freebsd-nq/share/examples/isdn/ReleaseNotes
Hellmuth Michaelis 7925558e0a update to i4b version 0.95.04
This commit adds the ReleaseNotes file which contains a list of major i4b
changes happened since the last version comitted to FreeBSD (0.90.01).
2000-10-09 16:01:36 +00:00

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$FreeBSD$
ReleaseNotes for isdn4bsd last edit-date: [Mon Oct 9 17:55:27 2000]
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- it is now possible to mark an entry as valid for a specified day of week
and a specific time range only to take advantage of some new tariff models.
Please see the new keywords "valid" and "holidayfile" in isdnd.rc(5).
This feature is considered experimental, use at your own risk!
- keywords budget-callbacksfile and budget-calloutsfile added to isdnd's
entry section to write statistics information to a file
- a driver for the Dynalink IS64PH is now available for FreeBSD 4.x and up
beta release 0.95
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- ITK ix1 micro ISA non-PnP card should now work for FreeBSD >= 4.0
- setting "dialretries = -1" in isdnd.rc gives an unlimited number
of dial retries for that entry.
- the ELSA PCFpro ISDN card should now work for FreeBSD >= 4.0
- added new keywords (patch from Stefan Esser) to configure isppp
from within isdnd.rc. Documented in isdnd.rc(5), grep for "ppp-"
- isppp VJ compression negotiation now run-time configurable using
keywords "enable-vj" / "disable-vj" with ispppcontrol
- added new keywords to specify "budgets" for outbound calls in isdnd
to limit the number of possible calls within a given time period.
Runtime budget information and statistics are available in the isdnd
fullscreen menu display.
- added new "ifpnp" AVM Fritz!Card PnP driver for FreeBSD >= 4.0
contributed by Udo Schweigert.
- added experimental hardware driver from Hans Petter Selasky for the
Teles 16.3c card based on the Cologne Chip Designs HFC-S 2BDS0 chip
called "ihfc".
notes for Teles 16.3c PnP and AcerISDN P10: For optimal performance:
-> please connect the card to the S0-bus before booting the computer.
-> do not change the cable you're using when first booted.
Other notes if the card does not work at all:
-> disconnect other isdn equipment on your S0-bus and
reboot your computer.
-> try changing the CLKDEL/stdel value for your card:
../i4b/layer1-nb/ihfc/i4b_ihfc_pnp.c or
../i4b/layer1/ihfc/i4b_ihfc_pnp.c
around line 100. The value can be in the range 0x0-0xf.
- the FreeBSD >= 4.0 AVM Fritz PCI driver was moved to a separate layer 1
driver called "ifpi".
- the sppp subsystem was integrated into the i4bisppp/isp driver. There
is no need to include something like "option sppp" into your kernel
config file anymore. The spppcontrol utility is no longer usable to
configure the i4bisppp/isp driver, instead use the new ispppcontrol
utility!
- FreeBSD >= 4.0: "iwic" driver for Winbond PCI ISDN chipset (W6692)
added, used i.e. in ASUSCOM P-IN100-ST-D and Dynalink IS64PPH.
- added more protocol decoding to isdntrace
- isntrace now adds a time/datestamp to the trace filename, signal USR1
behaviour has changed, see manpage.
- ispppcontrol now has a new option of setting the LCP timeout value
- add directory mpd which contains docs and files on howto interface
i4b by using the netgraph subsystem to the multilink ppp daemon, mpd.
- add i4bing, a raw HDLC B-channel interface to the NetGraph subsystem
- add a V.21 modem emulator written by Poul-Henning Kamp
- a new system configuration keyword "extcallattr" was added to isdnd
which allows to configure the display of the extended caller
attributes "screening indicator" and "presentation indicator" in
isdnd's log file.
beta release 0.90
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- the following cards are no longer supported for FreeBSD 4.0 and up:
AVM Fritz!Card PnP
AVM Fritz!Card PCMCIA
Dynalink IS64PH
ITK ix1 Micro
USRobotics Sportster ISDN TA intern
The AVM cards, the USR card and perhaps one of the ITK cards are likely
to be resurrected in the future, we just ran out of time, docs and/or
into programming problems for this release.
- the rbch driver was enhanced to support the generation of accounting
information in HDLC mode. The bytecount and bps fields in isdnd
fullscreen mode now show meaningful information.
- most of the layer1 drivers have been rewritten to support the new bus
and driver architecture for FreeBSD 4.0.
- the ipr interfaces now support logging of some of the first ip packets
of a new connection and displaying them in the isdnd logs. To enable
this, add a line like: "options IPR_LOG=32" to your kernel config
file. The parameter to IPR_LOG specifies the number of packets to be
logged.
- support for FreeBSD 2.x and FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE has been removed.
The last beta release which supports this OS versions is i4b-0.83.
- isdnd now recognizes two new keywords in the system section, mailto
and mailer. mailer is used to configure a mail program and is typically
set to /usr/bin/mail and mailto is set to the address of the isdnd
administrator. If both are set and a fatal error inside isdnd
happenes, mail is sent to the address in mailto with the error
message before isdnd terminates.
- isdnd.rc now has an optional new "controller" section. This will be
used to specify different D-channel protocols in the future. It looks
like this:
controller
protocol = dss1 # dss1 (default) or d64s (leased line)
Please note that leased line support (d64s) is NOT yet functional!
- isdnmonitor is now able to be used like isdnd in fullscreen mode from
a remote machine.
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