Alcatel OmniSwitch 6800, Release Notes

Page 1: ...ware or load ing new software Contents Related Documentation see page 2 System Requirements see page 4 Memory Requirements see page 4 UBoot FPGA MiniBoot BootROM and Upgrade Requirements see page 4 New Hardware Supported see page 5 Supported Hardware Software Combinations see page 9 New Software Features see page 11 Software Supported see page 13 Supported Traps see page 37 Unsupported Software Fe...

Page 2: ...s Hardware User Guide Complete technical specifications and procedures for all OmniSwitch 6850 Series chassis power supplies and fans OmniSwitch 9000 Series Hardware User Guide Complete technical specifications and procedures for all OmniSwitch 9000 Series chassis power supplies and fans OmniSwitch CLI Reference Guide Complete reference to all CLI commands supported on the OmniSwitch Includes synt...

Page 3: ...formation on all the software features and protocols included in the advanced routing software package Chapters cover multicast routing DVMRP and PIM BGP OSPF and OSPFv3 Upgrade Instructions for 6 1 3 R01 Provides instructions for upgrading the OmniSwitch 6800 6850 9000 to 6 1 3 R01 Technical Tips Field Notices Contracted customers can visit our customer service website at http eservice ind alcate...

Page 4: ... flash memory Use the show hardware info command to deter mine your SDRAM and flash memory UBoot FPGA Miniboot BootROM and Upgrade Requirements Note Field upgrade of existing OmniSwitch units is required prior to loading this release See the Upgrad ing OmniSwitch 6800 6850 and 9000 Series Switches to 6 1 3 R01 upgrade instructions for more informa tion The software versions listed in this section ...

Page 5: ...E ports as well as four combo ports individually configurable to be 10 100 1000 Base T PoE or 1000 Base X high speed connections OS6850 P48L The OmniSwitch 6850 P48L is a stackable edge workgroup switch offering 44 unshared 10 100Base T Power over Ethernet PoE ports as well as four combo ports individually configurable to be 10 100 1000 Base T PoE or 1000 Base X high speed connections OS6850 U24X ...

Page 6: ... system services including Console USB and Ethernet management port connections to the switch Software and configuration management including the Command Line Interface CLI Web based management WebView SNMP management Power distribution Switch diagnostics Important availability features including redundancy when used in conjunction with another CMM software rollback temperature management and powe...

Page 7: ...New Ethernet Transceivers SFPs The following Gigabit Ethernet dual speed Ethernet and 100FX Ethernet transceivers are available in this release Gigabit Ethernet Transceiver SFP MSA SFP GIG T 1000Base T Gigabit Ethernet Transceiver SFP MSA Supports category 5 5E and 6 copper cabling up to 100m SFP only works in 1000 Mbit s speed and full duplex mode Dual Speed Ethernet Transceivers SFP DUAL MM Dual...

Page 8: ...0 100Base FX SFP transceiver Supports single mode fiber over 1310nm wavelength nominal with an LC connector Typical reach of 40 Km Supported Configuration Matrix for New Ethernet Transceivers The following table shows the Ethernet transceiver configurations supported with the 6 1 3 R01 release SFP OS6800 OS6850 Combo Ports OS6800 U24 Non Combo Ports OS6850 U24X OS9 GNI U24 SFP GIG T 1000Base T Gig...

Page 9: ...2 902397 not supported supported n a supported OS9 GNI P24 ASIC B2 902395 not supported not supported n a supported OS9 XNI U6 ASIC B2 902398 not supported not supported n a supported OS6850 24 902457 n a n a supported supported OS6850 48 902495 n a n a supported supported OS6850 24X 902458 n a n a supported supported OS6850 48X 902462 n a n a supported supported OS6850 P24 902459 n a n a supporte...

Page 10: ... Power Consumption 51 Power Control Checksum 0x0 MAC Address 00 d0 95 e6 54 80 ASIC Physical 1 BCM56504_B2 CPLD Physical 1 0005 00 UBOOT Version 6 1 1 167 R02 UBOOT miniboot Version No Miniboot POE SW Version n a To determine the CMM board revision use the show cmm command For example the following show cmm output display shows a C revision level for the CMM board DC Core show cmm Module in slot C...

