StarV3 Release Branch
StarV3 v1.1.12 build 2063 release information
March 15, 2007

For those willing to test some of the upcoming features, the development branch may be of interest. Please visit the downloads page here for more information.

Please provide feedback on our forums (forums.star-os.com) so we can resolve any issues that are found.

Downloads

Please refer to 1.1.13 release notes for download instructions.

Read 1.1.11 Release notes here.

Change Log

• StarV3 Common Changes
  • Introduction of 3 new platforms:
    • MIPS-COMPEX (WAR-1 platform)
    • XSCALE-METRO (WAR-4 METRO platform)
    • XSCALE-WDR800 (WAR-4 WDR800 platform)
  • StarV3 has undergone a subsystem rewrite, to increase scalability between small CPE device and robust enterprise class platforms.
  • Quagga has been back-ported to 0.99.5 due to reported issues with RIP and OSPF.
  • Many bug fixes, large and small (far to many to list)

WAR-1 Platform:

The initial shipment of WAR-1 systems contain a pre-release version for 1.1.12. Please update to this release, if needed. (LED support as listed below is only available in build 2063 or newer)

The WAR-1 contains two ethernet ports, which act as a small 2-port switch. The software will use these two ports as a single interface.

LED lights: (Blue power light = LED 1, LAN1 = LED 5, LAN2 = LED 6)

LED 2: Status / Diagnostic light
This will blink quickly during bootup, then settle to a constant one second 'heartbeat' blink once every second.

Updating the flash (such as saving settings, or doing firmware updates) will cause the LED to blink rapidly.

This LED is also used with the button (see below)

LED 3: VDS Status light
This will turn on when a VDS tunnel has been successfully created, otherwise it is off.

LED 4: Atheros signal level indicator
This will flash to indicate current signal level of the client connection. Solid light indicates a signal of -67dbm or lower, and if the light is off, it the client is not associated.

Button:
While pressed, LED 2 will turn off for roughly one second. If you release the button in this timeframe, the CPE will be rebooted.

If you continue to hold the button, LED 2 will start flashing, slowly at first but will quickly gain pace. Once it reaches a solid state (roughly 10 seconds), the system will reboot, and restore to factory settings (including generating new SSH keys).

If you release the button after the LED starts blinking, but before it turns solid, the system will perform no actions. (will not reboot, or perform a factory restore).

Feature set:

The WAR-1 contains the following feature set:

• Full Atheros capabilities, including AP mode, Cloaking and long distance.
• Full Firewall, CBQ and NAT support.
• Static routing, RIPv1/2 and Policy Routing.
• 802.1d bridging, and WDS for client-mode Atheros.
• DHCP client and server support.
• VDS support (minus link encryption).
• 802.1q vlan support
• Uses the familliar SSH interface.
• And other items such as NTP, syslog, static ARP, ping watchdog, etc.

Caveats

• During an activate, all Atheros cards will be reset even if their settings were not modified. This has been resolved for the next release.
• please read past release notes.