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LANforge FIRE & ICE Changelog

What's new in LANforge FIRE & ICE 5.2.2

Dec 2, 2011
  • This version includes improved wireless traffic generation and some network emulation stability fixes relating to packet capturing.
  • The WiFi stations can now be set to a mix of /a, /b, /g, and/or /n.
  • Rates and other settings can be set on each interface.
  • Third-party traffic can be bridged on to the virtual stations based on MAC address or IP address.

New in LANforge FIRE & ICE 5.1.0 (Apr 16, 2009)

  • Support auto-mounting NFS, NFSv4 and CIFS file systems when using properly configured File-IO endpoints. Added verification of any existing mounts as well. Requires kernel 2.6.29 or greater.
  • Support iSCSI File-IO, including auto-mount, check-mount, and auto-unmount. LANforge can mount multiple iSCSI volumes concurrently. Requires iscsi-initiator-utils and scsi-target-utils packages on Fedora, similar packages on other distributions.
  • Support 2.6.29 kernel for increased driver support & all the latest kernel features. Improves performance significantly on some lower-end platforms.
  • Support batch-creation of Layer-3, Layer-4, VOIP, and File-Endpoints in the LANforge-GUI. Should make firewall testing a lot easier without using scripts.
  • Support relative time-stamps in the Armageddon traffic generator.
  • Improves performance on some platforms.
  • Use new ath5k (slightly modified) for virtual wireless Station interfaces.
  • Allows setting MAC address and should yield greater stability going forward.
  • Support virtual router console (xorpsh) from Netsmith. Requires Xwindows support (Standard on Linux & Solaris, or Windows running cygwin-x.)
  • Support O_DIRECT flag for File-IO (on Linux). This disables caching and is useful primarily for read testing on network file systems.