Release Notes OmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800 Release 5.1.5.R04 These release notes accompany release 5.1.5.R04 software for the OmniSwitch 6600 series hardware, OmniSwitch 7000 series hardware, and OmniSwitch 8800 hardware. They provide important information on individual software features and hardware modules.
Related Documentation Related Documentation These Release Notes should be used in conjunction with the OmniSwitch 6600, OmniSwitch 7700/7800, and OmniSwitch 8800. The following are the titles and descriptions of the OmniSwitch 6600, OmniSwitch 7700/7800, and OmniSwitch 8800 user manuals: • OmniSwitch 6600 Series Getting Started Guide Describes the hardware and software procedures for getting an OmniSwitch 6600 Series switch up and running.
Related Documentation • OmniSwitch 7700/7800/8800 Switch Management Guide Includes procedures for readying an individual switch for integration into a network. Topics include the software directory architecture, software rollback protections, authenticated switch access, managing switch files, system configuration, using SNMP, and using web management software (WebView). • OmniSwitch 7700/7800/8800 Technical Tips, Field Notices Includes information published by Alcatel’s Customer Support group.
System Requirements System Requirements Memory Requirements • OmniSwitch 6624 Release 5.1.5.R04 requires 128 MB of SDRAM and 32MB of flash memory. This is the standard configuration shipped. • OmniSwitch 6648 Release 5.1.5.R04 requires 128 MB of SDRAM and 32MB of flash memory. This is the standard configuration shipped. • OmniSwitch 6600-U24 Release 5.1.5.R04 requires 128 MB of SDRAM and 32MB of flash memory. This is the standard configuration shipped. • OmniSwitch 6600-P24 Release 5.1.5.
System Requirements Power Supply Requirements The OS7000/8800 power supply requirements vary depending on the number of Network Interface (NI) modules installed in the switch and the power redundancy requirements. Each OS7800/OS8800 chassis contains four slots for power supplies, and the OmniSwitch 7700 chassis has three slots for power supplies. Note.
New Hardware Supported New Hardware Supported Note: No new hardware has been introduced in release 5.1.5.R04. The supported hardware below is from previous releases. New Network Interface Modules (NIs) Note: The following hardware became available in release 5.1.5.R01: OmniSwitch 7700/7800 NIs OS7-ENI2-C24 Second-generation version of the OmniSwitch 7700/7800 24-port 10/100 copper Ethernet NI module. Each port uses RJ-45 connectors and supports category 5 Twisted pair cable 100 ohm.
New Hardware Supported OS7-GNI-U12-UPG First-generation version of the OmniSwitch 7700/7800 12-port 1 Gbps high-density fiber Gigabit Ethernet NI module. The OS7-GNI-U12-UPG provides 12 MiniGBICs slots. OmniSwitch 8800 NIs OS8-10GNI-UR1 The Gigabit Network Interface (GNI) module is a wire-rate 10 Gbps module that provides two redundant Xenpak slots acting as one port. (Only one port may be active at a time.
New Hardware Supported Note: The following new hardware became available in release 5.1.5.R02 and is supported subject to the feature exceptions and problem reports described later in these release notes: New Chassis OS6600-P24 The OS6600-P24 (OS6600-P24) is a stackable edge/workgroup switch offering 24 Power over Ethernet (PoE) 10/100 Ethernet ports. The OS6600-P24 can also be equipped with up to four Gigabit Ethernet ports for connections to a high speed backbone or server.
New Hardware Supported OS6602-BPS-DC The OS6600-BPS is a DC backup power supply for OS6602-24 and OS6602-48 switches. The backup power supply bay is located on the chassis rear panel of OS6602-24 and OS6602-48 switches. OmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.5.
New Software Supported New Software Supported The following new software features are supported subject to the feature exceptions and problem reports described later in these release notes: Feature Summary Feature Platform Software Package 10 Gigabit Enhancements OS8800 base 4 to 1 Port Mirroring all base 802.
New Software Supported Feature Platform Software Package Power over Ethernet OS6600/OS7700/7800 base QoS Enhancements all base Reduce Processor Resources Used by ACL/QoS OS7700/OS7800/OS8800 base Router Discovery Protocol (RDP) all Second-Generation NI Dynamic Link Aggregation OS7700/OS7800/OS8800 base VRRP Tracking all base base Feature Descriptions 10 Gigabit Enhancements The following features are now supported on OmniSwitch 8800 OS8-10GNI-UR1 modules: • CMM takeover • Redundant 10 Gi
New Software Supported CLI Command to Disable PoE Capacitor Detector The following new command has been added to enable/disable capacitor detection for Power over Ethernet (PoE) devices: • lanpower capacitor-detection In addition, the following new command has been added to display the current PoE capacitor detection method: • show lanpower capacitor-detection Destination TCP Port ACL Enhancements A special service group named DropServices has been added to OS software for all platforms that improves per
New Software Supported High Availability VLANs High availability VLANs are now supported on OS7000 and OS8800 switches. High availability VLANs, unlike standard Alcatel VLANs, allow you to send unicast and multicast traffic intended for a single destination MAC address to multiple switch ports within the same VLAN. Note. IThis feature requires second generation (i.e., ENI-2, GNI-2) NI modules. Increased IPX Routing Table Size The size of the IPX routing table now supports up to 5000 entries.
New Software Supported OSPF Enhancements The following new features are now supported: • Graceful (Hitless) Support During Failover, which is the time period between the restart and the reestablishment of adjacencies after a planned (e.g., the users performs the takeover) or unplanned (e.g., the primary CMM unexpectedly fails) failover. • OSPF adjacencies over non broadcast links. PIM-SSM (Source-Specific Multicast) Support By default, PIM-SM software now supports Source-Specific Multicast.
