hipl--main--2.6--patch-359

• Code clean ups by Lauri Silvennoinen and Miika Komu
• New wireshark patches from Samu Varjonen
• Testing on Fedora by Andrei Gurtov
• Testing on CentOS by Robert Moskowitz
• Bug fixes on Fedora and CentOS by Miika
• Integration with 2.6.26 kernels by Miika
• UDP-related bug fixes by Samu and Miika
• Userspace IPsec code and performance improvements and extensions by Rene Hummen
• Bug fixes to LSI code by Teresa Finez and Miika
• MTU improvements by Miika and Rene. For example VLC is working fully now.
• Separate rulesets for hipfw by Miika
• Capability-related bug fixes by Miika and Samu
• Portability improvements and bug fixes for OpenWRT by Dongsu Park and Dmitriy Kuptsov
• Maemo portability fixes from Andrey Khurri
• HIP proxy bug fixes and code improvements by Weiwei Hu and Miika
• Cerficate support for HIP by Samu
• End-to-end NAT traversal bug fixes from Xiang Liu
• Only single HIT is now enabled by default per host (Blerta Bishaj and Miika)
• Dnsproxy packaging improvements by Miika
• Larger message size for internal messages by Blerta
• HIP firewall bug fixing and improvements by Dongsu, Miika, Rene, Blerta and Teresa
• Dnsproxy improvements by Antti Louko
• System-based opportunistic mode by Blerta and bug fixes from Miika
• Heart-beat mechanism by Samu and bug fixes from Miika
• LDAP/HIP documentation updates by Samu
• Hipconf ESP transformation support by Samu
• Bug fix to conntest-server udp handling (bug id 623) by Miika
• HIP agent bug fixes by Samu and Miika
• Radvd/hipfw compability fixes by Miika
• HIT loopback bug fixes by Miika
• Handover-improvement patch for radvd by Javier Melero
• Mobility testing by Samu

hipl--main--2.6--patch-338

• Bug fixes and improvements to tools/dnsproxy (it is a replacement to "hipconf run") by Antti Louko. Replaces itself automatically to resolv.conf and removes itself in exit.
• Djbdns imported and patches by Antti Louko. Djbdns speeds up the DNS proxy.
• Iperf multihoming patches from Dmitriy Kuptsov.
• Improvements to the "opportunistic TCP" mode by Blerta Bishaj.
• Improvements to the Relay, RVS and registration code by Lauri Silvennoinen.
• OpenDHT/Bamboo IPv6 patch by Lu Xiaopeng
• Revised wireshar patches from Samu Varjonen
• A number of bug fixes from Thomas Jansen
• Broadcast problem bug fix (id 490) by Juha Jylhäkoski
• Deb/rpm binary compilation improvements by Juha Jylhäkoski, Miika Komu and Johnny Hughes
• BEET patches for linux 2.6.25/26 by Joakim Koskela
• Native HIP API kernel patches by Miika Komu
• Bug fixes to OpenDHT code by Samu Varjonen
• UDP encapsulation changes for HIP and ESP by Miika Komu. Incompatible with previous release.
• Hipconf checks now priviledges of the user. Implemented by Juha Jylhäkoski and Miika Komu
• Some code documentation and quality improvements (especially the test software) by Lauri Silvennoinen
• Host id parameter alignments to RFC5201 by Samu Varjonen
• Firewall redesigned and reimplemented by Miika Komu and Rene Hummen
• HIP Proxy by Weiwei Hu
• Userspace IPsec by Rene Hummen and Tao Wan
• Porting fixes by Dmitriy Kuptsov and Dongsu Park
• Compilation fixes by Dongsu Park
• Capability 64-bit fix by Oleg Ponomarev
• OpenVPN compatibility documentation by Blerta Bishaj
• LSI support by Teresa Finez
• Initial P2P NAT traversal support by Xiang Liu (experimental)
• Updated HOWTO (Miika)
• Variable length Host Identities by Artturi Karila
• System information printed to logs by Artturi Karila
• Priviledge downgrade for GUI and firewall by Artturi Karila
• Mobility code maintenance by Samu Varjonen
• Opportunistic mode support in the firewall by Blerta Bishaj
• Imported pjsip project to HIPL (Miika)

