Release Notes

Date: 2011-OCT-14

• Buying IFC stability improved
• SIP: SNOM FENT compatibility improved
• Telephone ports' PRACK settings corrected
• WLAN stability improved
• WLAN long (more than 31 chars) passphrases corrected
• Bootloader factory default improved
• SIParator spirals corrected
• Handling of unit-specific CWMP improved
• VPN minor memory leak corrected
• USB long directory names improved
• USB memory stick compatibility improved
• Handling of empty passwords corrected
• SMTP client stability and compatibility improved
• SMTP client now adds date field to sent e-mails
• Minimum voicemail duration added
• Stability improvments
• Other minor improvments

Date: 2011-AUG-31

General:

• Dropdown menu entry “Log out” added
• Help texts improved on several pages
• Online manual links point to new site
• VPN stability during heavy load improved
• TR-069 support improved
• Support of new PBX licenses (seat-type, auto attendants)

SIP related:

• SIP PBX added (requires license)
• Voicemail added (requires license)
• Auto Attendant added (requires license)
• Several SIP related pages have changed names
• Scheduler, time of day routing
• Trunk config improved: support of multiple PBX and fallback SIP server implemented
• SIP switch improved: duplicate AOR for phone ports allowed, checkbox “always use B2BUA” added
• B2BUA end-to-end BYE and PRACK handling now configurable
• Call log improved
• Support of RFC 5626 small (CRLF) keep-alive packets

Other:

• Dynamic DNS account types removed (as dyndns.org no longer supports them)
• SMTP server address field now also accepts URL
• Ability to send a test e-mail added
• Support of

hardware equipped with 16MB flash added

Date: 2011-OCT-14

• Stability when istalling licenses improved
• Telephone ports' PRACK settings corrected
• WiFi stability improved
• WiFi WPA long (more than 31 chars) passphrases corrected
• Bootloader factory default improved
• Handling of unit-specific CWMP (TR-069) improved
• Minor memory leak corrected when using IPsec
• SIParator spirals corrected
• SNOM FENT compatibility improved

ved

• VPN minor memory leak corrected

Date: 2011-AUG-31

• Support for hardware with 16MB memory flash ad

ed

• CWMP (TR-069) stability improved

Date: 2011-JUL-21

General:

• Encrypted passwords
• Changed procedures for Backup/Restore of configuration
• Firmware upgrade files with both .tar and .ii extension accepted

SIP related:

• Support of RFC 3262, 100rel and PRACK in SIP B2BUA and FXS ports
• localgw no longer default value for emergency routing
• Authentication efficiency improved “reuse received nonces”
• Call log media statistics improved
• Voice prioritization over SIP signaling improved
• WAN SIParator 1 mode DHCP sniffing improved
• GUI for whitelist settings: Now possible to set AC and RI from user page
• Multiple “Supported:” headers handling improved
• Support of GIN registration, draft-ietf-martini-gin
• CSRC extension headers handling in RTP of Telephone port corrected
• FENT asymmetric streams/one way media problem resolved
• SIP ”Allow:” header INFO handling improved

Other:

• SMTP client
• E-mail logs & debug file
• Flow quotas (Filesharing programs can no longer consume all flows)
• Disable HTTP TRACE
• FTP proxy IP alias handling improved
• Front panel Setup (SET button) can be disabled on Administration page
• Menu “ DHCP Server” changed to “DHCP Advanced”
• USB file system stability improved
• Minor memory leak removed
• Minor firewall flow leakage removed
• Debug file improved
• Firmware upgrade fail handling improved
• ADSL VPI=0 now stored correctly in backup file
• Improved HTTPS handling
• HTTPS error handling memory leak removed
• TR-069 now also available in WAN SIParator mode
• TR-069 logging more efficient
• TR-069 CR port now configurable (default 7547)
• TR-069 configuration download improved
• TR-069 firmware download improved
• TR-069 stability improved
• Reduced SSL session cache size in web ser

er

• ADSL HEC errors retrain modified

Date: 2010-NOV-22

General:

• Stability improved
• Firewall rule parsing correction
• Ports for Telia IPTV opened in Hi security profile

