Update to 5.4 kernel for latest drivers and bugfixes.
Use per-chain reported noise-floor for RSSI calculations in ath10k wave-1 and wave-2
radios. This improves RSSI reporting. The old logic ignored the real noise floor and
also did not sum up secondary frequencies when reporting RSSI.
Fix some bugs with IPSEC usage.
Improve MESH automated testing:
* Better reports
* Allow background scanning based on RSSI trigger.
Some TX-MCS were disabled by firmware on the /AC NICs, with goal of improving rate-ctrl.
This release adds a new firmware-config option to enable all valid rates. This restriction
did NOT apply to the tx-overrides, only to the Station rate-selection configuration.
Enable partial support for TXO support on wave-1 /AC NICs.
Support starting DNS server service (and tftp), using dnsmasq program.
Add Hunt GUI automated test. This will find the best throughput, and then run and additional
test to report latency and other values at a configurable percentage of the maximum throughput
rate.
Allow hiding chamber objects in Chamber View. This may help with taking screenshots and
mesh test report generation (it automatically takes screen shots of Chamber View).
Allow GUI-CLI option to set chamber position and pause/unpause playing paths. Should
aid scripting of the GUI chamber-view scenarios and mesh testing.
Improve script library CLI key:value parsing, and add a lf_tos_test.py script that can
be used to test Type of Service vs latency.
Improve packet-capture (sniff_port) CLI command to support command-line capture using
tshark and dumpcap, a well as automatically saving captures to files for a fixed duration
of time. The scripts/lf_sniff.py tool has automation that uses these new features.
Add 'AutoHelper' feature. This flag allows 'multi-conn' 1 or higher processes to be executed
inside of helper processes. We currently start 1 helper per CPU core, so this lets us make
more efficient use of the CPU cores.
Chamber-View scenario: Add support for VOIP, Multicast and HTTP traffic profiles.
AP-Auto: Add support for TCP, UDP, VOIP, Multicast, and HTTP traffic in the stability and
port-reset tests.
Script-Automation: Improve GUI scriptability, add scripts/gui directory to hold some
GUI automation scripts and example configurations.
AP-Auto: Add support for testing tri-band APs.
AP-Auto: Add support for automated band-steering test.
Enable setting AX200 radio to 1x1 mode (default is 2x2). This requires kernel 5.4 or higher.
Support EAP-PEAP in ChamberView.
Bug Fixes
Fix bug with multicast when used with VRF. Work-around for older releases is to make sure
that a default gateway is configured, even if it is not actually used.
Fix bugs with Hotspot 2.0 R2 so that it works again. Still a tricky beast to set up though.
Fix CLI parsing bug: If two commands were received at the same time by the LANforge server,
and if the first command had a trailing space, then the newline between the two commands was
ignored and the second command was effectively ignored. Fix this by improving the parser
tokenizer. This fixes problems found when using the lf_associate.pl script.
Fix some power-save bugs in wave-1 /AC 3x3 NIC firmware. The stations go into power-save when
scanning now, and probably other cases were fixed as well.
Fix some GUI deadlock bugs found while running automated tests for a CI/CD project.
Fix TCP socket leak caused by funky logic triggered when LANforge detects TCP stream
corruption.
Fix layer-3 TCP receive logic that caused false stream corruption detection, and could have
caused rx bytes to be exaggerated. Part of this was introduced last release with the small
tcp payload feature, but the rx bytes count being off may have been around for a long time.
The good news is that this was pretty hard to trigger.
Fix WanLink bug where tso/gso was enabled on peer RDD, causing wanlink to receive larger
than mtu 'frame'. Automatically disable tso/gso on peer device now. Work-around for older
releases is to manually disable the offloads on the Port-Modify window. This may only affect
user-space mode WanLinks as well.
