Archive for the ‘Switches and Routers’ Category
8600 Software Life Cycle Support Notice
Friday, January 23rd, 2009
This notice is to advise customers of the support status of various software for the Ethernet Routing Switch 8600 product line. Products at EOL (End of Life) status receive no support from Nortel and limited support from VOX Network Solutions. Products at MD (Manufacture Discontinued) status receive limited support from ...
Reset BES50 to factory default
Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
Issue:
Switch configure needs to be reset to factory default.
Environment:
BES50 Ethernet switch
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Fiber links fail to auto negotiate on one side only
Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
Issue:
Fiber links in 8600 fail to negotiate (amber LED) but negotiate in 5500 (green LED with activity light blinking)
Environment:
Nortel ERS 8600
Nortel ERS 5500
Fiber
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Nortel Guidance for Multiple Vendor Fixes for BIND/DNS Cache Poison Vulnerability - CVE-2008-1447
Friday, August 29th, 2008
Nortel has released a bulletin to provide guidance for multiple vendor fixes, where applicable, to the BIND/DNS Cache Poisoning attach described in CVE-2008-1447 (aka: "DNS Insufficient Socket Entropy Vulnerability" or "the Kaminsky bug."). This bulletin is intended to work in concert with Nortel's response to MS08-037 which we have previously alerted ...
MS08-037 Applicability to NSNA 4050 and NSNA 4070
Thursday, August 28th, 2008
In our original post we discussed the purpose and impact of MS08-037 and Nortel's Response Bulletin to Microsoft Security Bulletin MS08-037. Nortel has revised their bulletin to indicate that they are now looking at the NSNA 4050 and 4070 products to determine what vulnerability exists, if any, to a DNS cache ...
Ethernet Routing Switch 8600 system instability after upgrading to 4.1.6.0 software
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
Issue:
Ethernet Routing Switch 8600 system instability after upgrading to 4.1.6.0 software
Environment:
ERS 8600 v4.1.6.0
Solution:
Please open a ticket using the VOX Service Request portal and request solution 1061.
If you are not already a customer, please contact us and request to be set up as a customer so that you can request solution 1061.
Nortel Energy Efficiency Calculator is Web Enabled
Friday, July 18th, 2008
Nortel has released a web enabled version of their Energy Efficiency Calculator and a YouTube video (see the image link to right).
Tony Rybczynsk, TMCnet blog contributor and long time Nortel employee, had this to say in his article Cisco Energy Tax is Real- Just Ask The Customer, quoting Michael Firsdon, ...
Nortel Interop Blast
Friday, July 18th, 2008
Intrigued by Nortel's Interop banner and a recent Tolly Group report, Jason Hiner, TechRepublic blog author, had this to say about Nortel in his article entitled Nortel claims that it is siphoning network customers away from Cisco.
"Nortel announced its bold claims on this banner, hung in front of the entrance ...
Nortel’s “ruthless” energy efficiency calculator
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Cisco loses $2M order to ruthless Nortel energy efficiency calculator
Signage on display at the Nortel Interop booth in Las Vegas this week:
Calculate Your Cisco Energy Tax Now.
Estimate your potential savings by not paying the:
Cisco Energy Tax
The Nortel energy efficiency calculator continues to take its toll on Cisco according to the ...
Limited time access to free upgrade to ERS 8600 5.0
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
As of July 1, 2008, access to advanced features on the Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch 8600 software release 5.0 are subject to the Advanced Feature License and require a valid License file. The license file contains a key to unlock licensed features. For additional information about Licensing, please see Nortel ...
