{"id":3722,"date":"2012-04-15T21:17:33","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T03:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregsowell.com\/?p=3722"},"modified":"2012-04-15T21:17:33","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T03:17:33","slug":"mikrotik-v6-beta-1-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/?p=3722","title":{"rendered":"Mikrotik V6 Beta 1 Released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikrotik.com\/download.html\">What&#8217;s new in 6.0beta1<\/a> (2012-Apr-13 15:26):<\/p>\n<p>*) updated drivers and kernel (to linux-2.6.38.2);<br \/>\n*) improved interface management (scales well for up to thousands of interfaces and more);<br \/>\n*) improved queue management (\/queue simple and \/queue tree) &#8211; easily handles tens<br \/>\n   of thousands of queues;<br \/>\n<strong>*) improved overall router performance when simple queues are used &#8211;<br \/>\n   at least double the performance of v5, even bigger improvements on multicore systems;<br \/>\n<\/strong>  This is going to help those PPPoE folks.<br \/>\n*) very small overhead for packets that miss simple queues,<br \/>\n   but simple queues are present in the system;<br \/>\n<strong>*) pcq queue is NAT aware (just like &#8220;\/queue simple&#8221; and &#8220;\/ip traffic-flow&#8221;;<\/strong> Excellent.<br \/>\n*) in &#8220;\/ip firewall mangle&#8221; can specify &#8220;new-priority=from-dscp-high-3-bits&#8221;;<br \/>\n<strong>*) new default queue types: pcq-download-default and pcq-upload-default;<\/strong>  Will streamline things a LOT<br \/>\n*) simple queues have separate priority setting for download\/upload\/total;<br \/>\n<strong>*) slave flag shows up for interfaces that are in bridge,bonding or switch group;<\/strong> Will help with my memory at 2 AM.<br \/>\n*) global-in, global-out, global-total parent in \/queue tree is<br \/>\n   replaced with global that is equivalent to global-total in v5;  Not quite sure how this will look in practice&#8230;too lazy to install it right now&#8230;hehehe<br \/>\n*) simple queues happen in different place &#8211; at the very end of<br \/>\n   postrouting and local-in chains;<br \/>\n*) simple queues target-addresses and interface parameters are joined into one<br \/>\n   target parameter, now supports multiple interfaces match for one queue;<br \/>\n*) simple queues dst-address parameter is changed to dst and now supports<br \/>\n   destination interface matching;<br \/>\n<strong>*) dns cache logs requests to topics &#8220;dns&#8221; and &#8220;packet&#8221;;<\/strong>  Does this mean that DNS requests hit the log if so desired?<\/p>\n<p>Lots of queue work and apparent streamlining of the OS.  Can&#8217;t wait to see some post beta versions!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s new in 6.0beta1 (2012-Apr-13 15:26): *) updated drivers and kernel (to linux-2.6.38.2); *) improved interface management (scales well for up to thousands of\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mikrotik","category-networking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3722"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3726,"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3722\/revisions\/3726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}