TracePlus®/Ethernet Update
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TracePlus®/Ethernet
version 5 is available for $110.00 for customers with version
3.x.
TracePlus®/Ethernet
version 5 is available for $150.00 for customers with version
2.x.
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Release date: 9/14/2007 (Only for
customers who have version 5.x.x)
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The patches listed below will only update retail versions of
TracePlus®/Ethernet.
NOTE: If you are having problems installing the patch over
your currently installed version (listed below), follow the
following procedure.
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Uninstall the product you currently have
installed (be sure you have a copy of the original
product you purchased).
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Reinstall the original version you
received when you purchased the product.
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Reapply the patch you downloaded from
here.
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FTP
The updater will upgrade the following versions of TracePlus®/Ethernet:
- TracePlus/Ethernet v5.01.000
- TracePlus/Ethernet v5.02.050
- TracePlus/Ethernet v5.03.000
- TracePlus/Ethernet v5.04.000
- TracePlus/Ethernet v5.05.000
- TracePlus/Ethernet v5.06.000
- TracePlus/Ethernet v5.10.000
- TracePlus/Ethernet v5.11.000
- TracePlus/Ethernet v5.15.000
- TracePlus/Ethernet v5.16.000
- TracePlus/Ethernet v5.20.000
- TracePlus/Ethernet v5.21.000
- TracePlus/Ethernet v5.30.000
- TracePlus/Ethernet v5.40.000
- TracePlus/Ethernet v5.42.000
- TracePlus/Ethernet v5.46.000
- TracePlus/Ethernet v5.48.000
- TracePlus/Ethernet v5.50.000
The patch includes all bug fixes up to 9/14/2007. We recommend
that you apply this patch so that TracePlus®/Ethernet can
operate at its maximum efficiency.
To apply the patch, unzip this file to a temporary directory and run
SETUP.EXE from Windows.
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If you cannot find the version number of your product in this list,
or the update does not work with your product, please e-mail for a new copy of SETUP.EXE.
Please note that in order to receive a new copy of SETUP.EXE, you
must provide us with a copy of the original SETUP.EXE from your purchased copy of the product. |
Version History
Version 5.51.000 of TracePlus®/Ethernet includes the following
fixes and enhancements:
- User interface has been changed to MDI (Multiple Document
Interface) to facilitate easier cross-referencing of
information. Both the Network Statistics view and any Capture
windows will appear inside a single parent window. (NEW)
- Comprehensive tutorial for both new and experienced users. (NEW)
- Added dissectors for 8 variations of PPP: PPP IPCP, PPP OSI
Control, PPP Mux CP, PPP Compression Control, PPP Link Control,
PPP Callback Control, PPP Bandwidth Allocation Control, PPP
Bandwidth Allocation, and PPP CHAP. (NEW)
- Added a dissector for RTP. (NEW)
- Help files reformatted as HTML Help for compatibility with
Vista. (NEW)
Version 5.48.000 of TracePlus®/Ethernet includes the following
fixes and enhancements:
- Added a dissector for PPTP. (NEW)
- Added a dissector for GRE. (NEW)
- Added dissectors for 8 variations of PPP: PPP IPCP, PPP OSI
Control, PPP Mux CP, PPP Compression Control, PPP Link Control,
PPP Callback Control, PPP Bandwidth Allocation Control, PPP
Bandwidth Allocation, and PPP CHAP. (NEW)
- Added a dissector for RTP. (NEW)
- Help files reformatted as HTML Help for compatibility with
Vista. (NEW)
Version 5.46.000 of TracePlus®/Ethernet includes the following
fixes and enhancements:
- Now includes both 32 and 64 bit device drivers that support
Windows XP x64, Windows 2003 x64, and Windows Vista x64. (NEW)
- The ActiveX control used for creating charts has been updated
with new functionality and compatibility with 64 bit operating
systems.
- The following charts- Bytes per Second View, Packets per
Second, Utilization, Bandwidth by IP, Sizes over Time, ICMP
Insight, TCP Insight, Custom Charts, and Size Distribution have
been enhanced with the following features: (NEW)
- A data grid which displays raw data values for each series
in the chart. The grid can be displayed or hidden (the default
is hidden). When scrolled to the end the data grid will scroll
to the left (if the chart is a realtime chart).
- Navigation buttons have been added to the toolbar above the
chart. You can move to the first data point, last data point, or
page forwards and backwards.
- The X Axis labels now display increments of 5 starting from
the nearest 5 minute boundary, i.e. 12:10 - 12:15 - 12:30 -
12:35.
- Specific data points can be highlighted by moving the mouse
over the data point without clicking. The other data points will
dim which allows you to concentrate on a specific point within
the chart.
- Moving the mouse over a cell in the data grid without
clicking will highlight the corresponding X/Y point in the
chart.
- Y axis grid lines can be displayed as interlaced colors
(Grey/Black/Grey/Black, etc.) for easier interpretation of
values on the X axis.
- Charts can be saved in XML format.
