septel, Myricom SNF}-only builds. + Do UTF-16-to-ASCII conversion into the right place. + pcap_create_interface() needs the interface name on Linux. + Clean up hardware time stamp support: the "any" device does not support any time stamp types. + Add support for capturing on FreeBSD usbusN interfaces. + Add a LINKTYPE/DLT_ value for FreeBSD USB. + Go back to using PCAP_API on Windows. + CMake support + Add TurboCap support from WinPcap. + Recognize 802.1ad nested VLAN tag in vlan filter. + +Thursday Sep. 3, 2015 guy@alum.mit.edu + Summary for 1.7.5 libpcap release + Man page cleanups. + Add some allocation failure checks. + Fix a number of Linux/ucLinux configure/build issues. + Fix some memory leaks. + Recognize 802.1ad nested VLAN tag in vlan filter. + Fix building Bluetooth Linux Monitor support with BlueZ 5.1+ + +Saturday Jun. 27, 2015 mcr@sandelman.ca + Summary for 1.7.4 libpcap release + Include fix for GitHub issue #424 -- out of tree builds. + +Friday Apr. 10, 2015 guy@alum.mit.edu + Summary for 1.7.3 libpcap release + Work around a Linux bonding driver bug. + +Thursday Feb. 12, 2015 guy@alum.mit.edu/mcr@sandelman.ca + Summary for 1.7.2 libpcap release + Support for filtering Geneve encapsulated packets. + Generalize encapsulation handling, fixing some bugs. + Don't add null addresses to address lists. + Add pcap_dump_open_append() to open for appending. + Fix the swapping of isochronous descriptors in Linux USB. + Attempt to handle TPACKET_V1 with 32-bit userland and 64-bit kernel. + +Wednesday Nov. 12, 2014 guy@alum.mit.edu/mcr@sandelman.ca + Summary for 1.7.0 libpcap release + Fix handling of zones for BPF on Solaris + new DLT for ZWAVE + clarifications for read timeouts. + Use BPF extensions in compiled filters, fixing VLAN filters + some fixes to compilation without stdint.h + EBUSY can now be returned by SNFv3 code. + Fix the range checks in BPF loads + Various DAG fixes. + Various Linux fixes. + +Monday Aug. 12, 2014 guy@alum.mit.edu + Summary for 1.6.2 libpcap release + Don't crash on filters testing a non-existent link-layer type + field. + Fix sending in non-blocking mode on Linux with memory-mapped + capture. + Fix timestamps when reading pcap-ng files on big-endian + machines. + +Saturday Jul. 19, 2014 mcr@sandelman.ca + Summary for 1.6.1 libpcap release + some fixes for the any device + changes for how --enable-XXX (--enable-sniffing, --enable-can) works + +Wednesday Jul. 2, 2014 mcr@sandelman.ca + Summary for 1.6.0 libpcap release + Don't support D-Bus sniffing on OS X + fixes for byte order issues with NFLOG captures + Handle using cooked mode for DLT_NETLINK in activate_new(). + on platforms where you can not capture on down interfaces, do not list them + but: do list interfaces which are down, if you can capture on them! + +Wednesday December 18, 2013 guy@alum.mit.edu +Summary for 1.5.3 libpcap release + Don't let packets that don't match the current filter get to the + application when TPACKET_V3 is used. (GitHub issue #331) + Fix handling of pcap_loop()/pcap_dispatch() with a packet count + of 0 on some platforms (including Linux with TPACKET_V3). + (GitHub issue #333) + Work around TPACKET_V3 deficiency that causes packets to be lost + when a timeout of 0 is specified. (GitHub issue #335) + Man page formatting fixes. + +Wednesday December 4, 2013 guy@alum.mit.edu +Summary for 1.5.2 libpcap release + Fix libpcap to work when compiled with TPACKET_V3 support and + running on a kernel without TPACKET_V3 support. (GitHub + issue #329) + +Wednesday November 20, 2013 guy@alum.mit.edu +Summary for 1.5.1 libpcap release + Report an error, rather than crashing, if an IPv6 address is + used for link-layer filtering. (Wireshark bug 9376) + +Wednesday October 30, 2013 guy@alum.mit.edu +Summary for 1.5.0 libpcap release + TPACKET_V3 support added for Linux + Point users to the the-tcpdump-group repository on GitHub rather + than the mcr repository + Checks added for malloc()/realloc()/etc. failures + Fixed build on Solaris 11 + Support filtering filtering E1 SS7 traffic on MTP2 layer Annex A + Use "ln -s" to link man pages by default + Add support for getting nanosecond-resolution time stamps when + capturing and reading capture files + Many changes to autoconf to deal better with non-GCC compilers + added many new DLT types + +Saturday April 6, 2013 guy@alum.mit.edu +Summary for 1.4.0 libpcap release + Add netfilter/nfqueue interface. + If we don't have support for IPv6 address resolution, support, + in filter expressions, what IPv6 stuff we can. + Fix pcap-config to include -lpthread if canusb support is + present + Try to fix "pcap_parse not defined" problems when --without-flex + and --without-bison are used when you have Flex and Bison + Fix some issues with the pcap_loop man page. + Fix pcap_getnonblock() and pcap_setnonblock() to fill in the + supplied error message buffer + Fix typo that, it appeared, would cause pcap-libdlpi.c not to + compile (perhaps systems with libdlpi also have BPF and use + that instead) + Catch attempts to call pcap_compile() on