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Ethernet Routing Switch 8600/8800 Software Release v7.1.3.0
2January 30, 2012
Avaya has released software v7.1.3.0 for the Ethernet Routing Switch 8600/8800. This release has a few new features and resolves a significant number of software bugs.
New Features;
- 8812XL SPF+ I/O Module
- SPBM IEEE 802.1aq standards compliance
- VLACP flag detection and damping
- 8895 SF/CPU compact flash compatibility with Windows PC
- Fabric Memory Full Handling
- HTTPS configurable port
- CFM enhancements
- Dynamic VLAN addition to LACP-enabled MLT (LAG)
- EDM enhancements
- EDM support for tri-speed copper SPF
Resolved Issues;
- wi00564787 Packets processed by the CP egress through modules with an IP checksum of 0xffff instead of 0×0000.
- wi00853466 Cannot enable the VLACP hold timer with EDM.
- wi00876718 No backtraces in SMP log file after the switch crashed.
- wi00936425 Remote Fault Indication (RFI) is not reporting the correct operational status on 8634XGRS 10 Gbps ports.
- wi00937554 RSMLT peer IP is not reachable when one leg of the SMLT is down in a square configuration.
- wi00940800 OSPF Hello traffic sourced from the CPU should be marked as qos=7.
- wi00940805 OSPF traffic sourced from CPU should be marked as qos=7.
- wi00940810 IPFIX traffic sourced from CPU should be marked as qos=3.
- wi00940880 Disabling Autonegotiation on Gigabit-only capable ports result in a boot loop.
- wi00941200 Static BFD sessions do not come up after HA failover.
- wi00941202 ACLI allows you to configure a BGP redistribution from one VRF to another VRF.
- wi00941225 Gig ports on 8634XGRS module are not sending Remote Line Fault (RLF) clear signal when the ERS is powered down and then powered back up.
- wi00941227 Gig ports on 8648GBRS module are not sending Remote Line Fault (RLF) clear signal when the ERS is powered down and then powered back up.
- wi00944334 When a link flaps, there is no log message to indicate which side is causing the link to flap or why.
- wi00946689 After configuration and a reboot, LACP interfaces come up operationally different than administratively configured.
- wi00947146 Entering configure ip more-specific-non-local-route enable on a PIM router prevents multicast flow from reaching the receiver.
- wi00949429 After disabling and enabling SMLT links, duplicate packets appearing in the LACP diamond SMLT.
- wi00950141 ICMP, DHCP, Telnet, SNMP, ARP Reply traffic sourced from the CPU should not be marked as qos=7.
- wi00950143 SSH traffic sourced from CPU should be marked as qos=3.
- wi00950871 CPU to take I/O modules offline when certain error thresholds are met.
- wi00951489 IPv6 DiffServ packets have corrupt flow label and payload length fields.
- wi00952222 Port speed (HighSpeed Value) is reported for the next port instead of the current port.
- wi00957781 IST drops when an R or RS module containing a designated port for the IST MLT is removed from the switch.
- wi00958033 Unable to create IPX protocol based VLANs.
- wi00959042 Access policy configuration is lost during upgrade from 5.x to 7.1.1.0 when running ACLI.
- wi00959365 CFM fails when SPB IP is enabled and an incorrect CLIP address is incorrectly entered.
- wi00959844 L2 Trace route for CFM – CMAC does not work when one of the SPBM core switches is restarted and the adjacency is down.
- wi00962669 8648GTRS modules displaying the following error message: CPU5 [07/30/11 17:10:05] KHI WARNING Slot 1 Right Lane is experiencing Ingress RSP Errors – CIF Parity Error, CIF Protocol Error
- wi00962958 OSPF MD5 authentication key not saved in Ospf_md5key.txt file for VLAN 3993.
- wi00968188 EDM allows you to copy the clilog.txt file.
- wi00974401 IS-IS IP redistribution to aggregate IP routes into a summarized network does not work.
- wi00974403 When there are two networks with the same network address but with different masks, the network address with least specific mask is not redistributed.
If you utilize a lot of LACP/LAGs you’ll be happy that you can finally add/remove VLANs without disabling LACP, Dynamic VLAN addition to LACP-enabled MLT (LAG).
Please refer to the release notes for all the details.
Cheers!