Version 5.40.000 of TracePlus®/Ethernet includes the following
fixes and enhancements:
- Patch updater would not patch properly licensed products due
an error in checking for a digital signature in previous versions
of the product. (FIXED)
- Updated so that the product is compatible with 32 bit versions
of Windows Vista Home/Business/Ultimate Editions. (NEW)
- The Bytes per Second View has been expanded from two to twelve
hours of chart history (NEW)
- The Packets per Second View has been expanded from two to
twelve hours of chart history (NEW)
- The Utilization View has been expanded from two to twelve
hours of chart history (NEW)
- The Bandwidth by IP View has been restored to the
Network Statistics Window. (NEW)
- A new chart entitled the Sizes over Time View has been added
under the Charts tab in the Network Statistics Window..
(NEW)
- The Bytes per Second View has been expanded from two to twelve
hours of chart history (NEW)
- A new chart entitled the ICMP Insight View has been added
under the Charts tab in
the Network Statistics Window with twelve hours of chart history.
(NEW)
- A new chart entitled the TCP Insight View has been added
under the Charts tab in the Network Statistics Window with twelve
hours of chart history.
(NEW)
- Two new charts titled the "Custom Chart #1" and "Custom Chart
#2" enable you to specify up to ten network protocols per chart
for monitoring purposes. Twelve hours of chart history are
available for each chart.
(NEW)
Version 5.30.000 included the following
fixes and enhancements:
- The Network Properties View has been enhanced with graphical
bars representing the percentage of total for the specified
statistic. (NEW)
- The Capture Properties View has been enhanced with graphical
bars representing the percentage of total for the specified
statistic. (NEW)
- Summary panes for the Nodes View, Protocol View, Conversations
View, MAC Addresses View, Connections View, and Port Activity View
have been enhanced with graphical bars representing the percentage
of total for the specified statistic. (NEW)
- Added a "Show Packet in New Window" option to the Packets View which
displays the payload data from a conversation represented by the
selected packet. Data can be displayed in multiple formats, as
well as written to disk and printed. (NEW)
- Added a "Go" menu to the Capture Window which contains
navigation options for the Packets View, Decoded Packet View, and
Hex Packet View. (NEW)
- Added a "Go To Packet Number" option to the Packets View which
navigates to a packet with a specific sequence number. (NEW)
- The protocol dissectors for the Decoded Packet View have been
completely rewritten. (NEW)
- Added a protocol dissector for IPv6 RIPng. (NEW)
- Added a dissector for LPD (Line Printer Daemon). (NEW)
- Added a dissector for MSN Messenger. (NEW)
- Added SMB command dissectors to the SMB protocol dissector. (NEW)
- Added a protocol dissector for Cisco HSRP (Hot Standby Router
Protocol). (NEW)
- Added a protocol dissector for Cisco VTP. (NEW)
- Added a protocol dissector for PIM (Protocol Independent
Multicast). (NEW)
- Added a protocol dissector for Configuration Test Protocol
(LOOP). (NEW)
- Added a protocol dissector for Spanning Tree Protocol. (NEW)
- All calculated network times are now stored internally in
Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) format. Packets loaded from
capture files will now display times relative to the local time
zone. Note that files in .TPF format that were created prior to
version 5.30.000 will only display in the time zone where the file
was created. (NEW)
- Includes updated NDIS kernel drivers for better support of
dual-core and dual-processor motherboards. (NEW)
- Removed the Data View because it became redundant when the
"Follow Stream" feature was added in the previous release.
- Removed the Data View tab from the Capture Settings dialog box
because it is no longer necessary.
- Removed the toolbar from the Decoded Packet View to increase
space in the window and reduce confusion with the toolbar at the
top of the Packets View.
- Opening dialog boxes using the "Follow Stream" option in the
Packets View may crash the application under certain
circumstances. (FIXED)
- The application may cause a "blue screen of death" due to
memory corruption caused by errors in parsing packets. (FIXED)
- IPv4 header options were not being displayed in the Decoded
Packet View. (FIXED)
- Using "Open in Same Window" multiple times in a row eventually
results in an empty Packets View, even though packets have been
loaded from disk. (FIXED)
- Using "Open in Same Window" occasionally results in the
Network Statistics window getting the focus. (FIXED)
- Protocol dissectors that display host-order values may
interpret the value incorrectly if the value spanned multiple
bytes. (FIXED)
- When opening capture files in alternate formats (other than .TPF),
the Properties View would display time relative to the local time
zone, while all other views would display time in UTC time. (FIXED)
- When calculating the Internet Checksum for a packet, the last
byte of the packet may be modified. (FIXED)
Version 5.21.000 included the following
fixes and enhancements:
- Added a "Follow Stream" option to the Packets View which
displays the payload data from a conversation represented by the
selected packet. Data can be displayed in multiple formats, as
well as written to disk and printed. (NEW)
- Added a "Follow Stream" option to the Conversations View
(Capture window only) which displays the payload data from a
conversation represented by the selected packet. Data can be
displayed in multiple formats, as well as written to disk and
printed. (NEW)
- Added four TCP/UDP protocol definitions called "XML Services
<1>", "XML Services <2>", "XML Services <3>", and "XML Services
<4>". You can edit these port definitions and specify port numbers
for each of your Web services. These protocol definitions are
specifically tied to a ASCII packet decoder in the Packets View. (NEW)
- Added a Hide Conversation option to the Edit menu which hides
packets in the Packets View that are part of a conversation as
described by the selected packet. (NEW)
- Added an Expand button to the Decoded Packet View which
expands all collapsed items in the View. (NEW)
- Added an Collapse button to the Decoded Packet View which
expands all collapsed items in the View. (NEW)
- Add protocol dissector for Direct hosted SMB
or CIFS. (NEW)
- Add protocol dissector for Internet Relay Chat.
