StarV3 Differences

This article covers the differences between StarOS v2 and StarV3. This is especially useful for people who are upgrading from StarOS v2 to StarV3.

StarV3 Additional Features Compared to StarOS v2

• 2x/4x cloaking modes, providing 2x/4x more range than the standard 36.29 miles (58.4 kilometers) and some resistance to interference due to narrow 10MHz/5MHz wide channels as compared to the 802.11 standard 20MHz wide channels
• OLSR dynamic routing
• Policy-based routing
• 802.11h DFS and TPC support necessary for some countries, especially european ETSI countries
• 802.11e WMM/WME QoS (1.2.0 beta series only)

StarV3 Missing Features Compared to StarOS v2

• Proxy-arp type bridging for client-side station. You must NAT or route a /30 or use VDS. Do not use WDS bridged clients on a Point-to-Multipoint AP.
• No StarV3 Server Edition comparable to the StarOS v2 Server Edition
• Caching proxy server, squid (from StarOS v2 Server Edition)
• RADIUS server (from StarOS v2 Server Edition)
• RADIUS ACL support (now available in StarV3 1.2.x, soon-to-be 1.3.x series)
• BGP dynamic routing
• Starutil -dscr/-uscr commands not supported (now available in StarV3 1.2.x, soon-to-be 1.3.x series)
• Starutil -sysinfo/-kernlog commands not supported
• Starutil -da/-ai/-ci commands not supported
• IP accounting
• Hotspot
• SNMP support is very basic and doesn't support wireless interfaces (now available in StarV3 1.2.x, soon-to-be 1.3.x series including full wireless interface stats)
• PPTP client
• PCMCIA and Agere/Hermes wireless support
• Prism 2/2.5 wireless support (will not be included in StarV3)
• WPA/WPA2 (now available in StarV3 1.2.x, soon-to-be 1.3.x series)