New Software Supported Second-Generation NI Dynamic Link Aggregation Hardware multicast routing is now supported on OmniSwitch 7000/8800 second-generation NI modules. VRRP Tracking VRRP Tracking is now supported. A virtual router’s priority may be conditionally modified to prevent another router from taking over as master. Tracking policies are used to conditionally modify the priority setting whenever a VLAN, slot/port, and/or IP address associated with a virtual router goes down.
Unsupported Software Features Unsupported Software Features CLI commands and web management options are available in the switch software for the following features; however, these features are not supported in the current release: Feature Platform Software Package Interswitch Protocols (GMAP) all base IP Multicast Routing OS6600 base OSPF Database Overflow (RFC 1765) all base advanced routing page 16 OmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.5.
Unsupported CLI Commands Unsupported CLI Commands The following CLI commands are not supported in this release of the software.
Unsupported MIBs by Platform Unsupported MIBs by Platform The following MIBs are not supported in this release of the software MIB Feature Interswitch Protocols (GMAP) All MIBs are unsupported. IP Multicast Routing All MIBs for OS6600 are unsupported.
Unsupported MIBs by Platform MIB Name Unsupported MIB variables on All Platforms IETF_OSPF_TRAP ospfTrapControl IETF-PIM pimRPTable IETF_P_BRIDGE dot1dExtBase dot1dPortCapabilitiesTable dot1dPortPriorityTable dot1dUserPriorityRegenTable dot1dTrafficClassTable dot1dPortOutboundAccessPriorityTable dot1dPortGarpTable dot1dPortGmrpTable dot1dTpHCPortTable dot1dTpPortOverflowTable IETF_Q_BRIDGE (RFC 2674) dot1qTpGroupTable dot1qForwardAllTable dot1qForwardUnregisteredTable dot1qStaticMulticastTable dot
Unsupported MIBs by Platform MIB Name Unsupported MIB variables on All Platforms NOVELL_IPX ipxStaticRouteTable ipxDestServTable ipxStaticServTable ipxBasicSysConfigSockets ipxBasicSysOpenSocketFails ipxAdvSysInCompressDiscards ipxAdvSysOutCompressDiscards ipxCircDialName ipxCircCompressState ipxCircCompressSlots ipxCircStaticStatus ipxCircCompressedSent ipxCircCompressedInitSent ipxCircCompressedRejectsSent ipxCircUncompressedSent ipxCircCompressedReceived ipxCircCompressedInitReceived ipxCircCompresse
Unsupported MIBs by Platform Unsupported MIB Variables—OmniSwitch 7000 series MIB Name Unsupported MIB Variables—OmniSwitch 7000 Series AlcatelIND1Chassis chasGlobalControl AlcatelIND1Port Alcether10GigTable AlcatelIND1VlanManager vlanTagMobilePortStatus AlcatelIND1StackManager alaStackMgrChassisTable alaStackMgrStatsTable alcatelIND1StackMgrMIBObjects Unsupported MIB Variables—OmniSwitch 8800 MIB Name Unsupported MIB Variables—OmniSwitch 8800 AlcatelIND1Chassis chasGlobalControl AlcatelIND
Unsupported MIBs by Platform MIB Name Unsupported MIB Variables—OmniSwitch 6600 Series AlcatelIND1Ipmrm alaIPmrmDebugConfig AlcatelIND1Ipms alaIpmsForwardSrcIpAddr alaIpmsForwardSrcIfIndex AlcatelIND1LAG alclnkaggSlotTable AlcatelIND1Port esmPortCfgMaxFrameSize esmPortCfgLongEnable esmPortCfgRuntEnable esmPortCfgRuntSize AlcatelIND1Pcam alcatelIND1PCAMMIBObjects alaCoroL3HrePerModeTable alaCoroL3HrePerCoronadoStatsTable alaCoroL3HreChangeTable AlcatelIND1Pimsm alaPimsmGlobalConfig alaPimsmDebu
Unsupported MIBs by Platform MIB Name Unsupported MIB Variables—OmniSwitch 6600 Series AlcatelIND1Slb slbFeature slbClusterTable slbServerTableg AlcatelIND1StackManager alaStackMgrStatsTable AlcatelIND1VlanManager vlanIpxNet vlanIpxEncap vlanIpxRipSapMode vlanIpxDelayTicks IETF_BGP4 bgp bgpPeerTable bgp4PathAttrTabl IETF_DVMRP_STD_DRAFT dvmrpScalar dvmrpInterfaceTable dvmrpNeighborTable dvmrpRouteTable dvmrpRouteNextHopTable dvmrpPruneTable IETF_PIM pim pimInterfaceTable pimNeighborTable pimI
AVLAN Web Authentication AVLAN Web Authentication The Mac OS X 10.2.x is supported for AVLAN web authentication using JVM-v1.4.2 page 24 OmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.5.
.Fixed Problem Reports . Fixed Problem Reports The fixed problems listed here were reported by customers and fixed in this release. Switch Management Layer 2 PR 81286 After running a long capacity test, flows may not age out on an OS7000. PR 84499 On an OS7000, configuring a static neighbor or a static member on a non-primary port of a link-aggregation might lead to unexpected flow duplications and membership registrations. Iincludes ACLs and NAT) OmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.5.