(NEW)
- Added a protocol dissector for NTP (Network Time Protocol). (NEW)
- Add protocol dissector for Real Time Streaming
Protocol (RTSP). (NEW)
- Add protocol dissector for Session Initiation
Protocol (SIP). (NEW)
- Add protocol dissector for Simple Service
Discovery Protocol (SSDP). (NEW)
- Add protocol dissector for SYSLOG and Cisco
PIX SYSLOG. (NEW)
- Updated the current protocol dissector for NetBIOS (NetBEUI).
(NEW)
- Updated the current protocol dissector for IPX NetBIOS. (NEW)
- Updated all ASCII protocol dissectors to display payload data
in ASCII format. (NEW)
- The Hide and Unhide options in the Packets View may cause the
application to crash if used before the packet buffer is
completely filled. (FIXED)
Version 5.20.000 included the following
fixes and enhancements:
- New "multiple packet read" drivers significantly reduce CPU
usage under heavy network bandwidth. Optimizations due to usage of
the new driver also reduces CPU time. (NEW)
- Added the ability to open Sniffer files with .CAZ extension
(compressed .CAP files). (NEW)
- Added the ability to open any supported capture file with a .GZ
extension (gzipped capture files). (NEW)
- Added a Set Relative Time feature to the Packets View which
uses the time of the selected packet as the zero point for
relative time calculations. (NEW)
- Added a Set Relative Time feature to the Diagnosis View which
uses the time of the selected packet as the zero point for
relative time calculations. (NEW)
- Added a Set Relative Time feature to the Data View which uses
the time of the selected packet as the zero point for relative
time calculations. (NEW)
- Added an IP Identifier column to the Packets View that
displays the ID from the IP header of a IPv4 packet. (NEW)
- The Elapsed Time field in the Summary group of the Network
Properties view would not display the number of days if running
for more than a day.
- The Elapsed Time field in the Capture Summary group of the
Capture Properties view would not display the number of days if
running for more than a day.
- The Cumulative column in the Packets View would not reset when
Reset Window Contents was selected.
- The Delta Time column in the Packets View would not reset when
Reset Window Contents was selected.
- The Relative Time column in the Packets View would not reset
when Reset Window Contents was selected.
- The maximum size of the Network Names list has been expanded to
4000 addresses. (NEW)
- The Network Names list was not accumulating addresses even
though the options "Reverse DNS lookups" and/or "Passive name
resolution" were checked. (FIXED)
- The "Include IP Subnets" option was ignored when evaluating
addresses for inclusion in Network Names list if the address was
obtained via the "Reverse DNS lookups" feature. (FIXED)
Version 5.16.000
included the following fixes and enhancements:
- The maximum size of the Network Names list has been expanded
to 4000 addresses. (NEW)
- The Network Names list was not accumulating addresses even
though the options "Reverse DNS lookups" and/or "Passive name
resolution" were checked. (FIXED)
- The "Include IP Subnets" option was ignored when evaluating
addresses for inclusion in Network Names list if the address was
obtained via the "Reverse DNS lookups" feature. (FIXED)
Version 5.15.000 included the following
fixes and enhancements:
- Ports can be specified as "included" or "excluded" on the
Protocols tab in the Capture Settings dialog box. This enables you
to create "everything but" scenarios where certain protocols would
interfere with the protocols you are really interested in viewing. (NEW)
- The source and destination TCP or UDP port numbers are now
displayed in the Protocol detail view. (NEW)
- The source and destination TCP or UDP port numbers are now
displayed in the Conversations detail view. (NEW)
- The source and destination TCP or UDP port numbers are now
displayed in the Port Activity detail view. (NEW)
- Added "Set" and "Reset" buttons to the Protocols list on the
Protocols tab in the Capture Settings dialog box. (NEW)
- Changed the "Clear" and "Reset" buttons to "Set" and "Reset"
buttons above the Protocols list on the Triggers tab in the
Capture Settings dialog box. (NEW)
- Added "Set" and "Reset" buttons to the Protocols list on the
Network Statistics tab in the Network Statistics Filters dialog
box. (NEW)
- Added "Set" and "Reset" buttons to the Protocols list on the
History tab in the Network Statistics Filters dialog box. (NEW)
- Added "Set" and "Reset" buttons to the Categories list on the
Port Activity tab in the Network Statistics Filters dialog box. (NEW)
- Random timing errors would occur when running TracePlus on a
dual-processor PC or a PC with a dual-core CPU. (FIXED)
