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Ethernet Routing Switch 8600 
Readme 
Software Release 5.1.4.0 
Avaya Inc. – Proprietary & Confidential.
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  • Page 1: Ethernet Routing Switch 8600

    Ethernet Routing Switch 8600  Readme  Software Release 5.1.4.0  Avaya Inc. – Proprietary & Confidential. Use pursuant to the terms of your signed agreement or Avaya policy.

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

      Documentation Corrections ..............................26   Ethernet Routing Switch 8600 ..............................27   Readme ....................................27   Software Release 5.1.2.0 ................................ 27 Avaya Inc. – Proprietary & Confidential. Use pursuant to the terms of your signed agreement or Avaya policy.
  • Page 3 2. Important Notes before Upgrading to This Release ....................50   3. Platforms Supported ..............................51   4. Notes for Upgrade ..............................51 Avaya Inc. – Proprietary & Confidential. Use pursuant to the terms of your signed agreement or Avaya policy.
  • Page 4 8. Changes in This Release ............................56   9. Outstanding Issues ..............................60   10. Known Limitations ..............................61   11. Documentation Corrections ............................61 Avaya Inc. – Proprietary & Confidential. Use pursuant to the terms of your signed agreement or Avaya policy.
  • Page 5 Avaya Inc. – Proprietary & Confidential. Use pursuant to the terms of your signed agreement or Avaya policy.

  • Page 6: Software Release 5.1.4.0

    Software maintenance release to address externally found customer issues. Important Notices  Avaya Inc has acquired the Enterprise Solutions business from Nortel. This acquisition includes the ERS 8600 and software described in this document. During the transition of all assets and support infrastructure of products and services to Avaya, Nortel provides certain infrastructure support.

  • Page 7: Platforms Supported

    ‘older’ SMLT architecture, then care should be taken to follow the proper upgrade steps. Please review the 5.1.0.0 or the 5.0.1.0 Release Notes for specific details. Avaya Inc. – Proprietary & Confidential. Use pursuant to the terms of your signed agreement or Avaya policy.

  • Page 8: File Names For This Release

    Programmable I/O module FPGA firmware; for the PI_769.xsvf 2284578 8630GBR only Firmware for RS modules Contains FOQ, BMC, DPC, mirroring, and rs_dpm_fpga.bin 4538368 loopback images Avaya Inc. – Proprietary & Confidential. Use pursuant to the terms of your signed agreement or Avaya policy.
  • Page 9 Boot ISO for TPS Defense Center booting NortelTPSDefenseCenter_2x70v4.5.0_62 from CD-ROM 7_Install.iso Upgrade script (patch) to upgrade TPS IS Nortel_TPS_IS_Upgrade_4.5.0_to_4.5.1_ from 4.5.0 to 4.5.1. Upgrade-47.sh Avaya Inc. – Proprietary & Confidential. Use pursuant to the terms of your signed agreement or Avaya policy.

  • Page 10: Version Of Previous Release

    ERS8600 switches with 5.1.4.0 release are capable of both sending and receiving VLACP HOLD PDUs. Future code revisions of the Baystack switch family will support receipt and processing of VLACP HOLD PDUs, but will not Avaya Inc. – Proprietary & Confidential. Use pursuant to the terms of your signed agreement or Avaya policy.
  • Page 11 Please refer to the applicable product release notes for information regarding product specific software levels required for support of this VLACP enhancement. VLACP is an Avaya proprietary protocol and hence this enhancement in not applicable when connecting to switches from other vendors.

  • Page 12: Old Features Removed From This Release

    SLPP packets on the port in a certain period of time. This timer is set to 24 hours.   Old Features Removed From This Release  None. Avaya Inc. – Proprietary & Confidential. Use pursuant to the terms of your signed agreement or Avaya policy.

