Allied Telesis 86253-07 manual

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    Simply connecting the world Patch Release Note Patch 86253-07 For Rapier Series Switches Intr oduction This patch rel ease note lists the issues addres sed and enhancements made in patch 86253-07 for Software Release 2.5.3 on existing models of Rapier series switches. Patch file details are listed in T able 1. This release note should be r ead in c[...]

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    2 Patch Release Note Patch 86253-07 for Software R elease 2.5.3 C613-10382-00 REV E Some of the issues addresse d in this Re lease Note include a level number . This number reflects the importance of the issue that has been r esolved. The levels are: Featur es in 86253-07 Patch 86253-06 was not released. Patch 86253-07 includes all issues reso lved[...]

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    Patch 86253-07 For Rapier Series Swit ches 3 Patch 86253-07 for Software R elease 2.5.3 C613-10382 -00 REV E A memory leak occurred if DNS r elay was configured, and the device kept receivi ng DNS Query packets. This issue has been resolved. PIM6 could not send unicast bootstrap messages to a new neighbour . This issue has been r esolved. If the SM[...]

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    4 Patch Release Note Patch 86253-07 for Software R elease 2.5.3 C613-10382-00 REV E A filter entry was lost when the SET SWITCH L 3FIL TER ENTR Y command did not succeed. This issue has been r esolved. Link-local addr esses can only be unicas t addr esses. If a link-local address was added as an anycast addr ess, no error message was r eturned. Thi[...]

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    Patch 86253-07 For Rapier Series Swit ches 5 Patch 86253-07 for Software R elease 2.5.3 C613-10382 -00 REV E Entering “?” after a command at the CL I gives context-se nsitive Help about parameters valid for the command. O ccasionally , commands (for example, ENABLE IP MUL TICASTING) were executed when “?” was entered at the end of the comma[...]

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    6 Patch Release Note Patch 86253-07 for Software R elease 2.5.3 C613-10382-00 REV E Featur es in 86253-05 Patch file details are listed in T able 2: Patch 86253-05 includes all issues reso lved and e nhancem ents released in previous patch es for Software Release 2.5.3, an d the following enhancements: A buffer leak occurr ed when rapid STP was spe[...]

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    Patch 86253-07 For Rapier Series Swit ches 7 Patch 86253-07 for Software R elease 2.5.3 C613-10382 -00 REV E On A T -8800 series switches, stri ct QoS scheduling is now enforced for ports where egr ess rate limiting is applied. On Rapier i series switches, the same QoS setup is now applied to all of the appr opriate ports when setting up egress rat[...]

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    8 Patch Release Note Patch 86253-07 for Software R elease 2.5.3 C613-10382-00 REV E When two devices ar e BSR candidates, and have the same pr eference set with the SET PIM BSRCANDIDA TE PREFERENCE command, the device with the higher IP addr ess was not elected as the candidate. This issue has been resolved. A Prune message sent to an old RP neighb[...]

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    Patch 86253-07 For Rapier Series Swit ches 9 Patch 86253-07 for Software R elease 2.5.3 C613-10382 -00 REV E The warning given when a QoS policy is active on a port operating at reduce d speed has been changed to reflect the pr oblem more accurately . The old message was: Warning (2087343): Port <Port num > is currently used in QoS policy <[...]

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    10 Patch Release Note Patch 86253-07 for Software R elease 2.5.3 C613-10382-00 REV E When the device received a version 1 Query packet, it become a non-querier on that interface, even if it should have remained as the querier . This issue has been re solved. When the TYPE parameter was specified for the AD D SWITCH L3FIL TER command, the type was s[...]

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    Patch 86253-07 For Rapier Series Swit ches DELETE IGMPSNOOPING ROUTERADDRE SS 11 Patch 86253-07 for Software R elease 2.5.3 C613-10382 -00 REV E ADD IGMPSNOOPING ROUTERADDRESS Syntax ADD IGMPSNOOPING ROUTERADDRESS= ipaddr [, ... ] Description where: • ipaddr is a reserved IP multicas t addres s in dotted decimal notation. This command adds r eser[...]

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    12 SHOW IGMPSNOOPING ROUT ERADDRESS Patch Release Note Patch 86253-07 for Software R elease 2.5.3 C613-10382-00 REV E Description This command deletes r eserved IP multicast addre sses fr om the list of r outer multicast addresses. The IP addr ess specified must b e within the range 224.0.0.1 to 224.0.0.2 55. This comman d is only valid if the IGMP[...]

