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2017-10-20 PF_RING 7.0
* PF_RING Library
- Flow offload support
- New PF_RING_FLOW_OFFLOAD pfring_open() flag to enable hw flow offload on supported cards (received buffers are native metadata)
- New PF_RING_FLOW_OFFLOAD_NOUPDATES pfring_open() flag to disable flow updates with hw flow offload enabled: only standard raw packets with a flow id are received
- New PKT_FLAGS_FLOW_OFFLOAD_UPDATE packet flag to indicate flow metadata in the received buffer (generic_flow_update struct)
- New PKT_FLAGS_FLOW_OFFLOAD_PACKET packet flag to indicate raw packet with flow_id in pkt_hash
- New PKT_FLAGS_FLOW_OFFLOAD_MARKER packet flag to indicate marked raw packet
- Fixes for ARM systems
* ZC Library
- New pfring_zc_set_app_name API
- PF_RING_ZC_PKT_FLAGS_FLOW_OFFLOAD flag to enable hw flow offload
- Fixed BPF filters in SPSC queues
- Fixed hugepages cleanup in case of application dropping privileges
- Fixed sigbus error on hugepages allocation failure on numa systems
- Fixed multiple clusters allocation in a single process
* PF_RING-aware Libpcap/Tcpdump
- Libpcap update v.1.8.1
- Tcpdump update v.4.9.2
* PF_RING Kernel Module
- Docker/containers namespaces isolation support
- Fixed capture on Raspberry Pi
- Implemented support for VLAN filtering based on interface name (<device name>.<VLAN ID>, where ID = 0 accepts only untagged packets)
- New cluster types cluster_per_flow_ip_5_tuple/cluster_per_inner_flow_ip_5_tuple to balance 5 tuple with IP traffic, src/dst mac otherwise
- Fixed hash rule last match, new hash_filtering_rule_stats.inactivity stats
* PF_RING Capture Modules
- Accolade flow offload support
- New hw_filtering_rule type accolade_flow_filter_rule to discard or mark a flow
- Netcope support
- New hw_filtering_rule type netcope_flow_filter_rule to discard a flow
- Improved Fiberblaze support
- pfring_get_device_clock support
- Ability to set native filters by setting as BPF string 'fbcard:<fb filter>'
- Fixed TX memory management
- Fixed subnet BPF filters
- Fixed drop counter
- Fixed capture mode
- Fixed sockets not enabled
- FPGA error detection
- Endace DAG update
- npcap/timeline module compressed pcap extraction fix
* Drivers
- ixgbe-zc driver update v.5.0.4
- i40e-zc driver update v.2.2.4
* nBPF
- Fixed nBPF parser memory leak
* Examples
- New pfsend option -L <num> to forge <num> VLAN IDs
- zbalance_ipc improvements
- Ability to dump output to log file (-l)
- Fixed privileges drop (-D)
* Misc
- Fixed systemd dependencies, renamed pfring.service to pf_ring.service
- New /etc/pf_ring/interfaces.conf configuration file for configuring management and capture interfaces
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2017-04-24 PF_RING 6.6
* PF_RING Library
- New pfring_findalldevs/pfring_freealldevs API for listing all interfaces supported by pf_ring
- New timeline module based on libnpcap for seamlessly extracting traffic from a n2disk dumpset using the pf_ring API
- Dynamic capture modules loading with dlopen support
- Improved pfring_set_bpf_filter to set hw rules when supported by the network card thanks to the nBPF engine
* ZC Library
- New pfring_zc_set_bpf_filter/pfring_zc_remove_bpf_filter API for setting BPF filters to device queues
- Fixed pfring_zc_queue_is_full for device queues
- Flushing SPSC queues when a consumer attaches (RX only)
* PF_RING-aware Libpcap/Tcpdump