.Fixed Problem Reports Layer 3 Basic IP Routing Fixed Problem Reports PR 83712 On the OS6600, the DHCP Offer from the DHCP server, may not be delivered to the UDP Relay application by Q-dispatcher. PR 60070 The boot.cfg file can easily become large when configuring many QoS rules, actions, and conditions on the OS7000/8800. Currently, QoS can handle up to 4096 criterias to classify traffic and apply the QoS actions. However, the switch can not reboot properly when the boot.
.Fixed Problem Reports Advanced Routing OmniSwitch 7000 NIs PR 62382 Under heavy traffic, if a remote switch is either reloaded or the backbone NI is reset, the WebView and telnet connection to this switch might hang and no access will be available until the sessions timeout. OmniSwitch 8800 Feature Exceptions Redundancy / Hot Swap Fixed Problem Reports PR 83682 When a Xenpak module is "hot-inserted" with the power applied to the board, the link sometimes does not come up.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions The problems listed here include problems known at the time of the product’s release. Any problems not discussed in this section should be brought to the attention of the Alcatel Technical Support organization as soon as possible. Please contact customer support for updates on problem reports (PRs) where no known workaround was available at time of release.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 58437 A number or other variable value i.e. will be erased if it is tabbed over on the OS7000. Workaround: Do not "Tab" over entered variables. PR 60688 The debug bridge hash-bitmask command displays incorrect help description such as "" instead of "" on the OS7000. Workaround: There is no known workaround at this time.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 87022 Entering "debug command-info enable", enter the command info mode. Trying to exit that mode is impossible because the command "debug command-info disable" is not taking effect in command info mode. Workaround: Exit from the session and then log on again. RMON Problem Reports PR 55770 Duration and System Resources for RMON are not accessible via SNMP or WebView on the OS7000. The RMON subsystem only shows the values for these objects using CLI.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 53289 Flood multicast changes on the OS7000 are applicable for all the ports in that slot. Workaround: In order to change the flood multicast value, chose any ifIndex for that slot and change the value. The change will be applicable for all the ports in that slot. PR 53817 Session Inactivity settings do not affect active sessions on the OS7000. Only new sessions will use the changed settings.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions Web-Based Management (WebView) Feature Exceptions • WebView uses signed applets for the automatic IP reconfiguration. Those applets are signed using VeriSign Certificates that expire every year. The certificate used for Internet Explorer and Netscape expires every August. WebView users have to validate a warning indicating that the certificate used by the applet has expired. Problem Reports PR 53599 WebView session logout does not close a TCP port on the OS7000.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions 7 On the "Application" dialog box window, fill out the following [leave the rest empty and unselected]: 8 Description: telnet 9 Handled By: (select) Application: xterm -e telnet %h %p 10 Click OK to close each window. 11 Exit Netscape and Restart. PR 58989 Sometimes, when a user tries to login via WebView, with the HTTP server on the switch accessed through an HTTP proxy server, the login page may be served back without an error message on the OS7000.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 61476 Certain long strings in the policy manager event table cannot be completely displayed using WebView on an OS6624/6648/7700/7800. Workaround: View the display through CLI. PR 63329 Some of the Modify pages in WebView lose their content when an error occurs and an error message is displayed below the title of the page on the OS7000. Workaround: Close the modify window and re-modify again.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 68687 It is possible to see the ARP table empty in WebView, even though there are static routes. Workaround: Click on the "Next" arrow found under the table. If this arrow appears under the table, this is un indication that there are static routes, but they might be on the next page. PR 71023 For Security -> ASA -> End-User configuration, one may add ports that are not there.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 76783 When one clicks on the column header of a table with the SHIFT key held down, an empty browser window is opened up. This is because column headers are functionally HTML links, and the programmed browser behavior is to open up a link in a new browser window when the SHIFT key is held down. Workaround: Don't hold down the SHIFT key when clicking on the column header.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 78032 On the OS7000, an error displays when clicking on a menu that doesn't have submenus before the home page is completely loaded. Workaround: Wait until the home page is fully loaded, and then click on the menu for the selected table / page to view. [Currently, there is no way to detect from a browser (except IE—even then the function is not fully reliable) when a specific page is fully loaded in order to force a wait.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 80249 On the OS7000, in Webview, some deeply nested navigation menus may be misplaced in the event that one scrolls down a scrollable feature homepage. Workaround: Refresh the home page by clicking on the appropriate icon on the left navigation menu. PR 80593 The drop-down menu in the Switch Log File page will not let a user select an option from the combo box for Session, Severity Level, Application ID in Netscape 7.0 on Solaris 2.8 on an OS8800.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 81464 Due to the Netscape browser's behavior, WebView Add IPX RIP/SAP Filter Help button is misaligned under the Restore button when the window isn't big enough to display all buttons in one line. Workaround: There is no known workaround at this time. PR 81817 The WebView Health help page for OS6600 switches does not have description for the Danger Limit and Hardware Board fields. Workaround: There is no known workaround at this time.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 82309 On the OS7000, the virtual ospf interface status is not displayed in WebView. Workaround: Use the CLI show ip ospf virtual-link command. PR 82540 On the OS7000, in the WebView help page for VRRP Tracking there is no hypertext link for Admin Status and the Entity Type and Oper Status hypertext links and information sections need to be deleted. Workaround: There is no known workaround at this time.