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Release Notes page 1Part Number 031723-10, Rev ACopyright 2005 Alcatel Internetworking, Inc.Release NotesOmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800Release 5.1.6.R02The

New Software Supportedpage 10 OmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02Improved Spanning Tree Support for High Availability VLANsHigh Availability (

Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptionspage 100 OmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02PR 60142When priority 2 and priority 3 traffic is sent

Open Problem Reports and Feature ExceptionsOmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02 page 101PR 62067The Port link may toggle if using a Media Conve

Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptionspage 102 OmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02PR 67889IXIA Scriptmate automates auto-negotiation test

Open Problem Reports and Feature ExceptionsOmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02 page 103PR 75615On an OS6600 series switch, a "continuous

Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptionspage 104 OmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02PR 83669The chassis will not be able to bootup when the

Open Problem Reports and Feature ExceptionsOmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02 page 105PR 91482On an OS6600 series switch, when max bandwidth

Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptionspage 106 OmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02OmniSwitch 6600 NIsProblem ReportsPR 90972The displayed

Open Problem Reports and Feature ExceptionsOmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02 page 107PR 65197The qos default queues command may cause the NI

Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptionspage 108 OmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02PR 80710OS7-ENI-P24 modules have egress flood rates low

Open Problem Reports and Feature ExceptionsOmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02 page 109PR 80442An error message “No Such Object available on t

New Software SupportedOmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02 page 11By default, the switch will create a data file called “pmonitor.enc” in flash

Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptionspage 110 OmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02Redundancy / Hot SwapCMM Redundancy Feature Exceptions

Open Problem Reports and Feature ExceptionsOmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02 page 111CMM Redundancy / Hot Swap Feature Exceptions• If you do

Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptionspage 112 OmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02PR 67483The copy flash-synchro command will not work be

Open Problem Reports and Feature ExceptionsOmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02 page 113PR 77206On an OS7000 series switch, during a takeover o

Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptionspage 114PR 87051Reload prompt overrides all other session responses on an OS7000 series switch.Workaround:

Technical Supportpage 115Technical SupportAlcatel technical support is committed to resolving our customer’s technical issues in a timely manner. Cust

Supported Trapspage 12 OmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02Supported TrapsThe following traps are supported in 5.1.6.R02:No. Trap Name Descript

Supported TrapsOmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02 page 1319 bgpBackwardTransition This trap is generated when the BGP router port has moved f

Supported Trapspage 14 OmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R0229 mirrorUnlikeNi The mirroring configuration is deleted due to the swapping of diff

Supported TrapsOmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02 page 1552 ospfVirtNbrStateChange Indicates a state change of the virtual neighbor relations

Supported Trapspage 16 OmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02Note. *These are new or enhanced traps.66 monitorFileWritten(* See note below)A File

Unsupported Software FeaturesOmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02 page 17Unsupported Software FeaturesCLI commands and web management options a

Unsupported CLI Commandspage 18 OmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02Unsupported CLI CommandsThe following CLI commands are not supported in thi

Unsupported MIBs by PlatformOmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02 page 19Unsupported MIBs by Platform The following MIBs are not supported in th

Related Documentationpage 2 OmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02Related DocumentationThese Release Notes should be used in conjunction with the

Unsupported MIBs by Platformpage 20 OmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02IETF_MAU (RFC 2668) rpMauTablerpJackTablebroadMauBasicTableifMauFalseCa

Unsupported MIBs by PlatformOmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02 page 21IETF_SNMP_TARGET (RFC 2573) snmpTargetAddrTablesnmpTargetParamsTablesnm

Unsupported MIBs by Platformpage 22 OmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02Unsupported MIB Variables—OmniSwitch 7000 series Unsupported MIB Variab

Unsupported MIBs by PlatformOmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02 page 23AlcatelIND1PcamalcatelIND1PCAMMIBObjectsalaCoroL3HrePerModeTablealaCoro

Unsupported MIBs by Platformpage 24 OmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02AlcatelIND1VlanManager vlanIpxNetvlanIpxEncapvlanIpxRipSapModevlanIpxDe

Fixed Problem ReportsOmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02 page 25Fixed Problem ReportsThe fixed problems listed here were reported by customers

Fixed Problem Reportspage 26 OmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02IPv6Problem ReportsPR 91124If routes from two different peers have the same ne

Fixed Problem ReportsOmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02 page 27Authenticated VLANsProblem ReportsPR 86129Authenticated users are lost after a

Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptionspage 28 OmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02Open Problem Reports and Feature ExceptionsThe problems

Open Problem Reports and Feature ExceptionsOmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02 page 29PR 69058The admin down CLI command on an OS7-GNI-U2 or O

Related DocumentationOmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02 page 3• OmniSwitch 7700/7800/8800 Switch Management GuideIncludes procedures for read

Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptionspage 30 OmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02PR 91912While configuring an OSPF interface with the ?ip

Open Problem Reports and Feature ExceptionsOmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02 page 31PR 50089/53442When a GetNext request is sent on any obje

Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptionspage 32 OmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02PR 81410On OS6600 series switches, the SNMP Agent fails

Open Problem Reports and Feature ExceptionsOmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02 page 33Feature Exceptions• WebView uses signed applets for the

Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptionspage 34 OmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02PR 57944A warning box appears on the Netscape browser wh

Open Problem Reports and Feature ExceptionsOmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02 page 35PR 60192Some WebView screens do not display if Internet

Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptionspage 36 OmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02PR 65263A JavaScript error may appear when a session is

Open Problem Reports and Feature ExceptionsOmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02 page 37PR 71891When adding an accept action on an OS7000 series

Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptionspage 38 OmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02PR 80209WebView health port clear statistics will not cl

Open Problem Reports and Feature ExceptionsOmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02 page 39PR 81067WebView's Physical Modules Summary informat

System Requirementspage 4 OmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02System RequirementsMemory Requirements• OmniSwitch 6624 Release 5.1.6.R02 require

Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptionspage 40 OmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02PR 83829Whenever you access a WebView page through the b

Open Problem Reports and Feature ExceptionsOmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02 page 41PR 84618The Policy > Policy > Ports Modify window,

Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptionspage 42 OmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02PR 89093On an OS6600 series switch, in WebView, Networki

Open Problem Reports and Feature ExceptionsOmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02 page 43PR 92311In WebView, Networking > IPv6 > Addresses

Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptionspage 44 OmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02PR 91014On an OS8800 switch, the force tag internal disa

Open Problem Reports and Feature ExceptionsOmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02 page 45PR 89608On an OS6600 series switch, as per the design of

Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptionspage 46 OmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02PR 92718Upon VLAN deletion, there is a sufficient delay

Open Problem Reports and Feature ExceptionsOmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02 page 47Problem ReportsPR 70128AMAP currently works on the defau

Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptionspage 48 OmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02PR 69039The user cannot achieve wire rate multicast perf

Open Problem Reports and Feature ExceptionsOmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02 page 49PR 83996Query Max Response Time cannot be set through CL

System RequirementsOmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02 page 5Power Supply RequirementsThe OS7000/8800 power supply requirements vary depending

Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptionspage 50 OmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02PR 73953With an LPS (Learned Port Security) configuratio

Open Problem Reports and Feature ExceptionsOmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02 page 51PR 70779Dynamic link aggregation over 802.1q on an OmniS

Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptionspage 52 OmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02PR 77684On an OS7000 series switch, replacing second gen

Open Problem Reports and Feature ExceptionsOmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02 page 53PR 78909On OS7000 and OS8800 switches, once a second-gen

Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptionspage 54 OmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02PR 81288On an OS7000 series switch, LACP packets stop be

Open Problem Reports and Feature ExceptionsOmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02 page 55PR 81937With the optimization enabled command, it is imp

Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptionspage 56 OmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02Port MirroringFeature Exceptions• On OS6600 switches, po

Open Problem Reports and Feature ExceptionsOmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02 page 57PR 68515Performance of port mirroring is around 3000 pac

Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptionspage 58 OmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02PR 81038Ingress flood traffic is seen on mirroring port

Open Problem Reports and Feature ExceptionsOmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02 page 59PR 90120IPMS traffic is not captured during a port monit

New Hardware Supportedpage 6 OmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02New Hardware SupportedNo new hardware has been introduced in release 5.1.6.R02

Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptionspage 60 OmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02PR 59745Due to the time required for the aging check, th

Open Problem Reports and Feature ExceptionsOmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02 page 61PR 80435On an OS8800 switch, if you change the protocol

Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptionspage 62 OmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02PR 90957After takeover on an OS6600 series switch, somet

Open Problem Reports and Feature ExceptionsOmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02 page 63PR 72119On an OS7000 series switch, when redundant links

Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptionspage 64 OmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02PR 87565The BPDU switching flag is not applied after reb

Open Problem Reports and Feature ExceptionsOmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02 page 65Problem ReportsPR 54327If the VLAN ID of the AV-Client d

Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptionspage 66 OmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02PR 60125The tag value cannot be changed from the VLAN nu

Open Problem Reports and Feature ExceptionsOmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02 page 67PR 62119The ip-port and mac-ip-port binding rules filter

Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptionspage 68 OmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02PR 69656Unicast frames will be flooded on an OmniSwitch

Open Problem Reports and Feature ExceptionsOmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02 page 69PR 75199When using the group mobility custom rule, traff

New Software SupportedOmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02 page 7New Software SupportedThe following new software features are supported subjec

Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptionspage 70 OmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02PR 92573The configured High Availability VLAN bandwidth

Open Problem Reports and Feature ExceptionsOmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02 page 71PR 59599The number of TCP reset does not match the numbe

Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptionspage 72 OmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02PR 75002There is no provision to configure per VLAN IP M

Open Problem Reports and Feature ExceptionsOmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02 page 73PR 80494On an OmniSwitch 6624/6648 switch, packets route

Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptionspage 74 OmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02PR 92791Redistributed routes get added to the RIP routin

Open Problem Reports and Feature ExceptionsOmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02 page 75PR 91228On an OS7000 series switch, the system does not

Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptionspage 76 OmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02IPXProblem ReportsPR 54290The switch only changes an IPX

Open Problem Reports and Feature ExceptionsOmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02 page 77PR 91850IPX statistics are not correct with WebView or S

Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptionspage 78 OmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02PR 90160On an OS7000 series switch, when a URL file addr

Open Problem Reports and Feature ExceptionsOmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02 page 79PR 84592In certain cases, frames are duplicated with UDP

New Software Supportedpage 8 OmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02In addition to 802.1s MSTP support, the 802.1D STP and 802.1W RSTP are also av

Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptionspage 80 OmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02PR 88251If there is a port tracking policy and a single

Open Problem Reports and Feature ExceptionsOmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02 page 81PR 57836The policy service group is broken by using &quo

Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptionspage 82 OmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02PR 61072Simple NAT rules, on an OS7000 series switch tha

Open Problem Reports and Feature ExceptionsOmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02 page 83PR 65449Reflexive policies, on an OS7000 series switch,

Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptionspage 84 OmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02PR 67882The show qos queue command does not display Xmit

Open Problem Reports and Feature ExceptionsOmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02 page 85PR 73767On an OS7000/8800 switch, when setting a permane

Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptionspage 86 OmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02PR 84425The Drop rule is still enforced when the source

Open Problem Reports and Feature ExceptionsOmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02 page 87OS7000/8800 Feature Exceptions• The maximum number of to

Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptionspage 88 OmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02DVMRPProblem ReportsPR 56990Tunnel destined flows are no

Open Problem Reports and Feature ExceptionsOmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02 page 89PR 80757Only a single client on a given port for a given

New Software SupportedOmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02 page 9Copper Gigabit SFP Support on OmniSwitch 6600 FamilyIn release 5.1.6.R01 and l

Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptionspage 90 OmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02PR 69890OSPF virtual links will not form an adjacency wi

Open Problem Reports and Feature ExceptionsOmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02 page 91PR 90742On the OS6600 series, OSPF ECMP gateways are not

Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptionspage 92 OmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02PR 74881When a Cisco router is acting as the DR (Designa

Open Problem Reports and Feature ExceptionsOmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02 page 93Feature Exceptions• The Mac OS X 10.3.x is supported for

Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptionspage 94 OmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02PR 90855The no aaa authentication 802.1x CLI command doe

Open Problem Reports and Feature ExceptionsOmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02 page 95Authenticated Switch AccessPR 59686If a user kills an HT

Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptionspage 96 OmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02PR 58192If an LDAP server is configured in SSL mode on a

Open Problem Reports and Feature ExceptionsOmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02 page 97PR 76820On an OS6624/6648 switch, when the user configur

Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptionspage 98 OmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02Policy Server ManagementProblem ReportsPR 63005The LDAP

Open Problem Reports and Feature ExceptionsOmniSwitch 6600/7000/8800—Release 5.1.6.R02 page 99GeneralProblem ReportsPR 51067A Switch based telnet clie