- Support for extracting traffix from a n2disk dumpset using libpcap
- tcpdump upgrade to v.4.9.0
* PF_RING kernel module
- Support for latest ubuntu and centos stable kernels
- Support for SCTP and ICMP packet parsing
- Packet hash improvements
- Added tunneled IP version to packet metadata
- Added IP version to sw filters
- New kernel cluster hash types for tunneled traffic
- QinQ VLAN parsing
- Removed deprecated kernel plugins support
- Promisc fix in case of multiple devices in a single socket
* Drivers
- Support for latest ubuntu and centos stable kernels
- FPGA modules/libraries are now loaded at runtime using dlopen
- RSS support on Intel i211
- Jumbo frames support on i40e
- i40e tx optimisations
- i40e interrupts fixes in case of RSS
- Fiberblaze capture module with chunk mode support
- Exablaze capture module
- Accolade improvements
- Endace DAG update and support for streams
- Myricom ports aggregation fixes, new syntax myri:<port>,<port>
* nBPF
- New nBPF filtering engine supporting an extended subset of the BPF syntax (tunneled traffic and l7 protocols are supproted)
- nBPF support for hw filtering on Fiberblaze cards
- nBPF support for hw filtering on Intel FM10K cards (Silicom PE3100G2DQIR)
- nBPF support for hw filtering on Exablaze cards
- nBPF support for hw filtering on Napatech cards and NTPL generation
- Support for "start <time> and end <time> and <bpf>" when extracting from a n2disk timeline
- Support for vlan [id], mpls [label], gtp
* Examples
- pfcount:
- ability to list interfaces with -L (-v 1 for more info)
- ability to dump traffic on PCAP file with -o
- psend:
- option to force flush per packet (-F)
- options to specify src/dst IP for packet forging (-S/-D)
- option to forge packets on the fly instead of at preprocessing time (-O)
- option to randomize generated ips sequence (-z)
- ability to generate IPv6 traffic (-V 6)
- ability to generate mixed v4 and v6 traffic (-V 0)
- TCP/UDP checksum when reforging
- zbalance_ipc
- option to use hw aggregation when supported by the card (-w)
- IP-based filtering with ZMQ support for rules injection
* Wireshark
- New extcap module 'ntopdump' for Wireshark 2.x
* Misc
- Improved systemd support (Ubuntu 16)
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2016-06-07 PF_RING 6.4
* PF_RING Library
- Improved Myricom support, new naming scheme to improve usability
- Improved Napatech support, 100G support
- Improved Accolade support
- New Invea-Tech support
- New API pfring_get_metadata to read ZC metadata
- New pfring_get_interface_speed API
- New API pfring_version_noring()
- C++ wrapper improvements
- Removed DNA legacy
* ZC Library
- New API pfring_zc_set_device_proc_stats to write /proc stats per device
- New API pfring_zc_set_device_app_name to write the application name under /proc
- New API pfring_zc_get_cluster_id to get the cluster ID from a queue
- New API pfring_zc_check_device_license for reading interface license status
- New API pfring_zc_get_queue_settings to read buffer len and metadata len from queue
- New API pfring_zc_get_queue_speed to read the link speed
- New pfring_zc_open_device flag PF_RING_ZC_DEVICE_NOT_PROMISC to open the device without setting promisc mode
- New packet metadata flags, including IP/L4 checksum (when available from card offloads)
- Improved pfring_zc_builtin_gtp_hash
* PF_RING-aware Libpcap/Tcpdump
- New libpcap v.1.7.4
