Avaya Cajun P550R Release Notes

V5.2.2

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Switch Release Notes v5.2.2

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P550R

/P580/P880/P882

These release notes support the Cajun switch software version

5.2.2 (v5.2.2) for the Cajun P550R, P580, P880, and P882 switches.

Release notes are periodically updated with pertinent information.

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Page 1 Overview These release notes support the Cajun switch software version 5.2.2 (v5.2.2) for the Cajun P550R, P580, P880, and P882 switches. Release notes are periodically updated with pertinent information. For detailed information about your product, refer to the basic set of user documentation.
Page 2: Software Features
New Hardware and Software Features Version 5.2.2 provides support for the following new hardware software features. Hardware 80-series, 48-port, 10/100 Ethernet Module with Telco connectors (M8048R-100TC) 48-volt power supply for the P580 Software Features Support for: The following Queue Classification and Queue Servicing features: Classification of switch port traffic.
Page 3 Relay Agent Information option (option 82) for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP). When forwarding client-originated DHCP packets to a DHCP server, the Cajun switch inserts this option, which contains information about the switch. The DHCP server uses this information to authenticate the client.
Page 4: Supported Product Binaries And Boot Codes
Cajun switch software. * Note: Before downloading and running v5.2.2, remove port mirrors with piggyback ports on 80-series modules. Table 1. v5.2.2 Product Binary and Boot Files Type of Switch Binary File Boot File P550R m5500r_v5.02.02.bin m550boot_v5.00.01.bin P580 m8000r_v5.02.02.bin m8000boot_v5.00.01.bin P880 m8800_v5.02.02.bin...
Page 5: Classification Of Traffic
Classification of Traffic You can classify traffic by: 802.1p tag priority (default) Physical source port IP characteristics of the frame (source address, destination address, and so forth) Frames are classified into eight priorities, or classes, ranging in number from 0 to 7. By default, the switch uses the priority from the 802.1p tag field, if present, to assign a priority to a frame.
Page 6 WFQ Queue-Servicing Algorithm You can configure the WFQ service policy. The WFQ policy implemented in the Cajun II Queue Classification and Servicing sub-system is a variation of the textbook WFQ algorithm. In Cajun II WFQ, each queue is assigned a weight increment. The weight increment never varies;...
Page 7: Setting Up Port Mirroring
* Note: For information on how to enter Global Configuration command mode, see “Accessing/Exiting the Command Modes” in chapter 1 of Cajun P550R/P880/P882 Command Reference Guide. Setting Up Port To set up port mirroring, use the following CLI command: Mirroring >(config)# set port mirror fabric_mode2...
Page 8 Table 2. Port Ranges for 80-Series Port Mirroring Module Port ranges that you can mirror 4-port gigabit modules • 1–2 • 3–4 • Any single port You can mirror any four single ports simultaneously (one port per channel). However you cannot mirror a port range and a single port within that range simultaneously.
Page 9 Table 2. Port Ranges for 80-Series Port Mirroring Module Port ranges that you can mirror 24-port 10/100 modules • 1–12 — any 1 port or the entire range. • 13–24 — any 1 port or the entire range. If you mirror a single port, you can mirror only 1 port per range at a time.
Page 10: Removing Port Mirroring
* Note: Avaya recommends that you mirror traffic to a port of the same speed or faster than the source port. <channel> is the mirror channel that you want to use (1-4). {TX| RX |Both} is the direction of traffic that you want to mirror.
Page 11 Configuring Port Mirroring By Using the Web Agent Setting Up Port To use the Web Agent to set up port mirroring: Mirroring 1. Expand the Modules & Ports folder. 2. Click Port Mirroring. The Port Mirroring Information page opens. 3. In the Source Port column, select the port that you want to mirror.
Page 12: Changing The Status Of Option 82 By Using The Web Agent
To use the Web Agent to change the status of option 82: 1. Open the IP Global Configuration page. For information on how to open this page, see “Enabling IP Routing” in chapter 9 of Cajun P550R/P880/P882 Switch User Guide Version, v5.0. June 14, 2001...
Page 13: Changing The Status Of Option 82 By Using The Cli
>(config)# no ip dhcp agent-info * Note: For information on how to enter Global Configuration command mode, see “Accessing/Exiting the Command Modes” in chapter 1 of Cajun P550R/P880/P882 Command Reference Guide. Changing the Status of Option 82 by Using SNMP To change the status of option 82 by using SNMP, use the MIB items that are listed in Table 3.
Page 14: Using The Web Agent
For information on how to manually add MAC address to the AFT, see “Adding Entries to the AFT Manually” in chapter 6 of Cajun P550R/P880/P882 Switch User Guide, Version v5.0. 2. Enter the following information on the Switch Port Configuration page for the port: a.
