Release Notes OmniSwitch 6400 Release 6.3.3.R01 These release notes accompany release 6.3.3.R01 software for the OmniSwitch 6400. They provide important information on individual software and hardware features. Since much of the information in these release notes is not included in the hardware and software user manuals, it is important that you read all sections of this document before installing new hardware or loading new software. Release Notes Part Number 032438-10 Rev.
August 2008 Contents • Related Documentation, see page 3 • System Requirements, see page 4 o Memory Requirements o UBoot, FPGA, MiniBoot, BootROM, and Upgrade Requirements • New Hardware Supported, see page 5 • New Software Features, see page 8 • SNMP Traps, see page 38 • Unsupported Software Features, see page 44 • Unsupported CLI Commands, see page 44 • Unsupported MIBs, see page 47 • Open Problem Reports, and Feature Exceptions, see page 51 • Technical Support, see page 64 Page 2 of 55 OmniSwitch
August 2008 Related Documentation These release notes should be used in conjunction with the OmniSwitch 6400 along with the associated manuals as listed below. User manuals can be downloaded at: http://www1.alcatel-lucent.com/enterprise/en/resource_library/user_manuals/ • OmniSwitch 6400 Series Getting Started guide Describes the hardware and software procedures for getting an OmniSwitch 6400 Series switch up and running.
August 2008 System Requirements Memory Requirements • OmniSwitch 6400 Series Release 6.3.3.R01 requires 256 MB of SDRAM and 128MB of flash memory. This is the standard configuration shipped. • Configuration files and the compressed software images—including web management software (WebView) images—are stored in the flash memory. Use the show hardware info command to deterine your SDRAM and flash memory.
August 2008 New Hardware Supported OmniSwitch 6400 Chassis OmniSwitch 6400-24 The OmniSwitch 6400-24 (OS6400-24) is a 24-port fixed stackable chassis with 20 RJ-45 ports configurable to 10/100/1000, four (4) combo SFP/RJ45 ports, and two (2) 10 Gigabit Ethernet stacking ports. The OS6400-24 contains one internal AC power supply, an external AC or DC Backup Power Supply (BPS) is also available.
August 2008 OmniSwitch 6400-U24 The OmniSwitch 6400-U24 (OS6400-U24) is a 24-port AC powered fixed stackable chassis with 22 SFP fiber ports (100 or 1000BaseX), two (2) combo SFP/RJ45 ports, and two (2) 10 Gigabit Ethernet stacking ports.. The OS6400-U24 contains one internal AC power supply, an external AC or DC Backup Power Supply (BPS) is also available.
August 2008 OmniSwitch 6400 SFPs SFP-GIG-EXTND Extended 1000Base-SX Gigabit Ethernet optical transceiver (SFP MSA). Supports multimode fiber over 850nm wavelength with an LC connector. Reach of up to 2km on 62.5/125µm MMF and 50/125µm MMF. SFP-GIG-LH40 1000Base-LH Gigabit Ethernet optical transceiver (SFP MSA). Supports single mode fiber over 1310nm wavelength with an LC connector. Typical reach of 40 m on 9/125µm SMF. SFP-GIG-LH70 1000Base-LH Gigabit Ethernet optical transceiver (SFP MSA).
August 2008 SFP-GIG-BX-D 1000Base-BX SFP transceiver with an LC type connector. This bi-directional transceiver is designed for use over single-mode fiber on a single strand link up to 10km. Transmits at 1490nm and receives at 1310nm waveengths. SFP-100-BX20LT 100Base-BX SFP transceiver with an SC type interface. This bi-directional transceiver is designed for use over single mode fiber on a single strand link up to 20km point-to-point. This transceiver is normally used in the central office (OLT).
August 2008 New Software Features The following software features are included with the 6.3.3.R01 release, subject to the feature exceptions and problem reports described later in these release notes: Feature/Enhancement Summary Feature 802.1ab 802.1Q 802.1x Multiple Client Support 802.1x Device Classification (Access Guardian) Mac Authentication for 802.
August 2008 Feature 31-bit Network Mask Support IPv6 Routing IPv6 Client and/or Server Support IP DoS Filtering IPv4 Multicast Switching (IPMS) IPv6 Multicast Switching (MLD) IPv4 Multicast Switching (Proxying) IPv6 Multicast Switching (Proxying) IP MC VLAN (Multiple Sender Ports) IP Multinetting IP-IP Tunneling IP Route Map Redistribution IPX Routing Learned Port Security (LPS) Learned MAC Address Notificaton Link Aggregation (static & 802.
