Allied Telesis AR44xS series manual Enhancements, CR00012881, CR00013444

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Enhancements

CR

Module

Level

Description

AR44xS/ AR450S

AR7x5

AR750S

Rapier i

AT-8800

AT-8600

AT-8700XL

AT-8948

AT-9900

AT-9800

CR00012881

IP Gateway

-

The IP implementation has been enhanced to accept IP interfaces with a /31

Y

-

-

Y

Y

-

-

-

-

-

netmask. This results in a slightly non-standard subnet that has no network

address or broadcast address. This has become a popular extension to IP, because

it reduces wastage of IP addresses on point-to-point links.

CR00013444

IP Gateway

-

RIPv2 can now use authentication passwords that contain almost any printable

Y

-

-

Y

Y

-

-

-

-

-

character, including characters such as $, % and &. The ? character is interpreted

as asking for parameter help, so this is not usable anywhere inside a password.

Also, a password cannot contain double quotes (") as the first character of the

string.

The RIP password length is now strictly enforced at 16 characters. The command

handler no longer accepts a password with more characters than this.

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