Page 2 - Related Documentation
Related Documentation page 2 OmniSwitch 6800/6850/9000—Release 6.1.3.R01 Related Documentation These release notes should be used in conjunction with the OmniSwitch 6800, 6850, and 9000. The following are the titles and descriptions of the user manuals that apply to the OmniSwitch 6800, 6850, and 90...
Page 3 - Technical Tips, Field Notices
Related Documentation OmniSwitch 6800/6850/9000—Release 6.1.3.R01 page 3 • OmniSwitch 6800/6850/9000 Series Advanced Routing Configuration Guide Includes network configuration procedures and descriptive information on all the software features and protocols included in the advanced routing software ...
Page 4 - System Requirements; Memory Requirements; show hardware info; mine your SDRAM and flash memory.; POE Firmware
System Requirements page 4 OmniSwitch 6800/6850/9000—Release 6.1.3.R01 System Requirements Memory Requirements • OmniSwitch 6800 Series Release 6.1.3.R01 requires 256 MB of SDRAM and 64MB of flash memory. This is the standard configuration shipped. • OmniSwitch 6850 Series Release 6.1.3.R01 requires...
Page 5 - New Hardware Supported; New Chassis; Note; OmniSwitch 6850 Series Hardware Users Guide
New Hardware Supported OmniSwitch 6800/6850/9000—Release 6.1.3.R01 page 5 New Hardware Supported The following new hardware is supported subject to the feature exceptions and problem reports described later in these release notes. New Chassis The following new OmniSwitch 6850 Series chassis are avai...
Page 6 - OmniSwitch 9000 Series Hardware Users Guide
New Hardware Supported page 6 OmniSwitch 6800/6850/9000—Release 6.1.3.R01 supports a maximum of four power supplies and up to 384 10/100/1000 copper ports and/or 1000 Mbps fiber ports. It is suitable for wiring closet installations. It can also be equipped with up to 96 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports for...
Page 7 - New Power over Ethernet Components/Enhancements; OmniSwitch 9000 OS-IP-SHELF PoE Power Shelf
New Hardware Supported OmniSwitch 6800/6850/9000—Release 6.1.3.R01 page 7 New Power over Ethernet Components/Enhancements OmniSwitch 9000 OS-IP-SHELF PoE Power Shelf The OS-IP-SHELF unit is the peripheral power shelf for the chassis that provides the electrical current used for PoE ports. Up to four...
Page 8 - 00FX Ethernet Transceivers; Supported Configuration Matrix for New Ethernet Transceivers; SFP
New Hardware Supported page 8 OmniSwitch 6800/6850/9000—Release 6.1.3.R01 100FX Ethernet Transceivers SFP-100-BX20LT - 100Base-BX SFP transceiver with an SC type interface. This bi-directional trans- ceiver is designed for use over single mode fiber optic on a single strand link up to 20KM point-to-...
Page 9 - Supported Hardware/Software Combinations; Module Type
Supported Hardware/Software Combinations OmniSwitch 6800/6850/9000—Release 6.1.3.R01 page 9 Supported Hardware/Software Combinations The following table shows the 6.1 software releases that support each of the listed OS9000, OS6850, and OS6800 module types: Module Type Part Number 6.1.1.R01 6.1.1.R0...
Page 10 - To determine the ASIC revision for a specific NI, use the; show ni; output display shows a B2 revision level for NI 1:; show cmm; output display shows a C revision level for the CMM board:
Supported Hardware/Software Combinations page 10 OmniSwitch 6800/6850/9000—Release 6.1.3.R01 To determine the ASIC revision for a specific NI, use the show ni command. For example, the following show ni output display shows a B2 revision level for NI 1: DC-Core ->> show ni 1 Module in slot 1 M...
Page 11 - New Software Features; Feature Summary; Feature
New Software Features OmniSwitch 6800/6850/9000—Release 6.1.3.R01 page 11 New Software Features The following software features and/or the platforms they are supported on are new with the 6.1.3.R01 release, subject to the feature exceptions and problem reports described later in these release notes:...
Page 13 - Software Supported
Software Supported OmniSwitch 6800/6850/9000—Release 6.1.3.R01 page 13 Software Supported In addition to the new software features introduced with the 6.1.3.R01 release, the following software features are also supported in 6.1.3.R01, subject to the feature exceptions and problem reports described l...
Page 15 - Feature Descriptions
Software Supported OmniSwitch 6800/6850/9000—Release 6.1.3.R01 page 15 Feature Descriptions 802.1Q Alcatel-Lucent’s 802.1Q is an IEEE standard for sending frames through the network tagged with VLAN identification. 802.1Q tagging is the IEEE version of VLANs. It is a method of segregating areas of a...
