1 * Fri Dec 17 2004 Brendan O'Dea <bod@optusnet.com.au> 2.0.13
2 - Better cluster master collision resolution: keep a counter of state
3 changes, propagated in the heartbeats; the master with the highest #
4 of changes (that has kept in contact with the LAC through the
6 - Skip newlines in ringbuffer messages to CLI.
7 - Drop "Session N is closing" message level to 4; don't process PPPIP
9 - Use gzip --best for man pages, include pid_file in sample
10 startup-config (from Jonathan's Debian package patches).
11 - Read multiple packets off cluster_sockfd as well as udpfd, tunfd in an
12 attempt to avoid losing the cluster in high load (DoS) conditions.
13 - Add counters for select_called, select_ready and select_processed.
15 - Retain counters of shutdown sessions to dump once per minute.
16 - Use standard uintN_t types for portability.
18 * Wed Dec 1 2004 Brendan O'Dea <bod@optusnet.com.au> 2.0.12
19 - The "This time, for sure!" release.
20 - Fix throttlectl plugin argument parsing.
22 * Wed Dec 1 2004 Brendan O'Dea <bod@optusnet.com.au> 2.0.11
23 - Don't send a RADIUS start record when ungardening on shutdown.
25 * Wed Dec 1 2004 Brendan O'Dea <bod@optusnet.com.au> 2.0.10
26 - Fix byte ordering of LCP header length (thanks Yuri).
27 - Increase ip_conntrack_max due to dropped packets.
29 * Tue Nov 30 2004 Brendan O'Dea <bod@optusnet.com.au> 2.0.9
30 - Revise CCP, send ConfigReq once only.
31 - Don't copy the old buffer into Config{Nak,Rej} LCP responses (oops);
32 add length checks when appending.
33 - Do copy the identifier from the request and update length.
34 - Have makeppp print a backtrace on overflow.
35 - Check control serial before clearing window, prevents looping tunnel
36 setup in some instances.
37 - Implement named access-lists which may be applied to a session
38 either via Filter-Id RADIUS responses, or using the CLI.
39 - Drop ip address from LOG.
40 - autothrottle: revise parsing; ignore lcp:interface-config avpairs
41 which don't start with serv[ice-policy].
44 * Sat Nov 20 2004 Brendan O'Dea <bod@optusnet.com.au> 2.0.8
45 - Ignore gateway address in Framed-Route (from Jonathan McDowell).
46 - Don't route Framed-IP-Address if contained in a Framed-Route.
47 - Call sessionshutdown() when a tunnel is dropped rather than
48 sessionkill() to ensure that RADIUS stop records are sent.
49 - Cleanup: make a bunch of global functions/variables static.
50 - Remove reference to old -a command line argument.
51 - Add l2tpns(8) and nsctl(8) manpages from Jonathan McDowell.
52 - Add startup-config(5) manpage.
53 - Revise nsctl to allow arbitrary strings/args to be passed to plugins.
54 - Add snoopctl, throttlectl plugins.
55 - Fix deletion from linked list.
56 - Allow LCP re-negotiation after connection completes (thanks Yuri).
