Changelog for EtherApe
$Date 2005/08/18 21:47:23 $
Overview of changes in EtherApe 0.9.3 (Thursday 8-18-2005):
- Fixes bug 1083524 (deletion of all user colors)
- Fixes
bug 1024944 (compilation on OSX). Thanks to Lars Eggert for the
patch.
- Fixes a bug with the legend handling (beware: on later gnomes the
legend could behave strangely if you use a binary package built for an
older gnome release)
Overview of changes in EtherApe 0.9.2 (Saturday 8-13-2005):
- New multithreaded name resolution using the standard resolver
api. Works with dns, /etc/host, ...
- Small fixes for gcc 4
- cvs cleanup
Overview of changes in EtherApe 0.9.1 (Wednesday 8-11-2004):
- Color-coded protocol dialog
- Some tweaks to compile with
newer distros
Overview of changes in
EtherApe 0.9.0(Saturday 01-03-2003):
- Gnome 2 preliminary
support, including a new option for an antialiased diagram.
- Gcc 3.2 compile support
- Some bug and potential bug
fixes
- New Turkish translation, by
Gôrkem Cetin
- Several fixes to assure
proper compilation with newer autotools
- Resolved memory bug by
limiting resolved names to 1024 entries and arranging them in a simple
LRU cache
Overview of changes in
EtherApe 0.8.2 (Sunday 08-12-2001):
- Fix from Dave Yearke to
bring back compilability to systems not defining DLT_LINUX_SLL
- Should fix node globbing on
screen under heavy loads
- Added dialogs for name
selection. The code behind the dialogs is not there yet, so don't
expect it to work
Overview of changes in
EtherApe 0.8.1 (Monday 08-06-2001):
- Added support for ISDN on
Linux (added support for linux cooked sockets in general). Thanks to
Ole Andreas Weel for providing the capture file.
- Removes some testing info
that was showing up when adding a new color to the color-protocols table
Overview of changes in
EtherApe 0.8.0 (Friday 08-03-2001):
- Added much requested color
selection dialog, to set and save your preferences for protocol coloring
- Fixes program not behaving
when using pause in live capture
- Fixes a potential crash when
deleting the font selection window using the window manager
Overview of changes in
EtherApe 0.7.8 (Friday 07-06-2001):
- Fixes device being left in
promiscuous mode at exit
Overview of changes in
EtherApe 0.7.7 (Friday 06-22-2001):
- Per mode name selection code
was not working. For instance, /etc/ethers was not being used in
ethernet mode. Fixed
- Fixes a crash triggered at
times when changing modes or restarting a capture
- Should fix a cluttering of
the display under heavy loads
- Removes a compilation
warning about floor not being declared
Overview of changes in
EtherApe 0.7.6 (Sunday 05-13-2001):
- Now you can decide if you
want to group unknown TCP and udp ports or not
- Can show IPX SAP resource
names in ethernet mode
- Added a good deal of new
protocols: ICQ, napster, DEC, LAT, IPX and many, many more. Remember
that you must set Ethernet mode in order to see non IP protocols
- You can select the columns
to display in the protocols window
- Pausing a live capture
doesn't drop packets (statistics will still be valid)
- Fixes mode setting from the
command line
Overview of changes in
EtherApe 0.7.5 (Friday 05-10-2001):
- Added more information to
the protocols window: instantenous traffic, last heard and number of
packets
- Greatly improves CPU usage,
should drop less packets in heavy loaded networks (increase refresh
period if you are more interested in truthful statistics)
- Double click a protocol in
the protocols window to get an individual window for that protocol (yet
to be filled with more data)
- Fixes a segfault introduced
in 0.7.4 triggered under heavy loads
Overview of changes in
EtherApe 0.7.4 (Wednesday 05-09-2001):
- Added support for RPC_REPLYs
and passive FTP. That's because EtherApe now understands the notion of
conversations
- Application is more
responsive now under heavy loads
- Fixed the CPU problem and
part of the leak that was introduced in 0.7.1
- Fixed CPU hogging when in
pause
- Fixed a segfault triggered
when a capture file was given first in the command line and later
through the GUI
Overview of changes in
EtherApe 0.7.3 (Tuesday 05-08-2001):
- Added ability to resize
