Ixia Software Release Notes
IxNetwork 9.00 Update 1
Build Number: 9.00.1907.75 (August 28, 2019)
IxNetwork 9.00 Update1 is an update release on top of IxNetwork 9.00.
For complete listing of all the new features included in this release please, refer to the 'What's New' section.
Application Compatibility
As an update release, IxNetwork 9.00 Update 1 has same compatibility as IxNetwork 9.00 release.
For IxNetwork 9.00 Update 1, the wireshark version would be 1.8.310.11
For additional product compatibility information, refer to the following online utility on Ixia's website. You will need an account to access the Ixia website.
http://www.ixiacom.com/support-overview/product-support/product-compatibility-matrix
Starting with version 8.10EA, users of IxNetwork applications are required to authenticate when starting the applications' user interfaces, using an e-mail based authentication mechanism.
A login window is presented when a user starts IxNetwork and the user will need to enter the registered e-mail address and the associated password.
First time users need to create a new account, which can be done online at login.ixiacom.com;
this link is available on the login window. A new account can be used only after the user verifies the e-mail address by opening the link in the verification e-mail received from "Ixia Identity".
If the client machine running IxNetwork is offline, a token is required to sign in; the token is a binary file, that can be obtained by signing in at
login.ixiacom.com from a computer with Internet access and downloading the Offline Authentication Token.
Note: When signing in, or managing the account in a web browser, always confirm that you are doing so over a secure connection. Ixia does not ask for user name, password or other personal information via email.
Privacy Matters:
To improve the experience for customers and the quality of Ixia's products, data may be collected and stored by Ixia.
This typically includes data about the product usage and environment (such as operating system, browser, language), and personal data such as user name, email and IP addresses.
Only Ixia's IT, project managers and marketing worldwide will have access to this data.
When you first sign in to either application, you will be asked to consent to such data collection and use, and to the data transfer to Ixia in the United States.
You may withdraw your consent at any time and for any reason. Please refer to our privacy policy for more information and opt-out possibility (available at https://www.ixiacom.com/privacy-policy)
IxNetwork requires that a license for its use be installed for each
chassis used by IxNetwork. That license may be installed on each chassis or on a
server on your network, referred to as the central license server.
For more information about the new IxLicensing system, please refer to the
"Ixia Licensing Management User Guide" provided with the Ixia software, or downloadable
from the Ixia web site: http://www.ixiacom.com/support-services/product-support/user-guides
You will be required to provide a login and password to enter this section of
the web site. If you do not have the username and password, please forward your
request to support.ix@keysight.com.
To install this update, you must have the IxNetwork 9.00 'client' component installed on the user workstation where the IxNetwork GUI will be run.
IxNetwork update notifications are available through Ixia Update Manager.
Select and apply the update to the existing IxNetwork 9.00 or download the update installer for manually installing the updates at a later time.
Installed updates are visible under control panel -> installed updates for IxNetwork 9.00
Refer to the following notes to rectify the problems that may arise during installation.
NOTE: During installation of an update, if the Update Manager status does not change
even after several minutes or if the update fails to install, then restart the
system and reinstall the update.
NOTE: Once an update is installed, it disappears from the Update Manager until it
is manually uninstalled from the control panel.
Please contact Ixia customer support for upgrades if needed.
Please refer to the IxNetwork documentation for guidance on its usage.
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Please refer to our website at http://support.ixiacom.com/support-services/product-support/user-guides.
You will be required to provide a login and password to enter this section of
the web site. If you do not have the username and password, please forward your
request to mailto:support.ix@keysight.com.
