Allied Telesis SB251-08 User's Manual
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1. Compressed Patch File Name sb251 07 paz Compressed Patch File Size 79684 bytes Patch SB251 06 includes all issues resolved and enhancements released in previous patches for Software Release 2 5 1 and the following enhancements PCR 03340 Module SWI SYSR Level 1 After a power cycle or a reboot command the SwitchBlade would occasionally repeatedly restart if it had two active controller cards Also the Slave controller card would sometimes not take over if the Master controller card failed Features in SB251 05 Patch file details are listed in Table 4 Table 4 Patch file details for Patch B251 05 Base Software Release File sb 251 rez Patch Release Date 31 Mar 2003 Compressed Patch File Name sb251 05 paz Compressed Patch File Size 71096 bytes Patch B251 08 for Software Release 2 5 1 C613 10361 00 REV H Patch B251 08 For SwitchBlade 4000 Series Switches and AT 9800 Series Switches 5 Patch SB251 05 includes all issues resolved and enhancements released in previous patches for Software Release 2 5 1 and the following enhancements PCR 03281 Module SWI Level 2 Specifying the PORT and SPEED parameters with the CREATE SWITCH TRUNK command did not set ports in a trunk group to advertise the correct trunk group speed and duplex mode This issue has been resolved PCR 03313 Module SWI Level 1 A power cycle on the switch could cause the console port to become frozen if a port was ina link up state If2. a port went into a link down state then the console port became unfrozen If RESTART REBOOT or RESTART SWITCH commands were used then the console port functioned correctly This issue has been resolved Features in SB251 04 Patch file details are listed in Table 5 Table 5 Patch file details for Patch B251 04 Base Software Release File sb 251 rez Patch Release Date 24 Mar 2003 Compressed Patch File Name sb251 04 paz Compressed Patch File Size 71112 bytes Patch SB251 04 includes all issues resolved and enhancements released in previous patches for Software Release 2 5 1 and the following enhancements PCR 03226 Module SWI Level 2 An internal misconfiguration of memory occurred when an M3 control card and an M5 control card were installed and the M3 control card was acting as the Master This could cause unexpected restarts This issue has been resolved PCR 03228 Module SWI Level 1 On a 48 port line card or a 32F card if Port 1 went down or was disconnected then traffic on Port 13 was also stopped and vice versa The same issue affected other pairs of ports This issue has been resolved PCR 03230 Module SWI Level 2 Port speeds on trunk ports sometimes had to be set using the SET SWITCH PORT command instead of automatically adopting the trunk group speed If a port was added to a trunk group and the port status was up that is it was correctly connected to another port then the trunk group
3. speed should have applied to all the ports in the trunk but it did not Similarly if a port was added to a trunk group and the port status was down but it was later linked correctly then the trunk group speed should have applied to the ports in the trunk This issue has been resolved Patch B251 08 for Software Release 2 5 1 C613 10361 00 REV H Patch Release Note PCR 03243 Module SWI Level 2 After autonegotiation had finished between two ports the port on the SwitchBlade would not show link up status when the SHOW SWITCH PORT command was executed The autonegotiation process is now restarted if autonegotiation is completed and the link is shown as down PCR 03249 Module SWI Level 4 The LEDs on line cards now continue to flash when activity exists Previously if a cable was connected and disconnected to Line 48 and G8 ports with traffic being transmitted from the other end then the LED would stop flashing even when there was activity on the link Features in SB251 03 Patch file details are listed in Table 6 Table 6 Patch file details for Patch B251 03 Base Software Release File sb 251 rez Patch Release Date 12 Mar 2003 Compressed Patch File Name sb251 03 paz Compressed Patch File Size 68784 bytes Patch SB251 03 includes all issues resolved and enhancements released in previous patches for Software Release 2 5 1 and the following enhancements PCR 02361 Module SWI Level 4 The SwitchBla
4. 251 08 for Software Release 2 5 1 C613 10361 00 REV H 12 Patch Release Note Patch B251 08 for Software Release 2 5 1 C613 10361 00 REV H