a non-activated pcap_t + Fix crash on Linux with CAN-USB support without usbfs + Fix addition of VLAN tags for Linux cooked captures + Check for both EOPNOTSUPP and EINVAL after SIOCETHTOOL ioctl, so + that the driver can report either one if it doesn't support + SIOCETHTOOL + Add DLT_INFINIBAND and DLT_SCTP + Describe "proto XXX" and "protochain XXX" in the pcap-filter man + page + Handle either directories, or symlinks to directories, that + correspond to interfaces in /sys/class/net + Fix handling of VLAN tag insertion to check, on Linux 3.x + kernels, for VLAN tag valid flag + Clean up some man pages + Support libnl3 as well as libnl1 and libnl2 on Linux + Fix handling of Bluetooth devices on 3.x Linux kernels + +Friday March 30, 2012. mcr@sandelman.ca +Summary for 1.3.0 libpcap release + Handle DLT_PFSYNC in {FreeBSD, other *BSD+Mac OS X, other}. + Linux: Don't fail if netfilter isn't enabled in the kernel. + Add new link-layer type for NFC Forum LLCP. + Put the CANUSB stuff into EXTRA_DIST, so it shows up in the release tarball. + Add LINKTYPE_NG40/DLT_NG40. + Add DLT_MPEG_2_TS/LINKTYPE_MPEG_2_TS for MPEG-2 transport streams. + [PATCH] Fix AIX-3.5 crash with read failure during stress + AIX fixes. + Introduce --disable-shared configure option. + Added initial support for canusb devices. + Include the pcap(3PCAP) additions as 1.2.1 changes. + many updates to documentation: pcap.3pcap.in + Improve 'inbound'/'outbound' capture filters under Linux. + Note the cleanup of handling of new DLT_/LINKTYPE_ values. + On Lion, don't build for PPC. + For mac80211 devices we need to clean up monitor mode on exit. + +Friday December 9, 2011. guy@alum.mit.edu. +Summary for 1.2.1 libpcap release + Update README file. + Fix typoes in README.linux file. + Clean up some compiler warnings. + Fix Linux compile problems and tests for ethtool.h. + Treat Debian/kFreeBSD and GNU/Hurd as systems with GNU + toolchains. + Support 802.1 QinQ as a form of VLAN in filters. + Treat "carp" as equivalent to "vrrp" in filters. + Fix code generated for "ip6 protochain". + Add some new link-layer header types. + Support capturing NetFilter log messages on Linux. + Clean up some error messages. + Turn off monitor mode on exit for mac80211 interfaces on Linux. + Fix problems turning monitor mode on for non-mac80211 interfaces + on Linux. + Properly fail if /sys/class/net or /proc/net/dev exist but can't + be opened. + Fail if pcap_activate() is called on an already-activated + pcap_t, and add a test program for that. + Fix filtering in pcap-ng files. + Don't build for PowerPC on Mac OS X Lion. + Simplify handling of new DLT_/LINKTYPE_ values. + Expand pcap(3PCAP) man page. + +Sunday July 24, 2011. mcr@sandelman.ca. +Summary for 1.2 libpcap release + All of the changes listed below for 1.1.1 and 1.1.2. + Changes to error handling for pcap_findalldevs(). + Fix the calculation of the frame size in memory-mapped captures. + Add a link-layer header type for STANAG 5066 D_PDUs. + Add a link-layer type for a variant of 3GPP TS 27.010. + Noted real nature of LINKTYPE_ARCNET. + Add a link-layer type for DVB-CI. + Fix configure-script discovery of VLAN acceleration support. + see http://netoptimizer.blogspot.com/2010/09/tcpdump-vs-vlan-tags.html + Linux, HP-UX, AIX, NetBSD and OpenBSD compilation/conflict fixes. + Protect against including AIX 5.x's <net/bpf.h> having been included. + Add DLT_DBUS, for raw D-Bus messages. + Treat either EPERM or EACCES as "no soup for you". + Changes to permissions on DLPI systems. + Add DLT_IEEE802_15_4_NOFCS for 802.15.4 interfaces. + +Fri. August 6, 2010. guy@alum.mit.edu. +Summary for 1.1.2 libpcap release + Return DLT_ values, not raw LINKTYPE_ values from + pcap_datalink() when reading pcap-ng files + Add support for "wlan ra" and "wlan ta", to check the RA and TA + of WLAN frames that have them + Don't crash if "wlan addr{1,2,3,4}" are used without 802.11 + headers + Do filtering on USB and Bluetooth capturing + On FreeBSD/SPARC64, use -fPIC - it's apparently necessary + Check for valid port numbers (fit in a 16-bit unsigned field) in + "port" filters + Reject attempts to put savefiles into non-blocking mode + Check for "no such device" for the "get the media types" ioctl + in *BSD + Improve error messages from bpf_open(), and let it do the error + handling + Return more specific errors from pcap_can_set_rfmon(); fix + documentation + Update description fetching code for FreeBSD, fix code for + OpenBSD + Ignore /sys/net/dev files if we get ENODEV for them, not just + ENXIO; fixes handling of bonding devices on Linux + Fix check for a constant 0 argument to BPF_DIV + Use the right version of ar when cross-building + Free any filter set on a savefile when the savefile is closed + Include the CFLAGS setting when configure was run in the + compiler flags + Add support for 802.15.4 interfaces on Linux + +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 <net/pfvar.h> 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 <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. |