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.
This release fixes a large number of security issues discovered by Timo Sirainen and others. See the application advisory for more details.
- New and updated features
- Ethereal now supports a system-wide color filter file.
- Support for the GNU ADNS library has been added. ADNS allows asynchronous DNS lookups.
- "Decode As..." functionality has been added to Tethereal via the "-d" flag.
- The HTTP, FTP, POP, SMTP, IMAP, and ACAP requests and responses are now shown in the protocol tree.
New protocols
- distcc, EtherNet/IP, MSRPC ATSVC, RTNET/TMDA