- Pushing the Reset button on the Patterns tab of the Capture
Settings dialog box would not clear the patterns as expected. (FIXED)
- Creating a filter by specifying TCP/UDP ports on the Protocols
tab of the Capture Settings dialog box may not work as expected. (FIXED)
- Right-clicking in the Decoded Packets View would display a
menu with duplicate menu items. (FIXED)
- UDP NetBIOS Datagram packets would display as "Protocol Data
(invalid length field)" in the Decoded Packets view. (FIXED)
- Filters other than the default filter may display the message
"Filter has been modified" even though nothing had changed. (FIXED)
- Pressing the Pause button on the toolbar in the main window
would disable the Stop button. (FIXED)
- The splash screen logo would display when TracePlus was
launched as a result of double-clicking on a .TPF file in Windows
Explorer. (FIXED)
- When clicking on an .TPF file in Windows Explorer, it would be
ignored if TracePlus was already running. (FIXED)
Version 5.11.000 of TracePlus®/Ethernet included the following
fixes and enhancements:
- All 32-bit beta versions of Windows Vista supported with this
release. (NEW)
- Added a new menu item "View Online FAQ" to the Help menu. This
will launch the default browser with the URL of a new Frequently
Asked Questions page containing information on how to use the
product. (NEW)
- A Data View was added to the Packets tab in the Capture
window. (NEW)
- When a file is loaded, a Settings dialog box will appear in
which you can change the settings of the Data View before the file
is loaded. (NEW)
- The TCP/UDP Ports tab in the Capture Settings window has been
merged with the Packets and Protocols tab and renamed the
Protocols tab. (NEW)
- The Packet filter selections previously on the Packets and
Protocols tab in the Capture Settings window have been moved to
the Packets tab. (NEW)
- Many modifications made to improve handling of malicious or
corrupt packets. (NEW)
- When multiple Capture windows are open, the status of the
Start/Stop/Pause buttons would become confusing as each Capture
window had the same buttons enabled or disabled. (FIXED)
- The Bandwidth by IP graph was sorting in descending order
rather than ascending order. (FIXED)
- Entering an IP address on the History tab of the Network
Statistics Filters dialog box would not keep the previous value
when Ok was pressed. (FIXED)
- Entering an IP address on the Port Activity tab of the Network
Statistics Filters dialog box would not keep the previous value
when Ok was pressed. (FIXED)
- Network Statistics Filters dialog box may crash the
application if the History tab or the Port Activity tab was the
previously selected tab and the dialog box was opened a second
time. (FIXED)
- Adding an IPv6 Address to the Network Names list would
truncate the last 6 bytes. (FIXED)
- If an IPv6 address was seen which contained all zeros, then
the address would display as a blank field. (FIXED)
- IPv6 header decodes displayed incorrectly when an IPv6
extension header was present. (FIXED)
- DHCP packet decodes would only display the first encountered
option. (FIXED)
- The Elapsed Time counter in the Network Properties window
would increment by 2 or 3 seconds rather than 1 second after
running for 1 hour. (FIXED)
- The Elapsed Time counter in the Capture Properties window
would increment by 2 or 3 seconds rather than 1 second after
running for 1 hour. (FIXED)
- The application would crash if certain IP packets were
received that specified the TCP protocol yet the TCP header could
not be located. (FIXED)
Version 5.06.000 of TracePlus®/Ethernet included the following
fixes and enhancements:
- Completely rewrote low-level packet capture logic to greatly
increase efficiency under high network loads and reduce CPU usage. (NEW)
- Updated the "Save as HTML" feature in all views to enhance the
visual presentation of the data. (NEW)
- Updated the page layouts in all views that support the Print
feature. (NEW)
- Saving a view as HTML would display an "not available in demo"
message. (FIXED)
- The Protocol Colors tab in the Display Options dialog box
would not save colors for the specified items as expected. (FIXED)
Release date: 3/29/2006 (Only for
customers who have version 3.x.x)
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The patches listed below will only update retail versions of
TracePlus®/Ethernet.
NOTE: If you are having problems installing the patch over
your currently installed version (listed below), follow the
following procedure.
-
Uninstall the product you currently have
installed (be sure you have a copy of the original
product you purchased).
-
Reinstall the original version you
received when you purchased the product.
-
Reapply the patch you downloaded from
here.
