COREBUILDER 6000 SOFTWARE INSTALLATION AND RELEASE NOTES ™ ® CoreBuilder™ Intelligent Switching Software Revision 8.2.0 May 8, 1997 Part No.
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CONTENTS COREBUILDER 6000 INTELLIGENT SWITCHING SOFTWARE REVISION 8.2.0 Overview 3 Hardware Dependencies 3 Upgrading Your LMM or LMM+ 4 Release Highlights 4 Before You Start 4 Updating Your System Software 5 Copying System Software to a Hard Disk 5 Copying to the UNIX Platform 5 Copying to the MS-DOS Platform 7 Loading System Software on the LMM+ 8 User Documentation 10 What’s New at Revision 8.2.
COREBUILDER 6000 INTELLIGENT SWITCHING SOFTWARE REVISION 8.2.0 Overview These installation instructions and release notes describe revision 8.2.0 of the CoreBuilder™ 6000 Intelligent Switching software from 3Com Corporation, dated May 8, 1997. This revision supersedes revision 8.0.2, dated December 2, 1996. Extended Switching Software is also available. It supports IP, IPX, and AppleTalk routing, VLANs, and RMON. To purchase Extended Switching software, contact your sales representative.
4 COREBUILDER 6000 INTELLIGENT SWITCHING SOFTWARE REVISION 8.2.0 Upgrading Your LMM or LMM+ To verify that you have an LMM+ module and not an LMM module installed: 1 Check that the module’s ejector tab is labeled “LMM+”. 2 Determine the revision of your LMM+. From the top level of the Administration Console, enter: system display If you have an LMM+ at a revision earlier than 1.21 (for revision 1 modules) or 2.12 (for revision 2 modules), call 3Com Customer Service at 1-800-876-3266, option 2.
Updating Your System Software 5 The top-level menus in your Administration Console may differ from those illustrated in these release notes depending on your level of access privilege and on the modules you have installed in your CoreBuilder chassis. Updating Your System Software You can install a new software version from any host that is running FTP server software. The system software is distributed for both the UNIX and the MS-DOS platforms.
6 COREBUILDER 6000 INTELLIGENT SWITCHING SOFTWARE REVISION 8.2.0 To copy the software to a UNIX hard disk, follow these instructions. If the directory “/usr/lp6000” does not exist on your computer, create the directory before proceeding. If your “/usr” directory is full, you can use a different directory. If you use a different directory, substitute the actual directory you use for “/usr” in this and subsequent procedures. 1 Insert diskette #1 into the disk drive. These instructions assume drive rfd0.
Updating Your System Software 7 # tar xvf /dev/rfd0 11 Remove diskette #5 using the following command: # eject The following files should be in your /usr/lp6000 directory: ■ README1 ■ lp600000 ■ lp600001 ■ lp600002 ■ lp600003 ■ lp600004 ■ restore_lpx 12 Use this script to decompress and restore the split file (lp600000, lp600001, lp600002, lp600003, and lp600004): This procedure creates the uncompressed file . See the README1 file for file size and checksum information.
8 COREBUILDER 6000 INTELLIGENT SWITCHING SOFTWARE REVISION 8.2.0 3 At the command line in the Setup dialog box, enter a:setup and click OK. A Welcome screen appears. The system prompts you to continue or to cancel the installation. To continue, click Next. To cancel the installation and exit the Setup program, click Cancel. You are guided through the rest of the installation procedure by the Install Shield Wizard.
Loading System Software on the LMM+ 9 3 Next to Install file pathname, enter the complete path and filename. For MS-DOS system syntax, you must precede the full path with a forward slash ( / ). For example, if you are loading software from an MS-DOS host, enter the following command at the Install file pathname prompt: /c:\lp6000\lp6000 4 Next to User name, enter your user name. 5 Next to Password, enter your password.
10 COREBUILDER 6000 INTELLIGENT SWITCHING SOFTWARE REVISION 8.2.0 You are now ready to configure management access for your system. See the CoreBuilder 6000 Getting Started Guide. User Documentation This version of software is compatible with the documentation listed here. Some of this documentation may be available on CD-ROM. These release notes describe any changes and additions to this documentation.
