Release 5.4.6 is available for download from:

ftp://ftp.netex.com/downloads/hyperip/hyperip-5.4.6.nex 

(set your anonymous login password to your email address - instructions can be found at: FTP tips). 

 Click to see Instructions for De-installation of HyperIP appliances.

#1505:  Expired license may cause many error messages to fill logs to the point that HyperIP becomes non-operational; especially vulnerable is a powered-up spare unit.

Fix: install the required critical update (see NOTICE).

Outstanding issues/problems

#769:  If a memory stick or other USB device is plugged into a USB slot when a reboot is done, boot will be attempted from the memory stick (Boot may halt while writing the 'LILO' prompt to the console). 

Workaround: remove USB device before reboot. (see NOTICE below).

#1013, 1057: Email messages from graphing cron process when the HIP MIB is unavailable or a statistics counter wraps.

Workaround: deconfigure email notification, or Restart Force, or Reboot. 

#1174: ssh connections may hang and/or sshd may go away on Restart Force.  If done from the dialog, the appliance may hang.

Workaround: use the web or telnet when doing Restart Force. 

#1313: Internal connection blocks may not be released at failed connection close (in proxy mode). This may be related to a situation in which SRDF links receive errors and cannot re-establish.

Fix: a bugfix release for this issue only is available for download here. 

#1330: Various changes are needed in timezone files, including DST change in USA starting in 2007.

Fix: Download and install this update file just as you would for a new software release.

#1360: when de-configuring the management port (changing to 'common' in the dialog interface), it is possible to lock yourself out from all network access. The dialog may do this without querying whether or not to implement changes.

Workaround: Ensure firewall settings allow telnet and/or ssh access via the common (data) interface and the default route is correct before deconfiguring the management interface. 

#1433, 1434: bandwidth limit may not be set below 1000 Kbps (1 Mbps). HyperIP status shows rates < 1 Mbps as zero.

Workaround: a bugfix for this issue only is available for download here. 

Problems/Issues fixed in 5.4.6

#381: Illegal combinations of interface speed and duplexing are allowed by the web interface.

Fix: speed/duplex combined into a single selection option.

#866, 1047, 1072: Adaptive compression percentage is not changable by users.

Fix: added HyperIP configuration parameter to set this.

#844: Customer request for privacy statement for all user accesses.

Fix: added initial web page with statement.

#877: Enhancements to hipstatus requested:  add average write size, reformat proxy connection display, assure status is written to the log every hour.

Fix: hipstatus enhanced.

#885, 1013, 1027, 1028: HyperIP fails and may hang when taking a core dump due to pthread memory corruption.

Fix: Code corrected.

#914, 1048: AHS unit bounces between MASTER and BACKUP.

Fix: KAD priorities adjusted to avoid this condition.

#1029: System logs get very large and difficult to view.

Fix: Rotate logs daily and retain more cycles.

#1046: HyperIP output data graph indicates no data in a non-AHS configuration.

Fix: Code corrected when adding session counters.

#1064: During reboot, the web navigation frame is reloaded with an unreadable loss-of-connection message.

Fix: replace nav frame with "rebooting" or "halting" text that doesn't reload automatically.

#1077: Transfer of dump to memory stick from web fails.

Fix: Code corrected to pass correct variable.

#1080: When bandwidth limit is reset to zero (e.g. override rule deleted), the max transfer rate is set to zero.

Fix: if rate is being set to 0, set it to initial rate of session.

#824: running bi-directional Segment Size Tests, HyperIP fails and active connections stop. 

Workaround: HyperIP failover to backup occurs if configured for AHS, and HyperIP software restarts automatically.

Fix: Locking code added to avoid using released data areas.

#848:  No way to cancel segment size test. Clicking 'STOP' or 'EXIT' on your browser may allow you to go on to other commands.  The test continues to attempt communication with the remote HyperIP.

Workaround: none

Fix: Added 'Kill Segtest' function on web.  The test runs in background & results must be requested.

#879:  Compile error using 3rd party compiler SNMPc on HYPERIP-MIB.

Workaround: new HYPERIP-MIB.txt is on our support site.  download it and compile on your SNMP client system.

Fix: new MIB is in the release.

#885:  Traffic stops flowing but no failover occurs, and management communication to the HyperIP is unavailable.

Workaround: Power appliance off, then on.

Fix: Corrected memory management problems with connection termination.

#714:  Performance lower than expected with large variances in measured round-trip times.

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