[Kde-announce-apps] KSniffer 0.2 alpha1

[Giovanni Venturi]

Name: KSniffer
Version: 0.2 alpha1
Type: Networking Tool
Depend: KDE 3.3.x
License: GPL
Homepage: http://www.ksniffer.org
More Info:
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=26258

Description:
 This application is a sniffing application for
KDE. It's in the starting release... This version
is the first real stable release... It needs a lot
of feature I'm working on it. The last code
release is into SVN KDE in
trunk/playground/network . 

Help is needed. If you want to make KSniffer
useful you're welcome. A list of things to do is
in TODO file.

The version 0.2 alpha1 is not stable version that
should work fine, but can give you problems.
Feedbacks on features and bugs are welcome to
release in next months (or maybe weeks) the
version 0.2 final. This version was released
without translations.

Changelog:
  - show/hide KSniffer in the system tray bar
 - added KSniffer option dialog:
   - sniffer settings:
      * display packets after you stopped capture
available
   - capture settings:
      * stop manually
      * stop after X packets
      * stop after X
bytes/kilobytes/megabyes/gigabytes
 - added data for TCP detail display
 - added pause/continue capture
 - reading ports name from system (file
/etc/services)
 - quick search added (dependancy from kdelibs >=
3.3)
 - better management for loading file
 - better management for temporary file
 - root privileges don't need anymore for the GUI
 - removed sorting feature cause of Qt bad
performing for lots of packets
 - getting information on IP: can be detected some
networking information
   on source or destination selected IP:
     * whois
     * traceroute
     * ping
     * dig
     * host
     * nslookup

- open recent file
- starting network packet-capture session
- opening libpcap format file
- saving in libpcap format file the captured
packet session
- stopping network packet-capture session
- tray bar menu
- packet details display with sorting
- detected protocols: IP, TCP, UDP, ICMP, ARP