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1. alaStackMgrChassisTable alaStackMgrStatsTable alcatelIND 1 StackMgrMIBObjects Unsupported MIB Variables OmniSwitch 6600 Series MIB Name AlcatelIND1Bgp Unsupported MIB Variables OmniSwitch 6600 Series alaBgpGlobal alaBgpPeerTable alaBgpAgerTable alaBgpNetworkTable alaBgpRedistRouteTable alaBgpRouteTable alaBgpPathTable alaBgpDamp Table alaBgpRouteMapTable alaBgpAspathMatchListTable alaBgpAspathPriMatchListTable alaBgpPrefixMatchListTable alaBgpCommunityMatchListTable alaBgpCommunityPriMatchListTable alaBgpDebugTable AlcatelIND1IDot1Q qPortVlanForceTagInternal AlcatelIND1 Health healthDeviceTemperatureCmmCpuLatest healthDeviceTemperatureCmmCpu 1 MinAvg healthDeviceTemperatureCmmCpu1 HrAvg healthDeviceTemperatureCmmCpu HrMax AlcatelIND1Ipms alalpmsForwardSrclIpAddr alalpmsForwardSrclfIndex AlcatelINDILAG alclnkaggSlotTable AlcatelIND1Port esmPortCfgMaxFrameSize esmPortCfgLongEnable esmPortCfgRuntEnable esmPortCfgRuntSize alcether1 0GigTable OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 page 23 Unsupported MIBs by Platform MIB Name AlcatelIND1Pcam Unsupported MIB Variables OmniSwitch 6600 Series alcatelIND1PCAMMIBObjects alaCoroL3HrePerModeTable alaCoroL3 HrePerCoronadoStatsTable alaCoroL3HreChangeTable AlcatelIND1Pimsm alaPimsmGlobalConfig alaPimsmDebugConfig AlcatelIND1QoS alaQoSRuleReflexive alaQoSAppl
2. page 96 OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 76658 MAC Server manager has a maximum range of 256 MACs If the system is configured with a MAC range exceeding 256 MACs the MAC server is not consistent The MAC range EEPROM CLI command rejects the command if the MAC count exceeds 256 Workaround Reconfigure the MAC range EEPROM to be 256 MACs or less PR 80937 IPC buffers can be used up by VLAN Manager on an OS8800 switch when a bootup or CMM takeover occurs Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 82675 If the boot flag is set to 0x40000 then it causes the tssApp task to crash when attempting to execute some CLI commands on an OS7000 or OS6600 series switch Workaround Make sure the boot flag is set to 0 PR 83669 The chassis will not be able to bootup when the boot flag is set to 0xb8000 on an OS7000 series switch Workaround Do not set the boot flag to 0xb8000 PR 84294 The show running directory command shows Running Configuration as Not Available on an OS6600 series switch Workaround This is a display issue only PR 84601 On an OS7000 series switch daylight savings time is not accommodated in several time zones NTP synchronization is off by one hour Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 86084 The configuration file from 5 1 4 or older releases might not be compatible for autonegotiation if eit
3. On an OS7000 series switch RIP and OSPF MDS authentication is not interoperable between AOS and XOS GateD amp OmniCore Workaround Use Clear Text or SIMPLE authentication PR 81856 On OS6600 series switches the WebView OSPF Routes page does not display the aggregated summary route entry corresponding to the active address range configured for the area Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 82004 With Catalina versions prior to 1 3 the number of collisions are capped at 5 in the Layer 3 PCAM table As a result there may be some thrashing of IPMS PCAM entries possibly leading to OSPF instability The version of the Catalina is determined by running the show ni command Workaround The immediate workaround is to disable the limitation PIM SM Problem Reports PR 73783 On an OS7000 series switch a lot of register packets will stress the NI Everything is going through soft ware and so the NI will be very busy Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 74581 Some releases of Cisco s PIM implementation default to full packet checksums for their register packet checksum algorithm This causes Cisco routers to reject valid PIM register packets from an OS7000 PIM implementation which defaults to header only checksums for PIM register packets Workaround Change register checksum to full when connecting Cisco PIM SM router to the OS7000 series switch OmniSwitc
4. PR 60599 The watch dog does not reboot the switch when the OS7000 locks up due to a corrupt image file Workaround Power cycle the switch and FTP a new version of the software if possible OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 page 93 Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 60636 Fully qualified instances in systemMicrocodeDependencyTable return a NoSuchInstance error on an OS7000 series switch Only SNMP GetNext requests work on the entire table but SNMP get for specific instances fails Workaround The user must use snmpget on table to read items PR 60675 The mac range command does not update the routing information upon completion Workaround For the mac range command to take effect have the chassis use the new macs the chas sis needs to be rebooted In fact when the first mac range changes the switch must reboot All VLAN and routing functionalities beyond that point is not be supported PR 61018 While modifying the boot parameters on an OS7000 series switch an input of for an IP address is interpreted as an IP address of 0 0 0 0 Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 61534 The FTP session has problems connecting to a switch while the certify process is still running Workaround Do not attempt to FTP files to from switch while the certify process is still running PR 61572 When the protocol reference is not specified in the Ethernet frame layer 2 t
5. Unsupported MIBs by Platform MIB Name Unsupported MIB variables on All Platforms IETF_SNMP_TARGET RFC 2573 snmpTargetAddrTable snmpTargetParamsTable snmpTargetSpinLock IETF_SNMP_USER BASED SM usmUser RFC 2574 IETF_SNMP_VIEW_BASED ACM vasmMIBViews RFC 2575 NOVELL_IPX ipxStaticRouteTable ipxDestServTable ipxStaticServTable ipxBasicSysConfigSockets ipxBasicSysOpenSocketFails ipxAdvSysInCompressDiscards ipxAdvSysOutCompressDiscards ipxCircDialName ipxCircCompressState ipxCircCompressSlots ipxCircStaticStatus ipxCircCompressedSent ipxCircCompressedInitSent ipxCircCompressedRejectsSent ipxCircUncompressedSent ipxCircCompressedReceived ipxCircCompressedInitReceived ipxCircCompressedRejectsReceived ipxCircUncompressedReceived ipxCircNeighRouterName ipxCircNeighInternalNetNum page 22 OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 Unsupported MIBs by Platform Unsupported MIB Variables OmniSwitch 7000 series MIB Name AlcatelIND1Port Unsupported MIB Variables OmniSwitch 7000 Series Alcether10GigTable AlcatelIND1VlanManager vlanTagMobilePortStatus AlcatelIND1StackManager alaStackMgrChassisTable alaStackMgrStatsTable alcatelIND 1 StackMgrMIBObjects Unsupported MIB Variables OmniSwitch 8800 MIB Name AlcatelIND1VlanManager Unsupported MIB Variables OmniSwitch 8800 vlanTagMobilePortStatus AlcatelIND1StackManager
6. Workaround There is no known workaround at this time page 46 OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions Link Aggregation including OmniChannel Feature Exceptions e OS7000 Please refer to the Link Aggregation chapters of the OmniSwitch 7700 7800 8800 Network Configuration Guide which include instructions for optimizing first generation Network Interface modules for link aggregation e OS6600 Static link aggregation A single aggregate group can have 16 ports in a stack as long as no more than 8 ports are added on a single switch The ports must be assigned sequentially and the first port configured must begin with port number 1 9 17 or 25 on an OS6624 or 1 9 17 25 33 41 49 or 51 on an OS6648 The ports on different switches NIs can be in the same aggregate group The ports should be with the same speed The flow of traffic will be such that it goes out from the closest link aggregate port e For more information please contact Customer Support via email at support ind alcatel com Problem Reports PR 61641 An OS7000 series switch with static link aggregation configured and connected to several simple ports could lock up if the flooding traffic is immediately opened before configuring the necessary opposite aggregate on the remote side Workaround Directly create the objects in an active state Thereby bypassing this problem by previ ously configuring togeth
7. Problem Reports PR 57746 IP Multicast does not support hardware routing with 802 1Q service on an OS7000 series switch Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 59814 If a multicast routing interface is Oper Status enabled not just Admin Status enabled then IPMS is not be enabled silently on an OS7000 series switch When the first multicast routing interface moves to the enabled state IPMS is enabled silently Workaround There is no known workaround at this time OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 page 43 Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 59907 If IP multicast switching is configured along with group mobility and multiple clients are configured in different IP VLANs on the same physical port multiple copies of the same packet can be routed to that port causing duplicate delivery of IP multicast traffic on an OS7000 series switch Note IP multicast rout ing must also be enabled and multiple clients in different subnets must request the IP multicast traffic from the same physical port Workaround The CLI command ip multicast hardware routing may be used to remedy this problem This will ensure that only one copy of the packet is forwarded out of any switch port Please see restric tions in using IP multicast hardware routing in the user manual Note The route selected for transmitting the multicast to the port will be selected randomly which may cause problems with the
8. Quality of Service includes ACLs and NAT Feature Exceptions e Only 512 policy rules conditions and actions are supported on the OS7000 8800 series switches e Only 128 policy rules on the OS6600 series switches Problem Reports PR 56327 Using Layer 2 traffic with Dest Mac condition and Stamping TOS action when the ingress port is untrusted the outgoing stamped TOS value is always zero regardless of the stamped value on an OS7000 series switch If the ingress port is changed to trusted then the outgoing stamped TOS value is correct Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 56387 Using Layer 2 traffic on an OS7000 series switch with untrusted ingress ports where Dest Mac condition with 802 1p is stamping or marking action the 802 1p value is always set to zero If the same ingress port is changed to trusted the 802 1p value is stamped correctly Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 57836 The policy service group is broken by using source ip port with destination ip port on an OS7000 series switch Workaround There is no known workaround at this time Service groups can contain either 1 All source port conditions 2 All destination port conditions 3 All source destination port conditions PR 57932 ARP packets are not classified by QoS with NAT on an OS7000 series switch Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 58008 When classifyl3 brid
9. Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 66815 If the working directory is in upper case WORKING normally this happen if it is created on a PC then the install command from either CLI or WebView removes Hrelease img from the working directory getting removed on an OS6600 switch Workaround Rename the upper case WORKING directory to a lower case working directory Do not use rename WORKING working this will not work Rename WORKING to something else first and then rename it back to lower case working For example rename WORKING ttt rename ttt working PR 67889 IXIA Scriptmate automates auto negotiation test Hence the timing for enabling port PHY and MAC between IXIA and an OS8800 switch is different Since the OS8800 switch does not accumulate statistics before the port is enabled there is a chance to have statistics mismatch between IXIA and the switch Workaround There is no known workaround at this time OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 page 95 Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 68905 ColdStartTrap is sent every time a switch is reset Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 70760 A highly fragmented file system can slow the file system response Workaround Use the fsck command on your fragmented file system to improve the file system perfor mance PR 72271 When building a new stack using up and running standalone units on an OS66
10. Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 74223 Link aggregation is not supported on 2 gigabit ports located on two separated gigabit uplinks on an OS6600 series switch The unit is considered as 1 slot but the two gigabit uplinks are linked to two separated ASICS The ports of the link aggregation cannot be in two different asics in the same slot Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 75520 With multiple dynamic link aggregates on an OmniSwitch 8800 switch each aggregate should have an admin key which matches the port s admin key Workaround Specify the admin key for the link aggregate and the port PR 75538 On an OS6600 series switch the user is not able to change dynamic link aggregate parameters on run time Workaround Delete the link aggregate LACP port and add with new modified parameters PR 77684 On an OS7000 series switch replacing second generation NIs with first generation NIs causes ports not to come up Workaround If second generation boards are hotswapped with first generation boards some link aggre gate ports may not come up Replace second generation interfaces with second generation interfaces only PR 77693 An OS7000 series switch is not able to pass traffic through a link aggregate port if the traffic originates from the same slice as the link aggregate Workaround Do not use the same NI port to pass the bridged traffic through the same slice ports config
11. Ignore the difference in color of the buttons Gray buttons have no special meaning as opposed to white ones page 32 OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 65263 A JavaScript error may appear when a session is terminated by a method other than WebView on an OS6600 series switch Workaround This is a display issue only Disregard any warnings dialog boxes PR 66619 On an 0S6600 OS8800 series switch in WebView Policy gt Network Services gt LDAP Servers page after deleting an LDAP server the entry might still be displayed after the table page has been refreshed although the server has actually been deleted Workaround Please refresh the LDAP server page manually by clicking on the Refresh button located at the bottom of the page after the table before the Help button or by clicking again on the menu LDAP Servers PR 68687 It is possible to see the ARP table empty in WebView even though there are static entries Workaround Please click on the Next arrow found under the table If this arrow appears under the table this is an indication that there are static ARPs but they might be on the next page PR 71023 For Security gt ASA gt End User configuration one may add ports that are not there Workaround The maximum number of ports per slot are 24 for an OS7000 8800 series switch and 52 for an OS6600 series switch PR 71434 When v
12. On OS8800 switches when broadcast packets inflow to a port if they are mixed with different sizes some smaller size packets could be dropped by the system Workaround There is no known workaround at this time OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 page 101 Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 81010 An OS8 GNI C24 may encounter some packet loss for small size packets if it is wired traffic 100 traf fic inflow Workaround This is an oversubscription condition Lower the incoming traffic rate Power over Ethernet Problem Reports PR 79947 When using the POE support the power LEDs do not work Workaround There is no known workaround at this time Redundancy Hot Swap CMM Redundancy Feature Exceptions for OmniSwitch 7000 8800 e Manual invocation of failover by user command or Primary pull should only be done during times when traffic loads are minimal e Hot standby redundancy or failover to a secondary OS7000 8800 CMM without significant loss of traf fic is only supported if the secondary is fully flash synchronized with the contents of the primary s flash e Hot standby redundancy or failover to a secondary module without significant loss of traffic is only supported if all the remaining units in the stack are fully flash synchronized with the contents of the primary s flash e Failover Redundancy is not supported when the primary and secondary CMMs are not synchronized i e unsa
13. Please contact your local Customer Support representative for any additional information Note Failure to follow the upgrade instructions correctly can permanently damage CMM hardware Note Once you have upgraded to 5 4 1 R01 downgrading the system must be done on each CMM sepa rately Note Due to changes in such features as STP and the new ip interface command Release 5 4 1 R01 configuration files are not backwards compatible to Release 5 1 5 x and earlier Therefore Alcatel recommends that you back up your configuration files before performing an upgrade OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 page 5 System Requirements Merging OS6600 Stacks You cannot merge two OS6600 stacks 1 e virtual chassis unless they are running identical versions of software Alcatel recommends the following steps to merge two separate stacks 1 Upgrade all elements in both stacks if necessary to the same version of software 2 Use the copy working certified flash syncro command on each of the stacks you have upgraded 3 Use the show microcode loaded command on each stack to confirm that both stacks are running the same version of software 4 Confirm that each element switch in each stack has a unique slot number by viewing the Slot Indicator LEDs Renumber any duplicate slot numbers by using the procedures outlined in the OmniSwitch 6600 Family Getting Started Guide 5 Connect the elements from each of the two stacks together in
14. page 34 OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 80209 WebView health port clear statistics will not clear slot 16 on an OS7000 full chassis Workaround Please ignore old information PR 80236 The Remote System File Management page on OS6600 switches Applying List Files doesn t display the directory contents in time due to the timing issue Workaround The user must click the Refresh button in order to see the directory contents on the screen PR 80249 On an OS7000 series switch in WebView some deeply nested navigation menus may be misplaced in the event that one scrolls down a scrollable feature homepage Workaround Refresh the home page by clicking on the appropriate icon on the left navigation menu PR 80593 The drop down menu in the Switch Log File page will not let a user select an option from the combo box for Session Severity Level Application ID in Netscape 7 0 on Solaris 2 8 on an OS8800 switch Workaround Use the arrow key to scroll down to the combo box and select an option PR 80851 On OS6600 series switches WebView Remote System File Management does not check if the files exist Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 80979 WebView Local Installation File Transfer from a floppy on Solaris 2 8 fails to read the diskette Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 81067 WebView s Physical Modules Summary
15. ured as link aggregate page 48 OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 78281 If second generation NI ports come up first first generation NI ports cannot be added to the same aggre gate Workaround When configuring mixed NI version ports in the same aggregate make sure first genera tion ports are added first before adding second generation ports PR 78374 After hotswapping a second generation NI with a first generation NI spanning tree detects a misconfigura tion Workaround Do not hotswap a second generation board with a first generation board if link aggregate is configured across multiple boards PR 78752 On OS6600 series switches deleting actor system id on a LACP port makes the display set to all Zeroes Workaround LACP ports need to be set with a non zero system id Otherwise the default system id will be used Delete the port and add again to use the default system id PR 78804 On OS6600 series switches changing LACP parameters on runtime affects the LACP mechanism Workaround Do not change the LACP port parameters on runtime If a modification is needed delete and add the port again PR 78909 On OS7000 and OS8800 switches once a second generation NI port is added to a link aggregate one cannot add a first generation NI port Workaround 1 Add a first generation NI port first and then add subsequent second generation ports 2 Add por
16. zero packet arrives on an OS7000 series switch After that point the IPX packets pass through the HRE and cannot be changed Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 61257 The show ipx interface lt vlan gt command displays WAN processing not enabled on this interface on an OS7000 series switch Since WAN connections are not allowed in this release the WAN state of the inter face is always not enabled Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 68826 When using the IXIA ScriptMate on an OmniSwitch 8800 switch IXIA tries to reacquire the link It detects a timeout and is unable to pass traffic Workaround Configure the IXIA side as non auto and then there will not be any more link changes PR 73198 The MAC IP binding rule allows IPX traffic to flow along with the classified IP traffic in the VLAN clas sified to Other products filter IPX traffic in a disabled default VLAN instead of moving the traffic in the IP VLAN Workaround If a lower precedence rule is available the IPX traffic will be classified and flow in the VLAN covered by the rule OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 page 71 Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 80153 The ipxServName in the ipxServTable MIB is a 48 octet identifier of the server The IPX specification says that it contains up to 48 octets and is NULL terminated The Object is used all 48 bytes as part of an index into the ipx