August 2008 Feature L2 Static Multicast Address Software Rollback Spanning Tree 802.1Q 2005 (MSTP) Automatic VLAN Containment (AVC) PVST+ RRSTP Switch Logging Syslog to Multiple Hosts Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) Client Text File Configuration UDLD User Definable Loopback Interface User Network Profiles VLANs VLAN Stacking and Translation VLAN Stacking Eservices Web-Based Management (WebView) OmniSwitch 6400 ------ Release 6.3.3.
August 2008 Feature Descriptions 802.1AB with MED Extensions IEEE 802.1AB (2005) is the latest version for the standards based connectivity discovery protocol. The purpose of the IEEE standard 802.1AB for Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) is to provide support for network management software, such as OmniVista, that deals with topology discovery. Switches that are compliant with 802.
August 2008 Access Control Lists (ACLs) Access Control Lists (ACLs) are Quality of Service (QoS) policies used to control whether or not packets are allowed or denied at the switch or router interface. ACLs are sometimes referred to as filtering lists. ACLs are distinguished by the kind of traffic they filter. In a QoS policy rule, the type of traffic is specified in the policy condition. The policy action determines whether the traffic is allowed or denied.
August 2008 ACL & Layer 3 Security The following additional ACL features are available for improving network security and preventing malicious activity on the network: • ICMP drop rules—Allows condition combinations in policies that will prevent user pings, thus reducing DoS exposure from pings. Two condition parameters are also available to provide more granular filtering of ICMP packets: icmptype and icmpcode.
August 2008 • Modifying specific ACL entries without having to enter the entire ACL each time to make a change. • The ability to add and display ACL comments. • ACL logging extensions to display Layer 2 through 4 packet information associated with an ACL. ARP Defense Optimization This feature enchances how the OmniSwitch can respond to an ARP DoS attack by not adding entires to the forwarding table until the net hop ARP entry can be resolved.
August 2008 Partitioned Switch Management - A user account includes a login name, password, and user privileges. The privileges determine whether the user has read or write access to the switch, and which command domains and command families the user is authorized to execute on the switch. The privileges are sometimes referred to as authorization; the designation of particular command families or domains for user access is sometimes referred to as partitioned management.
August 2008 may identify one or more server IP addresses to which DHCP packets will be sent from the specified VLAN. Both standard and per VLAN modes are supported. DHCP Relay Agent Information Option The DHCP Option-82 feature enables the relay agent to insert identifying information into client-originated DHCP packets before the packets are forwarded to the DHCP server. The implementation of this feature is based on the functionality defined in RFC 3046.
August 2008 When DHCP Snooping is enabled at the switch level or for an individual VLAN, DHCP Snooping functionality is automatically applied to Layer 2 traffic. When DHCP Snooping is disabled at the switch level or disabled on the last VLAN to have snooping enabled on the switch, DHCP Snooping functionality is no longer applied to Layer 2 or Layer 3 traffic. DNS Client A Domain Name System (DNS) resolver is an internet service that translates host names into IP addresses.
August 2008 and troubleshooting of end-to-end Ethernet service instances, while Link OAM allows a provider to monitor and troubleshoot an individual Ethernet link. The end-to-end service management capability is the most important aspect of Ethernet OAM for service providers. The IEEE 802.1ag draft 7.0 standard is supported. Generic UDP Relay In addition to BOOTP/DHCP relay, generic UDP relay is available. Using generic UDP relay, traffic destined for well-known service ports (e.g.
August 2008 • Switch-level input/output, memory and CPU utilization levels • Module-level and port-level input/output utilization levels • For each monitored resource, the following variables are defined: • Most recent utilization level (percentage) • Average utilization level over the last minute (percentage) • Average utilization level over the last hour (percentage) • Maximum utilization level over the last hour (percentage) • Threshold level Additionally, Health Monitoring provides the
August 2008 • Have a Spanning Tree path between them • Do not have any switch between them on the Spanning Tree path that has AMAP enabled IPv4 Support Internet Protocol (IP) is a network-layer (Layer 3) protocol that contains addressing and control information that allow packets to be forwarded on a network. IP is the primary network-layer protocol in the Internet protocol suite. Along with the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), IP represents the heart of the Internet protocols.
August 2008 • Address size increased from 32 bits (IPv4) to 128 bits (IPv6) • Dual Stack IPv4/IPv6 • ICMPv6 • Neighbor Discovery • Stateless Autoconfiguration • RIPng • Static Routes • Tunneling: Configured and 6-to-4 dynamic tunneling • Ping6 • Traceroute6 • DNS client using Authority records • Telnetv6 - Client and server • File Transfer Protocol (FTPv6) – Client and server • SSHv6 – Client and Server OmniSwitch 6400 switches support hardware-based IPv6 routing.
