(ASCEND) APX 8000 TAOS 8.0.2 SOFTWARE

[Matt Holdrege <holdrege@lucent.com>]

APX 8000 TAOS 8.0.2 is available from Customer Service and will be
released to Manufacturing. This is the first release of APX 8000.

This release contains the following:
Firmware versions:
* Series56 II Digital Modem cards (also called CSM/3, TNT-SL-48MOD-SGL and
TNT-SL-48MOD-S-C) support V5.817 firmware.
* Series56 III Digital Modem cards (also called CSM/3V, TNT-SL-48MODV3-S-C)
support V5.8174 firmware.
* 48-port MultiDSP cards (TNTP-SL-ADI-C or TNTV-SL-ADI-C) support Lucent
V0.1617.0 firmware.
* 96-port MultiDSP cards (APX8-SL-96DSP) support Lucent V0.1617.0 firmware.
Notices and known issues:
* Notice about chassis status lights. The APX 8000 Hardware Installation Guide
states that when the unit boots up, the chassis status light on the fantray is
Yellow. Currently, the status light defaults to Green on power up.
* Notice about MultiVoice support. APX 8000 TAOS 8.0.2 supports the 48-port
MultiDSP cards (TNTP-SL-ADI-C or TNTV-SL-ADI-C). For VoIP enabled systems, use
of the card for VoIP purposes is not blocked. However, MultiVoice
functionality will be formally supported in upcoming release.
* Notice about the system IP address and redundant controllers. Lucent
recommends that for APX 8000 units with dual controllers, you do not set the
System-IP-Addr parameter to an address assigned to the Ethernet port of
either controller. For example, the following sample configuration is not
recommended:
[in IP-INTERFACE/{ { shelf-1 left-controller 1 } 0 }]
ip-address = 1.1.1.201
[in IP-INTERFACE/{ { shelf-1 right-controller 1 } 0 }]
ip-address = 1.1.1.200
[in IP-GLOBAL]
system-ip-addr = 1.1.1.200
With the settings shown immediately above, the system address fails if
switchover occurs from the right to the left controller. To take full 
advantage
of the fault tolerance provided by redundant controllers, you should set the
System-IP-Addr to the soft interface address, as described in the section on
configuring redundancy in the APX 8000 Physical Interface Configuration Guide.
* Known issue when running OSPF on both shelf controllers. If the APX 8000 
unit
is running OSPF on the Ethernet interfaces of both shelf controllers, you must
ensure that only one shelf (at most) is allowed to become an OSPF designated
router (DR/BDR). To ensure that an interface cannot become a designated 
router,
set the OSPF priority to zero. For example, the following commands set the
OSPF priority to zero for the left controller IP interface:
admin> read ip-interface { { 1 left 1 } 0 }
IP-INTERFACE/{ { shelf-1 left-controller 1 } 0 } read
admin> set ospf priority = 0
admin> writeIP-INTERFACE/{ { shelf-1 left-controller 1 } 0 } written

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