Allied Telesis Patch 86251-08 Instruction Manual

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Patch Release Note
Patch 86251-08
For Rapier Series Switches
Introduction
This patch release note lists the issues addressed and enhancements made in
patch 86251-08 for Software Release 2.5.1 on existing models of Rapier L3
managed switches. Patch file details are listed in Table 1.
This release note should be read in conjunction with the following documents:
■Release Note: Software Release 2.5.1 for Rapier Switches (Document
Number C613-10354-00 Rev A) available from www.alliedtelesyn.co.nz/
documentation/documentation.html.
■Rapier Switch Documentation Set for Software Release 2.5.1 available on
the Documentation and Tools CD-ROM packaged with your switch, or
from www.alliedtelesyn.co.nz/documentation/documentation.html.
WARNING: Using a patch for a different model or software release may cause
unpredictable results, including disruption to the network. Information in this
release note is subject to change without notice and does not represent a
commitment on the part of Allied Telesyn International. While every effort has
been made to ensure that the information contained within this document and
the features and changes described are accurate, Allied Telesyn International
can not accept any type of liability for errors in, or omissions arising from the
use of this information.
Table 1: Patch file details for Patch 86251-08.
Base Software Release File 86s-251.rez
Patch Release Date 9-Dec-2003
Compressed Patch File Name 86251-08.paz
Compressed Patch File Size 545820 bytes

2Patch Release Note
Patch 86251-08 for Software Release 2.5.1
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Some of the issues addressed in this Release Note include a level number. This
number reflects the importance of the issue that has been resolved. The levels
are:
Features in 86251-08
Patch 86251-08 includes all issues resolved and enhancements released in
previous patches for Software Release 2.5.1, and the following enhancements:
The device responded when it received a directed broadcast ICMP echo
request that was in its supernet, but not its subnet. This issue has been
resolved.
An incorrect object ID (OID) was being returned for Fan/PSU in SNMP v1
trap messages.This issue has been resolved.
Session-only counters have been added to the MIB entry for BGP peers.
Interoperating with other vendors implementations of ISAKMP was
occasionally causing errors following key exchanges. This relates to
differing implementations of the RFC regarding the retention of leading
zeros. This issue has been resolved by modifying the software to retain
leading zeros. An additional command provides compatibility with routers
that still use previous software versions. The command details are:
SET ENCO DHPADDING={ON|OFF}
This command controls the padding process for Diffie Hellman generated
values. This may be required when interoperability is required with other
vendor’s equipment that uses the Diffie Hellman algorithm.
The DHPADDING parameter specifies whether the Diffie Hellman
generated values should be padded or not. If ON is specified, then leading
zeros will be inserted into the generated values. If OFF is specified, then the
generated values will not be padded. The default is ON.
For example, to turn off the Diffie Hellman padding, use the command:
SET ENCO DHPADDING=OFF
Also, the output of the SHOW ENCO command now contains a new line
showing the setting for DHPADDING.
Level 1 This issue will cause significant interruption to network services, and
there is no work-around.
Level 2 This issue will cause interruption to network service, however there
is a work-around.
Level 3 This issue will seldom appear, and will cause minor inconvenience.
Level 4 This issue represents a cosmetic change and does not affect network
operation.
PCR: 03179 Module: IPG Level: 3
PCR: 03359 Module: CORE Level: 3
PCR: 03527 Module: BGP Level: 4
PCR: 03622 Module: ENCO Level: 2

