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authorshin <shin@FreeBSD.org>2000-03-08 09:04:06 +0000
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Add IPv6 related info.
Suggested by: kris Reviewed by: kris
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-rw-r--r--release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT32
-rw-r--r--release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT31
2 files changed, 62 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT b/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT
index 478e307..e4cbc90 100644
--- a/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT
+++ b/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT
@@ -127,6 +127,8 @@ Driver support has been added for the 3Com 3c905C-TX. [MERGED]
User- and group-based IPFW firewalling has been added. [MERGED]
+IPv6 IPFW has been imported from the KAME project.
+
Support for probabalistic rule matching has been added to IPFW. [MERGED]
IPFW logging is now dynamic. IPFW logging counts can be reset, and any
@@ -184,6 +186,12 @@ and the Belkin F5U111.
Driver support has been added for Aironet 4500/4800 802.11 wireless
adapters. This includes PCMCIA, PCI and ISA models.
+IPv6 support has been imported from the KAME project. This includes the
+kernel IPv6 protocol stack (sys/netinet6), TCP IPv6 support, configurable
+IPv6 and IPv4 tunneling over IPv6 or IPv4, and IPv6 TCP to IPv4 TCP
+translation gateway support. Protocol-independent name resolution
+functions have been added to libc (getaddrinfo, getnameinfo, etc).
+
1.2. SECURITY FIXES
-------------------
@@ -207,6 +215,14 @@ became restrictively licensed. FreeBSD 4.0 provides SSH client/server
functionality out-of-the-box if you choose to install the 'DES'
cryptography distribution in sysinstall.
+IPsec support has been imported from the KAME project. This includes IPsec
+tunnel mode to implement a Virtual Private Network via a security gateway,
+and IPsec transport mode to achieve secure socket-level communication.
+Also, kernel-internal crypto code has been imported to sys/crypto, and
+IPsec support has been added to the following userland applications:
+sbin/ping, usr.sbin/inetd, usr.sbin/rrenumd, usr.sbin/traceroute6,
+usr.sbin/rtadvd, usr.sbin/setkey
+
1.3. USERLAND CHANGES
---------------------
@@ -231,6 +247,21 @@ as part of the FreeBSD Auditing Project.
FreeBSD's threads library, libc_r, has had many features and performance
improvements added, which makes it almost completely POSIX-compliant.
+The following dedicated IPv6 applications have been added:
+ sbin/ping6, sbin/rtsol, usr.sbin/gifconfig, usr.sbin/ifmcstat,
+ usr.sbin/pim6dd, usr.sbin/pim6sd, usr.sbin/prefix, usr.sbin/rip6query,
+ usr.sbin/route6d, usr.sbin/rrenumd, usr.sbin/rtadvd, usr.sbin/rtsold,
+ usr.sbin/traceroute6
+
+The following applications have been updated to support IPv6:
+ usr.bin/netstat, usr.bin/fstat, usr.bin/sockstat, usr.sbin/tcpdchk,
+ usr.sbin/tcpdump, usr.sbin/trpt, libexec/ftpd, libexec/rlogind,
+ libexec/rshd, libexec/telnetd
+
+Many ports have been updated to support IPv6. See the 'ipv6' virtual ports
+category for a list.
+
+
2. Supported Configurations
---------------------------
@@ -284,7 +315,6 @@ SymBios (formerly NCR) 53C810, 53C810a, 53C815, 53C820, 53C825a,
Tekram DC390W, 390U and 390F
Tyan S1365
-
QLogic 1020, 1040, 1040B, 1080 and 1240 SCSI Host Adapters.
QLogic 2100 Fibre Channel Adapters (private loop only).
diff --git a/release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT b/release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT
index dd24b1e..b009c06 100644
--- a/release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT
+++ b/release/texts/i386/RELNOTES.TXT
@@ -133,6 +133,8 @@ Several IPFW improvements including stateful inspection, user- and
group-based firewalling, dynamic logging with arbitrary logging
limits, probabilistic rule match. [MERGED]
+IPv6 IPFW has been imported from the KAME project.
+
The "dummynet" traffic shaper now handles efficiently thousands
of independent queues. [MERGED]
@@ -191,6 +193,12 @@ and the Belkin F5U111.
Driver support has been added for Aironet 4500/4800 802.11 wireless
adapters. This includes PCMCIA, PCI and ISA models.
+IPv6 support has been imported from the KAME project. This includes the
+kernel IPv6 protocol stack (sys/netinet6), TCP IPv6 support, configurable
+IPv6 and IPv4 tunneling over IPv6 or IPv4, and IPv6 TCP to IPv4 TCP
+translation gateway support. Protocol-independent name resolution
+functions have been added to libc (getaddrinfo, getnameinfo, etc).
+
1.2. SECURITY FIXES
-------------------
@@ -225,6 +233,14 @@ absolutely no administrative changes to the machine to work, and is
at the very least a step up from plaintext. To use it, you need to
either use "telnet -ax" or set up a .telnetrc to enable it by default.
+IPsec support has been imported from the KAME project. This includes IPsec
+tunnel mode to implement a Virtual Private Network via a security gateway,
+and IPsec transport mode to achieve secure socket-level communication.
+Also, kernel-internal crypto code has been imported to sys/crypto, and
+IPsec support has been added to the following userland applications:
+sbin/ping, usr.sbin/inetd, usr.sbin/rrenumd, usr.sbin/traceroute6,
+usr.sbin/rtadvd, usr.sbin/setkey
+
1.3. USERLAND CHANGES
---------------------
@@ -255,6 +271,21 @@ addition, Linux's kernel-supported LinuxThreads library is now available as
a port (ports/devel/linuxthreads), which can be used for native FreeBSD
programs.
+The following dedicated IPv6 applications have been added:
+ sbin/ping6, sbin/rtsol, usr.sbin/gifconfig, usr.sbin/ifmcstat,
+ usr.sbin/pim6dd, usr.sbin/pim6sd, usr.sbin/prefix, usr.sbin/rip6query,
+ usr.sbin/route6d, usr.sbin/rrenumd, usr.sbin/rtadvd, usr.sbin/rtsold,
+ usr.sbin/traceroute6
+
+The following applications have been updated to support IPv6:
+ usr.bin/netstat, usr.bin/fstat, usr.bin/sockstat, usr.sbin/tcpdchk,
+ usr.sbin/tcpdump, usr.sbin/trpt, libexec/ftpd, libexec/rlogind,
+ libexec/rshd, libexec/telnetd
+
+Many ports have been updated to support IPv6. See the 'ipv6' virtual ports
+category for a list.
+
+
2. Supported Configurations
---------------------------
FreeBSD currently runs on a wide variety of ISA, VLB, EISA, MCA and PCI
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