PowerConnect 5500 Series Release Notes

 

Link issues between PC5548 and e6320

 

When EEE is disabled – Switch does

 

 

not advertise EEE capability.

 

 

 

(Dell) laptop (EEE interoperability on Intel

Link cannot be established

When EEE is enabled – user can

 

NIC)

 

determine if to work in Auto-

 

 

 

 

 

Negotiation slave mode to overcome

 

 

 

the problem

 

 

 

 

1. Whenever port is in

 

 

 

 

 

general mode and bind to

 

 

 

 

 

VLAN, an error message is

 

 

 

 

 

present when trying to

1. Removed the error message

 

 

remove the port from the

 

PC55xx Port-channel inconsistent

VLAN

2. All VLANs in any range or

 

 

 

2. When creating a range of

combination is being created.

 

 

 

configuration in general mode

 

 

 

VLANs, specific VLAN 3664

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

can not be created.

 

 

 

 

 

Whenever trying to create

 

 

 

 

 

this specific VLAN 3664 after

 

 

 

 

 

the failure, it still cannot be

 

 

 

 

 

created.

 

 

 

 

PC55xx - FATAL ERROR and crash when

When changing the port

 

 

 

 

mode to access or general,

Fixed the problem

 

 

 

changing port mode.

 

 

 

the switch crashed

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When using the XG ports

 

 

 

 

 

with SFP of 1G, can join

 

 

 

 

 

both ports as uplink LAG

 

 

 

 

PC55xx v4.0.1.0 LAG issue using 10Gb

Po1.

Port-Channel speed is based on the

 

- If reloading the device, XG

 

physical ports speed that are

 

 

 

interfaces

port 1/0/2 cannot come up.

 

 

 

members of the Port-Channel

 

 

 

 

- If replacing one of the 1G

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SFP with 10G SFP +, the

 

 

 

 

 

device will allow such an

 

 

 

 

 

illegal behavior

 

 

 

 

PC55xx Unable to reach Storm Control

When IE is in Japanese –

Fixed the problem and verified that

 

Strom Control page is

other web pages doesn’t suffer from

 

page via GUI (Japanese Internet Explorer)

 

missing

the same problem

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

55xx - Cannot modify port description in

Cannot modify port

 

 

 

 

description in GUI on active

Fixed the problem

 

 

 

GUI on active fiber-optic interface

 

 

 

fiber-optic interface

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

System Firmware Version 4.1.0.1

Subject to Change Without Notice

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Dell 5524P Link issues between PC5548 and e6320, Dell laptop EEE interoperability on Intel, Configuration in general mode

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