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 Patch Release Note

Patch SB251-13
For SwitchBlade 4000 Series Switches and 
AT-9800 Series Switches

Introduction

This patch release note lists the issues addressed and enhancements made in 
patch SB251-13 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.

This release note should be read in conjunction with the following documents:

SwitchBlade Documentation Set for Software Release 2.5.1 (Document 
Number C613-03057-00 Rev A).

AT-9800 Series Switches Documentation Set for Software Release 2.5.1 
(Document Number C613-03056-00 Rev A) 

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 ensure 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.

Table 1: Patch file details for Patch SB251-13.

Base Software Release File

sb-251.rez

Patch Release Date

08-Oct-03

Compressed Patch File Name

sb251-13.paz

Compressed Patch File Size

525044

Содержание SB251-13

Страница 1: ...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 U...

Страница 2: ...and This issue has been resolved Running the PURGE IP command with a multicast address and multiple sources was causing a fatal error This issue has been resolved The value specified for the IP parame...

Страница 3: ...lved When CAM segments were full the CAM entries were not being moved correctly and occasionally corrupting on compaction This issue has been resolved The SHOW SYS SYSR SLAVE command did not return a...

Страница 4: ...ntExist counter When a user logged on twice thus creating two sessions the user log on time for the second session was overwriting the value recorded for the first This issue has been resolved by disp...

Страница 5: ...the file name using the shortened DOS 8 3 format where file names are 8 characters long with extensions of 3 characters This issue has been resolved so that long configuration file names are now displ...

Страница 6: ...0 This issue has been resolved MLD and MLD Snooping now require the hop limit to be 1 Packets with bad ACK numbers were sometimes generated by the firewall as part of the proxy TCP setup process These...

Страница 7: ...This issue has been resolved A multihomed interface sometimes sent duplicate multicast packets This issue has been resolved The incorrect logical interface was selected for broadcast packets received...

Страница 8: ...een resolved A fatal error occurred when the PIM path was recovering This issue has been resolved MLD startup query packets were not being sent correctly due to IPv6 MLD being unaware of the IPv6 inte...

Страница 9: ...into one physical interface the RIPng request packet was erroneously transmitted from all interfaces on the switch This issue has been resolved BGP sent Update packets when the local host route table...

Страница 10: ...net command line parameter was repeated for example SHOW TELNET TELNET These issues have been resolved Packets were not routed when an IPv6 flow was enabled This issue has been resolved The switch was...

Страница 11: ...debug information was returned when an ICMPv6 PacketTooBig message was received This issue has been resolved The IPSec configuration was not created correctly when the RADDRESS and LNAME parameters in...

Страница 12: ...ts and interfaces were causing fatal errors due to the excessive number of link state advertisements generated This issue has been resolved by limiting the combined number of routers and hosts within...

Страница 13: ...resolved by preventing the configuration being set from files other than those located in the root directory The prune time limit was not being cancelled when an IGMP join was received by the switch T...

Страница 14: ...correctly when hot swapping line cards This resulted in links other than the preferred link being selected Also when a layer two data stream was forwarded from one line card the source card to another...

Страница 15: ...6 multicast traffic out all ports MLD snooping is independent of the MLD and Layer 3 configuration so an IPv6 interface does not have to be attached to the VLAN and MLD does not have to be enabled or...

Страница 16: ...dresses should be avoided if MLD snooping is used MLD snooping is enabled by default To disable it use the command DISABLE MLDSNOOPING Note that IPv6 multicast packets will flood the VLAN when MLD sno...

Страница 17: ...W MLDSNOOPING command MLD Snooping Status ENABLED Debugging DISABLED Group Timeout 270 Secs Interface vlan1 Multicast Address ff05 2222 3333 4444 5555 6666 7777 1111 Ports 1 2 4 6 Entry Timeout 120 Se...

Страница 18: ...erface Ports The member ports for the multicast group Entry Timeout The number of seconds remaining until this multicast registration will be deleted if no listener joins are received MLD Snooping Cou...

Страница 19: ...issue has been resolved In configurations using two switch controller cards the system redundancy feature SYSR could not locate and initialise the second switch control card This issue has been resolv...

