28COREBUILDER 6000 INTELLIGENT SWITCHING SOFTWARE REVISION 8.2.0

Table 2 Revision History for CoreBuilder™ 6000 Intelligent Switching Software

Revision Number

Description of Release

 

 

5.0.0

New feature:

 

Support for LMM+ management module

 

 

4.3.0

New features:

 

UDP Helper

 

IPX Snap Translation Option

 

Support for EFSM Type 1, 10BASE-2 (BNC) module

 

Support for EFSM Type 2, 10BASE-T (RJ-45) and 10BASE-FL

 

 

(FOIRL) modules with SAS FDDI (MIC) ports

 

Support for Single Mode Fiber (SMF) on the FCM module

 

Support for the 48-volt power supply

 

 

4.1.0

New features:

 

Support for EFSM Type 1, 10 BASE-T (RJ-21, Telco), 10BASE-T

 

 

(RJ-45), and 10BASE-FL (FOIRL)

 

Roving Analysis for Ethernet network monitoring on the

 

 

ESM and EFSM modules

 

Support for Multiple SNMP Agents

 

Multistation Mode

 

FDDI Backplane Paths

 

Enhanced Administration Console User Guide

 

 

3.1.9

Maintenance release

 

 

3.1.7

Maintenance release

 

MIB support removed:

 

Ethernet MIB attributes, requestedEnabledPaths and

 

 

enabledPaths, no longer supported

 

CoreBuilder SNMP MIB traps,

 

 

lpBridgePortAddressLearnedEvent and

 

 

lpBridgePortAddressForgottenEvent, no longer supported

 

 

3.1.5

New feature:

 

Support for the SMT MIB path attribute Ring Latency

 

 

 

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3Com 6000 manual Enhanced Administration Console User Guide

6000 specifications

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