SIP related:

• SIP flood detection was only active when firewall log was enabled - Corrected
• Potential bug causing restart fixed
• Port number allocation and return improved

Date: 2010-OCT-19

General:

• Some web GUI pages moved to new Applications menu
• Firewall throughput improved

SIP related:

• IP blacklisting based on contents of SIP message added
• General SIP DoS flood detection and protection added
• Protection against brute force SIP password guessing attacks added
• WAN SIParator 1 and 2 added to Operational modes
• Better operator selection on Administration page
• Authentication credentials forwarded when b2bua without account is used
• Forward Action and Condition on SIP Switch page improved
• RTCP support added to FXS ports
• Voice metrics (MOS etc) in Call log / CDRs extended and improved
• Additional licensing mechanism for SIP sessions based on set CAC value
• Inhibit hold setting on SIP Advanced page added
• Settings added to SIP Advanced pages to hide Via header
• Settings added to SIP Advanced pages to hide Record-Route
• Several settings added to SIP Trunk pages
• New configuration option for escape characters in username of SIP URI
• Improved handling of forked calls that gets authenticated
• FXS port call waiting (incoming call while busy) timeout set to 25s
• FXS ports compatibility with Telia plus services as Swedish default
• Setting to convert leading +468 to 08 for caller-ID in FXS ports
• Compatibility improvements
• Stability improvements

Other:

• DHCP relay support added DHCP Server Advanced page
• Bridge IEEE 802.1D WAN to ET4 added to Network
• Collect debug info now button added to Administration page
• Fingerprints added to certificate viewer page
• RTMP (Macromedia Flash) checkbox added to Security profile page
• Packet size (max payload) added to classifier for extra WAN interfaces
• Remote configuration (web) available on extra WAN interfaces also
• USB read-only access (write protect) selectable
• Logging to USB memory stick added (see help text)
• Automatic selection of SNTP time zone in Europe
• Interface QoS class added to WAN interfaces on Network status page
• IP-TV (multicast) quality during heavy load improved
• TR-069 stability, speed and security improvements
• VPN stability improved
• Web GUI stability improved
• Other minor improvements

Date: 2010-MAY-11

• SIP trunk PBX account password corrected
• emergency number default 112 to vgw-regions file for swedish region
• remote https access corrected
• SIP switch page layout improved
• Spontaneous reboot when SIP uses an invalid TCP connection corrected
• TCP data chunks sent in wrong order or duplicated corrected
• Hide Record-Route setting
• Resolve public GRUU setting
• Use software versions of AES and DES for SSL/TLS applications
• Prioritize “incoming call matching” (SIP trunk) before “static domain forwarding”
• Ignore invalid Replaces header, don't generate parse error
• RIP advertises high “cost” for default route, if no WAN connection
• Wireless was erroneously activated when saving on Network Page

Date: 2010-MAR-29

• Prepared for future upgrades
• Users of 5.20F4 should upgrade!

Date: 2010-MAR-18

• TR-069 improvements
• PPP improvements
• Config file storage improved
• ADSL removal through branding on 5-port models corrected
• MOS value format in call log corrected
• Logging expired flows turned off by default
• IX78 stability improved
• TCP stack improved, TCP ACK flood when FIN meet on the wire
• GUI for SIP settings “inhibit hold” and “rfc2543 hold” added
• Checkboxes added for “allow” and “auth” in SIP authorization table
• SIP trunk setting added for hiding record-route
• SIP trunk setting added for showing only one “to” tag
• SIP trunk setting added for hiding Via headers
• Configuration files white space handling improved
• SIP media routing after call transfer corrected
• LAN SIParator detection of inside IP addresses improved
• SIP URI pattern matching improved
• Operator Sting settings improved
• Operator TeliaFiberLAN settings improved

Date: 2010-FEB-01

• Wireless mode 802.11b/g default
• Wireless temporary enable using SEL button corrected
• Wireless page save & reboot improved
• Missaligned fields on SIP Trunk page adjusted
• USB device detection improved
• Improved syntax for allowing only specified GUI pages to be shown for certain users
• SIP stability when re-invite client transaction is deleted improved
• TR-069 digest authentication corrected
• Internal SIP UA:s now copies Record-Route to 180 responses
• Improved manipulation capabilities of From header in SIP b2bua
• Bootloader now supports up to 128MB SDRAM