Страница 20: ...t MAXBANDWIDTH setting regardless of either the configured value or the port speed capability This was resulting in the MAXBANDWIDTH value being too high This issue has been resolved Additional messag...

Страница 21: ...mpting to configure port 17 would produce no error message and attempting to configure ports 18 and above would result in an incorrect error message Also the SwitchBlade could be allocated with 17 por...

Страница 22: ...s issue has been resolved PIM4 and PIM6 were not sending Hello packets if the HELLOINTERVAL was not a multiple of 10 This is set with the ADD PIM INTERFACE ADD PIM6 INTERFACE SET PIM INTERFACE and SET...

Страница 23: ...n the ADD BGP PEER and SET BGP PEER commands were not interacting correctly This issue has been resolved The PURGE IP command did not remove ENABLE IP IGMP from the configuration This issue has been r...

Страница 24: ...ts with a TTL greater than 1 will be forwarded The error message for an incorrectly added or removed port now displays both the card and the port identifiers The DELETE SWITCH FILTER command did not w...

Страница 25: ...ange of ports This issue has been resolved Entering the command SET SWITCH TRUNK SPEED was returning the inappropriate error message The INSTANCE specified does not exist This issue has been resolved...

Страница 26: ...P packets are now dropped by IP The SHOW FIREWALL POLICY was not showing the correct debugging items as set with the ENABLE FIREWALL POLICY DEBUG command This issue has been resolved Firewall rules we...

Страница 27: ...g was not updating the L3 multicasting entries for that port This issue has been resolved A log message is now created when a user is forced to logout from an asynchronous port when another user i e s...

Страница 28: ...handled as a link parameter Features in SB251 11 Patch SB251 11 includes all issues resolved and enhancements released in previous patches for Software Release 2 5 1 and the following enhancements Af...

Страница 29: ...s been resolved SMTP proxy was falsely detecting third party relay under some circumstances This issue has been resolved Previously Get or GetNext port state information could not be obtained from the...

Страница 30: ...rtup when SHOW INTERFACE and SHOW ETH STATE had them as down This issue has been resolved The SHOW IPv6 COUNTER command now shows the outAdvert messages in the Total Out Messages counter field DHCP as...

Страница 31: ...to module The file format specifier has been altered from DDDD MMMM NNNNNNNN TTT to MMMM NNNNNNNN TTT IGMP Snooping did not use DVMRP messages to identify a port This issue has been resolved The outp...

Страница 32: ...ource even if it was used for the last successful connection Sometimes healthcheck pings were not sent to the load balancer resources This issue has been resolved The system became unstable if the ADD...

Страница 33: ...DYNAMIC PING command was producing an incorrect output format These issues have been resolved The TRACE command was not working when using an IPv6 link local address This issue has been resolved A me...

Страница 34: ...information for ports on the controller card located in bay A The default now displays all external ports for switch instances except for those on the controller card This command no longer displays...

Страница 35: ...LAN was changing from the DOWN to UP state Also multicast streams could be received while the VLAN was changing from DOWN to UP causing a PIM Reverse Path Forwarding unicast route lookup failure This...

Страница 36: ...ript always contained LQR ON even when the LQR value was not the default This issue has been resolved The EGRESS parameter setting was not displayed by the SHOW CONFIG DYNAMIC command This issue has b...

Страница 37: ...LAC attempted to disconnect the call from its tunnel If the tunnel had not been created the device restarted This issue has been resolved PINGING between blades within the same switch failed whenever...

Страница 38: ...nk cards AT 9800 Series switches were not sending a temperature trap when the temperature exceeded the threshold of 40 C This issue has been resolved Enabling OSPF via the GUI was sometimes causing fa...

Страница 39: ...ue has been resolved Now the VLAN tag is ignored on all devices except Rapier i Series Switches with multiple STPs on the receiving port Multicast Listener Discovery MLD was not setting the filter mod...

Страница 40: ...D was being returned for Fan PSU in SNMP v1 trap messages This issue has been resolved Entering a after SET STP stp name at the CLI to request context sensitive help only returned the PORT and DEFAULT...

Страница 41: ...GBIC installed This issue has been resolved If IPsec was using PPPoE the initiator continued to keep the IPsec SA even if the PPPoE session failed and the ISAKMP Heartbeat timer expired This issue ha...

