IPFire on AWS: Update to IPFire 2.21 - Core Update 129
12 Apr 2019 by Michael Tremer
Today, we have updated IPFire on AWS to IPFire 2.21 - Core Update 129 - the latest official release of IPFire.
This update brings you of course all the features that come with this new version and helps you to avoid updating a newly installed system.
This update makes the latest features in IPFire available on AWS:
Routed IPsec VPNs
This feature is going to be very interesting for people with need of high availability. Redundant instances of IPFire can now terminate IPsec tunnels in multiple Availability Zones and route traffic dynamically with BGP or other dynamic routing protocols.
This way, you will always have a connection from your office, your other data centre to your Amazon Cloud that will never let you down.
How to update?
For all customers that are already running on the latest image, there is nothing to do here but to make sure that you have all updates installed on your instance. New systems should of course be installed with