17. 4 1 RO1 page 99 Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 71106 Using Xircom CreditCard Ethernet 10 100 Modem 56 if the speed and duplex of both the OS7 ENI C24 switch and the NIC are fixed to 100FD then no link is detected If auto negotiation is enabled on the switch the connection is only detected as 1 OOHD even though the NIC is configured to 100FD Workaround By using auto negotiation a link can be detected although this will only be 1OOHD and not 100FD PR 71593 Avaya Cajun P333R has connectivity issues when connected to an OS7000 series switch Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 77702 A four port NetGear Hub gives an uneven number of preamble bytes that are dropped Workaround Use the 8 port Hub NetGear DS108 PR 80023 Without a common denominator a link does not come up when one or both sides turns on autonegotia tion For example when autonegotiation is turned on on a port on a switch the link stays down if the link partner has e Autonegotiation is turned off and the local port is enforced to FULL duplex or e Autonegotiation is turned on but the speed mismatches other than auto or e Autonegotiation is turned on but the duplex mismatches other than auto Workaround This follows IEEE 802 3 recommendations Both sides should have a common denomina tor Either the switch side or remote side should change the configuration PR 80710 OS7 ENI P24 modules have egres
18. Feature Exceptions PR 81038 Ingress flood traffic is seen on mirroring port in case of outport mirroring on an OS7000 port Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 81133 On an OS7000 series switch when there are multiple mirror sessions on the same second generation NI with the mirrored ports belonging to different default VLANs and the mirroring port is on a first genera tion NI a double tagged frame can result when ports are tagged and traffic is also tagged Workaround If multiple mirrored source ports on the same second generation NI belong to the same default VLAN this problem will not happen PR 83302 Configuring four mirroring sessions on an OS7000 first generation module causes performance degrada tion even when one inport traffic was passing Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 84093 In the case of Many To One mirroring on an OS7000 series switch the traffic coming in on other mirrored ports the tagging rules on the mirroring port might make the packet go out tagged even if it came in untagged Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 98550 All packets including oversized packets will be mirrored tx or rx regardless of the specifics of the packet on an OS6600 or OS6602 Workaround There is no known workaround at this time Port Monitoring Problem Reports PR 89745 On an OS6600 series switch no trap information is sent for port mo
19. Preference All Base Static ARP for Multicast Address OS7700 0S7800 0S8800 Base STP Internal Loop Prevention OS6600 Base Syslog to Multiple Hosts All Base VLAN for Firewall Traffic OS7700 0S7800 0S8800 Base WebView Mirroring State All Base page 8 OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 New Software Supported Feature Descriptions 802 1x MAC Based Authentication You can enable MAC authentication for the switch and specify an authentication server or servers to be used for authenticating non supplicants on 802 1x ports 802 1x Device Classification Access Guardian In addition to the authentication and VLAN classification of 802 1x clients supplicants the OmniSwitch 6600 7700 7800 8800 implementation of 802 1x secure port access extends this type of functionality to non 802 1x clients non supplicants To this end device classification policies are introduced to handle both supplicant and non supplicant access to 802 1x ports Supplicant policies use 802 1x authentication via a remote RADIUS server and provide alternative meth ods for classifying supplicants if the authentication process either fails or does not return a VLAN ID Non supplicant policies use MAC authentication via a remote RADIUS server or can bypass authentica tion and only allow assignment to specific VLANs MAC authentication verifies the source MAC address of a non supplicant device via a remote RADIUS server Similar to 802 1x authenticat
20. an OS7000 series switch Workaround Prior to issuing reload or reboot ensure all sessions are closed Use the kill command to remove other sessions Do not issue reload or reboot prompt without fully committed to action PR 98596 After a CMM takeover on an OS8800 the show qos port command does not display tagged or trusted 10 Gig ports Workaround Traffic flow on the port is fine and qos rules are applied To view the 10gig port via the show qos port command the port can be administratively disabled and enabled PR 100389 Takeover of an OS8800 chassis with fully loaded Nis did not come up properly Workaround Use different chassis and NIs page 106 OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 Technical Support Technical Support Alcatel technical support is committed to resolving our customer s technical issues in a timely manner Customers with inquiries should contact us at Region Phone Number North America 800 995 2696 Latin America 877 919 9526 Europe 33 388 55 69 04 Asia Pacific 65 394 7933 Other International 818 878 4507 Email support ind alcatel com Internet Customers with Alcatel service agreements may open cases 24 hours a day via Alcatel s support web page at http eservice ind alcatel com Upon opening a case customers will receive a case number and may review update or escalate support cases on line Please specify the severity level of the issue per the definit
21. be configured before defining enabling any of the static rp set OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 page 87 Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions Feature Exceptions e The Mac OS X 10 3 x is supported for AVLAN web authentication using JVM v1 4 2 General Problem Reports PR 89262 On an OS7000 series switch NESSUS reports bogus Vulnerabilities Basically NESSUS collects all those known attacks vulnerablities into their test suites For Example NESSUS sends http lt switch address gt cgi bin guestbook cgi WebView HTTP Server s response Prompts user for the default switch login page which is the normal operation for our embedded server Since our HTTP server replies with some form of an HTTP response NESSUS mistakenly concludes that the HTTP server is vulnerable to this attack Workaround There is no known workaround at this time 802 1X Problem Reports PR 70452 On an OS7000 series switch even after the PC is successfully authenticated to a port the status on the PC shows as not authenticated when using 802 1X with XP SP 1 SP 2 Workaround This is a problem in the Microsoft XP driver PR 72546 On an OS6600 switch after the supplicant is authenticated and the port is open global non supplicant on that port will be on the supplicant s VLAN It only supports one VLAN per port The default should be moved from the original default VLAN to the supplicant s assigned VLAN after th
22. known workaround at this time PR 98559 On OS6600 WebView Remote System File Management Though the file list is displayed an error is logged for primary CMMs Workaround There is no known workaround at this time Spanning Tree Problem Reports PR 61259 The 802 1Q Spanning Tree also called Multiple Spanning Tree is a proprietary protocol based on tagging BPDU As a consequence the OS7000 Spanning Tree is not compatible with other vendors Spanning Tree Workaround In order to inter operate with spanning tree from other vendors 802 1d 802 1w and 802 1s the spanning tree of the OS7000 series switch must be configured in flat mode page 58 OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 72119 On an OS7000 series switch when redundant links are present between two MSTP bridges the resultant topology will choose a blocking port regardless of the VLAN port mapping on the links Therefore if a VLAN is configured on one redundant link but not the other the bridge may block the port that the VLAN is configured on Workaround This is a known issue with MSTP and the older flat spanning tree To send specific VLAN traffic between switches with redundant links all the redundant links need to be 802 1q tagged members of the VLAN So one will always be forwarding See the Users Guide CLI Guide for more information PR 74365 If a port on an OS7000 or OS6600 series swi
23. mac port protocol rule with either IP or IPX or go to a less restricted rule like port protocol or protocol rule PR 75002 There is no provision to configure per VLAN IP MTU on an OS6600 switch As a result once the flow is setup on the OS6600 meaning both the Src Dest addresses are learned if a packet violating the IP MTU is received it will still be forwarded by the hardware IP MTU checking is done in software so it will work for the first packet that comes to software i e for the first packet the switch will send back an appropriate ICMP response Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 75244 When an OS6600 switch is configured for layer 3 routing the servers with teamed or load balanced ports are currently only supported with the 802 3ad service configured on the switch Workaround There is no known workaround at this time OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 page 67 Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 79799 On the OS6600 series switches an OSPF route cannot be redistributed into RIP when a Static route exists in the IP Routing Table for the same destination same metric and same next hop as the OSPF route Workaround There is no workaround for this issue Only one of the two routes OSPF route and Static route may be used in the IP Routing Table Therefore the configuration of the network should be such that routes of only one protocol static or dynamic exis
24. no traffic from the PC Workaround Configure IP helper on the first hop PR 77107 After HTTP authentication on an OS7000 series switch MAC OS X resets the link and thus all MACs learned are flushed on that port This causes the MAC OS X to be de authenticated Workaround Use a hub between the MAC OS X and the OmniSwitch switches so that the link does not go down PR 92532 When the HTTP Proxy server is configured on the browser the aaa avlan dns name command only allows a single word 1 e WebView A domain is not allowed i e WebView com Workaround There is no known workaround at this time OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 page 91 Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions Policy Server Management Problem Reports PR 63005 The LDAP client architecture does not take advantage of the referral service on the LDAP server on an OS7000 series switch Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 74062 On an OS6600 switch it is not possible to create a L3 ACL on a source network and another on a destina tion network because currently an OS6600 series switch cannot link up the source and destination Workaround There is no known workaround at this time page 92 OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions General Problem Reports PR 51067 A Switch based telnet client only supports a single user at a time on an OS7000
25. of protocols that can be processed efficiently on a single mobile port Workaround Limit protocol based mobility rules protocol rule port protocol rule or MAC port proto col rule to 5 different protocols per port page 56 OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 76491 The aging process in the case of disabled VLANs is not the same on an OS6600 series switch as it is on the OS7000 and OS8000 switches This is due to the architectural difference between the software running in those switches Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 80435 On an OS8800 switch if you change the protocol to 1 W in the root switch first chances are the root switch would still receive 1D BPDUs from other switches causing the root switch to revert back to 1D Workaround Please change the protocol on the non root switches first and then do the root switch last PR 89580 An OS6600 series switch shows the IP SNAP protocol number as zero Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 89601 On an OS6600 series switch AARP is learned as aaaa0000 instead of aaaa80f3 Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 90570 On an OS6600 series switch the permanent MAC addresses on link aggregates might show as learned instead of permanent Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 90957 After takeover on an OS6600 series sw
26. on a per VLAN basis The latest High Availability VLAN bandwidth configured determines the global bandwidth Workaround There is no known workaround at this time OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 page 65 Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 92575 The High Availability VLAN Bandwidth is granted on a per ingress slot basis When ingress ports are on different slots the transmission rate on egress ports can be higher than the configured bandwidth Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 92628 Once a port is added to an ingress list or tagged for a High Availability VLAN all other ports in the same slot behave like ingress ports Workaround There is no known workaround at this time Basic IP Routing Problem Reports PR 57299 The unloading and reloading of RIP BGP OSPF is not supported on all OmniSwitch platforms Workaround Reboot the switch for reloading of the operation protocol PR 58974 Changing the Ethernet encapsulation from eth2 to snap while running traffic does not take effect until manual route cache clear is performed on an OS7000 series switch Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 59475 59877 Changing from multiple router MAC to single router MAC mode and vice versa requires a reboot on an OS7000 series switch Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 59599 The number of TCP reset does not match the number of
27. series switch UDP relay agent still has the previ ous IP Workaround Disable the relay service on the VLAN using the no ip udp relay service vlan then enable the relay service on the VLAN again using the ip udp relay service vlan command OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 page 73 Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 84592 In certain cases frames are duplicated with UDP Relay on an OS7000 series switch Workaround 1 With VRRP enabling only on one VRRP router either master or backup is desirable for any UDP relay service to avoid UDP frames being duplicated 2 If there are ECMP routes enabling on one backbone VLAN is desirable for any UDP relay service 3 If 802 1Q is configured on multiple switches UDP relay service only needs to be enabled on one switch PR 98632 For NTP on an OS6600 or OS6602 UDP relay will not forward NTP packets whose destination address is the router port IP address to the NTP server Workaround There is no known workaround at this time VRRP Problem Reports PR 61934 An OS7000 series switch does not support VRID 0 OmniCore does Workaround Do not use VRID 0 on other OmniCore devices when running VRRP with an OS7000 series switch PR 62272 Exceeding the multicast software routing processing limits can introduce instability to the VRRP master to backup communications resulting in VRRP switching between master and backup states frequently on an OS7000 se
28. series switch such as Layer 2 gt Vlan Mgmt gt VLAN Configuration gt Ports gt Port Association gt Move Ports only the first 64 ports of the entire selection is associated A WebView dialog box comes up indicating that only the first 64 is applied with the choice of proceeding or cancelling Workaround There is a design limitation which allows only 64 entries to be modified at a time PR 84270 WebView s UDP Relay Association page only allows a maximum of 3 entries on an OS7000 series switch Workaround All services are displayed via CLI page 36 OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 84281 WebView s Sort button may disappear on longer pages Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 84616 When changing spanning tree bridge modes using CLI while the WebView Spanning Tree menu has already loaded the menu might not correspond to the correct mode even though refreshing the home page displays the correct mode Workaround Click on the Spanning Tree icon located on the Outlook like bar to the left of the screen PR 84618 The Policy gt Policy gt Ports Modify window returns the error message Port enable disable is not supported whenever one tries to make a change Workaround Manually set the Enabled field to a blank during modification and continue with the rest of the changes PR 84677 On an OS6600 series switch the A
29. served back without an error message on an OS7000 series switch This situation might happen because of different settings and behaviors on the proxy server Workaround If possible setup your browser to bypass the proxy server If you cannot bypass the proxy server then clear the browser cache and re login again PR 59678 In Netscape some home pages may display tables misaligned on an OS7000 series switch This is due to the Netscape browser having problems aligning tables even though they re coded to have the same align ment this is true for all platforms Workaround Scroll down to view all tables OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 page 31 Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 60192 Some WebView screens do not display if Internet Explorer 5 5 is installed without Java Virtual Machine JVM on an OS7000 series switch Current screens affected are Physical Health Home and System File systemMet Install Workaround The Internet Explorer browser must be installed with Java Virtual Machine JVM After the installation of service pack 2 for Internet Explorer 5 5 WebView has successfully displayed the java applet which is the file transfer applet in the System FilesystemMegt Install page PR 60877 When the contents of the directory WORKING or CERTIFIED from where the system boots up are updated the Web View System FileSys Images Loaded WebView command displays the new contents of the directory
30. supplicant or non supplicant device connected to an 802 1x port Group Mobility policies can also be combined with other available policies such as VLAN default VLAN etc to configure supplicant and non supplicant policies that provide multiple alternative methods for classifying such devices In addition if an 802 1x port does not have any user configured policies defined Group Mobility is one of the policies applied by default IP Address to Multicast Queue You can associate a multicast queue with the IP address of the firewall Traffic sent to this IP address will be routed and flooded out all ports in the firewall VLAN at wire rate L2 Static Multicast Addresses On the OmniSwitch 6600 Family switches you can use static multicast MAC addresses to send traffic intended for a single destination multicast MAC address to multiple switch ports within a given VLAN A static multicast address is assigned to one or more switch ports for a given VLAN The ports associated with the multicast address are then identified as egress ports When traffic received on ports within the same VLAN is destined for the multicast address the traffic is forwarded on the egress ports that are asso ciated with the multicast address One of the benefits of using static multicast addresses is that multicast traffic is switched in hardware and no longer subject to flood limits on broadcast traffic LDAP Schema Support You can configure Policy groups such as
31. table database to log DHCP client access information There are two levels of operation available for the DHCP Snooping feature switch level or VLAN level To identify DHCP traffic that originates from outside the network DHCP Snooping categorizes ports as either trusted or untrusted A port is trusted if it is connected to a device inside the network such as a DHCP server A port is untrusted if it is connected to a device outside the network such as a customer switch or workstation The port trust mode is also configurable through the CLI OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 page 9 New Software Supported DVMRP Edge and Core You can configure OmniSwitch 6600 Family switches and stacks running DVMRP in safe mode or unre stricted mode In safe mode the stack will only allow multicast streams to be forwarded from branch to leaf or leaf to branch there will be no forwarding of multicast streams branch to branch In addition it prevents multicast routing loops In unrestricted mode forwarding of multicast streams branch to branch is allowed Group Mobility for 802 1x Supplicants and Non Supplicants Group Mobility is one of the 802 1X device classification policies available for classifying supplicant and non supplicant devices when authentication fails does not return a VLAN ID or returns a VLAN ID that does not exist This type of policy applies configured Group Mobility rules to determine the VLAN assign ment for a
32. to Ethernet IT packets Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 81354 RIP task traps when more than 2K RIP routes are sent in the OS6600 Router from a RIP peer This does not always happen and may occur very rarely even when the number of IP routes on the OS6600 Router exceeds 2K The trap happens due to a lack of memory allocation Workaround There is no known workaround at this time When the trap happens the CLI console may not be available for access and the OS6600 Router will reboot due to a lack of memory page 68 OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 84856 An OS6600 series switch learns the source and destination IP address of every forwarded flow and has a finite space 16K addresses to store them they have an aging time of 5 minutes In certain kinds of DoS attacks the switch can run out of space to store these addresses and this will affect routing of new flows Workaround Use the clear arp cache CLI command to cause the switch to delete most if not all of the L3 addresses in hardware All forwarded traffic will have to be re learned PR 88951 On an OS7000 series switch the IP interface is designed to be decoupled from VLAN management Therefore deleting a VLAN doesn t remove the IP interface bound to the VLAN it only makes the IP interface inactive Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 92791 Redistribute
