Ethernet Routing Switch 1600 Software Release v2.1.8.0
Avaya has released 2.1.8.0 software for the Ethernet Routing Switch 1600 series.
This release is significant in that it adds three previously missing features;
- VLACP
- SLPP
- ECMP
The Ethernet Routing Switch 1600 series also supports IST/SMLT configurations for use in small core designs.
Until recently I had been using a large number of ERS 1648 switches as remote edge routers for Ethernet or dark fiber connected WAN sites. In case you’re curious we recently starting using the ERS 5530 with the Advanced License to enable OSPF routing.
You can find the official release notes here.
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Hi Michael,
I apologies if this is not the correct place to ask questions!
We have an ERS1600 and it has been getting the following error in the logs for some time without any apparent network impact:
CPU1 [02/09/11 14:14:45] HAL WARNING NPAL_AddArp: could not create local host route 172.19.4.50 for ifindex -1
CPU1 [02/09/11 14:14:45] HAL WARNING NPAL_AddArp: could not create local host route 172.19.4.89 for ifindex -1
000: [02/09/11 14:14:42] The previous message repeated 1 time(s).
However more recently, we had users reporting a loss in connectivity and looking at the logs they had changed:
24:0c301b5ba6d86884eb8c4c03e8fc79108adb874dcae8658e CPU1 [02/09/11 14:14:38] HAL WARNING NPAL_AddArp: could not create local host route 172.19.8.189 for ifindex 75
24:0c301b5ba6d86884eb8c4c03e8fc79108adb874dcae8658e CPU1 [02/09/11 14:14:37] HAL WARNING NPAL_AddArp: could not create local host route 172.19.4.45 for ifindex -1
000: [02/09/11 14:14:34] The previous message repeated 3 time(s).
The long string has appears and the some kind of delimiting character?
Have you seen this before and any idea of the cause?
Kind Regards
Matt