August 2008 Destination hosts signal their intent to receive a specific multicast stream by sending a request to do so to a nearby switch using Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP). The switch then learns on which ports multicast group subscribers are attached and can intelligently deliver traffic only to the respective ports. This mechanism is often referred to as IGMP snooping (or IGMP gleaning). Alcatel-Lucent’s implementation of IGMP snooping is called IP Multicast Switching (IPMS).
August 2008 • A configurable source learning time limit that applies to all LPS ports. • A configurable limit on the number of MAC addresses allowed on an LPS port. • Dynamic configuration of a list of authorized source MAC addresses. • Static configuration of a list of authorized source MAC addresses. • Two methods for handling unauthorized traffic: Shutting down the port or only blocking traffic that violates LPS criteria.
August 2008 will be minimally affected during takeover. The MAC retention feature also has added enhancements for avoiding duplicate MAC scenarios. If the primary element is not returned to the stack after a preset time, a trap will be generated indicating the possibility of a duplicate MAC. A duplicate MAC scenario would occur if the primary element was put back into the network since the stack has retained the primary element’s MAC address.
August 2008 Port Monitoring The Port Monitoring feature allows you to examine packets to and from a specific Ethernet port (either ingress or egress). You can select to dump captured data to a file, which can be up to 140K. Once a file is captured, you can FTP it to a Protocol Analyzer or PC for viewing. By default, the switch will create a data file called “pmonitor.enc” in flash memory. When the 140K limit is reached the switch will begin overwriting the data starting with the oldest captured data.
August 2008 Auto-Qos Prioritization on IP Phones - This feature is used to automatically enable the prioritization of IP phone traffic. The traffic can be assigned a priority value or, if set to trusted mode, the IP phone packet is used to determine the priority. IP phone traffic is identified by examining the source MAC address of the packet received on the port. If the source MAC falls within one of the Alcatel-Lucent ranges below, the Auto-QoS feature automatically sets the priority.
August 2008 Policy Based Routing (Permanent Mode) - Policy Based Routing may be used to redirect traffic to a particular gateway based on source or destination IP address, source or destination network group, source or destination TCP/UDP port, a service or service group, IP protocol, or built-in source port group. Traffic may be redirected to a particular gateway regardless of what routes are listed in the routing table.
August 2008 Remote Port Mirroring (802.1Q Based) This feature provides a remote port mirroring capability where traffic from a local port can be carried across the network to an egress port where a sniffer can be attached. This features makes use of an 802.1q tag to send the mirrored traffic over the network using tagged VLANs. • There must not be any physical loop present in the remote port mirroring VLAN. • Spanning Tree must be disabled for the remote port mirroring VLAN.
August 2008 RMON Remote Network Monitoring (RMON) is an SNMP protocol used to manage networks remotely. RMON probes can be used to collect, interpret, and forward statistical data about network traffic from designated active ports in a LAN segment to an NMS (Network Management System) application for monitoring and analyzing without negatively impacting network performance. RMON software is fully integrated in the software to acquire statistical information.
August 2008 SSH-Communication PuTTY MAC-SSH Sun Solaris, Win 2000, Win XP, Linux Red Hat Win 2000, Win XP Mac OSX When used as an SSH Client, the following SSH Software is supported on the indicated operating systems: SSH Software OpenSSH F-Secure SSH-Communication Supported Operating Systems Sun Solaris, Linux Red Hat, AOS Sun Solaris, Win 2000 Sun Solaris, Win 2000, Win XP, Linux Red Hat Secure Shell (SSH) Public Key Authentication DSA public key authentication is supported when using PuTTY SSH softw
August 2008 SNMP The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is an application-layer protocol that allows communication between SNMP managers and SNMP agents on an IP network. Network administrators use SNMP to monitor network performance and to solve network problems. SNMP provides an industry standard communications model used by network administrators to manage and monitor their network devices. The OmniSwitch supports SNMPv1, SNMPv2, and SNMPv3.
August 2008 Spanning Tree In addition to the Q2005 version of MSTP, the Alcatel-Lucent Spanning Tree implementation also provides support for the 802.1w Rapid Spanning Tree Algorithm and Protocol (RSTP) and the 802.1D Spanning Tree Algorithm and Protocol (STP). All three supported protocols ensure that there is always only one data path between any two switches for a given Spanning Tree instance to prevent network loops. 802.1Q 2005 (MSTP) - 802.
