What's new in IP-Tools 3.00
Feb 8, 2024
- Speed improvements. The following tools work faster, in some cases much faster:
- Name Scanner
- SNMP Scanner
- Port Scanner
- UDP Scanner
- Ping Scanner
- Port Scanner improvements:
- New version works much faster, especially when you are checking large set of hosts
- Now IP-Tools offers 2 timeout options for Port Scanner:
- - one timeout tells how long to wait for TCP connection;
- - another timeout tells how long wait for data from server when "Show remote service messages" option enabled.
- Added "Show only hosts with open ports" option. If this option is enabled, IP-Tools will not display any information about hosts with undetected ports.
- Added "View as text/hex" popup menu item. If long or non-ascii data was received from the server, you can right-click in the response line and select "View as text/hex" item. IP-Tools will open an additional window and display server's response in text and hexadecimal formats
- Ping Scanner improvements:
- New version works much faster, especially when you are checking large set of hosts
- Scanner shows statistics in one line: number of received packets, loss ratio, average response time, minimum and maximum response time, jitter
- Added RCMP ping mode. Unlike ICMP ping, this mode allows to check powered off servers. Note: not every server supports RMCP and IPMI protocols.
- Continuous testing mode has been improved. Scanner collects statistics, shows data related to recent probes and cummulative counters
- SendMail utility improved:
- SendMail may work with OpenSSL v 1.1, 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, now supports TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.3 (secured and encrypted connections). You may set TLS option to "None" to use unencrypted connection, select "Implicit" or "Explicit" (StartTLS) modes to use encrypted connection.
- The following issues were resolved:
- Local Info tool could not get some CPU information on Windows 11. Fixed
- UDP Scanner: sorting by IP address could work incorrectly. Fixed
- Some Windows updates could lead to font related problems. New IP-Tools and SendMail works fine in this case
New in IP-Tools 2.78 (Mar 9, 2018)
- Improved System Info tool - works much faster when SNMP v2 protocol used
- Improved WhoIS tools - updated list of servers, improved "server autodetect" algorithm, improved IP-requests processing
- Improved Get Time tool - you can specify target port; if you specify port 37, IP-Tools will use Time protocol (over TCP), otherwise NTP protocol will be used (default NTP port 123)
- Improved setup and uninstall utilities
New in IP-Tools 2.70 (Jan 17, 2016)
- Improvements:
- System Info tool uses various protocols to collect data and shows information related to selected remote host
- system uptime, OS version, build
- disk, memory usage on Windows systems
- disk, memory usage and system load on Unix systems
- memory usage and system load on some Cisco routers
- network interfaces on various network devices
- opened TCP ports and established TCP connections
- running processes on Windows and Unix systems
- installed software on Windows and Unix systems
- System Info tool can be called from SNMP Scanner tool - just select discovered SNMP enabled host and click on popup menu item "System Info". Also you may use main menu Tools -> System info, in this case you need to provide target hostname or IP address, SNMP related information, etc. SNMP Scanner and System Info tools keep list of discovered devices so you may choose target host from drop down list, in this case SNMP related fields will be set automatically
New in IP-Tools 2.60 (Jan 17, 2016)
- Improvement:
- SNMP Scanner utility allows you to choose SNMP protocol version (SNMP v1 or v2c)
- The following issues were resolved:
- Scanners did not scan hosts with addresses like 10.10.0.1, 10.10.0.5, 192.168.0.100 Fixed
- On some systems Local info -> Route table utility could display error message. Fixed
New in IP-Tools 2.58 (Dec 12, 2008)
- Improvements:
- Trace utility supports IP protocol version 6 on Windows XP SP2, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003 and 2008
- HostMonitor utility supports new %HostComment% variable
- The following issue was resolved:
- "Local Info" utility could show errors on Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. Fixed
New in IP-Tools 2.56 (Jul 25, 2008)
- NS Lookup utility allows you to request AAAA (IPv6 address) and SPF records
- GetTime utility: updated list of time servers; improved diagnostics
- HostMonitor utility support IP protocol version 6 on Windows XP SP2, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003 and 2008