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Dell™ PowerConnect™ 6024/6024F

PowerConnect 6024/6024F Ethernet Routing Switch

Release Notes

Date: April 2005

Release Notes Version: 2/2.0.0.1/1.0.0.13

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Dell™ PowerConnect™ 6024/6024F PowerConnect 6024/6024F Ethernet Routing Switch Release Notes Date: April 2005 Release Notes Version: 2/2.0.0.1/1.0.0.13 Information in this document is subject to change without notice. © 2005 Dell Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction in any manner whatsoever without the written permission of Dell Inc. is strictly forbidden. Trademarks used in this text: Dell, the DELL logo, and PowerConnect are trademarks of Dell Inc.
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Table of Contents Introduction 1 Global Support 1 User Documentation Specifications 1 System Firmware Specifications 1 Hardware Versions Supported by This Release of the Firmware 1 Added Functionality in This Release of the Firmware 2 Important Notes on Firmware Installation (Upgrade and Downgrade) 2 Issues Resolved in This Release of the Firmware 3 RN-16647-R-009. Selecting the direction of the traffic to be mirrored to the target monitoring port......................... 3 RN-17597-R-192.
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RN-CA-UG-03. SNMP Access Control Group Settings............................................................................................ 6 RN-CA-UG-04. The functioning of BootP................................................................................................................. 7 RN-CA-UG-05. The supported OSPF features. .......................................................................................................
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RN-16767-32011-F-040. Miscellaneous constraints of OSPF functionality and nuances of the OSPF configuration settings.................................................................................................................................................................... 14 RN-16823-P-244. Common STP cost 4 for LAGs and Gigabit interfaces. ............................................................. 14 RN-19658-P-229.
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RN-TT118808-P-X08. System relays DHCP messages when server is local. ...................................................... 19 RN-TT76305-P-X09. Removing SNMP trap host generates error. .......................................................................
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PowerConnect 6024/6024F Release Notes Introduction This document provides information for the specific versions of the following items: 1) Dell PowerConnect 6024/6024F Systems Getting Started Guide. 2) Dell PowerConnect 6024/6024F Systems User's Guide. 3) Dell PowerConnect 6024/6024F Systems CLI Reference Guide. 4) Dell PowerConnect 6024/6024F Ethernet Routing Switch system firmware. Read the release notes thoroughly before installing or upgrading this product.
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PowerConnect 6024/6024F Release Notes NOTE: Dell PowerConnect 6024/6024F Ethernet Routing Switch is referred to as “the device” hereafter. Added Functionality in This Release of the Firmware Version 2.0.0.1 of the software application program is the second release of the system software for the device. It fixes several defects found in the previous version of the firmware and adds some new functionality to the product.
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PowerConnect 6024/6024F Release Notes Issues Resolved in This Release of the Firmware ID and Title Description Resolution RN-16647-R-009. Selecting the direction of the traffic to be mirrored to the target monitoring port. There is no option to select the direction of the monitored traffic on a port. Both incoming and outgoing packets traveling through the monitored port are copied to the target monitoring port. This option exists in this firmware release. RN-17597-R-192.
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PowerConnect 6024/6024F Release Notes ID and Title RN-15531-15292-R-076. The pings with the packet size larger than 1700 bytes are not answered by the device. RN-16640-10889-R-010. All packets sent from the monitoring port are always tagged. RN-16741-16649-R-138. Viewing the port role information of the Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol. RN-16857-R-071. The limitations of SSL.
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PowerConnect 6024/6024F Release Notes ID and Title RN-18245-P-243. Reordering of the ACEs in an ACL. RN-17098-P-230. Modifying the running configuration file while it is being displayed. RN-18759-18957-P-233. The maximum number of IP interfaces supported on the out-of-band management port. RN-00000-R-006. The autonegotiation and the advertisement of maximum port capabilities. RN-18990-P-235. Correction of the Port Mirroring Web interface help screen. RN-19003-P-236.
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PowerConnect 6024/6024F Release Notes ID and Title RN-11066-11896-F-056. The QoS mode: marking of the DSCP. Description In the Quality of Service (QoS) mode, the user may configure the system to use the IP Differentiated Services Code Point (DSCP) of the incoming packet to map the packet to the output priority queues. Please note that when the device maps IP DSCP to priority queue, the original VLAN Priority TAG (VPT) is not kept and the VPT value is set to 0.
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PowerConnect 6024/6024F Release Notes RN-CA-UG-04. The functioning of BootP RN-CA-UG-05. The supported OSPF features. The device incorporates BootP and DHCP clients that solicit an IP address to use as the system IP address on each interface. The BootP client is operational on system startup only if no IP interface is defined and DHCP client is not configured to work. This is the factory default setting.
