What is new in TrafMeter?

TrafMeter 5.6 (01/13/2005)

• Added capturing the packets from up to 32 network adapters simultaneously
• Added a feature for zeroing the traffic counters on a daily or monthly basis
• Added a feature for reloading the filterset "on the fly"
• New XP icons on the toolbar in TrafMeter Administrative Console
• Fixed bug of viewing the service status by Mozilla Forefox browser

TrafMeter 5.5 (12/14/2004)

• New optimization for memory usage for the filterset
• Unlimited number of rules in the filters
• New features for creating rules: processing SYN flag in TCP packet, detecting ICMP echo reply packets
• Using char data type for storing counters in a database (maybe useful for Microsoft Access Database because it doesn't have bigint data type)
• Visual improvements in TrafMeter Administrative Console: XP styles, XP menu

TrafMeter 5.2 (10/26/2004)

• New feature: Counting unencrypted VPN packets captured from Ethernet interface. VPN packets can be compressed using MPPC algorithm (RFC 2118).
• Added a feature to exclude recording traffic counters of specific filters to reports.
• Added a feature to use function CONVERT() while recording HTTP Host Headers into MSSQL database.
• Packet Collector is expanded in 2 times.

TrafMeter 5.1 (09/29/2004)

• TrafMeter package contains new tool for viewing the Traffic Reports (trafreport.exe)

TrafMeter 5.0 (08/31/2004)

• The program has been splitted in two versions: TrafMeter and TrafMeter Lite.
• Support a traffic capture from USB network devices.
• Added a faster access to Traffic Reports from System Tray (using TrafMeter Service Monitor).
• New rule condition allows to count a traffic depending on a time and a day of week.
• Added a feature for changing a number of bytes in megabytes.
• Copying filters within the filterset allows setting up filters based on filter template.
• An optimized logic of recording data in databases.
• Auto scaling mode for traffic graph.
• A lot of minor tweaks.

TrafMeter 4.4 (04/12/2004)

• Local Address Table (LAT) can hold unlimited number of records
• Fast algorithm for searching an address inside LAT
• New delimiter between starting IP address and ending IP address during importing LAT from an external plaintext file (see manual)
• Important notice for upgrading from TrafMeter 4.3 and lower: LAT must not contain overlapped ranges of IP addresses pairs
• Added 2-hour traffic samples in monthly XML traffic report
• Fixed bug with updating a link to XSL file in a prolog of XML traffic reports

TrafMeter 4.3 (12/18/2003)

• Added Host Header Logging. This allows recording into plaintext file or into database the host names obtained by analyzing a content of HTTP request and an amount of transferred bytes during HTTP session.

TrafMeter 4.2 (11/26/2003)

• New optimized protocol of exchanging data between TrafMeter Service and TrafMeter Administration Console
• Switсhing a visible/invisible state of color curves on the graph by "one click"

TrafMeter 4.1 (11/10/2003)

• Restarting TrafMeter Service using TrafMeter Service Monitor
• Fixed bug with incorrect displaying a name of the network adapter after its selection

TrafMeter 4.0 (10/08/2003)

The important changes since TrafMeter 3.40:

• New packet capture engine allowing to block packets like the firewall
• Capturing the packets from the several network adapters simultaneously
• Running as the "native" Windows NT service
• Remote administration
• New features in XML Traffic Reports
• Traffic limits