0.6.1

RtBrick BNG Blaster Version 0.6.1

New Features

• Display stream flow delay in milliseconds in the stdout report
• Display sessions with session traffic flows not verified in sessions-pending command

Fixes

• Fix L2TP RX stats in interactive mode (ncurses)
• Fix L2TP LNS StopCCN processing

0.6.0

RtBrick BNG Blaster Version 0.6.0

New Features

• Interactive mode (curses) enhancements
• Add support for multiple network interfaces
• Add support for A10NSP interfaces
• Add support to assign traffic streams to thread groups
• Add support for traffic streams with < 1 PPS (e.g. 0.1, 0.02, ...)
• Add support to respond ICMPv6 echo-requests (PING)
• Add support to include per session and streams statistics in the JSON report file

Fixes

• Fix IPv4 Router Alert Option Bug
• Fix ICMPv6 Encode
• Fix MC MAC Addresses

Internal Changes

• Enhanced support for threaded traffic streams
• Increased traffic throughput (> 1M PPS)
• Increased traffic stream scaling (> 1M streams)

Community Contributors

• Istvan Ruzman (Istvan91)

0.5.7

RtBrick BNG Blaster Version 0.5.7

Fixes

• Fix L2TP LNS IPCP negotiations

0.5.6

RtBrick BNG Blaster Version 0.5.6

New Features

• Add config option to set network interface gateway MAC statically
• Add support for VLAN 0x88a8 (QinQ) #39
• Add support for jumbo frame streams
• Add support for PPP LCP Vendor Extensions
• Add support for PPP LCP Connection-Status-Message

Fixes

• Fix IGMP for IPoE

0.5.5

RtBrick BNG Blaster Version 0.5.5

Fixes

• MAC address string format crash
• Display network interfaces in interfaces commands
• IPv4 config handling

Internal Changes

This release changes the install directory for local
builds (make install) from /usr/local/sbin to /usr/sbin.

0.5.4

RtBrick BNG Blaster Version 0.5.4

New Features

• UI enhancements
• Support to run BNG Blaster as non-root user with capabilities
• Add support for L2TP RFC3145
• New command to terminate L2TP tunnel l2tp-tunnel-terminate with support to set result (RFC2661) codes
• New command to terminate L2TP session l2tp-session-terminate with support to set result (RFC2661) and terminate (RFC3145) codes

Fixes

• Minor L2TP Fixes
• #33

Internal Changes

• Build enhancements
• Performance enhancements
• Hash table enhancements

Breaking Changes

The CLI tool cli.py was renamed to bnglaster-cli
and will now be installed automatically to sbin
directory.

The returned structure for the command
session-info has changed.

{
    "status": "ok",
    "code": 200,
-    "session-information": {
+    "session-info": {
        "type": "pppoe"
        ...
    }
}

Community Contributors

• Istvan Ruzman (Istvan91)

0.5.3

RtBrick BNG Blaster Version 0.5.3

New Features

• Add DHCPv6 support for IPoE sessions
• Add broadcast/multicast receive support for N:1 IPoE sessions
• Add basic EOAM CFM CC Support (experimental)
• Add access line profiles
• Add custom string iterators to config parser
• Internet checksum enhancements
• Interactive session view enhancements
• ...

Fixes

• IPoE ARP fixes (#28)
• ...

Internal Changes

• Build enhancements
• ...

Community Contributors

• Istvan Ruzman (Istvan91)

0.5.2

RtBrick BNG Blaster Version 0.5.2

New Features

• Add DHCP support (IPoE)
• Add multicast stream support
• Add RAW stream support
• Add LCP start delay config option
• Add outer-vlan/inner-vlan config option
• Enhanced stream view (curses)

Fixes

• Fix multicast destination MAC address
• Fix L2TP traffic stats

Internal Changes

• Retry TX packets if RAW socket sendto failed to remain accurate stats.
• Minor enhancements and fixes
• ...

0.5.1

RtBrick BNG Blaster Version 0.5.1

New Features

• add new IO mode packet_mmap_raw and set as default
• increase IO performance
• add traffic streams to support QoS testing

Internal Changes

• use CLOCK_MONOTONIC for all timestamps
• ...

Fixes

• #27 fix multicast delay and loss measurement
• ...

0.5.0

RtBrick BNG Blaster Version 0.5.0

New Features

• add support for multiple IO modes
  • packet_mmap (default)
  • raw (new)
  • netmap (new)
• add support for N:1 VLAN mode
• add PPPoE/PPP control traffic VLAN priority configuration
• add multicast traffic TOS priority configuration
• add multicast traffic length configuration
• add access line DSL type configuration
• add interface locking

Internal Changes

• restructure session and context code
• restructure rx/tx to support multiple IO modes

Fixes

• fix cli.py string handling
• fix network interface IPv6 receive
• fix l2tp unhide for AVP longer 255 chars
• reset session-traffic and counters before reconnect