Ethereal Protocol Analyzer Version 0.10.0 Enhancements

This Ethereal-XTRA distribution includes the latest release of the Ethereal Protocol Analyzer version 0.10.0. It includes improvements to the user interface as well as enhancements and extensions to features already included in earlier versions.

Improved Performance

Performance issues have been addressed in this release. Expect to see a 2-3 times speed increase when loading and working with capture files.

User Interface

The main application menu options have been rearranged along with a series of other, smaller UI enhancements.

Filtering

It is now possible to set a "matches" display filter. This has an additional advantage that it also supports Perl-compatible regular expressions.

Updated Help files

The help texts have been improved in this release.

Capture Window

The capture progress window includes bar graphs.

Protocols

This release fixes known problems in the SMB and Q.931 dissectors which could cause Ethereal and Tethereal crash.

Additional protocols Supported

Additional protocols supported in this release include:
BFD, CCSDS, CPFI, DCE/RPC {BUDB, EPM4, ICL_RPC, RS_PLCY, RS_PROP_ACCT} IGAP, ISO 8327-1 SES, MS Kpasswd, RTCFG, SEBEK.

Updated Protocols

Support for the following protocols has been extended in this release:
ACN, AFP, ANSI A, ANSI MAP, ASN.1, BSMAP, BSSAP, CPFI, DCE/RPC, DCOM, EPM, NDR, SRVSVC, STAT, WKSSVC}, DCE/RPC, DHCP, DNS, DOCSIS, DSI, DTAP, ENTTEC, FC ELS, FC FZS, FC-SP, FC-SWILS, GIOP, GPRS NS, GSM A, GSM MAP, H.225, H.450, HTTP, ICMP, IPv6, IS-IS, ISAKMP, ISUP, Kerberos, LDAP, LDP, MIPv6, MMSE, MS Proxy, MTP3, NCP 2222, NTP, PIM, RADIUS, RANAP, RDM, RSVP, RTCP, RTP, SCCP, SDP, SIP, SMB, SMPP, SOCKS, SONMP, SRVLOC, SSL, TACACS, TCAP, TCP, TPKT, TZSP, UCP, WAP, WBXML, WLAN, WSP, WTP.

Additional Capture File Formats

Support for AiroPeek v9 (2.x).
Support for Network Instruments Observer and Snoop has been updated.