[Netkit.users] Announcement: Netkit release

[Massimo Rimondini]

Dear Netkit users,

two long-awaited afar-announced releases of the Netkit kernel and
filesystem are finally out!

These releases fix many longstanding bugs, provide new packages, and
contain improved default configurations.

Among the most important kernel changes:
  - Kernel patches have been cleaned up and are now more
self-documented. Also,
    patches to MPLS-enable the Netkit kernel are shipped in the kernel
package.
  - Enabled support for multiple IPv6 routing tables.
  - The kernel package now includes a makefile to ease the creation of
custom
    kernels.
  - Network interfaces are now assigned a pseudo-random MAC address,
which is
    computed based on the virtual machine name and the interface ID.

Among the most important filesystem changes:
  - The filesystem package now contains a lot of additional files that
can be
    used to build a custom Netkit filesystem. Among these, there are
patches to
    MPLS-enable basic routing tools (Quagga, ebtables, iptables,
iproute) and a
    set of makefiles and scripts that automate the process of building a
    filesystem image. Please refer to the README file before using them.
  - The ebtables package is now correctly installed (was broken in F4.0).
  - Problems in stopping Quagga related daemons have been solved.
  - Quagga is preconfigured to communicate with the SNMP agent snmpd.
  - Packages arptables, dnsmasq, pdns-recursor, and tunctl have been added.


For more details, please refer to the complete changelogs available in
the downloads page: http://www.netkit.org/download.html
Please read the documentation *CAREFULLY* before using the automated
filesystem build procedure.

Current ongoing work includes:
- Some bugfixing and feature enhancements on the Netkit core
- Definition of a bug tracking policy and setup of a publicly available
service

Regards,
The Netkit Team.