Page 15 2. Use the following command to manually add the “permitted” MAC addresses to the Address Forwarding Table (AFT): >(config)# set aft entry <mac address> vlan <vlan-id> port- binding forward <mod-port-spec> 3. Use the following command to disable learning on a port or port range: >(config)# set port allow-learning <mod- swport-range>...
Page 16 Table 4. MIB, MIB Items, and OIDs for MAC Address Lock MIB Item ProminetMib.txt promL2AddressControlIndex 1.3.6.1.4.1.2167.5.1.4.3.1.1 version 5.2 promL2AddressControlMacAddress 1.3.6.1.4.1.2167.5.1.4.3.1.2 promL2AddressControlPortBinding 1.3.6.1.4.1.2167.5.1.4.3.1.3 promL2AddressControlVlanID 1.3.6.1.4.1.2167.5.1.4.3.1.4 promL2AddressControlPriority 1.3.6.1.4.1.2167.5.1.4.3.1.5 promL2AddressControlPersistence 1.3.6.1.4.1.2167.5.1.4.3.1.6 2. Use the MIB item that is listed in Table 5 to disable learning on a port.
Page 17: Changed Cli Commands
Enhancements The following events are now logged in the event log: Saving the running configuration to the startup configuration Creating an IP interface Modifying an IP interface Deleting an IP interface Changed CLI Commands The get Fabric_mode command replaces the get Cajun_mode command.
Page 18: Known Problems And Workarounds
Known Problems and Workarounds The following known problems and workarounds apply to Cajun P550R, P580, P880, and P882 switches that are running switch software, v5.2.2. If a known problem has a viable workaround, it immediately follows the Problem statement. If the known problem has no viable workaround, it is listed as a bulleted statement.
Page 19 Frames Transmitted with Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) Errors Problem: For certain revisions of the Cajun P550R/P580/P880/P882 switch 12- and 20-port module (Model M5520-100TX, module Type 9, revision level A or B and M5512-100TX, Revision A), a temperature sensitivity problem has been found when operating at 10 Mbps. This sensitivity results in the port transmitting frames with CRC errors.
Page 20 Hot Swap Modules The following problems have no workaround: Hot swapping 50-series modules may cause SEPROM and SMAC panic messages to appear in the event log. These messages are for informational purposes only and should be ignored. When you insert a module into the switch, traffic may be affected for up to seven seconds while the module performs its hardware diagnostics.
Page 21 Example: The unicast routing protocol in use on all connected routers is OSPF, and all ports are on the same VLAN. An endstation joins the IP multicast group 226.128.0.5 on port 1. The MAC address for the group is 01:00:5E:00:00:05. IGMP snooping creates a session for this MAC address, with port 1 as the client port.
Page 22 Workaround: Use newer client software (v2.5 or later) or use a frame format other than 802.3 (Avaya recommends that you use format 802.2). If you cannot use new client software or a newer frame format, use the following CLI commands to allow 802.3 IPX clients to connect:...
Page 23 Workaround: Flush the L3 Forwarding Table before changing the L3 Forwarding Cache Max Entries value. Option 82 for DCHP The following problems have no workarounds: The switch does not add relay agent information (option 82) to a BOOTP request. The option 82 relay agent does not check frames for the IPSEC authentication header or IPSEC encapsulating security payload.
Page 24: Port Mirroring
Port Mirroring 80-Series The following problem has no workaround: Modules Removing a port mirror causes an interface to stay in the “UP” state with no connections to the interface. Problem: If you mirror multiple ports, the switch monitors both transmit and receive traffic regardless of the direction of traffic that you specify.
Page 25: Remote Monitoring (Rmon)
If a router port for intelligent multicasting is mirrored with a piggyback port, the piggyback port is listed instead of the router port. Redundant Switch Controller The following problem has no workaround: Do not enable redundancy unless you have a redundant switch controller.
Page 26: Supervisor Module
Problem: If you remove the Public community string from the SNMP Community Management, save the running config to the startup config and then reset the switch, the Public community string you removed is not deleted. Workaround: Change the Public Community string to a different name. P580/P882 Chassis Slot 2 The following problem has no workaround: Cajun P580/P882 switches running in Fabric 2 mode will not...
Page 27: Switch Ports
Problem: When the 80-series Supervisor module boots, the switch displays the following error message in the CLI: Undefined Error -- FILE:gqswport.cLINE:449 Value 0xfffffffc: Error changing the GQ ‘port use diffserv’ flag Workaround: Ignore this message. 50-Series The following problem has no workaround: Supervisor Module The display on the P880 switch M5500R-SUPA supervisor...
Page 28: Functional Restrictions
VLAN Issues The following problem has no workaround: If you want a port to use both the VLAN auto-learning feature and VLAN binding type of Bind to Received or Bind to All, make sure that you set the VLAN binding type before you set Auto-learn to Enable or else the port may not be automatically added to the VLAN.