August 2008 • Alcatel-Lucent’s PVST+ interoperability mode is not compatible with a switch running in PVST mode. • The same default path cost mode, long or short, must be configured the same way on all switches. RRSTP - Ring Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RRSTP) is complimentary to either the Rapid Spanning Tree (RSTP) or the Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP) but is designed to enhance convergence time in a ring configuration when a link failure occurs.
August 2008 • You may create, edit and view a file using a standard text editor (such as Microsoft NotePad) on a workstation. The resulting configuration file is then uploaded to the switch. • You can invoke the switch’s CLI snapshot command to capture the switch’s current configuration into a text file. • You can use the switch’s text editor to create or make changes to a configuration file.
August 2008 • Displaying VLAN configuration information. Up to 4094 VLANs for Flat Spanning Tree mode and 252 VLANs for 1x1 Spanning Tree mode are supported. In addition, it is also possible to specify a range of VLAN IDs when creating or deleting VLANs and/or configuring VLAN parameters, such as Spanning Tree bridge values.
August 2008 SNMP Traps The following traps are supported in 6.3.3.R01: No.
August 2008 No. Trap Name 19 bgpBackwardTransition 20 esmDrvTrapDropsLink 21 22 23 24 pimNeighborLoss dvmrpNeighborLoss dvmrpNeighborNotPruning risingAlarm Platforms Description all This trap is not supported.. all This trap is sent when the Ethernet code drops the link because of excessive errors. all This trap is not supported. all This trap is not supported. all This trap is not supported. all An Ethernet statistical variable has exceeded its rising threshold.
August 2008 36 trapAbsorptionTrap all 37 alaStackMgrDuplicateSlotTrap — 38 alaStackMgrNeighborChangeTrap — 39 alaStackMgrRoleChangeTrap — 40 lpsViolationTrap all 41 alaDoSTrap all 42 gmBindRuleViolation all 43 44 45 46 47 unused unused unused unused pethPsePortOnOff — — — — — 48 pethPsePortPowerMaintenanceStatus — 49 pethMainPowerUsageOn — 50 pethMainPowerUsageOff — 51 52 53 ospfNbrStateChange ospfVirtNbrStateChange httpServerDoSAttackTrap all all all 54 alaStackMgrDupl
August 2008 57 alaStackMgrOutOfTokensTrap 58 alaStackMgrOutOfPassThruSlotsTrap 59 gmHwVlanRuleTableOverloadAlert all 60 lnkaggAggUp all 61 lnkaggAggDown all 62 lnkaggPortJoin all 63 lnkaggPortLeave all 64 lnkaggPortRemove all 65 pktDrop all 66 monitorFileWritten all 67 alaVrrp3TrapProtoError all 68 alaVrrp3TrapNewMaster all 69 gmHwMixModeSubnetRuleTableOverloadAlert all Page 40 of 55 pass through mode because there are no slot numbers available to be assigned to this e
August 2008 70 71 72 pethPwrSupplyConflict pethPwrSupplyNotSupported lpsPortUpAfterLearningWindowExpiredTrap all all all 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 vRtrIsisDatabaseOverload vRtrIsisManualAddressDrops vRtrIsisCorruptedLSPDetected vRtrIsisMaxSeqExceedAttempt vRtrIsisIDLenMismatch vRtrIsisMaxAreaAddrsMismatch vRtrIsisOwnLSPPurge vRtrIsisSequenceNumberSkip vRtrIsisAutTypeFail vRtrIsisAuthFail vRtrIsisVersionSkew vRtrIsisAreaMismatch vRtrIsisRejectedAdjacency vRtrIsisLSPTooL
August 2008 101 lpsLearnMac all 102 gvrpVlanLimitReachedEvent all 103 alaNetSecPortTrapAnomaly 104 alaNetSecPortTrapQuarantine 105 udldStateChange all all all 106 healthMonIpcTrap 107 Reserved 108 Reserved 109 arpMaxLimitReached all all all 110 ndpMaxLimitReached all 111 ripRouteMaxLimitReached all 112 ripngRouteMaxLimitReached all Page 42 of 55 Generated when an LPS port learns a bridged MAC address.
August 2008 Unsupported Software Features CLI commands and Web Management options may be available in the switch software for the following features.
August 2008 Unsupported MIBs The following MIBs are not supported in this release of the software: Feature BGP DVMRP IS-IS OSPF/OSPFv3 Multicast Routing PIM Quality of Service (QoS) Traffic Anomaly Detection MIB AlcatelIND1Bgp IETF_BGP4 AlcatelIND1Dvmrp IETF_DVMRP_STD_DRAFT AlcatelIND1Isis IETF_ISIS AlcatelIND1DrcTm AlcatelIND1Ospf AlcatelIND1Ospf3 IETF_OSPF IETF-OSPF-OSPFv3 AlcatelIND1Ipmrm AlcatelIND1IpMcastDraft AlcatelIND1Pim AlcatelIND1PimBsrDraft AlcatelIND1PimStdDraft IETF_P_BRIDGE AlcatelIND1Ns
August 2008 MIB Name AlcatelIND1Pcam AlcatelIND1Port OmniSwitch 6400 ------ Release 6.3.3.
