strxnet 0.9.2.8 Released

Description: OpenSS7 Old News.

Approved for Immediate Release

Mar 15, 2006
OpenSS7 today announced Release 0.9.2.8 of the STREAMS X/Open Transport Interface (XTI/TLI) strxnet package.

(Edmonton, Alberta -- Mar 15, 2006)   OpenSS7 today announced Release 0.9.2.8 of the STREAMS X/Open Transport Interface (XTI/TLI) strxnet package. The STREAM XTI/TLI Library for Linunx Fast-STREAMS is an implementation of the X/Open Transport Interface or SVID Transport Layer Interface library in accordance with SUSv2 and XNS 5.2 standards. It consists of a user-space library (libxnet) and a set of cooperating STREAMS modules (timod and tirdwr). The STREAMS module timod is pushed on any Stream implementing a Transport Provider Interface (TPI 2.0.0) service interface and provides XTI/TLI library access to the transport provider.

This OpenSS7 Project release is another separate release of the OpenSS7 STREAMS XTI/TLI Library and modules that were formerly present in the (now deprecated) Linux STREAMS (LiS) package. These networking modules provide TPI and XTI/TLI Library (libxnet), as well as providing TPI and XTI header files. The package contains all the necessary manual pages and other documentation for XTI 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). This is primarily a maintenance release. Validated for operation on x86_64 SMP kernel using Linux Fast-STREAMS. Changes included to handle __LP64__ kernels. Corrected build flags for Gentoo and 2.6.15 kernels as reported on mailing list. Corrects one bug from inspection. 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 gamma release of the package: it deprecates previous releases. Please upgrade before reporting problems with previous releases.

Deprecated. Download the latest strxnet 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 strxnet package page for tarballs, SRPMS and binary RPMS.

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

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