FlowMon 1.2.0 Release Notes

1   Introduction

The release notes for flowmon-1.2.0 package contains a summary of the changes made since flowmon-1.1.0 package. It describes recently added, changed or deleted tools or other features of FlowMon project.

flowmon-1.2.0 package is available at http://www.liberouter.org/clients/. Process of installing this package is described in README file inside the package. Information about FlowMon project can be found at http://www.flowmon.org.

2   What's new

FlowMon 1.2.0 is a release distribution. This release contains some new tools and introduces support for COMBO-2XFP interface cards with 10GE interfaces. Now we support speeds from 10 Mbps up to 10 Gbps.

2.1   Hardware (firmware)

  • support for COMBO6X mother card with COMBO-2XFP add-on card
  • support for 10, 100 and 1000 Mbps link speeds for COMBO6X mother card with COMBO-4SFPRO

2.2   Software

  • new tools for link configuration (10, 100, 1000 Mbps) and phyter access
    • ibufctl(1) tool to access IBUF component registers
    • phyterctl(1) tool to display and change phyter configuration
  • new flowmoncol(1) program for importing FlowMon probe data in NetFlow version 5 format
  • kernel drivers improvements

3   Upgrading from previous releases of FlowMon package

If you are upgrading from a previous release of FlowMon package please perform a complete reinstall. Read the README file for more information.