pcapfix Changelog

What's new in pcapfix 1.1.0

Sep 9, 2014
  • added checks for valid pcapng format (epb)
  • added --outfile parameter to chose fixed file name
  • improved pcapng packet alignment (pb, spb, nrb)
  • improved pcapng option fields handling
  • improved status and verbosity outputs
  • fixed reparation bugs with swapped pcap files
  • fixed MacOS compile problem
  • fixed windows output file name extension missing
  • fixed many minor bugs

New in pcapfix 1.0.2 (Feb 25, 2014)

  • Added support for files larger than 2GB on 32bit systems.

New in pcapfix 1.0.1 (Nov 5, 2013)

  • added reparation block type id zero (pcapng)
  • added reparation of capture length inside EPB (pcapng)
  • set data link type to ethernet on missing header (pcap)
  • changed missing pcap header threshold
  • fixed minor bugs

New in pcapfix 1.0.0 (Oct 15, 2013)

  • added pcapng support
  • added nanoseconds support (Issue #1)
  • improved console output
  • minor bugs fixed

New in pcapfix 0.7.3 (Jun 17, 2013)

  • Added snoop file detection
  • Added large file support on 32bit architectures
  • Improved missing header detection
  • Fixed compiling errors on hurd and kfreebsd architectures
  • Fixed minor bugs

New in pcapfix 0.7.2 (Jun 17, 2013)

  • Compiles on Apple systems properly now.
  • Fixed problems installing man-pages (on some systems).

New in pcapfix 0.7.1 (Jan 4, 2013)

  • REALLY fixed file pointer exception on windows64 systems
  • updated man-page

New in pcapfix 0.7 (Oct 23, 2012)

  • added support for swapped (big endian) pcap files
  • compiles on OpenBSD properly now
  • fixed file pointer exception on windows64 systems
  • fixed detection bug when corrupted packet is larger than 65536 bytes
  • fixed minimal packet limit to cope with wlan traffic

New in pcapfix 0.4 (Apr 28, 2012)

  • completely redesigned packet detection algorithm (replaced bottom-up-recovery with brute-force-packet-guessing)
  • improved detection rate by additional plausability checks
  • increased speed when repairing large pcap files