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COREBUILDER 6000
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SOFTWARE INSTALLATION
AND RELEASE NOTES
CoreBuilder Extended Switching Software
Revision 8.2.3
October 17, 1997
Part No. 10002211
Published October 9,1997
Revision 01
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3Com Corporation n 5400 Bayfront Plaza n Santa Clara, California n 95052-8145 Copyright © 3Com Corporation, 1997. All rights reserved. No part of this documentation may be reproduced in any form or by any means or used to make any derivative work (such as translation, transformation, or adaptation) without permission from 3Com Corporation. 3Com Corporation reserves the right to revise this documentation and to make changes in content from time to time without obligation on
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CONTENTS COREBUILDER 6000 EXTENDED SWITCHING SOFTWARE REVISION 8.2.3 Overview 1 Hardware Dependencies 1 Upgrading Your LMM or LMM+ 1 Extended Switching Software Requirement 2 Release Highlights for 8.2.3 2 Release Highlights for 8.2.0 2 Before You Start 3 Updating Your System Software 3 Copying System Software to a Hard Disk 4 Copying to the UNIX Platform 4 Copying to the MS-DOS Platform 5 Loading System Software on the LMM+ 6 User
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Disconnecting an Active telnet or rlogin Session 18 STP linkState Changes 20 CoreBuilder 6000 12-Slot Chassis 21 System Issues 23 Known Problems 26 SNMP MIB Files 28 Supported Versions 28 Compiler Support 29 Revision History 30 A IP MULTICAST ROUTING Overview A-1 Enabling and Disabling DVMRP A-2 Enabling and Disabling IGMP A-2 Administering IP Multicast Interfaces A-3 DVMRP Metric Value A-3 Time To Live (TTL) Threshold A
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Host Group B-7 HostTopN Group B-8 Matrix Group B-8 3Com Transcend RMON Agents B-8 Management Information Base (MIB) B-9 MIB Objects B-10 C VLANS ON THE COREBUILDER SYSTEM About VLANs C-1 Types of VLANs C-1 Port Group VLANs C-2 MAC Address Group VLANS C-2 Application-Oriented VLANS C-2 Protocol-Sensitive VLANS C-3 CoreBuilder Protocol-Sensitive VLAN Configuration C-3 Protocol Suite C-3 Layer 3 Addressing Information
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E TECHNICAL SUPPORT Online Technical Services E-1 World Wide Web Site E-1 3Com Bulletin Board Service E-1 Access by Analog Modem E-2 Access by Digital Modem E-2 3ComFacts Automated Fax Service E-2 3ComForum on CompuServe Online Service E-3 Support from Your Network Supplier E-3 Support from 3Com E-4 Returning Products for Repair E-5 3COM CORPORATION LIMITED WARRANTY
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COREBUILDER 6000 EXTENDED SWITCHING SOFTWARE REVISION 8.2.3 Overview These installation instructions and release notes describe revision 8.2.3 of ™ the CoreBuilder 6000 Extended Switching software from 3Com Corporation, dated October 9, 1997. This revision supersedes revision 8.2.1, dated May 30, 1997. Hardware LANplex® Extended Switching software revision 8.0.0 or greater, or Dependencies CoreBuilder Extended Switching software revision 8.2.1 or greater, r
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2 COREBUILDER 6000 EXTENDED SWITCHING SOFTWARE REVISION 8.2.3 If you have an LMM+ at a revision earlier than 1.21 (for revision 1 modules) or 2.12 (for revision 2 modules), call 3Com at 1-800-876-3266 and press option 2. 3Com will replace your LMM+ with an LMM+ at the correct revision, free of charge. (Contact 3Com at the same number to upgrade an LMM to an LMM+. There is a fee for this upgrade.) Extended Switching Release 8.0.0 or greater of Exte
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Updating Your System Software 3 n Filter MIB n FTP packet filter program transfers via SNMP n Disconnecting an active telnet or rlogin session n STP linkState changes n CoreBuilder 6000 12-slot Chassis For more information about this release, see “What’s New at Revision 8.2.0?” on page 14. Before You Start Before you install your new software, read all of these release notes. Carefully read “System Issues” on page 23 and “Known Problems” on page 26. The top-
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4 COREBUILDER 6000 EXTENDED SWITCHING SOFTWARE REVISION 8.2.3 Copying System You can copy system software to a computer that runs either a UNIX or an Software to a MS-DOS operating system. Hard Disk Copying to the UNIX Platform The CoreBuilder software for a UNIX system is distributed on six diskettes. Diskettes #1, #2, #3, #4, and #5 contain the CoreBuilder software. Diskette #6 contains the SNMP MIBs. To copy the software to a UNIX hard disk, follow these instruct
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Updating Your System Software 5 8 Insert diskette #4 into the disk drive and extract the fourth part of the file using the following command: # tar xvf /dev/rfd0 9 Remove diskette #4 using the following command: # eject 10 Insert diskette #5 into the disk drive and extract the fifth part of the file using the following command: # tar xvf /dev/rfd0 11 Remove diskette #5 using the following command: # eject The following files are now in your /usr/lp6000R directory: n README1 n lp6000R00 n lp6000R01
