Avaya has released software 6.1.3.0 for the Ethernet Routing Switch 5500/5600 series switch.
New Features
- Stack Health Monitoring and Recovery
- Modify 802.1ab detection mechanism in ADAC to ensure full compatibility with the Avaya IP handsets (Q02109202).
Problems Resolved
- After upgrading from 6.0 to 6.1, interface names for the non-base unit were lost (Q02024643, Q02019044)
- Using filters on multicast traffic caused OSPF control packet drops (Q02103672-01)
- The switch did not properly pass MIB values for port security Auth Status to JDM (Q02011169-02)
- A specific type of multicast packet on 56xx caused sporadic resets with out logging an exception (Q02094042)
- When the switch has a route to a network that is learned from an OSPF neighbor and it is equal to one of its
- downed local interfaces, the switch will hang when that interface is brought up (Q02075419-02)
- Link doesn’t come up when AA1419069-E6 and AA1419070-E6 parts are used on 55xx (Q01966044-02)
- In an SMLT Full Mesh environment, Traffic was lost when the core stack was powered down/rebooted (Q02101874)
- With IGMP Snooping enabled, multicast traffic was not properly forwarded on Non-EAP ports (Q02109643)
- With MAC Security enabled, there were unwarranted writes to NVRAM without any configuration changes (Q02126138)
- In a RADIUS setup, the switch sends continuous authentication requests to the user “Nortel” (Q02113703-02,Q02120164)
- The switch returns incorrect value for SNMP request for ifHCOutUcastPkt (Q02119264)
- Locked Telnet sessions some times caused stack instabilities (Q01899506-01)
- The ‘radius-server password fallback’ defaulted to “No” after upgrading to 6.1.2 (Q02119855)
- Addressed the data exception error: “Data Access Task Name ‘tIdt’ “(Q02024889-02)
- Support for creating user-defined protocol VLANs with SNAP encapsulation, unable to create a user defined VLAN using AppleTalk PIDs. (Q02128054)
- Fixed the issue when IST could not be enabled thru JDM (Q02126805)
- I2004 Phase 2 set connected to an EAPoL/ADAC configured port of the switch got the “Server Unreachable” error (Q02135088)
- The link did not come up with BX SFPs between two ERS5530 switches (Q02116585)
- Base Unit in an ERS5600 Stack running v.6.1.1.016 leaves and then later rejoins the stack while traffic is flowing at 1% bandwidth (Q02106434)
- Stack Instability occurred when adding a unit with traffic flowing (Q02101619)
- LACP Aggregations are lost when base unit resets (Q02106430)
You can find the complete release notes here.
Cheers!