Cisco Systems 3.0(1) manual User Interface and Server Interoperability, What’s New in This Release

User Interface and Server Interoperability

User Interface and Server Interoperability

The following table describes the typical outcome when you run different versions of the user interface and the servers:

Table 3	Network Registrar Interoperability
GUI and CLI	Server	Outcome
3.0	2.5	Network Registrar runs successfully.
2.5	3.0	Network Registrar UI displays the error message “Unsupported version
		number.” The server is unaffected.

What’s New in This Release

The following sections describe the new features in Cisco Network Registrar Release 3.0(1)T and Cisco Network Registrar Release 3.0T.

Cisco Network Registrar Release 3.0(1)T

Cisco Network Registrar Release 3.0(1)T offers these new features:

•DHCP lease query—A method for a uBR to discover the mapping between IP and MAC addresses. This is necessary in some customer environments to prevent theft of service on the cable network.

•Read-only user interface—A feature that allows a site to have one user interface in use with full read/write privileges and a several interfaces in use with just read privileges.

•DNS force transfer—A method for a site to manually force an update on a secondary server when the primary server has newer information.

•LDAP log and error messages—Messages that indicate progress in accessing an LDAP server. This feature makes it easier to diagnose problems interfacing to LDAP.

•Improved server, GUI and CLI performance—A data structure enhancement that increases processing speed and new lease generation when a large number of scopes are configured.

Cisco Network Registrar Release 3.0T

Cisco Network Registrar Release 3.0T offers these new features:

•Integration of the TFTP server into the CNR server framework

•Enhancements to the CNR user interfaces to support the TFTP server

•Enhancements to the CNR DHCP server in support of the TFTP server dynamic DOCSIS file creation

•Enhancements and customizations to the CNR DHCP server in support of data-over-cable deployments

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Improved performance

Unique error code numbers on NT

Support for Solaris 7

4Release Notes for Cisco Network Registrar 3.0(1)T