33. to be issued This ensures that the NIs are properly reloaded and the new configurations are sent to the NIs PR 66098 The user may see the following message on bootup CSM PI 4 csCsmCmmCtx cmmState 9 on an OS7000 series switch This is an informational message indicating that a timeout has occurred during system bootup Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 67150 If modules are in the middle of a Flash Synchronization and a takeover process is issued both from the user or from SM detection stacks will get into an unstable condition Workaround DO NOT perform manually a takeover while Flash Synchronization is in progress PR 67483 The copy flash synchro command will not work between different release versions of code Workaround Both CMMs must have the same release version If not do the following 1 Load each CMM separately with the new release in the working directory When doing this only one CMM should be plugged into the chassis 2 Perform reload working no roll back on each CMM 3 Oneach CMM perform copy working certified 4 Bring up the chassis with both CMMs 5 Perform copy flash synchro from the primary CMM PR 68913 In case of a takeover cmmAUnPlugged and cmmBUnplugged alert traps are not sent on an OS7000 series switch Workaround There is no known workaround at this time page 104 OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 Open Problem Reports and Feature E
34. 00 stack it s observed that the CPU Utilization could go up to 100 after changing the bridge protocol from 802 1D to 802 1 W The spanning tree task seems to be stuck in a loop forever causing the CPU utilization to go up Workaround Manually typing in the commands to switch protocols and configure spanning tree works OK In addition executing the same commands in the boot cfg file also works OK OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 page 59 Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 89086 The force version parameter is not supported Workaround Use a protocol identifier i e protocol commands and variables instead PR 89316 With every link up a BPDU packet with the Root BridgeID of Oxffff is sent to elicit a BPDU reply from the adjacent switch in the current AutoEdge Detection mechanism Workaround Setting the stpni_useWorstRootBridgeID 0 in NiDbg and then disabling re enabling the Spanning Tree Protocol instance these steps are not expected to be performed by the customers but by Alcatel s Automation testers who need to setup ANVL test cases PR 90297 On an OS7000 series switch the slow convergence time is basically due to the circulation of old good spanning tree vectors in the network when a root switch is powered off The performance parameter maxAge for CST and hop count for MSTIs are defined precisely to address this issue by aging out this old information The set up where this proble
35. 24 0S6648 switch the system may experience multiple unit reboots and takeovers which might leave the stack in an unstable state Workaround Never connect together or add running standalone units to a stack Always turn the standa lones off connect them to the stack and then turn them on PR 73037 If a port on an OS7000 series switch is disconnected and reconnected while sending traffic from a traffic generator at a high rate the port does not become active until the traffic rate decreases Workaround Stop the traffic for a moment before restarting the traffic generator PR 74724 The CPU utilization of the system remains high while the system is flushing a big number of IP addresses The CPU utilization returns to normal once the entire process is completed Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 75615 On an OS6600 series switch a continuous Flash synchro process may occur if the local working and certified directories are not certified Workaround When any stacks are required to be connected to other stacks make sure the individual stacks are synchronized between themselves locally Working and Certified and within each module of the current stack environment PR 76349 On an OS7000 series switch admin down on a port cannot bring down the link on the link partner As a result the link partner can detect LINK UP or toggling UP and DOWN Workaround There is no known workaround at this time
36. 4 1 RO1 Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 83765 IPMS does not perform IGMPv3 Include Exclude filtering on a per VLAN basis on an OS7000 series switch Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 83965 CLI and WebView do not allow configuration of Last Member Query Interval on an OS8000 switch Workaround It can be configured through SNMP object igmpInterfaceLastMembQueryIntvl PR 83992 The igmpInterfaceStatus value cannot be set through CLI or WebView on an OS7000 series switch Workaround IGMP enable disable is not supported per VLAN interface though it is supported per router Though setting igmpInterfaceStatus through SNMP succeeds the router s interface configuration does not change PR 83996 Query Max Response Time cannot be set through CLI or WebView on an OS7000 Workaround This can be set through SNMP variable igmpInterfaceQueryMaxResponseTime PR 84009 It is not possible to configure an interface as IGMPv1 through the CLI or WebView on an OS7000 series switch Workaround Configure an interface as IGMPv1 through SNMP PR 89462 Ingress IGMP packets are not mirrored to the destination port Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 90688 A static member configured on port p and VLAN v for multicast stream s will receive s even if p is not a member of v The received traffic is untagged Workaround To stop receiving traffic remove the configu
37. CE server should not be listed on available accounting authentication servers since it is not supported Workaround There is no known workaround at this time It is only cosmetic PR 87960 Sometimes WebView doesn t refresh the Source Learning table properly causing submission failed when trying to delete a MAC Workaround Press the refresh button before performing MAC address deletion PR 88765 On an OS7000 series switch WebView s system management switch logging tech support page does not have provisions for dumping RIPng configuration information Workaround Technical support logs created using CLI gives the user an option to dump RIPng PR 89093 On an OS6600 series switch in WebView Networking gt IP Multicast users with only read write permis sions on IPMS IPMR and Web Management cannot add a static neighbor groups querier due to the VLAN and slot port drop downs being empty insufficient permissions Workaround Add read only permissions to include VLANs and ports or use corresponding CLI commands VLAN slot port will have to be known as well OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 page 37 Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 89965 When an OS6600 series switch is under attack sometimes it temporarily runs out of system resources The HTTP server in this case fails to send out the trap Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 90643 On an OS8800 switch in WebV
38. Family Switch Management Guide Includes procedures for readying an individual switch for integration into a network Topics include the software directory architecture software rollback protections authenticated switch access managing switch files system configuration using SNMP and using web management software WebView OmniSwitch 6600 Family Advanced Routing Guide Includes network configuration procedures and descriptive information on all the software features and protocols included in the advanced routing software package Chapters cover multicast routing DVMRP and OSPF OmniSwitch 6600 Family Technical Tips Field Notices Contracted customers can visit our customer service website at http eservice ind alcatel com OmniSwitch 7700 7800 Getting Started Guide Describes the hardware and software procedures for getting an OmniSwitch 7700 or OmniSwitch 7800 up and running Also provides information on fundamental aspects of OmniSwitch software architec ture OmniSwitch 7700 7800 Hardware User Guide Complete technical specifications and procedures for all OmniSwitch 7700 and OmniSwitch 7800 chassis power supplies fans and Network Interface NI modules OmniSwitch 7700 7800 8800 Advanced Routing Configuration Guide Includes network configuration procedures and descriptive information on all the software features and protocols included in the advanced routing software package Chapters cover multicast routing DVMRP and PIM
39. Network group MAC group and Service group through Policy View Multinetting You can configure multiple IP host addresses per VLAN on OmniSwitch 6600 Family switches NI Localized Static ARP You can create an ARP entry on the NI as a static multicast destination address This enables any IP switching to this multicast address page 10 OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 New Software Supported Open LDAP Server OmniSwitches can communicate successfully with the following LDAP servers e OpenLDAP e Netscape e Microsoft Active Directory In addition OmniSwitches can operate in the following modes e unencrypted mode e compatible SSL mode Port Mapping You can configure port mapping sessions which is a security feature that controls peer users from communicating with each other A port mapping session comprises a session ID and a set of user ports and or a set of network ports User ports within a session cannot communicate with each other and can only communicate via network ports In a port mapping session with user port set A and network port set B ports in set A can only communicate with ports in set B If set B is empty ports in set A can communi cate with rest of the ports in the system A port mapping session can be configured in unidirectional or bidirectional mode In the unidirectional mode the network ports can communicate with each other within the same session In the bidirectional mode the ne
40. ORT binding rule violation if the MAC address is the cause of a rule violation then the violating flow is filtered on the default VLAN of the port if the IP address is the cause of the rule violation then the violating flow is filtered on the mobile VLAN config ured in the rule Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 89596 On an OS6600 series switch group mobility only recognizes Ethertype 0x6003 for DECNET protocol classification All other DECNET Ethertypes are treated as unknown or default protocol types Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 89608 On an OS6600 series switch as per the design of the group mobility rule structure creation of a DSAP SSAP rule is expected only for the non standard or custom defined DSAP SSAP values For well known DSAP SSAP values like IPX SNAP an IPX SNAP rule should be configured Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 89827 Network rule conflicts are not resolved or prevented at the CLI level Conflicts are resolved only at run time on an OS6600 series switch Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 90044 On an OS6600 series switch it is possible to see a brief interruption in traffic flows once you add rules This is because all MACs are flushed in the anticipation that rule precedence change may potentially affect the classification status of the learned MACs Workaround There is no known workaround at
41. Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions RMON Problem Reports PR 55770 Duration and System Resources for RMON are not accessible via SNMP or WebView on an OS7000 series switch Workaround The RMON subsystem only shows the values for these objects using CLI SNMP Problem Reports PR 43837 Each time an SNMP v3 Manager discovers a new switch the switch SNMP agent reports a time stamp error when answering the first v3 request on an OS7000 series switch Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 50089 53442 When a GetNext request is sent on any object of the trapConfigTable sessionConfigTable or trapFilter Table and if the index value is equal to 4294967295 then the agent does not respond as expected 1 e the object returned is not lexicographically larger on an OS7000 series switch Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 50404 Our system treats user name admin differently from other user names It is defined for our system with out SNMP access This cannot be modified Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 53289 Flood multicast changes on an OS7000 series switch are applicable for all the ports in that slot Workaround In order to change the flood multicast value chose any ifIndex for that slot and change the value The change will be applicable for all the ports in that slot page 28 OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 Open Pro
42. RO1 Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions Server Load Balancing SLB Problem Reports PR 60561 If an SLB cluster is configured with failover as the distribution algorithm and when a new server in the cluster comes UP then the connections already established with a less priority server are not re estab lished through the new one no automatic switchback on an OS7000 series switch Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 90160 On an OS7000 series switch when a URL file address is added to an SLB probe a is added Workaround There is no known workaround This functionality helps when sending the HTTP GET Since the parameter is an offset to a file on the HTTP server we made sure there was a for the GET UDP Relay Problem Reports PR 77401 On an OS7000 series switch if the lease time expires for a particular IP address used by one switch the server is out of new IP addresses and another switch requests an IP address then the server gives out the IP address whose lease has expired to this new switch Thus resulting in duplicate IP addresses on the two switches Workaround Increase the lease time on the server or configure a larger pool of addresses on the server PR 83947 On an OS7000 series switch show ip udp relay service has zero value for statistic Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 84359 If a VLAN s router IP address is changed on an OS7000
43. Release 5 4 1 RO1 page 19 Unsupported MIBs by Platform Unsupported MIBs by Platform The following MIBs are not supported in this release of the software Feature Interswitch Protocols GMAP MIB All MIBs are unsupported Quality of Service QoS IETF _P_BRIDGE Unsupported MIB Variables All Platforms MIB Name Unsupported MIB variables on All Platforms AlcatelINDIAAA aaauProfile AlcatelIND1Dot1X mib alaDot1xPortLookupTable AlcatelINDILAG alclnkaggA ggEniActivate AlcatelIND1VlanManager mib vpaPortMacType vlanIpAddress vlanIpMask vlanIpEncap vlanIpForward vlanMtu AlcatelIND1 WebMet alaIND1WebMgtRFSConfigTable alaIND1WebMegtHttpPort alaIND1WebMgtHttpsPort TEEE_802_1X dotlxAuthDiagTable dot1xAuthSessionStatsTable dot1xSuppConfigTable dot1xSuppStatsTable IETF_BGP4 bgpRcevdPathAttrTable IETF_ BRIDGE dot1dTpPortTable dot1dStaticTable IETF_ENTITY entLogicalTable entLPMappingTable entAliasMappingTable IETF ETHERLIKE dot3CollTable dot3StatsSQETestErrors dot3StatsInternalMacTransmitErrors dot3StatsCarrierSenseErrors dot3StatsInternalMacReceiveErrors dot3StatsEtherChipSet dot3StatsSymbolErrors dot3ControlInUnknownOpcodes IETF_IF ifRevAddressTable ifTestTable IETF _IP_FORWARD MIB ipForwardTable page 20 OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 Unsupported MIBs by Platform MIB Name IETF_MAU RFC 2668 Unsupported MIB vari
44. Release Notes OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 These release notes accompany release 5 4 1 R01 software for the OmniSwitch 6600 family hardware OmniSwitch 7700 series hardware and OmniSwitch 8800 hardware They provide important information on individual software features and hardware modules Since much of the information in these release notes is not included in the hardware and software user manuals it is important that you read all sections of this document before installing new hardware or loading new software Note References to OmniSwitch 6600 family hardware include model numbers OS6624 0S6648 also known as OS6600 24 0S6600 48 OS6600 U24 OS6600 P24 and OS6602 24 0S6602 48 Where an item is unique to an OS6600 switch the specific model number is used References to OmniSwitch 7000 series hardware include model numbers OS7700 OS7800 Where an item is unique to an OS7000 switch the specific model number is used Contents e Related Documentation see page 2 e System Requirements see page 4 e Memory Requirements see page 4 e MiniBoot and BootROM Requirements see page 4 e Power Supply Requirements see page 5 e Upgrading to 5 4 1 R01 see page 5 e Merging OS6600 stacks see page 6 New Hardware Supported see page 7 New Software Supported see page 8 Traps Supported see page 13 Unsupported Software Features see page 18 Unsupported CLI Commands see page 19 Unsupported MIBs see page 20 Open Problem Rep
45. Requirements e OmniSwitch 6624 Release 5 4 1 R01 requires 128MB of SDRAM and 32MB of flash memory e OmniSwitch 6648 Release 5 4 1 R01 requires 128MB of SDRAM and 32MB of flash memory e OmniSwitch 6600 U24 Release 5 4 1 RO1 requires 128MB of SDRAM and 32MB of flash memory e OmniSwitch 6600 P24 Release 5 4 1 R01 requires 128MB of SDRAM and 32MB of flash memory OmniSwitch 6602 24 Release 5 4 1 R01 requires 128MB of SDRAM and 32MB of flash memory e OmniSwitch 6602 48 Release 5 4 1 R01 requires 128MB of SDRAM and 32MB of flash memory e OmniSwitch 7700 Release 5 4 1 R01 requires 128MB of SDRAM and 32MB of flash memory e OmniSwitch 7800 Release 5 4 1 R01 requires 128MB of SDRAM and 32MB of flash memory e OmniSwitch 8800 Release 5 4 1 R01 requires 128MB of SDRAM and 32MB of flash memory Configuration files and the compressed software images including web management software WebView images are stored in flash memory Use the show hardware info command to determine your SDRAM and flash memory Miniboot BootROM and FPGA Recommendations Note The diagnostic image version is different from the version of the operational images The diagnos tic image is derived from independent software and not tied to software features or release cycles but to hardware production schedules OmniSwitch 7000 8800 e Miniboot 5 1 5 340 R01 e BootROM 5 1 5 340 R01 e FPGA 44 recommended page 4 OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 S
46. SM and OSPF page 2 OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 Related Documentation OmniSwitch 7700 7800 8800 Network Configuration Guide Includes network configuration procedures and descriptive information on all the major software features and protocols included in the base software package Chapters cover Layer 2 information Ethernet and VLAN configuration Layer 3 information routing protocols such as RIP and IPX security options authenticated VLANs Quality of Service QoS link aggregation and server load balancing OmniSwitch 7700 7800 8800 Switch Management Guide Includes procedures for readying an individual switch for integration into a network Topics include the software directory architecture software rollback protections authenticated switch access manag ing switch files system configuration using SNMP and using web management software WebView e OmniSwitch 7700 7800 8800 Technical Tips Field Notices Includes information published by Alcatel s Customer Support group OmniSwitch CLI Reference Guide Complete reference to all CLI commands supported on the OmniSwitch Includes syntax definitions default values examples usage guidelines and CLI to MIB variable mappings e Upgrade Instructions for 5 4 1 RO01 Provides instructions for upgrading the switch software OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 page 3 System Requirements System Requirements Memory
47. SYN Request packets after doing a show tep statistics command on an OS7000 series switch Workaround There is no known workaround at this time page 66 OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 67799 Performance may drop slightly below wire rate while routing small sized packets on an OS6600 switch Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 71573 An OS6600 switch does not support multiple router MAC address mode Workaround If connecting an OS6600 to an XOS box make sure that only one port per IP VLAN is physically connected between the two boxes Otherwise routing will not work PR 72943 The protocol processing on the OS6600 family of switches includes the IP SNAP protocol in the IP Ethernet protocol set That means if a protocol rule for ip e2 exists with an ip snap protocol rule on the same switch the ip snap rule will be disregarded The OS7000 series switches do process ip e2 and ip snap protocols separately Workaround Use an IP network address rule instead of an IP protocol rule in conjunction with an ip snap protocol rule if possible PR 73015 The IP ETHERNET 2 protocol and the IPX ETHERNET 2 protocols cannot be associated with the same MAC address in two separate mac port protocol rules using the same port is assumed Either one or the other protocol s traffic will flow but not both on an OS7000 series switch Workaround Use only a
48. ServTable Normally these octets are printable characters However with the introduction of NDS by Novell there can be non printable octets in ipxSerName These characters are Netware identifiers in the NDS tree These octets are an integral part of the name and index and are used for the SNMP OID Since the octets are non printable characters they can cause confusion to the user and result in their interpretation as invalid octets Workaround Verification of the name can be done on the Netware server PR 91850 IPX statistics are not correct with WebView or SNMP Workaround A show ipx traffic command needs to be executed on CLI so that the statistics can be retrieved from the NIs NTP Client Feature Exceptions e NTP is not supported in Server mode Problem Reports PR 72478 A preferred NTP server does not synchronize the client before a non preferred server Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 72889 It may take about 12 minutes for the NTP client to readjust its internal clock when the offset is small The time update is triggered by the NTP algorithm itself In general if the offset is larger than 128 milli seconds continuously for 900 seconds 15 minutes a time update is done This design prevents excessive time updates by using a threshold to debounce timestamp data received Workaround There is no known workaround at this time page 72 OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1