columns and sort rows in the protocols window table
- Added a toolbar button and a
menu entry to call the protocols window
- Unregistered TCP and udp
ports now show as an unique protocol, instead of being summed up in
TCP_UNKNOWN and UDP_UNKNOWN
Overview of changes in
EtherApe 0.7.2 (Monday 05-07-2001):
- Displays a protocol
statistics window when you double click the protocols legend
- Fixes the problem with links
not disappearing when stopping the capture
Overview of changes in
EtherApe 0.7.1 (Sunday 05-06-2001):
- The protocol table is
emptied after stopping a capture, and now only shows the relevant
protocols when changing the stack level setting
- Better color behavior:
removed repeated colors, and cycles color usage for further protocols
- Fixes token ring mode in
token ring networks (IP mode was working already)
- Fixes a problem that showed
up after a second offline capture in a row
Overview of changes in
EtherApe 0.7.0 (Saturday 05-05-2001):
- New node cache timeout
adjustment to avoid building on memory usage
- Some improvements to reduce
CPU usage as time passes by
- Updated Dutch and Spanish
translations
Overview of changes in
EtherApe 0.6.9 (Thursday 04-26-2001):
- Added new node info window
that pops up when a node is double clicked and is updated in real time.
Since we have a proper window now, we can remove the hideous node pop
up window
- Fixes nodes reappearing in
the diagram after a while and never being timed out again
- Fixes the "** WARNING **:
could not find signal handler" bug for architectures that were not
automatically exporting symbols by adding libtool support
Overview of changes in
EtherApe 0.6.8 (Wednesday 04-25-2001):
- Added support for Token Ring
(Thanks to Robert Frank for the capture file)
- Squashed yet another memory
leak. (I won't say it's the last, lest Jim Howards proves me wrong
again :-) )
- Fixed more problems with
names in FDDI mode
Overview of changes in
EtherApe 0.6.7 (Monday 04-23-2001):
- RPM package finally works
for RedHat users
- Choose node size from among
(total|inbound|outbound) instantenous or accumulated traffic
- Tooltips show correct
accumulated traffic value
- Node names are not forgotten
when they timeout
- Removed interape binary and
moved etherape to bin from sbin
Overview of changes in
EtherApe 0.6.6 (Saturday 04-21-2001):
- Fixes a serious leak
introduced in 0.6.1
Overview of changes in
EtherApe 0.6.5 (Saturday 04-21-2001):
- Reports less false positive
by giving priority to registered port numbers (below 1024) and fixing a
bug that was causing etherape to only acknowledge RCP_REPLY messages
- Get extensive node info in
console by double clicking it (use export DEBUG=INFO)
Overview of changes in
EtherApe 0.6.4 (Friday 04-20-2001):
- Better support for NetBIOS
over IP name recognition (captures names from host announcements
messages, besides the already supported session_request)
- Fixes the "Illegal" node
name bug
- Compile fixes for platforms
breaking at the libpcap check
Overview of changes in
EtherApe 0.6.3 (Thursday 04-19-2001):
- Can find windows names in
netbios over TCP session packets
- Fixed a couple of cases in
which ethernet addresses were displayed instead of IP addresses
- Should report less false
positive protocol identifications
Overview of changes in
EtherApe 0.6.2 (Wednesday 04-18-2001):
- New interface setting menu:
now you can set the device to capture from at run time
- Added support for RPC
protocols. That means that NFS shows as such most of the time at last
- Fixed a bug introduced in
0.6.0 that froze EtherApe
- Fixed a couple of references
to null pointers which I believe where the cause of most crashes
Overview of changes in
EtherApe 0.6.1 (Tuesday 04-17-2001):
- New mode setting menu: now
you can choose among link layer, IP or TCP modes on the fly from whitin
the GUI
- The status bar now shows an
actually informative message
Overview of changes in
EtherApe 0.6.0 (Saturday 04-15-2001):
- Play, pause and stop buttons
now work as expected
- New open capture file menu
item
- Fixed filter history
- Fixed ip addresses not
showing in FDDI
Overview of changes in
EtherApe 0.5.9 (Thursday 04-12-2001):
- Does not leak anymore.