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FTP
The updater will upgrade the following versions of TracePlus®/Ethernet:
- TracePlus/Ethernet v3.05.000
- TracePlus/Ethernet v3.05.050
- TracePlus/Ethernet v3.06.000
- TracePlus/Ethernet v3.07.000
- TracePlus/Ethernet v3.08.000
- TracePlus/Ethernet v3.09.000
- TracePlus/Ethernet v3.10.000
- TracePlus/Ethernet v3.11.000
- TracePlus/Ethernet v3.21.000
- TracePlus/Ethernet v3.22.000
- TracePlus/Ethernet v3.30.000
- TracePlus/Ethernet v3.50.000
- TracePlus/Ethernet v3.52.000
- TracePlus/Ethernet v3.53.000
- TracePlus/Ethernet v3.54.000
- TracePlus/Ethernet v3.60.000
The patch includes all bug fixes up to 3/29/2006. We recommend
that you apply this patch so that TracePlus®/Ethernet can
operate at its maximum efficiency.
To apply the patch, unzip this file to a temporary directory and run
SETUP.EXE from Windows.
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If you cannot find the version number of your product in this list,
or the update does not work with your product, please e-mail for a new copy of SETUP.EXE.
Please note that in order to receive a new copy of SETUP.EXE, you
must provide us with a copy of the original SETUP.EXE from your purchased copy of the product. |
Version History
Version 3.61.000 of TracePlus®/Ethernet includes the following
fixes and enhancements:
- A Frame Check Sequence (FCS) value is calculated and displayed
for every packet shown in the Packet Details View. (NEW)
- Added icons for each section of a packet decode in the Packet
Details View. (NEW)
- Incorrect TCP checksums would be calculated because odd
numbered packet sizes were not padded..
(FIXED)
- Incorrect UDP checksums would be calculated because odd
numbered packet sizes were not padded..
(FIXED)
- Using the UDP size field when calculating an UDP checksum
would cause application errors when the UDP length field contained
an invalid length. (MAJOR FIX)
Version 3.60.000 included the following fixes and enhancements:
- Extensively rewrote LLC and SNAP descriptions and decodes. (NEW)
- Added new IPX SAP service numbers. (NEW)
- Added new IPX socket number descriptions. (NEW)
- Added decodes for two additional IPX SAP commands. (NEW)
- Enhanced the description for LLC protocol in the Packets View.
(NEW)
- Enhanced the description for Bridge Spanning Tree protocol in
the Packets View. (NEW)
- Errors in parsing SNMP packets could cause application errors.
(FIXED)
- Invalid IP TCP/UDP packets with a source or target port
matching a known protocol may be parsed incorrectly, causing
application errors. (MAJOR FIX)
- IBM NetBIOs packets would occasionally not display correctly
due to incorrect packet size calculation. (FIXED)
- Removed spurious "<headers only>" message which appears in
NetBIOS descriptions when certain NetBIOS commands are detected
that do not have data following the headers. (FIXED)
- Added vendor name to SNAP decode in Packet Details View.
- Loading small .TPF files would abort with an "Insufficient
memory" error. (MAJOR FIX)
- Corrected several values related to the EGP decode in the
Packet Details View. (FIXED)
- Certain IP NetBIOS Datagram message types would not be decoded
correctly. (FIXED)
- Certain IP NetBIOS Session message types would not be decoded
correctly. (FIXED)
- IPX NCP "Burst" packets were incorrectly decoded in host byte
order instead of network byte order. (FIXED)
- Incorrectly labeled bits in Flags and Flags2 fields in decoded
SMB headers.
- Removed duplicate name "Datagram" from IP NetBIOs Datagram
description in Packet View.
- Removed duplicate name "Session" from IP NetBIOs Session
description in Packet View.
Version 3.54.000 included the following fixes and enhancements:
- The ability to include and exclude individual address ranges
in a capture has been added to the Addresses page of the Capture
Settings dialog box. (NEW)
- The ability to include and exclude individual address ranges
in a capture has been added to the Addresses page of the IP
Capture Wizard. (NEW)
- The ability to include and exclude individual subnet ranges
has been added to the Network Statistics Filters dialog box. (NEW)
- The ability to include and exclude individual subnet ranges
has been added to the General page of the IP Activity Filters
dialog box. (NEW)
- Fixed a problem where 8 MB of memory was being allocated, but
not used when a new Capture was started. (FIXED)
- When an address range was specified in the IP Capture Wizard,
that address range was ignored when the capture was running. (FIXED)
- A algorithm was added to prevent the exhaustion of physical
memory when loading large captures, or creating large capture
buffers. An artificial limit was created which would cause the
application to reject new captures if less than 64 MB of physical
memory was remaining. This limit has been reduced to 10 MB of
physical memory. (FIXED)
Version 3.53.000 included the following fixes and enhancements:
- The amount of memory utilized by the application while running
has been reduced further, and will not increase once the maximum
items per View has been reached. (NEW)
- The colors specified for each network protocol in the Protocol
Colors page now affects all Views, not just the Packets tab in the
Capture window. (NEW)
- Passive address resolution has been added to the Network Names
View. this feature "listens" to DNS "reverse IP lookup" responses
seen on the network, and uses the information to identify IP
addresses in each of the Views. (NEW)
- The application has been optimized for manipulating capture
files up to 256 MB in size.
