strxns 0.9.2.3 Released

Description: OpenSS7 Old News.

Approved for Immediate Release

Mar 15, 2006
OpenSS7 today announced Release 0.9.2.3 of the STREAMS X/Open Networking Services (XNS) strxns package.

(Edmonton, Alberta -- Mar 15, 2006)   OpenSS7 today announced Release 0.9.2.3 of the STREAMS X/Open Networking Services (XNS) strxns package. STREAMS XNS is an implementation of X/Open Network Services (XNS 5.2) for Linux Fast-STREAMS and provides OSI conforming CDI, DLPI and NPI header files as well as several DLPI modules and drivers that convert between the Linux Native IP interface and the STREAMS DLPI interface. One allows DLPI drivers to be added to Linux as IP interfaces, the other provides DLPI access to native Linux IP interfaces.

This is the OpenSS7 Project's third separate release from the OpenSS7 Project of the OpenSS7 STREAMS XNS modules, formerly part of the (now deprecated) Linux STREAMS LiS-2.18.0 package. These networking modules provide DLPI and Linux IP interface drivers, as well as providing CDI, DLPI and NPI header files. The package contains all the necessary manual pages and other documentation for XNS components in a separate autoconf tarball.

This release is primarily to support additional compilers (gcc 4.0.2), architectures (x86_64, SMP, 32-bit compatibility), recent Linux distributions (EL4, SuSE 10, LE2006, OpenSuSE) and kernels (2.6.15). It includes:

• Changes necessary for __LP64__ compatible builds. Changes to support 32-bit ioctl compatibility for __LP64__ architectures. Binary compatibility should not have been disrupted. At the same time as the ioctl32 changes, TRANSPARENT ioctl support for most of the IO controls for the ldl(4) driver has been added.
• Changes to satisfy gcc 4.0.2 compiler.
• Corrections for and testing of 64-bit clean compile and test runs on x86_64 architecture. Some bug corrections resulting from gcc 4.0.2 compiler warnings.
• Corrected build flags for Gentoo and 2.6.15 kernels as reported on mailing list.
• Initial corrections for and testing of SMP operation on Intel 630 Hyper-Threaded SMP on x86_64. This package should now run well on N-way Xeons even with Hyper-Threading enabled.
• Corrections and validation of 32-bit compatibility over 64-bit on x86_64. Should apply well to other 64-bit architectures as well.

This is public beta test release of the package: it deprecates previous releases. Please upgrade before reporting problems with previous releases.

Deprecated. Download the latest strxns package version above instead.

As with other OpenSS7 releases, this release configures, compiles, installs and builds rpms for a wide range of Linux 2.4 and 2.6 RPM-based distributions, and can be used on production kernels without patching or recompiling the kernel.

This package is publicly released under the GNU Public License Version 2. The release is available as an autoconf/RPM tarball, SRPM, and set of binary RPMs. See the downloads page for the autoconf tarballs and SRPMs. See the strxns package page for tarballs, SRPMS and binary RPMS.

See ChangeLog and NEWS in the release for more information. Also, see the strxns.pdf manual in the release (also in html here).

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