- New tcpdump v.4.7.4
- Libnpcap support to let libpcap-based applications (i.e. tcpdump) read compressed .npcap files produced by n2disk
- Native nanosecond timestamps support
- Tcpdump patch to close the pcap handle in case of errors (this avoids breaking ZC queues)
* PF_RING kernel module
- Fixed BPF support on kernel 4.4.x
- Fixed RSS support on Centos 6 (it was reporting the wrong number of queues, affecting RSS rehash)
- Reworked promisc support: handling promisc through the pf_ring kernel module in order to automatically remove it even when applications drop privileges
- VLAN ID fix in case of vlan stripping offload enabled (it was including priority bits)
* Drivers
- New i40e-zc v.1.5.18
- New fm10k-zc v.0.20.1
- Support for latest Ubuntu 16, RHEL 6.8, Centos 7
- Fixed i40e-zc initialisation failures due to promisc reset
- Fixed i40e-zc 'transmit queue 0 timed out'
- Fixed e1000e-zc memory leak
* Examples
- Added ability to reforge MAC/IP also when reading packets from pcap file/stdin in pfsend
- Added -f option for replaying packets from pcap file in zsend
- Added -o option to pfsend to specify an offset to be used with -b
- Added -r option to use egress interfaces instead of queues in zbalance_ipc
* Snort DAQ
- Fixed DAQ-ZC buffer leak in IPC mode
- Fixed DAQ_DP_ADD_DC support
- Fixed support for DAQ < 2.0.6
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2015-11-26 PF_RING 6.2
* PF_RING Library
- Accolade Technology support
- Myricom/CSPI NICs (ASIC/FPGA) support with APIv4
- Napatech module compatibility with ntanl v.4.0.1
- New API pfring_set_packet_slicing for packet slicing (hw support when available)
- New pfring_open flag PF_RING_ZC_IPONLY_RSS to compute RSS on IP only (not 4-tuple)
- Reworked pfring_recv_chunk API to handle generic segments
- Packet-mode with Napatech using pfring_recv also when card is configured as PCAP
- Improved pfring_print_parsed_pkt with STP support
- Improved software filtering rules stats
- Fix for capturing tx packets in stack mode
- Removed libnuma dependency (using native numa support in PF_RING ZC)
- Added pfring_config tool to print includes and libs used in the current PF_RING configuration
- Fixed loops in stack mode (e.g. stack injected packets captured from kernel in 1-copy mode)
- Fix for IPv6 in pfring_hash_pkt
- License update to LGPL 2.1
* ZC Library
- New API pfring_zc_set_rxfh_indir to reprogram RSS REdirection TAble
- New pfring_zc_open_device flag PF_RING_ZC_DEVICE_CAPTURE_TX to capture also TX direction on standard devices
- Fixed e1000e caplen
- Fixed i40e TX
- Fixed device detach
- Fixed DAQ-ZC IPC detach
- Fix for re-running recv after a breakloop in pfring_zc_queue_breakloop
- Fix for nanoseconds in case of software timestamps with ZC devices
* DNA Library
- Fixed cluster queues initialisation in Libzero
* PF_RING-aware Libpcap
- Fixed pcap_brekloop (tcpdump now handles sigterm correctly when there is no traffic)
* PF_RING kernel module
- Compilation fixes for FC 22 with kernel 4.x
- Fixed BPF support in Centos 7 (causing crashes)
- Fixed concurrent /proc updates and interface name clashes
* PF_RING-aware/ZC Drivers
- New e1000e driver v.3.2.7.1 with kernel 4.x support
- New igb driver v.5.3.2.2 with kernel 4.x support
- New ixgbe driver v.4.1.5 with kernel 4.x support
- New i40e-zc driver v.1.3.39.1 with kernel 4.x support
- Fixed rx stats in ifconfig/proc/ifstat/etc.