5. Module STP SWI Level 1 With this enhancement e STP and Port Trunking now work together correctly e BDPU Forwarding is implemented The BPDU Forwarding feature configures the switch to forward all received STP BPDUs Under normal circumstances the switch will not forward any received STP BPDUs even if STP is enabled This implementation is for standard STP it does not guarantee that RSTP and port trunking will work correctly together in all situations STP does not update the pathcost for trunked ports which means that a trunk group has the same pathcost as a single port This may cause STP Blocking where it is not expected To overcome this the user should explicitly set the pathcost for the trunk group ports to be less than the default value for a single port STP reconfigures if the Master port in a trunk group goes link down If the Master port in a trunk group goes link down and a Non Master port is still link up then STP will go through the Listening gt Learning gt Forwarding reconfiguration on the new Master port This means that there will be a switching outage on the trunk group whilst the new Master port transitions to the Forwarding state Command handler changes e The PORT parameter of the CREATE SWITCH TRUNK PORT and ADD SWITCH TRUNK PORT commands must specify ports that have identical STP port configurations e The ENABLE STP and ENABLE STP PORT commands cannot be used to enable STP operation on a port that ha
6. Patch Release Note Patch SB251 08 For SwitchBlade 4000 Series Switches and AT 9800 Series Switches Introduction This patch release note lists the issues addressed and enhancements made in patch SB251 08 for Software Release 2 5 1 on existing models of SwitchBlade 4000 Series Switches and AT 9800 Series Switches Patch file details are listed in Table 1 Table 1 Patch file details for Patch B251 08 Base Software Release File sb 251 rez Patch Release Date 14 May 2003 Compressed Patch File Name sb251 08 paz Compressed Patch File Size 86524 bytes This release note should be read in conjunction with the following documents E SwitchBlade Documentation Set for Software Release 2 5 1 Document Number C613 03057 00 Rev A m AT9800 Series Switches Documentation Set for Software Release 2 5 1 Document Number C613 03056 00 Rev A m Release Note for Software Release 2 5 1 for SwitchBlade 4000 Switches and AT 9800 Series Switches Document Number C613 10354 00 Rev D available on the Documentation and Tools CD ROM packaged with your switch or from www alliedtelesyn co nz documentation documentation html WARNING Using a patch for a different model or software release may cause unpredictable results including disruption to the network Information in this release note is subject to change without notice and does not represent a commitment on the part of Allied Telesyn International While every effort has been made to en
7. d the configuration script was not loaded This issue has been resolved PCR 03030 Module SWI Network affecting No RIP was not operating correctly because a MAC address search returned the wrong port number This issue has been resolved PCR 03031 Module FIREWALL Network affecting No The ADD FIREWALL POLICY RULE command included an erroneous check on port ranges for non NAT rules This check is now restricted to NAT rules PCR 03034 Module SWI Network affecting No Executing the SET IP INTERFACE and SET IPX INTERFACE commands on a SwitchBlade produced debugging output on the ASYN port This issue has been resolved PCR 03037 Module QOS Network affecting No A new value is now shown in the output of the SHOW QOS POLICY command This is the value of the port bandwidth used when the default traffic class percentage bandwidth is set on a QoS Policy PCR 03039 Module SWITCH IPG Network affecting No Adding a layer 2 filter on a SwitchBlade did not block traffic to the end host as intended This issue has been resolved PCR 03043 Module SWITCH Network affecting No On a SwitchBlade PCI errors occurred periodically after a line card was hotswapped This issue has been resolved PCR 03047 Module CORE Network affecting No The board revision number for the slave control blade was erroneously set to the same number as the master control blade This issue has been resolved PCR 03428 Module STP Network affectin
