1 * Sat Dec 18 2004 Brendan O'Dea <bod@optusnet.com.au> 2.1.0
2 - Add IPv6 support from Jonathan McDowell (work in progress).
4 * Fri Dec 17 2004 Brendan O'Dea <bod@optusnet.com.au> 2.0.13
5 - Better cluster master collision resolution: keep a counter of state
6 changes, propagated in the heartbeats; the master with the highest #
7 of changes (that has kept in contact with the LAC through the
9 - Skip newlines in ringbuffer messages to CLI.
10 - Drop "Session N is closing" message level to 4; don't process PPPIP
11 packets in this state.
12 - Use gzip --best for man pages, include pid_file in sample
13 startup-config (from Jonathan's Debian package patches).
14 - Read multiple packets off cluster_sockfd as well as udpfd, tunfd in an
15 attempt to avoid losing the cluster in high load (DoS) conditions.
16 - Add counters for select_called, multi_read_used and multi_read_exceeded.
18 - Retain counters of shutdown sessions to dump once per minute.
19 - Use standard uintN_t types for portability.
21 * Wed Dec 1 2004 Brendan O'Dea <bod@optusnet.com.au> 2.0.12
22 - The "This time, for sure!" release.
23 - Fix throttlectl plugin argument parsing.
25 * Wed Dec 1 2004 Brendan O'Dea <bod@optusnet.com.au> 2.0.11
26 - Don't send a RADIUS start record when ungardening on shutdown.
28 * Wed Dec 1 2004 Brendan O'Dea <bod@optusnet.com.au> 2.0.10
29 - Fix byte ordering of LCP header length (thanks Yuri).
30 - Increase ip_conntrack_max due to dropped packets.
32 * Tue Nov 30 2004 Brendan O'Dea <bod@optusnet.com.au> 2.0.9
33 - Revise CCP, send ConfigReq once only.
34 - Don't copy the old buffer into Config{Nak,Rej} LCP responses (oops);
35 add length checks when appending.
36 - Do copy the identifier from the request and update length.
37 - Have makeppp print a backtrace on overflow.
38 - Check control serial before clearing window, prevents looping tunnel
39 setup in some instances.
40 - Implement named access-lists which may be applied to a session
41 either via Filter-Id RADIUS responses, or using the CLI.
42 - Drop ip address from LOG.
43 - autothrottle: revise parsing; ignore lcp:interface-config avpairs
44 which don't start with serv[ice-policy].
47 * Sat Nov 20 2004 Brendan O'Dea <bod@optusnet.com.au> 2.0.8
48 - Ignore gateway address in Framed-Route (from Jonathan McDowell).
49 - Don't route Framed-IP-Address if contained in a Framed-Route.
50 - Call sessionshutdown() when a tunnel is dropped rather than
51 sessionkill() to ensure that RADIUS stop records are sent.
52 - Cleanup: make a bunch of global functions/variables static.
53 - Remove reference to old -a command line argument.
54 - Add l2tpns(8) and nsctl(8) manpages from Jonathan McDowell.
55 - Add startup-config(5) manpage.
56 - Revise nsctl to allow arbitrary strings/args to be passed to plugins.
57 - Add snoopctl, throttlectl plugins.
58 - Fix deletion from linked list.
59 - Allow LCP re-negotiation after connection completes (thanks Yuri).