58 * Mon Nov 15 2004 Brendan O'Dea <bod@optusnet.com.au> 2.0.7
59 - Fix socket creation in host_unreachable() (thanks to Bjørn Augestad)
60 - Don't assume BGP peer sends back negotiated hold time, pick smallest
62 * Thu Nov 11 2004 Brendan O'Dea <bod@optusnet.com.au> 2.0.6
63 - Make BGP keepalive/hold time configurable
64 - Revise BGP config to use "router bgp AS" syntax (requires libcli >= 1.8.2)
66 * Tue Nov 9 2004 Brendan O'Dea <bod@optusnet.com.au> 2.0.5
67 - Handle routing properly in lone-master case
68 - Fix intercepts: don't double-snoop throttled customers, ensure
69 byte/packet counts are only updated once
70 - Add a callback to allow plugins to fetch values from the running config
72 * Mon Nov 8 2004 Brendan O'Dea <bod@optusnet.com.au> 2.0.4
73 - Added setrxspeed plugin
74 - Added peer_address config option
75 - Rename wrapper macros to LOG()/LOG_HEX(), use p->log() in plugins
76 - Replace some PPP{PAP,CHAP} magic numebrs with constants
77 - Nak asyncmap (unless == 0)
78 - Bundle ConfigRej options
79 - Clean up initlcp handling
81 * Wed Nov 3 2004 Brendan O'Dea <bod@optusnet.com.au> 2.0.3
82 - Added support for hidden AVPs by Robert Clark
83 - l2tpns-chap-response.patch from Robert Clark
84 - Merge l2tpns-config-hostname.patch from Robert Clark
85 - l2tpns-dont-timeshift-unidirectional-traffic.patch from Robert Clark - Dump accounting data if cin OR cout is non-zero
86 - Don't write accounting files if no accounting dir is set - Yuri
87 - Fix checking for mmap success
88 - Renegotiate MRU - Yuri
89 - Take LCP ConfigReq length from the packet length field - Yuri
90 - Hostname set via command line not config
91 - Make number of throttle buckets configurable
92 - Shared_malloc returns NULL on failure
94 - Unfsck 4->8 indenting change
95 - Use 2 seperate u16 values for throttle rate in/out
96 - Defer adding radius fds to the select loop until become_master
98 * Thu Sep 02 2004 David Parrish <david@dparrish.com> 2.0.2
99 - Combined LCP patches from Iain and Yuri. This should allow Windows 2k/XP
100 clients to connect, as well Linksys DSL modems.
101 - Apply patch to fix -v option from Juergen Kammer.
102 - Makefile fix from Juergen Kammer to not overwrite existing config files on
104 - Configurable radius port patch from Juergen Kammer.
105 - Send my_address if no bind_address when doing IPCP
106 - Write pid file if filename is set
107 - Add startup script and monitor script from Yuri
108 - Some logging correctness fixes from Iain Wade
109 - Add support for LCP Ident and CallBack (rejection only) from Yuri
110 - Initiate LCP if not attempted by the client, or in renegotiation - Yuri
111 - Indentation and style cleanups
112 - Per-user upload and download throttle rates - Yuri
113 - Make autothrottle.so understand cisco lcp:interface-config - Yuri
114 - Show filter stats in show session - Yuri
115 - Cleanup from Michael to change sid to unique_id
116 - Add plugin to remove domain name from auth requests
117 - Add .spec file for RPM generation
119 * Tue Jul 13 2004 Brendan O'Dea <bod@optusnet.com.au> 2.0.1
120 - Update INSTALL, Docs/manual.html documentation.
121 - Add INTERNALS documentation.
122 - Add lock_pages option.
123 - TerminateAck fix from Yuri
124 - Adject cli_loop args for libcli 1.8.0
125 - Allow for backward compatabity in C_PING packets
126 - Don't send RADIUS stop messages from sessionshutdown when called from
129 - Fix for LASTSEEN breakage: don't do anything in the CLI other than
130 flag changes to be made by the parent.
131 - Split out master parts from cluster_check_master() into cluster_check_slaves().
132 - Set hostname in CLI prompt.
133 - Make cluster_hb_interval work; include interval/timeout in heartbeats
134 so that a change on the master is propagated immediately to the slaves.
135 - Use fast heartbeats when there are slaves not up to date.
136 - Ensure basetime of shut down master is set to zero (prevent delayed election).
137 - Fix radius session leak on IPCP timeout.
138 - Fix some off-by-one errors in tunnel/session loops.
139 - Add "limp along" fix for when a slave drops temporarily from the mcast group.
140 - Rename l2tpns.cfg as startup-config to match CONFIGFILE.
141 - Update cli callbacks to work with libcli 1.6.
142 This supports privileged and unprivileged commands, as well as a configuration
144 - Add help for all cli commands.
145 - Add "show version" command.
146 - Fix uptime counter display.
147 - Fix nasty bug where cluster basetime can be set to 0 when sending initial
149 - Don't rmmod ip_conntrack, as this can take a lot of time.
150 - Re-order logging in routeset such that the action is given before any error.
151 - Use the correct gateway address when deleting routes.
152 - Remove any routes when address changes.
153 - Require authentication if telnet from remote ip.
154 - Require enable password always.
155 - Return error if show pool done on slave.