Page 29 Workaround: Either: Disable auto-negotiation Use a patch cable that is longer that 5 meters Enter the following Enhanced CLI command in legacy mode: > port set NationalPhyMode <slot>.<port> enable The factory default for the National Phy Mode is Enable. Checksum Error Message Problem: The following checksum error displays after you upgrade from 4.3.x code to v5.x code:...
Page 30: Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol (Dvmrp)
Workaround: The Legacy CLI is no longer supported in this release except for the following command that allows you to implement a new configuration to disable the power saving mode of the Phy chip (refer to the Frames Transmitted with Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) Errors section on page 3 under Known Problems and Workarounds: >...
Page 31: Loopback Tests
Oversized packets are not counted in itemized statistics if the packet size is between 1519 and 1548 bytes. PCMCIA Only PCMCIA memory cards purchased from Avaya Inc. are supported in the PCMCIA slot of the M800R-SUP supervisor module. Port Mirroring When using 80-series port mirroring, you cannot mirror transmit traffic of multiple source ports to one mirror port.
Page 32: Spanning Tree Protocol (Stp)
Redundant Controller Support In the event that a Layer 3 redundant switch controller or element fails, the switch resets itself and records an entry of the event in the event log. SNMP To disable SNMP, you must set the access for all community strings to None.
Page 33: Web Agent
This only happens on Microsoft Internet Explorer, version 5.00.2919.6307. Use a later version of Microsoft Internet Explorer. Documentation Updates and Corrections The following problems were found in the Cajun P550R/P880/P882 Switch documentation for release v5.0 and will be fixed in release v6.0.
Page 34: Technical Support
5. Administratively enable the modified interface. * Note: You must reenable the interface for the switch to accept the modifications. Technical Support To contact Avaya’s technical support: * Note: These are new phone numbers as of October 1, 2000. From the United States:...
Page 35: Appendix A: Cli Commands For Queue Classification And Servicing
Appendix A: CLI Commands for Queue Classification and Servicing Overview This appendix contains the CLI commands that you use to configure the Queue Classification and Queue Servicing functionality in Version 5.2 of the Cajun switch software. CLI commands exist for the following tasks: "Setting the Priority of a Port"...
Page 36 where <slot> is the slot number. If you specify this parameter, then all ports on the module in slot <slot> are set the same way. <slot-swport-range> is a slot and port range in the form of 3/1 or 3/1-5. If you specify this parameter, then only the ports <swport- range>...
Page 37: Displaying The Port Settings
where <slot> is the slot number. If you specify this parameter, then all ports on the module in slot <slot> are set the same way. <slot-swport-range> is a slot and port range in the form of 3/1 or 3/1-5. If you specify this parameter, then only ports <swport- range>...
Page 38 Examples To display the settings of all of the ports on the module in slot 3, enter: show port 3 To display the settings of ports 1 through 5 on the module in slot 3, enter: show port 3/1-5 To display the settings of ports 1 through 5 on the module in slot 3 and of port 1 on the module in slot 6, enter: show port 3/1-5,6/1 Setting a Rule in an Access Control List...
Page 39 where: <access-list-name> is a unique name that identifies the access control list. <access-list-index> is the rule number within the access list. {permit|deny|fwd1|fwd2|fwd3|fwd4|fwd5|fwd6| fwd7|fwd8} is the priority that you want to set. The number following the fwd option specifies the priority. In other words, {permit|deny} are not valid selections.
Page 40 Web Agent. For information on how to use the Web Agent to perform this task, see “Creating Standard Access Rules” and “Creating Extended Access Rules” in Chapter 9 of Cajun P550R/P880/P882 Switch User Guide, Version 5.0. Examples To assign all traffic whose source IP address is 192.188.10.1 a priority of 0, enter: access-list MyAccessList 1 fwd1 192.188.10.1...
Page 41 Setting WFQ Overview Setting the weighted fair queuing (WFQ) service policy involves two commands. In the first command, you specify the queue policy, the modules and ports for which you want to set the policy, and whether you want to set the queue service policy for ingress traffic, egress traffic, or both.
Page 42 Command 2 The correct syntax for Command 2 is: > queue <queue> weight <weight> where <queue> is the queue number, which can range from 0 to 7. <weight> is the weight that you want to assign to the queue. Weights can range from 0 to 255. Examples To set WFQ for egress traffic on ports 1 through 4 on the module in slot 3, enter:...
Page 43: Displaying The Queue Service Settings
To assign a weight of 5 to queue 4, enter: > queue 4 weight 5 To assign a weight of 6 to queue 5, enter: > queue 5 weight 6 To assign a weight of 7 to queue 6, enter: >...

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