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    Patch 86253-07 For Rapier Series Swit ches SHOW IGMPSNOOPING ROUTERADDRESS 13 Patch 86253-07 for Software R elease 2.5.3 C613-10382 -00 REV E The port counters were not incr ement ed: • ifInDiscard s •i f i n E r r o r s • ifOutDiscards •i f O u t E r r o r s This issue has been r esolved. The following SNMP MIB objects could not be set: ?[...]

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    14 SHOW IGMPSNOOPING ROUT ERADDRESS Patch Release Note Patch 86253-07 for Software R elease 2.5.3 C613-10382-00 REV E •T h e Pr oposal f l a g i s n o t s e t i n a B P D U s e n t b y a d e s i g n a t e d p o r t o n c e t h e port has reached the forwarding state. Static ARP entries someti mes prev ented the firewal l from working correctly . [...]

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    Patch 86253-07 For Rapier Series Swit ches SHOW IGMPSNOOPING ROUTERADDRESS 15 Patch 86253-07 for Software R elease 2.5.3 C613-10382 -00 REV E When static port security was enabled with the REL EARN parameter in the SET SWITCH POR T command, and a switch port was reset or unplugged, the MAC entries were r e moved (unlearned) from the forwar ding dat[...]

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    16 SHOW IGMPSNOOPING ROUT ERADDRESS Patch Release Note Patch 86253-07 for Software R elease 2.5.3 C613-10382-00 REV E When using MVR on a Rapier 48 or Rapier 48 i , m ulticast packets we re not forwarded corr ectly between ports 1- 24 and 25-48. This issue has been res ol v ed . The switch filter was not operating corr ectly after a boot cycle. Thi[...]

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    Patch 86253-07 For Rapier Series Swit ches SHOW IGMPSNOOPING ROUTERADDRESS 17 Patch 86253-07 for Software R elease 2.5.3 C613-10382 -00 REV E For example, to t urn off the Dif fie Hellman paddi ng, use the comman d: SET ENCO DHPADDING=OFF Also, the output of the SHOW ENCO command now contains a new line showing the setting for DHP ADDING. BGP was i[...]

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    18 SHOW IGMPSNOOPING ROUT ERADDRESS Patch Release Note Patch 86253-07 for Software R elease 2.5.3 C613-10382-00 REV E If a configuration file had a long file name , the SHOW CONFIG command displayed the file name using the shortened DOS 8.3 format (where file names are 8 characters long, with extens ions of 3 characters). This issue has been resol [...]

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    Patch 86253-07 For Rapier Series Swit ches SHOW IGMPSNOOPING ROUTERADDRESS 19 Patch 86253-07 for Software R elease 2.5.3 C613-10382 -00 REV E The MTU value for IPv6 PPP interfaces was always set to 1280 bytes. This MTU value is now correctly set to 1500 bytes, and 1492 bytes for PPP over Ethernet (PPPoE). OSPF sometimes chose r outes with an infini[...]

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    20 SHOW IGMPSNOOPING ROUT ERADDRESS Patch Release Note Patch 86253-07 for Software R elease 2.5.3 C613-10382-00 REV E BGP sometimes chose routes with an infini te metric over routes with a finite metric when selecting the best local route. This issue has been resolved. The ipForwDatagrams SNMP MIB object was incremented when it should not have been[...]

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    Patch 86253-07 For Rapier Series Swit ches SHOW IGMPSNOOPING ROUTERADDRESS 21 Patch 86253-07 for Software R elease 2.5.3 C613-10382 -00 REV E The switch was adding a router port for multic ast packets to destinations with an address in the range 224.0.0. x. Switch port entries ar e now only created for special r outer multicast addresses. If the DH[...]

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    22 SHOW IGMPSNOOPING ROUT ERADDRESS Patch Release Note Patch 86253-07 for Software R elease 2.5.3 C613-10382-00 REV E Incorrect debug information was r eturned when an ICMPv6 PacketT ooBig message was received. This issu e has been resolved. ISAKMP in aggressive mode did not establish a conne ction when the peer client sent 10 or mor e payloads. Th[...]

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    Patch 86253-07 For Rapier Series Swit ches SHOW IGMPSNOOPING ROUTERADDRESS 23 Patch 86253-07 for Software R elease 2.5.3 C613-10382 -00 REV E An anycast address could not be assigned when the pr efix for the anycast address had pr eviously been assigned on that interface. This issue has been res ol v ed . The ADD FIREW ALL POLICY RULE and SET FIREW[...]