  • Page 13: Problems Resolved In This Release

    This issue is resolved (wi00564233).  Routed ipv6 packets were previously dropped when ECMP was configured for IPv4. This issue is resolved (wi00564341). Avaya Inc. – Proprietary & Confidential. Use pursuant to the terms of your signed agreement or Avaya policy.
  • Page 14 CPU. This issue is resolved (wi00564193).  In ERS 8600 with static-mcast mac configured in a SMLT setup, when the links are disabled/enabled, the error message "rarIsPortInMgid(4095): Invalid Mgid" was seen. This issue is resolved (wi00564321).

  • Page 15: Outstanding Issues

    100% clear as to how a product should behave, and what is valid. Therefore it is now recommended to not connect an ERS 1600 running in L3 operation to the egress port of an E/M module of an ERS 8600, to avoid the potential for this situation to be seen.

  • Page 16: Documentation Corrections

    Documentation Corrections   None. Copyright © 2010 Avaya Inc - All Rights Reserved. Nortel, Nortel Networks, the Nortel logo, Globe mark are trademarks of Nortel. The Ethernet Routing Switch 8100/8300/8600 is a trademark of Avaya, Inc. The information in this document is subject to change without notice. The statements, configurations, technical data, and recommendations in this document are believed to be accurate and reliable, but are presented without express or implied warranty.

  • Page 17: Software Release 5.1.3.0

    Software maintenance release to address externally found customer issues. Important Notices  Avaya Inc has acquired the Enterprise Solutions business from Nortel. This acquisition includes the ERS 8600 and software described in this document. During the transition of all assets and support infrastructure of products and services to Avaya, Nortel provides certain infrastructure support.

  • Page 18: Platforms Supported

    ‘older’ SMLT architecture, then care should be taken to follow the proper upgrade steps. Please review the 5.1.0.0 or the 5.0.1.0 Release Notes for specific details. Avaya Inc. – Proprietary & Confidential. Use pursuant to the terms of your signed agreement or Avaya policy.

  • Page 19: File Names For This Release

    Programmable I/O module FPGA firmware; for the PI_769.xsvf 2284578 8630GBR only Firmware for RS modules Contains FOQ, BMC, DPC, mirroring, and rs_dpm_fpga.bin 4538368 loopback images Avaya Inc. – Proprietary & Confidential. Use pursuant to the terms of your signed agreement or Avaya policy.
  • Page 20 Boot ISO for TPS Defense Center booting NortelTPSDefenseCenter_2x70v4.5.0_62 from CD-ROM 7_Install.iso Upgrade script (patch) to upgrade TPS IS Nortel_TPS_IS_Upgrade_4.5.0_to_4.5.1_ from 4.5.0 to 4.5.1. Upgrade-47.sh Avaya Inc. – Proprietary & Confidential. Use pursuant to the terms of your signed agreement or Avaya policy.

  • Page 21: Version Of Previous Release

    (Q02116358)  In NNCLI mode “show qos egress-queue-set <queue-set-id>” command was showing no output. ERS 8600 now displays the proper output on executing this command. (Q02116618) Avaya Inc. – Proprietary & Confidential.
  • Page 22 (Q02120442)  The Software power tables embedded in the ERS 8600 were out of sync with the Power Supply Calculator posted via the web. This inconsistency has now been addressed. This situation has already been addressed in v7.0 code release. (Q02020261-01) Avaya Inc.
  • Page 23 IP Multicast  ERS 8600 now ensures that when an IP Multicast sender and the receiver are connected to the same ERS 8600, that SPM (Source Path Messages – specific message type within PGM) packets are no longer dropped. This is independent of PGM being enabled or not, as PGM packet flows can function with PIM- SM enabled.

  • Page 24: Outstanding Issues

    This is seen in all 5.1.x, not just 5.1.3.0. (Q02128334)  In ERS 8600, certain routes may get deleted in the IP routing table on deleting/adding both a route policy and triggering a soft restart of an associated BGP peer. If encountered, this can be recovered by restarting the BGP session to the peer, or disable/enable BGP globally.

