Release Notes PN 93000694_B Connect WAN 82001660_B EOS October 21, 2008 INTRODUCTION This is a production release of firmware for Digi's Connect WAN product line. The Connect WAN family, part of the Digi Remote Site Management line of products, provides an alternative to traditional wired TCP/IP Wide Area Networks (WANs), utilizing global wireless Cellular technology to create primary and backup network connectivity. They offer an easy and cost-effective means of connecting virtually any remote location or device into the corporate IP network. SUPPORTED PRODUCTS Connect WAN 1X Connect WAN Edge Connect WAN GPRS Connect WAN VPN GSM-R SUPPORTED AIR INTERFACES Kyocera M200 (CDMA 1X) Siemens MC75 (Edge) Siemens TC63 (GPRS) Siemens MC55 (GSM-R) ENHANCEMENTS Improve configuration settings implementation to use less memory, better support customized defaults and more effectively manage NVRAM. Add dynamic web page generation support for native web server from Python. Add support for Connectware Manager Web Services. Add support for file system access from Connectware Manager. Add native GPS support with Geofencing application. Add automatic failover from one network interface to another as the default gateway using customer-configurable rules. Failover-capable interfaces include cellular and Ethernet. Allow the system time to be set from the Cellular System Time. Support a Customizable Dialserve Initialization String. Split apart support for the Web Server (HTTP) service and Secure Web Server (HTTPS) service so they are managed independently of one another. Change mobile PPP interface to be always "mobile0" rather than a set of "pppX" interfaces where X varies among products. Add an on-board Primary Roaming List (PRL) update mechanism for Sierra Wireless CDMA/EVDO cellular modules. Add DMZ support to the NAT feature. Add options to set the DNS priorities and gateway priorities lists from the command-line. (27324) Added these options to "set network": gwpriority=(comma-separated interface name list) dnspriority=(comma-separated priority list) Event logging enhancements. - For "uptime", display days+hh:mm:ss versus a time in seconds. - In CLI, support user-selectable time display format. - Automatically determine appropriate time display format according to time source availability and use in a given product. Add start-up event logging in the "system" facility of these items: - product name and ID - model name (if different than the product name) - firmware (EOS) version - boot version - POST version - manufacturing VPD version (build tag) - hardware strapping value The above information is also shown by the "display device" command. Enhance the Event Logging feature to permit the user to clear the log on demand, thereby removing all log entries. This is supported in the web UI (Event Logging page) and the CLI ("display logging action=clear"). Add two new options to the CLI command "display logging": head=(lines) tail=(lines) where "(lines)" is a number of log entries to display. The "head" option displays lines from the start of the event log (the oldest entries), and the "tail" option displays lines from the end of the event log (the most recent entries). (25091) Reduce runtime memory usage, including both executable code and data. The firmware image size also is somewhat reduced. This results in more available memory in the Digi device, which can help improve performance during intervals of high memory demand operations. Improve the DHCP client capability so it persists in attempting to acquire IP configuration information if the DHCP client is enabled in the device configuration settings, and the DHCP client fails to acquire the IP configuration. This could occur if no DHCP server was available when the device booted, or if the Ethernet cable was disconnected at that time. Improve the detail reported in "display techsupport" for the network settings. Specifically, use "show network globalsettings if=*" to report everything available ("show network" is less complete). Add service provider support for Bell Mobility. BUG FIXES Fix e-mail alarm failures. (26107, 25684, 25810) Correct a time rollover bug (wraparound to zero) in the Event Log. Fix a problem in which packets would have a zero Ethernet MAC address for up to four minutes when running in IP Pass-through mode. (26760) Fix memory leak related to RCI requests. Increase the general event log maximum message size to avoid message truncation. (24640) KNOWN ISSUES None. DOCUMENTATION ERRATA None. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION It is recommended that you perform a backup of your device's settings prior to upgrading your firmware. If you should need to revert back to a previous version of firmware, this will ensure that you will be able to restore your device to its previous settings in the event that some settings are not restored properly after downgrading the firmware. To backup your device settings, follow this simple procedure: 1) Open the web user interface and navigate to the "Administration" section and select "Backup/Restore". 2) Click the "Backup" button and select the location to where you want to save your backup file. To restore: 1) Navigate to the same section within the web UI. 2) Click the "Browse" button to select the backup file you saved in the previous steps. 3) Click the "Restore" button to upload the configuration settings contained in your backup file. On initial boot of this device, it will generate some encryption key material: an RSA key for SSL/TLS operations, and a DSA key for SSH operations. This process can take as long as 40 minutes to complete. Until the corresponding key is generated, the device will be unable to initiate or accept that type of encrypted connection. It will also report itself as 100% busy but, since key generation takes place at a low priority, the device will still function normally. On subsequent reboots, the device will use its existing keys and will not need to generate another unless a reset to factory defaults is done, which will cause a new key to be generated on the next reboot. HISTORY 82001660_B (2.8.1.10) - October 21, 2008 See ENHANCEMENTS and BUG FIXES information above. 82001660_A1 (2.7.0.20) - July 21, 2008 ENHANCEMENTS: Add support for the Siemens MC55 (GSM-R) air interface card. Add "show ddns" to the list of commands run by "display techsupport". (25725) BUG FIXES: None. 82001660_A (2.7.0.18) - February 12, 2008 Initial release.