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Release 7.1 new features

Networking


BIND 8
BIND 8 (8.1.2) is supported in Release 7.1. BIND 8 includes dynamic DNS and numerous security fixes.

DHCP client
Allows a system to obtain its other basic TCP/IP configuration parameters (domain name, IP address, netmask, broadcast address, and default router) from a DHCP server at boot time.

Updated gated
The version of gated has been updated from 3.5.7 to 3.5.9. Version 3.5.9 makes more efficient use of the routing stream to read the kernel interface list. This release also contains other changes including a fix for memory leaks in OSFP.

PPP
A new Incoming Connection Wizard has been added and the PPP Manager and Outgoing Connection Wizard have been updated for Release 7.1. Other new PPP features include callback enabling, Predictor-1 compression, configuration of multilink control packet encapsulation, and improved debugging support.

TCP/IP performance and scalability
There have been many enhancements to the performance and scalability of TCP/IP including hashed PCB cache, a new minor number allocation scheme, configurable port ranges, and large window scaling (RFC 1323).

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UnixWare 7 Release 7.1.4 - 22 April 2004