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 83794 Menu corruption may occur when selecting VLAN Management Binding Rules under Netscape. The menu may appear in the middle of the tabular display. Workaround: Use Internet Explorer 6. PR 83810 Resizing the Netscape 4.79 browser window with WebView displayed on an OS7000 may not force a reload of the Webview page under Solaris 2.9. Workaround: Try Mozilla 1.4 or Netscape 7.1 on Solaris or use a Windows based system at this time.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 84052 WebView allows the user to try and reload network interfaces on OS7000/8800 chassis. Workaround: There is no workaround at this time. The switch will report an error when attempting to reload the network interface so there is no harm done. The option to reload network interfaces on the OS8800 and OS7000 Series chassis’ will be removed in future builds.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 84269 There are multiple bad hypertext links in the WebView help pages for Ethernet Accounting Output Statistics and Ethernet Accounting Input Statistics, whereby links will incorrectly take you from one help page to the other. Workaround: None. PR 84270 Webview’s UDP Relay Association page only allows a maximum of 3 entries on an OS7000. Workaround: All services are displayed via CLI. PR 84281 WebView's sort button may disappear on longer pages.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 84528 The WebView help pages for the Console Port incorrectly say that the Input/Output states are None, Enabled, and Disabled when in reality the states are None, ON, and OFF. Workaround: There is no known workaround at this time.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 84721 Garbage characters "NaN" shows up above the File Operations section in System File Management on OS8800. Workaround: Ignore the garbage character, they are cosmetic. PR 84780 On the OS8800, in WebView, Physical > Ethernet > Interface Configuration > General "Modify" window might display a "Set operation finished successfully!" message and the changes not made to the table.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions Layer 2 802.1Q Problem Reports PR 37415 The OS7000 frame parser does not recognize Token Ring or FDDI SNAP frames with 802.1Q encapsulation. If the parser encounters these frames, they are misclassified as flood frames. Workaround: There is no known workaround at this time. PR 72541 The OmniCore does not support hybrid VLANs where tagged and untagged frames are present. A port must be tagged to add it to multiple VLANs.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 84353 Ethernet tab -> Interface Configuration -> General -> Modify (select an interface first). Title: Modify Ethernet Network Interface 1. It accepts an invalid value such as -2 without an ERROR message. 2. The input rate is adjusted to the best value for the switch. Workaround: 1. Do not put invalid values. 2. It is not a critical issue. (The System finds the best values for the switch.) PR 86084 The configuration file from 5.1.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 54096 The ESM driver does not return a pause frame when traffic exceeds 100% into the port on the OS7000. Workaround: There is no known workaround at this time. PR 56817 The Rx Pause Frame counter does not increment when there is an incoming PAUSE frame on an OS7000/ 8800. Workaround: There is no known workaround at this time. Interswitch Protocols (AMAP/GMAP) Problem Reports PR 80256 AOS switches are not forwarding AMAP hello packets when AMAP is disabled.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 59907 If IP multicast switching is configured along with group mobility, and multiple clients are configured in different IP VLANs on the same physical port, multiple copies of the same packet can be routed to that port causing duplicate delivery of IP multicast traffic on the OS7000. Note: IP multicast routing must also be enabled, and multiple clients in different subnets must request the IP multicast traffic from the same physical port.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 80143 Windows IGMPv1 clients do not respond to IPMS queries on an OS7000. Workaround: There is no known workaround at this time. PR 81111 On the OS8800, IPMS routes packets through the 10Gig NI in software only, even to untagged ports. Hardware forwarding is only available for bridged traffic over the 10Gig NI. As a result multicast routing performance is greatly reduced. Workaround: There is no known workaround at this time.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 83996 Query Max Response Time can not be set through CLI or WebView on an OS7000. Workaround: This can be set through SNMP variable igmpInterfaceQueryMaxResponseTime. PR 84009 It is not possible to configure an interface as IGMPv1 through the CLI or WebView on an OS7000. Workaround: Configure an interface as IGMPv1 through SNMP. PR 84642 On the OS8800, static neighbors/queriers/members may have problems being applied to 10 Gig ports.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 80776 On OS6600 series switches, after the port is in violated mode, changing the violation option to shutdown does not take effect operationally. Workaround: Please do not change the violation option once the port is already in violated state. Instead change the port's LPS state to disabled and then apply the new violation option and again enable the LPS on the port.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 67598 Link aggregate on GIG uplinks occasionally fails to load balance traffic on an OS6624/6648. Workaround: There is no known workaround at this time. PR 70779 Dynamic link aggregation over 802.1q on the OmniSwitch 8800 does not work with Cisco Cat 6509. Workaround: There is no known workaround at this time.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 75538 On the OS6600 series switches, not able to change dynamic Linkagg Parameters on run time. Workaround: Delete the linkagg lacp port and add with new modified parameters. PR 77684 On the OS7000, replacing second generation NIs with first generation NIs causes ports not to come up. Workaround: If second generation boards are hotswapped with first generation boards, some linkagg ports may not come up.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 78909 On OS8800 switches, once second-generation NI port added to a linkagg, cannot add first-generation NI port. Workaround: Add first generation NI port first then add subsequent second generation ports, else add them in boot.cfg and reboot. PR 78945 Cannot add more than 14 linkagg with size 8. Workaround: The limitation documentation is modified with correct numbers for OS7000/8800. Refer to the limitation document for the exact numbers.