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610-0184-0 95 1 June 14, 2001 Cajun ™ P550R ® /P580/P880/P882 Switch Release Notes v5.2.2 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 informati on. For detailed information about your product, refer [...]
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610-0184-095 2 June 14, 2001 New Har dwar e and Software Featur es V ersi on 5.2.2 provides support for the following new hardware software features. H a rd w a re ■ 80-series, 48-port, 10/100 Ethernet Mod ule with T e lco connectors (M8048R-100TC) ■ 48-volt power supply for the P580 Softwar e Featur es Support for: ■ The following Queue Clas[...]
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3 610-0184-0 95 June 14, 2001 ■ 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. For inform[...]
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610-0184-095 4 June 14, 2001 Supported Pr oduct Binaries and Boot Codes T able 1 shows the product binary files and boot codes that are supported by v5.2.2 of the Cajun switch software. * Note: Befor e downloading and running v5.2.2, r emove port mirror s with piggyback ports on 80-series modules. T able 1. v5.2.2 Product Binary and Boot Files * No[...]
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5 610-0184-0 95 June 14, 2001 Classification of T r affic Y ou can classify traffic by: ■ 802.1p tag priority (default) ■ Physical source port ■ IP characteristics of the fram e (source address, des tination address, and so forth) Frames are classified into eight pr iorities, or classes, ranging in number from 0 to 7. By default, th e switch [...]
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610-0184-095 6 June 14, 2001 WFQ Queue-Servicing Algorithm Y ou 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 text book WFQ algorithm. In Cajun II WFQ, each queue is assigne d a weight increment. The weight increment never varies; howeve r , each[...]
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7 610-0184-0 95 June 14, 2001 Configuring Port Mirr oring By Using the CLI Use the following CLI commands to configure port mirroring on 80- series modules. Y ou must be in Global Configuration command mode to enter these com mands. * Note: For information on how to enter Global Configuration command mode, see “Accessing/Exiting the Command Modes[...]
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610-0184-095 8 June 14, 2001 T able 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 Y ou 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 simultaneo usly [...]
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9 610-0184-0 95 June 14, 2001 * Note: Y ou cannot mirr or transmit traffic of multiple source ports to on e mirror port. ■ <mod-port-spec> is the port to which you want to mirror traffic. Both the source port and mirror port must either: — Be on the same vlan and have the same vlan binding or — Have vlan binding set to bind to all 24-po[...]
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610-0184-095 10 June 14, 2001 * Note: Avaya r ecommends that you mirror traffic to a port of the same speed or faster than the sour ce port. ■ <channel> is the mirror channel that you want to use (1-4). ■ {TX| RX |Both} is the direction of traffi c that you want to mirror . * Note: Y ou can mirror transmit tra f fic of only one source por[...]
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11 610-0184-0 95 June 14, 2001 Configuring Port Mirr oring By Using the We b Agent Setting Up Port Mirroring T o use the W eb Agent to set up port mirroring: 1. Expand the Modules & Ports folder . 2. Click Port Mirroring . The Port Mirr oring Information page opens. 3. In the Sour ce Port column, select the port that you want to mirror . 4. In [...]
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610-0184-095 12 June 14, 2001 Removing Port Mirroring T o use the W eb Agent to remove port mirroring: 1. Expand the Modules & Ports folder . 2. Click Port Mirroring . The Port Mirr oring Information page opens. 3. In the Sour ce Port column, select None for the port mirr or that you want to remove. 4. Click Apply . Viewing Information about Po[...]
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13 610-0184-0 95 June 14, 2001 2. Enable or disable the suboptions as appropriate in the DHCP Option - Cir cuit Info and DHCP Option 82 - Agent Info fields. Changing the Status of Option 82 by Using the CLI T o use the CLI to change the status of option 82, enter Global Configuration mode and use the following commands: ■ T o enable suboption 1, [...]
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610-0184-095 14 June 14, 2001 Enabling T raps for Unknown Sour ce Addr esses T o enable traps for unknown source addresses, you must first enable the MAC Address Lock feature. Y o u can enable this feature and traps for unknown source addresses by using the W eb Agent, CLI, or SNMP . Enabling MAC Addr ess Lock and T raps by Using the W eb Agent T o[...]
