Changelog for EtherApe

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 behaviour: 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 timedout 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 finnish 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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