OpenSS7 NETPERF Utility -- history of user visible changes. 2007-06-24 $Id$ Copyright (c) 2001-2007 OpenSS7 Corporation. Copyright (c) 1997-2000 Brian Bidulock See the end for copying conditions (for this file). The sections that follow provide information on OpenSS7 releases of the OpenSS7 NETPERF Utility package as well as compatibility information of OpenSS7 releases to the original Hewlett-Packard Company releases. Major changes for release netperf-2.3.6 ---------------------------------------- This is the fifth full release of the `OpenSS7 NETPERF Utility' package. This release is largely a maintenance release that provides support for more distributions an architectures as well as tracking feature updates on related packages. Major features since the last public release are as follows: - Support build on openSUSE 10.2. - Support build on Fedora 7 with 2.6.21 kernel. - Support build on CentOS 5.0 (RHEL5). - Support build on Ubuntu 7.04. - Updated to gettext 0.16.1. - Supports build on Fedora Core 6. - Support for recent distributions and tool chains. Major changes for release netperf-2.3.5 ---------------------------------------- This is the fifth full release of the `OpenSS7 NETPERF Utility' package. This release is largely a maintenance release that provides support for more distributions an architectures as well as tracking feature updates on related packages. Major features since the last public release are as follows: - Support for autoconf 2.61, automake 1.10 and gettext 0.16. - Support for Ubuntu 6.10 distribution and bug fixes for i386 kernels. - The package now looks for other subpackages with a version number as unpacked by separate tarball. Major changes for release netperf-2.3.4 ---------------------------------------- This is the fourth full release of the `OpenSS7 NETPERF Utility' package. This release is largely a maintenance release that provides support for more distributions an architectures as well as tracking feature updates on related packages: - Updates to permit use with `strinet-0.9.2.6' second generation "UDP" driver, `strsctp-0.9.2.8' "STREAMS" SCTP driver, `sctp-0.2.26' "Sockets" SCTP driver. - Added `send-pr' scripts for automatic problem report generation. (Please do not report bugs on LiS.) - Added `--disable-devel' `configure' option to suppress building and installing development environment. This feature is for embedded or pure runtime targets that do not need the development environment (static libraries, manual pages, documentation). - Improved compiler flag generation and optimizations for recent `gcc' compilers and some idiosyncratic behaviour for some distributions (primarily SUSE). Optimized compilation is now available also for user level programs in addition to kernel programs. Added new `--with-optimize' option to `configure' to accomplish this. - Better detection of SUSE distributions, release numbers and SLES distributions: support for additional `SuSE' distributions on `ix86' as well as `x86_64'. Added distribution support includes `SLES 9', `SLES 9 SP2', `SLES 9 SP3', `SLES 10', `SuSE 10.1'. - Many documentation updates for all OpenSS7 packages. Automated release file generation making for vastly improved and timely text documentation present in the release directory. - Now builds 32-bit compatibility libraries and tests them against 64-bit kernel modules and drivers. The `make installcheck' target will now automatically test both 64-bit native and 32-bit compatibility versions, one after the other, on 64-bit platforms. - Includes results of performance testing of the new second generation UDP driver (implemented completely in STREAMS instead of using an internal socket). - Includes workup of benchmark scripts for SCTP, TCP and UDP. Added a scls_show option to perform `scls -c' (see `scls(1)') to show "STREAMS" module and driver statistics between test sample points when verbosity is set to 2 and XTI is being used. This assists with performance testing as it shows the counts accumulated to put and service routine throughout the "Stream". It was used in "UDP2" testing of the `strinet' package and will come in handy for the "SCTP" testing. Major changes for release netperf-2.3.4.rc3 -------------------------------------------- Third release candidate. This is a "maintenance" release candidate. This release candidate includes: - Automated release file generation making for vastly improved and timely text documentation present in the release directory. - Many documentation updates (for all OpenSS7 packages). - Includes the changes made to the `strsctp' drivers at the `2006 SCTP Interop' at the `University of British Columbia'. This version was interoperability tested with all implementations present. - Provides support