28LANPLEX® 6000 EXTENDED SWITCHING SOFTWARE

Table 3 Revision History for LANplex® 6000 Extended Switching Software (continued)

Revision Number

Description of Release

 

 

3.1.5

New feature:

 

Support for SMT MIB path attribute Ring Latency

 

 

3.1.4

New features:

 

ESM 10BASE-2 (BNC) media support

 

IP broadcast address configuration support

 

 

3.1.1

New features:

 

IP routing functionality

 

TP-DDI media support

 

Nonvolatile data save and restore functionality

 

 

3.0.1

New feature:

 

Baselining of Ethernet and FDDI statistics functionality

 

 

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6000 specifications

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