From df648ac5178b3ae8c5f25a5ea45ecaf44e82ca6e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: bmah Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 02:26:18 +0000 Subject: New release notes: if_bridge(4) private ports, wlandebug(8). Approved by: re (implicitly) --- release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) (limited to 'release') diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml index 02cad07..9d1d3ae 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml @@ -1029,6 +1029,17 @@ The &man.if.bridge.4; driver now supports RSTP, the Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (802.1w). &merged; + The &man.if.bridge.4; driver now supports a + private flag on bridge ports; + no private port on a bridge can communicate with any + other private port. This functionlity is useful in + scenarios such as number of customers VLANs bridged + with a server network; it might be desirable to prevent + the customer VLANs from communicating with each other + but allow all of them to access the server network. The + private flag on a bridge port can be set or cleared via + &man.ifconfig.8;. + A hard-coded limit on the number of IPv4 multicast group memberships (formerly 20) has been removed. @@ -2094,6 +2105,12 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key" implemented. This function is popular in Microsoft and GNU systems. + The &man.wlandebug.8; utility has been added to the main + &os; source tree (it previously lived in a tools area). It + provides control over a number of types of debugging output + in the &man.wlan.4; module and related drivers, and can be + useful for debugging wireless issues. + The &man.wpa.passphrase.8; utility has been added. It generates a 256-bit pre-shared WPA key from an ASCII passphrase. &merged; -- cgit v1.1