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4 Software Release Note AlliedWare Plus Version 5.3.4-0.1 C613-10501-01-REV B

Triggers Enhancements (VCStack)

This feature introduces trigger command enhancements (configured for VCStack) to enable

simpler and more stable VCStack configurations to be created. The user can select a pre-

configured trigger that will activate on a stack member if it becomes the disabled master. This

feature deprecates the VCStack fallback config feature available in previous releases.

Diagnostic Monitoring (Background PCS Ping) (x908/x900 series)

PCS (Physical Coding Sublayer) ping is an automatically enabled hardware feature used to

continuously check the link status between an expansion module (XEM) and the switch. This

feature checks XEM modules that are installed in an x908/x900 switch. It also checks the x908

switch without a XEM module installed, and output a log message if the x908 is found faulty.

A new command is available to disable or configure the background PCS ping monitoring

feature to output a log message or to power off a XEM when background PCS ping check fails.

Authentication Enhancements

The authentication enhancements introduced in this release fall into three areas: improvements

to Web-authentication, increased flexibility in the operation of the Guest VLAN, and

introduction of the auth-fail VLAN to make the authentication features easier to configure and

more usable.

Web-authentication Enhancements

These enhancements ensure that the client PC user is presented with the Web-authentication

configuration on their PC.

Guest VLAN Enhancements

These enhancements ensure that the client PC user is presented with the Web-authentication

configuration on their PC.

Failed authentication Enhancements

The auth-fail VLAN feature allows the Network Administrator to separate the supplicants that

attempted authentication, but failed, from the supplicants that did not attempt authentication.

GUI Enhancements

This GUI version now supports the x600-24Ts-POE, plus stacked and standalone x600 series,

x900 series, and x908 SwitchBlade switches. A PoE GUI tab is shown for the x600-24Ts-POE.

Support for the XEM-2XP has been added in the GUI for x908/x900 series switches.

The PoE feature on x600-24Ts-POE can now be configured using this version of the GUI.

100 LAG License (x600 series only)

With this feature license you can create a total of 100 channel groups, with a combination of up

to 96 static channel groups and up to 32 dynamic channel groups. A total of 100 channel

groups, comprised of static and dynamic channel groups, is the supported limit with this license.

100 PIM License (x900 series only)

With this feature license you can create a total of 100 PIM interfaces (using either PIM-SM or

PIM-DM). The supported limit with this license is a total of 100 PIM interfaces, which can be a

combination of PIM-SM and PIM-DM interfaces (100 PIM interfaces of PIM-SM and PIM-DM).