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  ProLiant BL p-Class GbE2 Interconnect Switch Firmware, Version 1.0.1
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- Usage information can be obtained from the following documentation:

    HP ProLiant BL p-Class GbE2 Interconnect Switch User Guide
    HP ProLiant BL p-Class GbE2 Interconnect Switch Application Guide
    HP ProLiant BL p-Class GbE2 Interconnect Switch Command Reference Guide
    HP ProLiant BL p-Class GbE2 Interconnect Switch Browser-based Interface
    Reference Guide 

  This documentation is downloadable from the Web at www.compaq.com/support

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  Known Issues:
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Issue: With some devices, when a GbE2 Interconnect Switch port is set to 100
Mbps speed with half-duplex (either with auto-negotiation on or auto-
negotiation off), link will never be established.

Suggestion: Do not set port speed to 100 half.



Issue: In the browser-based interface (BBI), the REVERT command on the main
banner does not work.

Suggestion: Use the REVERT button on the CONFIGURE mode screen or the GENERAL
screen instead. You can also use REVERT from the Command Line Interface 
(CLI).



Issue: When directly connected to the GbE2 Interconnect Switch front panel 
DB9 (console) port, the session will not timeout.

Suggestion: Exit from console when not in use.


Issue: When a Telnet connection is made from the GbE2 Interconnect Switch 
CLI to another device, characters are echoed making password fields visible.

Suggestion: If it is a security risk do not make a Telnet connection from 
the GbE2 Interconnect Switch.



Issue: If one switch is rebooted out of the pair in a blade enclosure, the 
other switch might report auto-negotiation errors on the console for ports 
not connected between these paired switches, even though there is no real 
problem.

Suggestion: Ignore these messages as erroneous.



Issue: Jumbo frames are forwarded correctly, but the statistics on the ports 
show them as 'oversized' frame errors.

Suggestion: The GbE2 Interconnect Switch firmware is counting Jumbo Frames 
as "oversized" frames and incrementing the Error counter. Ignore this counter 
when Jumbo Frames are used.  



Issue: The Browser Based Interface (BBI) does not offer support for all GbE2 
Interconnect Switch configuration settings and statistics monitoring. 

Suggestion: The preferred interface is the Command Line Interface (CLI).



Issue: Network links for servers running Linux occasionally will not 
establish link. 

Suggestion: Reload the NIC drivers on the Linux Blade server to get link to 
come up or reboot the server.  Refer to www.compaq.com/support for additional 
information.



Issue: Initiating a secure copy of the configuration file 
(scp <local_filename><switch IP addr>:putcfg_apply_save) from an external 
host server, the BOOTP assigned IP setting will be lost on the GbE2 
Interconnect Switch.

Suggestion: Do not use the scp command to transfer a configuration file 
to the switch. If this happens, disable and enable BOOTP to reestablish  
the IP settings.



Issue: Load distribution for multicast traffic is not supported over 
multi-link port trunks. For broadcast and multicast traffic, the lowest 
port number in the trunk group is elected to be the forwarding port for 
forwarding traffic.

Suggestion: No action is needed. 



Issue: Load distribution information for IP and non-IP traffic over 
multi-link port trunks is documented incorrectly in HP ProLiant BL 
p-Class GbE2 Interconnect Switch User Guide and the HP ProLiant BL 
p-Class GbE2 Interconnect Switch Application Guide.

- IP traffic on a trunk is forwarded on the port matching modulus 
(last_3_bits_of_Source_IP_address XOR last_3_bits_of_Destination
_IP_address).
 
- Non-IP traffic on a trunk is forwarded on the port  matching modulus 
(last_3_bits_of_Source_MAC_address XOR last_3_bits_of_Destination
_MAC_address).



Issue: Pings to a non-existing host IP address from the GbE2 Interconnect 
Switch CLI interface result in no response for random periods of time.

Suggestion: Wait a short while for response to resume.


Issue: The BBI REVERT option fails to correctly undo VLAN creation.

Suggestion: Use the CLI to create VLANs.



Issue: CPU utilization is incorrect.

Suggestion: Ignore the reported CPU utilization.



Issue: The BBI does not time out after inactivity.

Suggestion: Logout when you are finished with the BBI.



Issue:  Firmware or boot image upgrades via TFTP on slower connections
(e.g. 33.6 kb/sec) that require over 11 minutes to complete may fail.

Suggestion:  Use a faster connection to perform upgrades.



Issue: Broadcast/Multicast Small/Oversized/Jumbo frames are incorrectly 
identified as Unicast in the statistics.

Suggestion: Ignore these statistics.

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