Overview of changes in EtherApe 0.9.4 (Saturday Jan 14 2006): This release comes after a first round of extensive refactoring, needed to clean up some of the cruft accumulated during the years and make further developments easier. While still a work in progress, memory control is tighter and protocol dissectors more robust. EtherApe calculates an extensive set of traffic statistics, even if only a small part is always visible on the diagram. For example, every node and link maintains complete data for every protocol seen, even if only the most active is displayed. Thus, the detail dialogs now show also traffic breakdown by protocol. Changes summary: * New feature: link info dialog. Double-clicking on a link shows traffic and protocol statistics. * New feature: improved node info dialog now displays both traffic and protocol statistics. * New feature: protocol aging. Now protocols, like nodes and links, can expire and be purged automatically. * Heavy refactoring to make sources easier to understand and maintain. * Small performance enhancements due to refactoring. * Better memory handling due to refactoring. * Unified handling of traffic statistics. * Rewritten interface listing. Now uses directly pcap_findalldevs to list interfaces available for capturing. The interface submenu now list also the "any" device, if present. The older method is deprecated (at the moment it can be enabled with a #define) and will be removed in a future release. If someone needs it, please file a feature request. * Tidied up preferences dialog, removing unneeded entries. * Rewritten and improved node/link timeout handling. * Fixes bug 1362426 (i8n issues). Thanks to Daniel Nylander for hunting down that and providing a detailed example. * Fixes bug 1385105 (crash with double free). Thanks to goga_russian for the segnalation. * Fixes bug 1372245 (crashes when node goes too big). Thanks to goga_russing for the segnalation. * Fixes bug 1396236 ("force numeric" and "dns resolution" checkboxes not working). * Fixes bug 1268291 (OSX net/if.h). Thanks to Eric Stewart for the patch. * Legend labels now align to left. * Fixed a bug when closing the preferences dialog. Thanks!
In cvs, thanks.