  • Page 25: Known Limitations

    When resetting or rebooting the standby, always make sure the master recognizes the standby is now off-line (5-10 seconds generally) before any additional reset or reboot activity on master is performed. (Q02068289) Avaya Inc. – Proprietary & Confidential. Use pursuant to the terms of your signed agreement or Avaya policy.

  • Page 26: Documentation Corrections

    100% clear as to how a product should behave, and what is valid. Therefore it is now recommended to not connect an ERS 1600 running in L3 operation to the egress port of an E/M module of an ERS 8600, to avoid the potential for this situation to be seen.

  • Page 27: Ethernet Routing Switch 8600

    Ethernet Routing Switch 8600  Readme  Software Release 5.1.2.0  Avaya Inc. – Proprietary & Confidential. Use pursuant to the terms of your signed agreement or Avaya policy.

  • Page 28: Table Of Content

    Old Features Removed From This Release ........................34 Problems Resolved in This Release ..........................34 Outstanding Issues................................38 Known Limitations ................................39 Avaya Inc. – Proprietary & Confidential. Use pursuant to the terms of your signed agreement or Avaya policy.
  • Page 29 8. Changes in This Release ............................56 9. Outstanding Issues ..............................60 10. Known Limitations ..............................61 11. Documentation Corrections ............................61 Avaya Inc. – Proprietary & Confidential. Use pursuant to the terms of your signed agreement or Avaya policy.

  • Page 30: Software Release 5.1.2.0

    Software maintenance release to address externally found customer issues. Important Notices  Avaya Inc has acquired the Enterprise Solutions business from Nortel. This acquisition includes the ERS 8600 and software described in this document. During the transition of all assets and support infrastructure of products and services to Avaya, Nortel provides certain infrastructure support.

  • Page 31: Platforms Supported

    Notes for Upgrade  Please see Upgrade Guide and Release Notes for the Ethernet Routing Switch 8600 Series Switch Software Release 5.1.0.0 available at www.nortel.com/support. Avaya Inc. – Proprietary & Confidential. Use pursuant to the terms of your signed agreement or Avaya policy.

  • Page 32: File Names For This Release

    BMC for R modules BAP memory controller FPGA firmware bmc776.xsvf 2640266 DPC for R modules Dual port Controller FPGA firmware dpc184.xsvf 2583454 Avaya Inc. – Proprietary & Confidential. Use pursuant to the terms of your signed agreement or Avaya policy.
  • Page 33 NSF5100_2.3.7.0_SDM_R65.iso Upgrade package for the NSF Service NSF5100_2.3.7.0_SDM_R60.pkg.gz Delivery Module Firewall NSF5100_2.3.7.0_SDM_R65.pkg.gz Service Delivery Boot image for TPS Intrusion Sensor Nortel_TPS_Intrusion_Sensor-SDM- v4.5.0-627-Install.iso Avaya Inc. – Proprietary & Confidential. Use pursuant to the terms of your signed agreement or Avaya policy.

  • Page 34: Version Of Previous Release

    This could previously cause operational issues with some SNMP management stations. (Q02092718)  ERS 8600 will no longer observe system instability associated with configuration changes to switch parameters involving SNMP settings. (Q02094258) Avaya Inc. – Proprietary & Confidential.
  • Page 35  Previously the ERS 8600 was applying a local Access Policy to IPv6 routed SSH packets. Now the system will route these packets and apply Access Policies to only local destination policy type (SSH, Telnet, HTTP) IPv6 packets. This will no longer cause inappropriate connection issues to remote hosts. (Q02070640-01) ...

  • Page 36: Static Routes

    (Q02091485/ Q01997485)  ERS 8600 will no longer silently drop packets when the number of ACEs with debug count enabled is such that system resources are at their maximum, but instead the filters will now all function properly. (Q02045086) ...
  • Page 37  ERS 8600 will now always bring down a port via VLACP within the configured timeout value when its VLACP peer goes down. Previously one end of the link would take an extra timeout cycle before downing the port in some scenarios.

