Monthly Archives: November 2016

Comware7: OSPF over IP Unnumbered Ethernet

Posted on November 28, 2016 by Peter Debruyne

This is a feature that seems to exist already for a while in Comware 7 (it works even in Simware, which is pretty old by now), but I just discovered it recently: IP unnumbered interfaces on Ethernet with OSPF point-to-point … Continue reading →

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Device LLDP PVID mismatch

Posted on November 23, 2016 by Peter Debruyne

Several access devices, such as APs and IP Phones, support LLDP and that is very convenient for discovery and troubleshooting. However, these devices may include the locally configured PVID (the untagged VLAN) in their outgoing LLDP frames. This may result … Continue reading →

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Comware7: Configuration commit delay

Posted on November 23, 2016 by Peter Debruyne

In the old days it was quite common to schedule a device reboot e.g. 5 min ahead when ‘tricky’ remote device changes had to be performed over an in-band connection such as SSH/telnet. In case the config changes provided the … Continue reading →

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ArubaOS-Switch 16.02: unsupported transceiver option

Posted on November 15, 2016 by Peter Debruyne

The 16.02 release for the ArubaOS-Switch (Provision) wired switches includes a welcome ‘new’ feature to enable the use of unsupported transceivers.

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