- Capture files greater than 32 MB will now load noticeably
faster. (NEW)
- An option to exclude local traffic among specified subnets has
been added to the Network Statistics Filters dialog box. (NEW)
- An option to exclude local traffic among specified subnets has
been added to the IP Activity Filters dialog box.
- The ping statistics display in the Ping Remote Host dialog box
has been enhanced. (NEW)
- Fixed a problem where TracePlus would crash with an access
violation on startup if DEP support was enabled in Windows XP SP2
and Windows 2003 Server SP1. This problem is most likely to occur
on PCs with AMD Athlon 64 Family processors, as well as newer
Intel Xeon, Pentium 4, Pentium M or "Centrino" processors, and
Celeron-D processors. (MAJOR FIX)
- Loading capture files containing over 32,000 packets would
result in slow navigation times once packets were hidden using the
Hide Selected feature. (FIXED)
- The Capture Settings dialog box would not display as expected
when running under Windows XP. (FIXED)
- The Display Options dialog box would not display as expected
when running under Windows XP. (FIXED)
- If specific subnets were specified in the Network Statistics
Filters dialog box, only IP traffic would appear in the Network
Statistics View. (FIXED)
- An artificial memory limit was placed on loaded capture files
which may cap the maximum size of a capture file being loaded to
128 MB. (FIXED)
- The statistics displayed for all protocol categories in the
Inbound Traffic View were off by one column, i.e. the File Sharing
statistics were displayed in the File Transfer column. (FIXED)
- The statistics displayed for all protocol categories in the
Outbound Traffic View were off by one column, i.e. the File
Sharing statistics were displayed in the File Transfer column. (FIXED)
- The Bandwith by IP chart was calculating net bandwidth for
each unique IP address incorrectly. (FIXED)
- The Bandwith by Node chart was calculating net bandwidth for
each unique IP address incorrectly. (FIXED)The Bandwith by Protocol chart was calculating net bandwidth for
each protocol incorrectly. (FIXED)
- Invalid DNS packets encountered on the network or loaded via a
capture file would cause a stack overflow in TracePlus. (FIXED)
Version 3.50.000 included the following fixes and enhancements:
- Added a docking Network Dashboard with ten gauges (five
predefined and five programmable).
(NEW)
- The previous Dashboard View has been renamed the Network
Overview.
(NEW)
- The Bits per Second chart has been broken out into its own
View within the Network Overview and expanded to two hours of
chart history.
(NEW)
- The Packets per Second chart has been broken out into its own
View within the Network Overview and expanded to two hours of
chart history.
(NEW)
- The Utilization chart has been broken out into its own View
within the Network Overview and expanded to two hours of chart
history.
(NEW)
- The Size Distribution chart has been broken out into its own
View within the Network Overview and expanded to two hours of
chart history.
(NEW)
- A new chart entitled the ICMP Insight View has been added to
the Network Overview..
(NEW)
- A new chart entitled the TCP Insight View has been added
to the Network Overview..
(NEW)
- Two new charts titled the "Custom Chart #1" and "Custom Chart
#2" enable you to specify up to ten network protocols per chart
for monitoring purposes.
(NEW)
- Added an option "Exclude traffic within specified subnets" to
the Network Statistics Filters. This option excludes local traffic
(both addresses matching the listed subnets) from the gathering of
statistics. (NEW)
- Added an option "Exclude traffic within specified subnets" to
the IP Activity Filters. This option excludes local traffic (both
addresses matching the listed subnets) from the gathering of
statistics. (NEW)
- Added the option "Save as Bitmap" to all views that display a
chart. (NEW)
- The memory footprint of the application under typical network
conditions has been reduced 15-20%. (NEW)
- The Sizes View has been moved back to the the Network Statistics
Window.
- Added a Reset button to the Dashboard Settings dialog box.
- The Bandwith by IP chart has been modified to reject entries
with less than 1000 bytes of network traffic. (FIXED)
- The Bandwith by Node chart has been modified to reject entries
with less than 1000 bytes of network traffic. (FIXED)
- The Bandwith by Protocol chart has been modified to reject
entries with less than 1000 bytes of network traffic. (FIXED)
- The order of MDI child windows appearing in the Windows menu
has been changed so that the Network Overview and Network
Statistics View appear before the IP Activity View. (FIXED)
- An issue with the design of the Statistics View in the Network
Overview caused various repainting problems, as well as possible
GPF scenarios in the rest of the application. (FIXED)
- Two different buffer overflow issues would cause a GPF in the
application when inspecting packets for the History View. (FIXED)Numbers exceeding one million would display with commas instead of
a more compact format (ex. 4.03M). (FIXED)
- When printing any chart, the printer you specified via the Print
Setup dialog box would not used. Instead the Windows default printer
would always be selected. (FIXED)
- The Maximize and Restore options would appear in many views, but
would either be grayed out or did not work as expected. (FIXED)
- The Cancel button had disappeared from the Capture Settings dialog
box. (FIXED)
Version 3.30.000 included the following fixes and enhancements:
- A new MAC Addresses View has been added to the Network
Statistics Window. Statistics are accumulated for each unique MAC
address.