49. TTL threshold and multicast scoping PR 61590 If one 1 Gb s multicast traffic composed of one or several streams is sent on only one port per EGRESS NI on an OS7000 series switch wire rate is not achieved The speed is limited to around 600Mb s regard less of the packet size Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 69039 The user cannot achieve wire rate multicast performance between stack elements on an OS6600 series switch Standalone performance is wire rate Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 75172 On an OS7000 series switch IGMP memberships may be lost if the hosts reside on the NI having high CPU utilization Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 81111 On an OS8800 switch IPMS routes packets through the 10 gigabit NI in software only even to untagged ports Hardware forwarding is only available for bridged traffic over the 10 gigabit NI Therefore multi cast routing performance is greatly reduced Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 83721 When a proxy version is configured to V3 on an OS7000 series switch default itself is changed to V3 Hence the CLI is saying V3 when it says default after proxy version is configured to V3 This can be verified by invoking show ip multicast switching through CLI Workaround There is no known workaround at this time page 44 OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5
50. This command does not display the version of the running system on an OS7000 series switch Workaround The show microcode loaded CLI command displays the true status of the loaded software PR 61457 WebView brings up the first paging table after the following event refresh delete add and modify on an OS7000 series switch Workaround Use the next and the previous icon to go to another paging html page PR 63329 Some of the Modify pages in WebView lose their content when an error occurs and an error message is displayed below the title of the page on an OS7000 series switch Workaround Close the modify window and re modify again PR 63713 Sliding the mouse pointer over the menus located above the main viewing window in WebView causes a garbling of the menu items Workaround Refresh the view window and navigation bar together by clicking on the left hand menu icons This will cause the navigation frame set to reload and reset the menu items from the bad state This bad state is reached by overload and subsequent dropping of DOM events in the browser PR 64271 Some WebView pages have gray buttons instead of white so the button color is not consistent all throughout on an OS6600 series switch This is due to the limited support of CSS in UNIX Netscape 4 7 There are also some differences shading border among the buttons and this is due to the focus function of the buttons Workaround This is a display issue only
51. U2 or OS6 GNI U2 port does not bring the link down on the remote end Workaround Unplug the port PR 77445 The write terminal and show configuration snapshot output may be lost when using Windows 2000 telnet to connect to a switch Workaround Use Unix Windows NT or Windows XP to connect to the switch PR 87642 The CLI command to specifically disable 802 1x or AVLAN authentication on a port disables either of the authentication options configured on the port of an OS6600 OS7000 series switch Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 88606 Quotes must be used for special characters in a password and exclamation marks are not allowed Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 90479 On an OS7000 series switch WebView uses the encapsulation ETHERNET2 only to avoid confusion the redundant encapsulation E2 has been removed from the CLI command The ETHERNET2 encapsu lation remains Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 92286 Command prompt may disappear after attempting the show command not allowed for users Workaround Type exit and then login again The prompt will come back PR 98529 A DoS attack on port 23 Telnet of an OS7000 results in CLISHELL 32 Error on setting tty options at password 851971 Workaround The issue is cosmetic and does not affect performance of the switch OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 page 27 Open
52. ables on All Platforms rpMauTable rpJackTable broadMauBasicTable ifMauFalseCarriers ifMauTypeList ifMauAutoNegCapability ifMauAutoNegCapA dvertised ifMauAutoNegCapReceived IETF_OSPF RFC 1850 ospfAreaRangeTable IETF_OSPF_TRAP ospfTrapControl IETF PIM pimRPTable IETF_P_BRIDGE dot1dExtBase dot1dPortCapabilitiesTable dot dPortPriorityTable dot dUserPriorityRegenTable dot1dTrafficClassTable dot1dPortOutboundAccessPriorityTable dot1dPortGarpTable dot1dPortGmrpTable dot1dTpHCPortTable dotldTpPortOverflowTable IETF _Q_ BRIDGE RFC 2674 dotlqTpGroupTable dot1qForwardAllTable dot qForwardUnregisteredTable dot1qStaticMulticastTable dot1qPortVlanStatisticsTable dot1qPortVlanHCStatisticsTable dot qLearningConstraintsTable IETF_RIPv2 rip2IfConfDomain IETF_RMON hostControlTable hostTable hostTimeTable hostTopNControlTable hostTopNTable matrixControlTable matrixSDTable matrixDSTable filterTable channelTable bufferControlTable captureBufferTable IETF_RS 232 RFC 1659 all synchronous and sdlc objects and tables rs232SyncPortTable IETF_SNMPv2 sysORTable snmp Trap sysORLastChange IETF SNMP_ COMMUNITY RFC 2576 snmpTargetAddrExtTable IETF_SNMP_ NOTIFICATION RFC 2576 snmpNotifyTable snmpNotifyFilterProfileTable snmpNotifyFilterTable IETF_SNMP_PROXY RFC 2573 snmpProxyTable OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 page 21
53. after a takeover or failover Workaround After deleting the static route disable enable RIPng The route should then be learned PR 90942 On an OS7000 series switch IPv6 does not prevent the addition of an address whose prefix is all zeros This will result in the unspecified address being added as the subnet router anycast address Workaround Do not add an address whose prefix is all zeros PR 92270 IPv6 static and local routes remain in the up state even when the interface used to reach their destination is down Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 92663 If a duplicate address is detected the error message is only shown on the console screen It neither appears on a telnet session nor saved in the swlog log file Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 98562 On an OS8800 switch an IPv6 default route to the configuration cannot be added using WebView Workaround Add the IPv6 default route to the configuration using CLI page 70 OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 98644 Occasionally many warning messages are logged to console when only info set v6if 6to4 137 6T04 tunnel reachability may be affected on an OS7000 Workaround There is no known workaround at this time IPX Problem Reports PR 54290 The switch only changes an IPX network field of zero to the appropriate source network when the first
54. and aaaUserTable can only be performed using a SNMP browser which supports MUTI VARBIND mode on the OS7000 Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 58192 If an LDAP server is configured in SSL mode on an OS7000 series switch with a TCP port value equal to a non SSL port configured on the LDAP server side then LDAP communication is not possible between the switch and the server Some resources may remain unfreed in the switch Workaround When configuring the SSL port port numbers are the same on both sides This is espe cially true if one is not using the following default port numbers SSL port 636 and no SSL port 389 Using the default value for the port number is best to avoid inconsistency If used it is not necessary to set the SSL port number but just necessary to enable or disable SSL through WebView or CLI When the SSL port number is not mentioned AAA software initializes with the default values PR 63509 Sometimes on an OS7000 series switch Windows XP does not load the right HTTP authentication applet when the java development kit 1 4 is installed JDK 1 4 and the SUN java virtual machine JVM is used instead of the Microsoft JVM Workaround The solution is to uninstall the JDK 1 4 and to use only the Microsoft s JVM with Windows XP SP1 when it is available page 90 OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 66469 Sometimes after tak
55. around There is no known workaround at this time PR 68762 Traffic is discarded or classified only in default VLANs on an OS6600 series switch Workaround Change the mobile port which is having the problem to a fixed port and then back to mobile again If this does not fix the problem apply a link down and up on the port PR 68968 Switching to a single mode MAC router does not deallocate already allocated MACs which have been saved in the configuration file on an OS7000 8800 switch Workaround If you are switching to single mode delete all MAC allocated commands from the boot cfg OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 page 63 Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 69656 Unicast frames will be flooded on an OmniSwitch 8800 switch until all the MAC addresses are learned in both the source and destination CAMs Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 70811 A default VLAN might come up in operational state when it is disabled to accommodate group mobility Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 70954 The first IPX encapsulation learned on a fresh OS6600 switch becomes the only encapsulation that can be learned until the switch is rebooted regardless of the encapsulation selected in the IPX ipx e2 ipx llc or ipx novell protocol rule Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 71665 Setting the egress flood limit to zero will still allow a
56. atewayIpAddrStatus alaQoSPortDefaultQueues alaQoSPortA ppliedDefaultQueues alaQoSPortDefaultDSCP alaQoSPortPdiTable alaQoSSlotPcamTable alaQoSPortProtocolTable alaQoSSlotProtocolTable alaQoSSlotDscpTable alaQoSConfigReflexiveTimeout alaQoSConfig alaQoSConfigNatTimeout AlcatelIND1SIb slbFeature slbClusterTable slbServerTableg AlcatelIND1StackManager alaStackMgrStatsTable page 24 OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 Unsupported MIBs by Platform MIB Name Unsupported MIB Variables OmniSwitch 6600 Series AlcatelIND1VlanManager vianIpxNet vianIpxStatus vilanIpxEncap vlanSetIpxRouterCount vlanIpxRipSapMode vlanSetMultiRtrMacStatus vlanIpxDelayTicks IETF_BGP4 bgp bgpPeerTable bgp4PathAttrTabl IETF_PIM pim pimIpMRouteNextHopTable pimInterfaceTable pimRPSetTable pimNeighborTable pimCandidateRPTable pimIpMRouteTable pimComponentTable NOVELL_IPX ipxBasicSysTable ipxAdvSysTable ipxCircTable ipxDestTable ipxServTable NOVELL_RIPSAP ripSysTable sapSysTable ripCircTable sapCircTable OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 page 25 Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions The problems listed here include problems known at the time of the product s release Any problems not discussed in this section should be brought to the attention of the Alcatel Technical Support organization as soon a
57. been lost This trap is generated when the neighbor state changes from active to one way ignoring or down The trap is sent only when the switch has no other neighbors on the same interface with a lower IP address than itself 23 dvmrpNeighborNotPruning OS7000 OS8800 A non pruning neighbor has been detected in an implementation depen dent manner This trap is generated at most once per generation ID of the neighbor For example it should be generated at the time a neighbor is first heard from if the prune bit is not set It should also be generated if the local system has the ability to tell that a neighbor which sets the prune bit is not pruning any branches over an extended period of time The trap should be gen erated if the router has no other neigh bors on the same interface with a lower IP address than itself 24 risingAlarm All An Ethernet statistical variable has exceeded its rising threshold The vari able s rising threshold and whether it will issue an SNMP trap for this condi tion are configured by an NMS station running RMON page 14 OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 Supported Traps 25 Trap Name fallingAlarm Platform All Description An Ethernet statistical variable has dipped below its falling threshold The variable s falling threshold and whether it will issue an SNMP trap for this condition are configured by an NMS station
58. being exchanged after enabling the backpressure command Workaround Do not run this command with LACP configured PR 81416 On an OS7000 series switch changing LACP values on run time makes the ports not join the link aggre gate Workaround Do not change LACP values on the run time If needed delete the port and add again to make a modification PR 81531 On OS6600 switches sometimes multicast flow stops when link aggregate ports are added and deleted multiple times Workaround There is no known workaround at this time page 50 OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 81650 When misconfigured LACP ports are connected to LACP ports which send LACP pdus the LACP pdus parameters can make the port join a wrong link aggregate Workaround When configuring LACP values make sure that each end of the link aggregate is config ured properly PR 81722 If more ports are configured than the actual link aggregate size some or all of the ports may not join the dynamic link aggregate Workaround Do not configure more ports than the actual link aggregate size PR 81736 On OS8800 switches when link aggregate ports with the same configuration other than the size of the link aggregate has any of the active ports go down the non joining ports do not join the aggregate Workaround Do not configure more ports than the actual link aggregate size PR 81937 With the
59. blem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 53817 Session Inactivity settings do not affect active sessions on an OS7000 series switch Only new sessions use the changed settings Workaround Disconnect all active sessions and reconnect to the switch PR 79611 On an OS7000 series switch the SNMP Agent does not respond to discover requests when the packet has an unknown user id Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 80197 On an OS7000 series switch the SNMP Agent fails to increment snmpInASNParseErrs for PDUs with invalid ASN 1 BER encoding Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 81409 On OS6600 series switches the SNMP Agent fails to properly handle invalid msgID value Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 81410 On OS6600 series switches the SNMP Agent fails to properly handle out of range msgSecurityModel values Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 82635 On an OS7000 series switch there is no SNMP MIB support to display the number and status of fan modules on a switch via SNMP MIB Browsers and WebView The number and status of fans can be displayed only via the CLI interface s command show fan Workaround The number and status of fans can be displayed only via the CLI interface s command show fan PR 90857 On an OS7000 series switch after a new SNMP trap station is added to the configuration the traps are not seen by the
60. ce With qos default routed disposition drop it works fine Example Inside Network 10 0 0 0 SWITCH Outside Network 192 0 0 0 policy condition cOut source ip 192 0 0 0 policy action deny disposition deny policy rule rOut condition cOut action deny policy condition cIn ip 192 0 0 0 policy action accept disposition accept policy rule rIn reflexive condition cIn action accept qos apply This will not work because the drop rule is created first with the same precedence the first rule is taken first Workaround Make sure the reflexive rules ALWAYS have a higher precedence than ANY drop rules that can deny reflexive traffic policy rule rIn precedence 1 qos apply PR 66077 Sometimes it can take a reflexive flow of 3 seconds before being accepted on an OS7000 series switch This is due to the TCP timeout configured on PC sun IP stack standard value The first open request hits the switch but the response of this request cannot be dropped before the reflexive policy is applied Then the PC retries 3 seconds later Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 66914 Drop and deny are synonymous key words for QoS ACL disposition on an OS6600 switch Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 67871 The show active policy rule command does not display rule matches for a given flow once that flow is learned and handled on an OS6600 switch Workaround There is no known workar
61. d There is no known workaround at this time PR 79063 Flash Synchronization is successful but show running shows CMMs NOT SYNC when a new folder is created in working on an OS7000 series switch Workaround Do not create other folders in the Working directory OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 page 105 Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 79991 On OS6600 series switches inserting an element with a different release may result in rendering some elements unoperational Workaround Only inserting the same version of software is supported Upgrade the element s running on a different release to the same release level of the stack in which the element s will be inserted PR 80356 On OS6600 series switches flash synchronization may fail when a certified stack is connected to a non certified stack Primary Workaround Make sure both working and certified directories are certified before connecting them to any stacks PR 85838 5 1 5 R03 releases and later are not backward compatible in terms of flash synchro with 5 1 5 R02 and earlier releases Workaround On dual CMM systems 7000 amp 8800 series once users have upgraded existing releases to 5 1 5 R03 or later they will have to downgrade each CMM individually if there is a need to downgrade to 5 1 5 R02 or earlier The individual CMMs will then need to be plugged together PR 87051 Reload prompt overrides all other session responses on
62. d routes get added to the RIP routing table even though the global rip status is disabled Workaround Disable redistribution status PR 98571 On an OS7000 setting debug ip packet to on will display a message when packet was received on one VLAN but had the IP address of another Workaround There is no known workaround at this time IPv6 Feature Exceptions e IPv6 routing is software based only on all OmniSwitch platforms supported in this release Problem Reports PR 86669 IPv6 Router Advertisement decrementing timers are not supported for prefix valid lifetimes or prefix preferred lifetimes Workaround Use IPv6 Router Advertisement fixed timers OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 page 69 Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 86959 IPv6 debug packet direction options are ignored Workaround IPv6 debug packet direction will always display all the options PR 88830 On an OS8800 switch when RIPng tries to add a route to the kernel it fails because a static route already exists in the kernel RIPng is not informed of this event so RIPng assumes that the RIPng route has been added to the kernel On deletion of the static route RIPng does not try to add the route again since it assumes that the route already exists in the kernel Workaround After deleting the static route disable enable RIPng The route should then be learned PR 90746 IPv6 will not function on an OS6600 series switch
63. e clicks on the column header of a table with the SHIFT key held down an empty browser window opens This is because column headers are functionally HTML links and the programmed browser behavior is to open up a link in a new browser window when the SHIFT key is held down Workaround Don t hold the SHIFT key down when clicking on the column header PR 77106 The user is randomly unable to re login to WebView on Netscape 4 7x Workaround Close the browser and open a new window PR 77279 On an OS6000 series switch in WebView Physical Health LED Status information is incorrect in the table There should not be two columns for the same module The Physical Name contains unuseful data The Primary CMM should say Green On the Temperature and the Fan should say Green OK Workaround Ignore the extra column and the Physical Name row Use CLI for the correct status of the Primary Secondary CMM Temperature and Fan PR 78032 On an OS7000 series switch an error displays when clicking on a menu that doesn t have submenus before the home page is completely loaded Workaround Wait until the home page is fully loaded and then click on the menu for the selected table page to view Currently there is no way to detect from a browser except E even then the function is not fully reliable when a specific page is fully loaded in order to force a wait If an error displays refresh by clicking on the left hand side feature icon
64. e conditions whose IP address subnet overlaps with switch addresses will match traffic sent from these addresses even if the traffic is bridged Workaround Along with the generic NAT rule a higher precedence non NAT rule must be added to match traffic from the switch addresses that overlap with the generic NAT rule For instance if you wanted to remap the subnet 124 10 10 24 to 60 0 0 2 but also had a switch address of 124 10 10 5 you would have two rules policy condition nat source ip 124 10 10 0 mask 255 255 255 0 policy action nat destination rewrite ip 60 0 0 2 policy rule nat condition nat action nat precedence 100 policy condition exception_ip source ip 124 10 10 5 policy action accept disposition accept policy rule exception condition exception_ip action accept precedence 200 PR 61874 Destination Port and Destination Interface Type policies are not supported across link aggregation using QoS Policy on an OS7000 series switch Workaround There is no known workaround at this time OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 page 77 Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 63285 TCP UDP fragment classification is not supported on an OS7000 series switch Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 65449 Reflexive policies on an OS7000 series switch do not work properly if the drop rule that denies the reverse traffic coming from the outside is created first or has a higher preceden
