Latest IANA updates (protocol numbers, etc).

New Auto-start on launch user preference. If enabled, FrameSeer automatically begins capturing on the default interface for the first window to open after FrameSeer launches.

New DNS tab in user preferences.

DNS Resolution during capture

A popup menu with three values:

• Not allowed — behaves as for previous versions of FrameSeer where DNS resolution is not allowed while a capture is running.

• Turn off when Start clicked — allows DNS resolution to be toggled while a capture is running but sets it off by default.

• Turn on when Start clicked — allows DNS resolution to be toggled while a capture is running but sets it on by default.

DNS Timeout

A slider that operates in the range of 4..60 seconds with a default of 15 seconds. DNS queries are issued with this timeout.

Disable DNS resolution on timeout

Current versions of FrameSeer turn off DNS resolution if a timeout occurs (because it generally indicates a problem with the DNS). This checkbox is enabled by default. Turning it off causes FrameSeer to continue processing the resolver queue. Note that queries that cause a timeout are not retried in the same FrameSeer session.

Layer menu and slider setting values now saved in user preferences for all taffic tab views.

Adds shortcuts to all commands in the Select menu (user request).

Latest IANA updates (protocol numbers, etc).

Released as a universal binary. Now requires Mac OS X 10.4.5 (Tiger) or later.

Corrects a minor problem in the Preferences pane where the packet sequence number could not be selected in the Capture Tab Columns popup menu.

Corrects a problem where FrameSeer will not install properly when the user is logged-in as root (PSRK6137A).

Please note: LGOSystems does not recommend that users enable the root account on Mac OS X systems because it represents a potential security risk.

/Library/Application Support/LGOSystems/

• The Capturing tab in the Preferences window has been split into two tabs named “Document” and “Capturing”. The Document tab contains preferences that are applied when a new capture document is created. The Capturing tab contains preferences that are applied each time the Start button is clicked.
• The Auto-open filter drawer preference now allows the user to decide how the Filter Selection drawer will behave when a new capture document is opened. Options are to keep the drawer closed, to always open on the left edge, to always open on the right edge, or to let Mac OS X choose the edge based upon available space.
• Adds the Automatic scrolling during dynamic display preference to set the intial value of the Auto scroll command as noted above.
• Adds a Security tab as noted above.
• Removes the Licencing tab as noted above.

• an administrator, FrameSeer sets Grant to Administrators Only;
• not an administrator, FrameSeer sets Grant to All Users.

• Significant improvement in non-dynamic capture performance. Testing on 500MHz G4 systems shows that FrameSeer can usually call upon tcpdump to capture 64-byte packet slices on a busy 100mbps Ethernet without significant loss (for those interested in the gory details, the bottleneck appeared to be in either the Unix pipes mechanism or Cocoa's NSTask API; FrameSeer now only uses NSTask/pipes for dynamic capture).
• Holding down the Option key when clicking on the Start button inverts the meaning of the Dynamic Display user preference.

• All privileges revoked;
• Grant privileges to Administrators only (this is the first-launch default); and
• Grant privileges to all users (this was the default for earlier versions of FrameSeer).

• Filters in both the Filter Specification window and Filter Selection drawer now sort in alphabetical order by filter name.
• Where appropriate, filter presets now use protocol names rather than numbers.
• PPPoE presets in the Data Link Frame Type combo box of the Filter Definitions window now use the correct protocol numbers.
• A new user preference (Auto-Open Filter Drawer) controls whether the Filter Selection Drawer opens automatically whenever a new window opens. The preference is enabled by default. This is both a convenience for users who routinely select filters and also a way of helping new FrameSeer users to discover the filtering mechanisms.

• Frames where both the source and destination ports were unnamed did not appear in the Transport Protocol map. Such frames are now counted as "(other)".
• Horizontal labels in Protocol and Size tabs are fully visible in the default-size window.

• A new user preference (Save Document Location) saves the on-screen location and size of the last window closed and uses it as a hint for placement of new windows. The preference is disabled by default. See FrameSeer's online documentation for additional information.
• Internal decode tables updated to use latest IANA protocol numbers.