- Fixed stats with X540
- ixgbe: forcing drop_en on all queues when an rx queue is open
* DNA Drivers
- New e1000e driver v.3.2.4.2
- New igb driver v.5.3.2.2
- New ixgbe driver v.4.1.2
- igb hw timestamp change from 40 bit to 64 bit full timestamp
* Examples
- zbounce: printing direction
- zbalance_ipc: optimisation to reduce time-pulse thrad load on non-time-sensitive applications
- pfsend: linux cooked packets support
- pfsend: ability to specify egress rate in pps
* Snort DAQ
- Fixed direction and L2 header in the inject function
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2015-03-30 PF_RING 6.0.3
* PF_RING Library
- New pfring_open() flag PF_RING_USERSPACE_BPF to force userspace BPF instead of in-kernel BPF with standard drivers
- New API pfring_get_card_settings() to read max packet length and NIC rx/tx ring size
- New Napatech support
- Support for up to 64 channels with standard drivers, pfring_set_channel_mask() has a 64bit channel mask parameter now
- Reworked IPv6 parsing
- Configure parameter --disable-numa to remove libnuma dependency
- ARM fixes
- Minor bpf memory leak fix
* ZC Library
- New pfring_zc_open_device() flag PF_RING_ZC_DEVICE_SW_TIMESTAMP to force sw timestamp
- New API pfring_zc_get_queue_id() to read SPSC queue ID or interface index
- New DAQ module for ZC
- pfring_zc_send() is now returning errno=EMSGSIZE on packet too long
- Fix for receiving packets from stack using
- Fix for send_pkt_burst() with IPC SPSC queues
- Fix for drop stats when using SPSC queues over the standard pf_ring API
- Fix for /proc stats in IPC mode when using the standard pf_ring API
- Fix for packet timestamp when using SPSC queues over the standard pf_ring API
- Fix for stats when inter-process SPSC queues are used
* PF_RING-aware Libpcap
- New PF_RING-aware libpcap v.1.6.2
- New .npcap (compressed pcap) files support
- Fix for libpcap over ZC, reworked poll support
* PF_RING kernel module
- New eth_type field in kernel filters
- Reworked BPF support
- Polling Mode/Breed under /proc is now "ZC" for ZC devices (in place of DNA)
- Increased max dev name size
- transparent_mode is now deprecated
- Fix for 'any' device
- Fix for kernel >=3.19
- Fix for hw vlan strip in case of multiple sockets on the same device (standard drivers)
- Fix for kernel Oops (rx vlan offload check)
* PF_RING-aware/ZC Drivers
- New Intel i40e (X710/XL710) ZC drivers
- New ixgbe ZC driver v.3.22.3
- ixgbe poll fix
- Fixes for Centos/RH 6.6
- Fixes for kernel >=3.16
* Examples
- New zbalance_DC_ipc: a master process balancing packets to multiple consumer processes,
using multiple threads for packet filtering in a Divide-and-Conquer fashion,
with an optional stage for sorting filtered packets before distribution
- New zreplicator: example application receiving packets from n ingress interfaces and replicating them to m egress interfaces
- pfcount: -N <num> parameter to exit after reading <num> packets
- zsend:
- IPC support to attach to an external cluster/queue
- added -P <core> to use pulse-time thread for tx rate control
- added -Q <sock> to enable VM support (to attach a consumer running in a VM)
- zbalance_ipc:
- ability to create ingress sw queues (instead of opening interfaces) with -i Q (comma-separated list of Q and interfaces is allowed)
- added daemon mode
- added pid file
- proc stats fix
- interface and per-queue stats with -p
- pflatency:
- added -o <device> and -c <count>
- max/min/avg stats
- zfifo fixes
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2014-09-24 PF_RING 6.0.2
* PF_RING Library
- New Ixia hw timestamp support
- New sysdig module
- Userspace bpf filtering with pfring_set_bpf_filter() when kernel-bypass is used (DNA/Libzero/ZC)
- Fixed fd leak
* ZC Library
- New API to add/remove hw filters: pfring_zc_add_hw_rule()/pfring_zc_remove_hw_rule()
- New API to check tx queue status: pfring_zc_queue_is_full()
- New API to sort traffic based on hw ts: pfring_zc_run_fifo()