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 80995 On the OS8800, on takeover some NI (with linkagg confgured) may not get reset. Workaround: Do not hotswap second generation boards with first generation boards. PR 81061 If second generation ports are added first to an linkagg then first generation ports added, error message gets displayed. Workaround: Add first generation ports first then add second generation ports when using CLI.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 81736 On OS8800 switches, when more linkagg ports with same configuration than the size of the linkagg, when any of active port goes down the non-joining ports do not join the aggregate. Workaround: Do not configure more ports than the actual linkagg size. PR 81937 With optimization enabled command, its impossible to delete a port from linkagg. Workaround: Disable optimization command to delete the ports from linkagg. and re-enable the optimization command.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions Problem Reports PR 35206 The reQid packet delivery is unreliable if Qid has problems on the OS7000. It affects port mirroring. The port mirroring feature may display frames that were received by the switch but never set out because the queue was already full. Workaround: There is no known workaround at this time. PR 66806/66847 Packets are mirrored only if the hardware is programmed on an OS6624/6648.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 71793 Port mirroring is not at wire rate.The mirrored port will drop traffic when port mirroring is enabled on the OS7000. Workaround: There is no known workaround at this time. PR 72891 On the OS7000, egress port mirroring rate is less than 1Gbps for GNI_C12 modules when the link speed is 1G. Workaround: There is no known workaround at this time. PR 77036 There is high performance degradation for port mirroring in OS8-GNI-C8.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 81038 Ingress flood traffic is seen on Mirroring port in case of Outport Mirroring on an OS7000 port. Workaround: There is no known workaround at this time. PR 81133 On the OS7000, when there are multiple mirror sessions on same second generation NI, with the mirrored ports belonging to different default Vlans and Mirroring port is on first generation NI, Double tagged frame can result when ports are tagged and traffic is also tagged.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions Source Learning Feature Exceptions • The number of MAC addresses supported on an OS6600 is 8K. Problem Reports PR 53663 MAC load balancing does not spread out the MACs among 4 ports on the OS7000. Workaround: There is no known workaround at this time. PR 54930 The CLI command show mac-address-table count does not have an equivalent in SNMP or WebView on the OS7000. Workaround: There is no known workaround at this time. PR 57013 Boot.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 64506 When the amount of Macs on an OS6624/6648 switch reaches 85% of 16K, the fast aging mechanism will start to age out all of the Macs faster. Workaround: There is no known workaround at this time. PR 68045 ARP replies are sent best effort on an OS6624/6648. This might possibly result in a loss of ARP resolution on adjacent switches while routing over links experiencing sustained congestion.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 76491 The aging process in the case of disabled vlans is not the same on OS6600 as it is on OS7000 and OS8000 switches. This is due to the architectural difference between the software running in those switches. Workaround: There is no known workaround at this time.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 64668 Spanning Tree may bounce because there are too many Spanning Tree instances attached to the port on the OS7000. Workaround: If more than 256 VLANs require a Spanning Tree, the switch must be configured in flat mode (Spanning tree per VLAN is inactivated). PR 65465 Changing any Spanning Tree parameter on a port for VLAN 1, when VLAN 1 is tagged for that port, is not applied during the execution of the initial configuration file (boot.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 76688 Path cost of 0 is mistakenly allowed to configure a port on the OS7000. Workaround: Do not use path cost 0. PR 76951 'Show Spantree' command still displays some values in the 'Path Cost', 'Op Cnx', and 'Designated Bridge ID' columns for a port when it is down. Workaround: If the port's 'Operating Status' Column shows DIS (for disabled), just ignore the values for the rest of other columns.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions VLANs Feature Exceptions • The number of VLANs on an OS6600 with spanning tree is 128 and without spanning tree is 256. • The number of VLANs on the OS7000/8800 with Spanning Tree is 256 and without Spanning Tree is 1024.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 60680 If a single MAC address of a single device is attached to a single port on the switch and is generating multiple SNAP types with non-zero vender identification, on the OS7000, one will be unable to create VLAN protocol rules to isolate each generated SNAP type into its own VLAN. Workaround: There is no known workaround at this time.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 63001 MAC-port rules does not block other MACs from using the same port on the OS7000. Workaround: There is no known workaround at this time. PR 68371 VPA on a mobile port does not flush out the VPAs when rules are deleted on the OS7000. Workaround: System relies on the VPA aging out process rather than deleting it proactively on rule deletion. However VPAs are deleted when the VLAN as a whole is deleted or if mobility is removed from port.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 70811 A default VLAN might come up in operational state when it is disabled to accommodate group mobility. Workaround: There is no known workaround at this time. PR 70954 The first IPX encapsulation learned on a fresh OS6624/6648 switch becomes the only encapsulation that can be learned until the switch is rebooted regardless of the encapsulation selected in the IPX (ipx-e2, ipxllc, or ipx-novell) protocol rule.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 76336 When IP traffic is classified on a mobile port on an OS6624/6648, the IP source address must be learned by the system in order for traffic to be correctly processed from each source host. Workaround: Resolve ARP for all IP hosts classified on mobile ports.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions Layer 3 Basic IP Routing Problem Reports PR 57299 The unloading and reloading of RIP/BGP/OSPF is not supported on all OmniSwitch platforms. Workaround: Reboot switch for reloading of operation protocol. PR 58974 Changing ethernet encapsulation from eth2 to snap while running traffic does not take effect until manual route cache clear is performed on the OS7000. Workaround: There is no known workaround at this time.