Bonded Internet 2013.5 release notes

October 29, 2013

Bonded Internet 2013.5 adds aggregation server failover. If an aggregator fails, it allows bonds to automatically move to a different aggregator within two minutes. Bonded Internet has always been about reliability, and now you can eliminate the risk of an aggregator failure leading to an extended outage for your customers.

Bonding node

Additions

  • Nodes respond to heartbeat checks from the management server.
  • Routing of routed blocks on aggregators can be disabled using the “aggregator routing” option.
  • Routed blocks can be part of a private WAN routing container.

Changes

  • Routed blocks for private subnets are no longer routed by default on aggregators.

Patches

2013.5-0: Limited-release beta 2013.5-1: Initial public release Bonding admin Additions

  • Bonds can be configured with a secondary aggregator. If the primary aggregator fails, the bond is moved to the secondary aggregator within two minutes. Aggregator failover is coordinated by the management server.
  • Management server settings are shown on the System Info page.
  • The aggregator API has bonds_current and bonds_secondary fields, listing bonds which are currently assigned to the aggregator and which have the aggregator as their secondary, respectively.

Changes

  • The default balancing algorithm for new bonds has been changed to Flowlet.
  • The sort order of the aggregator list table can changed by clicking the header of the column to sort by.

Removals

  • Users can no longer change their username from the account edit form.

Patches

2013.5-0: Limited-release beta 2013.5-1: Initial public release 2013.5-2: Fixes an issue calculating traffic rates for aggregators with failed-over bonds, fixes a configuration issue for aggregators that have failed, and fixes an issue with font rendering in the documentation. Added the bonds_current and bonds_secondary fields to the aggregator API. 2013.5-3: Fixes an issue that prevented deleting aggregators, fixes an unhandled exception in a certain case of adding a bond, and fixes an issue that resets aggregator values to old values periodically. 2013.5-4: Fixes an issue shutting down the agg failover process and fixes an aggregator recovery issue introduced in 2013.5-3. 2013.5-5: Improves compilation process for aggregator failover process. 2013.5-6: Fixes an issue listing moved bonds in the aggregator failure email notification. 2013.5-7: Fixes an issue authenticating users on the node details page.