Upgrades

Release notice for Ingate Firewall® 6.2.1 and Ingate SIParator® 6.2.1

The new version can be found here

Release notice for Ingate SIParator(R)/Firewall(R) 6.2.1

Release name: Ingate SIParator(R)/Firewall(R) 6.2.1
Release date: February 13, 2019

The new version and documentation can be found at:
https://account.ingate.com/

This is a minor release with new features and enhancements.
We recommend everyone to upgrade.

THE NEW FUNCTIONS AND FEATURES ARE:

* Audio Media G.729 and G.722 Transcoding Added 
Since patent rights have elapsed, audio codec transcoding has been
added free of charge to all Ingate SIParators with the new 6.2.1 software.
If enabled, the maximum transcoding sessions for PCMA/PCMU to and
from G729/G722 have been measured to:
SIParator S21 (Serial number starting with IG-095): 60
SIParator S95 (Serial number starting with IG-954): 700
SIParator S98 (Serial number starting with IG-981): 1800

Adding CPUs with more cores and higher frequency allows for more
transcoded concurrent calls.
https://account.ingate.com/manuals/6_2_1/reference_guide_6_2_1.html#_media_transcoding


* Call Control REST API in the Dial Plan
This Call Control API allows integration with external web services
during call processing. The Ingate SIParator can now fetch information
via REST API calls (HTTP or HTTPS GET commands), while processing the
Dial Plan and the returned information is used to modify the SIP requests
being processed.

This allows for enhanced routing capabilities to applications such as:
 * Routing based on number portability.
 * Least-cost routing
 * No Call compliance
 * Call capacity per DNIS for inbound campaigns in call centers

An additional benefit of this Call Control REST API, which takes
the information in text, JSON and XML formats, is that dynamic information
that may affect or require changes in the configuration can easily be
handed over to queries to an external application database,
reducing risks of affecting operations.
https://account.ingate.com/manuals/6_2_1/reference_guide_6_2_1.html#_call_control


* HTTP REST API for Configuring and Managing the SIParator/Firewall and SBC
This added configuration REST API - which also includes upgrades,
licenses and patches - allows service providers to configure,
provision and perform other management tasks from external applications
via HTTP requests. 

The API can be accessed through Ansible and will most likely be included in
Ansible version 2.8. Ingate has written a suite of Ansible modules for users
to configure and maintain the Ingate SBC via Ansible Playbooks.
Ingate also provides the cli2python utility, which can be used to generate
an Ansible Playbook from an Ingate CLI file.

This configuration REST API can also be accessed through cURL and
the Ingate Python SDK.
https://account.ingate.com/manuals/6_2_1/reference_guide_6_2_1.html#_part_vi_http_rest_api
https://account.ingate.com/manuals/6_2_1/reference_guide_6_2_1.html#_ansible
https://pypi.org/project/ingatesdk/


* Support for Fetching Upgrades From the GUI
https://account.ingate.com/manuals/6_2_1/reference_guide_6_2_1.html#_fetch_licenses_upgrade


* SIP related issues **************************************************

*** Add support for media transcoding.
    "SIP Services" > "Media Transcoding".
    Transcoding between any of: PCMU, PCMA, G722 and G729A.

*** Add support for making HTTP requests from the Dial Plan.
    "SIP Traffic" > "Call Control".

*** Add SIP interop: Add DTMF Payload type.

*** Add SIP interop: Contact SIP URI Parameters to keep in REGISTERs.

*** Add SIP Trunk interop: Remove video.

*** Support setting the ;q= parameter in REGISTERs from the Trunk page.

*** Support $rx/$fx in the URI RegExp of Forward-To in the Dial Plan.
    This allows use of parts of the From header in the Request-URI.

*** Support route lookup when next hop is a IPv6 Link-Local address.


* Other issues ********************************************************

*** Support additional Virtual Function network drivers on Software
    Ingate (igbvf and i40evf).

*** Improve network performance for network drivers igb and ixgbe when
    they are run in PCI-passthrough mode on Software Ingate.

*** Add support for configuring and managing the unit via HTTP REST API
    requests. Please refer to the reference manual for more information.

*** Increase packet capture dump-file size limit.
    On hardware with >= 4GB RAM increase to 200 MB and on other
    hardware increase from 24 MB to 50 MB.

    Hardware models with >= 4GB RAM are 953, 954, 970, 971, 972,
    980 and 981.

*** Update Intel(R) CPU microcode on supported hardware.

*** Make received SLAAC IPv6 gateway known to the rest of the system.

*** Do file system check on log partition according to max mount count
    and interval. 


* VPN & IPSec *********************************************************

*** Add option to disable NAT Traversal (UDP encapsulation).

*** Disable NAT-T keep-alive packets with an interval of "0".

*** Don't allow IPsec Peers with same participants.

*** Don't allow multiple tunnels with MODECFG.

*** Add IPsec Setting to enable different IPsec Peers to have the same
    participants (default no).


* GUI *****************************************************************

*** Support fetching upgrades from the GUI.

*** Cleanse the configurations in the support report from sensitive data.
    Replaces sensitive data with dummy values.