Re: [Cerowrt-devel] development build 3.10.17-1 released

[Fred Stratton <fredstratton@imap.cc>]

Spoke too soon . Machine running OS X 10.8.5 cannot obtain wireless DHCP 
lease. Machine running 10.7.5 has no problem.

On 20/10/13 06:41, Dave Taht wrote:
> + sync with openwrt
> + dnsmasq 2.67rc4
> + get_cycles() and /dev/random fixes
> + mild firewall changes
> + actually sort of tested
> -  sysupgrade still busted
> - didn't package the jitter rng
>
> The simple expedient of putting a script in /etc/rc.local to restart
> pimd, minissdpd, and dnsmasq 60 seconds after boot appears to get us a
> working dhcp/dns on the wifi interfaces once again.
>
> dnsmasq wasn't busted, it was how it interfaces to netifd. the march
> down to something deployable resumes with rc4.
>
> This is the first test that I know of, of some of the RNG fixes
> upstream, notably the mips code does the right thing with a highly
> optimized "get_cycles()".
>
> There are two changes to the firewall code
>
> 1) There has been a long-standing error in not blocking port 161
> (snmp) from the outside world. It is now blocked by default.
>
> Although I am not aware of any exploits of this (besides the
> information leakage) I would recommend blocking this port by default
> on your existing builds, also, or disabling the snmp daemon entirely
> if you do not use it.
>
> 2) Usage of the "pattern matching syntax" on various firewall rules.
>
> Instead of 3 rules for se00,sw00,sw10, and 4 for gw00,gw10,gw01,gw11
> there are now 1 rule for s+ and one rule for gw+
>
> This does not show up in the web interface correctly. I'd also like to
> get to a more efficient rule set for the blocked ports, perhaps with
> ipset...
>
> ...
>
> It's sort of my hope that with these fixes that the march towards a
> stable release can resume, and we get some fresh shiny new bugs out of
> this.
>
> Upcoming next are a revised version of pie, more random number fixes,
> and I forget what else.
>
>
> 3)
>