8. de mirror port field on the second instance of a switch chip was displaying as though it was the first instance For example if 2 26 was configured as the mirror port the GUI mirror object would return 2 2 The first chip instance was not affected This issue has been resolved PCR 02527 Module TCP Level 3 TCP6 did not send a TCP Reset message under some circumstances for example when the Telnet server was disabled This issue has been resolved PCR 03025 Module GUI Level 2 A buffer address was incrementing and not returning buffers for reuse when the command line interface was accessed via the GUI interface This issue has been resolved PCR 03055 Module SWI Level 4 If the SET SWITCH BLADE command was executed with the default settings then the default settings were added to the configuration file The SET SWITCH BLADE settings are now only added to the configuration file if they differ from the default settings Patch B251 08 for Software Release 2 5 1 C613 10361 00 REV H Patch B251 08 For SwitchBlade 4000 Series Switches and AT 9800 Series Switches 7 PCR 03060 Module CORE SWI Level 3 Support has been added to the MIB 2 interface MIB for the port interface This means that port counters can now be shown PCR 03066 Module SWI Level 2 If a hardware filter was added to the switch with a source VLAN and a destination port of 1 then a host connected to the switch could not PING a host on a different port T
9. executed on a port or ports they would still appear to be enabled at a higher level This issue has been resolved PCR 02396 Module DHCP Network affecting No DHCP RENEW request messages are now unicast as defined in the RFC not broadcast PCR 02575 Module SWI Network affecting No VLAN tagged multicast packets were incorrectly being sent over untagged VLAN interfaces This issue has been resolved PCR 02574 Module DVMRP Network affecting No Some change actions and the resending of prune messages were not operating correctly This issue has been resolved PCR 02582 Module SWI Network affecting No Pause flow control is now disabled by default on all ports This improves performance of the switch when it is congested Patch B251 08 for Software Release 2 5 1 C613 10361 00 REV H Patch B251 08 For SwitchBlade 4000 Series Switches and AT 9800 Series Switches 11 PCR 02587 Module OSPF Network affecting No When OSPF was enabled on startup an OSPF interface would sometimes stay in the DOWN state This issue has been resolved PCR 03001 Module SWI CLASSIFIER Network affecting No The following parameters have been changed CREATE CLASSIFIER SET CLASSIFIER and SHOW CLASSIFIER commands e The MACTYPE parameter has been changed to MACTYPE L2UCAST LAMCAST L2BCAST ANY This resolves an error with internal hardware tables e The number of user specified protocols in the PROTOCOL parameter has been increased from
10. for Patch B251 02 Base Software Release File sb 251 rez Patch Release Date 25 Jan 2003 Compressed Patch File Name sb251 02 paz Compressed Patch File Size 48608 bytes Patch SB251 02 includes all issues resolved and enhancements released in previous patches for Software Release 2 5 1 and the following enhancements PCR 02553 Module SWITCH Network affecting No 64 bit MIB counters were not incremented or cleared for port interfaces This issue has been resolved PCR 02574 Module DVMRP Network affecting No Some change actions and the resending of prune messages were not operating correctly This issue has been resolved PCR 02582 Module SWI Network affecting No Pause flow control is now disabled by default on all ports This improves performance of the switch when it is congested The DPORT parameter in the ADD SWITCH HWFILTER command was omitted when the configuration was generated This issue has been resolved Patch B251 08 for Software Release 2 5 1 C613 10361 00 REV H Patch B251 08 For SwitchBlade 4000 Series Switches and AT 9800 Series Switches Patch B251 08 for Software Release 2 5 1 C613 10361 00 REV H PCR 03023 Module SWI Network affecting No The SET SWITCH PORT ACCEPTABLE command did not work correctly on all specified port numbers This issue has been resolved PCR 03028 Module SWI Network affecting No A warning message was generated when a slave line card was not initialised an
11. g No If a port belongs to an enabled STP instance but the port has been disabled from STP operation with the DISABLE STP PORT command the port will not respond to ARP requests This patch implements a workaround that allows disabled STP ports to respond to ARP requests Patch Release Note Features in SB251 01 Patch file details are listed in Table 8 Table 8 Patch file details for Patch B251 01 Base Software Release File sb 251 rez Patch Release Date 15 Jan 2003 Compressed Patch File Name sb251 01 paz Compressed Patch File Size 71828 bytes PCR 02555 Module SWI Network affecting No Layer 2 filtering is now working correctly PCR 02561 Module SWI Network affecting No 32 bit counters now only show 8 bit contents PCR 02563 Module SWI Network affecting No The IPM Layer 3 Multicasting table now updates correctly to add or delete the ingress linecard to control blade ports and the control blade to egress linecard ports when updating forwarding PCR 02568 Module CORE Network affecting No The ENABLE SYSTEM SECURITY_MODE command was enabling the system security mode but after the switch was restarted the system security mode was disabled again Also when NVS was re initialised because for example a battery had been exhausted the system could not make an SNMP trap These issues have been resolved PCR 02576 Module SWI Network affecting No When the DISABLE SWITCH PORT FLOW PAUSE command was
