Archive for September, 2008

ladvd 0.6.1 released

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

I’ve just released ladvd 0.6.1, which was destined to fix bugs found in 0.6.0, but a fair number of new features and improvements have crept in as well.

  • Fix for interfaces without link-layer addresses (ppp0/pptp0)
  • Reset (router/wlan/bridge) capabilities after each run
  • Improved the linux virtual interface detection
    (the previous method only worked on 2.6.23+ kernels)
  • Add support for OpenBSD’s interface descriptions
  • Add support for TIA inventory management TLV set
    using dmi information available on OpenBSD and Linux
  • Use an ISC-licensed strlcpy for certain string operations
  • Add -m/-M switches to specify management addresses
    via the commandline
  • Add ioctl code to linux bonding/bridge detection which
    works on hosts without sysfs
  • Add minimal LLDP civic location support using the LOC type
    and the -C (country) switch
  • Add pcap headers to debug output to make it suitable for
    piping to tcpdump.

This release owes a lot to Paul de Weerd and Alexander Ottl, their tests and patches have helped to make this release as stable as possible.

Tarballs and Debian sources are available.