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 65650 With a large number of RIP routes on the OS7000, (i.e. 200), setting the Debug Level to a high value (i.e. 100) ties up RIP with printing debug messages, which causes RIP not to accept other inputs ex: CLI or SNMP. Workaround: Reduce the debug-level to a lower value (i.e. 70). PR 65678 On the OS8800 debug IP packet can only display bogus characters. Workaround: There is no known workaround at this time.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 74184 Router-ID does not respond to ping. This feature is frequently referred to as a loopback interface and is not available in the current release. The "router-id" and "primary-address" configuration commands are strictly used by the routing protocols for unique router identification. Workaround: There is no known workaround at this time. PR 75002 There is no provision to configure per Vlan IP MTU on an OS6624/6648.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 80049 When a RIP v1 interface on one OS6600 series Router connects to a Rip v2 interface on another OS6600 Router, then Rip v1-based host-routes will be created by the Rip v1 router for each of the existing Rip v2 routes and added to the IP Routing Table. These will then be aged out after reaching metric 16 and then removed. This is done periodically once in every 4 or 5 minutes.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 68826 When using the Ixia ScriptMate on the OmniSwitch 8800, Ixia tries to reacquire the link. It detects a timeout and is unable to pass traffic. Workaround: Configure Ixia side as non-auto, then there will be no more link changes. PR 73198 The MAC-IP binding rule will allow IPX traffic to flow along with the classified IP traffic in the VLAN classified to.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 72889 It may take about 12 minutes for the NTP client to readjust its internal clock when the offset is small. The time update is triggered by the NTP algorithm itself. In general, if offset is larger than 128 milliseconds continuously for 900 seconds (15 minutes), a time update will be done. This design prevents excessive time updates by using a threshold to debounce timestamp data received. Workaround: There is no known workaround at this time.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 77401 On the OS7000, if the lease time expires for a particular IP address used by one switch, and the server is out of new IP addresses, and another switch requests for a IP address, then the server gives out the IP address whose lease has expired to this new switch. Thus resulting in duplicate IP addresses on the two switches. Workaround: Increase the lease time on the server or configure larger pool of addresses on the server.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 84471 On an OS7000, the yipped field gets changed. Workaround: There is no known workaround at this time. PR 84500 On an OS7000, once UDP framed is relayed, its TTL value is always set to 32 secs (hex 20) Workaround: There is no known workaround at this time. PR 84592 In certain cases, frames get duplicated with UDP Relay on an OS7000. Workaround: 1.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 68342 VRRP neighbors may switch between master and backup when more than 20 virtual routers are on the OS7000. Workaround: One must have OS7-GNI-U2’s with a 1.3 Catalina or greater. The version of the Catalina for a Gigabit module is determined by running the command "show ni ". In the line "ASIC-Physical", the last two values represent the version of the Catalina i.e.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions Quality of Service (includes ACLs and NAT) Feature Exceptions • Only 512 policy rules, conditions and actions are supported OS7000/8800. • Only 128 policy rules on OS6600. Problem Reports PR 56327 Using Layer 2 traffic, with Dest Mac condition and Stamping TOS action, when the ingress port is untrusted, the outgoing stamped TOS value is always zero regardless of the stamped value on the OS7000.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 58008 When "classifyl3 bridged" is turned on, on the OS7000, if a specific Layer 2 DA rule is not matched (or gets dropped due to the Layer 2SA lookup), then traffic is treated as if it is routed which includes what you prioritized on. Layer 2 traffic that does not have an IP header is not prioritized on TOS due to there being TOS values to prioritize on. QoS only really deals with IP for the most part. Workaround: There is no known workaround at this time.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 61072 Simple NAT rules, on the OS7000, that have conditions whose IP address/subnet overlaps with switch addresses will match traffic sent from these addresses, even if the traffic is bridged. Workaround: Along with the generic NAT rule, a higher precedence non-NAT rule must be added to match traffic from the switch addresses that overlap with the generic NAT rule. For instance, if you wanted to remap the subnet 124.10.10/24 to 60.0.0.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 65449 Reflexive policies, on the OS7000, do not work properly if the drop rule that denies the "reverse" traffic coming from the outside is created first or has a higher precedence. With "qos default routed disposition drop", it works fine. Example Inside Network 10.0.0.0 -- SWITCH -- Outside Network 192.0.0.0 policy condition cOut source ip 192.0.0.0 policy action deny disposition deny policy rule rOut condition cOut action deny policy condition cIn ip 192.0.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 68472 OS6624 and OS6648 does not prioritize traffic on saturated half-duplex links, possibly allowing data traffic through the phone to cause drops of voice traffic or signaling to the PCX. This happens only when we have PC connected through phone and have heavy PC traffic going through the IP phone. Link is acting in accordance with CSMA/CD standards. Workaround: There is no known workaround at this time.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 72325 On the OS6624/6648, if the TOS bit is set to 1, when the traffic comes into an untrusted port, it does not set the bit to 0. Packets coming in on untrusted ports will not be dropped. TOS bits will be set to 0 only on L3 traffic. 802.1p bits will be set to 0 on L2 traffic. Workaround: There is no known workaround at this time.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 81620 After LDAP server is deleted from a switch, there is no way to remove all related policies from QoS layer. Workaround: Remove QoS policies before deleting LDAP server. PR 82571 When entering more than one LDAP policy server, they are retrieved/set incorrectly through SNMP. Workaround: Enter the policy servers through the CLI.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions Advanced Routing OS7000/8800 Feature Exceptions • The maximum number of total routes is 65K. • The maximum number of RIP routes is 10K. • The maximum number of OSPF routes is 40K. • The maximum number of BGP routes is 65K. • The maximum number of active traffic flows is 16K (based on current default cache allocation). OS6600 Feature Exceptions • The max number of total routes is 4K. • The max number of RIP routes is 2K. • The max number of OSPF routes is 4K.