Formally tested! :-)
- Online documentation. At
least you get the menu entries. I still need to finish writing the docs
:-)
- Default operation mode is
now IP. If you want to go back to ethernet mode, use -m
ethernet at the command line
- Loopback device now
supported (was needed to test non-leakage)
Overview of changes in
EtherApe 0.5.8 (Thursday 04-05-2001):
- Fixed non-displaying text on
diagram. If you still see squares instead of text, go to preferences
and choose a new font. Save your preferences.
- Application icon now shows
on the window manager and the about box
- Rpm package does not require
alsa anymore
Overview of changes in
EtherApe 0.5.7 (Tuesday 04-03-2001):
- Dutch translation. (Thanks,
Vincent)
- Fixed compilation problem
with resolver library and newer libc
- Menu entries for Gnome and
Debian systems
- Included application icon. I
can't track who sent me the couple of icons I have. If anybody knows
who the author is, please tell me so that I can properly credit him
- New version after eleven
months! Development is retaken! :-)
Overview of changes in
EtherApe 0.5.6 (Thursday 05-4-2000):
- Fixed a stupid but serious
bug introduced in 0.5.3 which caused the capture to stop for no good
reason. This happened because I was away from home and I was developing
using only capture files with no access to any live network. I'm sorry
it took me this long to solve the problem... :-(
Overview of changes in
EtherApe 0.5.5 (Saturday 04-22-2000):
- New Stack Level setting:
"Topmost Recognized Protocol". This is probably what you want to have
as default. If you have used any previous version of EtherApe and have
saved your settings, you will probably want to change it.
Overview of changes in
EtherApe 0.5.4 (Saturday 04-22-2000):
- TCP and UDP protocols are
read from a configuration file: services. I could use some help in
trying to determine what's missing and what should not be in in the
deafault services file. Unified diffs accepted. :-)
Overview of changes in
EtherApe 0.5.3 (Friday 04-21-2000):
- Added start and stop
buttons. The toolbar is back, since it is now useful. :-)
- General menu cleanup
Overview of changes in
EtherApe 0.5.2 (Thursday 04-20-2000):
- Added new -l option. You can
use it to limit the nodes displayed only to the N most active. GUI
configuration and more the ability to use more criteria will come next
Overview of changes in
EtherApe 0.5.1 (Wednesday 04-19-2000):
- Fixed lots of memory leaks
thanks to Owen Taylor and his fantastic memprof
- Should not hog the CPU in
offline mode anymore
- Node size is zero again when
the average traffic is zero
- Got rid of the toolbar by
default
Overview of changes in
EtherApe 0.5.0 (Saturday 04-15-2000):
- Fixed PPP and SLIP modes not
showing any protocols nor names
- Moved code to libglade.
This means:
- You will need libglade
to compile and run EtherApe
- No more GTK warnings
- The view menu is fixed.
Check buttons work as expected
- You can change the
interface by editing EtherApe.glade with glade without having to
recompile
- All kinds of benefits
for the developer. Now I can go back at dealing with the GUI
- These are major changes.
Please report any problems (see README.bugs)
Overview of changes in
EtherApe 0.4.7 (Friday 04-14-2000):
- Fixed segfault when applying
preferences changes and a filter had been set up in the command line
- (Bill Barth) New, improved
static mode
- Debug messages depend on the
DEBUG environment variable. You can set it to DEBUG or INFO if you want
to see them again. Added -q option too, to get rid of WARNINGS as well
- Refresh period is finally
working the intended way (I hope). Should free up CPU in many cases
Overview of changes in
EtherApe 0.4.6 (Monday 04-10-2000):
- Ports were not appearing in
TCP mode
- Accumulated per name traffic
was not properly updated
Overview of changes in
EtherApe 0.4.5 (Sunday 04-09-2000):
- /etc/ethers is used again in
Ethernet mode
- FQDN is again only used in
IP or TCP mode
- Added new --stationary
option, so that people getting sick of following nodes around can have
a rest. :-)
Overview of changes in
EtherApe 0.4.4 (Sunday 04-09-2000):
- Nodes keep track of all
names by which they are referenced. Right now only the most used one is
displayed
- This breaks /etc/ethers
usage for IP nodes. You'll see your router change names a lot in
ethernet mode. :-) I'll try to solve this tonight.