Page 11: ...OS9000 base DHCP Snooping OS9000 base Generic UDP Relay all base IP DoS Enhancements OS6850 OS9000 base IP Multicast Switching IPMS Proxying all base IPv6 Multicast Switching IPMS Proxying OS6850 OS9000 base IP Route Map Redistribution all base L2 DHCP Snooping all base L2 Static Multicast Addresses all base L2 MAC Address Table Size Enhancement OS9000 base OSPFv3 OS6850 OS9000 base advanced routi...

Page 12: ...Software Features page 12 OmniSwitch 6800 6850 9000 Release 6 1 3 R01 VLAN Range Support all base VLAN Stacking and Translation OS6850 OS9000 base VRRPv3 OS6850 OS9000 base Feature Platform Software Package ...

Page 13: ...e ACL Layer 3 Security all base ACL Manager ACLMAN OS6850 OS9000 base Authenticated Switch Access all base Authenticated VLANs all base Automatic VLAN Containment AVC all base Basic IPv4 Routing all base Basic IPv6 Routing static RIPng all base BGP4 all base BPDU Shutdown Ports OS6800 OS9000 base Command Line Interface CLI all base DHCP Relay all base DHCP Option 82 all base DHCP Snooping all base...

Page 14: ...00 base Port Mapping all Port Mirroring 1 24 OS6800 base Port Monitoring all base Power over Ethernet PoE OS6850 OS9000 base Quality of Service QoS all base Redirection Policies Port and Link Aggregate OS6850 OS9000 base RMON all base Router Discovery Protocol RDP all base Routing Protocol Preference all base Secure Copy SCP all base Secure Shell SSH all base SSH Public Key Authentication all base...

Page 15: ...ult Spanning Tree protocol for the OmniSwitch 6800 6850 9000 regardless of which mode flat or 1x1 is active 802 1x Device Classification Access Guardian In addition to the authentication and VLAN classification of 802 1x clients supplicants this implementa tion of 802 1x secure port access extends this type of functionality to non 802 1x clients non suppli cants To this end device classification p...

Page 16: ...s The following QoS policy conditions are now available for configuring ACLs to filter IPv6 traffic Note the following when using IPv6 ACLs Trusted untrusted behavior is the same for IPv6 traffic as it is for IPv4 traffic IPv6 policies do not support the use of network groups service groups map groups or MAC groups IPv6 multicast policies are not supported Anti spoofing and other UserPorts profile...

Page 17: ...to those ports that are designated as members of the UserPorts port group DropServices A service group that improves the performance of ACLs that are intended to deny packets destined for specific TCP UDP ports This group only applies to ports that are members of the UserPorts group Using the DropServices group for this function minimizes processing overhead which otherwise could lead to a DoS con...

Page 18: ...available the switch will poll the local user database for login information if the switch is configured for local checking of the user database The database includes information about whether or not a user is able to log into the switch and what kinds of privileges or rights the user has for managing the switch Authenticated VLANs Authenticated VLANs control user access to network resources based...

Page 19: ...rotocol UDP information OmniSwitch 9000 supports hardware routing flooding to static arp with multicast MAC address Note The switch operates only in single MAC router mode In this mode each router VLAN is assigned the same MAC address which is the base chassis MAC address for the switch BGP4 The Border Gateway Protocol BGP is an exterior routing protocol that guarantees the loop free exchange of r...

Page 20: ... 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 th...

Page 21: ...dress the DNS fails If the DNS fails you must either enter an IP address in place of the host name or specify the neces sary lookup tables on one of the specified servers Dynamic VLAN Assignment Mobility Dynamic assignment applies only to mobile ports and requires the additional configuration of VLAN rules When traffic is received on a mobile port the packets are examined to determine if their con...

Page 22: ...des support for this feature on the OmniSwitch 6800 Series OmniSwitch 6850 Series and OmniSwitch 9000 Series Health Statistics To monitor resource availability the NMS Network Management System needs to collect significant amounts of data from each switch As the number of ports per switch and the number of switches increases the volume of data can become overwhelming The Health Monitoring feature ...

Page 23: ...a one to many communication technique employed by emerging applications such as video distribution news feeds conferencing netcasting and resource discovery OSPF RIP2 and BOOTP Unlike unicast which sends one packet per destination multicast sends one packet to all devices in any subnetwork that has at least one device requesting the multicast traffic Multicast switching also requires much less ban...

