Nortel 5000 Series Release Notes

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Known issues 31Change RequestNumberDescriptionQ01395852 If OSPF is enabled, you may receive an OSPF syslog message on the NBUwhile the system is coming up. This occurs because OSPF checks for thelicense, but the license information is not available until the stack is formed.Q01319058 In a Nortel SNA setup, you may experience temporary loss of Nortel SNAfunctionality when UDP forwarding has approached maximum capacity.Workaround: Configure a filter on the port that connects to the SNAS (ordepending on your configuration, on the port connected to the switch that,in turn, connects to the SNAS) to isolate Nortel SNA SSCP traffic receivedby the CPU.The CLI commands to configure a filter are the following:• qos ip-element src-ip • qos classifier set-id element-type ip element-id • qos action update-1p • qos policy port clfr-type class clfr-id in-profile-action prec Q01374774 When you simultaneously reset two or more non-adjacent stack memberscausing other members to be isolated from the stack, the stack may fail theDB exchange when the reset units attempt to re-join the stack.Workaround: Reset the base unit, or change the ports status for a stack(down/up).Q01622383 MLT/Mac-sec: Traffic does not recover after reboot on a MLT with mac-secenable until you reboot the standalone.Q01618770 To upgrade the SSH from Rel. 4.x.x to Rel. 5.1, you must first upgrade to 5.0.Use the following procedure to upgrade from Rel. 4.x.x to Rel. 5.1.1. Upgrade the agent image from Rel. 4.xx to Rel. 5.02. Upgrade the diag. image to Rel. 5.0.0.4 (this diag. image was releasedwith agent Rel. 5.1)3. Upgrade the agent image from Rel. 5.0 to Rel. 5.1.Q01415261 If a MAC is not present in the MAC-db at the SNAS, it is learned on a switchport and entered as a dynamic PC into the NSNA client list. Adding the sameMAC to the MAC-db after that will not authenticate the MAC. The port willneed to be reset or NSNA disabled and enabled at the port to remove it fromthe client list for subsequent authentication of that MAC.Q01650221 NSNA dynamic ports must have Spanning Tree Learning mode Fast Learningor Disabled when NSNA is globally enabled. STP Normal Learning mode willnot be restored if NSNA is disabled.Q01637116 Adding or deleting host routes for hosts directly attached to the router innon-backbone area is not advertised by the router without disabling andenabling OSPF on the switch.Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch 5000 SeriesRelease Notes — Release 6.0NN47200-400 04.01 Standard6.0 12 December 2008Copyright © 2008., Nortel Networks.