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6 COREBUILDER 6000 EXTENDED SWITCHING SOFTWARE REVISION 8.2.3 Installing on a Windows 95 or Windows NT Computer. To copy software to an MS-DOS host computer’s hard disk using Windows 95 or Windows NT, take these steps: 1 Insert diskette #1 into a disk drive. These instructions assume drive a. 2 For Windows 95, click the Windows 95 START button and choose Run. OR For Windows NT, from the File menu, select Run. The system displays the Setup screen, with the system software name, and the Setu
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Loading System Software on the LMM+ 7 Loading 8.2.3 software into flash memory takes approximately 10 to 15 minutes to complete, depending on your network load. To load the new software: 1 From the top level of the Administration Console, enter: system softwareUpdate The system prompts you for the Host IP address, Install filename, User name, and Password. Press Return or Enter to accept the default values, which are shown in brackets. The Password field does not display what you enter. 2 Next
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8 COREBUILDER 6000 EXTENDED SWITCHING SOFTWARE REVISION 8.2.3 After the software is loaded, this message appears: Installation complete. If the CoreBuilder executable software image stored in flash memory is corrupted (for example, when the power fails while you are updating software), contact 3Com Technical Support. See Appendix E. 6 To reboot the system to use the newly loaded software, enter: system reboot You are prompted with the following message: Are you sure you want to reboot the syst
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What’s New at Revision 8.2.3? 9 n FDDI Switching Module (FSM) Guide n Fast Ethernet Switching Module (FESM) Guide In addition, Filter Builder software and the Filter Builder Getting Started Guide are shipped with CoreBuilder 6000 Extended Switching software. What’s New at This section describes the new features, software enhancements, and Revision 8.2.3? corrections implemented at this release. New Features The following new features have been added at this release. Software Support for Prot
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10 COREBUILDER 6000 EXTENDED SWITCHING SOFTWARE REVISION 8.2.3 n Group 2: History — Stores periodic statistical samples of Group 1 data for later retrieval. n Group 3: Alarm — Allows a network manager to set sampling intervals and alarm thresholds for any MIB counter or integer n Group 4: Host — Maintains counters of traffic to and from hosts attached to a subnetwork n Group 5: HostTopN — Reports on hosts that top a list that was sorted on a selected parameter in the Group 4 data table n Gro
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What’s New at Revision 8.2.3? 11 7 Enter the advertisement address to be used on the interface. 8 Enter the number of the VLAN whose interface you are defining. Example: Select IP stack by slot {1-3,5,7,9-12} [1]: 5 Enter IP address: 158.101.1.1 Enter subnet mask [255.255.0.0]: 255.255.255.0 Enter cost [1]: Enter advertisement address(es) [158.101.1.255]: IP VLANs: Index Ports 3 1-8 4 9-12 Select VLAN index: 3 Routing on FESM Modules This release supports IP routing and IP multi
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12 COREBUILDER 6000 EXTENDED SWITCHING SOFTWARE REVISION 8.2.3 Enabling and Disabling STP Transitions on linkState Changes Top-Level Menu system display The menu item stpFollowLinkState has been added. It allows you to enable ethernet mode fddi or disable Spanning Tree transitions on linkState changes. The default is lowLatency tokenring ipFragmentation enabled. bridge ipxSnapTranslation ip trFddiMode snmp n When enabled and the link goes down, stpState transitions to disabled. If the add
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What’s New at Revision 8.2.3? 13 Sample display of bridge port information: stpState timeSinceLastTopologyChange disabled 0 hrs 0 mins 0 secs stpFollowLinkState topologyChangeCount enabled 0 topologyChangeFlag BridgeIdentifier false 8000 00803elbf216 designatedRoot stpGroupAddress bridgeMaxAge 0000 000000000000 01-80-c2-00-00-00 20 maxAge bridgeHelloTime helloTime 20 2 2 bridgeFwdDelay forwardDelay holdTime 15 15 1 rootCost rootPort priority 0 No port 0x8000 agingTime mode addrTableSize 300 tran
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14 COREBUILDER 6000 EXTENDED SWITCHING SOFTWARE REVISION 8.2.3 What’s New at This section describes the new features, software enhancements, and Revision 8.2.0? corrections that are implemented at this release. New Features The following features have been added at this release. Fast Ethernet Switching Module (FESM) Support The Fast Ethernet Switching Module (FESM) provides high-function switching of traffic among Fast Ethernet workstations and subnetworks over the multigigabit high-speed i
