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Release Notes for
the Model 3395/3395A
Terminal Server Software
Version 5.1
SynOptics Communications, Inc.
4401 Great America Parkway
Santa Clara, CA 95052-8185
(408) 988-2400
893-418-E
July 1994

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  • Page 1 Release Notes for the Model 3395/3395A Terminal Server Software Version 5.1 SynOptics Communications, Inc. 4401 Great America Parkway Santa Clara, CA 95052-8185 (408) 988-2400 893-418-E July 1994...
  • Page 2 © 1994 by SynOptics Communications, Inc. All rights reserved. Trademarks SynOptics, SynOptics Communications, and LattisNet are registered trademarks of SynOptics Communications, Inc. Lattis System 3000 and SynOptics Press are trademarks of SynOptics Communications, Inc. Other brand and product names are registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective holders. Statement of Conditions In the interest of improving internal design, operational function, and/or reliability, SynOptics Communications, Inc.

  • Page 3: New Features

    Documentation Overview Note: Model 3395 software Version 5.1 is distributed as an included capability of Version 5.2. Several capabilities of this software image require expanded memory. The base Model 3395 Terminal Servers have 1 MB of memory. At least one Model 773 2 MB memory option is recommended to be installed for Version 5.1/5.2 operation.
  • Page 4 V5.1 Release Notes The UNIX-like interface (ULI) and DECserver like interface (DLI) co-exist on the server. Both are enabled by default. For the convenience of current users of the 3395A, the DLI is activated as the run-time default. A user can activate a particular command processor at their port with a single command and can easily switch from one command processor to the other.
  • Page 5 Display a brief description of one or more commands/options. Only superusers can view privileged commands. Display recently-issued terminal server commands, so that one or more specific commands can be edited and/or re-issued Display information about the domain-names available in the network...
  • Page 6 Elicit a response from a specified Internet destination to determine whether or not it is on the network. These commands are covered in more detail in Using the Model 3395/3395A Terminal Server UNIX Operating System-like Interface. New Commands to Enable the ULI V5.1 provides a new privileged command, the DEFINE SERVER ULI ENABLED|DISABLED command,...
  • Page 7 Supplement V5.1 of Commands Reference for the Model 3395/3395A Terminal Server. Daemons are disabled by default. A description of how you configure and use these daemons is contained in the Software Management Guide Supplement.

  • Page 8: Nested Menus

    You cannot enable both the nested menus feature and the menu feature on the same port. Refer to Supplement V5.1 of Software Management Guide for the Model 3395/3395A Terminal Server for information about configuring and using nested menus.

  • Page 9: Snmp Enhancements

    The ability to clear the log file without initializing the terminal server with the CLEAR SERVER ACCOUNTING command. Refer to Supplement V5.1 of Software Management Guide for the Model 3395/3395A Terminal Server for information about Configuring and using Accounting. The new commands are described in Supplement 5.1 of Commands Reference for the Model 3395/3395A Terminal Server Supplement 5.1.
  • Page 10 The SHOW SERVER ALTERNATE STATUS display lists the amount of memory on the terminal server in the Installed Memory field. A Model 3395 Terminal Server can obtain a load image from the network, or locally, from a memory card. The next sections explain the procedures you use in each of these cases.
  • Page 11 If the file exists on a UNIX host, enter this format: TS3395>> get card load file "ts3395.sys" internet address internet- address When you have loaded V5.1 of ts3395.sys, reinitialize the terminal server to load the new image. TS3395>> initialize 893-418-E...
  • Page 12 Model 3395 software. Note: Upgrading to V5.1 overwrites the existing parameter file on the parameter servers. Save a copy of parameter files for previous versions of Model 3395 software in case you ever want to reload an earlier version. Notes on SNMP...
  • Page 13 Intense use of SNMP Getnext processing may degrade terminal server performance. Bootstrap Server MIB Objects in the named table of the Bootstrap Server MIB must use Ethernet addresses only. The object ID namedIdentificationType can only be ethernet Address and named Identification must have a length of six bytes.
  • Page 14 V5.1 Release Notes TN3270 Language If you add a new entry to the TN3270 language table in the Internet MIB, SNMP will copy the USENGLISH table. Addressing TN3270 Keytable/Screentable If you are addressing the TN3270 keytable or screentable, you must use an existing device name. Language Tables If you are addressing an EBCDIC to ASCII or ASCII to EBCDIC language table, you must use an existing language table name.
  • Page 15 Xremote requires at least two megabytes of memory on a terminal server. If you were previously running Xremote on your multi-megabyte terminal server, you must use the appropriate load image for multi-megabyte terminal servers, ts3395m.img. See the section, “Load Images for Multi-Megabyte Terminal Servers,”...
  • Page 16 A terminal server running V4.4 or greater rejects a queued LAT service from a DECserver 700 terminal server when a destination port on the terminal server is free and should be able to process the queued request. HELP Text Issues There are three HELP issues: •...
  • Page 17 127 characters, the SNMP tools process the string improperly and return corrupted data to the server, which eventually causes the server to fail. This problem has been seen when MIT SNMP tools are used. If you use SNMP GetNext operations to manage your terminal server, you can prevent the terminal server from failing by limiting the system description string to 127 or fewer characters.
  • Page 18 V5.1 Release Notes SNMP MIB Object Anomalies Table 5 lists anomalous behavior for various SNMP objects. Table 5. SNMP MIB object anomalies Object Name aToEValue basicLoginPassword basicPrivilegedPassword deviceName eToAValue ipRouteAge ipRouteDest tn3270DeviceName tn3270KeyDescription tn3270KeyName tn3270LanguageName tn3270PortDeviceName tn3270PortLanguageName tn3270ScreenCharacterSequence SNMP Get operations return incorrect values. Unable to set a value tn3270ScreenCharacterSequence Unable to set a value for this object.
  • Page 19 For dialing into remote access ports, that is, the PORT ACCESS characteristic is set to REMOTE, that do not support RNG, the documentation states that the “server permits data flow after the assertion of DCD.” However, with modem control enabled on the port, and the PORT ACCESS characteristic set to REMOTE, all characters received by the port from the modem are sent to the host making the remote connection to the port even before DCD is asserted.

  • Page 20: Documentation Overview

    Error Messages Reference for the Model 3395/3395A Terminal Server, which explains the meaning of the status and error messages that may appear while you are using the Model 3395 software. For some error messages, it gives a brief explanation of what you can do to correct the error.

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