Ethereal-announce: [ethereal-announce] Ethereal 0.7.8 available

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From: Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 22:16:07 -0600
Ethereal 0.7.8 is now available for download from

ftp://ethereal.zing.org/pub/ethereal/ethereal-0.7.8.tar.gz

The Ethereal Home Page is at http://ethereal.zing.org/

Many new protocol decoders were added in this version.
They are: RPC, NFS, IGRP, EIGRP, IMAP, LAPD, Q.931,
bootparams, ypserv, mount, stat, MAPI, NLM,
SAP, ILMI, SSCOP, Q.2931, VRRP, HSRP, and Auto-RP.

Many other protocols were updated.

New features include:
* AIX and IBM C compiler fixes
* "Print" button in TCP Follow window
* "Find Frame" function
* "Go to frame" function
* "Match selected" produces display filters with field names
* Display filter "Reset" button
* More filterable fields
* IPv4 address comparison and subnet testing in display filters
* IPX packet summary resolves IPX network names and MAC addresses
* SNA packets show hex dump with EBCDIC converted to ASCII
* Support for newer libpcaps, and broken RH 6.1 libpcap
* Wiretap support for Toshiba ISDN router traces
* Wiretap support for ATM iptrace files

Enjoy!

--gilbert