G8124/G8124-E Firmware Version 7.6.3.20 (Released October 2013) ** Changes since the 7.6.3.0 release ** Enhancements: None. Changes: None. Fixes: - Inefficiencies in the SNMP-processing code could result in high CPU utilization, SNMP client time-outs, protocol flaps, or a switch reset by the Hardware Watchdog. (66769, 70649) - A crash would occur when routing packets to an unreachable IPv6 gateway. (68081) - A watchdog timeout could occur if an IGMPv3 Report packet was received with the invalid source-IP address of 0.0.0.0. (71749) - BGP neighborship sessions would flap when receiving BGP route messages that contained community attributes (XB194426) - A crash could occur while handling an HTTPS request if the connection to the client was suddenly terminated while handling the transaction. (XB205895) - The ACL logging feature would not report incoming packets that matched an ACL qualified by a TCP or UDP destination port. (XB208108) - A crash would occur if a data port was used to upload a file to an FTP server, if the file already existed on the server and had read-only access permissions. (XB209257) - A crash would occur if the traceroute command was executed with an IPv6 address specified, and no IPv6 management interfaces were configured. (XB215717) - A crash would occur if a ping was issued to a random host name, and an IPv6 DNS server was unreachable or non-existent (XB216882) - A crash would occur during a second attempt to authenticate a user via an unreachable or non-existent LDAP server. (XB217674) - A crash would occur if a TFTP upload or download was attempted, and no IPv6 interfaces were configured. (XB218041) - The switch's Browser-based Interface (BBI) was vulnerable to attacks by Web scanning tools, potentially resulting in crashes. (XB218795) - A crash would occur when receiving a random sequence of IGMPv3 reports that were interleaved from different Multicast receivers. (XB219263) - Invalid TCP packets (e.g., having both SYN and FIN flags set) received by the switch would not be discarded, resulting in a potential security vulnerability. (XB220985) ===================================================================== G8124/G8124-E Firmware Version 7.6.3.0 (Released July 2013) ** Changes since the 7.6.2.0 release ** Enhancements: None. Changes: None. Fixes: - A Security vulnerability existed in the OSPFv2 Routing Protocol that is used in IBM System Networking Ethernet Switches (CVE-2013-0149). - A Security vulnerability existed in IBM Switches which support Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), in that data frames were being flooded out of every port if the destination address was not in the MAC table. (CVE-2013-0570). ===================================================================== G8124/G8124-E Firmware Version 7.6.2.0 (Released April 2013) ** Changes since the 7.6.1.0 release ** Enhancements: None. Changes: None. Fixes: - The ability to manually set a port's "speed" parameter was missing in isCLI mode. (66882) - The manual configuration of a port's "speed" setting would be lost after reboot for installed 1000BASE-T SFP transceivers, even though the intended setting was displayed in the running configuration. (66882) - Manually setting the duplex mode of a 1000BASE-T SFP transceiver would result in the link going down. The condition could only be remedied by a reboot of the switch. (70362) - If IGMP Multicast streams with a common (S,G) pair were being sent out of two or more switch ports, then inbound IGMPv3 protocol packets from multiple receivers were interleaved such that an Exclude(none), an Include(S,G), and an Exclude(none) arrived sequentially on a port, that port would stop forwarding multicast packets that matched the (S,G) pair. (70055) =============================================================================== G8124/G8124-E Firmware Version 7.6.1.0 (Released December 2012) New and Updated Features: ======================== BGP Route Reflection: --------------------- Route Reflection is a technique to avoid a 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. SNMP: Support for 8 Read-Only and Read-Write communities: --------------------------------------------------------- This release adds support for 8 read-community names(Read-Only), and 8 write-community names(Read-Write) with SNMPv1 and SNMPv2. RFC5340: OSPF For IPv6: ----------------------- The switch was previously compliant with RFC2740. Starting with this release, the switch is compliant with RFC5340, which supersedes RFC2740. VLAG and PIM Support: --------------------- Previous releases supported IP Multicast routing through the PIM protocol. Also previously supported was the VLAG (Virtual Link Aggregation) protocol. This release adds support for PIM over a vLAG topology, so that the most efficient multicast routing can be achieved in a vLAG topology. 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. In this release, the "show ntp" command has been updated with such details as clock offset, stratum, and reference clock. Also in this release is a dampening of the number of syslog messages generated when the system clock is updated or if NTP synchronization fails. Cisco-like CLI: --------------- As part of this change, some existing ISCLI commands have been modified to look more like those in Cisco's IOS. The commands chosen for modification in this release are ones frequently used for VLAN, Port, and STP configuration. With these changes, those familiar with Cisco-IOS CLI can more readily configure the IBM-NOS VLAN, Port, and STP modules. Support for 4K VLANS: --------------------- Increased the scalability of VLANS from 2K to 4K