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| -rw-r--r-- | INSTALL | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 17 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | README | 27 |
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@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ Installation Checklist shared library, a copyright notice, changelog files, and a README file - you also need to install a "libpcap-dev" package to get header files, a non-shared library, and the man page. - Similarly, Red Hat users will need to install a "libpcap-devel" + Similarly, Red Hat 5.x users will need to install a "libpcap-devel" .rpm to go along with the "libpcap" .rpm. [ ] 3. Run './configure' in the Ethereal distribution directory. @@ -1,8 +1,21 @@ Overview of changes in Ethereal 0.7.3: * Fixed bug in RSVP, added RSVP+ support (Ashok) * Fixed bug in display filter parsing (Gilbert) -* Allow compilation from different directory (Brad, - <brad@openbsd.org>) +* Allow compilation from different directory + (Brad, <brad@openbsd.org>) +* Packet colorization (John) +* Updated RSVP decoder (Ashok) +* Fixed Token-Ring for more Linux 2.0 drivers + (Tom Gallagher <Tom.Gallagher@madge.com>) +* Change to usage of boolean fields in display filters (Gilbert) +* Optimized GTKClist (Guy) +* Handle NBNS continuations (Richard) +* Started ATM support (Guy) +* Enhanced user-friendliness via default behaviors and error messages + (Guy, Gilbert) +* Fixed ICMP/IGMP checksums (Richard Jørgensen <ric@tbit.dk>) +* Removed security-related race-condition when capturing (Guy) +* Lots and lots o' misc. fixes (Guy) Overview of changes in Ethereal 0.7.2: * Another memory leak fix (Jochen) @@ -1,9 +1,9 @@ General Information ------- ----------- -Ethereal is a network traffic analyzer for Unix and Unix-like operating -systems. It uses GTK+, a graphical user interface library, -and libpcap, a packet capture and filtering library. +Ethereal is a network traffic analyzer, or "sniffer", for Unix and +Unix-like operating systems. It uses GTK+, a graphical user interface +library, and libpcap, a packet capture and filtering library. The official home of Ethereal is @@ -33,12 +33,14 @@ It should run on other systems without too much trouble. NOTE: the Makefile appears to depend on GNU "make"; it doesn't appear to work with the "make" that comes with Solaris 7 nor the BSD "make". +Perl is also needed to create the man page. -In addition, ethereal requires "flex" - it cannot be built -with vanilla "lex" - and either "bison" or the Berkeley "yacc". Your flex +If you decide to modify the yacc grammar or lex scanner, then +you need "flex" - it cannot be built with vanilla "lex" - +and either "bison" or the Berkeley "yacc". Your flex version must be 2.5.1 or greater. Check this with 'flex -V'. -You must therefore install GNU "make", "flex", and either "bison" or +You must therefore install Perl, GNU "make", "flex", and either "bison" or Berkeley "yacc" on systems that lack them. Full installation instructions can be found in the INSTALL file. @@ -111,6 +113,7 @@ library but _do not_ want to have ethereal use it, you can run configure with the "--disable-snmp" option. No SNMP support will be compiled into ethereal with this option. + How to Report a Bug ------------------- Ethereal is still under constant development, so it is possible that you will @@ -123,14 +126,14 @@ Be sure you tell us: If the bug is produced by a particular trace file, please be sure to send a trace file along with your bug description. Please don't send a trace file -greather than 1MB when compressed. If the trace file contains sensitive +greather than 1 MB when compressed. If the trace file contains sensitive information (e.g., passwords), then please do not send it. If Ethereal died on you with a 'segmentation violation', you can help the -developers a lot if you have your debugger installed. A stack trace using -your debugger ('gdb' in this example), the ethereal binary, and the -resulting core file can be obtained by starting the debugger and using -the 'backtrace' command. +developers a lot if you have a debugger installed. A stack trace can be +obtained by using your debugger ('gdb' in this example), the ethereal binary, +and the resulting core file. Here's an example of how to use the gdb +command 'backtrace' to do so. $ gdb ethereal core (gdb) backtrace @@ -146,4 +149,4 @@ Use at your own risk. Gerald Combs <gerald@zing.org> -Gilbert Ramirez <gram@verdict.uthscsa.edu> +Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xiexie.org> |