topic Re: R80.20 EA for Gateway with Linux 3.10 Kernel Coming Soon in Firewall and Security Management

R80.20 EA for Gateway with Linux 3.10 Kernel Coming Soon

PhoneBoy — Mon, 28 May 2018 04:55:49 GMT

We are about to launch an EA program for R80.20 based gateway with a new Linux kernel (3.10, or 3.10.0-862 to be precise).

This will allow all those customers looking at newer Open Servers with new CPUs to actually try them out with Gaia and R80.20 gateway code.

There will be certain limitations, which will be listed in the official EA invitation.

If you’re interested, let us know and Alexander Kim will contact you privately.

Re: R80.20 EA for Gateway with Linux 3.10 Kernel Coming Soon

Duane_Toler — Thu, 31 May 2018 19:59:26 GMT

Yes please. Really sad this wasn't done back in R75 and R77 days, tho. I have a *LOT* of scars from fighting these fires over the years.... I'm fighting one, right now, actually, and I could use the 3.10 kernel today. Pretty please? with a cherry on top... (and low-fat whip cream, because...).

Re: R80.20 EA for Gateway with Linux 3.10 Kernel Coming Soon

PhoneBoy — Fri, 01 Jun 2018 05:22:11 GMT

I'll have Alexander Kim reach out privately.

Re: R80.20 EA for Gateway with Linux 3.10 Kernel Coming Soon

Nicolaj_Bondese — Thu, 14 Jun 2018 05:58:25 GMT

Would love to get my hands dirty with the 3.10 kernel flavour of R80.10

Re: R80.20 EA for Gateway with Linux 3.10 Kernel Coming Soon

Amad_Seni — Tue, 19 Jun 2018 11:02:53 GMT

Please add my address so we can test. We have 2x Openservers to deploy and are unable to do on R80.10 due to the new CPUs: Intel Xeon SP Gold 6134.

Thx

Re: R80.20 EA for Gateway with Linux 3.10 Kernel Coming Soon

Nicolaj_Bondese — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 05:50:56 GMT

Hi Amad , which platform is that ? We are looking at getting the Lenovo SR650 as our "next generation" Open Server

Re: R80.20 EA for Gateway with Linux 3.10 Kernel Coming Soon

Amad_Seni — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 06:05:08 GMT

Similar to the above Lenovo, We have Dell PowerEdge R640 with Intel Xeon SP 6134.

Re: R80.20 EA for Gateway with Linux 3.10 Kernel Coming Soon

Jason_Lo — Mon, 03 Sep 2018 03:46:46 GMT

Yes please - possible to pm me for EA version that runs the 3.10 kernel - interested in testing with R640 open server.

thanks!

Re: R80.20 EA for Gateway with Linux 3.10 Kernel Coming Soon

Alexander_Kim — Wed, 05 Sep 2018 12:43:53 GMT

Thanks for the interest, everyone... Let me paste here a short description of "what's in it for the customer". Hope it will clarify the value and bring us more EA leads 🙂

What’s New ?

Upgraded Linux kernel (based on RHEL 7.x kernel)
Ability to support wide range of new Dell, HP, IBM and other vendors
New file system (xfs)
- Enlarged systems’ storage (up to 48T tested)
New partitioning system (gpt)
- Support in more than 2TB physical/logical drives
I/O related performance improvements
Support of new system tools for debugging, monitoring and configuring the system
- iotop (provides I/O runtime stats)
- lsusb (provides information about all devices connected to USB)
- lshw (provides detailed information about all HW)
- lsscsi (provides information about storage)
- ps (new version, more counters)
- psmisc (new version, more counters)
- top (new version, more counters)
- iostat (new version, more counters)
New glibc - glibc-2.17-157
New ethtool - ethtool-4.8-7
New Bash - bash-4.2.46-29
lbzip2 support (free, multi-threaded compression utility)
xz support
rsync support
VXLAN termination
SMBv2/3
Flow-stickiness in ECMP

Re: R80.20 EA for Gateway with Linux 3.10 Kernel Coming Soon

_Val_ — Wed, 05 Sep 2018 12:49:50 GMT

Alexander Kim‌ I have fixed the format for you. It was a bit off

Re: R80.20 EA for Gateway with Linux 3.10 Kernel Coming Soon

Alexander_Kim — Wed, 05 Sep 2018 12:53:32 GMT

Thanks !

Re: R80.20 EA for Gateway with Linux 3.10 Kernel Coming Soon

Jason_Lo — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 04:51:45 GMT

Hi Alex,

Just wanted to follow up this and ask if the EA gw with linux 3.10 iso is available for testing now / soon?

Cheers,

Jason

Re: R80.20 EA for Gateway with Linux 3.10 Kernel Coming Soon

Alexander_Kim — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 08:28:58 GMT

Yes, it is.

Re: R80.20 EA for Gateway with Linux 3.10 Kernel Coming Soon

Jason_Lo — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 08:39:31 GMT

Excellent...!!

How does one get a hold of the gateway iso?

Re: R80.20 EA for Gateway with Linux 3.10 Kernel Coming Soon

Alexander_Kim — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 10:10:23 GMT

Linor,

Can you, please, send the questionnaire ?

Thanks,

Kim

Re: R80.20 EA for Gateway with Linux 3.10 Kernel Coming Soon

David_Herselman — Sat, 15 Sep 2018 05:44:34 GMT

We would be very interested in testing the RHEL6 based 3.10 kernel in our KVM virtualisation environment. Specifically looking forward to:

- VirtIO SCSI discard (TRIM) pass-through

- VirtIO SCSI single (each disc has a separate controller)

- VirtIO network multi-queue

- Partition alignment optimisation (currently takes considerable effort when creating templates)

- Sector sizes other than 512 bytes

- RHEL5 guests freeze after being live migrated, does not occur with any other guest (RHEL 3/4/6/7, Debian 7/8/9, Windows)

We ran in to a number of bugs when we were early adopters of R80.10 MDS, I assume a R80.20 gateway can be managed by R80.10?

Re: R80.20 EA for Gateway with Linux 3.10 Kernel Coming Soon

Ryan_St__Germai — Sat, 13 Oct 2018 03:16:24 GMT

How will GA for this be released? Replace existing R80.20 GA or will it be offered as a separate iso?

Re: R80.20 EA for Gateway with Linux 3.10 Kernel Coming Soon

PhoneBoy — Sat, 13 Oct 2018 08:07:39 GMT

I assume a different ISO but those details have not been finalized.

Re: R80.20 EA for Gateway with Linux 3.10 Kernel Coming Soon

Alexander_Kim — Sat, 13 Oct 2018 08:52:00 GMT

Ryan,

This is going to be a separate ISO, based on R80.20 GA, and it is going to support future R80.20 JHFs.

Re: R80.20 EA for Gateway with Linux 3.10 Kernel Coming Soon

Ryan_St__Germai — Mon, 15 Oct 2018 00:56:45 GMT

Does anyone know if Kernel 3.10 will bring support for Intel Turbo Boost technology to CheckPoint? Would be nice to take full advantage of some of the higher clock speeds in these new CPU's.