Page 16 - Layer 2 ACLs; ACL & Layer 3 Security; ICMP drop rules
Software Supported page 16 OmniSwitch 6800/6850/9000—Release 6.1.3.R01 Access Control Lists (ACLs) Access Control Lists (ACLs) are Quality of Service (QoS) policies used to control whether or not packets are allowed or denied at the switch or router interface. ACLs are sometimes referred to as filte...
Page 17 - established; ACL Manager
Software Supported OmniSwitch 6800/6850/9000—Release 6.1.3.R01 page 17 • TCP connection rules —Allows the determination of an established TCP connection by examining TCP flags found in the TCP header of the packet. Two condition parameters are available for defining a TCP connection ACL: established...
Page 18 - Authenticated Switch Access
Software Supported page 18 OmniSwitch 6800/6850/9000—Release 6.1.3.R01 Authenticated Switch Access Authenticated Switch Access (ASA) is a way of authenticating users who want to manage the switch. With authenticated access, all switch login attempts using the console or modem port, Telnet, FTP, SNMP...
Page 19 - Basic IPv4 Routing; Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP); BGP Graceful Restart
Software Supported OmniSwitch 6800/6850/9000—Release 6.1.3.R01 page 19 Basic IPv4 Routing Internet Protocol (IP) is a network-layer (Layer 3) protocol that contains addressing and control informa-tion that allow packets to be forwarded on a network. IP is the primary network-layer protocol in the In...
Page 20 - BPDU Shutdown Ports; DHCP Relay is configured using the IP helper set of commands.; DHCP Snooping; Additional DHCP Snooping functionality includes the following:
Software Supported page 20 OmniSwitch 6800/6850/9000—Release 6.1.3.R01 BPDU Shutdown Ports It is possible to configure a global UserPorts profile, as described in “ACL & Layer 3 Security”, to moni-tor BPDU on user ports. Such a profile also determines whether user ports will filter BPDU or will ...
Page 21 - Traffic Suppression; the QoS application to configure ACLs for the port.; DNS Client
Software Supported OmniSwitch 6800/6850/9000—Release 6.1.3.R01 page 21 • Traffic Suppression —Prevents the flooding of DHCP packets on the default VLAN for a DHCP Snooping port. Note that enabling traffic suppression on a port will prevent DHCP traffic between a DHCP server and client that belong to...
Page 22 - Ethernet Interfaces
Software Supported page 22 OmniSwitch 6800/6850/9000—Release 6.1.3.R01 Ethernet Interfaces Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet port software is responsible for a variety of functions that support Ethernet, Gigabit, and 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports. These functions include initialization of ports, notifying o...
Page 23 - Have a Spanning Tree path between them; IP DoS Enhancements; Packets with loopback source IP address - OS6850/OS9000
Software Supported OmniSwitch 6800/6850/9000—Release 6.1.3.R01 page 23 Interswitch Protocol (AMAP) Alcatel-Lucent Interswitch Protocols (AIP) are used to discover adjacent switches and retain mobile port information across switches. By default, AMAP is enabled. Alcatel-Lucent Mapping Adjacency Proto...
Page 24 - IP Route Map Redistribution
Software Supported page 24 OmniSwitch 6800/6850/9000—Release 6.1.3.R01 IP Multicast Switching (IPMS) - Proxying IP multicast proxying and configuring the IGMP and MLD unsolicited report interval are now available with this implementation of IPMS. Proxying enables the aggregation of IGMP and MLD grou...
Page 25 - IPX Routing
Software Supported OmniSwitch 6800/6850/9000—Release 6.1.3.R01 page 25 IPX Routing The Internet Packet Exchange (IPX) protocol, developed by Novell for NetWare, is a Layer 3 protocol used to route packets through IPX networks. (NetWare is Novell’s network server operating system.) This implementatio...
Page 26 - Scalability; Multicast Routing
Software Supported page 26 OmniSwitch 6800/6850/9000—Release 6.1.3.R01 Learned Port Security (LPS) Learned Port Security (LPS) provides a mechanism for authorizing source learning of MAC addresses on 10/100/1000, Gigabit, and Gigabit Ethernet ports. Using LPS to control source MAC address learning p...
Page 27 - PIM; Join messages; Multinetting; NTP Client; OSPF adjacencies over non broadcast links.
Software Supported OmniSwitch 6800/6850/9000—Release 6.1.3.R01 page 27 Multicast boundaries confine scoped multicast addresses to a particular domain. Confining scoped addresses helps to ensure that multicast traffic passed within a multicast domain does not conflict with multicast users outside the...
