What's new

This page provides a summary of new features in each release of netc CLI.

Version 1.18.2

New features and notable changes

  • Preload additional system SNMP information - MIB 1.3.6.1.4.1.2021

Fixed issues

  • Fixed a memory leak in dtd deamon

Version 1.18.1

New features and notable changes

  • Add support for gathering additional statistics for every user with a traffic shaping class.
  • Update DDoS protector integration
  • Update out-of-band management, add firewall support for out-of-band interface

Fixed issues

  • Fix losing IPv6 configuration after reboot

Version 1.18.0

New features and notable changes

  • Add DDoS Protector BGP integration
  • Add concurrent file editing using tmux multiplexer
  • Rewrite internal variable storing to a new DataTree daemon
  • Add integration with Mango ISP
  • Increase IPv6 routing table size
  • Increase size of the connection tracking table
  • Support for a new version of IPMI OOB

Fixed issues

  • Align show interface output properly
  • Fix firewall to set protocol before a port number
  • Fix syslog service restarts
  • Fix displaying hardware queues for some network cards

Version 1.17.7

Fixed issues

  • Fixed module naming for X1102 platform
  • Fix traffic manager to work with duplicate address properly

Version 1.17.6

New features and notable changes

  • SNMP daemon is disabled by default
  • Custom NTP configuration changes are allowed and work with NTP servers set by netc
  • Shaping and statistics integration between NetX and ISPadmin

Fixed issues

  • Fix an issue when a shutdown interface removed from a channel-group doesn't stay offline

Version 1.17.5

New features and notable changes

  • Allow arp/nd filtering according to IP address and interface, allow removing cache entries
  • Disable DNS resolving for firewall rules
  • Support for firewall log limit
  • Add support for remote logging using syslog
  • Add support for QinQ interfaces

Fixed issues

  • Fix showing devel release channel in running/startup-config
  • Fix showing ipv6 firewall rules
  • Fix SNMP info after netc update

Version 1.17.4

New features and notable changes

  • Netflow: add support for promisc mode, gather statistics information
  • sync-manager: add shaping coefficient option to allow easy set percentage overhead for customer's shaping. E.g., if a customer is shaped to 10 Mbit, shaping coefficient 1.1 allows exceeding the threshold by 10%

Fixed issues

  • none

Version 1.17.3

  • Internal build without any changes

Version 1.17.2

Fixed issues

  • Fix displaying static ipv4 routes
  • Fix showing multiple port numbers in firewall rules

Version 1.17.1

New features and notable changes

  • Allows ipv4/ipv6 neighbor cache clearing - see ARP/Neighbour tables for details
  • Support dport range for firewall

Fixed issues

  • Don't show exit command in wrong contexts
  • Fix error if only one PSU is installed

Version 1.17.0

New features and notable changes

  • Support for Policy-Based Routing
  • Support for NetFlow export
  • Change dhclient to dhcpcd
  • Change edit config behavior for bird config
  • Traffic shaping redesign, better support for hierarchical shaping
  • Support for setting DHCP in service module (DHCP is now default)

Fixed issues

  • Fixed atomic processing of dumpdb file
  • Fixed several issues with traffic manager output
  • Fixed issues with shaping statistics and output

HW Platform

  • Support for HW platforms X2340 and X1240

Version 1.16.0

New features and notable changes

  • Support for GRE tunneling
  • Support for ISPadmin synchronization
  • Redesign CPU load monitoring
  • Add support for IPv6 nameserver

Fixed issues

  • Fix showing VRRP info
  • Fix showing db-host in traffic-manager
  • Fix switching between kernels
  • Fix several displaying issues in traffic-manager
  • Fix zabbix-agent permission issues

Version 1.15.2

Fixes

  • Fix displaying routes in running-config

Version 1.15.1

Fixes

  • Fix CPU load monitoring on different platforms
  • Don't show default MTU value in running-config

Version 1.15.0

New features and notable changes

  • Added support for running DHCPv4/DHCPv6 server
  • IPv6 address EUI can be generated based on EUI64 algorithm
  • Zabbix support, Zabbix server can read any value supported by datatree
  • Allows setting MTU value on an interface
  • Support for precise monitoring of CPUs load
  • Show ipv4/ipv6 interface displays if an address is configured via DHCP
  • Support for multicast routing and traffic statistics per multicast group
  • Support for SNMP configuration
  • show release channel command is added
  • ARP reply is now sent for any local target IP address, configured on any interface. Previously, the reply behavior was more strict

Fixed issues

  • IPv6 static routes are handled properly
  • Default refresh time in statsd
  • Fix show running-config freeze

HW platform

  • Added support for DDoS protector 100GBE NIC

Version 1.14.0

New features and notable changes

  • Switch to semantic versioning of netc package
  • Allow a modularity in netc and statsd apps
  • Allow executing commands from the global context in the local context as well
  • Redesign VRRP daemon, additional information about VRRP status and topology is printed
  • Add default webpage
  • Redesign gathering statistics to statsd daemon
  • https://host/stats URL for gathering statistics changed to https://host/dt
  • Add support for devel channel - switching to devel channel allows installing git netc RPMs

Fixed issues

  • Disable auto-creation of a dummy interface
  • Several fixes in ipset and firewall outputs

HW platform

  • Initial support for CESNET DDoS Protector
  • Support for X1103 platform

Version 1.13

New features

  • bird2 is used as a default routing daemon
  • Support for token-based API access - see Token authentication tutorial for details
  • Support for new X1102 hardware
  • Add a serial number to show system command
  • Performance optimization after spectre/meltdown patches

Fixed issues

  • Fix handling routes learned from DHCP
  • Better detection between bird/bird2 routing instances
  • ARP protocol will always use the best local address
  • ARP will reply only if the target IP address is the local address configured on the incoming interface
  • Unify outputs of error/warning messages

Version 1.12

New features

  • DHCP support: IPv4 address can be configured via DHCP using ipv4 address DHCP in interface context
  • reboot: reboot command in the global context can be used to reboot netx
  • IPMI support: various IPMI features can be set in system context
  • SPF info: information about supported SPF transceivers are displayed in the interface detail section
  • Mirror: it's possible to mirror and truncate traffic to another interface
  • Firewall: support for negative options
  • Firewall: support for state options
  • Kernel: add support for kernel selection in system context

Fixed issues

  • traffd: properly close filehandle
  • cli: fix no login shell bash command
  • cli : bond: fix miimon default
  • cli : fix multiple execution of traffd
  • cli: fix user deletion
  • statsd: start statsd deamon automatically
  • core : set irq affinity correctly using set_irq_affinity script
  • statsd : fix interface stats
  • api : fix API processing speed