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 78983 Sometimes on the OS8800, if BGP flap dampening is enabled, BGP task might crash depending on a particular flapping characteristic and setup. This is not a reproducible issue. Workaround: No workaround exists for this issue. The OS8000 might need to be reloaded to restore normal BGP operation. DVMRP Problem Reports PR 56990 Tunnel destined flows are not displayed in the show ip multicast forwarding CLI command on the OS7000.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 80757 Only a single client on a given port for a given multicast group is shown in the group membership displays on the OS6600/7000. Workaround: This is a result of the way IGMP clients respond to group membership queries. Only a single client will respond in a flooded environment where all clients will see the report. If a client receives a group membership report for the same group on its interface, it will not send its own membership report as a result.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 65936 Debug messages are not displayed when connected via Telnet on the OS7000. They only display on the console port. Workaround: Connect to the console for doing debug commands with display output. PR 69890 OSPF virtual links will not form an adjacency with gateD switches if MD5 is configured on an OS6600/ 7000. Workaround: The MD5 key id for OSPF virtual links is hardcoded to 1.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 81763 On OmniSwitch 6600 series switches, when OSPF debugs are enabled from the console, after a while the console will lockup. This is since OSPF tries to use a print from a signal handler. This is a limitation. Workaround: Use the OSPF debugs only on telnet sessions and never on console sessions. PR 81782 A non-ABR router generating a Type-7 LSA does not set the P-Bit in the LSA (to enable translation) if an enabled inactive non-NSSA area exists.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 74581 Some releases of Cisco's PIM implementation default to "full packet" checksums for their register packet checksum algorithm. This causes Cisco routers to reject valid PIM register packets from the OS7000 PIM implementation which defaults to "header only" checksums for PIM register packets. Workaround: Change “register checksum” to “full” when connecting Cisco PIM-SM router to the OS7000.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 75062 When running in a mixed environment consisting of OS7000's and Cisco's, the OS7000 PIMSM router may get into a state in which the flows get disrupted. This is caused by erroneous prunes. Once in this state, the flows will have to be completely timed out. Workaround: There is no known workaround at this time.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions Security General Problem Reports PR 80799 During multiple, sequential SSH connections to an OS8800, the message "++Sorry, traces of my own stack begin at tt ()." might print to the console. Workaround: There is no known workaround at this time. 802.1X Problem Reports PR 70452 On the OS7000, even after the PC is successfully authenticated to a port, the status on the PC will show as not authenticated when using 802.1X with XP SP-1/SP-2.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions Authenticated Switch Access PR 59686 If a user kills an HTTP session, the table will still display the session when it automatically refreshes. Workaround: The user must hit the refresh button again, and the table will not display the session. This problem ONLY occurs with HTTP session. Telnet and FTP sessions are removed from the table properly. PR 63104 During a takeover, switch management sessions (HTTP, FTP, Telnet) are closed on the OS7000.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 58192 If an LDAP server is configured in SSL mode on the OS7000 with a TCP port value equal to a non-SSL port configured on the LDAP server side, then LDAP communication is not possible between the switch and the server. Some resources may remain unfreed in the switch. Workaround: When configuring the SSL port, port numbers are the same on both sides.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 76820 When user configures the ip helper on the second hop of an OS6624/48 and thus after authentication, the PC is not able to get the ip address. Therefore AOS appears to not be able to learn the MAC where in fact the PC never gets the IP address and thus no traffic from the PC. Workaround: Configure ip helper on the first hop. PR 77107 After HTTP authentication on the OS7000, MAC OS X will reset the link and thus all MAC learned are flushed on that port.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 63005 The LDAP client architecture does not take advantage of the referral service on the LDAP server on the OS7000. Workaround: There is no known workaround at this time. PR 68906 Sometimes, all the policies do not flush when flushing from WebView. Workaround: Issue the "policy server flush" command from the command line to delete all the policies.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions System OmniSwitch 8800 Feature Exceptions • When a chassis is fully loaded with 5 SFM modules, an Amber Light indicates that the module is in Stand-By mode. General Problem Reports PR 51067 Switch based telnet client only supports a single user at a time on the OS7000.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 59510 The time for 10/100 ports to auto-negotiate is dependent upon the number of such ports configured in the OS7000 system. The more ports configured for auto-negotiation, the longer it will take before they all auto-negotiate. This is observed only at bootup. Workaround: There is no known workaround at this time. PR 60599 The watch dog will not reboot the switch when the OS7000 locks up due to a corrupted image file.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 62067 Port link may toggle if using a Media Converter (100BASE-TX to 100BASE-FX) on the OS7000. Workaround: There is no known workaround at this time. PR 62628 The ASIC version number is missing from its field when a show module long command is issued. Workaround: There is no known workaround at this time. It is a display issue only. PR 63605 Some Fweb* images show up in the "loaded m-code" table before the OS7000 reloads.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 66815 If the working directory is in upper case "WORKING" (normally will happen if it is created on a PC), then the install command from either CLI or WebView will remove Hrelease.img from the working directory getting removed on an OS6624/6648. Workaround: Rename the upper case "WORKING" directory to a lower case "working" directory. Do not use rename WORKING working (this will not work).
