Avaya Business Ethernet Switch 50 Release Notes

Release Notes

Business Ethernet Switch 50

BES50 1.0

Document Number: NN47924-400 Document Status: Standard Document Version: 01.01 Date: December 2006

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How to get help 5

Getting Help from the Nortel Web site 5 Getting Help over the phone from a Nortel Solutions Center 5 Getting Help from a specialist by using an Express Routing Code 5 Getting Help through a Nortel distributor or reseller 5

Release notes 7

Known anomalies in BES50FE 1.0 7

BES50FE can learn an all-zero source MAC address 7 WRR weight ratio is fixed at 1:2:4:8 and it is not configurable 7 BES50FE does not display trunk port MAC address 7 ESL: BES50 FE Trunk (MLT) STP state does not converge 7 ESL: BES50 FE LACP STP state does not converge 7 FE 1024, 1280, 1518 byte frames cannot set up 100Mbps line speed at full

meshed 8

BES50FE Static Membership by port: click online hel p and two windows pop

up 8

Known anomalies in BES50GE 1.0 8

BES50GE can learn an all-zero source MAC address 8 WRR weight ratio is fixed at 1:2:4:6:8:10:12:14 and it is not configurable 8 BES50GE does not display trunk port MAC address 8 Manual setting of Gigabit Ethernet rate is not supported 8 BES50GE Cable test WebUI: Default status should be: "Not Tested Yet" 8 BES50GE: Ethernet port not physically shut down when a port is disabled 9

Known anomalies common to BES50FE and BES50GE 1.0 9

Submit button does not work 9 IP address DHCP mode- User does not know IP address has changed and

is difficult to find 9 BES50 - Error messages must be significant to the user 9 BES50 port based VLAN configuration needs improvement 9 WebUI System Description field does not include hardware and firmware

version 10 After power on, BES50 supplies power to connected PDs or Non PDs b efore

starting PoE Detection 10 Cannot open Online Help File against Security > ACL Configuration - Stan-

dard ACL 10 Cannot open Online Help File against Security > ACL Configuration -

Extended ACL 10 Wrong IP Subnet Mask cannot be rejected in ACL WebGUI 10 ESL: BES50 WEB UI left window cannot be scrolled to the bottom 11 BES50 hardware reset button is not user-friendly 11 The warning message of Factory Default is confusing 11 BES50 GE/FE online help information should be modified 11 BES50 Add Reset/Clear button on Statistics page 11 BES50: timeout requires continuous authentication 11 BETA: BES50 online help for Application Filtering wrong 12 ESL: BES50 WEB UI Title is not descriptive like other SMB BES products 12 ESL: BES50 RSTP port default path cost is not same as other Nortel EDN

products 12 Cannot list current logon users 12 Empty Source Port and Bit Mask, and Destination Port Bit Mask cannot be

rejected 12

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BETA: BES50 TFTP cannot be used for some IP address ranges 12

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