  • Page 38: Outstanding Issues

    IP Multicast packets of type PGM-SPM will get dropped when the multicast sender and the receiver are connected to the same ERS 8600. At this time such designs to pass this type of traffic require the sender and receiver to be connected to different ERS 8600s. (Q02119454) ...

  • Page 39: Known Limitations

    (Q02068289)  On upgrading an ERS 8600 from v5.1.2.0 to v7.0.0.0, there can be a corruption seen in the Radius Secret Key. This is because the new encryption/decryption algorithm meant for Radius Secret Key file (added in v7.0.0.0) is not supported in 5.1.2.0.

  • Page 40: Ethernet Routing Switch 8600

    JDM, Edit Chassis -> System Flags and then look under “System Monitoring” at the bottom of the screen. Checked equals enabled. To set via SNMP use: MIB is  rapidCity rcMgmt rcChassis.rcChasSystemMonitorEnable Avaya Inc. – Proprietary & Confidential. Use pursuant to the terms of your signed agreement or Avaya policy.

  • Page 41: Platforms Supported

    Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch 8600 5.1 Upgrade Manual (Doc # NN46205-400, Rev 3.01)  Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch 8600 Installation - Modules Manual for Software Release 5.1 (Doc # NN46205-304, Rev 3.02) Avaya Inc. – Proprietary & Confidential. Use pursuant to the terms of your signed agreement or Avaya policy.

  • Page 42: Notes For Upgrade

    CPU and switch fabric firmware p80b5111.img 1138336 Run-time image Run-time image p80a5111.img 12606645 Run-time image for R Image for R modules p80j5111.dld 1518464 modules Avaya Inc. – Proprietary & Confidential. Use pursuant to the terms of your signed agreement or Avaya policy.
  • Page 43 Runtime image for POS Runtime image for the POS module p80p5111.dld 701771 Firmware images FOQ for R modules Feedback output queuing FPGA firmware foq267.xsvf 5320469 Avaya Inc. – Proprietary & Confidential. Use pursuant to the terms of your signed agreement or Avaya policy.
  • Page 44 PIM FPGA firmware required for 8648GTRS pim8648GTRS.bi 54441 module only SSL images SSL cluster upgrade Ethernet Routing Switch 8600 clustered SSL p80s5111.pkg 5988896 modules self-installing runtime image/upgrade Avaya Inc. – Proprietary & Confidential. Use pursuant to the terms of your signed agreement or Avaya policy.
  • Page 45 Service Delivery Module images Service Delivery Module Boot ISO for the NSF Service Delivery NSF5100_2.3.7.0_SDM_R60.iso Firewall Module Firewall booting from CD- NSF5100_2.3.7.0_SDM_R65.iso Avaya Inc. – Proprietary & Confidential. Use pursuant to the terms of your signed agreement or Avaya policy.

  • Page 46: Version Of Previous Release

    To download any of these code releases requires valid Nortel support web access, as well as valid CheckPoint support site access for most FW code. Avaya Inc. – Proprietary & Confidential. Use pursuant to the terms of your signed agreement or Avaya policy.

  • Page 47: Changes In This Release

    For an MSTP enabled system, port disable and enable scenarios, where the cistforceport state is disabled on the port, will now be handled properly and in turn OSPF will behave normally. (Q02064812) Avaya Inc. – Proprietary & Confidential. Use pursuant to the terms of your signed agreement or Avaya policy.
  • Page 48 CPU utilization will remain normal. This situation was introduced in 5.1.1.0 code, so only applies to that specific release. (Q02060978- Avaya Inc. – Proprietary & Confidential. Use pursuant to the terms of your signed agreement or Avaya policy.

  • Page 49: Outstanding Issues

    VLANs/ports associated with this form of spanning tree, remain solely on the non-IST_MLT; there can be no association or interaction with the IST_MLT. (Q02047748) Avaya Inc. – Proprietary & Confidential. Use pursuant to the terms of your signed agreement or Avaya policy.

