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Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch 4500 Series
Release Notes Release 5.4Release: 5.4Document Revision: 06.01
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Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch 4500 SeriesRelease: 5.4Publication: NN47205-400Document release date: 19 May 2010
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ContentsSoftware license 5
New in this release 9Navigation 9Features 9Other changes 10
Enterprise Device Manager 10
Introduction 13
Important notices and new features 15New features in Release 5.4 15
New features 15Supported software and hardware capabilities 24Filter, meter and counter resources 26File names for this release 27Supported traps and notifications 28Supported Web browsers for Enterprise Device Manager 28Upgrading software 28
Affects of upgrade on trap notifications 30Updating switch software 32
Setting IP parameters with the ip.cfg file on a USB memory device 38Hardware and software compatibility 41
XFP and SFP transceiver compatibility 41Supported standards, RFCs and MIBs 44
Standards 44RFCs and MIBs 45IPv6 specific RFCs 46
Resolved issues 49
Known issues and limitations 55Known issues and limitations 55IPv6 limitations 66
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New in this releaseThe following sections detail whats new in Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch4500 Series Release Notes Software Release 5.4.
Navigation Features (page 9) Other changes (page 10)
FeaturesSee the following sections for information about feature changes.
802.1AB (LLDP) MED Network Policy CLI (page 15) 802.1D Compliancy Support (page 16) ADAC and Auto QoS Interoperability (page 16) ADAC Enhancements (page 16) Additional SFP Support (page 16) Automatic QoS and 802.1A

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