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Patch Release Note
Patch 86222-25
For Rapier Switches and AR800 Series
Modular Switching Routers
Introduction
This patch release note lists the issues addressed and enhancements made in
patch 86222-25 for Software Release 2.2.2 on existing models of Rapier L3
managed switches and AR800 Series L3 modular switching routers. Patch file
details are listed in Table 1.
Table 1: Patch file details for Patch 86222-25.
86s-222.rez
Base Software Release File
15-April-2003
Patch Release Date
86222-25.p
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2 Patch Release Note Some of the issues addressed in this patch include a Level number. This number reflects the importance of the issue that has been resolved. For details on level numbers, please contact your authorised distributor or reseller. Features in 86222-25 Patch 86222-25 includes all issues resolved and enhancements released in previous patches for Software Release 2.2.2, and the following enhancements: PCR: 02300 Module: Firewall Network affecting: No If the command ADD FIREWALL P
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Patch 86222-25 For Rapier Switches and AR800 Series Modular Switching Routers 3 PCR: 03148 Module: IPG Level: 3 If the Gratuitous ARP feature was enabled on an IP interface, and an ARP packet arrived, (either ARP request, or reply) that had a Target IP address that was equal to the SenderIP address, then the ARP cache was not updated with the ARP packet’s source data. This issue has been resolved. PCR: 03160 Module: STP Level:
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4 Patch Release Note PCR: 03240 Module: OSPF Level: 2 A fatal error occurred when OSPF was under high load. This issue has been resolved. PCR: 03253 Module: FIREWALL Level: 2 Inbound TCP sessions through the firewall (e.g. Telnet and FTP) failed when the PORT parameter was set to ALL in the SET FIREWALL POLICY RULE command. This issue has been resolved. PCR: 03255 Module: FIREWALL Level: 3 The f
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Patch 86222-25 For Rapier Switches and AR800 Series Modular Switching Routers 5 PCR: 03388 Module: DHCP Level: 3 The DHCP lease Expiry time showed incorrectly in the SHOW DHCP CLIENT command when the lease straddled across multiple months and years. This issue has been resolved. PCR: 03402 Module: IPG Level: IP routes deleted from the route cache occasionally caused a fatal error. This issue has been resolved. Features in 8622
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6 Patch Release Note To disable enhanced fragmentation for IP NAT, use the command DISABLE IP NAT FRAGMENT={ICMP|UDP|OTHER} To configure the number of fragments permitted per packet for Firewall, use the command: SET FIREWALL FRAGMENT=8...50 To configure the number of fragments permitted per packet for IP NAT, use the command: SET IP NAT FRAGMENT=8...50 TCP has been excluded from this enhancement because TCP has the MSS (Maximum Segment Size) parameter for segment size control. Also, for PPP
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Patch 86222-25 For Rapier Switches and AR800 Series Modular Switching Routers 7 PCR: 03040 Module: IPG Network affecting: No Sometimes IP flows were not deleted correctly when both directions of the flow were in use. This issue has been resolved. PCR: 03065 Module: SWI Level: 2 When the TX cable was unplugged from a fibre port the operating status was incorrectly reported as UP. This issue has been resolved. PCR: 03067 Module: DHCP
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8 Patch Release Note PCR: 02574 Module: DVMRP Network affecting: No Some change actions, and the resending of prune messages were not operating correctly. This issue has been resolved. PCR: 02586 Module: CORE, FFS, FILE, Network affecting: No INSTALL, SCR Reverses PCR 02400. PCR: 02587 Module: OSPF Network affecting: No When OSPF was enabled on startup, an OSPF interface would sometimes stay in the DOWN state. This issue has been resolved. PCR: 03012 Module: TTY Network affecting: No Logging o
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Patch 86222-25 For Rapier Switches and AR800 Series Modular Switching Routers 9 Sometimes during compaction when the file system was erasing blocks belonging to deleted files, one of the files was transferred rather than deleted. However, its directory entry was deleted, so the file was not visible with a SHOW FILE command but was visible with a SHOW FFILE command. During compaction if the amount of free space was less than two erase blocks (including the "spare" erase block), the file
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10 Patch Release Note PCR: 02396 Module: DHCP Network affecting: No DHCP RENEW request messages are now unicast (as defined in the RFC), not broadcast. PCR 02400 Module: CORE, FFS, FILE, Network affecting: No INSTALL, SCR If a problem occurred with NVS, some critical files were lost. As a result, the equipment was forced to load only boot ROM software at boot time. This patch combined with the new version of the boot ROM software (pr1-1.2.0 for the AR700 series) resolves this issue. PCR 0240