(NEW)
- The formatting of MAC addresses in all views has been improved
by including a shortened version of the vendor name in the address
(Netgear 01:50:F3).
(NEW)
- Two columns, "0-64 Bytes" and "Oversize Packets" have been
added to the packet statistics columns in the views listed below. (NEW)
| Protocol View |
Bandwidth by IP (Grid) |
| Nodes View |
Port Activity View |
| Conversations View |
|
| MAC Addresses View |
|
- A new column titled "Duration" has been added to the views
listed below. It represents the time between the last updated and
first seen times. (NEW)
| Protocol View |
Bandwidth by IP (Grid) |
| Nodes View |
Inbound Traffic View |
| Conversations View |
Outbound Traffic View |
| MAC Addresses View |
Port Activity View |
- A new column titled "Cumulative" has been added to the Packets
View. This column shows the accumulated byte count (including the
current packet). (NEW)
- A Size Distribution chart has been added to the Network
Dashboard View. Packet sizes in five size categories are graphed
over time.
(NEW)
- Up to 32 Network Statistics Filters can now be saved and
recalled. (NEW)
- The IP Activity Filters, History Filters, and the Port
Activity Filters have been integrated into a single IP Activity
dialog box. (NEW)
- Up to 32 IP Activity Filters can now be saved and recalled. (NEW)
- In the Packets View, packets may be selected using one of five
criteria: source address, destination Address, both source and
destination address, network protocol, source port (TCP/UDP/IPX),
target port (TCP/UDP/IPX), or conversation. (NEW)
- The maximum Capture buffer size has been increased. The
maximum size of the Capture buffer is related to the amount of
memory installed in your PC, as specified in the chart below. (NEW)
| Installed RAM |
Maximum Size |
| 256 MB |
32 MB |
| 512 MB |
64 MB |
| 768 MB |
96 MB |
| 1024 MB |
128 MB |
| 1280 MB |
160 MB |
| 1536 MB |
192 MB |
| 1792 MB |
224 MB |
| 2048 MB |
256 MB |
- A Network Names Settings dialog box has been added to the
Network Names View, containing options to filter network names
gathered by network protocol and IP subnet. (NEW)
- A toolbar button for the "Filters (F9)" feature has been
added. (NEW)
- A information dialog box now displays information on network
analysis when connected to a network switch. This dialog is
displayed when the application is first started, and can be
disabled if not needed. (NEW)
- The Activation Wizard now offers three ways to activate your
product: Direct (via the Internet), e-Mail, and via our Web site. (NEW)
- The four user-defined gauges in the Dashboard View have been
removed to make room for another chart.
- The Sizes View has been moved from the Network Statistics
Window to the Network Dashboard.
- Clearing a Packet Capture while it is running will corrupt
certain information needed if the Packet Capture is later saved to
disk. (FIXED)
- When waking a PC from sleep while TracePlus is running would
cause it to crash. (FIXED)
- Successively selecting packets in the Packets View, then
hiding them may cause erroneous information displayed for the
visible packets, or TracePlus may crash. (FIXED)
- Resetting the Network Statistics View would reset some
statistics in the Network Dashboard and vice versa. (FIXED)
- The Network Statistics Filters did not work as expected when
the Ok button was clicked. (FIXED)
- The Statistics tab in the Network Dashboard did not update in
realtime. (FIXED)
- IPSEC packets were being reported as a high threat level in
the Port Activity View. (FIXED)
- FTP packets transmitted on the FTP Data port were not
calculated in the FTP values displayed on the Statistics Tab. (FIXED)
Version 3.11.000 included the following fixes and enhancements:
- The Bits per Second history graph on the Network Dashboard was
revised to display peak values instead of average values. The
format of the graph was changed to "stacked" bars, and a secondary
graph was added which displays the average value as a black line.
(NEW)
- Information in the Bits per Second history graph on the
Network Dashboard can now be exported as an ASCII tab separated
file. (NEW)
- The Packets per Second history graph on the Network Dashboard
was revised to display peak values instead of average values. The
format of the graph was changed to "stacked" bars, and a secondary
graph was added which displays the average value as a black line.
(NEW)
- Information in the Packets per Second history graph on the
Network Dashboard can now be exported as an ASCII tab separated
file. (NEW)
- The Utilization per Second history graph on the Network
Dashboard was revised to display peak values instead of average
values. The format of the graph was changed to "stacked" bars, and
a secondary graph was added which displays the average value as a
black line. (NEW)
- Information in the Utilization per Second history graph on the
Network Dashboard can now be exported as an ASCII tab separated
file.
