From e427fa9d2ce90c2a4419d1363de7fd1afae100b5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: bmah Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 16:36:03 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] New release notes: SCTP, TSO, sun4v, ppp(4) IPv6 support, KSE a kernel option. Updated release notes: OpenSSH 4.5p1. --- .../doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml | 34 ++++++++++++++++++- .../en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml | 34 ++++++++++++++++++- 2 files changed, 66 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml index 78c76fab5d63..42c18bcef4e0 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml @@ -301,6 +301,11 @@ &man.pmcstat.8; can now log over a network socket to a remote host. + Support for Kernel Scheduled Entities (KSE) is now a kernel + option (previously it was a mandatory feature in the kernel). + It is enabled in the GENERIC kernel (thus there is no change in + functionality) for all platforms except sun4v. + The &man.random.4; entropy device driver is now MPSAFE. &merged; @@ -513,6 +518,14 @@ The smbios(4) driver support for amd64 has been added. + &os; now has preliminary support for the Sun Microsystems + UltraSPARC-T1 archicture. &os;/sun4v has been demonstrated + to run on the Sun Fire T1000 and Sun Fire T2000 servers. + More information can be found on the + sun4v + Project + page. + The tnt4882(4) driver, which supports the National Instruments PCI-GPIB card, has been added. @@ -888,10 +901,17 @@ pipe tablearg ip from table(1) to any userland implementation of The Generalized TTL Security Mechanism (GTSM) found in RFC 3682. + The kernel &man.ppp.4; driver now supports IPv6. + Stealth forwarding now supports IPv6 as well as IPv4. This behavior can be controlled by using a new sysctl variable net.inet6.ip6.stealth. + Support has been added for the Stream Control Transmission + Protocol (SCTP). SCTP implements a reliable, message-oriented + transport protocol, and is defined in RFC 3268. It is enabled + in &os; with the SCTP kernel option. + The IPV6_V6ONLY socket option now works for UDP. @@ -903,6 +923,18 @@ pipe tablearg ip from table(1) to any net.inet.tcp.inflight.rttthresh specifies the threshold in milliseconds below which this feature will disengage. It defaults to 10ms. &merged; + + The &os; network stack now has support for TCP + Segmentation Offload (TSO). TSO reduces the overhead of + sending bulk TCP data by allowing a network interface to + convert a large data transfer into multiple TCP segments to be + sent on the network. This functionality can be enabled or + disabled on a per-interface basis with + the tso and -tso flags + to &man.ifconfig.8;. Network interfaces and drivers + supporting TSO currently include &man.em.4; and + &man.mxge.4;. + @@ -1675,7 +1707,7 @@ mdconfig_md1="-t vnode -f /var/foo.img" NetBSD as of 31 August 2006. &merged; OpenSSH has been updated from - 4.2p1 to 4.4p1. &merged; + 4.2p1 to 4.5p1. &merged; OpenSSL has been updated from 0.9.7e to 0.9.8d. diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml index 78c76fab5d63..42c18bcef4e0 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml @@ -301,6 +301,11 @@ &man.pmcstat.8; can now log over a network socket to a remote host. + Support for Kernel Scheduled Entities (KSE) is now a kernel + option (previously it was a mandatory feature in the kernel). + It is enabled in the GENERIC kernel (thus there is no change in + functionality) for all platforms except sun4v. + The &man.random.4; entropy device driver is now MPSAFE. &merged; @@ -513,6 +518,14 @@ The smbios(4) driver support for amd64 has been added. + &os; now has preliminary support for the Sun Microsystems + UltraSPARC-T1 archicture. &os;/sun4v has been demonstrated + to run on the Sun Fire T1000 and Sun Fire T2000 servers. + More information can be found on the + sun4v + Project + page. + The tnt4882(4) driver, which supports the National Instruments PCI-GPIB card, has been added. @@ -888,10 +901,17 @@ pipe tablearg ip from table(1) to any userland implementation of The Generalized TTL Security Mechanism (GTSM) found in RFC 3682. + The kernel &man.ppp.4; driver now supports IPv6. + Stealth forwarding now supports IPv6 as well as IPv4. This behavior can be controlled by using a new sysctl variable net.inet6.ip6.stealth. + Support has been added for the Stream Control Transmission + Protocol (SCTP). SCTP implements a reliable, message-oriented + transport protocol, and is defined in RFC 3268. It is enabled + in &os; with the SCTP kernel option. + The IPV6_V6ONLY socket option now works for UDP. @@ -903,6 +923,18 @@ pipe tablearg ip from table(1) to any net.inet.tcp.inflight.rttthresh specifies the threshold in milliseconds below which this feature will disengage. It defaults to 10ms. &merged; + + The &os; network stack now has support for TCP + Segmentation Offload (TSO). TSO reduces the overhead of + sending bulk TCP data by allowing a network interface to + convert a large data transfer into multiple TCP segments to be + sent on the network. This functionality can be enabled or + disabled on a per-interface basis with + the tso and -tso flags + to &man.ifconfig.8;. Network interfaces and drivers + supporting TSO currently include &man.em.4; and + &man.mxge.4;. + @@ -1675,7 +1707,7 @@ mdconfig_md1="-t vnode -f /var/foo.img" NetBSD as of 31 August 2006. &merged; OpenSSH has been updated from - 4.2p1 to 4.4p1. &merged; + 4.2p1 to 4.5p1. &merged; OpenSSL has been updated from 0.9.7e to 0.9.8d.