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Dell™ Power Connect™ 6224/6224F/6224P/6248/6248P Power Connect 6224/6224F/6224P/6248/6248P Release Notes Date: May 2010 System Firmware Version 3.2.0.6 Information in this document is subject to chang...
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Table of Contents ii System Firmware Version 3.2.0.6
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Power Connect 6224/6224F/6224P/6248/6248P Release Notes Introduction This document provides specific information for the Dell Power Connect 6200 Series switches, firmware version 3.2.0.6. It is recomm...
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Firmware Image Name Version No. Release Date PC6200v3.2.0.6.stk 3.2.0.6 May 2010 Version Numbering Convention Version number Description 6200 Series 3 2 0 6 Four part version number Denotes the build ...
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Power Connect 6224/6224F/6224P/6248/6248P Release Notes Added Functionality in this Release Non-Stop Forwarding This feature creates an option to allow the forwarding plane of stack units to continue ...
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Serviceability Tracing Commands Debug commands provided to enable tracing of various protocols. Faster Initialization for Stacking Failover Fast Reinitialization involves improvement in: • Detection o...
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Power Connect 6224/6224F/6224P/6248/6248P Release Notes MLD Snooping (RFC2710) In IPv4, Layer 2 switches can use IGMP Snooping to limit the flooding of multicast traffic by dynamically configuring Lay...
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RADIUS Enhancements • The maximum number of RADIUS servers supported has increased from three to 32. • RADIUS servers with the same name can be used as Backups (RADIUS Authentication and Accounting se...
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Power Connect 6224/6224F/6224P/6248/6248P Release Notes Ping/Traceroute Enhancements New ping options have been added to allow the user to specify the number and size of echo requests and the interval...
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Granular OSPF v2/v3 Traps Configure which of the OSPF traps the OSPF Router should generate by enabling or disabling the trap condition. If a trap condition is enabled and the condition is detected, t...
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Power Connect 6224/6224F/6224P/6248/6248P Release Notes Configured Tunnels MTU To comply with RFC 4213, Basic Transition Mechanisms for IPv6 Hosts and Routers, the IPv6 MTU on configured IPv6 over IPv...
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IPv6 Management Enhancements Provides the following: • Dual IPv4/IPv6 operation over the network port • Static assignment of IPv6 addresses and gateways for the service/network ports • Ability to ping...
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Power Connect 6224/6224F/6224P/6248/6248P Release Notes Changed Functionality in this Release Spanning Tree Update – 802.1Q-2005 Spanning Tree now supports IEEE802.1Q-2005. This version of the IEEE Mu...
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ip route Command Changed The syntax of the ip route command has changed. The metric keyword is no longer accepted as it had no effect. The new syntax is: ip route ip addr subnetmask | prefix-length ne...
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Power Connect 6224/6224F/6224P/6248/6248P Release Notes Trap Configuration In previous versions of the software, configuration of the flags for controlling traps was scattered about in a number of pla...
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ACL Changes The following changes apply to ingress and egress ACLs: o Maximum of 100 ACLs o Maximum rules per ACL are 127 Note: Although the maximum number of ACLs is 100, and the maximum number of ru...
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Power Connect 6224/6224F/6224P/6248/6248P Release Notes Deprecated Commands and Parameters The following CLI commands have been deprecated since the 2.x release. Title Description bridge address Inter...
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Title Description ip ospf Interface Configuration mode Rationale: The ip ospf command has been deprecated. This functionality has been replaced by the ip ospf area command. ip ospf areaid Interface Co...
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Power Connect 6224/6224F/6224P/6248/6248P Release Notes Issues Resolved The following is a list of issues resolved in the current firmware release. Description User Impact Resolution Unable to configu...
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Description User Impact Resolution Bridge multicast forbidden Flooding in ingress VLAN. Modified the L3 interaction code of forward-unregistered causes snooping to notify the driver when L3 Multicast ...
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Power Connect 6224/6224F/6224P/6248/6248P Release Notes Description User Impact Resolution Cannot enter Daylight Saving In summer time configuration page, in In summer time configuration page, Time fr...
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Description User Impact Resolution Changing Radius Timeout from Changing the Timeout Duration field on the Correct the API to properly set the Web interface inadvertently RADIUS Server Configuration w...
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Power Connect 6224/6224F/6224P/6248/6248P Release Notes CLI Reference Manual Updates Non-Stop Forwarding Title Description nsf Use this command to enable non-stop forwarding. The “no” form of the comm...
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Title Description show ip ospf neighbor This command has been enhanced to list the per neighbor graceful restart status described in the RFC 4750 MIB. Possible values for Restart Helper Status are as ...
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Power Connect 6224/6224F/6224P/6248/6248P Release Notes RADIUS Accounting Servers Title Description radius-server host acct The switches do not support creating accounting server names with the same n...
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Link Dependency Commands Title Description link-dependency group [ action { up | down } ] Use the action command to control the operational state of the group based on the dependent links state. • up ...
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Power Connect 6224/6224F/6224P/6248/6248P Release Notes Known Issues Summary User Impact Workaround Non-configuration file When the switch reboots and attempts to It is recommended that all users keep...
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Summary User Impact Workaround Bridge multicast If a user configures the bridge multicast None. address is shown as address as an IP address format in VLAN MAC Address format interface mode, it is dis...
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Power Connect 6224/6224F/6224P/6248/6248P Release Notes Summary User Impact Workaround ISDP updates are not Upon changing configuration immediately The administrator can work around this including Voi...
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Known Restrictions and Limitations Layer 2 802.1AB (LLDP) Description User Impact LLDP-MED location and inventory The switch does not support configuring this data so enabling these TLVs transmit TLVs...
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Power Connect 6224/6224F/6224P/6248/6248P Release Notes LACP Description User Impact LAGs Supported Number of LAGs supported: • Up to 18 Dynamic LAGs • 48 Static LAGs Limitations (stack of 12) • Long ...
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ICMP Description User Impact IPv4 Fragmentation support The switch is not fragmenting the datagram and forwards even when the IP MTU of the forwarding Interface is set to a lower value (than the datag...
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Power Connect 6224/6224F/6224P/6248/6248P Release Notes Management CLI Description User Impact radius-server mode commands do None of the commands in radius-server mode support a "no" form e...
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Cable Diagnostics Description User Impact Cable Length Diagnostic shows Problem is intermittent and only observable when connected to a D-Link result as 'Unknown' for a port to DES1008. which Network ...
