Specifications

Clarifications and Known Behaviors
ExtremeWare 7.0 Release Notes 53
Redistributing BGP Routes to OSPF
Redistributing 70,000 BGP routes into OSPF depletes the system resources. You must reboot the system
(PD2-74932501).
Removed encrypted Option from enable bgp neighbor password Command
The enable bgp neighbor password command no longer has the option to encrypt the password
(PD2-101778801).
IP Multicast Routing
Use the always Parameter to Guarantee Advertisement
The enable rip originate-default command does not always advertise the default RIP route to
peers. To guarantee that the default RIP route is advertised, use the
always parameter (PD2-124368763).
Cisco Interoperation
For proper Cisco interoperation, use Cisco IOS version 11.3 or better, which supports PIM 2.0. Cisco
customer support also recommends using PIM in favor of DVMRP whenever possible on Cisco routers
(4669).
Traffic Rate Exceeding Last Hop Threshold
When the traffic rate exceeds the configured last hop threshold, the last hop does not initialize; but if
the sending traffic rate is set to 50 Kbps, it switches to STP correctly (1-57NMY).
IPX Routing
Tuning
In larger environments, it is helpful to increase the IPX SAP and IPX RIP update intervals to reduce
CPU load (e.g. from default of 60 to 120 seconds).
To increase route stability, you may wish to increase the hold multiplier (default is 3 for 180 seconds). To
modify these parameters use the following CLI commands: (4859).
config ipxrip <vlan name> update-interval <time> hold-multiplier <number>
config ipxsap <vlan name> update-interval <time> hold-multiplier <number>
IPX and Round-Robin Loadsharing
Due to packet sequencing problems, it is not recommended that IPX loadsharing run in conjunction
with the round-robin loadsharing algorithm (8733, 9467).
IPX Performance Testing Using Traffic Generators
When using traffic generation equipment to test the wire-speed capability of IPX routing, if entries are
allowed to age out with the ports remaining active, those entries cannot be re-learned on that port and
will not be forwarded at wire-speed. Restarting the port or clearing the FDB will not address this issue.