Page 24: ...s are allowed or denied access to the network In addi tion a route map may also contain statements that modify route parameters before they are redistributed Redistribution is configured by specifying a source and destination protocol and the name of an existing route map Criteria specified in the route map is applied to routes received from the source protocol The 6 1 3 R01 release provides suppo...

Page 25: ...the OmniSwitch 6800 Series OmniSwitch 6850 Series and OmniSwitch 9000 Series L2 MAC Address Table Size Enhancement There are now two source learning modes available for the OmniSwitch 9000 Series switches synchro nized and distributed By default the switch runs in the synchronized mode which allows a total MAC address tables size of 16K per chassis Enabling the distributed mode for the switch incr...

Page 26: ...s Scalability You can configure up to 32 link aggregation groups that can consist of 2 4 or 8 Ethernet ports Reliability If one of the physical links in a link aggregate group goes down the link aggregate group can still operate Ease of Migration Link aggregation can ease the transition from a Gigabit Ethernet backbone to a 10 Gigabit Ethernet backbone Interoperability with Legacy Switches Static ...

Page 27: ...ets to coexist on the same VLAN A network is said to be multinetted when multiple IP subnets are brought together within a single broadcast domain VLAN It is possible to assign up to eight different IP interfaces per VLAN NTP Client The Network Time Protocol NTP is used to synchronize the time of a computer client or server to another server or reference time source such as a radio or satellite re...

Page 28: ...lication PolicyView is an OmniVista application that runs on an attached workstation The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol LDAP is a standard directory server protocol The LDAP policy server client in the switch is based on RFC 2251 Currently PolicyView is supported for policy management Policy Based Routing Permanent Mode Policy Based Routing may be used to redirect traffic to a particular ga...

Page 29: ...a number from 1 to 24 OS6800 or 1 to 128 OS6850 OS9000 anywhere on the stack In other words you can configure up to 24 or 128 source ports for a single destination port in a session on a stack You cannot configure port mirroring and port monitoring on the same NI module Power over Ethernet PoE The Power over Ethernet PoE software is supported on the OS6850 P24 OS6850 P24X OS6850 P48 and OS6850 P48...

Page 30: ...otocol used to manage networks remotely RMON probes can be used to collect interpret and forward statistical data about network traffic from designated active ports in a LAN segment to an NMS Network Management System application for monitoring and analyzing without negatively impacting network performance RMON software is fully integrated in the software to acquire statistical information This fe...

Page 31: ... protocol SFTP is a subsystem of the Secure Shell protocol All Secure Shell FTP data are encrypted through a Secure Shell channel When used as an SSH Server the following SSH Software is supported on the indicated operating systems When used as an SSH Client the following SSH Software is supported on the indicated operating systems Secure Shell SSH Public Key Authentication DSA public key authenti...

Page 32: ... collector makes use of SNMP to communicate with an sFlow agent in order to configure sFlow monitoring on the device switch Smart Continuous Switching OmniSwitch 6800 OmniSwitch 6850 In stacked configurations one switch is designated as the primary management module for the stack Because the stack can be thought of as a virtual chassis the role of this primary management switch is to monitor and m...

Page 33: ...esses that are statically assigned to a port and VLAN In addition Source Learning also tracks MAC address age and removes addresses from the MAC address table that have aged beyond the configurable aging timer value Accessing MAC Address Table entries is useful for managing traffic flow and troubleshooting network device connectivity problems There are two types of source learning modes currently ...

Page 34: ...vers Switch Logging The Switch Logging feature is designed to provide a high level event logging mechanism that can be useful in maintaining and servicing the switch Switch Logging uses a formatted string mechanism to process log requests from applications When a log request is received Switch Logging verifies whether the Severity Level included with the request is less than or equal to the Severi...

Page 35: ...r customers with Transparent LAN Services TLS This service is multipoint in nature so as to support multiple customer sites or networks distributed over the edges of a service provider network VRRPv2 VRRPv3 The Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol version 3 VRRPv3 is now available with the 6 1 3 R01 release This implementation is based on the latest Internet Draft for VRRP for IPv6 VRRP version 2 VR...

