[Xorp-users] XORP version 1.8.5 is released.

Ben Greear greearb at candelatech.com
Wed Jan 11 17:36:17 PST 2012


This release fixes some major bugs with OSPF and GRE.

Highlights are below:

Release 1.8.5

    *  Fix bad OSPF bug that made neighbours very slow to go to Full
       state in large and/or lossy OSPF router configurations.  Thanks
       to Iqor for access to test systems and for funding this effort.

    *  Compile in build-information to better track versions in logs and
       bug reports.

    *  Optimize logging to check the log level before doing the work to
       create the logging messages.  Simplify a lot of the related code.
       Runtime should be faster, but executable size is slightly larger.

    *  netbsd:  Fix compile on netbsd, properly detect IPv6 Multicast
       routing support, fix a few bugs related to multicast.  It *might*
       work now, but seeing spurious failures when trying the MRT6_ADD_MIF
       call.  Thanks to Uwe <6bone at 6bone.informatik.uni-leipzig.de> for
       access to netbsd boxes and testing work.

    *  Fix multicast over GRE tunnels.  Anything else over GRE also has
       a chance to work now.  Thanks to J G Miller for bug reporting and
       testing.

    *  ARM:  Fix raw-sockets on some ARM platforms.  The scons checks
       were lame at best.  They are still suspect, but now unknown will
       be treated as supporting IPV4 raw input/output.  If we find other
       systems that do NOT support this (freebsd, netbsd??), we can update
       the scons accordingly and/or find a way to do the detection more
       proper.  Thanks to J G Miller for doing tests on his ARM box.

    *  Fix compile on Ubuntu 11.10 (and perhaps other recent systems).


Please follow the various links at www.xorp.org for full release notes, binary
downloads, source-code, etc.

Please post to the list if you notice any problems.

Thanks,
Ben


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Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com



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