August 2008 MIB Name AlcatelIND1QoS Page 46 of 55 Unsupported MIB variables alaQoSPortPdiTable alaQoSSlotPcamTable alaQoSPortProtocolTable alaQoSSlotProtocolTable alaQoSSlotDscpTable alaQoSRuleReflexive alaQoSAppliedRuleReflexive alaQoSActionSourceRewriteIpAddr alaQoSActionSourceRewriteIpAddrStatus alaQoSActionSourceRewriteIpMask alaQoSActionTable alaQoSActionSourceRewriteNetworkGroup alaQoSActionTable alaQoSActionSourceRewriteNetworkGroupStatus alaQoSActionTable alaQoSActionDestinationRewriteIpAddr alaQ
August 2008 MIB Name AlcatelIND1SystemService AlcatelIND1VlanManager AlcatelIND1WebMgt IEEE_802_1X IETF_BRIDGE IETF_ENTITY IETF_ETHERLIKE IETF_IF IETF_IP_FORWARD_MIB IETF_IPMROUTE_STD IETF_MAU (RFC 2668) IETF_OSPF (RFC 1850) IETF_OSPF_TRAP IETF-PIM IETF_P_BRIDGE OmniSwitch 6400 ------ Release 6.3.3.
August 2008 MIB Name IETF_Q_BRIDGE (RFC 2674) IETF_RIPv2 IETF_RMON IETF_RS_232 (RFC 1659) IETF_SNMPv2 Unsupported MIB variables dot1dPortOutboundAccessPriorityTable dot1dPortGarpTable dot1dPortGmrpTable dot1dTpHCPortTable dot1dTpPortOverflowTable dot1qTpGroupTable dot1qForwardAllTable dot1qForwardUnregisteredTable dot1qStaticMulticastTable dot1qPortVlanStatisticsTable dot1qPortVlanHCStatisticsTable dot1qLearningConstraintsTable rip2IfConfDomain hostControlTable hostTable hostTimeTable hostTopNControlTa
August 2008 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-Lucent Technical Support organization as soon as possible. Please contact customer support for updates on problem reports (PRs) where no known workaround was available at the time of release.
August 2008 LAYER 2 Ethernet PR 122496 122724 Description Changing the combo port hybrid status from preferred-fiber to preferred-copper may result in improper link status. Abnormal pattern or loss of traffic might be observed when both the media (copper and fiber) are present at the same time on the same combo port. Workaround Use forced mode (copper or fiber) on both ends of the link.
August 2008 Spanning Tree PR 95308 108339 121509 Description Temporary traffic loops could happen under the following scenarios: 1. Reloading of a non root bridge. This happens when the bridge is going down and is due to the sequential bringing down of NIs during a reload process .It is purely temporary in nature and stops when all the NIs eventually get powered off. 2.
August 2008 VLAN Stacking PR 121635 Description The maximum number of VLANs that should be created using the "ethernet-service svlan” range command is 128. Additionally, user should wait 30 seconds before running the command again. Workaround There is no known workaround at this time. The maximum number of "SVLAN to NNI" associations that should be created using the "ethernet-service svlan nni” range command is 1K. Additionally, user should wait 30 seconds before running the command again.
August 2008 124656 By default, switches are assigned the name "VxTarget". Once the persistency mode is enabled for dhcpsnooping, setting the mode to disabled has no effect until the configuration is saved and the switch is rebooted. There is no known workaround at this time. Quality of Service General PR 122310 122390 Description Qos max ingress bandwidth throughput may fluctuate from configured value. However average throughput will be same as the configured value.
August 2008 System NI System PR 122103 Page 54 of 55 Description For some SFP transceivers the laser wave length is displayed as N/A .This is only a display issue and does not affect the operation of the SFP. Workaround There is no known workaround at this time. OmniSwitch 6400------ Release 6.3.3.
August 2008 Technical Support Alcatel-Lucent technical support is committed to resolving our customer’s technical issues in a timely manner. Customers with inquiries should contact us at: Region North America Latin America Europe Asia Pacific Other International Phone Number 800-995-2696 877-919-9526 +33-38-855-6929 +65 6240 8484 818-878-4507 Email: support@ind.alcatel.