- I changed quite a lot of
things. Please test it and tell me any problems you find so that I can
fix them
Overview of changes in
EtherApe 0.4.3 (Tuesday 04-04-2000):
- Recognizes IP fragmentation.
Should make up for unexpected protocols in your network
- Node colors are those of its
most common protocol. This is a bonus on my way of handling several
names per node.
- Fixed a bug by which
actually the least
common protocol had its color shown. Come on, guys... How come nobody
reported this one? :-)
Overview of changes in
EtherApe 0.4.2 (Tuesday 04-04-2000):
- Initial FDDI support.
- Uploaded working RPM (for
version 0.4.1).
Overview of changes in
EtherApe 0.4.1 (Monday 04-03-2000):
- Hiding legend works again
(for me, at least).
- Link directions were
reversed in ethernet mode.
- New webpage (mostly copied
from ethereal's :-) )
- First try at RPM
distribution. Please report whether it works.
Overview of changes in
EtherApe 0.4.0 (Wednesday 03-29-2000):
- Node size is dependent on
outbound traffic
- You can distinguish both
directions of a link.
Overview of changes in
EtherApe 0.3.9 (Wednesday 03-29-2000):
- You may safely turn down
refresh period to minimum. If CPU can't handle it, it will just do a
best effort.
- Patch from Fabrice Bellet.
Should fix more RedHat problems. Please report if it solves yours.
- Some more segfault fixing.
Overview of changes in
EtherApe 0.3.8 (Wednesday 03-29-2000):
- Filter entry has history.
- Prefs window is raised when
called.
- I think I fixed almost all
memory leaks.
- Some more segfaults fixed.
Overview of changes in
EtherApe 0.3.7 (Friday 03-24-2000):
- You can now "playback"
tcpdump output files.
- The legend now has a
scrollbar if there are more protocols than it can hold.
Overview of changes in
EtherApe 0.3.6 (Friday 03-24-2000):
- Recognizes level 5 UDP
protocols.
- Default stack level is now 5
- Can anybody please send me
the most complete /etc/services in Earth? Mine in debian is quite
complete, but it's missing things like ICQ.
Overview of changes in
EtherApe 0.3.5 (Thursday 03-23-2000):
- Sorry. I forgot to include
the new files in the distribution. :-(
Overview of changes in
EtherApe 0.3.4 (Thursday 03-23-2000):
- Recognizes level 5 TCP
protocols (Set stack level to 5) UDP protocols should be done tomorrow
morning. (Can somebody explain me why 6000 is not a recognized protocol
in standard /etc/services?)
- Fixed a compilation problem
for people with libbind.a installed.
Overview of changes in
EtherApe 0.3.3 (Thursday 03-23-2000):
- Fixes a serious and stupid
segfault.
- Recognizes level 4 IP
protocols (set stack level to 4)
Overview of changes in
EtherApe 0.3.2 (Wednesday 03-22-2000):
- You may choose what level of
the protocol stack to look at. Now I should be able to add more
protocol decoding easyly.
- I think I have squashed the
growing legend bug. Please report.
- Diagram tries to use most of
the window.
- Got away with some other
memory leaks, though I probably just introduced some others.
Overview of changes in
EtherApe 0.3.1 (Monday 03-20-2000):
- Capture filter may be set in
the preferences dialog in runtime
- Warning! The above is just
candy to have you all test some major code restructuring. Please report
any problems.
Overview of changes in
EtherApe 0.3.0 (Saturday 03-18-2000):
- Preferences can be saved
- The status bar shows the
main protocol when over a link, and the node name when over a node.
- EtherApe turns 1 month old!