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    24 SHOW IGMPSNOOPING ROUT ERADDRESS Patch Release Note Patch 86253-07 for Software R elease 2.5.3 C613-10382-00 REV E When the switch r eceived a generati on ID change message, it was not respondi ng by sending a PIM HELLO mess age. This is sue has been res ol v ed . BGP did not always send With dr aw n advertisements when a route went down. This i[...]

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    Patch 86253-07 For Rapier Series Swit ches SHOW IGMPSNOOPING ROUTERADDRESS 25 Patch 86253-07 for Software R elease 2.5.3 C613-10382 -00 REV E Featur es in 86253-02 Patch file details are listed in T able 5: Patch 86253-02 includes the following enhancements and resolved issues: It is no w po s si bl e t o pre ve n t s pe ci f ie d p o rt s f rom a [...]

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    26 SHOW IGMPSNOOPING ROUT ERADDRESS Patch Release Note Patch 86253-07 for Software R elease 2.5.3 C613-10382-00 REV E When adding a port to a VLAN, any STP ports that had been disabled in the default STP wer e re-enabled. This issue has been r esolved. When the DELETE DHCP RANGE command was executed, DHCP attempted to r eclaim the addr esses in tha[...]

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    Patch 86253-07 For Rapier Series Swit ches SHOW IGMPSNOOPING ROUTERADDRESS 27 Patch 86253-07 for Software R elease 2.5.3 C613-10382 -00 REV E The IP multicast counter did not incre ment when IGMP , DVMRP and PIM packets were transmitted and r eceived. This issue has been resolved. The fir ewall denied str eaming data using W indows Media Player 9. [...]

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    28 SHOW IGMPSNOOPING ROUT ERADDRESS Patch Release Note Patch 86253-07 for Software R elease 2.5.3 C613-10382-00 REV E Enable and Disable ICMP Messages The Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) allows routers to send error and control messages to other r outers or hosts. It provides the communi cation between IP software on one system and IP soft[...]

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    Patch 86253-07 For Rapier Series Swit ches SHOW IGMPSNOOPING ROUTERADDRESS 29 Patch 86253-07 for Software R elease 2.5.3 C613-10382 -00 REV E If ALL is specif ied, all confi gurable ICMP message r eplies are di sabled. If NETUNREACH is specif ied, all network unr eachable message repli es ar e disabled (RFC792 T ype 3 Code 0). If HOSTUNREACH is spe[...]

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    30 SHOW IGMPSNOOPING ROUT ERADDRESS Patch Release Note Patch 86253-07 for Software R elease 2.5.3 C613-10382-00 REV E MLD Snooping Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) snoo ping enables the switch to forward IPv6 multicast traf fic intelligently , inst ead of flooding it out all ports in the VLAN. W ith MLD snooping, the switch passively listens to M[...]

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    Patch 86253-07 For Rapier Series Swit ches SHOW IGMPSNOOPING ROUTERADDRESS 31 Patch 86253-07 for Software R elease 2.5.3 C613-10382 -00 REV E IGMP Snooping All-Gr oup Entry Because IGMP is an IP-based pr otocol, multicast gr oup membership for VLAN aware devices is on a per -VLAN basis. If at least one port in the VLAN is a member of a multicast gr[...]

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    32 SHOW IP IGMP Patch Release Note Patch 86253-07 for Software R elease 2.5.3 C613-10382-00 REV E Modified Command SHOW IP IGMP Syntax SHOW IP IGMP [COUNTER] [INTERFACE= interface ] Description This command displays information about IGMP , and multicast group membership for each IP interface. This enhancement includes the line “ Disabled All-gro[...]

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    Patch 86253-07 For Rapier Series Sw itches DISABLE IP IGMP ALLG ROUP 33 Patch 86253-07 for Software R elease 2.5.3 C613-10382 -00 REV E New Commands This enhancement r equest introduces two new commands fr om enabling/ disabling all- group e ntries on switch ports. ENABLE IP IGMP ALLGROUP Syntax ENABLE IP IGMP ALLGROUP=[{ port-list |ALL}] where: ?[...]

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    34 DISABLE IP IGMP ALLGROUP Patch Release Note Patch 86253-07 for Software R elease 2.5.3 C613-10382-00 REV E A vailability Patches can be downloaded fr om the So ftware Updates ar ea of the Allied T elesyn web site at www .alliedtelesyn.co.nz/su pport/updates/patches.html . A licence or passwor d is not re quir ed to use a patch.[...]