  • Page 50: Ethernet Routing Switch 8600

    Monitoring” at the bottom of the screen. Checked equals enabled. To set via SNMP use: MIB is  rapidCity rcMgmt rcChassis.rcChasSystemMonitorEnable snmpget -v 1 -c public x.x.x.x enterprises.2272.1.4.41.0 Output is either: Avaya Inc. – Proprietary & Confidential. Use pursuant to the terms of your signed agreement or Avaya policy.

  • Page 51: Platforms Supported

    4.  Notes for Upgrade  Please see Upgrade Guide and Release Notes for the Ethernet Routing Switch 8600 Series Switch Software Release 5.1.0.0 available at www.nortel.com/support. Avaya Inc. – Proprietary & Confidential. Use pursuant to the terms of your signed agreement or Avaya policy.

  • Page 52: File Names For This Release

    Run-time image for RS modules p80k5110.dld modules 1.5 M Run-time image for Image for the SuperMezz card p80m5110.img 12 M Enterprise Enhanced SF/CPU Daughter Card (SuperMezz) Avaya Inc. – Proprietary & Confidential. Use pursuant to the terms of your signed agreement or Avaya policy.
  • Page 53 DPC for R modules Dual port Controller FPGA firmware dpc184.xsvf 2.5 M PIM8630GBR Programmable I/O module FPGA firmware; for PI_769.xsvf 2.2 M the 8630GBR only Avaya Inc. – Proprietary & Confidential. Use pursuant to the terms of your signed agreement or Avaya policy.
  • Page 54 Ethernet Routing Switch 8600 SSL upgrade p80s5110.upgrade 1.4 K instructions SSL installation Ethernet Routing Switch 8600 SSL installation p80s5110.install 2.8 K instructions instructions Avaya Inc. – Proprietary & Confidential. Use pursuant to the terms of your signed agreement or Avaya policy.
  • Page 55 CD-ROM 0_627_Install.iso Upgrade script (patch) to upgrade TPS Nortel_TPS_IS_Upgrade_4.5.0_to_4. IS from 4.5.0 to 4.5.1. 5.1_Upgrade-47.sh IS upgrade download verification file. Nortel_TPS_IS_Upgrade_4.5.0_to_4. 5.1_Upgrade-47.sh.md5 Avaya Inc. – Proprietary & Confidential. Use pursuant to the terms of your signed agreement or Avaya policy.

  • Page 56: Version Of Previous Release

    8.  Changes in This Release  New Features in This Release With this release, ERS 8600 introduces new commands to better handle receiving bad OSPF LSAs. The Switch will have an option to configure the way the router behaves on receiving a bad LSA. There are now different options on how to handle a received BAD LSA (with hole in mask). This can affect how adjacency is form to other routers in the network.
  • Page 57 To execute these commands OSPF needs to be disabled globally first. There is no JDM support for these commands at this time. Old Features Removed From This Release None. Avaya Inc. – Proprietary & Confidential. Use pursuant to the terms of your signed agreement or Avaya policy.
  • Page 58 ERS 8600 still does not support any File Transfers from a SSH session. (Q01856195- ERS 8600 no longer allows adding a route in net mgmt table, if the same route already exists in the normal routing table (due to some routable VLAN or static configuration).
  • Page 59 SMLT designed network to provide better and faster recovery. (Q01991517-02)  The ERS 8600 will now check for the SMLT status of an MLT only if it is configured as an SMLT, while sending a MAC-address-learn message for any MAC learnt on the MLT. If the MLT is not configured for SMLT, then SMLT status will not be checked and an MAC-address-learn message will be sent to the IST peer.

  • Page 60: Outstanding Issues

    Multicast Routing Protocol  ERS 8600 will now properly forward packets to the DR when the egress port to the DR is the same as the incoming port and the port to the DR changes for some reason. (Q01907611-04) 9.  Outstanding Issues  ...

  • Page 61: Known Limitations

    To access more technical documentation, search our knowledge base, or open a service request online, please visit Nortel Technical Support on the web at: http://www.nortel.com/support Avaya Inc. – Proprietary & Confidential. Use pursuant to the terms of your signed agreement or Avaya policy.

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