Page 28 - Partitioned Switch Management; authorization; Policy Server Management; Domain
Software Supported page 28 OmniSwitch 6800/6850/9000—Release 6.1.3.R01 Partitioned Switch Management A user account includes a login name, password, and user privileges. The privileges determine whether the user has read or write access to the switch, and which command domains and command families t...
Page 29 - Port Mapping; Quality of Service
Software Supported OmniSwitch 6800/6850/9000—Release 6.1.3.R01 page 29 Port Mapping Port Mapping is a security feature that controls peer users from communicating with each other. A Port Mapping session comprises a session ID and a set of user ports and/or a set of network ports. User ports within a...
Page 30 - Redirect Policies (Port and Link Aggregate); RMON; Routing Protocol Preference
Software Supported page 30 OmniSwitch 6800/6850/9000—Release 6.1.3.R01 QoS is implemented on the switch through the use of policies, created on the switch or stored in Policy-View. While policies may be used in many different types of network scenarios, there are several typical types: • Basic QoS —...
Page 31 - The; Secure Shell (SSH) Public Key Authentication; OpenSSH
Software Supported OmniSwitch 6800/6850/9000—Release 6.1.3.R01 page 31 Secure Copy (SCP) The scp CLI command is now available for copying files in a secure manner between hosts on the network. The scp utility performs encrypted data transfers using the Secure Shell (SSH) protocol. In addi- tion, scp...
Page 32 - server farm; sFlow
Software Supported page 32 OmniSwitch 6800/6850/9000—Release 6.1.3.R01 Server Load Balancing (SLB) Alcatel’s Server Load Balancing (SLB) software provides a method to logically manage a group of physi-cal servers sharing the same content (known as a server farm ) as one large virtual server (known a...
Page 33 - capacity of a dual CMM system.; SNMP
Software Supported OmniSwitch 6800/6850/9000—Release 6.1.3.R01 page 33 The switch fabric on the CMM operates independently of the management processor. If there are two CMM modules installed in an OS9700, both fabric modules are normally active. Two CMM modules must be installed in the OS9700 to pro...
Page 34 - Spanning Tree; configuration; snapshot; command to capture the switch’s current configuration into
Software Supported page 34 OmniSwitch 6800/6850/9000—Release 6.1.3.R01 Once the contents of the working directory are established as good files, then these files can be saved to the certified directory and used as the most reliable software to which the switch can be rolled back to in an emergency s...
Page 35 - User Definable Loopback Interface; Authentication is not supported.
Software Supported OmniSwitch 6800/6850/9000—Release 6.1.3.R01 page 35 User Definable Loopback Interface Loopback0 is the name assigned to an IP interface to identify a consistent address for network manage-ment purposes. The Loopback0 interface is not bound to any VLAN, therefore it always remains ...
Page 37 - Supported Traps; Platforms Description; Alcatel
Supported Traps OmniSwitch 6800/6850/9000—Release 6.1.3.R01 page 37 Supported Traps The following traps are supported in 6.1.3.R01: No. Trap Name Platforms Description 0 coldStart all The SNMP agent in the switch is rein- itiating and its configuration may have been altered. 1 warmStart all The SNMP...
Page 42 - Unsupported Software Features; Software Feature
Unsupported Software Features page 42 OmniSwitch 6800/6850/9000—Release 6.1.3.R01 Unsupported Software Features CLI commands and Web Management options maybe available in the switch software for the following features. These features are not supported: Unsupported CLI Commands The following CLI comm...
Page 44 - Unsupported MIBs; Unsupported MIB Variables
Unsupported MIBs page 44 OmniSwitch 6800/6850/9000—Release 6.1.3.R01 Unsupported MIBs The following MIBs are not supported in this release of the software: Unsupported MIB Variables Feature MIB Quality of Service (QoS) IETF_P_BRIDGE Flow Control Alcatel IND1Port MIB Name Unsupported MIB variables Al...
Page 46 - MIB Name
Unsupported MIBs page 46 OmniSwitch 6800/6850/9000—Release 6.1.3.R01 Alcatel IND1VlanManager vlanIpxNet vlanIpxEncap vlanIpxRipSapMode vlanIpxDelayTicks vlanSetMultiRtrMacStatus vlanIpxStatus vlanSetIpxRouterCount Alcatel IND1WebMgt alaIND1WebMgtRFSConfigTable alaIND1WebMgtHttpPort alaIND1WebMgtHttp...
Page 48 - Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions; Problem Reports; There is no known workaround at this time.; Switch Management
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions page 48 OmniSwitch 6800/6850/9000—Release 6.1.3.R01 Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions The problems listed here include problems known at the time of the product’s release. Any problems not discussed in this section should be brought to the attent...
