pimd v2.2.0 -- The last release of pimd?

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On one of the last days of 2014 I release pimd v2.2.0, which is an awesome release with a lot of new features and bug fixes!

However, it could very well be the last release I do. Even though its one of my most popular projects on GitHub I have not had enough time to dedicate to it over the years. I will continue to do fixes and merge pull requests until someone else steps up to take over. There is also the distinct possibility that the Xorp PIM-SM or the new Quagga PIM-SSM implementations will (finally) make good old pimd completely redundant.

At work we will likely start using the Quagga PIM rather than pimd in WeOS.

For now though, enjoy pimd v2.2.0. It’s been tested in both my Qemu based virtual testbed and a few setups using Linux’ netns feature in CORE – awesome little proggy! :-)

Changes & New Features

  • Add IP fragmentation support for PIM register messages, by Michael Fine of Cumulus Networks
  • Support /LEN syntax in phyint to complement masklen LEN, issue #12
  • Add support for /31 networks, point-to-point, thanks to Apollon Oikonomopoulos
  • Remove old broken SNMP support
  • OpenBSD inspired cleanup (deregister) http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.sbin/mrouted/
  • General code cleanup, shorten local variable names, func decl. etc.
  • Support for router alert IP option in IGMP queries
  • Support for reading IGMPv3 membership reports
  • Update IGMP code to support FreeBSD >= 8.x
  • Retry read of routing tables on FreeBSD
  • Fix join/leve of ALL PIM Routers for FreeBSD and other UNIX kernels
  • Tested on FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD
  • Add very simple homegrown configure script
  • Update and document support for rp_address, cand_rp, and cand_bootstrap_router
  • Add new spt_threshold to replace existing switch_register_threshold and switch_data_threshold settings. Cisco like and easier to understand

Bug Fixes

  • Fix to avoid infinite loop during unicast send failure, by Alex Tessmer
  • Fix bug in bootstrap when configured as candidate RP, issue #15
  • Fix segfault in accept_igmp(), issue #29
  • Fix default source preference, should be 101 (not 1024!)
  • Fix ip_len handling on older BSD’s, thanks to Olivier Cochard-Labbé, issue #23
  • Fix default prefix len in static RP example in pimd.conf, should be /4
  • Fix issue #31: Make IGMP query interval and querier timeout configurable
  • Fix issue #33: pimd does not work in background under FreeBSD
  • Fix issue #35: support for timing out other queriers from mrouted
  • Hopefully fix issue #22: Crash in (S,G) state when neighbor is lost
  • Misc. bug fixes thanks to Coverity Scan, static code analysis tool https://scan.coverity.com/projects/3319