[Winpcap-users] [ANNOUNCE] WinPcap 4.1 has been released
Gianluca Varenni
gianluca.varenni at cacetech.com
Tue Oct 20 23:25:10 PDT 2009
The function is exported (for compatibility reasons with Unix) but not
supported, it will always return -1 and the error message "Setting direction
is not implemented on this platform".
Have a nice day
GV
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Bednarczyk" <voytechs at yahoo.com>
To: <winpcap-users at winpcap.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 3:55 PM
Subject: Re: [Winpcap-users] [ANNOUNCE] WinPcap 4.1 has been released
> The exported function (from change log):
>
>>
>> - Bug fixing:
>> + Exported pcap_setdirection()
>>
>
> Is not in the 4.1 documentation as a standard function. Will it be added
> to
> it for official support?
>
> http://www.winpcap.org/docs/docs_41/html/group__wpcapfunc.html
>
> My users are asking for it and I will be adding it into the java wrapper,
> but can't find it in official documentation.
>
> Cheers,
> mark...
> http://jnetpcap.com
>
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: winpcap-users-bounces at winpcap.org
>> [mailto:winpcap-users-bounces at winpcap.org] On Behalf Of
>> Gianluca Varenni
>> Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 12:36 PM
>> To: winpcap-users at winpcap.org
>> Subject: [Winpcap-users] [ANNOUNCE] WinPcap 4.1 has been released
>>
>> As of today, WinPcap 4.1 is available in the download section
>> of the WinPcap website.
>>
>> This release contains a large series of improvements that
>> were gradually added to WinPcap during the various beta's.
>>
>> First of all, this version includes full support for x64
>> platforms, both in the driver and in the user level libraries.
>> Also, the long awaited support for Windows 7 (and Windows
>> Server 2008 R2) has been added to the long list of supported
>> flavors of Windows.
>> The installer has been greatly improved and partially
>> rewritten to better handle error conditions and non-standard
>> Windows configurations.
>> Finally, it included the latest version of libpcap (from
>> http://www.tcpdump.org/) in the 1.0 branch.
>> Full details of the changes can be found in the change log below.
>>
>> As always, we profoundly thank all the users that tested the
>> development versions of WinPcap 4.1. Thanks!
>>
>> Gianluca Varenni
>> WinPcap Team
>>
>>
>>
>> Changelog from WinPcap 4.1 beta5
>> ================================
>>
>> - Several fixes and updates to the installer:
>> + Added installation support for Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2
>> + Added a new wizard page to choose if the driver should be started
>> automatically on boot.
>> + Fixed some issues when upgrading WinPcap on Windows Vista
>> and Server
>> 2008 x64.
>> + Better handle errors when Microsoft NetMon 2.x is not available.
>> + Better detection of the target operating system,
>> especially when the
>> installer is run in compatibility mode.
>>
>> - wpcap.dll has been updated to the 1.0 branch of libpcap from
>> http://www.tcpdump.org.
>>
>> - Updated the tools used for the compilation (WDK 6001.18002).
>>
>> - Bug fixing:
>> + Exported pcap_setdirection()
>> + Fixed a bug in the compilation of rpcapd. This bug was causing the
>> daemon not to capture any packets.
>>
>>
>> Changelog between WinPcap 4.1 beta4 and WinPcap 4.1 beta5
>> ==========================================================
>>
>> - Starting from this build, WinPcap is completely compiled with Visual
>> Studio 2005 SP1 (in order to have a single build environment for x86
>> and x64) and WDK6000. While the projects for Visual Studio
>> 6 are still
>> available in the source package, they are no longer maintained.
>>
>> - wpcap.dll has been updated to libpcap 1.0.0 from
>> http://www.tcpdump.org.
>>
>> - The new VS2005 project files for wpcap.dll and packet.dll have been
>> simplified a lot (i.e. less configurations!).
>>
>> - Big parts of the installer have been rewritten and cleaned
>> up to account
>> for the x64 binaries installation.
>>
>> - The old WanPacket DLL has been removed. The code has been
>> merged into
>> packet.dll.
