Ethereal 0.8.0 is now available for download from
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ftp://ethereal.zing.org/pub/ethereal/ethereal-0.8.0.tar.gz
The Ethereal home page is at http://ethereal.zing.org
The following protocol decoders were added: TNS, ISIS, Gryphon,
AppleTalk's NBP and RTMP, IRC
Many protocols decoders were updated: NFS, RCP, GRE, BGP, SNMP, SMB,
NetBIOS, IPX, ICQ, RADIUS, VLAN, TACACS+/XTACACS, LLC/SNAP, NTP, ISAKMP,
HTTP
New features include:
* Loadable module support for decoders. Our first module is a decoder
for Gryphon, a protocol developed by the Dearborn Group.
* Ethereal can now save files in the following formats:
Snoop, Netmon 1.x, Sniffer, Netxray, and various flavors of libpcap.
* A command-line utility called "editcap" now comes with the distribution.
Editcap allows you to trim capture files and convert to different file
formats from the command line.
* Many GUI enhancements:
* IPX statistics are now listed in the capture window.
* Stream window color preferences have been added.
* When the main window is resized, the protocol tree resizes with
the window instead of the data pane.
* The packet list and protocol tree browse behavior is now configurable.
* Filter preferences have been moved to their own dialog.
* Vertical scroll bars can now be placed on the left.
* The about box was trimmed down.
Quite a bit of code was added with this release. The source distribution
has jumped from about 750kB to over 1MB in size. By comparison, the
first public version (0.2.0) was a whopping 56kB!