12. his issue has been resolved PCR 03071 Module CORE Level 2 An unexpected restart that occurred when upgrading a SwitchBlade from Release 2 4 4 to Release 2 5 1 was caused by NVS generating an SNMP trap This issue has been resolved PCR 03079 Module IPG SWI Level 1 Static routes were occasionally not added to all hardware tables across all instances This would affect connectivity if an instance had a default route added to its table that pointed out one of its ports This issue has been resolved PCR 03088 Module SWI Level 2 Ports could not be added to the default VLAN after a hotswap if the default VLAN was Protocol Subnet MAC address or Limited protocol based This issue has been resolved PCR 03105 Module FIREWALL Level 3 Incorrect handling of TCP sessions and poor load balancing performance could be caused by TCP virtual balancers not selecting a new resource if required This issue has been resolved PCR 03112 Module IP V6 Level 3 The ADD IPV6 ND command now has a PORT parameter which means that it can be associated with the VLAN parameter PCR 03118 Module CORE Level 4 Changes have been made to the SysDescription PCR 03119 Module CLASSIFIER Level 4 TCP source and TCP destination ports were swapped when viewed in the GUI This issue has been resolved PCR 03138 Module SWI L evel 2 Packets that were sent out a default route could have an incorrect source IP address if the interface rou
13. nrelated ports are not affected by the trunk group port deletion PCR 03509 Module SWI Level 2 All IP routes were being added to all switch instances This caused issues on SwitchBlade line cards that did not have enough CAM to store the routes and the line card did not always need every route IP routes are now only added e toa switch instance if the route was learned on that instance e if the route is for an interface e if the route was added statically or e if the switch instance has a CAM which is the same size or larger than the CAM of the switch instance that the route was learned on PCR 03518 Module SWI Level 3 An issue exists where the CAM entry 0 in the VLAN Tag table is either not updated or is being overwritten with invalid data This PCR adds debugging to trace the fault Patch B251 08 for Software Release 2 5 1 C613 10361 00 REV H Patch B251 08 For SwitchBlade 4000 Series Switches and AT 9800 Series Switches Patch B251 08 for Software Release 2 5 1 C613 10361 00 REV H 3 Features in SB251 07 Patch file details are listed in Table 2 Table 2 Patch file details for Patch B251 07 Base Software Release File sb 251 rez Patch Release Date 22 Apr 2003 Compressed Patch File Name sb251 07 paz Compressed Patch File Size 86524 bytes Patch SB251 07 includes all issues resolved and enhancements released in previous patches for Software Release 2 5 1 and the following enhancements PCR 03399
14. s been disabled from STP operation because of Port Trunking Only the Master port in a trunk group actively participates in the STP algorithm Non Master ports in the trunk group are in the STP Disabled State e The output for the SHOW STP PORT command has been modifed so that Non Master Ports in a trunk group do not take part in the STP algorithm e The output for the SHOW STP PORT command has been modified so that it displays whether a user has set the PATHCOST value or if it was auto configured Patch Release Note e The PORT parameter of the SET STP PORT command specifies either all the ports in a trunk group or none of the ports in a trunk group e The STPFORWARD parameter has been added to the ENABLE SWITCH and DISABLE SWITCH commands If STPFORWARD is enabled and there is no enabled STP instance then the switch will forward all received BPDUs If STPFORWARD is enabled and an STP instance is enabled then STPFORWARD will be disabled by default and a message will be generated e The SHOW SWITCH command now shows the status of the BPDU Forwarding feature PCR 03401 Module SWI An enhancement has been made to the Test module to optimise the reception of the loopbacked packets that are used to confirm operation of the switch ports Features in SB251 06 Patch file details are listed in Table 3 Table 3 Patch file details for Patch B251 06 Base Software Release File sb 251 rez Patch Release Date 10 Apr 2003