hipl--main--2.6--patch-320

• Iperf and nc6 multihoming patch by Dmitriy Nikolaevich Kuptsov
• Advanced opportunistic mode by Blerta Bishaj
• Firewall improvements by Blerta Bishaj
• Clean ups to software documentation and test software by Lauri Silvennoinen
• Bug id 418, 321, 384 solved (Lauri)
• Relay/RVS whitelisting, cancellation and registration improvements by Lauri
• IPv6 patch for OpenDHT by Lu Xiaopeng
• Miscellaneous bug and compilation fixes by Thomas Jansen
• Wireshark 1.0.0 HIP patches by Thomas Jansen and Samu Varjonen
• Deb/rpm binary compilation improvements by Juha Jylhäkoski
• BEET patch for 2.6.25 by Joakim Koskela
• Bug fixing to mobility by Samu Varjonen and Miika Komu
• Bug id 508, 509 by Miika

hipl--main--2.6--patch-317 contains some bug fixes related to:

• patches/2.6.24/orchid-router-src-addr-sel.patch helps the use of HIP in routers (Juha-Matti Tapio).
• Updates in HOWTO (Miika Komu, Samu Varjonen, Antti Louko)
• Deb/rpm packaging improvements (Juha Jylhäkoski)
• Bugfixes to mobility (Samu Varjonen)
• Improvements to UDP-HIP broadcasts (Miika Komu)
• A bug fix to HIP broadcasts (Juha Jylhäkoski)
• Internal API for triggering base exchange (Miika Komu)
• Hi3 related improvements (Andrey Lukyanenko)
• Python based DNS proxy reduces the need for libinet6. Can be run also at the client and server side. (Antti Louko)

hipl--main--2.6--patch-314 contains some bug fixes related to:

• Updates to manual (Miika Komu)
• Loopback improvements (Miika)
• Firewall improvements and bug fixes (Miika, Blerta Bishaj)
• HIP protocol number changed from 253 to 139 (Miika)
• Kernel patches for 2.6.24 (Joakim Koskela)
• Bug fixes to debugging functions (Miika Komu)
• Hi3 bug fixes and handling of multiple locators (Andrey Lukyanenko)

Release 1.0.3 is out!

hipl--main--2.6--patch-299 contains some bug fixes related to:

• Handling of /etc/hip/dhtservers (Samu Varjonen)
• OpenDHT now DHT contains LOCATORs (Samu)
• test/wget-dht-servers.sh gets a full list of OpenDHT servers (Miika)
• Be aware that the OpenDHT deployment in planetlab is flaky!
• Bug fixes to multihoming (Miika)

hipl--main--2.6--patch-295 includes bug fixes to GUI (Samu Varjonen), Nokia tablet platform (Joakim Koskela) and multihoming (Miika Komu). It also contains UDP support for the firewall (Blerta Bishaj). Thanks for Jeff Ahrenholz for successful interoperability tests with OpenHIP, HIPL and Ericsson implementations (base exchange and update).

hipl--main--2.6--patch-293 includes DNS related scripts in the tools directory. The scripts can be used for converting public keys in /etc/hip to DNS server format. BIND9 and tinydns implementation formats are supported. Documented in the manual. Developed by Antti Louko.

hipl--main--2.6--patch-291 includes the following improvements:

• opportunistic mode works again with firefox (Alberto Garcia)
• documentation on running HIP with apache web proxy (Alberto Garcia)
• documentation tips on running sendmail and spamassassin with HIP (Miika)
• added some missing kernel modules to module probing (Miika, reported by Orlie Brewer)

hipl--main--2.6--patch-289 includes integrated and rewritten support for hi3. There is no need download separate i3 sources anymore. Read HOWTO for usage instructions. The enchanced hi3 support was developed and tested by Andrey Lukuanenko.

hi3 provides support for sending HIP packets through an overlay. See Hi3 report

Bugs existing for hi3 support: 408, 413, 414, 415, 416. See bugzilla for details.

