Allied Telesis Series user manual

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Software Maintenance Release Note
Version 89273-02
for AT-8900 and AT-9900 series switches
Introduction
This release note lists the issues addressed and enhancements made in version
89273-02 for Software Release 2.7.3 on existing models of AT-8900 and AT-9900
series switches. File details are listed in Table 1.
Table 1: File details for version 89273-02.
89-273.rez
Base Software Release File
29 April 2005
Release Date
89273-02.rez
Compressed File Name
4263880 bytes
Compressed File Size
This re

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2 Patch Release Note 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: 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 cosme

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Version 89273-02 for AT-8900 and AT-9900 series switches 3 CR00007695 Module: PPP Level: 1 When either the Firewall was enabled or multiple L2TP tunnels were configured, and a default route existed over an L2TP tunnel, it was possible for an infinite internal packet loop to be created when a packet was sent over the L2TP tunnel after the underlying interface route to the remote IP had gone down. This caused a reboot to occur. This issue has been resolved. (No PCR number.) Level 2 CR00002290

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4 Patch Release Note CR00007005 Module: PPP Level: 2 A change was made in the 2.6.1 software release to reset the PPP idle timer for received traffic as well as transmitted traffic to avoid a PPP link idling out when receiving unidirectional traffic. However, this has undesirable side effects as it is not possible to control the received traffic. This change has been removed. Users can avoid a PPP link idling out for received unidirectional traffic by setting the value of the IDLE parameter

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Version 89273-02 for AT-8900 and AT-9900 series switches 5 CR00007888 Module: OSPF Level: 2 NSSA areas were not able to form adjacencies with some other vendors’ equipment. This has been resolved. CR00007948 Module: SSH Level: 2 Some SSH Clients do not limit the length of the SSH username. Under some special circumstances, when the AlliedWare ™ SSH server received a username of 186 characters, the device would restart unexpectedly. This was fixed to limit a SSH username to be less than 6

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6 Patch Release Note entry has been added statically, the hardware switching tables are not updated by the dynamic ARP information. CR00008176 Module: FFS, FILE Level: 2 The flash file system could sometimes have duplicate copies of a file. This issue has been resolved. CR00008184 Module: IPG Level: 2 If an IP interface was assigned its IP address dynamically, and the IP that it was assigned matched the Network address of another interface on the device, then the device would drop packets des

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Version 89273-02 for AT-8900 and AT-9900 series switches 7 Level 4 CR00006093 Module: FFS Level: 4 There was not enough information displayed to the user when the ACTIVATE FLASH COMPACTION command was entered at the same time as Flash was compacting. This issue has been resolved. (No PCR number.) Enhancements CR00006652 Module: IKMP, IPSEC Previously ISAKMP NAT-T was enabled by default on every ISAKMP policy created. NAT-T is now disabled by default on every ISAKMP policy. (No PCR number.) C