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 68905 ColdStartTrap is sent every time a switch is reset. Workaround: There is no known workaround at this time. PR 69073 Stck: Non-Primaries needs to send checksum info to Primary event if CVM action fails (autoCertify). Workaround: Make those stacks a standalone first, remove any un-needed files, make sure the flash contains at least 4 Meg of free space, and then connect the stack back with the other stacks.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 72271 When building a new stack using up and running standalone units on an OS6624/OS6648, they system my experience multiple unit reboots and takeovers which might leave the stack in an unstable state. Workaround: Never connect together or add running standalone units to a stack. Always turn the standalones off, connect them to the stack, and then turn them on. PR 72648 The 5.1.4 boot.cfg file may not be compatible with earlier versions of code.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 76658 MAC Server manager a range of max 256 MACs. If the OS7000 is configured with a MAC range exceeding 256 MACs, MAC server will not be consistent. The MAC range eeprom CLI command rejects the command if the MAC count exceeds 256. Workaround: Reconfigure the MAC-range eeprom to be 256 MACs or less PR 77208 If the system watch dog times out on an OS6624/6648, the console may hang after reboot on the primary switch and rebooted again.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 82675 If the boot flag is set to 0x40000, then it will cause the tssApp task to crash when attempting to execute some CLI commands on an OS7000 or OS6600. Workaround: Make sure boot flag is set to 0. PR 83669 Chassis will not be able to bootup when the boot flag is set to 0xb8000 on an OS7000. Workaround: Do not set the boot flag to 0xb8000.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions NIs—General Problem Reports PR 62573 For following modules, PAUSE frames will be generated per port when the port is oversubscribed: OS7ENI-C24 and OS7-ENI-FM12, OS7-GNI-U2, OS8-GNI-C8, OS8-GNI-U8 and OS66-GNI-C2. Workaround: There is no known workaround at this time. PR 72828 On the OS7000/8800, oversubscribing the egress gigabit module at a rate exceeding 3:1, will result in higher priority traffic sharing the bandwidth equally with lower priority traffic.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions System OmniSwitch 6600 Problem Reports PR 83540 NTP synchronized time does not include daylight savings time. Workaround: Do not set system date backward of current date. PR 87865 Changing switch timezone causes double free of memory environment variable. Problem arises is multiple changes made to timezone. Workaround: Do not make multiple changes of the system timezone setting.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 61916 Fast Ethernet ports not able to auto detect speed and duplex setting with some cards. Seen with Dolch sniffer. Workaround: Manually configure the speed and duplex settings. PR 65197 The qos default queues command may cause the NI to have a different configuration than the CMM. Workaround: The qos default queues command requires a reset of the NI before it takes affect.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 80023 Without a common denominator, a link doesn't come up when either or both sides turns on autonegotiation. For example, when autonegotiation is turned on a port on a switch, the link stays down if the link partner has: • Autonegotiation turned off and local port is enforced to FULL duplex; or, • Autonegotiation turned on, but speed mismatches other than auto; or, • Autonegotiation turned on, but duplex mismatches other than auto.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions System OmniSwitch 8800 NIs Problem Reports PR 66750 OS8800 ENI encountered packet loss on Coronado. Workaround: There is no known workaround at this time. PR 67570 On the OS8-GNI-C8 incoming frames are accumulated by the statistics handler if and only if the port is enabled. If the port is not enabled yet, any incoming frames will be dropped. As a result, statistics between switch and traffic generator might be different.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 79957 It is found that under 13 hours of stressed traffic test with PAUSE flow control on 10G, less than 100 PAUSE frames were seen with CRC error, none on data frame. Broadcom has been notified but they have not been able to provide any answer. However, this should not be an issue as the default PAUSE setting is OFF and the rate of corruption is extremely low (<100 out of 23 millions PAUSE frames). Workaround: Do not turn on PAUSE flow control in 10G.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 84585 The interface may bounce for no apparent reason, i.e., the link did not go down. However, so far this has happened very infrequently. It may be due to some internal chip access issue but needs to be monitored and verified in next release. Workaround: There is no known workaround at this time. Power over Ethernet Problem Reports PR 79947 There is no support for driving LED's on ENI-P24 with 5.1.4.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions Redundancy / Hot Swap CMM Redundancy Feature Exceptions for OmniSwitch 7000/8800 • Manual invocation of failover (by user command or Primary pull) should only be done during times when traffic loads are minimal. • Hot standby redundancy or failover to a secondary OS7000/8800 CMM without significant loss of traffic is only supported if the secondary is fully flash synchronized with the contents of the primary’s flash.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions Hot Swap Time Limitations for OmniSwitch 7000/8800 • All removals of NI modules must have a 30 second interval before initiating another hot swap activity. • All insertions of NI modules must have a 3 minute interval before initiating another hot swap activity. • All hot swaps of CMM modules must have a 10 minute interval before initiating another hot swap, reload or takeover activity.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 64385 With many layer 3 table entries, takeover from the Secondary is not reliable on the OS7000. Communication between the CMM and NI's fail. Workaround: There is no known workaround at this time. PR 66098 The user may see the following message on bootup : "CSM_P1_4 - csCsmCmmCtx.cmmState = 9" on the OS7000. This is an informational message indicating that a timeout has occurred during system bootup. Workaround: There is no known workaround at this time.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 69926 When a CMM takeover occurs on the OmniSwitch 8800, a momentary loss of multicast traffic will be experienced. Workaround: There is no known workaround at this time. PR 70127 On the OS6600, when we split the stacks into 2 or more substacks, an STR message of unauthorized CSM socket may be seen on the current Primary Stack. Workaround: Please ignore this message. If you are missing one of the messages, it will be retransmitted and the system will be fine.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 77206 On an OS7000, during a takeover or failover, due to the IP Stack transition, some of the messages may not be able to log to a remote device if one enables the syslog mechanism. This period may be in the boundary of a second. Workaround: There is no known workaround at this time.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions PR 84483 At the end of the actual fpga driver downloading, there is a short period of wait before the whole update process is declared ended. This does not affect the normal operation in any way. Workaround: There is no known workaround at this time. PR 84648 Takeovers on updated running configs reset the NIs but they don't come back up on a OS7000.
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