- New API to export stats in /proc: pfring_zc_set_proc_stats()
- New API to hash packets based on GTP: pfring_zc_builtin_gtp_hash()
- Hw ts support: new PF_RING_ZC_DEVICE_HW_TIMESTAMP, PF_RING_ZC_DEVICE_STRIP_HW_TIMESTAMP flags
- Ixia ts support: new PF_RING_ZC_DEVICE_IXIA_TIMESTAMP flag
- PPPoE support in pfring_zc_builtin_ip_hash()
- Fix for huge memory allocation
- Fix for stack injection
- Fix for ZC cluster destroy
* PF_RING kernel module
- MPLS support
- Support for huge rings (new ring version 16)
- Fixed send for packet len = max frame size + vlan
- Fix for huge memory allocation with standard pf_ring/libzero
- Fixed 64 bit division on 32 bit systems
- Fixed cluster hash
- Fix for multichannel devices
- DKMS support
* PF_RING-aware/ZC Drivers
- Hw filtering support in ixgbe-ZC driver (Intel 82599-based cards)
- e1000e driver update v.3.0.4.1
- ixgbe driver update v.3.21.2
- numa node fix
- new parameter allow_tap_1g to handle 1gbit/s TAP
- DKMS support
* DNA Drivers
- e1000e driver v.2.5.4 vlan stripping disabled
- DKMS support
* PF_RING-aware Libpcap
- New PCAP_PF_RING_RECV_ONLY env var to open socket in rx only
- Fix for libpcap VLAN issues with LINUX_SLL
- Fix for cpu spinning on pcap_read_packet()
- Fix for userspace bpf with libzero/zc virtual interfaces
- Fix for VLAN filtering
* Examples
- pfcount: userspace bpf fix
- pfsend: fixed division by 0 with empty pcaps
- pfbridge: added bpf support
- pfdnacluster_master: added PPPoE support to hash
- New zfifo example
- zbalance: round-robin mode fix
- zbalance_ipc
- ability to spread packets across multiple instances of multiple applications in IP and GTP hash mode
- ability to configure queue len
- added support for n2disk10g multithread
- Added zbalance_ipc zsend zcount zcount_ipc to the Ubuntu package
- Added zbalance_ipc zsend zcount zcount_ipc to the RPM package
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2014-05-06 PF_RING 6.0.1
* PF_RING ZC
- New pfring_zc_send_pkt_burst()
- Fix for e1000e rx
- Added ZC version in demo apps help
* DNA
- Fix for pfring_set_tx_watermark()
* Drivers
- Added numa_cpu_affinity parameter to PF_RING-aware/ZC ixgbe driver
- PF_RING-aware/ZC drivers update:
- ixgbe-zc v.3.21.2
- igb-zc v.5.2.5
- DNA drivers update:
- ixgbe-dna v.3.21.2
* Examples
- pfcount:
- Added ability to search strings on the payload
- Added ability to dump on a pcap file the traffic matching strings (-x)
- Improved ability to dump (-o) traffic on disk and create a log file
- Handling SIGHUP with -o to close exising dump and create a new one
- Fixed numa affinity
* PF_RING Kernel module
- added checksum offload flags to the packet header (when enabled)
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2014-04-14 PF_RING 6.0.0
* PF_RING ZC
- Say hello to the new PF_RING ZC library!
* PF_RING API
- New chunk mode API (for supported cards only):
- Added PF_RING_CHUNK_MODE pfring_open() flag
- New pfring_recv_chunk()
- New pfring_set_bound_dev_name() for setting custom bound device name
- Added libnuma support for numa node affinity
* Drivers
- New generation PF_RING-aware drivers with ZC support:
- e1000e-2.5.4-zc
- igb-5.0.6-zc
- ixgbe-3.18.7-zc
- PF_RING-aware e1000e driver update (v.3.0.4.1)
* Examples
- New PF_RING ZC examples in userland/examples_zc
- Moved libzero examples to userland/examples_libzero
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2014-02-01 PF_RING 5.6.2
* PF_RING Kernel module
- Added compatibility for new kernels (post 3.10)
- Redhat compilation fixes
* PF_RING library
- New pfring_print_pkt()/pfring_print_parsed_pkt()
- pfring_get_selectable_fd fix: returning -1 on error
- Doxygen documentation
* Libzero
- Time-pulse thread support in DNA Cluster (sw nsec ts)
- Application stats fix for libzero DNA Cluster slave sockets
- Added libnuma support to DNA Cluster for memory binding
* Libpcap
- Setting selectable fd via pfring_get_selectable_fd()
* Examples
- pfdnacluster_master
- New -o <device> and -f <core id> options to forward packets both to applications and an egress interface
