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| author | salo <salo@pkgsrc.org> | 2003-05-05 16:49:48 +0000 |
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| committer | salo <salo@pkgsrc.org> | 2003-05-05 16:49:48 +0000 |
| commit | f0d456f311054f1d17a594f9781ea0ae2651b1cc (patch) | |
| tree | aad7b0dc6eb3bc69c5fde7f5841e1ded523ab722 /net/ethereal/DESCR | |
| parent | 2420155ea1514010164a6a5f03002c87bf77517f (diff) | |
| download | pkgsrc-f0d456f311054f1d17a594f9781ea0ae2651b1cc.tar.gz | |
Updated to version 0.9.12.
This release fixes several off-by-one and integer overflow errors
discovered by Timo Sirainen. See the following url for more details:
http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00009.html
Changes:
- don't build and install static plugins anymore
- use .tar.bz2 distfile
- add more MASTER_SITES (also add one for older distfiles)
- sync DESC with the new description on HOMEPAGE
- TCP sequence number analysis received a few improvements.
- General packet reassembly has been improved.
- The "Follow TCP Stream" window now allows you to filter out
the current stream.
- The Vines code received significant updates.
- Several enhancements were made to the text2pcap utility.
- New protocols:
ArtNET, IPX WAN, Intel ANS, iSNS, NLSP, WKSSVC
- Updated protocols:
802.11 ACAP, AFP, AIM, AJP, ASAP, BGP, CLNP, CPHA, DCE/RPC, DSI, EAP,
IP, IPMI, IPX, IPv6, ISIS, ISUP, IUA, Kerberos, LDAP, M2PA, M2TP, M2UA,
M3UA, MGCP, MTP2, MTP3, MTP3MG, Modbus/TCP, NDMP, NDPS, NFS, NLSP, PGM,
Q.931, RANAP, RPC, RSVP, SCCP, SCCPMG, SCTP, SMB, SNMP, SPX, SSH, SUA,
TCP, Telnet, Vines, WBXML, WSP, WTP
- Updated capture file support:
Netxray
Based on a patch by Quentin Garnier via PR pkg/21431.
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ethereal/DESCR')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/ethereal/DESCR | 12 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/net/ethereal/DESCR b/net/ethereal/DESCR index 5c569a6bb4b..620c23078c9 100644 --- a/net/ethereal/DESCR +++ b/net/ethereal/DESCR @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ -Ethereal is a network protocol analyzer for Unix. It allows you to -examine data from a live network, or from a capture file on disk. -One of the goals of the project is to have an application that is -similar in functionality to Network Associates' NetXRay or the AG -Group's EtherPeek. Although these are both excellent products, -neither of them runs under Unix. +Ethereal is a free network protocol analyzer for Unix and Windows. +It allows you to examine data from a live network or from a capture file +on disk. You can interactively browse the capture data, viewing summary +and detail information for each packet. Ethereal has several powerful +features, including a rich display filter language and the ability to view +the reconstructed stream of a TCP session. |