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A fanAndPsRedundantFanTrap message was sent from a Rapier when the
RPS (Redundant Power Supply) was turned on or off, even though Rapiers
do not monitor the redundant fan status. This issue has been resolved.
The time recorded when a user logged in was overwritten when the same
user logged in a second time while the original connection was still active.
This meant the SHOW USER command displayed the same time for both
connections. This issue has been resolved.
Occasionally a fatal error occurred if BGP debug was disabled. Also, BGP
debug messages were sometimes still displayed after BGP debug was
disabled. These issues have been resolved.
A buffer leak occurred when rapid STP was specified with the SET STP
MODE=RAPID command, but STP had not been enabled with the ENABLE
STP command. This issue has been resolved.
When a file was copied, only blocks of 1024 bytes were copied successfully.
The remainder was discarded. This had two possible consequences. Either
a truncated file was created on the destination media, or the device restarted
with a fatal error. This issue has been resolved so that files copy correctly.
This PCR implements RFC 1256 “ICMP Router Discovery Messages”. This
enhancement allows the device to advertise its interface IP addresses to
local hosts. For details, see “ICMP Router Discovery Advertisements” on
page 47.
When a connector was plugged into one physical interface, the RIPng
request packet was erroneously transmitted from all interfaces on the
switch. This issue has been resolved.
The STATIC and INTERFACE options have been removed from the
PROTOCOL parameter in the ADD IP ROUTE FILTER and SET IP ROUTE
FILTER commands. These parameters were redundant because received
static and interface routes are always added to the route table.
Reverse enhanced NAT was not working for ICMP packets. This issue has
been resolved.
Repeated Assert messages were sent after the prune limit expired. This issue
has been resolved. The default dense mode prune hold time has been
changed from 60 seconds to 210 seconds.
PCR: 03684 Module: CORE Level: 4
PCR: 03726 Module: TTY, USER Level: 3
PCR: 03746 Module: BGP Level: 2
PCR: 03781 Module: STP Level: 2
PCR: 03856 Module: FIRE, UTILITY Level: 2
PCR: 03858 Module: IP
PCR: 03861 Module: IPV6 Level: 2
PCR: 03873 Module: IPG Level: 4
PCR: 03893 Module: FW Level: 3
PCR: 03926 Module: PIM Level: 2

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ISAKMP debug messages now correctly output IPv6 addresses when using
IPv6, and IPv4 addresses when using IPv4.
The IP version of packets was not being checked, so an IPv4 packet could
match an IPv6 IPSec policy. This issue has been resolved.
On AT-8800 series switches, strict QoS scheduling is now enforced for ports
where egress rate limiting is applied. On Rapier i series switches, the same
QoS setup is now applied to all of the appropriate ports when setting up
egress rate limiting.
The ADD FIREWALL POLICY RULE and SET FIREWALL POLICY RULE
commands no longer accept the GBLREMOTEIP parameter with standard
NAT, or enhanced NAT for a private interface.
The PIM-DM prune expiry time was not reset when a State Refresh message
was received. This issue has been resolved.
IPv6 used the same SA soft expiry timer at both ends of a link, which used
memory unnecessarily. This issue has been resolved.
RIP did not send the correct next hop address if the route originated from a
different subnet to that of the egress interface. This issue has been resolved.
If an IPv6 filter that blocked traffic on a VLAN interface was removed, the
traffic was still blocked. This issue has been resolved.
When equal cost multipath routes were used, the IP option field for trace
route was not applied correctly. This issue has been resolved.
Occasionally an error occurred with OSPF’s route table calculation, so all
routes in the network were not discovered. The error only happened with a
network topology that involved connections between routers via both a
Point to Point link and a transit network link. This issue has been resolved.
A new command has been added that forces a route table recalculation by
rerunning the Shortest Path First calculation. The command is:
RESET OSPF SPF [DEBUG]
If DEBUG is specified, debugging information for the route table calculation
is output to the port from which the command was executed. SPF
debugging can be turned on for every route table calculation using the
ENABLE OSPF DEBUG=SPF command, but this will be overridden if
DEBUG is specified with the RESET OSPF SPF command.
PCR: 03935 Module: ISAKMP Level: 3
PCR: 03937 Module: IPSEC Level: 2
PCR: 03953 Module: SW56 Level: 3
PCR: 03958 Module: FIREWALL Level: 2
PCR: 03961 Module: PIM, PIM6 Level: 2
PCR: 03965 Module: IPSEC Level: 3
PCR: 03967 Module: IPG Level: 2
PCR: 03970 Module: IPV6 Level: 3
PCR: 03973 Module: IPG Level: 3
PCR: 03978 Module: OSPF Level: 3

