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- Page 1 Release Notes for the Passport 1000 Series Software Release 2.0.7.8 *212629-A* Part No. 212629-A February 2002 4401 Great America Parkway Santa Clara, CA 95054...
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Page 2: Statement Of Conditions
In the interest of improving internal design, operational function, and/or reliability, Nortel Networks Inc. reserves the right to make changes to the products described in this document without notice. Nortel Networks Inc. does not assume any liability that may occur due to the use or application of the product(s) or circuit layout(s) described herein. - Page 3 “Hard-copy technical manuals” on page 20 • “How to get help” on page 20 Release Notes for the Passport 1000 Series Software Release 2.0.7.8 ® software release 2.0.7.8 describe bug fixes in the Passport 1000 Series switch software that have been ™ software,” (next)
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Page 4: Upgrading Your Software
The memory upgrade kit (AA0011017) is available for the XLR1297SF module and increases DRAM to 32 MB. If your Passport 105x or 11x0 routing switch has 16 MB of DRAM, contact your Nortel Networks sales representative or authorized reseller to upgrade your switch. - Page 5 Recommendations and feature-specific information about release 2.0.7.8 Recommendations and feature-specific information about release 2.0.7.8 This section describes basic recommendations and miscellaneous information and pertinent feature-related information about the Passport 1000 Series switch software release 2.0.7.8, and includes the following topics: • Recommendations and miscellaneous information •...
- Page 6 Changes have been made to Passport 1000 series switches from software release 2.0.7.3 onwards in terms of selection of the best path to an ASBR if more than one path exists. Due to these changes, Nortel Networks recommends that you not interconnect a switch running software release 2.0.7.3 or higher to a switch running a software release 2.0.7.2 or lower.
- Page 7 Recommendations and feature-specific information about release 2.0.7.8 • Nortel Networks recommends against configuring VRRP on IP-subnet-based VLANs because there is no hardware support for this configuration in the I/O modules and all traffic forwarding must be handled by the CPU. This situation can cause high CPU utilization and affect performance.
- Page 8 This does not apply to IEEE 802.1p packets. Nortel Networks recommends that you enable Priority mode on switches in very heavy traffic situations. Enabling Priority avoids delaying vital high-priority network traffic, including BPDUs and routing protocol information.
- Page 9 Telnet screens using the Note: Even though these message are not displayed, they are still added to the log file. Table 1 Non-displayed CLI messages cpu switch over, stand-by CPU become master Link Down Dual Connector Link Down Link Up...
- Page 10 MLT revert to the default value. (Q00072320) Disabling IPX NetBIOS propagation With the release of Passport 1000 Series switch software version 2.0.4 and higher, you can disable IPX NetBIOS (type 20) propagation. You can enable or disable IPX NetBIOS (type 20) propagation globally, that is, on all IPX interfaces in the entire chassis.
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Page 11: Flash Commands
Any attempt to access or manage the flash command during processing will fail. (115397-1, 116199-1) The following is an example of the revised wording: Passport 1000 Series switch-1200# format fl Format will erase all files. Do you wish to continue? (y/n)? y formatting...Press any key to push operation to background. - Page 12 Do you wish to continue (y/n) ? y formatting ... operation pushed to background Passport 1000 Series switch-1200# IPX RIP and IPX SAP pacing (frame rate) This frame rate is used to control the number of frames per second for IPX RIP and IPX SAP.
- Page 13 config ipx sap update-delay <ipx-network-number> <delay-timer> where: ipx-network-number delay-timer Access policy support You can enable or disable access-policies for TFTP service. To enable TFTP service for a specified access-policy, enter the following command: config sys access-policy policy <pid> service tftp<enable|disable> This command configures specific policy IDs, where is the policy ID.
- Page 14 This section describes miscellaneous bugs that have been fixed in the Passport 1000 Series switch software release 2.0.7.8. • The Passport 1000 series switch is no longer impacted by SNMP vulnerability issues documented on February 12, 2002 by CERT/CC in their SNMP advisory (VU#107186 and VU#854306).
- Page 15 This section describes DHCP bugs that have been fixed in the Passport 1000 Series switch release 2.0.7.8. • The Passport 1000 Series Switch now uses the ingress port information in the source ip address Release Notes for the Passport 1000 Series Software Release 2.0.7.8 Bugs fixed in release 2.0.7.8...
- Page 16 • RIP or OSPF can no longer be enabled on an interface which does not have an IP address. (Q00147252-04) The following IPX bugs have been fixed in Passport 1000 Series routing switch software release 2.0.7.8: • Inactive IPX static routes are now restored across reboots with ASCII config files.
- Page 17 (Q00024852-03) OSPF The following OSPF bug has been fixed in Passport 1000 Series routing switch software release 2.0.7.8: When you attempt to enable OSPF on a non-existent interface, the Passport 1000...
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Page 18: Known Issues
141807-1) • In a Passport 1200 Switch, when an IP filter is applied to a port in a MLT, it is not automatically applied to all ports in the MLT. For the filter action to take place, it must be applied individually to all the ports in the MLT. -
Page 19: Related Publications
The following IP issue exists in the Passport 1000 Series switch software release 2.0.7.8: The Passport switch does not use a dynamically learned route (RIP/OSPF) when a static route for that network becomes inactive. (Q00055362/115167-1, 121564-1) Related publications Refer to the following Passport documentation for additional information: •... -
Page 20: Hard-Copy Technical Manuals
You can purchase selected documentation sets, CDs, and technical publications through the Internet at the How to get help If you purchased a service contract for your Nortel Networks product from a distributor or authorized reseller, contact the technical support staff for that distributor or reseller for assistance.