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April 12, 2006 - Realtek 8139D chip is not supported. (there are no kernel 2.2 driver)

April 19, 2004 - updated OpenSSH to 3.8.1p1

April 15, 2004 - added Realtek 8169 chipset (gige Ethernet), rtl8169

April 11, 2004 - added National Semiconductor DP83830 chipset (gige Ethernet), ns820

March 27, 2004 - updated OpenSSL to 0.9.7d

March 26, 2004 - added Broadcom BCM4400 driver for the 4401 chipset

February 24, 2004 - updated OpenSSH to 3.8p1

December 25, 2003 - updated the windows version of dig to 9.2.3; updated whois to 4.6.9

October 1, 2003 - successfully compiled OpenSSH 3.7.1p2 with OpenSSL 0.9.7c

OpenSSL 0.9.7c has vulnerable to Abstract Syntax Notation One security flaw.

September 29, 2003 - successfully compiled OpenSSH 3.7.1p2 and OpenSSL 0.9.7b

June 18, 2003 - added Intel Pro1000 (gige) network card modules.

June 15, 2003 - added kernel patch to fix ip_masq kernel panic under heavy masq load. Files affected: all modules, modules.lrp, kernel and kernel.zip,

May 3, 2003 - successfully patched Openssh 3.6.1p1 , daisy chain ssh works.

May 1, 2003 - further roll back to Openssh 3.4p1 with OpenSSL 0.9.7b for stability

April 12, 2003 - rolled back to OpenSSH 3.6p1 with OpenSSL 0.9.7b (daisy chain ssh still not working, non critical flaw)

April 11, 2003 - recompiled OpenSSH 3.6.1p1 with OpenSSL 0.9.7b (daisy chain ssh not working, non critical flaw)

April 01, 2003 - recompiled OpenSSH 3.6.1p1 and OpenSSL 0.9.7a to add RSA blinding and timing attack avoidance patch.

March 31, 2003 - recompiled OpenSSH 3.6p1 and OpenSSL 0.9.7a to add RSA blinding and timing attack avoidance.

January 23, 2003 - added Davicom DM9102 chipset-based network card suport, CNet Pro200 network card. Driver name if dmfe

January 12, 2003 - recompiled network card drivers with latest drivers from scyld.

January 11, 2003 - recompiled OpenSSH 3.5p1 (ssh.lrp and sshd.lrp) to link with OpenSSL 0.9.7
updated the j.root-servers.net ip address in the bind.lrp (DNS) packages.

Dec 10, 2002 - recompiled OpenSSH 3.5p1 (ssh.lrp and sshd.lrp) to link with OpenSSL 0.9.6h

Nov 21, 2002 - added /etc/beep and /etc/init.d/alert to the etc.lrp of printserver image and removed the gateway
in etc/network.conf for faster boot up when the gateway is not found.

Nov 17, 2002 - added BIND 8.3.4, fixed security flaw by ISC, recompiled BIND 9.2.1 against 2.2.19 kernel.
upgraded  ncftp 3.1.5

Nov 12, 2002 - removed BIND 8.3.3, security flaw announced by ISC

Nov 10, 2002 - upgraded msntp to 1.6

Oct 24, 2002 - compiled and added OpenSSH 3.5p1, added a hack:
#undef  SO_PEERCRED in bsd-getpeereid.c so it compiles.

Oct 14, 2002 - upgraded e100.o driver to 2.1.15, for Intel Pro/100 cards, upgraded eepro100.o driver to 1.25 for Intel Pro/100 cards, recompiled linux kernel for floppy and printserver. linux kernel is now 473,265 bytes.

Oct 10, 2002 - added parport_pc.o and lp.o in the print server modules, in preparation of new kernel for print server

Sep 21, 2002 - confirmed natsemi driver works for Netgear FA311 with DPDP83815 chipset

Aug 12, 2002 - recompiled ssh 3.4p1 and sshd 3.4p1 with openssl 0.9.6g (bug fixes)

July 30, 2002 - recompiled ssh and sshd with openssl 0.9.6e to plug security hole.

July 14, 2002 - remove parport_pc.o and lp.o in the print server modules, they are not needed for print server

July 07, 2002 - upgraded seawall to 4.1.1

July 06, 2002 - recompiled dhcpd on Debian 2.1 kernel 2.2.19, file affected dhcpd.lrp.

July 03, 2002 - upgraded dhcpc.lrp, dhclient has a TTL of 128 instead of 16.

