New and Updated Features ======================== BGP Route-reflector support: -------------------- Route reflector is a technique to avoid the large number of sessions between IBGP peers. In this release support for RFC4456: BGP Route Reflection: An Alternative to Full Mesh Internal BGP (IBGP)) has been added on this platform. SNMP: Need 8 RO and 8 RW communities: ------------------------------------- AS a part of this release SNMPv1 and SNMPv2 switches will support eight read community names(Read-Only) and eight write community names(Read-Write) RFC5340: OSPF For IPv6: ----------------------- The switches were compliant to RFC2740. Starting with release, the switches will be compliant to RFC5340 which obsoletes RFC2740 NTP Client Display Improvements: --------------------------------- The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is widely used to synchronize computer clocks in the Internet. With the NTP service enabled, the switch can accurately update its internal clock to be consistent with other devices on the network. The "show ntp" command has been updated with details like clock offset, stratum, reference clock etc. NTP enhancements have been provided to minimize the number of syslogs sent when NTP sync fails and when the system clock is updated. Cisco like CLI: --------------- Cisco-like CLI enhancement intends to change some of ISCLI commands to be Cisco IOS-CLI alike. The commands chosen are the ones frequently used for VLAN, Port and STP configuration. With the enhancement, the one who is familiar with Cisco IOS-CLI can configure NOS VLAN, Port and STP modules easily with ISCLI.