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The SMTP proxy did not correctly filter sessions where messages were
fragmented. This had the potential to prevent the detection of third-party
relay attacks. This issue has been resolved.
Sometimes on Rapier series switches, a severe multicast or broadcast storm
depleted packet buffers, so the switch received packets intermittently. This
issue has been resolved.
In the output of the SHOW IP IGMP COUNTER command, the outQuery
and outTotal counters were always displaying “0”. This issue has been
resolved.
When executing the SET DHCP POLICY, DELETE DHCP POLICY and
DESTROY DHCP POLICY commands, memory was not de-allocated
correctly. This issue has been resolved.
Sometimes the device rebooted when a severe multicast storm occurred due
to a loop in the network. This issue has been resolved.
The server string was not copied correctly into an HTTP file request when
loading information from the configuration script. This issue has been
resolved.
If ports were set to a speed of 100m when creating a switch trunk, the speed
could not subsequently be set to 1000m, even if the ports were capable of
that speed. This issue has been resolved.
The PORT and PORTPRIORITY parameters of the STP PORT command
were not always updating switch instances on ports that are members of
multiple STP instances. This issue has been resolved.
The RootDispersion value in NTP packets was negative. RFC 1305 states that
only positive values greater than zero are valid. This issue has been
resolved.
The checksum for the PIMv2 Register message for IPv6 was not being
calculated correctly. This issue has been resolved.
When the switch received a generation ID change message, it was not
responding by sending a PIM HELLO message. This issue has been
resolved.
PCR: 03982 Module: FIREWALL Level: 3
PCR: 03985 Module: SWI Level: 2
PCR: 31000 Module: IGP Level: 3
PCR: 31001 Module: DHCP Level: 2
PCR: 31002 Module: UTILITY Level: 2
PCR: 31009 Module: HTTP Level: 3
PCR: 31013 Module: SWI Level: 2
PCR: 31015 Module: STP Level: 2
PCR: 31017 Module: NTP Level: 3
PCR: 31019 Module: PIM6 Level: 2
PCR: 031020 Module: PIM Level: 2

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BGP did not always send Withdrawn advertisements when a route went
down. This issue has been resolved.
When two devices are BSR candidates, and have the same preference set
with the SET PIM BSRCANDIDATE PREFERENCE command, the device
with the higher IP address was not elected as the candidate. This issue has
been resolved.
A Prune message sent to an old RP neighbour was ignored when a new
unicast route was learned. This issue has been resolved.
The log message “IGMP Snooping is active, L3FILT is activated”
has been changed to “IGMP packet trapping is active, L3FILT is
activated”. The revised message is clearer when IGMP is enabled and
IGMP snooping is disabled.
The following changes have been made to the ADD FIREWALL POLICY
RULE and SET FIREWALL POLICY RULE commands:
• An IP address range for the IP parameter is now only accepted when
enhanced NAT is configured.
• An IP address range for GBLREMOTE parameter is now only accepted
when reverse or reverse-enhanced NAT is configured.
• The GBLIP parameter is not accepted for a public interface when
enhanced NAT is configured.
When the interval between the NTP server and client exceeded 34 years 9
days and 10 hours, the time set on the client was incorrect. This issue has
been resolved.
MVR was not operating if IGMP had not been enabled. This issue has been
resolved.
A fatal error occurred when the PURGE STP command was executed when
STP instances were defined with VLAN members. This issue has been
resolved.
PCR: 31028 Module: BGP Level: 2
PCR: 31040 Module: PIM Level: 2
PCR: 31041 Module: PIM Level: 3
PCR: 31044 Module: SWI Level: 4
PCR: 31052 Module: FIREWALL Level: 3
PCR: 31058 Module: NTP Level: 3
PCR: 31063 Module: IPG Level: 2
PCR: 31068 Module: STP Level: 2