- Ability to drop privileges with -D <username>
- Stats under /proc/net/pf_ring/stats
- New option -q <queue len>
- Applications stats have duration with msec resolution now
* Drivers
- New PF_RING-aware netxtreme2-7.8.37 driver (courtesy of Rob G <[email protected]>)
- PF_RING-aware igb (5.1.2) and ixgbe (3.19.1) drivers update (courtesy of Pablo Nebrera <[email protected]>)
- ixgbe DNA driver update (3.18.7)
- igb DNA driver update (5.0.6)
- e1000e DNA driver update (2.5.4)
- ixgbe DNA driver pause frames fix
- igb/ixgbe DNA drivers compilation fixes for Redhat 6.5
- igb DNA jumbo mtu fix
- igb DNA drop stats fix
- DNA drivers fixes for applications calling poll/select directly (e.g. tshark)
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2013-08-30 PF_RING 5.6.1
* PF_RING Kernel module
- Added enable_frag_coherence param: handle fragments to keep flow coherence in clusters
- Cluster add/remove fix
* PF_RING API
- New pfring_get_link_status() call to check link status up/down
* Examples
- pfwrite
- Added cluster id (-c) support
- Added daemon mode (-b) support
- Added redis PUBLISH/SUBSCRIBE for IMSI registration/delete
- Enhanced IMSI tracking
- Performance fix for GTP tunnels
- Fixed buffer length issue
- pfsend
- Added daemon mode (-d) support
- Added pid file (-P) support
- pfdnacluster_master
- Added pid file (-P) support
* Libzero
- DNA Bouncer fix: sometimes the decision function was accessing the wrong buffer
* Snort DAQ
- Fix for honouring cnt in pfring_daq_acquire()
- Stats fix
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2013-06-07 PF_RING 5.6.0
* PF_RING Kernel module
- Fixed bug that prevented the PF_RING cluster to work properly with specific traffic
* Documentation
- User's guide translated to russian (courtesy of [email protected])
* Libzero
- Fixed bug that caused the DNA bouncer to process the correct packet
* Examples
- pfwrite
- Added support for the microcloud so that for GTP traffic it is possible to dump traffic of specific IMSI phone
- Added support for mobile networks (2G/3G/LTE) so that we can dump traffic of specific GTP tunnels
- pfdump: added cluster id support (courtesy of Doug Burks <[email protected]>)
* Snort (PF_RING DAQ)
- Added microcloud support for notifying into the microcloud those hosts that are victims/attackers
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2013-05-22 PF_RING 5.5.3
* PF_RING Kernel module
- Support for injecting packets to the stack
- Added ability to balance tunneled/fragmented packets with the cluster
- Improved init.d script
- Packet len fix with GSO enabled, caplen fix with multiple clusters
- Bug fixes for race condition with rss rehash, memory corruption, transparent mode and tx capture, kernels >= 3.7.
* Drivers
- Added PF_RING-aware driver for Chelsio cards (cxgb3-2.0.0.1)
- New release for PF_RING-aware igb (igb-4.1.2)
* DNA
- Added support for Silicom 10 Gbit hw timestamping commodity NIC card
- Added pfring_flush_tx_packets() for flushing queued tx packets
- Fixes for cutting packets to snaplen, e1000-dna rx
* Libzero
- pfdnacluster_master support for multiple instances of multiple applications
- Added dna_cluster_set_thread_name() to name the master rx/tx threads
- Fix for direct forwarding with the DNA Cluster
- Changed len to a ptr in DNA Bouncer decision function to allow user change forwarded packet content and lenght
* Examples
- Added ability to replay a packet with pfsend passing hex from stdin
- Added pfwrite to the package
- Fix for rate control with huge files in pfsend
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2013-01-09 PF_RING 5.5.2
* PF_RING library
- New pfring_open() flag PF_RING_DNA_FIXED_RSS_Q_0 to send all traffic to queue 0.
Other queues can be selected using hw filters (DNA cards with hw filtering only).
- Added ability to create a stats file under /proc/net/pf_ring/stats so that
applications can report stats via the /proc filesystem.