9.00 Update 1 Features
| Access |
| NGPF DHCP emulation now supports pre-build DSL and PON line attribute TLVs under DHCP Option 82 Vendor Information TLV (sub-option 9). |
| NGPF IEEE 802.1x emulation Abort command is enhanced to stop sending LogOff message. |
| Automation |
| PCEP emulation now supports High Level APIs to configure stateless PCE and Learned Info trigger for sending PCUpdate message for Sync LSPs. |
| NETCONF emulation now supports High Level APIs for full feature set. |
| VXLAN over IPv6 protocol emulation now supports High Level APIs. |
| NGPF EVPN and NG-MVPN now supports High Level APIs for Tenant Routed Multicast (TRM) feature. |
| MPLS |
| Seamless BFD (S-BFD) emulation is enhanced to support pause/resume of one or multiple Initiator sessions at simulated responder. This is useful to initiate a switchover between primary and backup LSPs. |
| NGPF LDP emulation is enhanced to support route step for LDP FEC ranges in Network group. |
| SDN |
| NGPF PCE is enhanced to support
(A) Send "Return Delegation" for Sync LSPs.
(B) Update XRO information by PCUpdate message.
(C) Bundling of multiple PCUpdates in a single PCEP message.
(D) Send Unknown PLSP-ID in PCUpdate messages. |
| NGPF OSPFv3 emulation now supports Segment Routing extension for MPLS data plane as per draft-ietf-ospf-ospfv3-segment-routing-extensions-23. This feature is of beta quality. |
| BGP-LS now supports advertisement of IS-IS SRv6 topology information as per draft-ietf-idr-bgpls-srv6-ext-00. This feature is of beta quality. |
| TSN |
| TSN Conformance suite for IEEE 802.1Qbv is enhanced with scenarios for measuring convergence time of configuration updates over NETCONF session. This feature is of beta quality. |
| TSN Conformance suite for IEEE 802.1Qbv is enhanced with statistical analysis and measurement for window violation. |
| Time Synchronization |
| NGPF 1588v2 (PTP) emulation now supports IEEE C37.238 profile for use in power system application. |
| NGPF 1588v2 (PTP) is enhanced to support Peer Delay mechanism for Offset triggered logging. |
| NGPF 1588v2 (PTP) emulation now supports AES67 media profile for use in high-performance Audio-over-IP interoperability. |
| Web Edition |
| IxNetwork Web Edition now supports single sign-on authentication when logging in from already signed on web application. |
Access
| Bug Number |
Notes |
| 1516125 |
IxNetwork GUI becomes unresponsive if more than 20 vendor specific TLVs are configured in DHCPv4 Relay Agent.
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| 1517674 |
HLT Scriptgen time for DHCP TLV is bit higher due to new TLVs support add.
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Routing/switching
| Bug Number |
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| 1519444 |
Sometimes, OSPFv3 session may not get established due to underlying link-local address not coming up. Rebooting the port will solve this issue.
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Wireshark
| Bug Number |
Notes |
| 1518832 |
The Wireshark version that comes with IxNetwork 9.00 Update 1 release cannot be selected from Ixia Application Selector on chassis for a specific IxOS version.
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Access
| Bug Number |
Notes |
| 1518605 |
For NGPF 802.1x, port goes to bad state sometimes when protocol is stopped during test runs.
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| 1519503 |
For DHCPv6 over PPPoX, sometimes port goes to bad state during long duration test.
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Routing/switching
| Bug Number |
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| 1516787 |
Malformed BFD packets are sometimes generated for auto-created BFD sessions upon protocol start.
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SDN
| Bug Number |
Notes |
| 1515435 |
The L (local) flag associated with node prefixes of emulated and simulated OSPFv2 SR routers are enabled by default.
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| 1515903 |
Port goes to bad state when ISIS L1+L2 adjacency is configured with MPLS SR enabled.
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| 1517367 |
EVPN VXLAN emulation always resolve the VNI information from first EVI when learning duplicated MAC/IP across multiple EVIs.
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Test Composer
| Bug Number |
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| 1519504 |
IxNetwork Test Composer may become unresponsive when script is running for 125 hours.
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Time Synchronization
| Bug Number |
Notes |
| 1515532 |
PTP fails to maintain sync message rate for message interval equal to or higher than 128 messages per second.
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