Page 36: ...nagement tool The WebView application is embedded in the switch and is accessible via the following web browsers Internet Explorer 6 0 and later for Windows NT 2000 XP 2003 Netscape 7 1 for Windows NT 2000 XP Netscape 7 0 for Solaris SunOS 5 8 WebView contains modules for configuring all software features in the switch Configuration and moni toring pages include context sensitive on line help ...

Page 37: ...is generated when a conceptual row is created modified or deleted in one of the entity tables 6 aipAMAPStatusTrap all The status of the Alcatel Mapping Adjacency Protocol AMAP port changed 7 aipGMAPConflictTrap This trap is not supported 8 policyEventNotification all The switch notifies the NMS when a significant event happens that involves the policy manager 9 chassisTrapsStr all A software troub...

Page 38: ...s on the same interface with a lower IP address than itself 23 dvmrpNeighborNotPruning all 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 t...

Page 39: ... for this NI 31 unused 32 unused 33 slbTrapOperStatus A change occurred in the operational status of the server load balancing entity 34 ifMauJabberTrap 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...

Page 40: ...ed at a 15 second interval This trap is sent every 1 minute while the HTTP server detects it is under attack 54 alaStackMgrDuplicateRoleTrap The element identified by alaStack MgrSlotNINumber detected the pres ence of two elements with the same primary or secondary role as specified by alaStackMgrChasRole on the stack 55 alaStackMgrClearedSlotTrap The element identified by alaStack MgrSlotNINumber...

Page 41: ...iven port detaches from the link aggregate group 64 lnkaggPortRemove all This trap is sent when any given port of the link aggregate group is removed due to an invalid configura tion 65 pktDrop all The pktDrop trap indicates that the sending agent has dropped certain packets to blocked IP ports from spoofed addresses etc 66 monitorFileWritten all A File Written Trap is sent when the amount of data...

Page 42: ...ence ip bgp redist filter metric ip bgp redist filter effect ip bgp redist filter subnets Chassis Mac Server mac range local mac range duplicate eeprom mac range allocate local only show mac range status Command Line Interface CLI 10 gig slot slot phy a phy b Flow Control flow flow wait time interfaces flow Ethernet Interfaces interfaces long interfaces runt interfaces runtsize Hot Swap reload ni ...

Page 43: ...c ip rip redist filter ip rip redist filter effect ip rip redist filter metric ip rip redist filter route tag ip rip redist filter redist control VLANs vlan router mac multiple enable disable vlan binding mac port protocol vlan binding mac ip vlan binding ip port Chassis Supervision show fabric Software Feature Unsupported CLI Commands ...

Page 44: ...able alaBgpCommunityMatchListTable alaBgpCommunityPriMatchListTable alaBgpDebugTable AlcatelIND1Dot1Q qPortVlanForceTagInternal AlcatelIND1GroupMobility vPortIpBRuleTable vMacIpBRuleTable vMacPortProtoBRuleTable vCustomRuleTable AlcatelIND1Health healthDeviceTemperatureCmmCpuLatest healthDeviceTemperatureCmmCpu1MinAvg healthDeviceTemperatureCmmCpu1HrAvg healthDeviceTemperatureCmmCpu1HrMax AlcatelI...

Page 45: ...ernateGatewayIpAddrStatus alaQoSAppliedActionSourceRewriteIpAddr alaQoSAppliedActionSourceRewriteIpAddrStatus alaQoSAppliedActionSourceRewriteIpMask alaQoSAppliedActionSourceRewriteNetworkGroup alaQoSAppliedActionSourceRewriteNetworkGroupStatus alaQoSAppliedActionDestinationRewriteIpAddr alaQoSAppliedActionDestinationRewriteIpAddrStatus alaQoSAppliedActionDestinationRewriteIpMask alaQoSAppliedActi...

Page 46: ...StaticTable IETF_ENTITY entLogicalTable entLPMappingTable entAliasMappingTable IETF_ETHERLIKE dot3CollTable dot3StatsSQETestErrors dot3StatsInternalMacTransmitErrors dot3StatsCarrierSenseErrors dot3StatsInternalMacReceiveErrors dot3StatsEtherChipSet dot3StatsSymbolErrors dot3ControlInUnknownOpcodes IETF_IF ifRcvAddressTable ifTestTable IETF_IP_FORWARD_MIB ipForwardTable IETF_IPMROUTE_STD ipMrouteS...