- The three graphs in the Network Dashboard were set to update
every 60 seconds in the last update, but would fall behind after a
long period of time. (FIXED)
- The Save option on the File menu was erroneously available in
the Network Dashboard. (FIXED)
- The Save option on the File menu was erroneously available in
the IP Activity View. (FIXED)
Version 3.10.000 included the following fixes and enhancements:
- An MAC address column was added to the Nodes View. (NEW)
- An MAC address column was added to the Protocols View. (NEW)
- The source and target TCP/UDP ports were added to the packet
description in the Packets View. (NEW)
- The Bits per Second history graph in the Network Dashboard was
changed to update every 60 seconds rather than 2 seconds,
therefore reflecting the last hour of activity.
- The Packets per Second history graph in the Network Dashboard
was changed to update every 60 seconds rather than 2 seconds,
therefore reflecting the last hour of activity.
- The Utilization per Second history graph in the Network
Dashboard was changed to update every 60 seconds rather than 2
seconds, therefore reflecting the last hour of activity.
- Quick access to the IP Sleuth was added to the Packets View. (NEW)
- Quick access to the IP Sleuth was added to the TCP/UDP Data
View. (NEW)
- Quick access to the IP Sleuth was added to the IP Headers
View. (NEW)
- Quick access to the IP Sleuth was added to the TCP Headers
View. (NEW)
- Entering MAC addresses anywhere in the application would be
rejected due to incorrect validation of the digits in the address.
(FIXED)
- A packet using port 53 as a source port and not actually a DNS
packet would cause TracePlus to crash when attempting to decode
the packet. (MAJOR FIX)
Version 3.09.000 included the following fixes and enhancements:
- The Bandwidth by Node view now displays the number of nodes in
the chart in the Status bar below.
- The Bandwidth by Protocol view now displays the number of
nodes in the chart in the Status bar below.
- The Bandwidth by IP view now displays the number of nodes in
the chart in the Status bar below.
- Threads related to DNS lookups were not terminating when
the application was shutting down. TracePlus might remain in
memory with no windows visible, so attempts to restart TracePlus
again would fail. (MAJOR FIX)
Version 3.08.000 included the following fixes and enhancements:
- The Bandwidth by IP view now displays the number of nodes in
the chart in the Status bar below.
- When a view reached its maximum capacities, no more new
entries would appear in the view. This affected the Protocol View,
Nodes View, Conversations View, Bandwidth by IP, Inbound/Outbound
Traffic, and Port Activity views. (MAJOR FIX)
- Added TCP/IP port definitions for eMule and Limewire P2P
applications.
- Threads related to packet capturing were not terminating when
the application was shutting down. TracePlus might remain in
memory with no windows visible, so attempts to restart TracePlus
again would fail. A second side affect of faulty thread
termination could be random GPFs when TracePlus exits. (MAJOR FIX)
- When adding or editing addresses via the Address Entry dialog
box, you are unable to enter either Address 1 or Address 2.
(MAJOR FIX)
- The Exclude TCP headers with no user data feature on the
Packets and Protocols tab of the Capture Settings dialog box
worked in reverse of what was expected. Thus TCP negotation
packets would not be displayed by default for any capture filter
containing TCP protocols.
(FIXED)
- Custom preset capture filters created by SST were not
available in either the demo or retail versions of the product.
(FIXED)
- The "Limit File size" option on the General Settings tab of
the Capture Settings dialog box has been expanded from 128 to 256
MB.
- Numeric fields in multiple dialog boxes were left justified
instead of right justified.
(FIXED)
- The Packet Size filter "0-64 bytes" would not function if the
"Undersize Packets" option was not also selected on the Packets
and Protocols tab of the Capture Settings dialog box.
(FIXED)
- The "Hex Size" option in the Data Pattern dialog box would go
up to 64 bytes, however, the maximum size of a pattern is fixed as
32 bytes.
(FIXED)
- When adding or deleting protocols from the TCP/IP Port
Definitions dialog box, TracePlus would crash when OK is pressed.
(MAJOR FIX)
- After modifying TCP/IP Port definitions, incorrect protocol
names would be displayed. (FIXED)
- The charts displayed in the Network Statistics View have been
changed from 3D bar charts to line charts, so trends may be more
accurately identified.
- Adjusted packet capturing performance for high bandwidth
networks.
Version 3.04.000 included the following fixes and enhancements:
- When starting a capture, selecting a preset filter that includes IP protocols would not capture
the specified IP protocols.
(FIXED)
- When selecting packets in the Packet View using a filter,
selecting a preset filter that includes IP protocols
would not select the specified IP packets. (FIXED)
- The Print feature in many of the IP Activity View panes did
not function correctly. (FIXED)
- Adding or removing port definitions in the TCP/UDP Port
Definitions dialog box caused TracePlus to crash . (FIXED)
- Adding or removing port definitions in the TCP/UDP Port
Definitions dialog box caused TracePlus to display incorrect
protocol names . (FIXED)
- The IP Sleuth feature did not appear in the
context menus of Views that contained pairs of IP addresses.
(FIXED)
- The Ping feature did not appear in the
context menus of Views that contained pairs of IP addresses.
(FIXED)
- Updated logic when tracing IP addresses using the IP Sleuth.
- Updated logic when pinging IP addresses using the Ping
feature.
