1 $NetBSD: CHANGES,v 1.2 2011/09/11 01:06:26 christos Exp $
2 @(#) Id: CHANGES,v 1.23 2000/12/14 06:53:11 leres Exp (LBL)
4 v1.4 Wed Dec 13 22:50:35 PST 2000
6 - Add an option to use icmp echo instead of udp datagrams.
8 - Add HPUX and Linux support.
10 - Handle hex argument values as suggested by John Hawkinson
13 - Added flags to set the first ttl and to set the don't fragment bit.
15 - Add a local autoconf macro to check for routines in libraries; the
16 autoconf version is broken (it only puts the library name in the
17 cache variable name). Thanks to John Hawkinson.
19 - Add a local autoconf macro to check for types; the autoconf version
20 is broken (it uses grep instead of actually compiling a code fragment).
22 - Attempt to detect "egcs" versions of gcc.
24 - Fix problems caused by savestr().
26 - Detect when there are more interfaces than we can deal with. Thanks
27 to Guy Harris guy@netapp.com.
29 - Accommodate changes made to FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE network headers files.
31 - The ip header offset needs to be byte swapped under Solaris on the
32 intel as well. Reported by John McDermott (jjm@jkintl.com) Also byte
33 ip length and offset for linux.
35 - In wait_for_reply(), use passed socket instead of global one. Thanks
36 to Richard Kettlewell (richard.kettlewell@kewill.com)
38 - Check for IFF_LOOPBACK as a define or an enum (concession to linux).
39 Reported by Robert Bihlmeyer (robbe@orcus.priv.at)
41 - Increase size of SIOCGIFCONF buffer to accommodate systems with lots
42 of virtual interfaces. Ignore sun virtual interfaces. Suggested by
43 Ian Donaldson (iand@aone.com.au)
45 - Always calculate icmp checksums when using -I. Reported by Soumen
48 - Documentation fix for description of -p. Thanks to Jeffrey C Honig
51 - Enable ip checksums for Solaris 2.6 and higher (since they seem to
54 - Avoid problems when broken routers return 0.0.0.0 as their source
55 address. Thanks to John Hawkinson (jhawk@bbnplanet.com)
57 - Canonicalize hostname if gethostname() doesn't return a domain.
59 - Add -z flag (pause msecs) to allow optional pause between probes.
60 Suggested by Dave Morrison (drmorris@uplanet.com)
62 - Fix max packet length test.
64 - Use "/dev/null" instead of "." for file descriptor fodder.
65 Suggested by Tim Robbins (fyre@box3n.gumbynet.org)
67 - Watch for a NULL argv[0]. Suggested by Tim Robbins.
69 - Be careful with hostname legnths.
71 - Print RFC1191 Path MTU Discovery value on "needfrag" unreachables.
73 - Limit port size to 16 bits. Suggested by Tim Robbins.
75 - Limit wait time to 24 hours.
77 - Modified linux specific struct ipovly definition to avoid problems
78 with 64 bit systems. Problem reported by Uros Prestor
81 - Use kernel routing tables to determine correct source address.
82 Three styles are supported: bsd/socket, solaris/mib and linux.
84 - Fix configure to recognize older versions of Solaris.
86 v1.3.2 Thu Sep 26 18:06:16 PDT 1996
88 - Rewrite source routing code to eliminate a number of problems on
89 systems using raw ip options. Also pad options with a noop so gateway
90 addresses are aligned.
92 - Don't call inet_ntoa() twice in the same printf(). Thanks to NetBSD
93 via Bill Fenner (fenner@parc.xerox.com)
95 - Decode "administratively prohibited filter" icmp code and print
96 numeric value for unknown codes. Thanks to Bill Fenner.
98 v1.3.1 Wed Sep 18 21:08:16 PDT 1996
100 - Some systems (e.g. AIX) need sys/select.h. Thanks to Brett Hogden
103 - Byte swap ip header length under Solaris. (This has no effect on the
104 sparc but is required on the i386.)
106 - Made optional packet length control total size of packet.
108 v1.3 Mon Sep 16 14:55:44 PDT 1996
110 - Overrun buffer security fixes. Thanks to Bill Fenner
111 (fenner@parc.xerox.com)
113 - Wait for response packet relative to start of probe. Thanks to Bill
116 - Fix bug that prevented changing the packet size. Thanks to Gregory
117 Decker (gdecker@nate.dcrt.nih.gov)
119 - Add support for RAW_OPTIONS (e.g. 4.4 BSD systems such as BSD/OS and
120 FreeBSD) thanks to Jeffrey C Honig (jch@bsdi.com)
122 - Remove ip header byte swap fix from v1.2; most kernels swap the ip
123 header length in the kernel (and it causes OSF3 to crash).
125 - Fix to not exit when the number of probes is set to 1 (i.e. "-q 1")
127 - Improve autoconf configuration.
129 v1.2 Tue Oct 17 23:50:05 PDT 1995
131 - Convert to autoconf and ansify.
133 - Byte swap ip header length for little endian machines. Fix thanks to
134 Y Badri (yb@greybox.demon.co.uk).
136 v1.1 Thu Jun 15 02:32:55 PDT 1995
138 - Check for too many arguments.
140 - Recode to make timing of packet's round trip more obvious and to
143 - Ifdef IP_OPTIONS code.
145 - Display time in microseconds.
147 v1.0 Tue Feb 28 23:50:05 PDT 1989
149 - Initial public release.