>>
>> - The developer's pack includes LIB files for both x86 and
>> x64 (for Visual
>> Studio). At the moment we don't have the LIB files for
>> Cygwin under x64.
>>
>> - The samples have been ported to Visual Studio 2005, and
>> they compile for
>> both x86 and x64 architectures. The old Visual Studio 6 projects are
>> still available but not actively maintained.
>>
>> - Bug fixing:
>> + Fixed the remote code to make it compile properly on Linux.
>> + Fixed a problem with the icon in the windows control panel.
>> + Fixed an installation bug under x64 for rpcapd.exe. When
>> installing
>> rpcapd on an x64 machine, the executable is located in
>> c:\program files
>> (x86), not in c:\program files.
>> + Support an indefinite number of IP (v4 and v6) addresses
>> associated with
>> an adapter.
>> + Check that IPv4 is bound to an adapter before getting the
>> IPv4 addresses
>> from the registry.
>> + Fixed several compilation warnings in the samples.
>> + Exported pcap_hopen_offline.
>> + Added a missing definition of HAVE_UINT64 in the bittypes.h.
>> + Fixed a bug in the filtering code for TurboCap adapters.
>> The snaplen was
>> completely ignored.
>>
>>
>> Changelog between WinPcap 4.1 beta3 and WinPcap 4.1 beta4
>> ==========================================================
>>
>> - Added support for the CACE TurboCap boards within wpcap.dll.
>>
>> - (from libpcap) Added the new functions pcap_create(),
>> pcap_activate(), pcap_set_XXX() (still not completely documented on
>> Windows).
>>
>> - (from libpcap) Added support for various MAC addresses' syntaxes.
>> Now the following syntaxes are supported:
>> + 00:11:22:33:44:55
>> + 00-11-22-33-44-55
>> + 00.11.22.33.44.55
>> + 001122334455.
>>
>> - Bug fixing:
>> + Use FILE_DEVICE_SECURE_OPEN as a parameter to IoCreateDevice()
>> when creating the I/O device from within the driver on the OSes
>> that support it.
>> + Fixed a bug in pcap_open_live() and pcap_activate(). They were
>> failing if called on a local adapter with the syntax
>> rpcap://\\Device....
>> + Added a missing input buffer check in the read handler of the
>> driver when working in statistics mode.
>> + Optimized the code in the driver that handles the BIOCGSTATS
>> control code (map only the needed portion of the user buffer into
>> an MDL).
>> + Fixed a possible memory leak in one of the error paths of the
>> driver when enumerating the available adapters.
>> + Cleaned up some global variable names in the driver.
>>
>>
>> Changelog between WinPcap 4.1 beta2 and WinPcap 4.1 beta3
>> ==========================================================
>>
>> - (from libpcap) Make some arguments of some pcap functions const
>> pointers if that makes sense.
>>
>> - (from libpcap) Add some additional checks to bpf_validate(), from
>> OpenBSD.
>>
>> - (from libpcap) Use bpf_validate() in install_bpf_program(), so we
>> validate programs even when they're being processed by userland
>> filters.
>>
>> - (from libpcap) Get rid of BPF_MAXINSNS - we don't have a limit on
>> program size in libpcap/WinPcap.
>>
>> - (from libpcap) Support for the "addr1", "addr2", "addr3", and
>> "addr4" link-layer address filtering keywords for 802.11.
>>
>> - (from libpcap) Support for filtering over 802.11 frame types with
>> the keywords "type" and "subtype".
>>
>> - Bug fixing:
>> + Fixed a bug when generating wireless filters in the form "link src
>> host ...". The source address was not retrieved properly.
>> + Added some more logic in the installer to account for errors while
>> installing the Network Monitor component (NetMon). If NetMon is
>> not available, we install a version of packet.dll that doesn't
>> depend on it.
>> + Fixed two bugs in the original OpenBSD filter validation code, one
>> that caused it to reject all filters that used multiply
>> instructions, and another that caused it to reject all filters
>> that used divide instructions.
