3Com 6000 manual What’s New at, Revision 8.0.0?

14LANPLEX® 6000 EXTENDED SWITCHING SOFTWARE

Software Changes	The following system issues and known problems have been corrected at
and Corrections at	this release:
8.0.1

■The FSM’s Port Status LEDs no longer light yellow after diagnostics have run on the system when the port’s FDDI MAC was assigned to the internal FDDI backplane path.

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A LANplex IP interface now responds to ping requests up to an MTU size of 4,352 bytes.

The system display now shows the correct hardware revision number for EFSMs.

EFSMs can now correctly handle Ethernet SNAP encapsulated 802.3 frame types.

The TRSM no longer resets if two MAC addresses that are identical except for bits 15 and 16 are present on the attached FDDI ring.

What’s New at	This section describes the new features, software enhancements, and
Revision 8.0.0?	corrections implemented at this release.

New Features The following features have been added at this release.

FDDI Switching Module (FSM) Support

The FDDI Switching Module (FSM) contains two (2) DAS ports (A and B) with standard MIC connectors and two (2) optional optical bypass switches. The FDDI DAS ports provide High-Function Switching to the multigigabit High-Speed Interconnect (HSI) bus of the LANplex 6000 system. You can configure these switched FDDI segments to switch any two of the three FDDI backplanes of the LANplex 6000 system to the HSI bus.

The FSM is fully compliant with all IEEE 802.1d specifications. For more information about the FSM, see the FDDI Switching Module (FSM) Guide (Part No. 801-00332-000).

EFSM TP-DDI Module

A new media option has been added for the EFSM. The new module contains eighteen (18) switched segments, including sixteen (16) Ethernet ports that use RJ-45 connectors, one (1) external TP-DDI port that uses an RJ-45 connector, and one (1) internal FDDI port.