What’s New at Revision 8.2.0? What’s New at Revision 8.2.0? 11 This section describes the new features, software enhancements, and corrections implemented at this release. New Features The following features have been added at this release.
12 COREBUILDER 6000 INTELLIGENT SWITCHING SOFTWARE REVISION 8.2.0 To verify that you have an LMM+ module and not an LMM module installed: 1 Check that the module’s ejector tab is labeled “LMM+” 2 Determine the revision of your LMM+. From the top level of the Administration Console, enter: system display To upgrade your LMM or LMM+, see “Upgrading Your LMM or LMM+” on page 4.
What’s New at Revision 8.2.0? 13 Full-duplex mode eliminates both the link’s collision domain and the need for collision detection. As a result, full-duplex point-to-point links can be much longer than half-duplex links. To configure a port for full-duplex operation: The top-level menus in this chapter change based on you level of access and on the modules installed in your CoreBuilder system.
14 COREBUILDER 6000 INTELLIGENT SWITCHING SOFTWARE REVISION 8.2.0 5 Enter full to set the port to full-duplex mode or half to set the port to half-duplex mode. The port’s current setting is indicated within square brackets. To select this default, press [Return]. This action leaves the port unchanged. Default 6 Repeat steps 4 and 5 to configure all the selected ports in all the selected slots. Changing the mode to full-duplex disables collision detection on these ports.
What’s New at Revision 8.2.
16 COREBUILDER 6000 INTELLIGENT SWITCHING SOFTWARE REVISION 8.2.0 Disconnecting an Active telnet or rlogin Session Modifications to the telnet and rlogin features of the CoreBuilder 6000 system allow you to preempt users by forcing a disconnection. This administrative feature requires you to use the system Administer-level password at the Administration Console. The rlogin usage is identical to the telnet usage. Substitute rlogin wherever you see telnet. Implementation.
What’s New at Revision 8.2.0? 17 2 Set the cr/lf option by entering either of these commands: set crlf OR toggle crlf Press Enter to redisplay the prompt. Your response should now be accepted. STP linkState Changes The linkState of a port is now a factor in determining the Spanning Tree port state. This change helps prevent bridge loops when making network connections to previously inactive ports. The bridge port summary and the bridge port detail screens include a new linkState column.
18 COREBUILDER 6000 INTELLIGENT SWITCHING SOFTWARE REVISION 8.2.0 Fast Ethernet 1 Ethernet 2 ... port FDDI 1 Fast Ethernet 1 Ethernet 2 stp enabled enabled enabled 0x8002 0x8003 ... linkState n/a down up 0 0 ... state forwarding disabled forwarding Note these additional items: ■ ■ ■ The linkState up or down applies to Ethernet and Fast Ethernet ports, not FDDI ports, and only when the stpState for the bridge is enabled.
What’s New at Revision 8.2.0? 19 Hot-swappable Power Supplies. You can remove and replace either of the two power supplies at the back of the chassis. Turning off one of the power supplies generates a sound, and the control panel LCD displays Input Failure. The LED of each power supply lights green when the power supply is running correctly. If the power supply fails, the system generates a sound and the power supply LED does not light.
20 COREBUILDER 6000 INTELLIGENT SWITCHING SOFTWARE REVISION 8.2.0 Power Supply Warning Messages. This release of system software now displays these power supply warning messages when appropriate: ■ +5V Failure The power supply +5-volt input has failed. ■ +12V Failure The power supply +12-volt input has failed. ■ +12V Restored The power supply +12-volt input is restored. ■ +5V Restored The power supply +5-volt input is restored.
System Issues System Issues 21 The following system issues are identified at this release: ■ If the FESM diagnostic fails on a system power-up, the error message you find will look similar to the following message. You then need to reboot the system. FAIL -- Test[ 3 ]: FSM/FESM Powerup Diags ( MAC Test ) failed.
