Ixia Software Release Notes
IxNetwork 8.50 EA Update 1 (Prerequisite: 8.50 EA)
Build Number: 8.50.1903.41 (October 12, 2018)
IxNetwork 8.50 EA Update1 is an update release on top of IxNetwork 8.50EA.
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 8.50 EA Update 1 has same compatibility as IxNetwork 8.50EA release.
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 8.50 EA Update 1 does not require explicit license installation and
is supported as per 8.50 EA license installation
Please contact Ixia customer support for upgrades if needed.
IxNetwork Update is built with the client component only. You must install this update
in the computer where IxNetwork application will be run.
Installation Notes
To install this update, you must have the IxNetwork 8.50 EA '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 8.50 EA 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 8.50 EA
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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8.50 EA Update 1 Features
| Access |
| NGPF 802.1X Emulation now supports receiving messages with proprietary/unknown code. These messages will be ignored by IxNetwork and no action will be taken. |
| NGPF 802.1X now supports receiving and processing VLAN tagged packets from DUT. |
| High Level API |
| HLAPI support added for both NETCONF Server and Client emulations. |
| High Level API support for NGMVPN in NGPF has been added. |
| MPLS |
| NGPF RSVP-TE has been enhanced to support LSP self ping as per RFC 7746. |
| Routing/switching |
| Realistic subscriber behavior support is added for BGP over PPP/L2TP. This feature is beta quality. |
| NGPF Routing and MPLS protocols emulations running over GRE is now in EA quality. Protocols supported are BGP, OSPF, LDP, L2VPN, L3VPN, RSVP-TE, BFD, IGMP, MLD, PIM. |
| SDN |
| NETCONF Client is enhanced to support auto-generation of command snippet XML file based on schema information learned from the DUT (NETCONF Server). One more enhancement done to clean up client memory by deleting test generated XML/pcap files if the files are older than user configurable number of days. |
| PCEP emulation is enhanced to support Binding SIDs for SR-TE type of LSPs as per draft-sivabalan-pce-binding-label-sid-04. The Binding SID info can be sent by the PCE in PCUpdate message for all types of LSPs and by the PCC for Sync LSPs. |
| For L3VPN over SRv6 feature, ISIS and BGP VPN draft support have been updated to latest revision. ISIS SRv6 now supports draft-bashandy-isis-srv6-extensions-03 and it is available for emulated routers. BGP SRv6 VPN now supports draft-dawra-idr-srv6-vpn-04. The new draft support is of beta quality. |
| TSN |
| IxNetwork TSN Conformance Test Library includes conformance test cases added for the following IEEE Standards :
(1) IEEE 802.1Qbv - Time Aware Shaper (Enhancements for Scheduled Traffic).
(2) IEEE 802.1Qci - Per-Stream Filtering and Policing. |
Access
| Bug Number |
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| 1477210 |
802.1X NGPF: If the user stops the 802.1X sessions one-by-one, and restarts again then the new stats will be added to the previous stats. User should manually clear the statistics using "Clear All Statistics" command before starting the protocols to avoid the addition of stats.
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Automation
| Bug Number |
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| 1493646 |
For NGPF OSPF and ISIS protocols, a scriptgen-ed configuration file from old release may not restore to 8.50-Update1 properly.
Follow these steps for a workaround - 1) source the scriptgen config in old IxNetwork build. 2) save the config file from GUI as ixncfg 3) Load the ixncfg in 8.50-EA Update1. 4) Scriptgen it back.
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High Level API
| Bug Number |
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| 1493617 |
Sourcing high level Perl scriptgen file results in error if there are special characters like "\" in the configuration.
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Routing/switching
| Bug Number |
Notes |
| 1488929 |
IPv6 Interface doesn't come up when configured with Link-local address in NGPF.
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SDN
| Bug Number |
Notes |
| 1490753 |
When user chooses to advertise the BGP SRv6 VPN SID's locator in ISIS, then the metric value of ISIS IPv6 reachability TLV for that locator route gets advertised wrongly. This issue is seen only for the virtual IxNetwork VE ports, not in hardware ports.
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SDN
| Bug Number |
Notes |
| 1493023 |
IxNetwork detects invalid Rx port when EVPN BUM traffic created using PIM underlay is applied.
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