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15 610-0184-0 95 June 14, 2001 2. Use the following command to manually add the “permitted” MAC addresses to the Address Forwar ding T able (AF T): >(config)# set aft entry <mac addr ess> vlan <vlan-id> port- binding forward <mod-port-spec> 3. Use the following command to disable learning on a port or port range: >(confi[...]
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610-0184-095 16 June 14, 2001 2. Use the MIB item that i s listed in T able 5 to disable lear ning on a port. . 3. Use the MIB item that is li sted in T able 6 to enable known mode on a port. 4. Use the MIB item that is listed in T able 7 to enable intrusion traps on a port. T able 4. MIB, MIB Items, and OIDs for MAC Address Lock MIB MIB Item OID P[...]
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17 610-0184-0 95 June 14, 2001 Enhancements The following events are now logg ed 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 replace s the get Cajun_mode command. ■ Th[...]
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610-0184-095 18 June 14, 2001 Known Pr oblems and W orkarounds The following known problems and workarounds apply to Cajun P550R, P580, P880, and P882 switches that are ru nning switch software, v5.2.2. If a known prob lem has a viable workaround, it immediately follows the Problem st atement. If the known problem has no viable workaround, it is li[...]
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19 610-0184-0 95 June 14, 2001 Workar ound: Use the following table to determine the option that corresponds to the rate that you want to set. T able 8. Flood Rate Limiting on 80-Series 10/100 Modules * Note: Do not use the 20%, 40%, or 80% options of the W eb Agent or CLI. Frames T ransmitted with Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) Err ors Problem: For[...]
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610-0184-095 20 June 14, 2001 Hot Swap Modules The following problems have no workaround: ■ Hot swapping 50-series modules ma y cause SEPROM and SMAC panic messages to appear in the event log. Thes e messages are for information al purposes only and should be ignored. ■ When you insert a module into the switch, traffic may be affected for up to[...]
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21 610-0184-0 95 June 14, 2001 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. I GMP snooping creates a session for this MAC address, with port 1 as the client port[...]
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610-0184-095 22 June 14, 2001 state is set to Enable (all multicasts included). If you do n ot want to enable rate limiting of multicast traffic on a port, either: ■ Disable Intelligent Multicasting or ■ Disable Rate-limiting on the port. IP The following problems have no workaround: ■ If you create overlapping IP interfaces (interfaces in th[...]
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23 610-0184-0 95 June 14, 2001 Workar ound: Flush the L3 Forwarding T able 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 che ck frames for the IPSEC au[...]
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610-0184-095 24 June 14, 2001 Port Mirroring 80-Series Modules The following problem has no workaround: ■ 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 dire ction of traffi[...]
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25 610-0184-0 95 June 14, 2001 ■ 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 Contr oller The following problem has no workaround: ■ Do not enable redundancy unless you have a redundant switch controller . ■ On a P880 with an 80-serie[...]
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610-0184-095 26 June 14, 2001 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. Workar ound: Change the Public Community string to a different name. P580/P882 Chassis Slot 2 The follow[...]
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27 610-0184-0 95 June 14, 2001 Problem: When the 80-series Supervisor modu le boots, the switch displays the following error message in the CLI: Undefined Error -- FILE:gqswport.cLINE:449 Value 0xfffffffc: Error changing the GQ ‘por t use diffserv’ flag Workar ound: Ignore this message. 50-Series Supervisor Module The following problem has no w[...]
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610-0184-095 28 June 14, 2001 VLAN Issues The following problem has no workaround: ■ If you want a port to use bo th the VLAN auto-learning feature and VLAN bindin g 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[...]
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29 610-0184-0 95 June 14, 2001 Workar ound: 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 Err or Message Problem: The[...]
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610-0184-095 30 June 14, 2001 Workar ound: The Legacy CLI is no longer supported in this release excep t 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 T ransmitted with Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) Errors section on page 3 under Known Problems and W [...]
