Revision History

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Revision History Table 2 provides a brief description of the previous releases of the CoreBuilder 6000 Intelligent Switching software.

Table 2 Revision History for CoreBuilder™ 6000 Intelligent Switching Software

Revision Number

Description of Release

 

 

8.0.2

Updated system diagnostics

 

 

8.0.1

Fixes for several problems that existed in Revision 8.0.0

 

 

8.0.0

New features:

 

Support for the FDDI Switching Module (FSM)

 

Support for the EFSM TP-DDI Module

 

State field added to interface display

 

System menu item upTime added

 

New FDDI MAC statistic rxErrors

 

New fields added to FDDI MAC summary and detail displays

 

Configurable Source Route hop count limit

 

CoreBuilder MIB support updates

 

Bridge MIB support added for the FSM

 

New If MIB added

 

 

7.0.0

New features:

 

Support for the Tri-Media Module (TMM)

 

Support for the IBM Spanning Tree Protocol on the Token

 

Ring Switching Module (TRSM)

 

Support for configuring the Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)

 

group address

 

Support for token ring and Source Routing MIBs

 

Support for telnet and rlogin session termination after a

 

user-specified time interval

 

Support for 64 IP static routes on each EFSM

 

 

6.0.0

New feature:

 

Support for the Token Ring Switching Module (TRSM)

 

 

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