[Lanforge] LANforge 5.0.1 is released.

[Millard Lowe]

Congratulations guys.. I am sure it will accelerate  product takeup.. and
worry the competition.. regards M

Millard Lowe
Assured Network Solutions
Phn/Fax: 02-9918-4987/-4988 
Mobile: 0411-360-925

-----Original Message-----
From: lanforge-bounces at candelatech.com
[mailto:lanforge-bounces at candelatech.com] On Behalf Of Ben Greear
Sent: Saturday, 17 March 2007 9:27 AM
To: LANforge network test tool
Subject: [Lanforge] LANforge 5.0.1 is released.

At long last, LANforge 5.0.1 is ready!

This release has lots of bug fixes and small improvements,
and one major new feature:  Netsmith.

Netsmith is a graphical network view of the LANforge configuration, and
is primarily useful for LANforge-ICE configurations, but it can also be
useful for configuring LANforge-FIRE connections.

With Netsmith you can create virtual routers and connections between
them, complete with IPs, Subnets, and default gateways.  LANforge can
then create the network as drawn by adding virtual router, port, connection,
WanLinks and other objects to the LANforge configuration.  Routing tables
will be automatically created according to the network diagram.  With this,
it is possible to create a routed LANforge-ICE configuration with 64 or more
virtual routers.  If you traceroute through this system, you will see
each of the virtual routers just as you would if you traced across the
real Internet.  LANforge-ICE WanLinks can be added between each router
to add network impairments and bandwidth limitations.

For a screen-shot of a 24-port LANforge-ICE WAN emulation setup
in Netsmith, please see this:
http://www.candelatech.com/images/netsmith_ct970_ss.png


To celebrate this new feature, we are increasing our prices by around 10-20%
on LANforge-ICE software items.  We also added some new CT970 systems for
companies wanting to do 10, 16, and 24 ports of lower-speed emulations
(great for testing online games).  To make these more affordable to
companies
with smaller budgets, we also now have a subscription model where the
initial
price is very affordable, but the user will have to pay a fee each year to
continue to use LANforge.  Please send email to sales at candelatech.com
if you have questions on our pricing.

The new systems (and prices) can be seen here:
http://www.candelatech.com/lanforge_v3/lf_systems.html

Individual item prices are here (you need to have created an account to see
them):
http://www.candelatech.com/private/lf_quote.cgi

Full release notes are below.


Release 5.0.1
     *  Add Virtual-Router technology for LANforge-ICE on Linux.
        This allows one LANforge system to emulate a network of routers,
        with unique bandwidth constraints and latency between each router.
        Subnet routing is currently supported:  Multipath and advanced
        routing protocols may be supported in future releases as customer
        demand dictates.

     *  Support Linux Bridge devices in LANforge (create, modify, delete,
etc.)

     *  Optimize GUI and server to handle at least 2000 virtual interfaces
        and LANforge connections on high-end machines.

     *  Fix bug that caused 128 WanPaths on a WanLink to fail to report to
        the GUI or manager process correctly.

     *  Fix rounding error in the serialization delay calculation for
WanLinks
        at lower speeds.  This caused too much delay to be added in some
cases.

     *  Fix several driver locking issues for WiFIRE (wireless).

     *  Properly support modifying and reporting the country-code for
WiFIRE.

     *  Add notification framework for keeping track of support (ASA)
        expiration so that users are easily aware of their status.

     *  Fix LANforge-server hang due to un-initialized timeout value.

     *  Fix rare linux kernel crash related to UDP multicast packets.

     *  Add ability to print the tables in the LANforge-GUI.

     *  Re-work LANforge-FIRE rate-control logic.  This fixes the
        'catch-up burst' caused by temporary network outtages.  LANforge
        will now burst for no more than 1 second during catch-up.

     *  Fix Armageddon UDP traffic generator to support NICs that do
        fragmented buffer receives (some new Intel pro/1000 NICs do this.)

     *  Fix rare divide-by-zero bug in Port logic in LANforge server.

     *  Appliance Image:
        *  Replace Ethereal with Wireshark
        *  Add brctl package.
        *  Don't start sensors package.

Thanks,
Ben

Sales/Support Phone: 360-380-1618

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

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