New features on hipl--main--2.6--patch-285

• Mobility related changes from Samu Varjonen: revised mobility code, interfamily handover support and locators in base exchange (needs to be enabled separately, off by default)
• Kernel patches for 2.6.23 are available in the archive. 64-bit support is now better in 2.6.22.6+ patches (Samu Varjonen).

We have been lately just fixing bugs from the code in anticipation of the next release. The latest version (hipl--main--2.6--patch-279) contains following improvements:

• Improvements for 64-bit platforms (Antti Partanen. Oleg Ponomarev)
• Updated manual (Miika Komu, Alberto Garcia)
• Key exchange triggering related bug fixes (Miika)
• OpenDHT bug fixes (Samu Varjonen)
• Libinet6 resolver related bug fixes (Alberto)
• Opportunistic mode fixes (Alberto / Miika))
• Packet retransmission bug fixes (Miika, verified by Javier Melero)
• Retransmission timeout is now 10 secs (Miika)
• NAT code bug fixes (Miika)
• bug fixes to RVS (Miika / Lauri Silvennoinen)
• Hi3 bug fixing, not working yet (Andrey Lukuanenko)
• "hipconf get ha all" displays now more information (Miika)
• RPM compilation fixes (Miika)
• Initiator restart fixes (Miika)
• New test pages for ashenvale and crossroads (Alberto, see doc/index.lol)

New features on hipl--main--2.6--patch-270

• BEET patches for 2.6.22 kernels (Joakim Koskela)
• Hipd sends I1 to broadcast address as the last resource when it cannot find a locator mapping from hosts/DNS/OpenDHT. Try e.g. ping6 HIT with no hosts configuration (Miika Komu)
• Limited mobility support for client-side in NATted environments. Non-standard feature for experimentation purposes (Miika Komu)

HIP daemon is running with reduced privileges starting from hipl--main--2.6--patch-258 (Jai Kumar, Miika Komu). Some bug fixes to mobility (Andrey Lukyanenko, Miika Komu) and enhancements to opendht support (Samu Varjonen).

HIPL Release 1.0.2 kernel and userspace binaries are out.

hipl--main--2.6--patch-242 contains some miscellaneous improvements:

• Three HIPL test servers listed in theHOWTO
• Andrey Lukyanenko has done some bug fixing to the handovers (id 332)
• Jai Kumar added support for security policies based on HIT prefix /28 (id 98). Now you can e.g. "ping6 2001::001xx" directly as long as your you have configured your hosts files correctly or you are using opendht.

New HIP-enabled kernel 2.6.16 image and HIPL userspace packages have been built under maemo 2.2 gregale SDK to be used on Nokia 770 Internet Tablet with the latest OS 2006 IT version 3.2006.49-2. Documentation has been also updated. Check it out here!

BEET kernel patches for 2.6.18.0 and 2.6.19.7 released in the HIPL source code.

New InfraHIP pages have been released. Hope you enjoy the new looks ;)

We have done multiple bug fixes in the latest version of HIPL. See a summary of the most important bug fixes. Currently, Samu is working on to get rid of blocking calls in OpenDHT and Diego is working on fixing bugs in handover mechanisms.

Release 1.0.1 has been released.

Improvements in the opportunistic code.

Samu has improved the OpenDHT code. Bagri has improved the mobility and multihoming support and it supports the latest draft versions. IPv4 type of addresses are supported also in the hipd.

Firefox plugin for HIP. This plugin shows whether you are using HIP or not in same kind of way than https connection is shown.

Release 1.0.0 is out!