What's New in R80.30 EA - 3.10 Kernel

[HeikoAnkenbrand]

What's New in R80.30 EA - 3.10 Kernel

• Improved firewall resiliency.
• Support for IPv6 (Resolving a R80.20 3.10 http://supportcontent.checkpoint.com/solutions?id=sk141173 limitation).
• Clustering and VSX capabilities:
  • Unicast support for Cluster Control Protocol eliminating the need for CCP using Broadcast or Multicast modes).
  • MAC magic configuration is no longer needed.
• New kernel capabilities:
  • Upgraded Linux kernel
  • New partitioning system (gpt):
    • Supports more than 2TB physical/logical drives
  • Faster file system (xfs)
  • Supporting larger system storage (up to 48TB tested)
  • I/O related performance improvements
  • Multi-Queue:
    • Full Gaia Clish support for Multi-Queue commands
    • Automatic "on by default" configuration
  • SMB v2/3 mount support in Mobile Access blade
  • Added NFSv4 (client) support (NFS v4.2 is the default NFS version used)
  • Support of new system tools for debugging, monitoring and configuring the system:
    • iotop (provides I/O runtime stats)
    • lshw (provides detailed information about all HW)
    • lsusb (provides information about all devices connected to USB)
    • 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

R80.30 EA - 3.10 kernel release supports only these open servers and 23900 appliance:

• Check Point 23900 appliances.
• HP DL380 Gen10 https://www.checkpoint.com/support-services/hcl/proliant-dl380-gen10/
• HP DL380 Gen9 https://www.checkpoint.com/support-services/hcl/hp-proliant-dl380-g9/
• HP DL360 Gen10 https://www.checkpoint.com/support-services/hcl/proliant-dl360-gen10/
• HP DL360 Gen9 https://www.checkpoint.com/support-services/hcl/dl360-g9/
• Dell PowerEdge R740/R740 XD https://www.checkpoint.com/support-services/hcl/poweredge-r740/
• Dell PowerEdge R640 https://www.checkpoint.com/support-services/hcl/poweredge-r640/

Release notes for this R80.30 - 3.10 kernel EA program are available here: readme

[Richard_Quignon]

Hi @HeikoAnkenbrand,

is ClusterXL CCP encryption also included?

[Samuel_Rufai]

Nice, now are HP DL 360/380 G9 server supported!