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Ethernet Routing Switch 8600/8800 Software Release v7.1.3.0

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January 30, 2012
by Michael McNamara in ,

Avaya Ethernet Routing Switch 8600Avaya 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!

How to install an Advanced License on the Ethernet Routing Switch 8600

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December 10, 2011
by Michael McNamara in

We’re still deploying Avaya’s Ethernet Routing Switch 8600s and now with 5.x software and above you need an Advanced License to run an IST/SMLT cluster. In the previous 3.x and 4.x software you didn’t need the Advanced License, just the Base License to run an IST/SMLT cluster. You’ll need a license for each Ethernet Routing Switch 8600.

Correction: As pointed out by Masch below in the comments you do not need an Advanced or Premium License to run SMLT on the Ethernet Routing Switch 8600. You do need an Advanced License to run SMLT on the Ethernet Routing Switch 8300. I’m not really sure why I was under that impression or if I mixed the ERS8300 and ERS8600 up.

Once you purchase an Advanced License from Avaya (or a reseller) you’ll receive a certificate with a license authorization code. You need to take that code along with the MAC address of the Ethernet Routing Switch 8600 and go to the Avaya eLicensing Portal. The portal is a little different from most sites in that you don’t create an account but rather you create a license bank securing it with a password. You upload your license authorization code to your license bank and then from the license bank you generate a license file by entering the MAC address of the switch. You then download the license file that you just generated and upload that file to your switch.

You can place the license file on your TFTP server and then download it from there or you can upload it directly using FTP (assuming you have it enabled). In the example below I’ll place the file on my TFTP server and copy the license file down from there to the Ethernet Routing Switch 8600.

ERS-8610:5# copy l10.1.1.1:/sw8600r1-lic.lic /flash/license.lic
Device /flash has 15101952 bytes of free

With the license file uploaded let’s try to load the license into the switch;

ERS-8610:5# config load-license
License File does not exist
License File does not exist
License File does not exist

You need to make sure that the license file is located at /flash/license.dat. In this example I uploaded it to the wrong filename (license.lic) so I’ll rename it now with move command;

ERS-8610:5# mv /flash/license.lic /flash/license.dat

Let’s try that again;

ERS-8610:5# config load-license

Now we can check to see that the license is installed properly.

ERS-8610:5# show license all

License file name : license.dat
License Type : ADVANCED
MD5 of Key : 6d97e0c5 f74a9540 xxxxxxxx 570b7512
MD5 of File : 9ee16adc 97c3394b xxxxxxxx abf81e72
Generation Time : 2011/12/06 06:17:26
Expiration Time :
Base Mac Addr : 00:1d:42:xx:xx:xx
flags : 0x00000022 SITE MEMO
memo :
Advanced License

Now if you have multiple CPU/SFs you need to copy the license file to the standby CPU/SF. If you have savetostandby enabled in your boot.cfg file then all you need to-do is to save the configuration. If you don’t have savetostandby enabled you need to manually copy the license file to your standby CPU/SF (copy /flash/license.dat 127.0.0.6:/flash/license.dat if slot 6 was your standby CPU/SF).

ERS-8610:5# save config
Save config to file /flash/config.cfg successful.
Save license to file license.dat successful.
Save to slave file /flash/config.cfg successful.
Save license file license.dat to standby successful.

Cheers!

Ethernet Routing Switch 8600 Software Release v5.1.7.0

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November 21, 2011
by Michael McNamara in ,

Avaya has released software v5.1.7.0 for the Ethernet Routing Switch 8600/8800. This release has no new features but instead addresses a large number of software bugs. The list is so long that I’m not even going to bother listing them here.

Please refer to the release notes for all the details.

Cheers!

 

PS: Thanks to @Telair for the heads-up!

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