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authorbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2001-10-01 19:36:21 +0000
committerbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2001-10-01 19:36:21 +0000
commitaaf9fd46b108ad3b7018487c3810c62630918e44 (patch)
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parent88dd97daaf06f57b5c2719d1f9e6513129cbe689 (diff)
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New release notes: Per-interface IP address hash table, network
devices in /dev, UUCP moved to ports. MFCs noted: bge(4).
Diffstat (limited to 'release')
-rw-r--r--release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml17
-rw-r--r--release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml17
2 files changed, 32 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 17b71de..6d155a5 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
@@ -441,12 +441,22 @@
and SK-9D41, and the built-in Gigabit Ethernet NICs on Dell
PowerEdge 2550 servers. TCP/IP checksum offload, jumbo frames
and VLAN tag insertion/stripping are supported, as well as
- interrupt moderation.</para>
+ interrupt moderation. &merged;</para>
<para>The per-interface <varname>ifnet</varname> structure now
has the ability to indicate a set of capabilities supported by a
network interface, and which ones are enabled. &man.ifconfig.8;
has support for querying these capabilities.</para>
+
+ <para>Performance with hosts having a large number of IP aliases
+ has been improved, by replacing the per-interface
+ <varname>if_inaddr</varname> linear list with a hash table.</para>
+
+ <para>Network devices now automatically appear in
+ <filename>/dev</filename>. Interface hardware ioctls (not
+ protocol or routing) can be performed on these devices. The
+ <varname>SIOCGIFCONF</varname> ioctl may be performed on the
+ special <filename>/dev/network</filename> node.</para>
</sect3>
<sect3>
@@ -1922,6 +1932,11 @@
<para><filename>libgmp</filename> has been superceded by
<filename>libmp</filename>.
+ <para><application>UUCP</application> has been removed from the
+ base system, with the exceptions of &man.cu.1; and &man.rmail.8;.
+ The remainder of <application>UUCP</application> can be found in
+ the Ports Collection, in <port>net/freebsd-uucp</port>.</para>
+
<sect3>
<title>Contributed Software</title>
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 17b71de..6d155a5 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
@@ -441,12 +441,22 @@
and SK-9D41, and the built-in Gigabit Ethernet NICs on Dell
PowerEdge 2550 servers. TCP/IP checksum offload, jumbo frames
and VLAN tag insertion/stripping are supported, as well as
- interrupt moderation.</para>
+ interrupt moderation. &merged;</para>
<para>The per-interface <varname>ifnet</varname> structure now
has the ability to indicate a set of capabilities supported by a
network interface, and which ones are enabled. &man.ifconfig.8;
has support for querying these capabilities.</para>
+
+ <para>Performance with hosts having a large number of IP aliases
+ has been improved, by replacing the per-interface
+ <varname>if_inaddr</varname> linear list with a hash table.</para>
+
+ <para>Network devices now automatically appear in
+ <filename>/dev</filename>. Interface hardware ioctls (not
+ protocol or routing) can be performed on these devices. The
+ <varname>SIOCGIFCONF</varname> ioctl may be performed on the
+ special <filename>/dev/network</filename> node.</para>
</sect3>
<sect3>
@@ -1922,6 +1932,11 @@
<para><filename>libgmp</filename> has been superceded by
<filename>libmp</filename>.
+ <para><application>UUCP</application> has been removed from the
+ base system, with the exceptions of &man.cu.1; and &man.rmail.8;.
+ The remainder of <application>UUCP</application> can be found in
+ the Ports Collection, in <port>net/freebsd-uucp</port>.</para>
+
<sect3>
<title>Contributed Software</title>
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