Quadros Systems enhances RTXC Quadnet TCP/IP Software

Beefed-up security features, new BOOTP functionality and Strong End System model are featured in this new release

February 22, 2007 - Quadros Systems today announced the release of version 4.5 of the RTXC Quadnet TCP/IP stack, including significant enhancements to the IPsec and IKE security module. The new version also includes new functionality for the BOOTP and DHCP client. With this release RTXC Quadnet software includes support for Strong End System Model. Details on each of these features are provided below.

Internet Key Exchange (IKE)

• IKE policy support
• NAT-T support
• DPD support
• Support for IKE as a separate task

IPsec

• Support for IPsec as a separate task
• Policy Enhancements
• Multiple phase 2 proposals
• Enhanced bundle processing
• IPsec policy opaque data support
• IP Compression negotiation support

IKE & IPsec

• IKE & IPsec priority processing
• Security Protocol Enhancements
  • Simultaneous re-keying optimizations
  • AES authentication and encryption algorithm support
  • Diffie-Hellman Group 14 support
  • ESP/UDP Encapsulation support with NAT-Translation (NAT-T)
  • 64-bit SA lifetime support
  • 64-bit sequence number support
  • Infinite lifetime support
  • Enhanced logging
• Security Statistics
• Statistic information for IKE and IPsec

BOOTP & DHCP

• Support for setting and retrieving DHCP & BOOTP options not recognized by RTXC Quadnet
• Support for setting the hostname option with BOOTP
• API tfFinishConfigInterface()
  • The user can open an interface without configuring an IP address immediately, then, once an IP address has been obtained using AUTO-IP, user BOOTP, or user DHCP, the user can finish the configuration. This is an extension to tfFinishOpenInterface() allowing the user to choose any multihome index
  • Support for switching from BOOTP to DHCP (or vice versa) without having to close the interface
  • BOOTP user interface similar to the DHCP user interface

IKE, IPsec, & SSL

• Added Asynchronous Crypto Processing
  • The user can block a crypto engine while it is executing and then awaken it when the processing has completed

POP3

• Support for POP3 with SSL
• Support for the POP3 UIDL command

General

• Strong End System Model support
• New APIs for adding and deleting IPv6 Default “Gateways” (Routers)
• New API allows the user to specify the remote MAC address, output interface, and remote and local IP addresses when sending a packet
• New API allows the user to get the remote MAC address, input interface, and remote and local IP addresses when receiving a packet