65. e supplicant is authenti cated to the port This behavior is different from the OS7000 OS8800 platform which can support more than one VLAN per port Workaround There is no known workaround at this time page 88 OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 90855 The no aaa authentication 802 1x CLI command does not work properly Workaround Put onex port in the Force Authorized mode first before executing the command PR 92093 When using the XP service pack 2 native 802 1x client and some version of Steelbelted RADIUS the XP 802 1x client will not always be able to successfully authenticate Workaround Use pure XP without any service pack or with Steel belted RADIUS Service Provider Edition 4 70 661 PR 98623 802 1X group mobility spanning tree BPDUs on an OS7000 will be received while the port is not authenti cated and the direction is both Spanning tree BPDUs are sent to ensure that no loops are formed on the mobile ports Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 98655 On an OS7000 no traps are being generated when an 802 1X feature is being disabled on a port Workaround There is no known workaround at this time Authenticated Switch Access PR 59686 If a user kills an HTTP session the table still displays the session when it automatically refreshes Workaround The user must hit the refresh button again and the table will not display t
66. e switch is reini tiating and its configuration may have been altered warmsStart All The SNMP agent in the switch is reini tiating itself and its configuration is unaltered linkDown All The SNMP agent in the switch recog nizes a failure in one of the communi cations links configured for the switch linkUp All The SNMP agent in the switch recog nizes that one of the communications links configured for the switch has come up authenticationFailure All The SNMP agent in the switch has received a protocol message that is not properly authenticated entConfigChange All An entConfigChange notification is generated when a conceptual row is created modified or deleted in one of the entity tables aipAMAPStatusTrap All The status of the Alcatel Mapping Adjacency Protocol AMAP port changed aipGMA PConflictTrap This feature in not supported None Indicates a Group Mobility Advertise ment Protocol GMAP port update conflict policyEventNotification All The switch notifies the NMS when a significant event happens that involves the policy manager chassisTrapsStr All A software trouble report STR was sent by an application encountering a problem during its execution chassisTrapsA lert All A notification that some change has occurred in the chassis chassisTrapsStateChange All An NI status change was detected chas
67. eature Exceptions PR 92153 When a switch is only bridging a packet that is routed by an external router and when this routed packet has to go through the same NI from where it originated before reaching its final destination the following symptom can be seen If QoS ClassifyL3 bridged is enabled the NI s HRE learns the IP Source Address on two different ports and therefore the packet never reaches its destination Please refer to TechTip 2077 for more details Workaround Use a different NI to connect the external router or disable QoS ClassifyL3 bridged on the switch Please refer to TechTip 2077 for more details OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 page 81 Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions Advanced Routing OS7000 8800 Feature Exceptions e The maximum number of total routes is 65K e The maximum number of RIP routes is 10K e The maximum number of OSPF routes is 40K e The maximum number of BGP routes is 65K e The maximum number of active traffic flows is 16K based on the current default cache allocation OS6600 Feature Exceptions e The max number of total routes is 4K e The max number of RIP routes is 2K e The max number of OSPF routes is 4K e The max number of active traffic flows is 1K BGP4 Problem Reports PR 70681 Cannot use BGP4 route map policy match prefix 1 e 0 0 0 0 to selectively apply in out bound policy to a subset of learned routes on the OS8800 Wor
68. ecomes disabled due to other events such as disabling ports the DVMRP command does not need to be re issued Multicast Routing Problem Reports PR 55446 Multicast routing does not handle large multicast bursty traffic on an OS7000 series switch Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 79306 Multicast streams may be momentarily disrupted during NI insertion or removal Workaround This condition is temporary and all flows will resume after a few seconds PR 80757 Only a single client on a given port for a given multicast group is shown in the group membership displays on an OS6600 0S7000 switch Workaround This is a result of the way IGMP clients respond to group membership queries Only a single client will respond in a flooded environment where all clients will see the report If a client receives a group membership report for the same group on its interface it will not send its own membership report as a result OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 page 83 Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions OSPF Problem Reports PR 55287 It is currently not possible to change the key id for md5 authentication over OSPF virtual links on an OS7000 series switch It will always be 1 Workaround Please make sure that the adjacent router on the virtual link has the key id configured also PR 56345 One cannot unload and reload OSPF on an OS7000 series switch Workaround There is no known
69. en Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 57976 All MACs age out when a cable is pulled and re inserted after traffic is stopped during Source Learning on an OS7000 series switch Spanning Tree recalculates and flashes all MACs belonging to the same VLAN as the cable is re inserted Workaround Make the port that is being unplugged an edge port Spanning tree will ignore the re insertion event and not flash out all MACs learned PR 59745 Due to the time required for the aging check the aging time is not very accurate for small measures of time i e under minute on an OS7000 series switch Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 64506 When the amount of MACs on an OS6600 switch reaches 85 of 16K the fast aging mechanism will start to age out all of the MACs faster Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 68045 ARP replies are sent best effort on an OS6600 switch This might possibly result in a loss of ARP resolu tion on adjacent switches while routing over links experiencing sustained congestion Workaround On the adjacent device add a static ARP entry for the MAC address IP address of the routing instance PR 69257 Unable to view a statically assigned source MAC address in the table Workaround The command line interface displays these values just fine and all entries created with WebView can be verified via a telnet session PR 74790 There is a limit to the number
70. eover using the HTTP authentication method may cause an AVLAN user to have authentication problems if the Java applet which performs IP reconfiguration fails to download Workaround Manually reconfigure IP using ipconfig release amp ipconfig renew on the Client PC or remove the authenticated MAC address using the CLI command aaa avlan no mac address and attempt ing a new authentication PR 68240 When an LDAP SSL certificate expiration occurs the current SSL connection remains established until the TCP connection is broken on the OS7000 But due to the periodic bind between the switch and the server the TCP connection stays up and the SSL handshake is not done again with the new certificate If the switch does not reboot more than once a year the user may observe the certificate expiration a long time after it really occurs Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 68485 The policy server load and policy server flush commands provoke a flush of the CAM MAC SA which leads to disconnecting AVLAN users on an OS7000 series switch Workaround After loading or flushing a QoS policy it is necessary to perform a new authentication from AVLAN users PR 76820 On an OS6600 switch when the user configures the IP helper on the second hop the PC will not be able to get the IP address after authentication AOS appears not to be able to learn the MAC when in fact the PC never gets the IP address and thus there is
71. er a new entry to the hardware VLAN rule table gets dropped due to the overload of the table 60 InkaggAggUp All Indicates the link aggregate is active This trap is sent when any one port of the link aggregate group goes into the attached state 61 InkaggAggDown All Indicates the link aggregate is not active This trap is sent when all ports of the link aggregate group are no longer in the attached state 62 InkaggPortJoin All This trap is sent when any given port of the link aggregate group goes to the attached state 63 InkaggPortLeave All This trap is sent when any given port detaches from the link aggregate group 64 InkaggPortRemove All This trap is sent when any given port of the link aggregate group is removed due to an invalid configuration 65 pktDrop All The pktDrop trap indicates that the sending agent has dropped certain packets to blocked IP ports from spoofed addresses etc 66 monitorFile Written OS6600 A File Written Trap is sent when the amount of data requested by the user has been written by the port monitor ing instance Note These are new or enhanced traps OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 page 17 Unsupported Software Features Unsupported Software Features CLI commands and web management options are available in the switch software for the following features however these featu
72. er both sides of the static aggregates with aggregation set as disable There fore the admin state must be set to disable just after the creation When the whole configuration is ready set the admin state to enable as it is by default There is also the possibility of setting down up ports Therefore interfaces could also be set admin down up before everything is ready PR 67598 Link aggregate on gigabit uplinks occasionally fails to load balance traffic on an OS6600 series switch Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 70779 Dynamic link aggregation over 802 1q on an OmniSwitch 8800 switch does not work with Cisco Cat 6509 Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 70920 There is a warning message displayed when you create multiple system priorities in the same range for link aggregation on an OS6600 series switch Workaround The system priorities should be the same OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 page 47 Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 72619 On an OS8800 switch sending continuous wire rate traffic over dynamic link aggregation over extended periods of time results in traffic loss over link aggregation Workaround Increase the MAC aging time out with such a stress configuration Using static link aggre gation will also prevent this problem PR 74071 On an OS6600 series switch dynamic link aggregated ports may go down after a takeover
73. es are present A port must be tagged to add it to multiple VLANs From that point forward it will drop all untagged frames This is only a problem when connected to an OS7000 series switch that has the default VLAN on the switch in use and that port is connected to a tagged port on an OmniCore The OS7000 series switch is not be able to talk to the OmniCore on the default VLAN on that port Workaround Make the default VLAN on a port connected to an OmniCore an unused VLAN This will cause all the frames coming out of the OS7000 series switch to be tagged and it will also accept all the tagged frames coming from the OmniCore PR 91014 On an OS8800 switch the force tag internal disable is not working The original VLAN id in an 802 1q packet ingressing an untagged port is replaced with the default VLAN of the ingress port when this VLAN id is tagged on the egress port Workaround There is no known workaround at this time Bridging Problem Reports PR 86084 The configuration file from 5 1 4 or older releases might not be compatible for autonegotiation if either speed or duplex is set to non auto On such releases autonegotiation is automatically disabled and saved in the boot cfg configuration file Workaround Enable autonegotiation and save the configuration page 40 OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 88974 On an OS7000 series switch in case of a MAC IP P
74. ged is turned on on an OS7000 series switch if a specific Layer 2 DA rule is not matched or gets dropped due to the Layer 2 SA lookup then traffic is treated as if it is routed which includes what was prioritized on Layer 2 traffic that does not have an IP header is not prioritized on TOS due to there being TOS values to prioritize on QoS only really deals with IP for the most part Workaround There is no known workaround at this time page 76 OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 58182 Layer 2 ACL DENY does not work on an OS7000 series switch when the destination MAC for the Layer 2 flow is not learned Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 58244 Only one L2 DSCP stamping action OR one something to DSCP mapping action is supported on the OS7000 The first rule that uses such an action will work If other rules use the same kind of actions they will be ignored and they will execute the action Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 59341 The destination port interface type cannot be used with action NAT on an OS7000 series switch Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 60928 An active FTP is not supported with NAT on an OS7000 series switch Workaround There is no known workaround at this time Use passive FTP if using NAT PR 61072 Simple NAT rules on an OS7000 series switch that hav
75. h 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 page 85 Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 74719 If a Cisco router is configured as a C BSR with the highest priority and it is not directly connected to the OS7000s the OS7000s will not see the Cisco router as the BSR Workaround Configure the OS7000 to be the BSR instead of the Cisco router if the Cisco router is not directly connected to the OS7000 PR 74815 On an OS7000 series switch the hashing function which calculates the hash value used to map a group to an RP has problems when running with a Cisco router It appears that the Cisco box is forgetting the last part of the formula mod 231 which masks off the upper bit Workaround When running PIM SM with a Cisco router do not use multiple RPs with the same prior ity PR 74881 When a Cisco router is acting as the DR Designated Router with spt switchover enabled the Cisco router may erroneously send S G prunes to the OmniSwitch 7700 7800 s causing the multicast streams to be disrupted This seems to be the case when the route to the RP is the same as the route to the source Workaround Disable spt switchover on the Cisco PR 74979 On an OS7000 series switch the console may scroll the following messages to report that there is some thing misconfigured or software hardware is behaving improperly in the lower layers tPimsm Received Hello from my own IP xx xx xx xx Invalid configuration tDvmrp dvmrpRecvP
76. he OS6600 cannot link up the source and destination Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 76901 On an OS6600 switch the QoS 5 1 4 R01 configuration file is not compatible when certain rules are used A boot cfg 1 err file may be generated upon bootup Workaround Based on the errors generated in the boot cfg 1 err file the user has to edit the boot cfg file and remove all the unsupported features Features that were supported in QoS 5 1 4 R01 on an OS6600 series switch but are currently not supported are as follows 1 TOS DSCP to 802 1p Stamping rule not supported 2 802 1p to TOS DSCP mapping rule not supported 3 No Interface Type support in a L3 policy condition PR 80707 QoS rules have no matches after 2 takeovers Workaround The match count shown from the CLI currently reflects only newly created flows matches On a takeover if the flows aren t flushed and re learned the match counts will remain 0 on the secondary until new flows are matched or the old ones time out and are re learned PR 81351 Layer 2 P Stamping rules are not supported on OS6600 series switches link aggregation ports Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 90119 On an OS7000 series switch Ethertype based conditions will only affect Ethernet II encapsulated packets Workaround There is no known workaround at this time page 80 OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 Open Problem Reports and F
77. he session This problem ONLY occurs with a HTTP session Telnet and FTP sessions are removed from the table prop erly PR 63104 During a takeover switch management sessions HTTP FTP and Telnet are closed on an OS7000 series switch Therefore the operator must proceed to a new ASA sequence when takeover is completed Workaround There is no known workaround at this time OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 page 89 Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 66411 On an OS6600 switch the description of the aaasAceClear in aaaServerTable AlcatelIND1 AAA mib nominator indicates that true and false are possible values but only the true value can be used i e sending a SET request with the value true resets the secret sent by the ACE server sending a SET request with the value false has no effect the value returned by a GET request is not significant Workaround There is no known workaround at this time Authenticated VLANs Feature Exceptions e AVLAN HTTP uses signed applets for the automatic IP reconfiguration Those applets are signed using VeriSign Certificates that expire every year The certificate used for Internet Explorer and Netscape expires every August AVLAN HTTP users have to validate a warning indicating that the certificate used by the applet has expired A renewed certificate will be applied to the next release Problem Reports PR 55936 Creation of objects in aaaServerTable
78. her speed or duplex is set to non autonegotiation On such releases autonegotiation is automatically disabled and saved in the boot cfg configuration file Workaround Enable autonegotiation and save the configuration OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 page 97 Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 90193 If the name of a file 1 is the substring of another file 2 on the remote CMM then an endless flash synchro situation may occur Workaround Inspect the contents of directories from both CMMs and remove file 2 from the remote CMM Nis General Problem Reports PR 62573 For the following modules PAUSE frames are generated per port when the port is oversubscribed OS7 ENI C24 and OS7 ENI FM12 OS7 GNI U2 OS8 GNI C8 OS8 GNI U8 and OS66 GNI C2 Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 72828 On an OS7000 8800 switch oversubscribing the egress gigabit module at a rate exceeding 3 1 results in higher priority traffic sharing the bandwidth equally with lower priority traffic Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 79427 On an OS7000 series switch there is a compatibility issue with the latest IXIA release 3 65 Throughput test on ENI C 24 couldn t reach 100 percent Workaround Hash should be manually updated OmniSwitch 6600 Nis Problem Reports PR 90972 The displayed field coper is just a typo of the word copper on an OS6600 series
79. iedRuleReflexive alaQoSActionAlternateGatewaylpAddr alaQoSActionAlternateGatewayIpAddrStatus alaQoSActionPermanentGatewaylpAddr alaQoSActionPermanentGatewayIpAddrStatus alaQoSActionShared alaQoSActionSourceRewritelpAddr alaQoSActionSourceRewriteIpAddrStatus alaQoSActionSourceRewriteIpMask alaQoSActionSourceRewriteNetworkGroup alaQoSActionSourceRewriteNetworkGroupStatus alaQoSActionDestinationRewriteIpAddr alaQoSActionDestinationRewriteIpAddrStatus alaQoSActionDestinationRewriteIpMask alaQoSActionDestinationRewriteNetworkGroup alaQoSActionDestinationRewriteNetworkGroupStatus alaQoSActionLoadBalanceGroup alaQoSActionLoadBalanceGroupStatus alaQoSAppliedActionPermanentGatewaylpAddr alaQoSAppliedActionPermanent GatewayIpAddrStatus alaQoSAppliedActionShared alaQoSAppliedActionSourceRewriteIpAddr alaQoSAppliedActionSourceRewriteIpAddrStatus alaQoSAppliedActionSourceRewriteIpMask alaQoSAppliedActionSourceRewriteNetworkGroup alaQoSAppliedActionSourceRewriteNetworkGroupStatus alaQoSAppliedActionDestinationRewritelpAddr alaQoSAppliedActionDestinationRewritelpAddrStatus alaQoSAppliedActionDestinationRewriteIpMask alaQoSAppliedActionDestinationRewriteNetworkGroup alaQoSAppliedActionDestinationRewriteNetworkGroupStatus alaQoSAppliedActionLoadBalanceGroup alaQoSAppliedActionLoadBalanceGroupStatus alaQoSAppliedActionPermanentGatewaylpAddr alaQoSAppliedActionPermanentGatewaylpAddrStatus alaQoSAppliedActionAlternateGatewayIpAddr alaQoSAppliedActionAlternateG