Thanks everybody for using this software. :-)
Overview of changes in
EtherApe 0.2.11 (Friday 03-17-2000):
- Fixed a segfault in linuxppc
- Fixed a minor bug in the
protocols legend
- Translations to French and
Spanish
Overview of changes in
EtherApe 0.2.10 (Thursday 03-16-2000):
- Fixed several memory leaks
(it's still leaking, though :-( )
- Added font picker to the
diagram settings
- Size mode menu is now
working.
- Should compile again in
Solaris
Overview of changes in
EtherApe 0.2.9 (Thursday 03-16-2000):
- Fix for bug introduced in
0.2.8. Resetting the refresh rate eventually broght a SIGSEGV.
Overview of changes in
EtherApe 0.2.8 (Wednesday 03-15-2000):
- GUI enhancements suggested
by mdf to save screen real state.
- Diagram settings is a
dialog under the preferences menu
- Legend becomes a
dockable item
- Toolbar, legend and
appbar may be hidden using the view menu.
- GUI for two more sizing
algorithms: log and sqrt. I'm afraid I still don't know how to get the
menu item from an option_menu, though. Patch, anyone? :-)
Overview of changes in
EtherApe 0.2.7 (Monday 03-13-2000):
- Node info is now a popup.
- Popup window shows Name, IP
address and MAC address again.
- Name is only FQDN in ip and
tcp modes (more readable)
- Now links age the moment
they are not used.
- Added 802.2 and 802.3 to
ethernet protocols.
- Fix for sigsegv when small
link timeouts.
Overview of changes in
EtherApe 0.2.6 (Saturday 03-11-2000):
- Ethernet protocols are
recognized and presented in different colors.
- Links not in use are slowly
faded out (patch by Ted Wright). Use --no-fade to avoid it.
- Finally found a way to set
the diagram background to black.
Overview of changes in
EtherApe 0.2.5 (Friday 03-10-2000):
- Initial support for color
coded protocols display
- Click on a link and a get a
debug message with the most common ethernet protocol
- Released to test for bugs
some major changes in the code. Go for 0.2.4 if you want some guarantee
of a more stable version.
Overview of changes in
EtherApe 0.2.4 (Thursday 03-09-2000):
- Major bug fix.
- Added README.bugs with
procedures for bug reporting.
Overview of changes in
EtherApe 0.2.3 (Wednesday 03-08-2000):
- Non blocking reverse
lookups. I brought dns.c in from mtr to provide this functionality.
This code is from Simon Kirby.
- Removed now unnecessary -r
option.
Overview of changes in
EtherApe 0.2.2 (Tuesday 03-07-2000):
- Added ppp and slip devices
support.
- Brought back IP address
display in ethernet mode when no /etc/ethers is available
- Fixed another bug with
RedHat 6.1. (I really have to find time to talk to this guy)
Overview of changes in
EtherApe 0.2.1 (Monday 03-06-2000):
- Added tcp mode. Run with
etherape -m tcp
- Added fix from Ted Wright to
provide a more readable display in crowded diagrams. Run with -o. Very
useful for tcp.
- Cleaned up sources so that
adding other modes should be trivial. Please have a look at the source.
Overview of changes in
EtherApe 0.2.0 (Friday 03-03-2000):
- RedHat 6.1 fix. Works around
"featureful" redhat 6.1 libpcap.
- Fixed node-in-the-center bug.
- Timeout=0 means never
timeout.
Overview of changes in
EtherApe 0.1.9 (Thursday 03-02-2000):
- Finally I'm properly
calculating average traffic. (yeah, right :-)
- Node and link timeout work
as expected as well.
- Should now compile cleanly
in Solaris.
- Interape is a hardlinked to
etherape. Runs as interape when called with that name.
- Minor changes to the naming
algorithm.
Overview of changes in
EtherApe 0.1.8 (Wednesday 03-01-2000):
- First version of interape.
Run as EtherApe -I. I guess I'll have to change the name to netape now.
:-)
- Added node and link timeouts
controls.
Overview of changes in
EtherApe 0.1.7 (Tuesday 02-29-2000):
- Pcap filtering added. Now
you can use tcpdump style filtering (enclosed in quotes) with the -f
option.