for additional `SuSE' distributions on `ix86' as well as `x86_64'. Added distribution support includes `SLES 9', `SLES 9 SP2', `SLES 9 SP3', `SLES 10', `SuSE 10.1'. - Includes workup of benchmark scripts for SCTP, TCP and UDP. Added a scls_show option to perform `scls -c' (see `scls(1)') to show "STREAMS" module and driver statistics between test sample points when verbosity is set to 2 and XTI is being used. This assists with performance testing as it shows the counts accumulated to put and service routine throughout the "Stream". It was used in "UDP2" testing of the `strinet' package and will come in handy for the "SCTP" testing. This was an internal alpha test release candidate and was not released publicly. This release was only available to subscribers to and sponsors of the OpenSS7 Project. Major changes for release netperf-2.3.4.rc2 -------------------------------------------- Second release candidate. This is a "maintenance" release candidate. This release candidate includes: - Includes results of performance testing of the new second generation UDP driver (implemented completely in STREAMS instead of using an internal socket). - Includes support for SuSE 10.1. This was an internal alpha test release candidate and was not released publicly. This release was only available to subscribers to and sponsors of the OpenSS7 Project. Major changes for release netperf-2.3.4rc1 ------------------------------------------- First release candidate for Mark Fugate. This is a "maintenance" release candidate. This release candidate includes: - Added `--enable-devel' configure option for embedded targets. - Added `send-pr' script for automatic problem report generation. This was an internal alpha test release candidate and was not released publicly. This release was only available to subscribers to and sponsors of the OpenSS7 Project. Major changes for release netperf-2.3.3 ---------------------------------------- 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). 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. Major changes for release netperf-2.3.2 ---------------------------------------- Many corrections (but not enough) are included to use the package for XTI INET testing. UDP works now, but TCP is not completely corrected yet (and, therefore, neither is SCTP). These capabilities could not have possibly worked in the original `netperf-2.3' release. The next release should have TCP and SCTP corrected for XTI. Corrections included to make the package cross-build for `NexusWare' as well as recent 2.6.14 (FC4) kernels. What remains to be done is to merge in the latest upstream release of netperf into this package and contribute XTI corrections back upstream. Initial release netperf-2.3.1 ------------------------------ Initial autoconf/RPM packaging of the `netperf' release. It is based on the Hewlett-Packard Company `netperf-2.3' release. This release provides modifications to support the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) and provides tests for the Sockets API for the OpenSS7 Linux Native Kernel version of SCTP as well as tests for the XTI API for the OpenSS7 STREAMS version of SCTP. In addition, use of the XTI API for TCP and UDP tests is supported using the OpenSS7 STREAMS INET package. SCTP Sockets API tests depend upon the availability of an the OpenSS7 Sockets implementation of SCTP in an OpenSS7 patched kernel. Some binary kernels and prepatched kernel source for popular architectures are provided as RPMs from the OpenSS7 Project download page (http://www.openss7.org/download.html). SCTP XTI API tests depend upon the availability of the OpenSS7 STREAMS implementation of SCTP. Some binary and source packages for `LiS STREAMS', `Linux Fast-STREAMS', the `strxnet' XTI/TLI library and the `strsctp' package are available from the OpenSS7 Project download page (http://www.openss7.org/download.html). *Note Introduction: (libxnet)Top. Under Linux, the TCP and UDP XTI API tests depend upon the availability of the OpenSS7 INET driver. Some binary and source packages for `LiS STREAMS', `Linux Fast-STREAMS', the `strxnet' XTI/TLI library and the `strinet' package (*note Introduction: (strinet)Top.) are available from the OpenSS7 Project download page (http://www.openss7.org/download.html). *Note Introduction: (libxnet)Top. This release also provides updates to the antiquated `netperf-2.1' release documentation distributed with `netperf-2.3'. ----- ========================================================================= Copyright (c) 2001-2007 OpenSS7 Corporation Copyright (c) 1997-2000 Brian Bidulock All Rights Reserved. Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved on all copies. 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