Date: 2009-DEC-28

General:

• SIP Trunking module added - See Configuration > SIP Trunk GUI page
• Interface to management system (iEMS) added
• Call logging with MOS score (call quality) added
• VPN EasyServer improved
• SIParator with ADSL as WAN now configurable
• IP aliases now supported on all network interfaces
• RTSP proxy support for 'destination' parameter
• Possible to set ToS on ftp and other “flow” traffic generated by IX78 itself
• Operator settings extended with more operator choices
• Configuration Scheduler improved
• DHCP server lease time settings added
• ADSL negotiation and performance improved
• HTTPS support for Web GUI access
• IX78 provisioning system improved
• TR-069 improvements (https, more objects, logging)
• IX vendor specific TR-069 extensions, more objects added
• SNMP setting improvements
• IX vendor specific SNMP extensions added
• Upgrade of software licenses (IFC) improved
• Wireless settings reset upon upgrade
• Wireless turned off by default
• Wireless mode 802.11g default (not b/g mixed due to performance drawbacks)
• Wireless MAC address changed to Intertex range
• Wireless WPA2 encryption changed to AES
• Wireless Cafe Mode corrected
• Wireless iPhone and Android compatibility improved
• Changes on wireless settings page now require reboot

SIP Improvements:

• SIP Trunking according to RFC 4904 supported
• SIP generic header manipulation tool using URI header syntax added
• SIP calls with preloaded Route treated as outbound calls in call filtering
• SIP authentication setting added to static domain forwarding table
• SIP self-made GRUU, new option for URI encoding setting
• SIP setting for ignoring required SIP extensions in Require and Proxy-Require header field.
• SIP setting for anonymous call handling when using b2bua
• SIP To header when using b2bua displays forward to URI
• SIP setting for handling of missing Privacy header
• SIP re-invite caused small audio glitch, now fixed
• SIP session licenses allocated for b2bua calls improved
• SIP session licenses counting for parallel ringing fixed
• SIP setting to cancel all branches on 486 busy or user initiated reject added
• SIP authorization/authentication configuration improved
• SIP Refer-To header handling improved
• SIP setting for not changing port number when switching to T.38 fax added
• SIP support for Swedish characters in quoted string
• Multiple authentication challenges for same request now supported
• SIP log options added (methods, internal messages)
• Do not modify SDP if “a=candidate” is present (SIP connect req.)
• Default diffserv bits according to SIP connect and RFC 4594

SIP fixes and corrections:

• SIP authentication when calling anonymously
• SIP DNS SRV redundancy not working
• Calling FENT (Far End NAT Traversal) UA through b2bua not working
• SIP route header was not decrypted if loose route
• Multiple registrations for same account on startup
• SIP, cancel pending re-invite when BYE is received
• Route header not removed in stateless ACK (2xx)
• Remember primary server down for a 401/407 was not working for INVITE
• Media relay was not working if offer is in response and answer in ACK
• Switch to codec type used by other party did not always work
• Re-INVITE for putting on hold disappear and 408 returned
• Hanged SIP TCP connection
• SIP B2BUA pools, use SIP account that is not busy when sharing accounts among many users
• SIP registrations was not deleted properly (memory freed when objects was reused after long time)
• CANCEL server transaction timeout was unnecessarily long
• SIP Contact list in REGISTER response could contain bindings that was for another address-of-record with same username.