61 * Mon Nov 15 2004 Brendan O'Dea <bod@optusnet.com.au> 2.0.7
62 - Fix socket creation in host_unreachable() (thanks to Bjørn Augestad)
63 - Don't assume BGP peer sends back negotiated hold time, pick smallest
65 * Thu Nov 11 2004 Brendan O'Dea <bod@optusnet.com.au> 2.0.6
66 - Make BGP keepalive/hold time configurable
67 - Revise BGP config to use "router bgp AS" syntax (requires libcli >= 1.8.2)
69 * Tue Nov 9 2004 Brendan O'Dea <bod@optusnet.com.au> 2.0.5
70 - Handle routing properly in lone-master case
71 - Fix intercepts: don't double-snoop throttled customers, ensure
72 byte/packet counts are only updated once
73 - Add a callback to allow plugins to fetch values from the running config
75 * Mon Nov 8 2004 Brendan O'Dea <bod@optusnet.com.au> 2.0.4
76 - Added setrxspeed plugin
77 - Added peer_address config option
78 - Rename wrapper macros to LOG()/LOG_HEX(), use p->log() in plugins
79 - Replace some PPP{PAP,CHAP} magic numebrs with constants
80 - Nak asyncmap (unless == 0)
81 - Bundle ConfigRej options
82 - Clean up initlcp handling
84 * Wed Nov 3 2004 Brendan O'Dea <bod@optusnet.com.au> 2.0.3
85 - Added support for hidden AVPs by Robert Clark
86 - l2tpns-chap-response.patch from Robert Clark
87 - Merge l2tpns-config-hostname.patch from Robert Clark
88 - l2tpns-dont-timeshift-unidirectional-traffic.patch from Robert Clark - Dump accounting data if cin OR cout is non-zero
89 - Don't write accounting files if no accounting dir is set - Yuri
90 - Fix checking for mmap success
91 - Renegotiate MRU - Yuri
92 - Take LCP ConfigReq length from the packet length field - Yuri
93 - Hostname set via command line not config
94 - Make number of throttle buckets configurable
95 - Shared_malloc returns NULL on failure
97 - Unfsck 4->8 indenting change
98 - Use 2 seperate u16 values for throttle rate in/out
99 - Defer adding radius fds to the select loop until become_master
101 * Thu Sep 02 2004 David Parrish <david@dparrish.com> 2.0.2
102 - Combined LCP patches from Iain and Yuri. This should allow Windows 2k/XP
103 clients to connect, as well Linksys DSL modems.
104 - Apply patch to fix -v option from Juergen Kammer.
105 - Makefile fix from Juergen Kammer to not overwrite existing config files on
107 - Configurable radius port patch from Juergen Kammer.
108 - Send my_address if no bind_address when doing IPCP
109 - Write pid file if filename is set
110 - Add startup script and monitor script from Yuri
111 - Some logging correctness fixes from Iain Wade
112 - Add support for LCP Ident and CallBack (rejection only) from Yuri
113 - Initiate LCP if not attempted by the client, or in renegotiation - Yuri
114 - Indentation and style cleanups
115 - Per-user upload and download throttle rates - Yuri
116 - Make autothrottle.so understand cisco lcp:interface-config - Yuri
117 - Show filter stats in show session - Yuri
118 - Cleanup from Michael to change sid to unique_id
119 - Add plugin to remove domain name from auth requests
120 - Add .spec file for RPM generation
122 * Tue Jul 13 2004 Brendan O'Dea <bod@optusnet.com.au> 2.0.1
123 - Update INSTALL, Docs/manual.html documentation.
124 - Add INTERNALS documentation.
125 - Add lock_pages option.
126 - TerminateAck fix from Yuri
127 - Adject cli_loop args for libcli 1.8.0
128 - Allow for backward compatabity in C_PING packets
129 - Don't send RADIUS stop messages from sessionshutdown when called from
132 - Fix for LASTSEEN breakage: don't do anything in the CLI other than
133 flag changes to be made by the parent.
134 - Split out master parts from cluster_check_master() into cluster_check_slaves().
135 - Set hostname in CLI prompt.
136 - Make cluster_hb_interval work; include interval/timeout in heartbeats
137 so that a change on the master is propagated immediately to the slaves.
138 - Use fast heartbeats when there are slaves not up to date.
139 - Ensure basetime of shut down master is set to zero (prevent delayed election).
140 - Fix radius session leak on IPCP timeout.
141 - Fix some off-by-one errors in tunnel/session loops.
142 - Add "limp along" fix for when a slave drops temporarily from the mcast group.
143 - Rename l2tpns.cfg as startup-config to match CONFIGFILE.
144 - Update cli callbacks to work with libcli 1.6.
145 This supports privileged and unprivileged commands, as well as a configuration
147 - Add help for all cli commands.
148 - Add "show version" command.
149 - Fix uptime counter display.
150 - Fix nasty bug where cluster basetime can be set to 0 when sending initial
152 - Don't rmmod ip_conntrack, as this can take a lot of time.
153 - Re-order logging in routeset such that the action is given before any error.
154 - Use the correct gateway address when deleting routes.
155 - Remove any routes when address changes.
156 - Require authentication if telnet from remote ip.
