Dell 6248P, 6224P, 6224F specifications Known Issues, Summary User Impact Workaround

PowerConnect 6224/6224F/6224P/6248/6248P Release Notes

Known Issues

Summary	User Impact	Workaround
Non-configuration file	When the switch reboots and attempts to	It is recommended that all users keep
getting loaded to	read an invalid start-up configuration file, it	backups of their configuration files.
startup-config through	will give up and create a default startup
HTTP.	configuration.
TACACS operation	User cannot enter Privileged EXEC mode	None.
	without using the enable command.
Ping fails with 33% to	Using a Windows 7 client and pinging with a	None.
100% packet loss	59900 byte packet will result in packet loss.
OSPF Dead interval	In a large stack with an unusually large	Increase the dead internal timer.
expires on neighbor,	configuration, it is possible that during an
when the DUT stack	unplanned failover, the control plane may
manager restarts with	not issue OSPF grace LSAs before the dead
large configuration.	interval expires on neighbors. When this
	happens, neighbors report the router down
	and other routers in the area recomputed
	OSPF routes to avoid the restarting order.
VLAN configuration is	The issue is that any VLAN configuration	This is not a problem if VLAN configuration
not successful on	applied to a physical port while it is a	is performed while the port is not a member
ports after detaching	member of a LAG will not be applied when	of a LAG. If the configuration is saved and
them from LAG.	the port leaves the LAG.	the switch is reset, the configuration is
		applied correctly.
Issue with PBVLAN	The command vlan protocol group expected	The software recognizes if the group name
configuration	a string in earlier versions; now it expects a	is alphanumeric, however it will not work
migration.	number.	when the name of the group is numeric (for
		example 2, 3, etc.)
Read/write user is	The user always gets Read-Only access if	User can configure the same TACACS user
getting read only	using TACACS as a means for HTTP	locally and use LOCAL authentication
access when	authentication, even if the TACACS user is	method for HTTP. The user will be able to
authentication	Read/Write capable.	get access based on this local user access
method is used as		level (Read-write or Read-only).
TACACS.
TFTP gives no	Generic failure message.	None.
reason for file
download failures.
CLI command stack-	If a user enters an invalid interface, a	None.
port config rejection	generic error message will be generated:
does not display the	ERROR: Invalid input.
cause.
Banner MOTD: The	The current implementation of the MOTD	Acknowledge the message to avoid the
switches Console and	acknowledgement results in all user	session timeout.
Web sessions are	interface sessions being inaccessible until
inaccessible until the	the user enters a response or the 30-second
user acknowledges	timeout occurs. While the acknowledge
the banner of the day.	process is pending, it cannot process the
	other UI sessions. Once the timeout occurs,
	then the MOTD acknowledgement ends the
	connection and resumes processing of the
	other sessions.
DHCP server has	If DHCP server is enabled, then the user	None.
data changed flag set	may be prompted to save configuration
after booting from	changes even though no configuration
saved config.	changes have been made.

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