June 27, 2002 - upgraded ssh to 3.4p1 and sshd to 3.4p1, files uploaded ssh.lrp and sshd.lrp in the hard disk section

June 19, 2002 - upgraded e100.lrp and e100.o to version 2.0.30 Intel driver

June 18, 2002 - upgrade eepro100.lrp and eepro100.o to version 1.23 scyld driver

May 27, 2002 - upgraded ssh and sshd to 3.2.3p1

May 18, 2002 - upgraded ssh and sshd to 3.2.2p1 and openssl to 0.9.6d

May 9, 2002 - updated all the disk images with Calder DOS 7.02 to 7.03

April 15, 2002 - modified the kernel in base.imz (disabled IDE support). The kernel in the hard disk
section is not affected.  In base.imz, the kernel's IDE support is disabled (476,518 bytes).
Reason for doing that: some old mother boards and/or old IDE controllers,
when used without an IDE hard disk attached, will confuse the kernel if kernel's IDE support is enabled.

April 15, 2002 - modified the kernel in print server printsrv.imz (disable IDE support). Reason being
that some old motherboards cause problems with kernel that has IDE support.

April 08, 2002 - upgraded libz.lrp from 1.1.3 to 1.1.4.  To see if you need upgrade,
type   lrpkg -l  and check the version number of libz

April 05, 2002 - add a print server how to, upgraded all modules.lrp to use parallel port, upgraded
kernel (parport, parport_pc and lp modules), root.lrp (init includes lp0 lp1 lp2 mknod)

Mar 08, 2002 - upgraded ssh and sshd to 3.1.p1, files affected are ssh.lrp and sshd.lrp, added nmap.lrp port scanner
Reason for ssh and sshd upgrade to 3.1.p1 is due to overflow of array in channel handling code.

Mar 03, 2002 - added /usr/share/terminfo/c/cygwin to sshd.lrp for compatibility with cygwin and openssh for windows.

Mar 01, 2002 - renamed root_22.lrp to root.lrp and make corresponding changes to syslinux.cfg

Feb 28, 2002 - updated kernel to use parallel ports, kernel file size is 530,013 bytes

Jan 20, 2002 - re name many files so ISO image do not have duplicated 8.3 file names.

Jan 18, 2002 - re-do the syslinux page

Jan 17, 2002 - re-do all the modules.lrp to make them smaller (deleted unused drivers in /lib/modules )

Jan 15, 2002 - updated Intel EtherExpress-16 modules.lrp

Jan 10, 2002 - re-do the rdate page, added sntp client for time sync because many time-servers reject rdate

Jan 07, 2002 - updated page on how to telnet to LRP.

Jan 04, 2002 - updated new driver from Intel: e100

Dec 30, 2001 - updated several Scyld drivers: eepro100, rtl8139, tulip, winbond-840. Updated kernel

Dec 29, 2001 - added a trouble shooting guide.

Dec 26, 2001 - changed the way modules are loaded in 3c503 modules.lrp and
3c507 modules.lrp, use 2 lines to load modules instead of the usual 1 line.

Dec 24, 2001 - added 3c503 modules.lrp. Corrected syntax on all html files to HTML 4.01 compliant.

Dec 19, 2001 - upgraded sshd.lrp and ssh.lrp to version OpenSSH_3.0.2p1; updated the default DNS servers in dhcpd.lrp

Dec 08, 2001 - added symlink in sshd.lrp to allow the use of scp (ssh.lrp)

Dec 03, 2001 - added telnet how-to

Nov 20, 2001 - upgraded sshd.lrp module to OpenSSH_3.0.1p1 to avoid SSH1-CRC-32
compensation attack. CERT incident Note IN-2001-12

Nov 18, 2001 - converted all gif to Portable Network Graphics (PNG) format.
As a result, old browsers will not be able to view these PNG format.
Web Browser specs: Netscape 4.04 and above, Internet Explorer 4.0b1 and above, or Opera

Nov 4, 2001 - added few more modules.lrp and dot-o drivers.

Oct 21, 2001 - added off-line package for off-line viewing.

Sept 09, 2001 - fixed etc.lrp, file  /etc/network.conf,  $IF0_NAME should be $IF0_IFNAME
Thanks to Luke Chiam (Singapore) for pointing it out.

Sept 08, 2001 - recompiled network drivers (setversion=true),
added/upgrade following drivers (source code from ftp.scyld.com
(3c59x.c eepro100.c epic100.c ne2k-pci.c rtl8139.c tulip.c via-rhine.c)

Aug 28, 2001 - completely changed over to 2.2.19 kernel built
Files modified: all

July 15, 2001 - changed splash screen message.
File modified: syslinux.dpy

June 18, 2001 - upgraded seawall firewall from version 3 to version 4
File modified: seawall.lrp

Mar 03, 2001 - modified /etc/inetd.conf   /etc/network.conf  /etc/hosts  /etc/resolv.conf
File modified:  etc.lrp

Feb 25, 2001 - added  /etc/seawall/start   to seawall.lrp
result: LRP will respond to pings for easier troubleshooting from outside.
File modified: seawall.lrp

Feb 19, 2001 - added v1.08 driver for RTL8139  (rtl8139-a.imz)
added v1.13 driver for RTL8139 (rtl8139-b.imz) (possibly stable)
File modified:  modules.lrp

 

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