156 - We MUST immediately exit if we're the wrong master!
158 * Wed Jun 23 2004 David Parrish <david@dparrish.com> 2.0.0
160 - Completely replace active/standby clustering with a new peer-to-peer
161 clustering method which allows much greater throughput and is a lot more fault
163 - Add internal tbf implementation for throttling without relying on tc and
165 - Add support for iBGP and eBGP to advertise routes
166 - Add cli commands "show cluster", "show bgp", "show ipcache", "show throttle",
167 "show tbf", "suspend bgp", "restart bgp", "show user"
168 - Interception destination must be set per-user
169 - If SMP machine, allow use of SCHED_FIFO, which should improve performance
170 - Added config option to send GARP at startup
171 - Added plugin_become_master and plugin_new_session_master plugin hooks
172 - Remove useless sessionsendarp(). This isn't needed now that we are using TUN
174 - ICMP rate limiting so not every unreachable packet is replied with an ICMP
176 - mangle table is not required on anything but the cluster master, so slaves
177 will drop the mangle table and attempt to unload the ip_conntrack module
178 - Statically assigned IP addresses (by Radius) work now
179 - Add -d command-line flag to detach and become a daemon
180 - Configuration file is now "/etc/l2tpns/startup-config"
181 - Reduced MIN_IP_SIZE to 0x19 to stop a pile of Short IP warnings
182 - Resend initial IPCP request until it's acknowleged by the client
183 - Better radius session cleanup logic
184 - Many miscellaenous bugfixes and performance enhancements
185 - Thanks to Michael O'Reilly and Brendan O'Dea for most of these new features
187 * Mon May 24 2004 David Parrish <david@dparrish.com> 1.2.0
188 - Fix SEGFAULT in garden module
189 - Use multiple radius sockets to allow more concurrent authentication requests
190 - Add username parameter to "show users" command
191 - Fix counting tunnel rx errors as tunnel tx errors
192 - Add "show throttle" command
193 - Add gcc __attribute__ to logging functions
194 - Fix warnings shown by __attribute__
195 - Make sure regular cleanup happens regularly under high load
196 - Add variable cleanup_interval for changing cleanup interval
197 - Add support for reading more than one packet per fd in each processing loop
198 - This is configurable with the multi_read_count variable
199 - Remove segv handler so core dumps can happen
200 - Use nonblocking sockets
201 - Increase tun queue length
202 - Fix minimum length of IP packets
203 - Remove per-packet plugin hooks (they are slow)
204 - Don't drop session if no free RADIUS
205 - Don't expire more than 1000 sessions per cleanup interval
206 - Remove -a and -c command-line options. They don't work anyway
207 - Don't require file: in log_filename
208 - Bump version to 1.2.0
209 - Check return code when throttling users
211 * Mon Apr 5 2004 David Parrish <david@dparrish.com> 1.1.1
212 - Don't mention configure anymore, it's not used
213 - Added the autosnoop and autothrottle modules
214 - Don't default to using a htb for the class root
216 * Fri Mar 5 2004 David Parrish <david@dparrish.com> 1.1.0
217 - Change all strcpy() calls to strncpy() to avoid buffer overflow potential
218 - Add ICMP host unreachable support
219 - Logging to syslog if log_file = "syslog:facility"
220 - Now requires libcli 1.5
221 - All configuration moves to a config structure
222 - Ability to modify and write config on the fly through command-line interface
223 - Config file support is removed, and now handled by the cli
224 - Show hostname in cli prompt
225 - Keep current state type for tunnels
226 - Add uptime command do CLI, which also shows real-time bandwidth utilisation
227 - Add goodbye command to cluster master, which forces droppping a slave
228 - Cache IP address allocation, so that reconnecting users get the same address
229 - Fix tunnel resend timeouts, so that dead tunnels will be cleaned up
230 - Allocate tunnels and radius without using a linked list which had issues
231 - Fix some off-by-one errors in tunnel and session and radius arrays
232 - Save and reload ip address pool when dieing
233 - Check version and size of reloaded data when restarting
234 - Remove plugin_config support
235 - Remove old support for TBF which didn't work anyway. HTB is required to do throttling now.
236 - Add COPYING and Changes files