Corenetwork 1.7.0_beta1

Corenetwork 1.7.0_beta1 is a regular release which was released on 21 February 2022.

Dynamic Bridge Support

Network interfaces can now "opt-in" to a bridge using the {{{1}}} option, rather than being added by the bridge as a slave.

Dhclient

Support for dhclient, part of the net-misc/dhcp package, has been added. Use {{{1}}} along with {{{1}}} as needed to set any custom options.

pppd

Support for pppd is now available via {{{1}}}.

macvtap

Add macvtap net template.

macvlan

Add macvlan net template.

tunnel

Add tunnel net template.

SR-IOV support

Support for SR-IOV virtual network interfaces has been added, and can be enabled via {{{1}}}. mac_replace can be used to specify a replacement MAC address. virtfn can be used to set the virtual function.

Raw Interfaces for Slaves

It is now possible to specify a raw interface in the {{{1}}} option for a bridge. If you use this new feature, it's assumed that this interface is already ready to be used and in an "UP" state. To use this feature, simply specify the interface name without a "netif." prefix in {{{1}}} in the conf.d file.

Improvements

dhcpcd fixes

Robustness fixes for dhcpcd support.

Interface name handling

Minor consistency fixes have been made for interface name handling.

wpa_supplicant

Robustness improvements. Add "config" interface conf option. Now we can use config option of interface conf file to specify wpa_supplicant config name. E.g. for {{{1}}}

    wpa_supplicant config will be /etc/wpa_supplicant/another.conf.

Contributors

geaaru, Daniele Rondina

dhclient template

lego12239, Oleg Nemanov

pppd template, macvtap template, macvtap template, macvlan template, tunnel template, dhcpcd fixes, wpa_supplicant improvements, dynamic bridge support.

kcodyjr, Kevin Kody

Initial SR-IOV virtual interface support