Allied Telesis AT-9800 Series manual Enabling and installing this Release, Features in sb273-01

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Enabling and installing this Release

Software Maintenance Release Note

Some of the issues addressed in this Release Note include a level number. This number reflects the importance of the issue that has been resolved. The levels are:

Level 1 This issue will cause significant interruption to network services, and there is no work-around.

Level 2 This issue will cause interruption to network service, however there is a work-around.

Level 3 This issue will seldom appear, and will cause minor inconvenience.

Level 4 This issue represents a cosmetic change and does not affect network operation.

Enabling and installing this Release

To use this maintenance release you must have a base release license for Software Release 2.7.3. Contact your distributor or reseller for more information.

To enable this release and install it as the preferred release, use the commands:

enable rel=sb273-01.rez num=2.7.3

set install=pref rel=sb273-01.rez

Features in sb273-01

sb273-01.rez includes the following issues resolved and enhancements released:

Level 1

CR00005227 Module: SWI, RSTP, SWMX,

Level: 1

SWCX, SW56

 

A heavy processor load could lead to queuing RSTP BPDUs, which in turn could lead to even more processor load, resulting in more queued BPDUs. This issue has been resolved by improving the efficiency in the interaction between RSTP TCN BPDUs and the hardware tables.

This issue has been resolved. (PCR number: 40672)

CR00006609

Module: LB

Level: 1

When failover occurred between a redundant pair of Load Balancing devices, host ARP caches were not updated with the new Master's MAC address, thus causing the hosts to lose connectivity until their ARP caches timed out the stale entry. This issue has been resolved. (No PCR number.)

Release sb273-01

C613-10436-00 Rev A

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Contents Introduction CR00005227 Module SWI, RSTP, Swmx Level Enabling and installing this ReleaseFeatures in sb273-01 CR00006609 Module LB LevelCR00002290 Module STP, SWI Level CR00007034 Module Firewall LevelCR00007695 Module PPP Level CR00002662 Module STP LevelCR00007436 Module L2TP Level CR00007417 Module ATM,ENCO LevelCR00007428 Module ETH Level CR00007770 Module SWI LevelCR00007686 Module ATM Level CR00007760 Module SWCX, Switch LevelCR00007521 Module IPGLevel CR00007716 Module LOG Level