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The warning given when a QoS policy is active on a port operating at
reduced speed has been changed to reflect the problem more accurately. The
old message was:
Warning (2087343): Port <Port num> is currently used in QoS
policy <QoS policy num>, this policy may become incorrect
due to the port bandwidth.
The new message is:
Warning (2087350): Port <Port num> is operating at less than
its maximum speed: this may affect QoS policy <QoS policy
num>.
If the DISABLE SWITCH PORT command appeared in the configuration
script, an interface could come up even though ifAdminStatus was set to
‘down’. This issue has been resolved.
When a ping was sent to the device’s link-local address, the device flooded
the ICMP Reply packet over the VLAN. This issue has been resolved.
This patch adds an enhancement that allows a Virtual Router IP address to
be adopted by the current master Virtual Router. This means that regardless
of whether the device actually ‘owns’ the IP address, it will respond to
specific service requests made to that IP address. The service requests are
ICMP echo (ping), Telnet, SSH, SNMP, HTTP server (GUI), and SSL for the
GUI. For details, see “Adopting the VRRP IP Address” on page 56.
Files with lines over 132 characters in length could not be transferred using
TFTP. This limit has now been raised to 1000 characters to match the
maximum command line length.
The SHOW FILE command caused an error when the displayed file had a
duplicate entry due to file size mismatch. This issue has been resolved. An
error message is now logged when the SHOW FILE command detects a
duplicate file. The first FFS file will be deleted when a duplicate exists.
Static DHCP address ranges were not reclaimed if the Reclaim operation was
interrupted by the interface going down. This issue has been resolved.
When a boot file for DHCP was specified with the ADD DHCP POLICY
FILE command, a blank space was added after the filename in the
configuration. This meant the file could not be found. This issue has been
resolved.
PCR: 31071 Module: SWI Level: 4
PCR: 31072 Module: SWI Level: 3
PCR: 31080 Module: IPV6 Level: 2
PCR: 31081 Module: VRRP, IP, TCP, TELNET,
HTTP, SNMP, SSH
PCR: 31094 Module: FILE Level: 3
PCR: 31096 Module: FFS Level: 3
PCR: 31098 Module: DHCP Level: 3
PCR: 31102 Module: DHCP Level: 2

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When the device received a version 1 Query packet, it become a non-querier
on that interface, even if it should have remained as the querier. This issue
has been resolved.
When the TYPE parameter was specified for the ADD SWITCH L3FILTER
command, the type was sometimes a different value in the device’s
hardware table. This issue has been resolved.
A fatal error occurred if IPX was disabled and then re-enabled when there
was a high rate of incoming IPX traffic on the device. This issue has been
resolved.
A STP topology change incorrectly deleted static ARP entries. This issue has
been resolved.
IP MVR member ports were not timing out. MVR member ports now
timeout in the same way as IP IGMP ports. The timeout values are
configured by IGMP. Also, IGMP interfaces were incorrectly being enabled
and disabled by MVR. This issue has been resolved.
Features in 86251-07
Patch file details are listed in Table 2:
Patch 86251-07 includes all issues resolved and enhancements released in
previous patches for Software Release 2.5.1, and the following enhancements:
MLD snooping is now supported on AT-9800 Series Switches and Rapier i
Series Switches. For details, see “MLD Snooping” on page 57.
Support has been added for the Ping Polling enhancement. For details, see
“Ping Polling of Device Reachability” on page 58
PCR: 31106 Module: MLD Level: 2
PCR: 31118 Module: SWI Level: 2
PCR: 31129 Module: IPX2 Level: 2
PCR: 31162 Module: SWI Level: 2
PCR: 31167 Module: IPG Level: 2
Table 2: Patch file details for Patch 86251-07.
Base Software Release File 86s-251.rez
Patch Release Date 18-Sep-2003
Compressed Patch File Name 86251-07.paz
Compressed Patch File Size 487620 bytes
PCR: 02414 Module: IPV6, SWI, IPG, VLAN
PCR: 03445 Module: IPG

