32APPENDIX A: NEW FEATURES IN INTELLIGENT SWITCHING SOFTWARE VERSION 8.1.1

Field Added to the A new field, State, has been added to the interface display table, Interface Display allowing you to view the state of all interfaces configured for each

switching module in the system.

The interface state is determined based on the state of all ports associated with the interface. For IP, the state displayed is either Up or Down:

■The interface state is displayed as Down if no port in the defined interface, including those in overlapping subnetworks, has established link status. Link status is not established for FDDI DAS ports when neither the A nor the B port has established link status.

■The interface state is displayed as Up if one or more ports in the defined interface, including those in overlapping subnetworks, have established link status.

As the interface state changes, transitions are reflected in the corresponding tables for all directly connected and associated routes.

For IP transitions, all routes that are associated with the interface time out in the same manner as do learned routes that are not updated.

If link status is transitioned, previously defined configurations, such as static routes, do not have to be redefined.

New System A menu option was added so that you can display the time — in minutes, Uptime Menu hours, and days — since the last system reboot occurred.

To display system upTime, from the top level of the Administration

Console, enter system upTime

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Version 8.1.2 specifications

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