Page 50 - show fan; Feature Exceptions
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions page 50 OmniSwitch 6800/6850/9000—Release 6.1.3.R01 PR 107462 Sflow Datagrams do not use the EMP port on a OS9000 for IPV4 packets. Workaround: Use the ports on the slots. SNMP Problem Reports PR 82635 On an OS9000, there is no display of the number or the...
Page 53 - Remove the duplicate slot.; Autonegotiation; Layer 2
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions OmniSwitch 6800/6850/9000—Release 6.1.3.R01 page 53 PR 107284 Supplicant and non-supplicant are not displayed together on the same front page for 802.1x on an OS6850. Workaround: View the non-supplicants on a different page - 802.1x non supplicant page. Di...
Page 54 - Bridging; If applicable, other rules should be used to classify such packets.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions page 54 OmniSwitch 6800/6850/9000—Release 6.1.3.R01 Bridging Problem Reports PR 86261 On an OS6800, Ethernet SNAP packets with non-zero Organizationally Unique Identifiers (OUI) will not be classified using port-protocol rule. Workaround: If applicable, ot...
Page 57 - Group Mobility
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions OmniSwitch 6800/6850/9000—Release 6.1.3.R01 page 57 Group Mobility Problem Reports PR 98417 When a MAC is learned on an OS6850 as "Filtered" for one port due to a Group Mobility rule violation, and if the MAC reappears on another port, it will not ...
Page 58 - Link Aggregation; Issue the; copy working certified flash-synchro; command and then do a takeover.; Port Mirroring/Monitoring
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions page 58 OmniSwitch 6800/6850/9000—Release 6.1.3.R01 PR 99269 An IGMPv3 or MLDv2 membership report with an exclude filter containing 0.0.0.0 or :: in the source list will potentially disrupt IP Multicast Switching and Routing for the particular group member...
Page 59 - Source Learning
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions OmniSwitch 6800/6850/9000—Release 6.1.3.R01 page 59 Source Learning Problem Reports PR 83087 On an OS6800/OS9000, the MAC aging time can take up to twice the configured value. Workaround: There is no known workaround at this time. PR 94127 On an OS9000, in...
Page 61 - after removing it from the linkAggr.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions OmniSwitch 6800/6850/9000—Release 6.1.3.R01 page 61 PR 100932 Removing the last member port of a linkAggr while traffic is running can result in MAC addresses learned on that port in the default VLAN of the linkAggr. Workaround: Administratively down all p...
Page 63 - following workarounds could be applied:
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions OmniSwitch 6800/6850/9000—Release 6.1.3.R01 page 63 Workaround: For items 1 and 2 above, there is no known workaround at this time. For item 3, the following workarounds could be applied: 1. Tune the max age (and or max hops in the case of MSTP) parameter ...
Page 64 - VLAN Stacking; Delete the SVLANs in a smaller range of VLANs.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions page 64 OmniSwitch 6800/6850/9000—Release 6.1.3.R01 PR 105788 Some STP entries in the 802.1D standard mib may return out of range or undefined values on an OS9000. This is because we are returning the true values of a newer version of STP (802.1Q 2005), no...
Page 65 - Basic IP Routing; Layer 3
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions OmniSwitch 6800/6850/9000—Release 6.1.3.R01 page 65 Basic IP Routing Problem Reports PR 94621 In most cases, routed packets needing fragmentation due to a smaller IP MTU on the egress network will not be fragmented and will be forwarded as-is. Workaround: ...
Page 66 - IPv6 interface
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions page 66 OmniSwitch 6800/6850/9000—Release 6.1.3.R01 PR 106814 When DHCP Snooping is enabled against mobile port, sometimes the mobile port's VLAN ownership is not reflected in the DHCP Snooping port table. Workaround: There is no known workaround at this t...
Page 67 - switch to the new alaIPv6NeighborReachability object.; show ipv6 router database; CLI command to display the IP route-manager
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions OmniSwitch 6800/6850/9000—Release 6.1.3.R01 page 67 PR 96061 On an OS6850/OS9000, the IPv6 implementation does not follow ICMPv6 RFC 2463 section 2.2 Message Source Address Determination in regard to anycast addresses. Instead IPv6 uses any unicast address...
Page 68 - ipv6 load ospf; UDP Relay
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions page 68 OmniSwitch 6800/6850/9000—Release 6.1.3.R01 PR 106213 When using "configuration apply" to apply routing configuration to an OS6850 system that has completed its boot up, parts of the configuration may fail with a "system busy" error...
