[Lanforge] LANforge version 5.0.3 is released.

[Ben Greear]

We are pleased to announce the release of LANforge version 5.0.3

This release includes support for NAT (IP Masquerading), DHCP-client and DHCP-server.
This is configured through the Netsmith window and should allow more realistic
network emulation as well as easier configuration of the IP information.

The other big feature is support for up to 31 virtual WiFi access points.
This complements our virtual stations that were previously supported.

The APs can be utilized in conjunction with virtual routers and WanLinks
to allow users to effectively add network emulation to WiFi client stations.

Other improvements include various bug fixes and performance improvements to
better handle large numbers of interfaces (1000+ on high-end systems.)

Please contact us if you want more information on these features or if
you have any other questions.

Full release notes are below:

Release 5.0.3
     *  Add licensing restriction so that a LANforge release that
        was built after the customer's support license has expired
        will no longer run any tests.  Older builds will continue
        to work even if the support has expired as long as the license
        keys themselves have not expired.

     *  Fix problem with running Armageddon endpoints on remote
        machines.

     *  Fix Generic refresh problem seen in the LANforge-GUI (this
        was actually a server-related bug.)

     *  Support creating/destroying many connections per second with
        Layer-3 traffic types (TCP, UDP).  Part of this feature also
        involves allowing the user to specify the source IP port as 0
        (zero) which means let-the-OS-choose-any-port.

     *  Support NAT (IP Masquerading) in Netsmith (Linux only.)

     *  Support DHCP client and DHCP server (Linux only.)

     *  Support Virtual Wifi Access Points (Linux only.)

     *  Fix TCP kernel bug that caused issues when making lots of rapid
        connections to the same machine.

     *  Add CLI command to delete wanpaths:  rm_wanpath
        Fix issues with several other wanpath related CLI commands.

     *  Fix un-initialized memory issue that can cause LANforge to hang
        when first started.  The fix for this in 5.0.1 was not quite right.

     *  Fix some reporting bugs, including fairly bad rounding errors under
        certain conditions and some .csv file format issues
       (extra , in endpoint reports).


Thanks,
Ben

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Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com