Page 47: ...fConfDomain 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 snmpTrap sysORLastChange IETF_SNMP_ COMMUNITY RFC 2576 snmpTargetAddrExtTable IETF_SN...

Page 48: ...they do not have an immediate effect Workaround The Session Manager polls the servers through AAA every 5 minutes for changes in permissions For an immediate impact the administrator may remove the user from the switch to deprive the user from certain permissions This way the new permissions are current when the user logs on again By the same token whenever an administrator decides to remove a use...

Page 49: ...this time PR 106919 On an OS6850 it is not possible to disable all RMON probes with a single SNMP command Workaround When using SNMP disable each probe individually sFlow Problem Reports PR 100009 On an OS6850 sFlowCpTable and sFlowFsTable return data of zero when an existing NI is removed or powered down Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 106130 The syntax for sflowReceiver a...

Page 50: ...w more ports than those displayed by the CLI command show tcp ports The ports shown by the CLI command are valid Workaround There is no known workaround at this time Web Based Management WebView Feature Exceptions 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 an...

Page 51: ...S device Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 96274 On an OS9000 in WebView Networking IP Multicast IPv4 Switching Configuration and Networking IP Multicast IPv6 Switching Configuration pages show the actual configuration only but not the effective configuration of the system in parenthesis of the Status Querying Spoofing and Zapping Workaround Use CLI to view the effective conf...

Page 52: ...63 or less Note This configu ration setting limit occurs all throughout WebView PR 106914 In WebView System System Mgmt Install page on an OS9000 the file transfer fails in a dual NIC Network Interface Card environment Workaround Momentarily disable the network of the NIC not in use for the transfer and re enable after the transfer PR 107228 In WebView Physical Health Port Statistics page after cl...

Page 53: ...odify help local Preference Value hyperlink is broken Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 107530 When using the Netscape browser to access the WebView Policy Policy Ports page after clicking on either Previous or Next buttons and then clicking on the Refresh button a method not allowed error is displayed Workaround Click on the Ports menu to refresh Autonegotiation Problem Repo...

Page 54: ... are counted as unicast packets AND as error packets even if the packet is a broadcast or multicast packet 2 For ports operating at speeds of 10 Mbps or 100 Mbps a packet is not counted as an error packet unless it is longer than 9216 bytes Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 94866 Invalid Packets with SA or DA set to all 0 s continue to get bridged by the system Workaround The...

Page 55: ...ce is accepted by the IEEE standard Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 95526 On an OS9000 if the admin status of the physical interface is toggled while sending high rates of traffic on the 10G interface some CRC errors are reported on the host connected to the interface Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 105079 On OS6850 combo copper ports the link will t...

Page 56: ...106041 On OS6850 U24x combo ports if two OS6850 U24x boxes are connected back to back in Preferred Fiber mode with copper cable on copper combo ports and no cable on corresponding fiber ports then if the mode of those ports is changed to Force Fiber mode then LEDs of copper ports stay ON even though the link on those copper ports go down The LED s on copper media are turned off once the fiber side...

Page 57: ...f this condition occurs on the mobile port admin down and up the mobile port PR 107326 When the admin state of VLAN 1 is toggled between disable enable on an OS6850 it is possible to have mobile ports stuck in a blocking state Workaround If this condition occurs on the mobile port admin down and up the mobile port IP Multicast Switching IPMS Problem Reports PR 95057 On an OS6850 9000 the IPv6 Mult...

Page 58: ...orkaround There is no known workaround at this time Link Aggregation Problem Reports PR 90656 The same actor admin key assigned for two different dynamic link aggregates could cause ports to join wrong aggregates Workaround Assign unique actor parameters for each configured dynamic link aggregate PR 100537 If the link aggregation state is changed on an OS6850 the config sync status shows incorrect...

Page 59: ... actual packet is being discarded so the operation is functional Workaround The switch could be configured to use software learning mode PR 94181 On an OS9000 if a QoS rule is set on a port to drop all traffic and if LPS is configured on the same port no MACs are learned as part of LPS as all the traffic is dropped Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 94515 On an OS9000 on the p...

Page 60: ...CMM when the primary port of a link aggre gate moves from one NI to another The total count on the NI is correct Workaround Set the source learning aging time value to a small value PR 97670 When the source learning mode is changed on an OS6850 sometimes the number of MACs learned may not be displayed accurately although all the MACs are actually learned Workaround The display count should catch u...

