Archive for September, 2010

Ladvd 0.9.2

Tuesday, September 21st, 2010

This was supposed to be a fixes only release, but then people started requesting features, oh well :) Ladvd is now hosted at googlecode in mercurial. The switch to mercurial allows more people to contribute and makes it much easier the grab the latest development release. Besides that an impressive number of small fixes and features have helped to make 0.9.2 a great release.

  • Vlan Name TLV support
  • LLDP mau support for Linux
  • LLDP autoneg_pmd support for Linux and BSD
  • use the NIC hardware name when no ifdescr is configured (Linux sysfs, FreeBSD sysctl)
  • use lsb-release to report Linux distro information
  • improved locally-generated packet filtering
  • Improved detection of Tun/Tap interfaces, including a switch to use them
  • Skip FreeBSD’s ipfw interfaces
  • FreeBSD dmi/smbios support via kenv()
  • added HACKING documentation
  • fixes for small packets
  • various other small fixes