15. sure that the information contained within this document and the features and changes described are accurate Allied Telesyn International can not accept any type of liability for errors in or omissions arising from the use of this information ATZ Allied Telesyn Simply connec ting the world Patch Release Note Some of the issues addressed in this Release Note include a level number This number reflects the importance of the issue that has been resolved For details on level numbers please contact your authorised distributor or reseller Features in SB251 08 Patch SB251 08 includes all issues resolved and enhancements released in previous patches for Software Release 2 5 1 and the following enhancements PCR 03251 Module SWI Level 2 A fatal error occurred when the ADD SWITCH TRUNK command specified an invalid port This issue has been resolved PCR 03414 Module SWI Level 2 A fatal error occurred when removing a line card from a SwitchBlade if STP was enabled This issue has been resolved PCR 03466 Module SWI Level 2 System performance was low when adding large numbers of entries to CAM This issue has been resolved CAM is now initialised to allow better performance especially for the addition of ARP and IP entries PCR 03470 Module SWI Level 2 The DELETE SWITCH TRUNK PORT command could cause an unrelated port to stop forwarding packets or learn new MAC addresses This issue has been resolved so that u
16. te to the destination IP address existed but was down This issue has been resolved PCR 03141 Module IPG Level 3 Packets could be sent with an incorrect source address if a route was added to a VLAN and another VLAN had an IP interface configured that was in the same subnet as the route This issue has been resolved Patch B251 08 for Software Release 2 5 1 C613 10361 00 REV H Patch Release Note PCR 03142 Module SWI Level 1 If a BIST was run at low temperatures for example 5 or 10 degress celcius on a G8 card then a watchdog timer restart could occur The switch now checks for the real course of the external interrupts that occur when running BIST PCR 03148 Module IPG Level 3 If the Gratuitous ARP feature was enabled on an IP interface and an ARP packet arrived either ARP request or reply that had a Target IP address that was equal to the SenderIP address then the ARP cache was not updated with the ARP packet s source data This issue has been resolved PCR 03191 Module SWI Level 1 If two line cards were inserted in quick succession then a software restart could occasionally occur This issue has been resolved PCR 03192 Module SWI Level 2 When the Built In Self Test was run a fault would occasionally be reported which said that a MAC address was not learnt during the loopback test The ports in the BIST loopback test now remain in loopback Features in SB251 02 Table 7 Patch file details
17. three to seven e The minimum value of the IPXDADDRESS parameter has been decreased from 10000000 to 00000001 PCR 03006 Module SWI Network affecting No An issue which sometimes resulted in a broadcast storm within the internal ports on the SwitchBlade a reduction in bandwidth and a loss of pinging has been resolved PCR 3008 Module SWI Network affecting No An issue which caused pings to fail when a control card was inserted in the left hand slot to act as a slave has been resolved PCR 03014 Module IPG SWI Network affecting No Support has been added to allow for multicasting to any number of overlapping VLANs up to the maximum number of multicast forwarding entries PCR 03018 Module SWI Network affecting No An issue with pings failing after network host routes disappeared from the switch due to an IP hashing error has been resolved PCR 03020 Module SWI Network affecting No An issue with an interrupt occurring when waiting on the MDIO which caused the MDIO to read or write incorrect information has been resolved PCR 03021 Module SWI Network affecting No Ping would sometimes not work correctly after a 48 line card was extracted and after a restart reboot This issue has been resolved Availability Patches can be downloaded from the Software Updates area of the Allied Telesyn web site at www alliedtelesyn co nz support updates patches html A licence or password is not required to use a patch Patch B
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