80. ies a MAC Control Frame format consisting of Destina tion Address Source Address Type MAC Control Opcode and Reserved PAD field The MAC Control Frames are transmitted correctly as specified by the standard However during receive operation checks for the validity of all the fields as specified in the standard except the reserve field which is specified as all zeroes on an OS7000 series switch Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 54096 The ESM driver does not return a pause frame when traffic exceeds 100 in the port on an OS7000 series switch Workaround There is no known workaround at this time page 42 OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 56817 The Rx Pause Frame counter does not increment when there is an incoming PAUSE frame on an OS7000 8800 series switch Workaround There is no known workaround at this time Interswitch Protocols AMAP Feature Exceptions e The AMAP protocol uses the default VLAN on all interconnected ports to communicate with neigh bors The default VLAN on the port s must be enabled AMAP cannot communicate via 802 1Q connections Problem Reports PR 70128 AMAP currently works on the default VLAN for tagged ports only So if VLAN 1 default VLAN is disabled AMAP does not work Workaround When using AMAP make sure that VLAN 1 default VLAN is not disabled IP Multicast Switching IPMS
81. iew page 30 OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 57944 A warning box appears on the Netscape browser when trying to telnet using HP UX 11 0 or Sun Solaris on an OS7000 series switch This is due to missing or invalid telnet settings on the applications used by the browser Workaround Update your telnet settings as per the instructions below 1 Click on the Edit Menu on the Netscape Browser and select Preferences 2 Select Navigator on the Category list located to the left of the Preferences dialog box 3 Ifthe Navigator category doesn t show subcategories arrowhead to the left of the Navigator label is pointing to the right then click on the arrowhead to extend the category now the arrowhead will point downwards 4 Select the Applications sub category 5 Look for the telnet entry under the Description column 6 If there is none click on the New button below the select box or select the telnet entry and click on the Edit button 7 Inthe Application dialog box window fill out the following leave the rest empty and unselected 8 Description telnet 9 Handled By select Application xterm e telnet h op 10 Click OK to close each window Exit Netscape and Restart PR 58989 Sometimes when a user tries to login via WebView with the HTTP server on the switch accessed through an HTTP proxy server the login page may be
82. iew Networking gt IP gt ARP gt Create ARP gt Proxy Add page Name appends extra text to the end Workaround Leave Name blank on the Add page and use the Modify page to change to the desired Name PR 90754 On an OS7000 series switch WebView does not provide the necessary web page for adding and remov ing IPv6 prefixes Workaround Use the CLI to add IPv6 prefixes PR 90790 On an OS8800 switch adding an IPv6 protocol rule to a VLAN fails with protocol limit reached Workaround An IPv6 protocol Ethertype 0x86dd rule can be added to a VLAN using the CLI PR 91729 The ToS and DSCP options on an OS7000 are not removed from Conditions gt Layer 3 pages as they are also available through CLI Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 91961 In WebView Networking gt IP gt BGP4 gt Neighbors gt Configuration modify page Local Interface Name cannot be changed back to None Workaround Delete the neighbor and add the same again without specifying a Local Interface name PR 91962 In WebView Networking gt IP gt BGP4 gt Neighbors gt Administration modify page the field Remove Private AS has the wrong drop down options Workaround There is no known workaround at this time page 38 OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 98526 In WebView Remote System File Management on an OS6600 or OS6602 deleting the file will not au
83. iewing files in System SystemMegt Install ViewW orkingDir before acknowledging the security certificate a Java error occurs on an OS6600 series switch Workaround In this WebView path wait for and acknowledge the security certificate before opening any popup window PR 71484 On an OS7000 series switch the WebView configuration dialog windows appear too low on the screen at resolutions less than 800x600 Workaround There is no known workaround at this time The least resolution that the WebView Config uration Manager supports comfortably is 800x600 While most browsers enforce bounds for new window pop up browser windows so that they remain visible graphics cards set at lower than recommended reso lutions will result in poor browsing performance OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 page 33 Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 71891 When adding an accept action on an OS7000 series switch using the Actions gt ACL page if no SLB clus ter is provided the just added action will not show up on the Actions gt ACL table However it will be displayed in the Actions gt All table Workaround Go to the Actions gt All table PR 75312 If an external authentication server has a user name that s spelled exactly like a local user on a switch the option link still appears even though the switch is authenticated through the external server Workaround Use different user names PR 76783 When on
84. information does not sort the slot column data properly WebView is using a numerical sort which is not ideal for data in this column However all slot data is displayed Workaround There is no known workaround at this time OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 page 35 Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 81316 The Chassis Hardware Information page does not show the Firmware Revision on an OS6600 chassis Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 82075 The WebView physical console port shows a 9 pin connector instead of an RJ45 for the fiber version of the OS6600 switches Workaround Please ignore This is a cosmetic flaw The console connector is an RJ45 PR 83794 Menu corruption may occur when selecting VLAN Management Binding Rules under Netscape The menu may appear in the middle of the tabular display Workaround Use Internet Explorer 6 PR 83829 Whenever you access a WebView page through the browser history list after logging in an OS7000 series switch the page accessed will display without the usual control frames Workaround Refrain from using the history list Site Map page is available from each home page containing direct links to table and configuration pages PR 84243 The firmware revision cannot be viewed in Webview under Chassis Management Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 84255 When doing multiple modifications on an OS7000
85. inute interval before initiating another hot swap activity e All hot swaps of CMM modules must have a 10 minute interval before initiating another hot swap reload or takeover activity e All takeovers must have a 10 minute interval before following with another hot swap reload or take over activity CMM Redundancy Hot Swap Feature Exceptions e Ifyou do a write memory and do not do a certify copy working certified before doing a takeover or reload primary you will lose the boot cfg contents because the secondary will do an automatic restore copy certified working when it comes up as the secondary This allows it to be ready for failovers Redundancy Hot Swap Problem Reports PR 54530 An uncontrolled power down could potentially cause an OS7000 CMM to fail Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 62403 Voice conversation drops and IP phones directly connected to an OS7000 series switch may reboot when a takeover of CMM is issued Workaround Wait until the NI is not busy before hot swapping to avoid this situation OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 page 103 Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 62534 If a takeover is done after uploading a new boot cfg file both the OS7000 CMMs could end up trying to be the primary CMM upon doing reloads Workaround Whenever a new boot cfg file is loaded in the working directory the reload working no rollback timeout command has
86. ion the switch sends RADIUS frames to the server with the source MAC address embedded in the username and pass word attributes Booting Sequence OmniSwitch 6000 Family switches now bring up forward traffic on the Gigabit ports prior to bringing up the Fast Ethernet ports CWDM Connectivity Coarse Wavelength Division Multiplexing CWDM transceivers are now supported on OmniSwitch 7700 and 7800 switches DHCP Option 82 Relay Agent Information Option The DHCP Option 82 feature enables the relay agent to insert identifying information into client origi nated DHCP packets before the packets are forwarded to the DHCP server The implementation of this feature is based on the functionality defined in RFC 3046 When DHCP Option 82 is enabled communications between a DHCP client and a DHCP server are authenticated by the relay agent To accomplish this task the agent adds Option 82 data to the end of the options field in DHCP packets sent from a client to a DHCP server If the relay agent receives a DHCP packet from a client that already contains Option 82 data the packet is dropped by default However it is possible to configure a DHCP Option 82 policy that directs the relay agent to drop keep or replace the existing Option 82 data and then forward the packet to the server DHCP Snooping DHCP Snooping improves network security by filtering DHCP packets received from devices outside the network and building and maintaining a binding
87. ions below For fastest resolu tion please have telnet or dial in access hardware configuration module type and revision by slot soft ware revision and configuration file available for each switch Severity 1 Production network is down resulting in critical impact on business no workaround available Severity 2 Segment or Ring is down or intermittent loss of connectivity across network Severity 3 Network performance is slow or impaired no loss of connectivity or data Severity 4 Information or assistance on product feature functionality configuration or installation OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 page 107
88. is no known workaround at this time PR 60983 Changing the IP address on workstations connected to a hub will not force the workstation MAC address to drop from a VLAN that it has already qualified for by a network address rule to join a new network address ruled VLAN on an OS7000 series switch Workaround Follow the instructions below 1 Remove the hub connection from the switch and re attach 2 Connect workstations directly to the switch and reboot the workstation when the IP address changes are made 3 Let the MAC address for the station age out of the switch CAM PR 61740 On OS7000 mobile ports stations using the IP address range after a station has autoconfigured itself will not be learned Workaround The user must perform a release and renew to recover the DHCP provided IP address The use of autoconfiguration aka Automatic Private IP Addressing is not recommended within an enterprise network environment PR 61994 When traffic violates a port protocol binding rule source learning does not indicate by VLAN which rule was violated on an OmniSwitch 8800 switch Workaround There is no known workaround at this time page 62 OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 62119 The ip port and mac ip port binding rules filter the IP address on a port configured if it does not match on an OS7000 series switch Once the MAC address is made part of the VLAN ta
89. itch changing a station s IP address without the layer 2 address being aged out or flushed by link down results in the station remain ing in the same VLAN despite the change Workaround There is no known workaround other than aging or pulling the link The layer 3 address is only examined when the MAC address is not source learned which is the cost of wire speed group mobil ity PR 59422 The show interfaces slot port traffic command displays the values irrespective of the port state up or down on an OS7000 series switch unlike the other interface statistics commands which display the statistics only if the port is up Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 59883 Flash synchro does not synchronize the IP address of the EMP port on an OS7000 series switch Workaround There is no known workaround at this time OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 page 61 Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 60125 The tag value cannot be changed from the VLAN number on an OS7000 series switch This is a hardware limitation Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 60680 On an OS7000 series switch if a single MAC address of a single device is attached to a single port on the switch and is generating multiple SNAP types with a non zero vender identification one is unable to create VLAN protocol rules to isolate each generated SNAP type into its own VLAN Workaround There
90. itch port mirroring is not supported between lower ports Fast Ethernet port 1 24 or Gigabit Ethernet port 51 52 and upper port Fast Ethernet port 25 48 e When port mirroring is enabled on OS7000 8800 Gigabit modules Egress mirror performance is 1330974 p s e When port mirroring is enabled on an OS8 GNI C24 Egress mirror performance is 1430792 p s Problem Reports PR 35206 The reQid packet delivery is unreliable if Qid has problems on an OS7000 series switch It affects port mirroring The port mirroring feature may display frames that were received by the switch but never set out because the queue was already full Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 66806 66847 Packets are mirrored only if the hardware is programmed on an OS6600 switch During the learning process the hardware is not yet programmed Under heavy traffic not all packets are mirrored Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 66845 The mirroring destination port on an OS8800 switch gets one frame extra with Unknown SA and Known DA Egress traffic on Mirrored ports Workaround Use second generation modules PR 66862 Port mirroring is not supported across the stack Please note that you cannot do port mirroring between upper and lower 24 ports on an OS6648 switch Workaround There is no known workaround at this time page 52 OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 Open Problem Reports and Feat
91. itch sometimes MACs do not get in sync between the CMM and NI This can cause some unwanted flooding Workaround Applying the command no mac address table learned should fix the problem PR 92317 Traffic with a High Availability VLAN Mac address as a destination address on a port that is NOT config ured for HA VLAN is flooded to all ports of the VLAN following the standard flooding path Workaround There is no known workaround at this time OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 page 57 Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 92627 MAC addresses configured for High Availability VLAN are learned as filtering if seen as source addresses Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 98511 When an OS7000 switch learns any IPv6 neighbor MAC address the entry remains in cache forever with state Stale It should get deleted after sometime if no communication between switch and its neighbor is taking place Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 98567 After loading debugger on a an OS8800 10G NI some slices may show an adding DA entry failed entry message This issue does not affect functionality Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 98626 There are duplicate MAC addresses in the same VLAN with reset static and dynamic MAC addresses after resetting an OS7 GNI U12 or OS7 GNI Cz2 It does not affect the functionality Workaround There is no
92. karound Create another instance of the route map policy and use a prefix list of 0 0 0 0 and mask 0 0 0 0 to allow all routes while the other instance applies the policy on the subset of learned routes PR 72024 BGP4 Dampening Suppress value cannot exceed the default Ceiling value of 1600 seconds on an OS8800 switch Workaround Configure a Suppress value less than 1600 seconds PR 72300 An AS number cannot be used with command ip bgp confederation neighbor Workaround There is no known workaround at this time page 82 OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions DVMRP Problem Reports PR 56990 Tunnel destined flows are not displayed in the show ip multicast forwarding CLI command on an OS7000 series switch There is simply no room left on the line to display Workaround Use the show ip mroute next hop CLI command instead to display tunnel endpoint infor mation PR 90878 On an OS7000 series switch by administratively disabling a DVMRP configured IP interface via the command ip interface lt ifname gt admin disable and then re enabling that same IP interface via ip interface lt ifname gt admin enable DVMRP is not automatically re enabled Workaround To get DVMRP operational again on that specific interface re issue the ip dvmrp inter face lt ifname gt command This is the command initially used to configure DVMRP on the interface If the IP interface b
93. m was detected has the default values for the above perfor mance parameters and if these parameters are tuned to reflect the size of the network the convergence time can be reduced substantially Due to a discrepancy in the 802 1s 2002 protocol specifications boundary ports could transition into forwarding much faster than they should and may create loops Workaround 1 Use single MSTP region as much as possible 2 Tune the performance parameters maxAge and hop count to optimal values for the network page 60 OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions VLANs Feature Exceptions e The number of VLANs on an OS6600 series switch with spanning tree is 128 and without spanning tree is 256 e The number of VLANs on an OS7000 8800 switch with spanning tree is 256 and without spanning tree is 1024 e User Defined Custom VLAN Rules on OS7000 OS8800 Contact Customer Support for supported configurations Problem Reports PR 54327 If the VLAN ID of the AV Client dialog box is entered incorrectly twice on an OS7000 series switch one receives the following error Failure during DoSendData call and the AV Client dies A similar behavior is observed with unsuccessful authentication For example unknown user on the remote authen tication server Workaround Reboot of the PC is required PR 55491 On a mobile port with mac port ip and other ip rules on an OS7000 series sw
94. n an OS6600 switch the IP source address must be learned by the system in order for traffic to be correctly processed from each source host Workaround Resolve ARP for all IP hosts classified on mobile ports PR 76348 Using port mobility when an OS7000 host PC fails to match a mobile binding rule such as mac ip port if for example the IP JSA fails to match the IP address in the rule the host will be learned in filtering mode If the PC host is then updated with the correct IP even though the IP address from the host now matches the IP in the rule the host will continue to be in filtering mode Workaround When attempting to reclassify any host that has a pre existing filtering entry The MAC entry needs to be removed Either by disconnecting and then reconnecting the physical link or via the system management software using no mac address table learned PR 84314 When a MAC address is learned as filtered on an OS6600 series switch traffic received by the switch with the filtered MAC address as a source MAC address is blocked Workaround Works as designed PR 92405 If High Availability HA vlan is configured in the switch and HA traffic is flowing through it HA traffic might get dropped for 5 10 seconds during a takeover Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 92573 The configured High Availability VLAN bandwidth is global on a switch and not per VLAN even though the CLI command is
95. nitoring Workaround There is no known workaround at this time page 54 OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 89980 On an OS6600 series switch disabling a port monitoring session on a non existing port causes the port to go to file get timer state Workaround Wait for the status to change from timer to disable before deleting the session PR 98580 On an OS6600 or OS6602 PMON is not able to capture IPMS flows when the client is sitting on the monitored port Workaround There is no known workaround at this time Source Learning Feature Exceptions e The number of MAC addresses supported on an OS6600 series switch is 8K Problem Reports PR 53663 MAC load balancing does not spread out the MACs among 4 ports on an OS7000 series switch Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 54930 The CLI command show mac address table count does not have an equivalent in SNMP or WebView on an OS7000 series switch Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 57013 Boot cfg only changes the age time value for VLAN1 on an OS7000 series switch although it has been configured for all the VLANs Workaround The user should specify the VLAN information while configuring aging time for the MAC address table in the boot cfg like mac address table aging time 1000000 VLAN 2 OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 page 55 Op
96. optimization enabled command it is impossible to delete a port from link aggregate Workaround Disable the optimization command to delete the ports from link aggregate and re enable the optimization command PR 81985 On an OS8800 switch LACP ports do not join the aggregate if some of the ports are administratively down Workaround If the ports need to be administratively down and if they are part of LACP link aggregate remove the ports from LACP and add them again when they admin up PR 84225 On an OS7000 series switch multiple link aggregate on the same VLAN should be on the same flooding mode if optimization is enabled to pass bridging traffic between them Workaround Do not create mixed mode link aggregate ports in the same slice PR 84437 On OS8800 first generation NI modules there could be MAC movement across the link aggregate ports and the user ports Workaround Enable the optimization mode on link aggregation modules OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 page 51 Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions Port Mirroring Feature Exceptions e On OS6600 switches port mirroring is not supported across a stack i e mirrored port on slot 1 and mirroring port on slot 4 e On an OS6648 switch port mirroring is not supported between lower ports Fast Ethernet port 1 24 or Gigabit Ethernet port 51 52 and upper port Fast Ethernet port 25 48 or Gigabit Ethernet port 49 50 e On an OS6602 48 sw