>> + Fixed a bug in the filter engine in the driver. When the packet to
>> filter is split into two buffers, under some circumstances the
>> engine was not checking the right bytes in the packet.
>>
>>
>> Changelog between WinPcap 4.1 beta and WinPcap 4.1 beta2
>> =========================================================
>>
>> - Disabled support for monitor mode (also called TME, Table Management
>> Extensions) in the driver. This module suffers from several security
>> vulnerabilities that could result in BSODs or privilege escalation
>> attacks. This fix addresses a security vulnerability reported by the
>> iDefense Labs at
>>
>> http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.
>> php?id=625
>>
>> - Added a small script to integrate the libpcap sources into the
>> WinPcap tree automatically.
>>
>> - Moved the definition of all the I/O control codes to ioctls.h.
>>
>> - Cleaned up and removed some build scripts for the developer's pack.
>>
>> - Migrated the driver compilation environment to WDK 6000.
>>
>> - Enabled PreFAST driver compilation for the x64 build.
>>
>> - Added some doxygen directives to group the IOCTL codes and JIT
>> definitions in proper groups.
>>
>> - Integrated the IOCTL codes into one single set shared by packet.dll
>> and driver.
>>
>> - Modified the installer to return the win32 error code instead of -1
>> in case of failure in the error messages.
>>
>> - Added some #define directives to selectively disable the TME
>> functionality for WAN (i.e. Netmon-assisted) devices.
>>
>> - Added a VS2005 project to easily edit the files of the driver.
>>
>> - Removed some useless #include directives in the driver and
>> packet.dll.
>>
>> - Migrated several conditional directives (#ifdef/#endif) to the
>> defines of the DDK/WDK e.g. _X86_ and _AMD64_.
>>
>> - Added a check to warn users that remote-ext.h should not be included
>> directly.
>>
>> - Removed ntddndis.h from the WinPcap sources. It's included into the
>> Microsoft Platform SDK.
>>
>> - Removed devioctl.h from the WinPcap sources. It's included into the
>> Microsoft DDK/WDK.
>>
>> - Removed ntddpack.h from the WinPcap sources. It's an old header file
>> from the original DDK Packet sample, and it's not used by WinPcap.
>>
>> - Removed several useless files from the WinPcap developer's pack:
>> + all the TME extension header files
>> + devioctl.h
>> + gnuc.h
>> + ntddndis.h
>> + ntddpack.h
>> + pcap-int.h.
>>
>> - Bug fixing:
>> + Fixed a possible buffer overrun on x64 machines with more that 32
>> CPUs/cores.
>> + Fixed an implicit cast problem compiling the driver on x64.
>> + Fixed a bug in the installer causing a mis-detection of a previous
>> WinPcap installation.
>> + Fixed two bugs related to memory deallocation in packet.dll. We
>> were using free() instead of GlobalFreePtr(), and there was a
>> missing check as to when to deallocate a chunk of memory.
>> + Added a missing NULL pointer check in pcap_open().
>> + Moved a misplaced #ifdef WIN32 in pcap_open().
>> + Fixed a bug in the send routine of the driver that could cause a
>> crash under low resources conditions.
>>
>>
>> Changelog between WinPcap 4.0.1 and WinPcap 4.1 beta
>> =====================================================
>>
>> - Added support for the Per Packet Info (PPI) link type.
>>
>> - wpcap.dll has been updated to the libpcap 0.9.6 branch from
>> http://www.tcpdump.org.
>>
>> - Bug fixing:
>> + Fixed a bug in pcap_open_live() by which we were silently ignoring
>> a failure when switching into promiscuous mode. This fix solves
>> the outstanding issue of wireless cards that fail to go into
>> promiscuous mode and do not capture any packet.
>> + Experimental fixes to the BPF compiler (pcap_compile()) to better
>> support filters over 802.11.
>> + Minor fixes to remove several PFD (PreFAST for Drivers) warnings.
>> + (from libpcap 0.9.6) added additional filter operations for 802.11
>> frame types
>> + (from libpcap 0.9.6) fixes to discard unread packets when changing
>> filters.
>>
>>
>>
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