The ports NETP0, NETP1, NETP4, NETP5, and SNP8 through SNP15 are on one switch chip. The ports NETP2, NETP3, NETP6, NETP7 and SNP0 through SNP7 are on the other.
■Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol: the spanning tree mst commands are not available in the current release of the switch firmware.
■The switch’s DHCP client identifier is set by the System Controller. This means that, if you set it using the switch’s
■4831855: Date set incorrectly on the switch.
If you set the date on the System Controller (SC) to anything other than the first of the month, then the datestamp on events logged by the switch afterwards will one day behind the current date on the System Controller. For example, if the date according to the System Controller is Wednesday March 26, 2003, then the datestamp on switch event logs will have the datestamp become 3/25/3. The only workaround for this is to wait until the first of the next month, and reset the date on the System Controller.
■4804197: AN983 internal loopback test reports false failure
There is a remote possibility that an inaccurate failure report will be generated by the AN983 internal loopback test performed during a switch reset (including following execution of the reload command). If the NETMGT port is accessible from the network, then you can ignore the failure report. The failure will persist over several resets until the SSC undergoes a hard reset (in other words, until you power cycle the SSC. If you close down all web, SNMP, and telnet connections to the switch before you perform the reset, you will not see this problem.
■4799549: Broadcast ping from a blade on the management network will not receive a response from any external hosts
If you issue a broadcast ping onto the management network from a server blade, you will not receive any responses from host devices external to the switch (in other words, you will only receive a response from the switch’s NETMGT port and from other blades inside the chassis that are also on the management network). This is a known problem and it will be fixed in the next release. However, you can ping known hosts individually on the management network. And if you log into a known host on the management network and issue the broadcast ping from there, you will receive a response from all the host devices on the management network (including all the host devices inside the chassis that are on the management network). Firmware that fixes this problem is now available from http://sunsolve.sun.com (patch number:
■The switch’s DHCP client identifier is set by the System Controller. This means that, if you set it using the switch’s