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31 610-0184-0 95 June 14, 2001 Loopback T ests Loopback tests on ports may fail when traffic is p resent on the link at start-up. Netscape 6.0 Do not use Netscape 6.0 as a browser with the Cajun Switch W eb Agent. Oversized Packets Oversized packets are not counted in ite mized statistics if the packet size is between 1519 and 1548 bytes. PCMCIA On[...]
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610-0184-095 32 June 14, 2001 Redundant Contr oller Support In the event that a Laye r 3 redundant switch controller or elemen t fails, the switch resets itself and records an entry of the event in the event log. SNMP T o disable SNMP , you must set the access for all community strings to None . Y ou cannot disable SNMP by deleting al l community s[...]
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33 610-0184-0 95 June 14, 2001 TF TP Download Status Delay It takes a few seconds before the Status button on the TF TP Download screen returns accurate information. VLAN Issues ■ Automatic VLAN creation on P880 50-series supervisor module (M5500R-SUP A) does not work if the port default VLAN is set to “discard”. The switch does not learn VLA[...]
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610-0184-095 34 June 14, 2001 The steps in ”Modifying OSPF Interfaces” of chapter 11, “Configuring the OSPF Routing Protocol” should read as follows: 1. Administratively disable the interface on which you want to modify OSPF . * Note: Y ou must disable the interface to perform any OSPF modifications to the interface. 2. In the navigation pa[...]
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610-0184-0 95 A-1 June 14, 2001 Appendix A: CLI Commands for Queue Classification and Servicing Overview This appendix contains the CLI comma nds that you use to configure the Queue Classificati on and Queue Servicing functionality in V ersion 5.2 of the Cajun switch software. CLI commands exist for the following tasks: ■ "Setting the Priori[...]
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610-0184-095 A-2 June 14, 2001 where <slot> is the slot number . If you sp ecify 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> on the module in s[...]
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A-3 610-0184-0 95 June 14, 2001 where <slot> is the slot number . If you sp ecify this parameter , then all ports on the module in slot <slot> are set the same way . <slot-swport-range> is a sl ot and port range in the form of 3/1 or 3/1-5 . If you specify this para meter , then only ports <swport- range> on the module in sl[...]
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610-0184-095 A-4 June 14, 2001 Examples ■ T o display the settings of all of the ports o n the module in slot 3, enter: show port 3 ■ T o display the settings of ports 1 through 5 on the modul e in slot 3, enter: show port 3/1-5 ■ T o display the settings of ports 1 through 5 on the modul e in slot 3 and of port 1 on the modul e in slot 6, en[...]
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A-5 610-0184-0 95 June 14, 2001 where: <access-list-name> is a unique na me that identifies the access control list. <access-list-index> is the rule number within the access list . {permit|deny|fwd1|fwd2|fwd3|fwd4|f wd5|fwd6| fwd7|fwd8} is the priority that you want to set. The number following the fwd option specifies the priority . In[...]
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610-0184-095 A-6 June 14, 2001 host <dest-ip-addr> is the destination IP address of the ho st. The destination IP address range is 0 to 255. [{lt|eq|gt|range} <port> [<port>]] is a range of destination ports that pass data between two hosts or switches using the T ransmission Control Protocol (TCP) or the User Datagram Protocol (U[...]
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A-7 610-0184-0 95 June 14, 2001 Setting WFQ Overview Setting the weighted fair queuing (WFQ) service policy involves two commands. In the first com mand, 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. In th[...]
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610-0184-095 A-8 June 14, 2001 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. W eights can range from 0 to 255. Examples ■ T o set WFQ for egress traffic on ports [...]
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A-9 610-0184-0 95 June 14, 2001 ■ T o as sign a weight of 5 to queue 4, enter: > queue 4 weight 5 ■ T o as sign a weight of 6 to queue 5, enter: > queue 5 weight 6 ■ T o as sign a weight of 7 to queue 6, enter: > queue 6 weight 7 ■ T o as sign a weight of 8 to queue 7, enter: > queue 7 weight 8 Displaying the Queue Service Setti[...]