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Patch 86222-25 For Rapier Switches and AR800 Series Modular Switching Routers 11 Features in 86222-21 Patch file details are listed in Table 5: Table 5: Patch file details for Patch 86222-21. 86s-222.rez Base Software Release File 03-Oct-2002 Patch Release Date 86222-21.paz Compressed Patch File Name 408864 bytes Compressed Patch File Size Patch 86222-21 includes all issues resolved and enhancements released in previous patches for Software Release 2.2.2, and the following enhancements: PCR: 02
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12 Patch Release Note PCR: 02368 Module: IPG/IGMP Network affecting: No IGMP failed to create an automatic IGMP membership with no joining port when it received multicast data that no ports were interested in, when IP TimeToLive was set to 1 second. Also, IGMP erroneously sent a query on an IGMP enabled IP interface even when IGMP was disabled. These issues have been resolved. PCR: 02374 Module: SWI Network affecting: No In the ADD SWITCH L3FILTER command, the EPORT parameter incorrectly ac
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Patch 86222-25 For Rapier Switches and AR800 Series Modular Switching Routers 13 PCR: 02024 Module: IPG Network affecting: No Proxy Arp can now be used on VLAN interfaces. PCR: 02122 Module: FIREWALL Network affecting: No A fatal error sometimes occurred if a TCP session originating on the public side of the firewall sent packets before the session was established with the host on the private side of the firewall. This issue has been resolved. PCR: 02128 Module: FIREWALL Network affecting: N
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14 Patch Release Note DHCP entry hashes now have memory protection to prevent fatal errors. DHCP client now retransmits XID correctly. Lost OFFER messages on the server are now handled correctly. The DHCP server now correctly handles DHCP clients being moved to a different interface on the DHCP server after they’ve been allocated an IP address. PCR: 02203 Module: IPG Network affecting: No Responses to DNS requests received by a DNS relay agent, and forwarded to the DNS server, were r
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Patch 86222-25 For Rapier Switches and AR800 Series Modular Switching Routers 15 PCR: 02259 Module: DHCP, IPG Network affecting: No A dual Ethernet router was incorrectly accepting an IP address from a DHCP server when the offered address was on the same network as the other Ethernet interface. An error is now recorded when DHCP offers an address that is in the same subnet as another interface. PCR: 02260 Module: TTY Network affecting: No When a ‘\n’(LF) character was received, the router/swi
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16 Patch Release Note PCR: 02276 Module: FIREWALL Network affecting: No The CREATE CONFIG command did not save the SOURCEPORT parameter to the configuration file when the low value of the source port range was set to zero. This issue has been resolved. PCR: 02287 Module: IPG Network affecting: No Existing IGMP groups were not deleted when IGMP was disabled globally or on the associated interface. This gave the groups very high timeout values. This issue has been resolved. PCR: 02299 Module:
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Patch 86222-25 For Rapier Switches and AR800 Series Modular Switching Routers 17 PCR: 02098 Module: STP Network affecting: No STP always transmits untagged packets. If a port does not belong to a VLAN as an untagged port, then the port must belong to one VLAN as a tagged port. In this case, STP should transmit VLAN tagged packets out of the port. PCR: 02123 Module: IPG Network affecting: No The IP, MASK, and ACTION parameters could not be set with the SET IP ROUTE FILTER command. This issu
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18 Patch Release Note PCR 02181 Module: LOAD Network affecting: No When a file upload was interrupted, the file being uploaded was not unlocked. The file could not be deleted without restarting the router. This issue has been resolved. PCR 02186 Module: IPG Network affecting: No RIP was incorrectly sending triggered request packets over VLANs, even on non-demand links. This issue has been resolved. PCR 02188 Module: VRRP Network affecting: No When VRRP responded to an ARP request for the VR I
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Patch 86222-25 For Rapier Switches and AR800 Series Modular Switching Routers 19 PCR: 02081 Module: FILE, FFS Network affecting: No If the FILE module was required to re-write a file, the existing file would be deleted before the size of the new file was known. This issue has been resolved. PCR: 02082 Module: OSPF Network affecting: Yes OSPF virtual links running across a single network segment would accept 0.0.0.0 as the next hop address. This was inherited by derivative routes, making them
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20 Patch Release Note Features in 86222-16 Patch file details for Patch 86222-16 are listed in Table 9: Table 9: Patch file details for Patch 86222-16. 86s-222.rez Base Software Release File 1-Apr-2002 Patch Release Date 86222-16.paz Compressed Patch File Name 336952 bytes Compressed Patch File Size Patch 86222-16 includes all issues resolved and enhancements released in previous patches for Software Release 2.2.2, and the following enhancements: PCR: 02092 Module: SWI Network affecting: No The
