From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 21 22:22:56 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47FE9106564A for ; Wed, 21 Sep 2011 22:22:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from m.tsatsenko@gmail.com) Received: from mx.tsatsenko.ru (y7nz.x.rootbsd.net [204.109.61.86]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AF9F8FC0A for ; Wed, 21 Sep 2011 22:22:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [92.255.201.25] (helo=[192.168.0.5]) by mx.tsatsenko.ru with esmtpsa (TLSv1:CAMELLIA256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1R6VBv-0005vh-52; Thu, 22 Sep 2011 02:22:55 +0400 Message-ID: <4E7A63AF.705@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 02:22:39 +0400 From: Mikhail Tsatsenko User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD i386; rv:6.0.2) Gecko/20110907 Thunderbird/6.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ben Greear References: <4E7A26FD.5030401@candelatech.com> In-Reply-To: <4E7A26FD.5030401@candelatech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Xorp 1.8.4 is released. X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 22:22:56 -0000 On 21.09.2011 22:03, Ben Greear wrote: > Hello BSD maintainers! > > If you have any patches to help make xorp 1.8.4 work > better on bsd, please send them to me and I'll incorporate > them into the upstream xorp code. > > > I have uploaded binaries & source code to www.xorp.org. > > The downloads link points to xorp.org now instead of SourceForge, > but I put the windows binary and source code snapshot on sourceforge > and github as well, just in case someone prefers that. > > Generally, 1.8.4 is mostly a bug-fix release. > > Here's the release notes highlights: > > * Add async-XRL support, from Steven Simpson > > * Fix bug in deleting non-VLAN interface. Commit would fail > because the code would attempt to remove the interface from > the kernel and fail. > > * Fix BSD related crash when adding interface with same ifindex > as a previous interface. OpenBSD has the nasty habit of re-using > the ifindex when creating/deleting virtual interfaces. > > * Fix multicast bug that totally breaks XORP multicast on recent > Linux kernels. The problem is that I chose the wrong default > multicast routing table (254, instead of 253 as it should be). > So, if users don't specify a routing table, it pokes routes into > the wrong table. This wasn't caught in my testing because I always > explicitly set the routing table ID. > > * Add some env variable controlled debugging to the libxorp and libxipc > logic for better debugging of xrls and the event loop. > > Full release notes and change log are available here: > > http://www.xorp.org/releases/1.8.4/docs/RELEASE_NOTES > > Hi, Ben! Thanks for your work. At the first look updating xorp port is relatively simple task. Right now a new version builds fine for me on 8.2. After some testing i'll sumbit a PR. -- Mikhail