22 COREBUILDER 6000 INTELLIGENT SWITCHING SOFTWARE REVISION 8.2.0 ■ When installing 8.2.0 Intelligent software onto a LMM+ running 8.2.1 Extended software, and non-IP VLANs are defined, you must reset non-volatile ram immediately after installing the 8.2.0 Intelligent software into flash memory.
Known Problems 23 ■ The NVRAM conversion for SNMP traps does not adjust correctly after installing LANplex software revision 8.2.1, verify that the appropriate traps are enabled. ■ An NVDATA save procedure fails if it occurs at the same instant when a MAC address is learned or aged out of the slot’s MAC address table. ■ Performing a manual system nvData restore causes configurations to be restored to slots that have been specified not to restore.
24 COREBUILDER 6000 INTELLIGENT SWITCHING SOFTWARE REVISION 8.2.0 ■ You cannot modify the port specification of an IP interface defined on the LMM+ module. To modify the port specification, remove the IP interface and define it again. ■ When you install software using the SNMP lpsFt MIB, the installation fails unless you specify a user password.
SNMP MIB Files SNMP MIB Files 25 SNMP MIB files are shipped with the CoreBuilder system software as ASN.1 files on one of the software diskettes. Copies of ASN.1 files are provided for each of the supported compilers described at the end of this section. Supported Versions The SNMP MIB file names and the currently supported version of each MIB are listed here: ■ bridge.mib — Bridge MIB, RFC 1493 ■ ethernet.mib — Ethernet MIB, RFC 1398 ■ filter.mib ■ if.mib — If MIB, RFC 1573 ■ lpsFt.
26 COREBUILDER 6000 INTELLIGENT SWITCHING SOFTWARE REVISION 8.2.0 ■ mib2schema (with SunNet Manager version 2.0) The MIB file fddiSmt7.mib produces the following warning messages when compiled using mib2schema: Translating.... Warning: The following INDEX entries in fddimibMACCountersTable not resolved: fddimibMACSMTIndex fddimibMACIndex Translation Complete. Schema file in “fddiSmt7.mib.schema” Oid file in “fddiSmt7.mib.
Revision History Revision History 27 Table 2 provides a brief description of the previous releases of the CoreBuilder 6000 Intelligent Switching software. Table 2 Revision History for CoreBuilder™ 6000 Intelligent Switching Software Revision Number Description of Release 8.0.2 Updated system diagnostics 8.0.1 Fixes for several problems that existed in Revision 8.0.0 8.0.0 New features: 7.0.
28 COREBUILDER 6000 INTELLIGENT SWITCHING SOFTWARE REVISION 8.2.0 Table 2 Revision History for CoreBuilder™ 6000 Intelligent Switching Software Revision Number Description of Release 5.0.0 New feature: ■ 4.3.0 New features: ■ UDP Helper ■ IPX Snap Translation Option ■ Support for EFSM Type 1, 10BASE-2 (BNC) module ■ 4.1.
Revision History Table 2 Revision History for CoreBuilder™ 6000 Intelligent Switching Software Revision Number Description of Release 3.1.4 New features: 3.1.1 3.0.
30 COREBUILDER 6000 INTELLIGENT SWITCHING SOFTWARE REVISION 8.2.0 Technical Support 3Com provides easy access to technical support information through a variety of services. This appendix describes these services. Information contained in this document is correct at time of publication. For the very latest, we recommend that you access 3Com Corporation’s World Wide Web site as described below. Support from Your Network Supplier If additional assistance is required, contact your network supplier.
Technical Support 31 If you are unable to receive support from your network supplier, technical support contracts are available from 3Com. Support from 3Com Contact your local 3Com sales office to find your authorized service provider using one of these numbers: Regional Sales Office 3Com Corporation U.S.
32 COREBUILDER 6000 INTELLIGENT SWITCHING SOFTWARE REVISION 8.2.0 Returning Products for Repair Before you send a product directly to 3Com for repair, you must first obtain a Return Materials Authorization (RMA) number. Products sent to 3Com without RMA numbers will be returned to the sender unopened, at the sender’s expense. To obtain an RMA number, call or fax: Country Telephone Number Fax Number U.S.A.
