Comments on: Nortel ERS 8600 Software 5.1.1.1 Available https://blog.michaelfmcnamara.com/2009/10/nortel-ers-8600-software-5-1-1-1-available/ technology, networking, virtualization and IP telephony Sat, 30 Oct 2021 17:28:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 By: Mike D https://blog.michaelfmcnamara.com/2009/10/nortel-ers-8600-software-5-1-1-1-available/comment-page-1/#comment-1426 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:27:27 +0000 http://blog.michaelfmcnamara.com/?p=1047#comment-1426 Mike,

I’ll cut and paste my first post into a topic on the forum. It looks like others are already experiencing plenty with the 5.1.x stream, so I’ll be adding to the list. And, sure, go ahead and edit out my post with the email address.
thanks. Mike.

]]> By: Michael McNamara https://blog.michaelfmcnamara.com/2009/10/nortel-ers-8600-software-5-1-1-1-available/comment-page-1/#comment-1422 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:20:53 +0000 http://blog.michaelfmcnamara.com/?p=1047#comment-1422 In reply to Mike D.

Hi Mike,

Thanks for sharing… we’re always interested!

I’ll be honest in saying that I don’t personally use RIPv1 or RIPv2 anymore but I’m sure there are many folks here that would be interested in hearing more about the problem.

Perhaps you could start a topic over on the forums?

http://forums.networkinfrastructure.info/nortel-ethernet-switching/

Thanks!

]]> By: Michael McNamara https://blog.michaelfmcnamara.com/2009/10/nortel-ers-8600-software-5-1-1-1-available/comment-page-1/#comment-1421 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:19:05 +0000 http://blog.michaelfmcnamara.com/?p=1047#comment-1421 In reply to Mike D.

Are you sure you what to post your email address? We could start a topic over on the forums?

http://forums.networkinfrastructure.info/nortel-ethernet-switching/

Let me know and I can “prune” your email address from your reply.l

Cheers!

]]> By: Mike D https://blog.michaelfmcnamara.com/2009/10/nortel-ers-8600-software-5-1-1-1-available/comment-page-1/#comment-1420 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:49:14 +0000 http://blog.michaelfmcnamara.com/?p=1047#comment-1420 see my previous post….I forgot to list my address

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]]> By: Mike D https://blog.michaelfmcnamara.com/2009/10/nortel-ers-8600-software-5-1-1-1-available/comment-page-1/#comment-1419 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:56:55 +0000 http://blog.michaelfmcnamara.com/?p=1047#comment-1419 FYI to anybody who:
1)may be listening
2)is considering upgrading to (or initially implementing) release 5.1.1.1, AND
3)relies on the ERS8600 for RIP and/or RIPv2

I have an open support case, that will likely be further escalated shortly, relating to what appears to be an inability to correctly receive RIP updates and then use those to populate and maintain the routing table. I’ve worked for several hours with my SE (in addition to with GNTS) and we are both fairly convinced that this a bug instead of a configuration error. Feel free to email me directly and I’ll be happy to share more detail if you are interested.

]]> By: svl0r https://blog.michaelfmcnamara.com/2009/10/nortel-ers-8600-software-5-1-1-1-available/comment-page-1/#comment-1350 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:10:20 +0000 http://blog.michaelfmcnamara.com/?p=1047#comment-1350 In reply to Michael McNamara.

Nice!

Well you should be able to walk into a upgrade now a days.

]]> By: Michael McNamara https://blog.michaelfmcnamara.com/2009/10/nortel-ers-8600-software-5-1-1-1-available/comment-page-1/#comment-1349 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:48:51 +0000 http://blog.michaelfmcnamara.com/?p=1047#comment-1349 In reply to svl0r.

I performed the upgrade this afternoon in my lab and it was pretty straight forward. I did find the system-monitor flag set to false (disabled) on both of the ERS8600 switches in my testlab so I needed to enable that flag (via Device Manager) and reboot each switch before I performed the actual software upgrade.

In production rebooting twice could be a pain for those sites where uptime is a 24x7x365 requirement.

]]> By: svl0r https://blog.michaelfmcnamara.com/2009/10/nortel-ers-8600-software-5-1-1-1-available/comment-page-1/#comment-1348 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 01:58:51 +0000 http://blog.michaelfmcnamara.com/?p=1047#comment-1348 This looks like a scary upgrade.

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