Webserver improvements:

• Webserver stability improved
• Increased number of parallel connections
• deadlock caused by config function calls fixed
• upgrade firmware problem fixed

Various improvements and corrections:

• Increased number of parallel connections
• deadlock caused by config function calls fixed
• upgrade firmware problem fixed
• Problem with flash file system reads on startup fixed
• Rare Ethernet driver lock-up removed
• TCP FIN flood when closing TCP connections between IX78s
• Long DNS host names caused buffer overflow in DNS relay
• Ethernet driver blocked in transmit
• PPPoE problem when setting ET4 as WAN
• Easy server sent packets in wrong tunnels when multiple clients
• Remote config by web problem fixed
• Fixed bad noise when no packets received when using G.729
• FXS/FXO voice packet time setting
• FXS sent PCMA when Snom phone sends PCMU
• Resolver DNS servers not being set after PPP link is up
• IP-redirection (using Security-GUI config) did not work for TCP and UDP
• DSA/SHA-1 certificates with SIP/TLS/openssl was not working
• TLS firewall rule not present after first own certificate was deleted.

Date: 2009-JUN-23

• Memory leaks in dhcp server and dns relay fixed
• String objects unnecessary allocation of 1 byte fixed (sip)
• SIP registrations was not deleted properly (memory freed when objects was reused after long time)
• CANCEL server transaction timeout unnecessarily long
• MEM hybrid objects used for RNG_delay_node_s (fw)
• Memory logger improved
• Switch to codec type used by other party did not always work (vgw)
• FXS sent sometimes PCMA payload type instead PCMU
• ADSL retrain improved

Date: 2009-APR-14

• SIP route in retransmitted ACK corrected
• DNS recursions improved
• Call setup delay with Aastra PBX corrected
• SIP spirals in LANSIParator mode corrected
• DNS recursion to authorative name servers corrected
• Version number system modified, now also supports 'subversions' (=patches) in releases, e.g. “5.11F3”
• MAC address cloning now also possible for ethernet WAN
• Automatic siparator configuration corrected to support SIP spirals and spoof protection
• route/record-route encryption/decryption corrected in SIParator mode
• New SIP registrations now wait until previous finished
• “WAN IP server access from inside” corrected
• DHCP server improvements
• Increased telephone ports password and username lengths
• Terminating # or * not removed if timeout when calling from Telephone Ports
• Other minor improvements

Date: 2008-DEC-17

• Many improvements of FXO port functionality
• Better T.38 compatibility (SIP reuse of port number when media type changes)
• Correction of IX78 with non enabled WLAN
• Correction of flow handling after ADSL retrain
• SIP DID (Direct Inwards Dialing) improved
• DHCP correction when using many WAN interfaces
• SIP DNS SRV redundancy while primary SIP server down corrected
• SIP FENT when users behind same NAT improved
• SIP FENT through B2BUA corrected
• SIP Loose Routing setting now default enabled

Date: 2008-OCT-30

• Web based configuration wizard for PBX settings
• SIP FROM-based routing in SIP trunking scenarios
• FXS-port ring notification when other phones ring
• Option to keep outside SIP port number unchanged within a session
• Setting for response to SIP-registrations at WAN link down
• RTSP proxy can now be turned on/off
• A web page with unit information in GUI under Help
• Option to force ADSL SNR margin on ADSL Advanced pages
• Empty PPP username and password allowed
• Other SIP improvements
• Other minor improvements

Date: 2008-JUN-24

• Performance improved
• Voice ports (FXS/FXO) improved
• SIP support of RFC 2069 added
• SIP selection of preferred QOP added
• SIP Music on hold added
• SIP B2BUA re-INVITE end-to-end added
• SIP Strip ICE SDP attributes added
• Other SIP improvements
• Scheduler added
• Internet filter (parental control) added
• IPTV quality during heavy load improved
• ADSL improved
• Save permanently using front panel buttons added
• T.38 support improved
• IPTV quality during heavy load on Ether-WAN connections improved
• SNTP client now autoadjusts daylight saving time
• Wireless access point can now be enabled/disabled using front panel button
• Lifeboat stability improved
• Virtual access points (VAPs) implemented: AIR, AIR2, AIR3 interfaces
• Extra WAN interfaces can now be bridged to certain inside interfaces
• TR-069 improved
• VPN over PPP connections corrected
• VPN stability improved
• Added support of two channels on same PVC (one PPPoE, one DHCP)
• Telia ADSL PBX settings profile added
• Static routes support improved
• QoS routing improved
• Restore from backup file improved
• Stability improvements
• Other minor improvements

Date: 2008-JAN-30

• First official release