Broadcom WAN Agnostic Residential Gateway
Embedded System Source
Release Branch 4.150.10.x

Broadcom Corporation Confidential. For evaluation use only.

System Requirements

Operating Systems:

• Linux 2.4.20 kernel
• VxWorks Tornado 2.1(END)

Hardware:

• BCM94705LGR, BCM94704agr, BCM94704mpcb, BCM94712AGR, BCM94712LGR or BCM95350RG or BCM95351RG, BCM95352RG, or BCM95354GR Base Reference Design -or-
• Base Reference Design with a BCM94318E or BCM94318  MiniPCI card -or-
• Base Reference Design with a BCM94306 MiniPCI card -or-
• Base Reference Design with a BCM94309 MiniPCI card -or-
• Base Reference Design with a BCM94321 MiniPCI card -or-
• Base Reference Design with a BCM94318MPG/BCM94318MPAGH MiniPCI card -or-
• Vendor Equivalent

Current Known Limitations, Problems and Notices 

• Customer shall (i) obtain all government approvals and registrations for Customer's use of the software and (ii) comply with all applicable laws, rules, and regulations in connection therewith (including, without limitation, regulatory requirements under Title 47 CFR Part 15, Industry Canada RSS-210, European Directive 1999/5/EC, and regulations related to RF exposure). Customer understands and acknowledges that the software is subject to all pertinent import and export laws of the United States.
• Linux: In the new multi-SSID  functionality, the linux router only supports port-forwarding for the main SSID.
• Linux: Application triggered port forwarding should only be disabled while traffic is not currently running.
• Linux: Afterburner mode does not support fragmentation. Customer  web pages will need to ensure that this combination is not set. The Broadcom sample web pages does not currently do this.
• Linux and VxWorks: CFE is the only supported boot loader 
• This package includes code used in SES from an SSL implementation written by Eric Young. Please note Eric Young's software includes the following restrictions:

  • Copyright (C) 1995-1998 Eric Young (eay@cryptsoft.com)
    All rights reserved.
    This package is an SSL implementation written by Eric Young (eay@cryptsoft.com).
    Copyright remains Eric Young's, and as such any Copyright notices in the code are not to be removed. If this package is used in a product, Eric Young should be given attribution as the author of the parts of the library used. This can be in the form of a textual message at program startup or in documentation (online or textual) provided with the package. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

    1. Redistributions of source code must retain the copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

    2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

    3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software must display the following acknowledgement:
    "This product includes software written by Eric Young (eay@cryptsoft.com)"

    4. If you include any Windows specific code (or a derivative thereof) from the apps directory (application code) you must include an acknowledgement:

    • "This product includes software written by Tim Hudson (tjh@cryptsoft.com)"
      THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY ERIC YOUNG ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
  • The license and distribution terms for any publicly available version or derivative of this code cannot be changed. i.e. this code cannot simply be copied and put under another distribution license [including the GNU Public License.]

What's New in Release 4.150.10.24?

• "GURR++" release
• Updated DFS Support
• Router Secure IBSS added (WPA-PSK like link over AdHoc)
• Updates to support WiFi WPS certification
• Fix issue with MBSS Probe Response transmission when rate fixed at a legacy rate
• Fix for compressed CFE on 5354 A3 designs
• Various bug fixes and data path optimizations

What's New in Release 4.150.10.15?

• "GURR+" release
  
• Driver support for Single Stream N prototyping
  
• Per-SCB statistics added
• Fix for WiFi 11n Countermasures failure on 4321 B1 chips
• Disable 5600MHz-5650MHz in Canada Locale
• Various WPS fixes and features, including support for AP Lockdown
• Fix for VxWorks specific occasional WPA authentication failures
• Fix for RSSI/GainBoost for 4321 in 5GHz
• Fix Efficient Multicast Forwarding not working when endpoints configured for Access Point mode
  

What's New in Release 4.150.10.7.?

• "GURR" release for VxWorks
  
• VxWorks-specific performance improvements compared to 4.150.10.5
  

What's New in Release 4.150.10.5?

• "GURR" release for Linux
  
• Support for  4-BSS MBSS on 4318, 4321, and 5354 platforms
  
• Support for WPS and Microsoft VistaRouter (Basic) Certification
• Efficient Multicast Forwarding feature added
• QoS - Retry Limits and Upper Rate configurable per Access Class
• MAC Address Spoofing for WET (STA) mode

 Support

• If you have questions, please send email to hnsupport@broadcom.com.
• If you would like to report a bug, please go to our partner support site at http://support.broadcom.com, and select the "Bug Reporting" button once logged on with your company specific username/password provided to you by Broadcom. Be sure and use the appropriate category (partner_hw for hardware issues, partner_sw for software issues).

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