New In This Release; Features; Other Changes; New Hardware - Nortel 5000 Series Release Notes

New in this release

The following sections detail what's new in Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch
5000 Series Release Notes — Release 6.0.

Features

See the following sections for information about feature changes.
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Other changes

See the following sections for information about changes that are not
feature-related.

New hardware

Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch 5000 Series introduces new switches that
complement the Ethernet Routing Switch 5500 Series. The new switches
provide increased bandwidth, use the same software image as the 5500
Series switches, and allow you to customize your stack.
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"Dual agent support" (page 12)
"IGMPv3 snooping support" (page 12)
"PIM-SM" (page 12)
"IPv6 " (page 12)
"Many-to-many port mirroring (Ethernet Routing Switch 5600 Series
only)" (page 12)
"MIB and Trap Web pages" (page 13)
"NSNA enhancements" (page 13)
"ASCII download log enhancements" (page 13)
"RMON entry scaling" (page 14)
"DoS attack prevention package (DAPP) support" (page 14)
"Improved sytem log capabilities (exception errors)" (page 14)
"SMLT enhancements" (page 14)
Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch 5000 Series
Release Notes — Release 6.0
NN47200-400 04.01 Standard
6.0 12 December 2008
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