Dell Networking 7048 Release Note page 61

PowerConnect 8132/8164/8132F/8164F/8024/8024F/M8024/M8024-k/
M6220/M6348/7024/7048/7024P/7048P/7024F/7048R/7048R-RA
Release Notes
Release 5.0.0.4
Summary User Impact
QSFP Base CR4 with When using the DAC copper cables with QSFP
copper DAC cable CR4s (which are rarely used) and cable more
lengths greater than 3 than 3 meters, the switch may not even detect
meters will not work on this device and so link up never happens. Only
PC8100 switches the following cables are recommended with these
CR4 QSFPs:
111040-1104 – 1m Passive Copper Assembly
111040-1204 – 3m Passive Copper Assembly
On PC8100 switches, This is a corner case issue requiring many steps
sharp decrease in 6to4 to get to this state but if the state is reached, the
tunnel traffic is observed user will see less through-put on the tunnel.
when ipv4 static route is
deleted and added back
to the switch.
Failure log messages There is no effect besides the annoyance of these
may show up on console messages while doing an SNMP walk.
on doing a SNMP walk
on root node.
Speed is not applied to Since these configuration variables exist for both
combo (copper) ports copper and fiber modes (combo ports), the speed
after saving and and duplex are not saved since the port assumes
reloading the DUT that it will only save fiber parameters and thus
(8024/8024F). the customer will notice that the port auto-
negotiates after reload instead of goes to a static
speed or duplex.
SFP+ module is still The information that will be stored in the
detected in running- running-config specific to the 4x10G port (QSFP
config after clear to 4x10G) will not be cleared after the clear
config on PC8100 with config command.
QSFP to 4x10G
Status is not shown after The user may not be aware that the download has
the image upload using completed when using the GUI.
HTTP through IPv4
HTTPS session
Console logs/syslogs are This will only be seen when disabling the local
not generated if we LAG config and will not affect the system.
disable LAG local
preference.
The following unwanted There is no effect to the switch or user, just
logs may come up on unwanted log messages on console.
console after running the
"clear config" command.
1) dot1s helper
logs
2) snooping logs
3) "ATP RX:
Failed to alloc"
logs
System Firmware Version 5.1.0.1
Workaround
None
Stop traffic for a minute or two so that the stale
entry in the Linux stack is cleared.
None
Always reconfigure the speed on copper combo
ports after reboots on the 8024/8024F.
User can negate these commands manually
after a clear config.
User must refresh screen or go to version
screen for indication that the download has
completed.
None
None
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