Changelog for Etherape

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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