Revision history for Perl extension Net::Connection::Sniffer

0.31 Tue May 26 16:15:28 PDT 2009

        add contrib/chkIFrunning.pl
        a script to check if sniffer is running and restart if necessary

0.30 Sat Mar 7 12:11:24 PST 2009

        add compiler and linker flags to environment for various
        shared "flags" and hosts that put "libpcap" in /usr/local
        instead of /usr

        clean up "char/u_char" casting differences in Sniffer.xs
        for picky Solaris compiler

0.29 Wed Feb 25 21:44:14 PST 2009

update get_if() to use Net::Interface 1.00x

        remove early "use Devel::CheckLib" so that automated
        test routines have a chance to find in the the Makefile.pl
        prerequisites list.

        add definitions of ETH_HLEN and IP_HDR
        for systems that don't provide it

        add "configure" script

        remove dependency of Devel::CheckLib

0.28 NOT RELEASED

correct dependencies in Makefile.PL

kill small memory leak

0.27 Wed Oct 15 14:19:29 PDT 2008

        include Devel::CheckLib version level
        require Net::DNS::ToolKit verison 0.41 or higher

0.26 Mon Oct 6 14:02:13 PDT 2008

include Devel::CheckLib in prereques

0.25 Thu Oct 2 13:39:49 PDT 2008

add CPAN automated tester cutout if pcap lib is not installed

0.24 Mon Jan 14 11:48:04 PST 2008

        force timecheck every second, even if very busy
        so that old IP's will expire

0.23 Wed Apr 25 16:52:52 PDT 2007

        add redundant DNS name reporting to compensate for occasional
        missing rDNS entries for remote hosts

0.22 Mon Apr 2 18:14:04 PDT 2007

add SOA lookup of hostname where DNS query result is NXDOMAIN

0.21 Thu Dec 21 17:41:45 PST 2006

update documentation and report formatting in Report.pm v0.08

0.20 Thu Dec 21 15:25:51 PST 2006

        fix problem in Report.pm v0.07 where localhost is not updated
        with a rem_update

0.19 Wed Dec 20 18:10:49 PST 2006

NOT released

        add remote statistics collection from remote hosts
        with coalesced statistic reporting to 
        Report.pm v0.06

        Update documentation to reflect above.
        add nc.sniffer.coalesc.cgi.sample
        add nc.sniffer.dump.pl.sample

0.18 Fri Oct 27 11:53:34 PDT 2006

        add local $^W = 1; # use warnings
        to nc.sniffer

        add BUGS memo about known memory leak when
        running under Perl 5.00503

0.17 Sun Sep 10 13:42:39 PDT 2006

        fix 'config' printout of sub check_run in
        Sniffer.pm which did not expand array ref

0.16 Sun Sep 10 03:09:29 PDT 2006

rename to get PAUSE to upload again

0.15 Wed Sep 6 12:38:54 PDT 2006

add payload string match capability

add perl 5.0503 compability updates

0.14 Sat Aug 19 14:01:08 PDT 2006

add test for zero length stat file in Report.pm v0.04

        NetAddr::IP::Lite 0.06 / NetAddr::IP::Util 0.11
        required for operation on Sparc

0.13 Sat Jun 3 12:48:26 PDT 2006

add 'sub equal' to Util.pm v0.02

        update Report v0.03 'by_cidr' so that it
        does not truncate a single or last entry
        from the stats hash

0.12 Fri Jun 2 13:02:48 PDT 2006

Oops! missed another makefile prequisite entry

0.11 Fri Jun 2 12:46:38 PDT 2006

        Left prequisite Net::Interface
        out of Makefile.PL

0.10 Fri Jun 2 11:18:38 PDT 2006

Documentation update

0.09 Thu Jun 1 10:38:33 PDT 2006

first release to CPAN

clean up documentation

0.08 Wed May 31 17:45:13 PDT 2006

optimizations to reduce cpu cycles

0.07 Tue May 30 19:06:03 PDT 2006

        remove unused vars in Perl and C that are
        pushed back and forth between xs <-> perl

        change "B" accumulator from UV to NV

        separate double / u_int32_t arithmetic into
        individual pieces -- compiler appears to mis-align
        variable addresses with with no warnings

0.06 Mon May 29 13:16:44 PDT 2006

release of port to 'C'

0.05 this and previous versions not released

0.04 Fri May 19 18:08:00 PDT 2006

replace missing do_while in daemon v03

0.03 Wed May 17 18:58:07 PDT 2006

further refinement ahead of conversion

deployed to test with bug

0.02 Tue May 16 14:48:58 PDT 2006

rearrange stuff ahead of conversion of core to 'C'

0.01 Sat May 13 19:30:43 PDT 2006

initial release