[Nsis-imp] Release of NSIS implementation (0.4.0)

[Bernd Schloer <bschloer at cs.uni-goettingen.de>]

Hi,

we would like to release a new version of the NSIS implementation
(0.4.0) available at http://user.informatik.uni-goettingen.de/~nsis

In order to permit linking the NSLP-API into non-free NSLPs the
licenses of the corresponding files were changed into the Lesser
GPL (LGPL). This release also contains a skeleton NSLP which can
be used as a template to develop further NSLPs. These files are
released under the 3-clause BSD-License. The rest of the project
is still licensed under the GPL.

Further changes are:

* Changed buildsystem to automake and autoconf
 o Added support for FreeBSD, MacOSX
 o (As end-hosts, routers sniff but do not intercept RAO messages)
 o Added support for big-endian
 o IPv6 and SCTP are no longer required to build the package

* Changed license
 o NSLP-API is now LGPL to allow usage in closed source NSLPs
 o New "skeleton NSLP" is BSD to allow building closed source NSLPs
 o The remaining code remains to be licensed under the GPL

* Add richer support for SCTP
* All modules now use a common configuration file
* Improved documentation (introduced man pages)
* Diagnostics NSLP added
* Alignment to byte format of GIST-09
* Added "skeleton NSLP" for others to start creating own NSLPs.

* QoS NSLP changes
 o IPv6 support added
 o QSPEC object support added
 o message processing refined
 o timer handling refined
 o QoSLogger support, improved debug levels
 o new structure of FSM-Code
 o man pages for nsis-qosd(8) and nsis-qos(1) added

* Nat/Firewall NSLP changes
 o new Nat/Firewall NSLP client API
 o built-in GIST-independent protocol emulation
 o DebugLogger support, improved debug levels
 o rewritten Nat/Firewall NSLP client
 o more fine-grained command-line options
 o man pages for nsis-natfwd(8) and nsis-natfw(1) added
 o message parsing updated to draft-ietf-nsis-nslp-natfw-11
 o replaced IP address/port placeholders
 o lots of minor protocol behavior improvements


Xiaoming Fu
Bernd Schloer
Christian Dickmann
Henning Peters

University of Goettingen


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