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PowerConnect 6024/6024F Release Notes Note: This CLI command replaces “rip default-route offset” command. rip default-route originate The rip default-route originate interface configuration command generates a metric for a default route into RIP. To disable this feature, use the no form of this command. Syntax rip default-route originate metric no rip default-route originate metric — Metric for a default route. (Range: 1- 15) Default Configuration By default, the feature is disabled. RN-CA-CLIRG-05.
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PowerConnect 6024/6024F Release Notes RN-CA-CLIRG-08. CLI command “router ospf redistribute rip” RN-CA-CLIRG-09. CLI command “show ip ospf neighbor” The router ospf redistribute rip global configuration command enables incorporating IP routes that have been learned via the RIP routing process into the OSPF routing process. To disable the redistribution of RIP routes, use the no form of this command. By default, the redistribution of RIP routes is disabled.
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PowerConnect 6024/6024F Release Notes RN-CA-CLIRG-17. Reporting of shorts in Virtual Cable Testing (VCT). RN-CA-CLIRG-18. The responsiveness of the device during the configuration file copying. RN-CA-CLIRG-19. The precedence of port bound and VLAN bound ACLs. The device reports only shorts across the cable pairs. The Virtual Cable Test (VCT) analyzes each of the MDI pairs in the cable being tested. Typically, in a CAT5 RJ-45 cable, the positive and negative of each pair are twisted together.
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PowerConnect 6024/6024F Release Notes The “ip helper-address” command is missing from the CLI Reference Guide. ip helper-address Use the Global Configuration ip helper-address command to have the device forward User Datagram Protocol (UDP) broadcasts received on an interface. To disable the forwarding of broadcast packets to specific addresses, use the no form of this command.
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PowerConnect 6024/6024F Release Notes System Usage Notes ID and Title Description RN-00000-F-086. The supported Web browsers and platforms. The web management interface of the device supports Microsoft Internet Explorer Version 6.0. RN-00000-F-204. Idiosyncrasy of the VPT to Queue mapping table. RN-00000-R-053. Deleting VLAN interface with the attached Access Control List (ACL). RN-15139-R-077. Potential affect of the QoS settings on the configuration file download via TFTP. RN-15535-F-011.
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PowerConnect 6024/6024F Release Notes RN-16193-16178-F-001. The Jumbo frames feature is defined only for the ports operating at the gigabit speed. RN-16203-F-037. The DHCP “selfreference” in a downloaded configuration file may cause the perpetual configuration-reboot cycle. RN-16350-S-125. The ambiguity of the Current Port Status reading in the Web interface page "Switch -> Network Security -> Port Security". RN-16514-R-078.
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PowerConnect 6024/6024F Release Notes RN-16620-19743-19744-1685419556-R-128. Several device controls are not available via the Web interface. RN-16621-R-072. The functioning of the SSH. RN-16767-32011-F-040. Miscellaneous constraints of OSPF functionality and nuances of the OSPF configuration settings. RN-16823-P-244. Common STP cost 4 for LAGs and Gigabit interfaces. RN-19658-P-229. The Web interface may not reflect the differences between the fiber and copper port configurations. RN-17103-N-108.
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PowerConnect 6024/6024F Release Notes RN-18463-P-232. Shutting down the locked port after receiving 10,000 unauthorized packets. RN-19630-F-226. MAC Access Control List (MAC ACL) referencing a nonexistent VLAN. RN-32464-P-X01. The same IP address can be configured to a device interface and to a host connected to the device. RN-32590-P-X02. The output of show ip route displays only directly relevant information.
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PowerConnect 6024/6024F Release Notes Known System Restrictions and Limitations ID and Title RN-00000-F-045. The ICMP Redirect messages are not sent. RN-00000-F-217. The limited number of supported routes. RN-00000-R-047. Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol (DVMRP) Tunnels are not supported. RN-10077-10078-09430-09421-F067. Several Ethernet counters are not supported. RN-00000-F-017. IGMP reports in the [224..239].[0|128].0.[0..255] IP Multicast ranges.
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PowerConnect 6024/6024F Release Notes RN-12534-15454-P-048. Adding an invalid VRRP interface via Web interface. RN-14180-11588-F-062. Precision of QoS settings of policing and shaping. RN-14701-14702-32775-3277618891-R-041. Miscellaneous constraints of RIP functionality and nuances of RIP configuration settings. RN-15042-F-025. The limitation of the maximum number of VLANs and ports. RN-15733-R-084.
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PowerConnect 6024/6024F Release Notes The device supports up to 4095 VLANs. However, one can actually create only 4062 VLANs (2 through 4063) because: a) VLANs 4064 through 4094 are reserved by the device for the internal operational usage, b) VLAN 1 is the default VLAN of which all ports are members by default, and c) VLAN 4095 is designated as the "Discard VLAN.
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PowerConnect 6024/6024F Release Notes RN-17206-N-019. The granularity of broadcast and multicast maximum rate of storm control. The maximum rate of broadcast and (optionally) multicast frames allowed on each port will be rounded off to the nearest multiple of 64 Kbps. For example, if the maximum rate is set to 129 Kbps then the device will round off the rate and set the rate to 192 Kbps.