Release 1.98 (18/01/2021)

New features

• Switched from FreeBSD 12-stable to FreeBSD 13-head c256048 that brings a lot of cool stufs:
• Performance improvement
• Multipath-routing re-introduced
• DPDK Longest Prefix Match (LPM) modules
• Wireguard kernel module
• etc.
• Add Intel QuickAssist Technology (QAT) drivers
• Ports tree updated to r561897

Bug fixes

• FRR7: Fix https://github.com/FRRouting/frr/issues/6378
• bird2: Fix multi-FIB usage by reverting bird commit 318acb0f6cb77a32aad5d7f79e06f3c5065ac702
• pkt-gen: Fix traffic generation using source and destination range

New packages

• nc
• trafshow
• tinc
• bgptabledump2bird

Upgraded packages

• arping 2.21
• bgpq4
• devcpu-data 1.37
• exabgp4 4.2.11
• frr7 7.5
• iperf 2.1.0.r
• iperf3 3.9
• mpd5 5.9
• mrtparse 2.0.0
• mtr 0.94
• openvpn 2.5.0
• strongswan 5.9.1
• wireguard 20201118

Packages list

• arping 2.21: ARP level "ping" utility
• bash 5.1.4_1: GNU Project's Bourne Again SHell
• bgpq4 0.0.6: Lightweight prefix-list generator for various routers v4
• bird2 2.0.7_2: Dynamic IP routing daemon
• bsnmp-regex 0.6_2: bsnmpd module allowing creation of counters from log files
• bsnmp-ucd 0.4.5: bsnmpd module that implements parts of UCD-SNMP-MIB
• ca_root_nss 3.58: Root certificate bundle from the Mozilla Project
• curl 7.74.0: Command line tool and library for transferring data with URLs
• devcpu-data 1.37: Intel and AMD CPUs microcode updates
• dhcp6 20080615.2_3: KAME DHCP6 client, server, and relay
• dhcprelya 6.1_1: Lightweight DHCP relay agent. Yandex edition
• dtrace-toolkit 1.0_5: Collection of useful scripts for DTrace
• easy-rsa 3.0.8: Small RSA key management package based on openssl
• flashrom 1.2: Utility for reading, writing, verifying, and erasing flash ROM chips
• freevrrpd 1.1_1: RFC 2338 compliant VRRP implementation
• frr7 7.5_1: IP routing protocol suite including BGP, IS-IS, OSPF and RIP
• frr7-pythontools 7.5_1: Provide configuration reload functionality for FRR
• fswatch-mon 1.13.0_2: Cross-platform file change monitor
• graphpath 1.2: Generates an ASCII network diagram from the route table
• indexinfo 0.3.1: Utility to regenerate the GNU info page index
• intel-pcm 202011: Process Count Monitor (PCM) for Intel processors
• iperf 2.1.0.r: Tool to measure maximum TCP and UDP bandwidth
• iperf3 3.9: Improved tool to measure TCP and UDP bandwidth
• ipmitool 1.8.18_3: CLI to manage IPMI systems
• ipsec-tools 0.8.2_11: KAME racoon IKE daemon, ipsec-tools version
• isc-dhcp44-server 4.4.2_1: ISC Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol server
• ixl_unlock 1: Disable SFP Module Qualification on Intel XL710 network cards
• json-c 0.15_1: JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) implementation in C
• libev 4.33,1: Full-featured and high-performance event loop library
• libevent 2.1.12: API for executing callback functions on events or timeouts
• libffi 3.3_1: Foreign Function Interface
• libiconv 1.16: Character set conversion library
• liblz4 1.9.3,1: LZ4 compression library, lossless and very fast
• libnet 1.1.6_5,1: C library for creating IP packets
• libpci 3.7.0_1: PCI configuration space I/O made easy
• libsodium 1.0.18: Library to build higher-level cryptographic tools
• libssh 0.9.5: Library implementing the SSH2 protocol
• libucl 0.8.1: Universal configuration library parser
• libyang 1.0.184: YANG data modeling language library
• lzo2 2.10_1: Portable speedy, lossless data compression library
• mlvpn 2.3.1_2: Multi-link VPN
• monit 5.27.1: Unix system management and proactive monitoring
• mpd5 5.9: Multi-link PPP daemon based on netgraph(4)
• mrouted 3.9.8_1: Multicast routing daemon providing DVMRP for IPv4
• mstflint-lite 4.15.0.1: Firmware Burning and Diagnostics Tools for Mellanox devices
• mtr-nox11 0.94: Traceroute and ping in a single network diagnostic tool
• nagios-plugins 2.3.3_2,1: Plugins for Nagios
• nc 1.0.1_1: Network aware cat
• netmap-fwd 0.2: IPv4 router over netmap for FreeBSD
• netperf 2.7.1.p20170921_1: Network performance benchmarking package
• nrpe3 3.2.1: Nagios Remote Plugin Executor
• nstat 1.0_3: Replacement for bw/netstat/vmstat/pcm-memory.x
• ntraceroute 6.4.2_3: Ubiquitous network routing analysis tool
• openldap-client 2.4.56: Open source LDAP client implementation
• openvpn 2.5.0: Secure IP/Ethernet tunnel daemon
• pciids 20201127: Database of all known IDs used in PCI devices
• pcre 8.44: Perl Compatible Regular Expressions library
• perl5 5.32.0_1: Practical Extraction and Report Language
• pimd 2.3.2_1: Lightweight stand-alone PIM-SM v2 multicast routing daemon
• pimdd 0.2.1.0_3: UO Dense Protocol-Independent Multicast (PIM-DM) daemon for IPv4
• pkg 1.16.1: Package manager
• pkt-gen g2019.11.07: Packet sink/source using the netmap API
• pmacct 1.7.5: Accounting and aggregation tool for IPv4 and IPv6 traffic
• py37-exabgp4 4.2.11: BGP engine and route injector
• py37-mrtparse 2.0.0: MRT format data parser
• py37-setuptools 44.0.0: Python packages installer
• python 3.7_3,2: "meta-port" for the default version of Python interpreter
• python3 3_3: The "meta-port" for version 3 of the Python interpreter
• python37 3.7.9_1: Interpreted object-oriented programming language
• quagga-bgp-netgen 0.2: Generates Quagga/FRR bgp configuration file with lot's of routes
• readline 8.0.4_1: Library for editing command lines as they are typed
• rtrlib 0.6.3: Open-source C implementation of the RPKI/Router Protocol client
• smcroute 2.4.0: Static multicast routing tool
• strongswan 5.9.1: Open Source IKEv2 IPsec-based VPN solution
• sudo 1.9.5p1: Allow others to run commands as root
• tayga 0.9.2: Userland stateless NAT64 daemon
• tinc 1.0.36_2: Virtual Private Network (VPN) daemon
• tmux 3.1c: Terminal Multiplexer
• trafshow 5.2.3_3,1: Full screen visualization of network traffic
• ucarp 1.5.2.20171201: Userlevel Common Address Redundancy Protocol
• utf8proc 2.6.1: UTF-8 processing library
• vim-tiny 8.2.2263_1: Improved version of the vi editor (vim binary only)
• wireguard 1.0.20200827: Fast, modern and secure VPN Tunnel
• wireguard-go 0.0.20201118: WireGuard implementation in Go
• x86info 1.31.s03: x86 CPU identification and feature display utility