Страница 42: ...lved The default for the PROXYARP parameter in the SET IP INTERFACE command for a VLAN interface was OFF The default is now ON FTP data transfers did not succeed for some types of NAT Also the presenc...

Страница 43: ...ORY was used to set a non existent or invalid directory This issue has been resolved When the device was acting as a DHCP client and the DHCP server provided a gateway address a statically configured...

Страница 44: ...t incrementing correctly This issue has been resolved In rare circumstances removing the cable from an IPv6 interface was resulting in fatal errors This issue has been resolved A VLAN interface receiv...

Страница 45: ...xecuting the DISABLE SYSTEM SECURITY command This issue has been resolved A fatal error sometimes occurred when forwarding traffic over an IPv6 tunnel This issue has been resolved The SMTP proxy did n...

Страница 46: ...a HTTP This issue has been resolved If the firewall was enabled when BGP was in use outgoing BGP data packets would have IP header errors and incorrect checksums This problem has been resolved If in a...

Страница 47: ...are similar to the following swiCXeVirtCamTranslateAddress ulEntryNo 4294967254 entries 8192 last 106495 An error was not returned if the SET FIREWALL POLICY RULE command was executed with PROTOCOL 1...

Страница 48: ...ent with the correct source IP address When the device was acting as a DNS relay agent a fatal error occurred after approximately 3 hours of heavy load This issue has been resolved HTTP proxy was not...

Страница 49: ...ncreased from 40 C to 60 C Disabling and then enabling IPv6 made the CREATE IPV6 INTERFACE VLAN command appear twice in the configuration script This issue has been resolved A fatal error sometimes oc...

Страница 50: ...Previously when the ADD FIREWALL POLICY INTERFACE command activated software routing the static IP ARP entries were removed automatically Static IP ARP entries now remain and the following message is...

Страница 51: ...The operation of the ADD IPV6 ROUTE command METRIC parameter has changed and now applies differently for statically and non statically defined routes Previously an interface failure would cause this p...

Страница 52: ...en the PROTOCOL parameter was not TCP The SESSION parameter specifies the type of TCP packet to match This issue has been resolved The MIB object dot1dStpTimeSinceTopologyChange has been implemented t...

Страница 53: ...st 10 seconds This issue has been resolved IGMP Query messages were sent over an interface even if IGMP had been disabled on that interface This issue has been resolved SwitchBlade port numbers were d...

Страница 54: ...re deleted the corresponding IP flow cache was not invalidated This issue has been resolved If the firewall received a packet with an incorrect TCP checksum and ACK number the packet was sent to the c...

Страница 55: ...timeout is changed Fatal errors occurred on occasions when mirroring was enabled This issue has been resolved The output of the SHOW DVMRP FORWARDING command did not display the forwarding ports This...

Страница 56: ...d STP ports were not remaining in the disabled state This issue has also been resolved When changing from RSTP to STP mode the STPCOMPATIBLE option for the RSTPTYPE parameter incorrectly appeared in t...

Страница 57: ...n unrelated port to stop forwarding packets or learn new MAC addresses This issue has been resolved so that unrelated ports are not affected by the trunk group port deletion All IP routes were being a...

Страница 58: ...hcost 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 do...

Страница 59: ...eature 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 detail...

Страница 60: ...llowing enhancements 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 une...

Страница 61: ...listed in Table 7 Patch SB251 03 includes all issues resolved and enhancements released in previous patches for Software Release 2 5 1 and the following enhancements The SwitchBlade mirror port field...

Страница 62: ...ld 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 Incorrect handling of TCP sessions and po...

Страница 63: ...ue has been resolved 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 tes...

Страница 64: ...of the port bandwidth used when the default traffic class percentage bandwidth is set on a QoS Policy Adding a layer 2 filter on a SwitchBlade did not block traffic to the end host as intended This i...

Страница 65: ...FLOW PAUSE command was executed on a port or ports they would still appear to be enabled at a higher level This issue has been resolved DHCP RENEW request messages are now unicast as defined in the R...

Страница 66: ...d was inserted in the left hand slot to act as a slave has been resolved Support has been added to allow for multicasting to any number of overlapping VLANs up to the maximum number of multicast forwa...

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