97. orts and Feature Exceptions see page 26 e Switch Management see page 26 Layer 2 see page 40 e Layer 3 see page 66 e Quality of Service see page 76 e Advanced Routing see page 82 e Security see page 88 e System see page 93 e Technical Support see page 107 Release Notes page 1 Part Number 032000 10 Rev B Copyright 2006 Alcatel Internetworking Inc Related Documentation Related Documentation These Release Notes should be used in conjunction with the OmniSwitch 6600 OmniSwitch 7700 7800 and OmniSwitch 8800 The following are the titles and descriptions of the OmniSwitch 6600 OmniSwitch 7700 7800 and OmniSwitch 8800 user manuals OmniSwitch 6600 Family Getting Started Guide Describes the hardware and software procedures for getting an OmniSwitch 6600 Family switch up and running OmniSwitch 6600 Family Hardware User Guide Complete technical specifications and procedures for all OmniSwitch 6600 Family switches power supplies fans and Network Interface NI modules OmniSwitch 6600 Family Network Configuration Guide Includes network configuration procedures and descriptive information on all the major software features and protocols included in the base software package Chapters cover Layer 2 information Ethernet and VLAN configuration Layer 3 information routing protocols security options Authen ticated Switch Access ASA Quality of Service QoS and link aggregation OmniSwitch 6600
98. ound at this time page 78 OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 67882 The show qos queue command does not display Xmit or Drop Packets for any port queue on an OS6600 switch Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 68472 OS6624 and OS6648 switches do not prioritize traffic on saturated half duplex links possibly allowing data traffic through the phone to cause drops of voice traffic or signaling to the PCX This happens only when we have a PC connected through the phone and have heavy PC traffic going through the IP phone Link is acting in accordance with CSMA CD standards Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 68550 When using link aggregation one cannot use QoS with destination port slot port or destination inter face type to match the traffic going through the link aggregation on the OS7000 8800 QoS only knows the virtual port of the link aggregation but does not know anything about the physical port that is used to forward traffic Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 68555 Every time one does a qos apply when the QoS configuration has changed all traffic on an OS7000 8800 switch is disturbed Basically all hardware entries are flushed and all traffic goes to source learning again The switch throughput will drop for a short time software speed instead of wire speed This means that some packet
99. raffic is not accepted on an OS7000 series switch Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 62067 The Port link may toggle if using a Media Converter LOOBASE TX to 100BASE FX on an OS7000 series switch Workaround There is no known workaround at this time page 94 OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 63605 Some Fweb images show up in the loaded m code table before an OS7000 series switch reloads Workaround When a switch comes up the only file that WebView loads is the web Ink file from Fweb img If there is no web access to the switch nothing else is loaded When a user accesses a certain page the system dynamically loads the necessary file The WebView image s that show up in the show microcode loaded output is dependent upon what pages were accessed Therefore these images can vary from switch to switch and from time to time PR 63661 The message KERNAL reboots may display when changing the system time on an OS7000 series switch Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 65248 When an user configures the EMP IP address to or 0 0 0 0 in an attempt to clear the address on an OS7000 series switch it in fact adds it as the default route 0 0 0 0 Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 66781 The Operating System does not support non contiguous MAC ranges on an OmniSwitch 8800 switch
100. ration To receive the traffic tagged config ure v tagged on p OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 page 45 Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 98522 Received IGMP reports are not proxied as V3 reports when the IGMP proxy version is configured as V3 on an OS7000 series switch Workaround There is no known workaround at this time Learned Port Security Problem Reports PR 71412 When Learned Port Security is configured on an OS6600 series switch traffic is flooded until MAC addresses are learned Workaround Directly create the objects in an active state Thereby bypassing this problem by previ ously configuring together both sides of the static aggregates with aggregation set disable Therefore the admin state must be set to disable just after the creation When the whole configuration is ready set the admin state to enable such as it is by default There is also the possibility of setting down up ports Thus interfaces could also be set admin down up before everything is ready PR 73953 With an LPS Learned Port Security configuration is set only to allow a specific MAC on a port and when the port receives non authorized traffic ARP requests the MAC information shows that the unau thorized host is in a filtering state therefore all traffic should be filtered However the ARP table learns the ARP entry for the filtered host ARPs should not be learned for filtered hosts
101. res are not supported in the current release Feature Platform Software Package Interswitch Protocols GMAP all base OSPF Database Overflow RFC 1765 all base advanced routing ATM all base page 18 OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 Unsupported CLI Commands Unsupported CLI Commands The following CLI commands are not supported in this release of the software Software Feature Unsupported CLI Commands Chassis Mac Server mac range local mac range duplicate eeprom mac range allocate local only show mac range status Hot Swap reload ni slot Interswitch Protocols All Interswitch Protocols GMAP CLI Commands on all platforms are GMAP unsupported IPX ipx watchdog spoof vlan enable disable no ipx watchdog spoof vlan show ipx watchdog spoof ipx serialization vlan enable disable no ipx serialization vlan show ipx serialization ipx spx spoof vlan enable disable no ipx spx spoof vlan show ipx spx spoof NTP no ntp server all Quality of Service qos port lt slot port gt no maximum bandwidth qos port lt slot port gt no maximum default depth qos port lt slot port gt no maximum default buffers qos port lt slot port gt no maximum bandwidth qos port lt slot port gt no maximum signal bandwidth qos port lt slot port gt no maximum reserve bandwidth qos no classify fragments OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800
102. rgeted by such rules the IP address can change to another address in the subnet or subnets carried on that VLAN For example if an ip port binding rule is created for VLAN 21 with an IP address of 21 0 0 22 and a port of 2 3 the device has an IP address configured as 22 0 0 22 When the device is connected to 2 3 and traf fic is generated such as a ping to another subnet 22 address the port will be listed by the MAC address table in VLAN 21 If the device such as Windows NT or 2000 changes its address to 21 0 0 41 the switch will continue to carry the new traffic and not be blocked as expected with this type of binding rule Workaround Reboot the device or disconnect the link to restore normal binding rule behavior PR 63001 MAC port rules does not block other MACs from using the same port on an OS7000 series switch Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 68371 VPA on a mobile port does not flush out the VPAs when rules are deleted on an OS7000 series switch Workaround The system relies on the VPA aging out process rather than deleting it proactively on rule deletion However VPAs are deleted when the VLAN as a whole is deleted or if mobility is removed from the port PR 68495 During the learning process of two flows matching two different rules on a mobile port the second flow is seen as learned on the VLAN of the first flows on an OS6600 series switch This is temporary because the address ages out Work
103. ries switch Workaround Reduce the amount of IP multicast traffic running through the affected NI PR 68342 VRRP neighbors may switch between master and backup when more than 20 virtual routers are on an OS7000 series switch Workaround One must have OS7 GNI U2 s with a 1 3 Catalina or greater The version of the Catalina for a Gigabit module is determined by running the command show ni lt slot gt In the line ASIC Physical the last two values represent the version of the Catalina i e ASIC Physical 0x1901 0x0201 0x0201 The version number should be greater than 0x0301 page 74 OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 88251 If there is a port tracking policy and a single VLAN on a port and if the vlan is disabled spanning tree marks the port as blocked VRRP is not notified that the port is unusable and the port tracking policy is not invoked Workaround Configure tracking policies for both the port and the vlan PR 89046 With release 5 1 6 RO1 the basis for the VRRP implementation is RFC 3768 Packet authentication is no longer utilized in RFC 3768 due to the ineffective level of security it provided Therefore the VRRP AUTHENTICATE parameter is no longer available through the CLI or Webview Workaround There is no known workaround at this time OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 page 75 Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions
104. riod of time currently 10 seconds will be blocked The NI is also declared down in this case e The data path to an NI to which Spanning Tree is unable to communicate will be closed The NI is also declared down in this case Unable to communicate means when Spanning Tree is on the point of closing the socket to the NI anyway Spanning Tree will be able to detect the failure since its communi cation is acknowledged Syslog to Multiple Hosts You can now send syslog files to multiple hosts including the same syslog to all servers or to a maximum of 4 servers VLAN for Firewall Traffic You can designate a VLAN as a Firewall VLAN by associating a multicast queue with an IP address that is defined for the same VLAN This is done by first configuring an IP router interface address for the VLAN then associating a Layer 2 multicast destination MAC address with the Firewall VLAN IP address This will cause traffic sent to the IP address to be routed and flooded at wire rate out all of the ports asso ciated with the Firewall VLAN WebView Mirroring State You can now distinguish a mirrored port from a mirroring port in WebView in the status field of the Ethernet Network Interface General screen page 12 OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 Supported Traps Supported Traps The following traps are supported in 5 4 1 RO1 No 0 Trap Name coldStart Platform All Description The SNMP agent in th
105. robe Configuration Lower layer problem V lt vlan gt Looping back our Probes tDvmrp dvmrpRecvReport Configuration Lower layer problem V lt vlan gt Looping back our own RRs Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 75062 When running in a mixed environment consisting of OS7000 s and Cisco s the OS7000 PIM SM router may get into a state in which the flows get disrupted This is caused by erroneous prunes Once in this state the flows will have to be completely timed out Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 77055 On an OS7000 series switch if there are multiple routes to either the RP or any of the multicast sources PIM SM must be enabled on all of the interfaces Workaround Enable PIM SM on all interfaces that may be considered possible routes to either the Rp or any of the multicast sources page 86 OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 88043 IXIA automation tests consisting of 1023 flows and 1023 group memberships can result in IPMRM error messages scrolling on the console when the RP is manually deleted and then added again using the ip pimsm crp address command Workaround Set ip mroute debug level 0 so that the messages don t appear on the console PR 92679 Using Static RP Configuration and then changing the max rps may cause tpimsm to suspend Workaround If using static rp configuration the max rps needs to
106. running RMON 26 stpNewRoot All Sent by a bridge that became the new root of the spanning tree 27 stpRootPortChange All A root port has changed for a spanning tree bridge The root port is the port that offers the lowest cost path from this bridge to the root bridge 28 mirrorConfigError All The mirroring configuration failed on an NI This trap is sent when any NI fails to configure mirroring Due to this error port mirroring session will be terminated 29 mirrorUnlikeNi All The mirroring configuration is deleted due to the swapping of different NI board type The Port Mirroring session which was active on a slot cannot con tinue with the insertion of different NI type in the same slot 30 sl PesudoCAMStatusTrap OS7000 OS8800 The trap status of the Layer 2 pesudo CAM for this NI 31 unused None 32 unused None 33 slbTrapOperStatus OS7000 OS8800 A change occurred in the operational status of the server load balancing entity 34 ifMauJabber All This trap is sent whenever a managed interface MAU enters the jabber state 35 sessionAuthenticationTrap All An authentication failure trap is sent each time a user authentication is refused 36 trapAbsorptionTrap All The absorption trap is sent when a trap has been absorbed at least once 37 alaStackMegrDuplicateSlotTrap OS6600 Two or more
107. s flood rates lower than the regular OS7 ENI C24 modules Workaround There is no known workaround at this time page 100 OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions OmniSwitch 8800 Nis OmniSwitch 8800 Feature Exceptions e When a chassis is fully loaded with 5 SFM modules an Amber light indicates that the module is in the Stand By mode Problem Reports PR 66750 The maximum aggregate throughput for an OS8 ENI C24 10 100 is 2 0 gigabits sec Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 67570 On the OS8 GNI C8 incoming frames are accumulated by the statistics handler if and only if a port is enabled If the port is not enabled yet any incoming frames are dropped As a result statistics between the switch and the traffic generator might be different Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 68883 When the speed is changed on ENI modules 10M to 100M or vice versa the far end is supposed to detect this change if configured as auto If it does not detect this condition then the link goes down Workaround Configure the far end or toggle the link status locally to restart the auto negotiation process PR 69545 No GBIC information is shown when the show module long command is issued on an OS8 GNI U24 This is harmless and does not affect the behavior of the switch Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 76652
108. s may be lost depending on the amount of traffic when the qos apply command is issued Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 69252 Mibwalk fails in QoS mib at alaQoSPortGroups and alaQoSAppliedPortGroups because of lexicographic failure on an OS6600 switch Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 72325 On an OS6600 switch if the TOS bit is set to 1 when the traffic comes into an untrusted port it does not set the bit to 0 Packets coming in on untrusted ports will not be dropped TOS bits will be set to 0 only on L3 traffic 802 1p bits will be set to 0 on L2 traffic Workaround There is no known workaround at this time OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 page 79 Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 73767 On an OS7000 8800 switch when setting a permanent MAC address to filtering traffic going to this MAC will always be dropped regardless of the QoS rules even if one permit rule matches this MAC When setting a permanent MAC address to bridging traffic going to this MAC will always be accepted at best effort regardless of the QoS rules Therefore it becomes impossible to set any priority stamping mapping or bandwidth shaping actions for traffic going to this MAC address Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 74062 On an OS6600 switch it is not possible to create a L3 ACL on a source and another on a destination because currently t
109. s possible Please contact customer support for updates on problem reports PRs where no known workaround was available at the time of release Switch Management Command Line Interface CLI Problem Reports PR 54887 Serial port information can be viewed from the WebView Console Port Table page but not with CLI on an OS7000 series switch Workaround Use WebView to reference the console port information PR 55576 When executing a config apply command applications may not appear to be loaded on an OS7000 series switch Workaround Applications must be manually loaded before executing a config apply command Load ing them automatically introduces many problems that are not easily overcome PR 57355 With large image files the zmodem rz CLI command causes excessive Bad CRC errors and hang up after a small percentage of data is transferred on an OS7000 series switch It also does not allow the user to select a particular directory such as working or certified to download files It always downloads files to flash only Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 58437 A number or other variable value i e lt num gt lt string gt is erased if it is tabbed over on an OS7000 series switch Workaround Do not Tab over entered variables page 26 OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 69058 The admin down CLI command on an OS7 GNI
110. series switch If one user already has started using the telnet client and a second user attempts to use the switch based telnet client at the same time a message is generated informing the second user that the client is already in use The actual message sent is Telnet is already in use Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 51088 The more command is not supported on multiple user sessions on an OS7000 series switch Therefore only one instance may be active on a switch at a time If a second user attempts to use more when it is already active he she receives the message more is currently in use try again later Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 52676 Blocking sockets need to be released when a remote slot goes down on an OS7000 series switch Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 55967 Only terminal ID vt100 is supported on an OS7000 series switch User must set tty terminal type to vt100 to support some switch software that uses ASCII escape codes The vi editor is an example Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 59510 The time for 10 100 ports to auto negotiate depends on the number of such ports configured in the system The more the number of ports configured for auto negotiation the longer it takes before they all auto negotiate This is observed only at bootup condition Workaround There is no known workaround at this time
111. ship 53 httpServerDoSAttackTrap All This trap is sent to management sta tion s when the HTTP server is under Denial of Service attack The HTTP and HTTPS connections are sampled at a 15 second interval This trap is sent every 1 minute while the HTTP server detects it is under attack 54 alaStackMgrDuplicateRoleTrap OS6600 The element identified by alaStack MegrSlotNINumber detected the pres ence of two elements with the same primary or secondary role as specified by alaStackMgrChasRole on the stack 55 alaStackMgrClearedSlotTrap OS6600 The element identified by alaStack MegrSlotNINumber will enter the pass through mode because its operational slot was cleared with immediate effect 56 alaStackMgrOutOfSlotsTrap OS6600 One element of the stack will enter the pass through mode because there are no slot numbers available to be assigned to this element 57 alaStackMgrOutOfTokensTrap OS6600 The element identified by alaStack MegrSlotNINumber will enter the pass through mode because there are no tokens available to be assigned to this element page 16 OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 Supported Traps No Trap Name Platform Description 58 alaStackMgrOutOfPassThroughSlotsTrap OS6600 There are no pass through slots avail able to be assigned to an element that is supposed to enter the pass through mode 59 gmHwvVlanRuleTableOverloadA lert All An overload trap occurs whenev
112. sisTrapsMacOverlap All A MAC range overlap was found in the backplane eeprom virp Trap NewMaster All The SNMP agent has transferred from the backup state to the master state virp TrapAuthFailure All A packet was received from the net work whose authentication key con flicts with the switch s authentication key or type OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 page 13 Supported Traps No Trap Name 15 healthMonDeviceTrap Platform All Description Indicates a device level threshold was crossed 16 healthMonModuleTrap All Indicates a module level threshold was crossed 17 healthMonPortTrap All Indicates a port level threshold was crossed 18 bgpEstablished OS7000 OS8800 The BGP routing protocol has entered the established state 19 bgpBackwardTransition OS7000 OS8800 This trap is generated when the BGP router port has moved from a more active to a less active state 20 esmDrvTrapDropsLink All This trap is sent when the Ethernet code drops the link because of exces sive errors 21 pimNeighborLoss OS7000 OS8800 Signifies the loss of adjacency with a neighbor device This trap is generated when the neighbor time expires and the switch has no other neighbors on the same interface with a lower IP address than itself 22 dvmrpNeighborLoss OS7000 OS8800 A 2 way adjacency relationship with a neighbor has