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OSPF disabled RIP unless RIP was activated using the SET OSPF RIP
command. This issue has been resolved.
Running the PURGE IP command with a multicast address and multiple
sources was causing a fatal error. This issue has been resolved.
The value specified for the IP parameter in the ADD FIREWALL POLICY
PROXY command was not being used by the HTTP proxy. This issue has
been resolved.
Previously, there was no limit to the number of concurrent ISAKMP
Security Associations (SAs), and occasionally new SAs were created until all
free memory was exhausted. This issue has been resolved. The number of
ISAKMP SAs is now limited to the maximum number of ENCO channels.
Also, if the ISAKMP policy’s REMOTEID was set as an X.500 distinguished
name (e.g. ocn=user), a small amount of memory was consumed by each
ISAKMP exchange. This issue has been resolved.
After about 250 days, commands such as SHOW BRIDGE COUNT were not
displaying the correct number of seconds for Uptime and Last Change At.
days. This issue has been resolved.
BGP and UPNP were not informed when an ETH interface went up or
down. This issue has been resolved.
Directed IPv6 PING messages were being transmitted from other interfaces
if the specified interface was down. This issue has been resolved.
With static multicasting enabled on two VLANs, only the first few multicast
packets of a stream were L3 forwarded. This issue has been resolved.
The MLD snooping entries registered on a port were not removed when the
port went down or was unplugged. This issue has been resolved.
The IP multicast counter did not increment when IGMP, DVMRP and PIM
packets were transmitted and received. This issue has been resolved.
PCR: 03524 Module: OSPF, IPG Level: 2
PCR: 03530 Module: IPG Level: 2
PCR: 03542 Module: HTTP Level: 2
PCR: 03570 Module: ISAKMP Level: 3
PCR: 03598 Module: ETH, IPG, IPv6, IPX,
PORT, PPP.
Level: 3
PCR: 03606 Module: IPG Level: 2
PCR: 03645 Module: OSPF, IPG Level: 2
PCR: 03734 Module: IPG Level: 2
PCR: 03751 Module: MLDS Level: 3
PCR: 03764 Module: IPG Level: 3

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Files used during start up were backed up from NVS to FLASH even if they
were already present in FLASH. This used up FLASH memory
unnecessarily. This issue has been resolved so that files are only backed up
when a copy does not already exist in FLASH.
If a configuration file had a long file name, the SHOW CONFIG command
displayed the file name using the shortened DOS 8.3 format (where file
names are 8 characters long, with extensions of 3 characters). This issue has
been resolved so that long configuration file names are now displayed using
the DOS 16.3 format (where file names are up to 16 characters long).
The TIMEOUT and SIZE parameters are only valid for the SET IP DNS
CACHE command, but no error message was returned if either parameter
was specified for the SET IP DNS command. This issue has been resolved.
Fragmentation of IPv6 packets now complies with RFC 2460’s requirement
to align packet sizes to 8 octets.
When a 4-port ETH PIC card was installed, the output of the SHOW IP
INTERFACE command showed the ETH port as Down, but the link LEDs
on the card were lit. This issue has been resolved. The SHOW command
now shows the correct link status. The link will go down after 90 seconds if
no inbound traffic is received. When inbound traffic is received the link will
come up.
Setting RSTPTYPE to NORMAL, when normal has already been set, sets all
ports to the “sending RSTP” state process. This is referred to in IEEE 802.1w
as mCheck.
When RSTPTYPE was changed from STPCOMPATIBLE to NORMAL with
the SET STP command, the STP instance continued to send STP BPDUs
until an mCheck was performed by entering the SET STP
RSTPTYPE=NORMAL command again. This issue has been resolved so
that when RSTPTYPE is set to NORMAL an mCheck is performed, causing
the STP to start sending RSTP BPDUs immediately.
MLD and MLD Snooping accepted MLD Query packets with a hop limit
greater than 1. Duplicate packets were forwarded when the hop limit was
not 1 and the payload was 0::0. This issue has been resolved. MLD and MLD
Snooping now require the hop limit to be 1.
Packets with bad ACK numbers were sometimes generated by the firewall
as part of the proxy TCP setup process. These packets sometimes caused
TCP sessions from the public side of the firewall to fail. This issue has been
resolved.
PCR: 03778 Module: FILE, INSTALL, SCR Level: 2
PCR: 03780 Module: INSTALL Level: 3
PCR: 03783 Module: IPG Level: 3
PCR: 03784 Module: IPV6 Level: 3
PCR: 03789 Module: ETH Level: 2
PCR: 03796 Module: STP Level: 2
PCR: 03801 Module: MLDS Level: 2
PCR: 03802 Module: FIREWALL Level: 1