Wan Optimization Support
General Category => General Discussion => : ahenning February 16, 2017, 03:46:28 PM
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This forum thread may not contain the latest info. Please see the latest release notes at Release Notes (http://wanos.co/docs/docs/knowledgebase/changelog/)
The latest version is : 5.1.4
All v.4 users are advised to update to = v.4.2.9
All v.5 users are advised to update to = v.5.1.4
Note:
v.3 & v.4.0.1 beta License keys are not compatible with v.4.1+
Clients with v.3 licenses that have an active support contract should contact support to assist with loading v.4 licenses
Major updates in v.5:
Major rework of the Reliable Stream Protocol on which Packet Loss Recovery, Forward Error Correction, Packet Aggregation, Stream Compression, Deduplication Synchronization depend, with the ultimate goal of improving performance, consistency and reliability under poor link conditions.
v.5 Also supports the Central Manager Agent by default.
Minor updates in v.4.2.4:
Hardware Support: NIC Bypass and LCM utilities loaded for Lanner Inc appliances
Major updates in v.4.2.3
Bug fix for severely out of sync datastores causing 100% CPU.
All v.4 users are advised to update to v.4.2.3
Minor updates in v.4.2.2
Monitor user added to view stats, but not configuration
Major updates in v.4.2.1
Path Selection link load balancing.
Better TCP-X performance
See release note for minor updates.
Major updates in v.4.1.4 RC2
IPsec and ipsec-in-udp for tunnel mode.
Packet Aggregation / Packet Coalescing
New updates in v.4.1.3 RC1
v.4.1 Trial license expire date resolved.
FEC performance resolved for any Tunnel encapsulation mode. Up to 4x faster than just PLR with TCP-X.
Scenarios where peak performance reduced in v.4 beta resolved:
- Raw IPComp / GRE Tunnel encapsulation performance increased 4x
- Resolved reduced Deduplication performance with TCP-X or Webcache enabled. 40% speed increase on hot transfers.
Notable new features in v.4.1
FEC: More Packet Loss Recovery with Forward Error Correction
HTTPS/SSL Web Caching: Targeting Enterprise HTTPS Apps and Office 365 Acceleration
Multi-WAN Primary / Secondary WAN Link fail-over with end to end connectivity and latency checks for bridge mode and tunnel mode.
IPsec and ipsec-in-udp for tunnel mode.
Packet Coalescing / Packet Aggregation
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Update steps as per usual instructions as on Software Update (http://wanos.co/docs/docs/wanos-admin-guide/configuration/software-update/)
wget http://wanos.co/updateinfo/update-4.1.4.sh
wget http://wanos.co/updateinfo/update-4.1.4.tar.gz
bash update-4.1.4.sh update
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v.4.1.3 bump
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Update steps as per usual instructions as on Software Update (http://wanos.co/docs/docs/wanos-admin-guide/configuration/software-update/)
wget http://wanos.co/updateinfo/update-4.1.3.sh
wget http://wanos.co/updateinfo/update-4.1.3.tar.gz
bash update-4.1.3.sh update
We are currently on version 3.1.4. I assume running these commands will get us on version 4.1.3 without issue? Thanks!
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Hi Spiffster,
Nice to see you here. Actually there will be a license issue, since the v.3 licenses are not compatible with v.4. We'll need to issue new keys. Please see more details in my email.