113. slots claim to have the same slot number 38 alaStackMgrNeighborChangeTrap OS6600 Indicates whether or not the stack is in loop 39 alaStackMgrRoleChangeTrap OS6600 Indicates that a new primary or sec ondary stack is elected 40 IpsViolationTrap All A Learned Port Security LPS viola tion has occurred OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 page 15 Supported Traps No Trap Name Platform Description 41 alaDoSTrap All Indicates that the sending agent has received a Denial of Service DoS attack 42 gmBindRuleViolation All Occurs whenever a binding rule which has been configured gets violated 43 unused None 44 unused None 45 unused None 46 unused None 47 pethPsePortOnOffNotification OS6600 Indicates if power inline port is or is OS7000 not delivering power to the a power inline device 48 pethPsePortPowerMaintenanceStatusNoti OS6600 Indicates the status of the power main fication OS7000 tenance signature for inline power 49 pethMainPowerUsageOnNotification OS6600 Indicates that the power inline usage is OS7000 above the threshold 50 pethMainPowerUsageOffNotification OS6600 Indicates that the power inline usage is OS7000 below the threshold 51 ospfNbrStateChange All Indicates a state change of the neigh bor relationship 52 ospfVirtNbrStateChange All Indicates a state change of the virtual neighbor relation
114. small number of flood packets to egress the port Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 72223 Autonegotiation is disabled if either speed or duplex is set to non autonegotiation on the OS7 ENI C24 OS7 ENI2 C24 and OS8 ENI C24 Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 73334 When the configuration for a range is applied on an OmniSwitch 8800 switch and if there is an error in the middle of the group configuration all slot groups of ports the rest of the configuration will not apply from the point of error Workaround Apply the configuration from the next valid starting point e g next valid port PR 73367 Mobile and default VLAN traffic flow is not effective if the ingress frames to the OS6600 series switches contain IEEE 802 1Q VLAN tagging and mobile tagging is disabled for the destination VLAN trans parent tagging is not supported Workaround There is no known workaround at this time page 64 OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 75199 When using the group mobility custom rule traffic goes on the default VLAN even though the content at the offset of a new stream of traffic from the same MAC device is matching the MAC address already learned in the default VLAN Workaround Flush the MAC address learned on the default VLAN then resend the traffic PR 76336 When IP traffic is classified on a mobile port o
115. station Workaround After adding a new SNMP trap station to the switch configuration the administrator should save the configuration and reboot the switch OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 page 29 Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions Web Based Management WebView Feature Exceptions e WebView uses signed applets for the automatic IP reconfiguration Those applets are signed using VeriSign Certificates that expire every year The certificate used for Internet Explorer and Netscape expires every August WebView users have to validate a warning indicating that the certificate used by the applet has expired Problem Reports PR 53599 WebView session logout does not close a TCP port on an OS7000 series switch The port stays in estab lished state until the web browser is closed and restarted A session timeout a WebView logout or a closure of the browser session does not cause the remote ports to close Workaround Close the web browser and restart it PR 55346 Java Virtual Machine needs to be installed on an OS7000 series switch in order to use Java Applets in WebView pages such as Health Home Workaround If the Java Virtual Machine was not installed along with the browser please install PR 56179 After a switch software update sometimes WebView starts throwing javascript errors on an OS7000 series switch Workaround Always clear the browser s cache before trying the newer version of WebV
116. switch Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 98631 Logs are available for notification when an SFP is removed or inserted on an OS6600 or OS6602 Currently no traps for this event are defined Workaround There is no known workaround at this time page 98 OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions OmniSwitch 7000 Nis Problem Reports PR 34227 Only 32K address seen bits are available to support aging out of the pseudoCAM entries Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 35050 Jumbo frames cannot be fragmented when bridged Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 43852 Pause frame with multicast address 01 80 C2 00 00 01 causes the switch to flood frames to other ports Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 58485 Configured egress flood and multicast limits are not exact There is a small deviation from the configured limits depending on the packet size Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 61916 Fast Ethernet ports are not able to auto detect speed and duplex settings with some cards Seen with Dolch sniffer Workaround Manually configure the speed and duplex settings PR 69099 Pause frames cannot be generated by the MAC when oversubscribing a single port Workaround There is no known workaround at this time OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5
117. t at any time in the IP Routing Table for the same destination and with the same next hop PR 79931 On OS6600 series switches when a Static and an OSPF route exist for the same destination with the same next hop and metric and if both the Static and OSPF routes are redistributed into RIP with the order being Static configuration specified first OSPF as specified in the configuration file and then Static routes are redistributed into RIP Workaround There is no workaround for this issue The limitation is that at a time there should be only one kind of route existing for a destination in the OS6600 series IP Routing Table PR 80049 When a RIP v1 interface on one OS6600 series router connects to a RIP v2 interface on another OS6600 router then RIP v1 based host routes will be created by the RIP v1 router for each of the existing RIP v2 routes and added to the IP Routing Table These will then be aged out after reaching metric 16 and then removed This is done periodically once in every 4 or 5 minutes This happens since host route support is not disabled by default on the RIP v1 or RIP v2 routers Workaround The host route support should be disabled on each of the RIP v1 or v2 routers The host routes will no longer be generated PR 80494 On an OmniSwitch 6600 switch packets routed between IP SNAP amp Ethernet 2 are not translated correctly The Intel IXE2424 ASIC used in the 6600 platform does not support translations from SNAP
118. tch is connected to another port that is Blocked Alternate then this port might not receive any BPDUs from the Blocked port in order to figure out the Next Best Root port So the show spantree x command for this switch will not show the Next Best Root port Note This information is provided to be compatible with the XOS products and is not needed to compute spanning tree topology Workaround Try disconnecting reconnecting the link so BPDUs may be exchanged through these ports PR 76951 The Show Spantree command still displays some values in the Path Cost Op Cnx and Designated Bridge ID columns for a port when it is down Workaround If the port s Operating Status Column shows DIS for disabled just ignore the values for the rest of the other columns These values are being displayed to show the past connection history of the path cost connection type and Bridge ID etc PR 77228 When running scripts using automation tools to configure an OS7000 series switch from the 802 1D proto col to 802 1 W the spanning tree seems to be stuck in a blocking state for a certain VLAN in the 802 1W protocol Workaround Executing commands manually or from the boot cfg file to switch protocols works OK In case this problem occurs try switching STP modes bridge mode flat and then bridge mode 1x1 to see if this problem goes away PR 77262 When running scripts using automation tools to configure spanning tree on a stand alone OS66
119. this time PR 90995 On an OS8800 switch sometimes an error message admin conf in NI for slot port failed may be displayed after issuing the admin up or down command Workaround Re enter the admin up or down command OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 page 41 Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 91437 Certain user defined rules end up classifying non matching traffic patterns on the user defined VLAN instead of the default VLAN on an OS6600 series switch Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 98542 On an OS6600 currently tagged frames on a mobile port with mobile tag disable will get classified into a VLAN if protocol or IP net rules are configured for that VLAN on the port Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 98551 In WebView the Physical gt Ethernet gt Interface Configuration gt General Modify window might display a Set operation finished successfully message on an OS8800 However the changes are not made to the table Workaround Use the Multiple Modify window and select the desired slot port to perform the changes PR 98601 The show interface collision command does not show collision counts on OS6600 and OS6602 There is no relevant counter for Received Collisions in IXE2424 Workaround There is no known workaround at this time Flow Control Problem Reports PR 38896 Clause 31 of the IEEE 802 3 Specifications specif
120. to matically refresh the directory with the current content One must select the list button in order to see the updated directory contents Also there is a timing issue for List File which requires clicking the Refresh button more than once Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 98568 An error appears when one of the left menu items such as chassis or ethernet is selected on an OS6600 or OS6602 The error message does not affect any functionality Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 98593 Modification of certain OS8800 10gig ports for 802 1q via WebView causes the modification submission to fail Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 98594 The WebView gt Physical gt Ethernet gt Interface Configuration gt General modify page might not show the Set Successful message in Netscape 7 1 on an OS6600 or OS6602 Workaround Whenever there is an error message the modify page stays open automatically OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 page 39 Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions 802 1Q Problem Reports PR 37415 The OS7000 frame parser does not recognize Token Ring or FDDI SNAP frames with 802 1Q encapsula tion If the parser encounters these frames they are misclassified as flood frames Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 72541 OmniCore does not support hybrid VLANs where tagged and untagged fram
121. to one stack Refer to OmniSwitch 6600 Family Getting Started Guide for cabling guidelines 6 Use the show stack topology command to confirm that the stacks have been successfully merged page 6 OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 New Hardware Supported New Hardware Supported CWDM GBICs are now supported in this release on the OS7700 and OS7800 The SanDisk Compact Flash memory supports up to 64 MB on OS6600 OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 page 7 New Software Supported New Software Supported The following new software features are supported subject to the feature exceptions and problem reports described later in these release notes Feature Summary Feature Platform Software Package 802 1x MAC Based Authentication All Base 802 1x Device Classification Access Guardian All Base Booting Sequence OS6600 Base CWDM Connectivity OS7700 0S7800 Base DHCP Option 82 All Base DHCP Snooping All Base DVMRP Edge and Core OS6600 Base Advanced Routing Group Mobility for 802 1x Non Supplicants All Base IP Address to Multicast Queue All Base L2 Static Multicast Addresses 0S6600 Base LDAP Schema Support All Base Multinetting on 6600 OS6600 Base MMU Protection for Code Segment OS6600 Base NI Localized Static ARP All Base Open LDAP Server All Base Port Mapping OS6600 Base Proprietary LDAP Server All Base Routing Protocol
122. ts in boot cfg and reboot PR 78945 More than 14 link aggregates with size 8 cannot be added Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 79116 On an OmniSwitch 6600 series switch LACP port priority is not supported The port priorities do not control the order of the ports joining the aggregate Workaround Do not configure port priorities OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 page 49 Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 79204 On an OS7000 series switch the LACP system priority and port priority do not have any effect on ports joining the aggregate Workaround Do not use port priority and system priority values in LACP as a selection criteria These are needed for compatibility issues PR 79829 On an OS7000 series switch LACP parameters cannot be modified on run time Workaround Delete the port and add when and if LACP parameters have to be changed PR 80033 If Coronado version 2 Second Generation NI port comes up then Coronado version 1 First Generation NJ port does not join Workaround When configuring mixed versions of Coronado ports make sure Coronado Version ports are configured first and then Coronado Version 2 ports PR 80995 On takeover some OS8800 NI s configured with link aggregation may not get reset Workaround Do not hotswap second generation boards with first generation boards PR 81288 On an OS7000 series switch LACP packets stop
123. twork ports cannot communicate with each other Network ports of a unidirectional port mapping session can be shared with other unidirectional sessions but cannot be shared with any sessions configured in bidirectional mode Network Ports of different sessions can communicate with each other Proprietary LDAP Server OmniSwitches can communicate with LDAP servers using compatible SSL version 2 and 3 This includes e 168 bit Triple DES with RSA and SHA1 e 128 bit RC4 with RSA and MD5 SHA1 e 56 bit DES RC4 with RSA and SHA1 e 40 bit RC2 RC4 with RSA and MD5 Routing Protocol Preference You can configure the routing preference order different from the default order in the switch Currently OmniSwitches have the following order of preference from most preferred to least e Local directly connected networks e Static e OSPF e RIP e BGP OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 page 11 New Software Supported You can configure a weight for each routing protocol to control which entry to prefer when two or more entries from different sources Static ARP for Multicast Address You can now create a static ARP entry that associates an IP address with a multicast MAC address STP Internal Loop Prevention STP internal loop prevention consists of e The internal stacking port data path will be blocked for an NI declared down e The data path to an NI to which has stopped receiving Hello messages for a threshold pe
124. ure Exceptions PR 68515 Performance of port mirroring is around 3000 packets second after a hot swap on an OmniSwitch 8800 switch Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 71793 Port mirroring is not at wire rate The mirrored port will drop traffic when port mirroring is enabled on an OS7000 series switch Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 72891 On an OS7000 series switch the egress port mirroring rate is less than 1GBPS for the OS7 GNI C12 modules when the link speed is 1G Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 77036 There is high performance degradation for port mirroring on an OS8 GNI C8 Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 78852 There is some performance degradation from 1488095pkts s to 975134pkts sec on an OS8 GNI U24 Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 79329 There is some performance degradation on egress outport port mirroring from 1 488 095 p s to 1 333 624 p s on an OS8 GNI U24 Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 80242 Unable to modify the in out port mirroring session using the default port mirroring command on an OS7000 series switch Direction of mirroring takes previous value when the modify command is entered Workaround Specify the direction explicitly in the modify command OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 page 53 Open Problem Reports and
125. ved configs different images etc In this case upon failover all the NIs will reset and might go to down state and to recover need to power down the switch and power it back up Hot Swap Feature Exceptions for OmniSwitch 7000 8800 e Hot swap of NIs needs to be preceded by the removal of all cables connected to the NI e Hot insertion of unlike modules is not supported in this release e The Reload NI command is not supported in this release Please use No Power NI Power NI as an alternative e All insertions of NI modules cannot be followed by another hot swap activity until the OK2 LED on the inserted NI blinks green page 102 OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions Hot Swap Feature Exceptions for OmniSwitch 6600 e When removing modules from the stack powering off the module and or pulling out its stacking cables the loop back stacking cable must be present at all times to guarantee redundancy If a module is removed from the stack rearrange the stacking cables to establish the loopback before attempting to remove a second unit e When inserting a new module in the stack the loop back has to be broken Full redundancy is not guar anteed until the loop back is restored Hot Swap Time Limitations for OmniSwitch 7000 8800 e All removals of NI modules must have a 30 second interval before initiating another hot swap activity e All insertions of NI modules must have a 3 m
126. workaround at this time PR 58676 The OSPF default cost is the same for fast Ethernet and the gigabit interface on an OS7700 7800 switch Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 65617 OSPF stops advertising static routes to the network when the route tag is configured on a redistribution filter on an OS7000 series switch Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 69890 OSPF virtual links will not form an adjacency with gateD switches if MDS is configured on an OS6600 OS7000 series switch Workaround The MDS key id for OSPF virtual links is hardcoded to 1 Any switch that uses gateD and MDS is configured on the virtual link requires that key id is coded accordingly In this gateD example for an OmniSwitch Router the ID is set to 1 ospf yes backbone interface 212 1 1 194 priority 2 virtuallink neighborid 196 transitarea 3 auth md5 key hawkVL id 1 hellointernal 10 routerdeadinterval 40 j5 page 84 OmniSwitch 6600 7000 8800 Release 5 4 1 RO1 Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 69893 OSPF Area Summary ranges no longer have an enabled disabled status The presence or absence of a range itself is equivalent to the enabled disabled state on an OS7000 series switch Workaround If a range is to be disabled it should be deleted with the no ip osp area summary range command On creating a range it is automatically in the enabled state PR 72040
127. xceptions PR 72041 Synchronization of flash fails if the elements are not running the same version of code Workaround Only inserting the same version of software is supported If this situation occurs follow the steps below to synchronize the flash to upgrade the stand alone unit to the same version before insert ing 1 Separate the elements of the stack to form two stacks each running the same release version 2 Upgrade one of the two stacks to the same release version as the other 3 Reconnect the two stacks together to reform the initial stack PR 73460 Rarely on takeovers the ipmem task may crash The switch must be rebooted to recover Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 73895 On takeover the NI LED momentarily displays amber Workaround This is normal behavior indicating NI acknowledgement of takeover PR 75043 Changes made but not saved on a redundant CMM setup will not be reflected in the synchronization state on an OS7000 series switch The user may be unaware based on show running directory that the NIs will all reset on takeover Workaround Changes in configuration should be saved and synchronized for redundant CMMs PR 77206 On an OS7000 series switch during a takeover or failover due to the IP Stack transition some of the messages may not be able to log to a remote device if one enables the syslog mechanism This period may be in the boundary of a second Workaroun
128. ystem Requirements OmniSwitch 6600 Note The following Miniboot and BootROM upgrades are for manufacturing purposes only They are used to support the SST BootROM chip A field upgrade is not needed for 5 4 1 RO1 The Miniboot 5 1 2 2 R01 and BootROM 5 1 4 128 R01 are sufficient at this time e Miniboot 5 1 5 115 R02 e BootROM 5 1 5 115 R02 Power Supply Requirements The OS7000 8800 power supply requirements vary depending on the number of Network Interface NI modules installed in the switch and the power redundancy requirements Each OS7800 OS8800 chassis contains four slots for power supplies and the OS7700 chassis has three slots for power supplies Note In a fully loaded chassis configuration the OS7700 requires a minimum of two power supplies the OS7800 requires three power supplies and the OS8800 requires three power supplies See the OmniSwitch 7700 7800 Hardware User Guide and the OmniSwitch 8800 Hardware User Manual for more informa tion about power supply requirements Upgrading to 5 4 1 RO1 There is no new procedure required for upgrading from 5 1 6 R02 to 5 4 1 R01 However if the switch is running a version prior to 5 1 6 R02 such as 5 1 5 then upgrading to 5 1 6 R02 is required before upgrad ing to 5 4 1 RO1 Instructions for upgrading to 5 1 6 R02 image files Miniboot Bootrom FPGA are available on the Customer Support website along with 5 1 6 R02 and 5 4 1 RO1 software http eservice ind alcatel com

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