- pfring_set_application_stats() for reporting stats
- pfring_get_appl_stats_file_name() for getting the exac filename where the app sets the statistics
* DNA drivers
- Flow Control disabled by default with the ixgbe-dna driver
* Sample apps
- New pfdump.c sample app
- Userspace BPF support with DNA in pfcount.c
- pfcount.c and pfsend.c update to report stats using pfring_set_application_stats()
* Libzero
- New experimental pfring_register_zerocopy_tx_ring()
- New pfdnacluster_mt_rss_frwd sample app (packet forwarding using Libzero
DNA Cluster for rx/balancing and standard DNA with zero-copy on RSS queues for tx)
* Libpcap
- pcap_get_pfring_id()
- pcap_set_master_id()
- pcap_set_master()
- pcap_set_application_name()
- pcap_set_watermark()
* BUG fixes
- Fix for corrupted VLAN tagged packets
- Fix for wrong packet len with vlan stripping offload
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2012-11-24 PF_RING 5.5.1
- updated ixgbe driver to release 3.11.33
- Fixed bug that was causing ixgbe driver not to disable interrupts. This was causing
a high load on the core handling the interrupts for ixgbe-based card
- libzero: various hugepages improvements and bug fixes
- Added ability to specify PF_RING_RX_PACKET_BOUNCE in pfring_open
- Fixed minor memory leak
- Various improvements to support of hardware timestamp on Silicom Intel-based 10 Gbit adapters
- DNA Bouncer: added direction to pfring_dna_bouncer_decision_func callback (useful in bidirectional mode)
- DNA Cluster: added dna_cluster_set_hugepages_mountpoint() to manually select the hugepages mount point when several are available
- Created architecture specific versions of libzero/DNA for exploiting latest generation of CPUs and thus improve performance
- Update PF_RING-aware igb update (4.0.17)
- Added pf_ring calls to pcap apps
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2012-11-01 PF_RING 5.5.0
* New libzero features:
- DNA Cluster: number of per-consumer rx/tx queue slots and number of additional buffers can be configured via dna_cluster_low_level_settings()
- hugepages support (pfdnacluster_master/pfdnacluster_multithread -u option)
* New PF_RING-aware libpcap features:
- added PF_RING_ACTIVE_POLL environmental variable to enable active polling when defined to 1
- enable rehash rss setting env var PF_RING_RSS_REHASH=1
- cluster type selectable via env vars:
- PCAP_PF_RING_USE_CLUSTER_PER_FLOW
- PCAP_PF_RING_USE_CLUSTER_PER_FLOW_2_TUPLE
- PCAP_PF_RING_USE_CLUSTER_PER_FLOW_4_TUPLE
- PCAP_PF_RING_USE_CLUSTER_PER_FLOW_TCP_5_TUPLE
- PCAP_PF_RING_USE_CLUSTER_PER_FLOW_5_TUPLE
* New PF_RING-aware drivers
- Updated Intel drivers to make them compatible with newer kernels
* New PF_RING library features:
- new pfring_open() flag PF_RING_HW_TIMESTAMP for enabling hw timestamp
* New PF_RING kernel module features:
- handle_user_msg hook for sending msg to plugins
- SO_SEND_MSG_TO_PLUGIN setsockopt for sending msgs from userspace
- pf_ring_inject_packet_to_ring for inserting packets in a ring identified by <if_index, channel_id>)
- possibility to redefine the rehash_rss function
* Snort PF_RING-DAQ module:
- new configure --with-pfring-kernel-includes option
- fix for -u <uid> -g <gid>
* DNA drivers fixes:
- Compilation with RHEL 6.3
- igb drop stats fix
* Sample app new features:
- new pfcount.c -s option for enabling hw timestamp
- new pfdnacluster_multithread option for absolute per-interface stats
* Sample apps fixes:
- vlan parsing
- compilation fix for HAVE_ZERO not set
- pfcount fix for reentrant mode
- core binding fixes
* PF_RING kernel module fixes:
- channel_id handling
- fix for hash with cluster type in cluster_per_flow_*
- important fix for standard pf_ring (BUG #252: extra packets with wrong size)
- max caplen 16384 increased to 65535 (max 16 bit)
- fix for handling packets with stripped VLAN IDs
* Misc changes
- Initial work on changelog maintenance