- Added libm to autoconf.in
for systems with a separate math lib.
- First try at Debian
packaging.
Overview of changes in
EtherApe 0.1.6 (Monday 02-28-2000):
- Refresh period spin,
averaging time spin, and link width sliders now work. Time to get
better than Quake frame rates! :-)
- Node, link and text colours
can be set from the command line.
- The rest of the GUI is
active, so that it can answer itself people's favourite question. :-)
(Well, Control-Q does actually work!)
- Automated release process so
that I can keep bombarding you with releases.
Overview of changes in
EtherApe 0.1.5 (Sunday 02-27-2000):
- More for readability: Click
on a node and a pop-up window appears with all node data.
- You can change the network
interface to listen to in the command line.
- Fixed a bug in the dotted
quad ip number display
- Compiles without warnings
- Updated README
Overview of changes in
EtherApe 0.1.4 (Sunday 02-27-2000):
- Now parses command line
arguments:
etherape options
-n, --numeric don't convert addresses to names
-r, --with-dns-resolving use IP name resolving. Caution! Long timeouts!
-d, --diagram-only don't display any node text identification
- The resolver is turned off
by default since it can potentially freeze your display for too long
- digram-only makes for a
clearer display. It's intended to be practical whenever I have per-node
pop-up windows ready.
Overview of changes in
EtherApe 0.1.3 (Saturday 02-26-2000):
- Links with no traffic
disappear with time. Makes diagram more readable.
- IP host name displayed if no
ether name available
- Oops! Was confusing ether
dst and src addresses. Solved.
- Web page now has a much more
interesting screenshot thanks to Nico Lumma
- Buttons are in English now.
- (This file I had to get out
from download because it had the dangerous DNS behaviour by default.
You see? That's what happens when you are rushed by deadlines! :-) )
Overview of changes in
EtherApe 0.1.2 (Saturday 02-26-2000):
- James Wallace provided code
to automatically detect proper network interface. It now compiles in
NetBSD.
- IP number displayed if no
/etc/ethers is available. IP host name will be there in the Saturday
Night edition. :-)
Overview of changes in
EtherApe 0.1.1 (Friday 02-25-2000):
- First look at GUI side of
things
- Now you can dynamically
reset the node radius using a slider
- First users reports! Thanks
R., Don!
- First improvements due to
user feedback:
- Solved configuration
problem for some people
- Improved web page and
README: reference to /etc/ethers
Overview of changes in
EtherApe 0.1.0 (Friday 02-25-2000):
- Diagram resizes with window
- Basic functionality is all
there now, and calls for a minor version upgrade. :-)
Overview of changes in
EtherApe 0.0.8 (Thursday 02-24-2000):
- Correctly (I hope)
calculates average traffic intensity for nodes and links. The proper
constant multiplier should be user defined.
Overview of changes in
EtherApe 0.0.7 (Thursday 02-24-2000):
- First version showing links
among nodes
- Aborts gracefully if run by
non-root.
- http://etherape.sourceforge.net
has a screenshot.
- Expect proper node size and
link width calculation in 0.0.8
Overview of changes in
EtherApe 0.0.6 (Wednesday 02-23-2000):
- Copied proper libpcap
autoconfigure detection function from ethereal
- Added Ethernet address
resolution functions from ethereal
Overview of changes in
EtherApe 0.0.5 (Wednesday 02-23-2000):
- Now uses gnome_canvas to
display the diagram
Overview of changes in
EtherApe 0.0.4 (Monday 02-21-2000):
- Node size is now an average
of the last ten seconds traffic.
- Proper distribution file.
Overview of changes in
EtherApe 0.0.3 (Sunday 02-20-2000):
- Added gnome support.
- Substituted hash table for
binary tree to store nodes
- Correctly display hardware
addresses.
Overview of changes in
EtherApe 0.0.2 (Saturday 02-19-2000):
- Displays circles
representing nodes and text which will identify it eventually.
Overview of EtherApe 0.0.1
(Friday 02-18-2000):
- Initial version. Don't even
expect it to run.
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