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Paradyne Firmware/Software/Hardware Release Notes

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Release Number: I04.02.05			Date: April 25, 2001
Release Type: Major			Country Type: All
Release History			Affected Product Models
Release	Type	Date	Model	Description
I04.02.05	Major	04/09/2001	6301/6302	Major Release
I04.00.10	Initial	07/21/2000	6301/6302	Initial Release

1. Feature Enhancements / Functional Changes

The DSL router provides endpoint router networking capabilities in support of the 8303 and 8304 IDSL line cards. This can be configured to function in a variety of network environments. The sections below provide descriptions of some of the DSL router features:

Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
Proxy ARP
Network Address Translation (NAT)
Basic NAT
Network Address Port Translation (NAPT)
Applications Supported by NAT
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) Server
DHCP Relay Agent
IP Filters
VNET Bridged Model support
1483 Routed Model support in association with the 8304 port card.
SNMP agent with Get/Set capability.
Security Enhancements.
Control of the number of DHCP users when the DSL Router is configured as a DHCP Relay Agent.

This release provides the following additional DSL Router key features:

Transparent bridging (with spanning tree protocol availability) of all protocols in the service domain. Simul-taineous
routing of IP traffic with bridging of all other protocol traffic.
Ethernet type and ICMP message type filter support for bridged and/or routed service domain traffic.
Simultaneous Basic NAT and NAPT support.

This release contains the following functional changes:
New user interface commands supported (see user’s guide and online help command for details and command
syntax):
– bridge {disable | enable}
– bridge aging-timeout [time]
– bridge priority [priority]
– spanning-tree {disable | enable}
– show spanning-tree
– show bridge
– nat basic purge
– nat napt purge
– ip routing {disable | enable}
– packet processing {disable | enable}
NOTE: This command replaces ip processing {disable | enable}, but this command will continue to be sup-ported
for backward compatibility.
Changes to existing user interface commands (see user’s guide and online help command for details and command
syntax):
– show statistiscs [eth1 | dsl1 | ip | bridge]
NOTE: The display of the Ethernet statistics (show statistics eth1) now includes counts of events that don’t
result in a frame discard, but are useful to know. These include the following events:
• Single Collision on Tx
• Multiple Collisions on Tx
• Late Collision on Tx
• No Carrier Detect on Tx
• Pauses on Tx
• Defers on Tx
– clear statistiscs [eth1 | dsl1 | ip | bridge]
– nat basic {disable | enable}
– nat napt {disable | enable}

Hotwire DSL Routers User's Guide 6371-A2-GB20-20
Hotwire 6301/6302 IDSL Installation Instructions 6301-A2-GN10-10

2. Resolved Customer Issues

Support NAT/DHCP w/ public and priv IPs on E0
User Level Needs Traceroute and Ping
NAT NAPT MAP command not passing traffic on layer 3 endpoints / Intermittent problem NAPT.

3. Hardware Co-Requirements

Card Type	CCA #	DSLAM
6301 IDSL DSL Router	868-4598-8000	N/A
6302 IDSL DSL Router	868-4599-8000	N/A
8303 IDSL 24 Line Card	Processor Card:868-4595-8000 with Base Card: 868-4592-8000	8610, 8820
8304 IDSL 24 Line Card	Processor Card:868-4724-8000 with Base Card: 868-4592-8000	8620 and 8820
8000 IP Conservative MCP	868-3883-80xx (xx = 00, 01, 02, …)	8610, 8620 and 8820

Before customers can be serviced using IDSL, the following items must be verified:

The CPE cannot be > 18,000 feet (16.5 Kft of 26 gauge and 1.5 Kft of 24 gauge no bridged tap) from the LT card in the DLC.
The IDSL transport between the BRITE cards in the channel banks must be capable of and provisioned for clear channel (64K per bearer). If not, the customer’s data will be corrupted.
The BRITE cards should be T1.601 compliant in order to assure interoperablilty.

4. Software Co-Requirements

Card Type	CCA #	Firmware
8303 IDSL 24 Line Card	Processor Card:868-4595-8000 with Base Card: 868-4592-8000	04.00.38 or later
8304 IDSL 24 Line Card	Processor Card:868-4724-8000 with Base Card: 868-4592-8000	04.00.38 or later

5. Compatibility With Other Released Models

This release requires an 8303/4 IDSL Line Card with compatible firmware for proper operation in 8820/8610/8620 systems.The IDSL Line Card must be upgraded to release M04.00.38 or higher. It is recommended that the latest official release of the IDSL Line Card firmware be used for full feature compatibility.

Please refer to the IDSL Line Card release notes for information about compatibility with other port cards.

This release requires an 8000 IP Conservative MCP with compatible firmware for proper operation in 8820/8610/8620 systems. The MCP must be upgraded to release M04.00.38 or higher. It is recommended that the latest official release of the 8000 MCP card firmware be used for full feature compatibility.
Please refer to the MCP release notes for information about compatibility with other port cards. In general, the management card firmware release needs to be the same as or newer than the newest firmware release on a port card in the DSLAM.

6. Known Issues

The following are known problems/limitations with this or prior releases:

NAT Doesn’t Support Out Of Order Fragments
Hotwire PC Download Program Not working with Windows 2000. (Windows 9x, or Windows NT 4.0 supported)
NAT NAPT Misconfiguration Resets Endpoint