Page 69 - VRRP; ated from an earlier release.; Advanced Routing
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions OmniSwitch 6800/6850/9000—Release 6.1.3.R01 page 69 PR 106942 On OS9000, statistic display of ip-helper (DHCP) and Generic UDP relay are mixed together, but complete statistical information is present. Workaround: There is no known workaround at this time....
Page 70 - DVMRP; Disable DVMRP before making the change, and then re-enable it again.; OSPF
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions page 70 OmniSwitch 6800/6850/9000—Release 6.1.3.R01 DVMRP Problem Reports PR 100130 On an OS6800, when interfaces from two different routers that are physically attached to the same network are changed from native DVMRP interfaces to DVMRP tunnel interface...
Page 72 - General
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions page 72 OmniSwitch 6800/6850/9000—Release 6.1.3.R01 PR 106343 High multicast traffic rate on an OS6850 running PIM-SM where the RP is on a remote switch may cause high CPU utilization. This is due to the packets being PIM register-encapsulated which are so...
Page 73 - Create separate conditions for SLB and policy rules.; Policy Manager
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions OmniSwitch 6800/6850/9000—Release 6.1.3.R01 page 73 PR 107232 On OS9000, if a condition is associated with an SLB cluster and a policy rule, it can be deleted in a flush. Workaround: Create separate conditions for SLB and policy rules. Policy Manager Probl...
Page 74 - Security
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions page 74 OmniSwitch 6800/6850/9000—Release 6.1.3.R01 PR 99931 When tagging a link aggregate on an OS6850, QoS does not trust the individual ports of the link aggre-gate. Workaround: Manually set the trust bit of the underlying ports through QoS (qos port &l...
Page 76 - show configuration snapshot aaa
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions page 76 OmniSwitch 6800/6850/9000—Release 6.1.3.R01 PR 100189 On an OS6850, when the MAC address table is full, source learning will not learn MAC addresses dynam-ically and the non-supplicant table will show more entries because the tables are not synchro...
Page 77 - Authenticated VLANs
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions OmniSwitch 6800/6850/9000—Release 6.1.3.R01 page 77 Authenticated VLANs Problem Reports PR 87642 On an OS6800, the CLI command to specifically disable 802.1x or AVLAN authentication on a port will disable either of the authentication options configured on ...
Page 78 - System
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions page 78 OmniSwitch 6800/6850/9000—Release 6.1.3.R01 PR 107086 User with readwrite-scp-sftp privileges is initially queried for authentication and authorization on an OS6850. After login to the scp/sftp shell, only accounting requests are sent to TACACS+ se...
Page 80 - Chassis Supervision; mv
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions page 80 OmniSwitch 6800/6850/9000—Release 6.1.3.R01 PR 107139 In a stacked system on an OS6850, if the redundant cable is absent, the primary module could be one of the elements with a higher slot ID on a reboot of the system. Workaround: Use the stacking ...
Page 81 - copy working certified flash-syncro
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions OmniSwitch 6800/6850/9000—Release 6.1.3.R01 page 81 PR 96327 Extra display character in the swlog. No effect on the switch. Workaround: There is no known workaround at this time. PR 96584 On an OS9000, during a reload, when the fabric LED is turned off and...
Page 82 - CPU or remove CPU load.; Power Over Ethernet
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions page 82 OmniSwitch 6800/6850/9000—Release 6.1.3.R01 PR 104874 If CPU is at 100% on an OS6800, then the commands "copy working certified" or "copy working certified flash-synchro" can make the system timeout and the primary will crash with p...
Page 83 - Execute a lanpower update for the specific slot which failed.
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions page 83 OmniSwitch 6800/6850/9000—Release 6.1.3.R01 PR 106065 During the execution of the "update lanpower all" command, it is possible that the update of an individual port on the OS9800 may fail with a message similar to the following example for...
Page 84 - Reset Daughter Module!; Redundancy / Hot Swap; Hot Swap Time Limitations for OmniSwitch 9000
Open Problem Reports and Feature Exceptions page 84 OmniSwitch 6800/6850/9000—Release 6.1.3.R01 PR 107287 During "update lanpower all" on a stack of 8 OS6850-P24/48, you might see the following error message: THU OCT 12 14:06:27 : LANPOWER (108) error message: +++ Unable to Read S19 Response...
Page 86 - Technical Support; North America
Technical Support page 86 OmniSwitch 6800/6850/9000—Release 6.1.3.R01 Technical Support Alcatel technical support is committed to resolving our customer’s technical issues in a timely manner. Customers with inquiries should contact us at: Email: [email protected] Internet: Customers with Alcat...