Asterisk Now with Avaya IP Phones
0January 15, 2012
There’s been a lot of discussion lately around connecting Avaya (legacy Nortel) IP phones with third-party SIP capable call servers. I’ve personally toyed with Asterisk on a number of occasions and have always been impressed so I recently setup an Asterisk Now installation (AsteriskNOW-1.7.1-i386.iso) on a CentOS 6.2 KVM host so I could re-test the interoperability between the latest version of Asterisk (v1.6.2.20) and the 1100 and 1200 series IP phones from Avaya running SIP v4.0 and SIP v4.3 respectively.
The installation was pretty straight forward, however, there were a few small issues that I had to deal with. Initially I was unable to connect to the server and found that the firewall was enabled, so I had to disable the firewall with the following commands, service iptables stop, chkconfig iptables off. I was also getting a weird error in the FreePBX gui when I tried to apply the configuration;
exit: 126 sh: /var/lib/asterisk/bin/retrieve_conf: Permission denied
…this turned out to be an issue with SELINUX, so I had to edit /etc/selinux/config and disable SELINUX (a reboot is required for the change to take effect). Once I did those few steps I was ready to create some extensions so I created 1001 and 1002 and set their password (secret) to ‘abc123′.
The Avaya (legacy Nortel) IP phones can be provisioned from a TFTP server so I installed a TFTP server on my Asterisk server using yum install tftp-server. Then I enabled the TFTP server with chkconfig tftp on and finally I had to restart xinetd with service xinetd restart. I placed the files I needed in the /tftpboot directory including 1220SIP.cfg, 1120eSIP.cfg and users.dat (these filenames are case sensitive on a Linux server – if you use a Windows server such as TFTPD32 then the case is not an issue). I configured my local DHCP server to offer DHCP option 66 (TFTP Server) and I was off and running. The 1220 and 1120e both booted, download the provisioning files from the TFTP server, and connected to the Asterisk server. I entered the username and passwords and I was logged in and running in seconds placing calls between the two handsets.
I had to refer to my original post on the forums on what settings I needed to disable the extended license;
http://forums.networkinfrastructure.info/nortel-ip-telephony/disabling-features-from-extended-feature-set-on-ip-deskphone/
Here’s what the configuration files on the TFTP server looked liked, the 1220SIP.cfg file contained the following lines;
[FW] DOWNLOAD_MODE AUTO VERSION SIP12x004.03.09.00 FILENAME SIP12x004.03.09.00.bin PROTOCOL TFTP [DEVICE_CONFIG] DOWNLOAD_MODE FORCED VERSION 000200 FILENAME users.dat [DIALING_PLAN]
The 1120eSIP.cfg file contained the following lines;
[FW] DOWNLOAD_MODE AUTO VERSION SIP1120e04.00.04.00 FILENAME SIP1120e04.00.04.00.bin PROTOCOL TFTP [DEVICE_CONFIG] DOWNLOAD_MODE FORCED VERSION 000200 FILENAME users.dat [DIALING_PLAN]
The users.dat file contained the following lines;
DNS_DOMAIN local SIP_DOMAIN1 asterisk.local SERVER_IP1_1 192.168.1.10 SERVER_PORT1_1 5060 SERVER_RETRIES1 3 VMAIL 5000 VMAIL_DELAY 300 DEF_LANG English DEF_AUDIO_QUALITY High ADMIN_PASSWORD 26567*738 SSH YES SSHID admin SSHPWD admin # Settings to disable extended license MAX_LOGINS 1 USB_HEADSET LOCK EXP_MODULE_ENABLE NO ENABLE_SERVICE_PACKAGE NO IM_MODE DISABLED AVAYA_AUTOMATIC_QoS NO VQMON_PUBLISH NO SIP_TLS_PORT 0 ENABLE_BT NO
I did have to re-configured the 1220 to AllAut before it would honor the settings in the TFTP provisioning file.
Cheers!
Ethernet Routing Switch 5000 Software Release v6.2.4
0January 2, 2012
Avaya has released software 6.2.4 for the Ethernet Routing Switch 5500/5600 series switches.
There are a number of significant bug fixes included in this release, please refer to the release notes for all the details.
If you have the opportunity to test 6.2.4 and would like to share your findings please make a post on the discussion forums.
Cheers!
