Enterasys Networks manual NEW FEATURES AND ENHANCEMENTS IN E9.1.7.0, New Firmware Support

NEW FEATURES AND ENHANCEMENTS IN E9.1.7.0

NEW FEATURES AND ENHANCEMENTS IN E9.1.7.0:

NEW FIRMWARE SUPPORT

The E9.1.7.0 system firmware provides support for the new features and enhancements below. For more information on any of these enhancements, please see the Enterasys X-Pedition User Reference Manual or Native CLI Reference Manual.

10-Gig Support of Link Aggregation

SmartTRUNK no protocol link aggregation is now supported on 10-Gig interface modules (ER16-OS26-01 and ER16-OS16-01). This capability permits users to aggregate two or more 10-Gig interfaces and removes the restriction previously identified as F3493. No support for DEC Hunt Group or 802.3ad (LACP) is provided at this time although 10-Gig compatibility with 802.3ad is planned for a subsequent release.

PIM-SM Support of 802.1Q trunks

Compatibility between PIM-SM multicast routing and 802.1Q trunks is now provided allowing users to utilize PIM- SM multicast capabilities on interfaces with 802.1Q tagged packets.

AppleTalk Features

Two new AppleTalk capabilities are introduced with this release: QoS and CPU utilization.

All ingress and egress AppleTalk traffic is normally passed through the system on the low priority queue. Using a CLI command, one can now specify which of the four X-Pedition queues (control, high, medium or low) will carry AppleTalk egress traffic thus providing a measure of outbound QoS control.

Introduced in this release is an informational error message that is generated when the CPU utilization of the Advanced Routing Engine (ARE), which supports AppleTalk data forwarding, exceeds 95% for one minute.

File Delete Command Enhancement

For ER16 or 8x00 systems configured with two control modules, users may now delete files from the backup control module using the file delete command.

Display of Host Name in Syslog Messages

Introduced in this release is an improvement to Syslog message output that includes the host name. The message format is <###> Mmm dd hh:mm:ss HOSTNAME MESSAGE where:

Mmm dd – month and day hh:mm:ss – hour:minute:second HOSTNAME – the name of the host machine MESSAGE – the actual message

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