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Release Notes for the Passport 8600 Release 3.7.6
Release notes
Introduction
These release notes describe the hardware and software capabilities for the Nortel
Networks* 8600 Series Switch Software Release 3.7.6. Limitations for
Release 3.7.6 are integrated with the Firewall iSD limitations in this document.
Nortel Networks 8600 Series Switch Software Release 3.7.6 introduces a new
Hardware platform for the 8600 Series Switch named the Service Delivery
Module (SDM). The SDM is a new blade that fits in one of the I/O blade slots,
offering a new flexible architecture that will allow a variety of services to be
offered on any port of the 8600. The first application to be released on this SDM is
the Firewall application common to the Nortel Firewall products as well, allowing
an 8600 user to Firewall any of the ports on the 8600 Series Switch, useful in Data
Center environments, as well as when wanting to segment different parts of the
network from each other.
This document contains information about the following topics:
Topic Page
File names for this release 11
New hardware supported in Release 3.7.6 13
Supported software and hardware capabilities 14
Supported standards, RFCs, and MIBs 17
Upgrading SNMP 21
Configuring SNMP traps 25
Upgrading SDM Firewall iSD software 27
Password encryption 27
Extended CP Limit 28
High Availability Layer 3 considerations 30