Page 61: ...ort maximum x command taking affect when it comes back up could result in different MACs being filtered The effect is the new secondary has the new MACs filtered but the new primary has both the old and new set of MACs filtered This is why the need to flush out that particular port before the rule takes effect again Workaround If this occurs then explicitly configure which MACs should be allowed v...

Page 62: ...switch is powered off 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 PR 95308 Temporary traffic loops could happen under the following scenarios 1 Reloading of a non root bridge This happens when the bridge is going down and is due to the sequential bringing down of NIs during a reload process It is p...

Page 63: ...e problem does not happen for switched VLAN traffic So there is no chance of a real loop in the network Packets handled in software might experience the problem due to larger transit delays but does not cause any malfunction Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 100356 During boot up a Link aggregate port can momentarily become forwarding before blocking causing BPDU and dynamic ...

Page 64: ...P can display the wrong port as the next best port The next best port is not actually used in topology calculation and has no effect on the network Workaround There is no known workaround at this time VLAN Stacking Problem Reports PR 102958 On an OS9000 setting SVLAN priority using vlan svlan priority command may not work properly Workaround Use the QoS command to trust all VLAN Stacking ports and...

Page 65: ...hat the number of routes in the FIB do not exceed 20K PR 106931 Some objects in alaIpNetToMediaTable return wrong data type counter instead of integer Workaround There is no known workaround at this time DHCP Snooping Problem Reports PR 100435 On an OS6850 a mobile port with incoming DHCP traffic is able to have a DHCP binding created for it but it is not shown in the Binding Port Table Workaround...

Page 66: ...configuration Workaround Make sure the port is not a member of a link aggregate before configuring the ip source filtering IPv6 Problem Reports PR 86669 On an OS6850 OS9000 IPv6 Router Advertisement decrementing timers are not supported for prefix valid lifetimes or prefix preferred lifetimes Workaround Use IPv6 Router Advertisement fixed timers PR 91228 An OS6850 does not detect IPv6 port scannin...

Page 67: ...viously done using the alaIPv6NeighborState object should switch to the new alaIPv6NeighborReachability object PR 105893 A ping6 initiated on an OS9000 to one of its own addresses will succeed even if the interface on which the address is configured is disabled or inactive Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 106826 In certain circumstances on an OS9000 the RIPng routing table a...

Page 68: ...ration file Server Load Balancing SLB Problem Reports PR 105700 For SLB clusters on OS9000 there are no statistics or flow distribution metrics on a server basis The only server statistic is the number of packets passed to a cluster Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 107490 When executing a show ip slb cluster clustername CLI command on a non existing SLB cluster name more tha...

Page 69: ...ll not be able to perform Get GetNext Test or Set Operations on objects in the alaVrrp3AssoIpAddrTable found in the proprietary AlcatelIND1VRRP3 mib Workaround For VRRPv2 the parameters controlled through these objects can be managed through the vrrpAssoIpAddrTable in the IETF_VRRP mib RFC 2787 as well as through WebView and the CLI For VRRPv3 the parameters controlled through these objects can be...

Page 70: ... OSPF route to the forwarding address due to deleting OSPF interface configuration Workaround 1 Disable and Enable OSPF admin status after deleting OSPF interface configuration if redistributed route s gateway was reachable on that OSPF subnet 2 Disable and Enable IPRM route map that redistributes routes into OSPF after deletion of OSPF interface configuration OSPFv3 Problem Reports PR 104078 The ...

Page 71: ...used with OSPFv3 Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 107353 OSPFv3 will leak memory in either of the following two cases on an OS9000 1 During SPF runs 2 During adjacency formation Workaround There is no workaround that will eliminate this leak However it s effect can be somewhat mitigated by trying to minimize the causal events namely SPF calculations and new adjacency forma t...

Page 72: ...instead of being dropped by the OS6800 Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 105496 Rules that match multicast traffic do not get logged properly on an OS9000 Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 105764 Due to the method QoS handles condition groups network services etc the flushing of conditions corrupts the linkages between the condition and the groups The co...

Page 73: ...re is no known workaround at this time PR 95249 On an OS9000 the 802 1p value of IP packets is set to 0 On trusted ports the 802 1p is not altered for non ip packets For IP packets the prioritization is per the TOS value The 802 1p is also restamped to reflect the ingress TOS precedence value If the TOS value is 0 the 802 1p is set to 0 Workaround Use QoS 802 1p stamping policies which match on in...