157 - Require enable password always.
158 - Return error if show pool done on slave.
159 - We MUST immediately exit if we're the wrong master!
161 * Wed Jun 23 2004 David Parrish <david@dparrish.com> 2.0.0
163 - Completely replace active/standby clustering with a new peer-to-peer
164 clustering method which allows much greater throughput and is a lot more fault
166 - Add internal tbf implementation for throttling without relying on tc and
168 - Add support for iBGP and eBGP to advertise routes
169 - Add cli commands "show cluster", "show bgp", "show ipcache", "show throttle",
170 "show tbf", "suspend bgp", "restart bgp", "show user"
171 - Interception destination must be set per-user
172 - If SMP machine, allow use of SCHED_FIFO, which should improve performance
173 - Added config option to send GARP at startup
174 - Added plugin_become_master and plugin_new_session_master plugin hooks
175 - Remove useless sessionsendarp(). This isn't needed now that we are using TUN
177 - ICMP rate limiting so not every unreachable packet is replied with an ICMP
179 - mangle table is not required on anything but the cluster master, so slaves
180 will drop the mangle table and attempt to unload the ip_conntrack module
181 - Statically assigned IP addresses (by Radius) work now
182 - Add -d command-line flag to detach and become a daemon
183 - Configuration file is now "/etc/l2tpns/startup-config"
184 - Reduced MIN_IP_SIZE to 0x19 to stop a pile of Short IP warnings
185 - Resend initial IPCP request until it's acknowleged by the client
186 - Better radius session cleanup logic
187 - Many miscellaenous bugfixes and performance enhancements
188 - Thanks to Michael O'Reilly and Brendan O'Dea for most of these new features
190 * Mon May 24 2004 David Parrish <david@dparrish.com> 1.2.0
191 - Fix SEGFAULT in garden module
192 - Use multiple radius sockets to allow more concurrent authentication requests
193 - Add username parameter to "show users" command
194 - Fix counting tunnel rx errors as tunnel tx errors
195 - Add "show throttle" command
196 - Add gcc __attribute__ to logging functions
197 - Fix warnings shown by __attribute__
198 - Make sure regular cleanup happens regularly under high load
199 - Add variable cleanup_interval for changing cleanup interval
200 - Add support for reading more than one packet per fd in each processing loop
201 - This is configurable with the multi_read_count variable
202 - Remove segv handler so core dumps can happen
203 - Use nonblocking sockets
204 - Increase tun queue length
205 - Fix minimum length of IP packets
206 - Remove per-packet plugin hooks (they are slow)
207 - Don't drop session if no free RADIUS
208 - Don't expire more than 1000 sessions per cleanup interval
209 - Remove -a and -c command-line options. They don't work anyway
210 - Don't require file: in log_filename
211 - Bump version to 1.2.0
212 - Check return code when throttling users
214 * Mon Apr 5 2004 David Parrish <david@dparrish.com> 1.1.1
215 - Don't mention configure anymore, it's not used
216 - Added the autosnoop and autothrottle modules
217 - Don't default to using a htb for the class root
219 * Fri Mar 5 2004 David Parrish <david@dparrish.com> 1.1.0
220 - Change all strcpy() calls to strncpy() to avoid buffer overflow potential
221 - Add ICMP host unreachable support
222 - Logging to syslog if log_file = "syslog:facility"
223 - Now requires libcli 1.5
224 - All configuration moves to a config structure
225 - Ability to modify and write config on the fly through command-line interface
226 - Config file support is removed, and now handled by the cli
227 - Show hostname in cli prompt
228 - Keep current state type for tunnels
229 - Add uptime command do CLI, which also shows real-time bandwidth utilisation
230 - Add goodbye command to cluster master, which forces droppping a slave
231 - Cache IP address allocation, so that reconnecting users get the same address
232 - Fix tunnel resend timeouts, so that dead tunnels will be cleaned up
233 - Allocate tunnels and radius without using a linked list which had issues
234 - Fix some off-by-one errors in tunnel and session and radius arrays
235 - Save and reload ip address pool when dieing
236 - Check version and size of reloaded data when restarting
237 - Remove plugin_config support
238 - Remove old support for TBF which didn't work anyway. HTB is required to do throttling now.
239 - Add COPYING and Changes files