New in v 1.51

BGP

• BGP memory usage adjustments, means FB2900 can take full table now.
• Added AS-Path checks to BGP route filtering

Config

• Renamed log-panic to log-support, as we may log other unusual events to fb-support and not just stack trace / panics

DHCP

• Revert minor change in DHCP/DNS which was causing problems

General

• Some minor optimisations

L2TP

• Adjustments to ICMP logic for trace route though L2TP
• Various performance enhancements
• Local config for L2TP relay now allows relay via another table (payload-table)
• Fix missing TID in L2TP tunnel status page
• L2TP session xml url checking number is only number

Logging

• Additional direct log-panic logging to try and find specific issue in recent code.

NTP

• Restructure client with minor improvements prior to introduction of full NTP server
• NTP server introduced. Early release - may not be stable.
• Support clients using older versions of NTP protocol
• DHCP serves FireBrick IP for NTP now (unless otherwise set in DHCP config)
• Minor fixes, and a change to maxpoll and minpoll to use duration in config.
• Various minor updates on NTP
• Further NTP bugfixes, including earlier setting of system time.
• Further improvement to NTP system clock conditioning
• Improve NTP status message on main status page
• Added UI status page and CLI status; other minor improvements
• Improved status output
• Fix crash when adding/removing time service in config
• Yet more UI status improvements
• NTP time adjustments are now applied smoothly by OS time conditioning
• Improved access checking
• NTP control (ntpq) access now defaults to true. UI diagnostic access check page was not displaying correct details for NTP.
• Fixed possible crash after peer drop
• Fix problem with time quickstep (mainly showing on 2700)
• Fix NTP status erroneously reported as Acquiring after config change. Improve NTP server stateup/shutdown.

OS

• Minor changes to boot time calculation
• Avoid boot time appearing negative when time is adjusted

Ping

• Added ping size option to bulk ping logic (+size after IP and #table)

PPPoE

• pd-interface default on PPPoE excludes interfaces marked wan

RADIUS

• ERX-Tunnel-Switch-Profile untagged even in tagged responses (for Talk Talk working)

Session tracking

• Change to logic for set-graph-dynamic which was not setting speeds based on set-graph but on set-reverse-graph.
• Edge case in use of NAT-PMP/PCP causing crash, fixed

Shaper

• Shared shaper changed to allow > 4Gb/s total (new version, so all sharing systems need update at same time)

Shaping

• Catch some edge cases in session tracking shaper set up that seem to cause a crash

UI

• Minor tweaks to UI colouring. Ping/Traceroute display is banded for better visibility.
• Fix typo in UI on TCP stress test page.
• Fixed NTP status submenu highlighting
• Improve page layout when left-hand menu pane is tall

USB

• Fix problem with USB reuse

Various

• Some final tweaks before being ready for next release

Web config

• Profile page layout tweaked

Web control pages

• Live update of uptime, time, and RAM usage in status page
• Minor change to way status web page shows