Page 74: ...on a large QoS configura tion proceed as follows edit a text file with your desired qos configuration apply the configuration using configuration apply text_file and save the boot cfg using write memory PR 101223 On an OS6800 if a policy rule specifies the keyword log or log interval then the policy is rejected Workaround Logging is not supported by the OS6800 The keyword log and log interval has ...

Page 75: ... tool NESSUS generates bogus reports Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 107176 OS6800 may incorrectly show the router mac address as the source of a DoS attack Workaround There is no known workaround at this time 802 1x Problem Reports PR 98375 On an OS6850 DHCP rules are not being used to classify traffic on a regular group mobility port For this reason with a matching DHCP r...

Page 76: ...ort are not affected no re classification for non supplicants is required when this CLI command is used Workaround There is no known workaround at this time Authenticated Switch Access Problem Reports PR 91812 On an OS9000 the server information displayed with the show configuration snapshot aaa command or saved with the configuration snapshot aaa file_name command contains hashed encrypted pass w...

Page 77: ...omatically even if the supplicant client is running that can automatically do the ipconfigure release and renew when dynamically changing classification policy when an IP net rule is configured Depending on what traffic is running some packets may satisfy the IP net rule and the supplicant will be classified according to the IP net rule Workaround User has to be aware that when the IP net rule is ...

Page 78: ...is not a physical route for that IP subnet a RADIUS client will not be able to communicate with a RADIUS server As a result RADIUS authentication will fail as the server is unreachable Workaround There is no known workaround at this time General Problem Reports PR 86853 A stack of 9 or greater is not supported on an OS6800 or OS6850 Workaround The maximum stack elements is 8 PR 93114 If an ingress...

Page 79: ... anyway Workaround Remove any unneeded files before performing copy PR 105646 The entPhysicalModelName MIB variable returns vendor name of SFP instead of model name for an SNMP get getNext call to this object on an OS6850 Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 106559 Output to STDOUT is re directed to the PMD file on an OS9000 A printf is occurring that causes the show log command...

Page 80: ...the system has software learning enabled either by the port being mobile or authenti cated and if there is a linkagg configured on the switch the internal mac 0x0020da999999 is seen in the output of show mac address table learned as being learnt on port 1 1 Workaround There is no known workaround at this time Chassis Supervision Problem Reports PR 94404 Mixing OS7000 and OS9000 CMMs in any chassis...

Page 81: ...single point of failure Removing multiple stacking cables will introduce multi ple points of failure from which the system may not recover Workaround Do not remove multiple stacking cables at the same time PR 100244 Installing 6 1 3 R01 images on an OmniSwitch 6800 that is running 5 3 1 R02 code returns an error Workaround The code base has changed significantly from 5 3 1 to 6 1 2 This is especia...

Page 82: ...MM MIB variable chasTempRange not correct for non primary slots on OS6800 Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 106975 If a WINTEK compact flash is installed on an OS6850 WINTEK is not displayed when you use the show hardware info command Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 107619 NI 1 becomes non primary in a OS6850 stack after reload stack if NI 1 is an OS68...

Page 83: ... 106906 Users may over allocate power from the available power supply in Power Shelf powered applications on OS9000 PoE Power Shelf and PoE Port Guidelines clearly state the user procedures for calculation of appropriate steps for calculation of blade power requirements based on port power requirements and total power requirements for the system Redundancy and power supply calculation is also prov...

Page 84: ...of NI modules must have a 30 second interval before initiating another hot swap activity All insertions of NI modules must have a 3 minute interval before initiating another hot swap activity All hot swaps of CMM modules must have a 10 minute interval before initiating another hot swap reload or takeover activity All takeovers must have a 10 minute interval before following with another hot swap r...

Page 85: ...me PR 98992 The copy working certified flash synchro command display takes a long time on an OS6800 switch OS6800 does not support tffs true flash file system but OS6850 does So an OS6800 switch takes much longer whenever there is an operation related to file operation Workaround There is no known workaround at this time PR 106872 Upon unsynchronized takeover in Fuji 16 slot chassis some NIs don t...

Page 86: ...vel of the issue per the definitions 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 connectivi...