Switch 4210 V3.01.09  Release Notes 
 
February 27, 2009    Page 7 of 43
 
Sample:To display the host software and Boot ROM version of the switch 4210, perform the following:  
<4210> display version  
3Com Corporation 
3Com Switch 4210 PWR 18-Port Software Version 3Com OS V3.01.09s56 ------- Note①  
Copyright (c) 2004-2009 3Com Corporation and its licensors, All rights reserved. 
3Com Switch 4210 PWR 18-Port uptime is 0 week, 0 day, 5 hours, 49 minutes  
 
3Com Switch 4210 PWR 18-Port with 1 Processor 
64M     bytes SDRAM 
8M      bytes Flash Memory 
Config Register points to FLASH 
 
Hardware Version is REV.A 
Bootrom Version is 4.06                                           ------ Note②  
CPLD Version is 001 
[Subslot 0] 16FE+2Combo SFP  Hardware Version is REV.A 
Restrictions and Cautions 
Restriction 1 
When 802.1x or centralized MAC authentication is enabled on device, if the packets' source MAC 
address is not leant on port after authentication process, these packets will be trapped to CPU, if lots 
of this kind of packets rush to CPU, the user could enable attack-protection on access port to avoid 
potential under this situation. 
Restriction 2 
Problems in forwarding and MIB statistics 
1. The packets which source MAC addresses are multicast or zero can be forward according to the 
destination MAC address and the zero MAC address can be learned in ARL, but the zero MAC 
address is filtered in displaying. 
2. The packet flows can’t be balanced in more than one port which work in half duplex mode and flow-
control are enabled. At the same time, here are a lot of abort packets in port MIB statistics. When the 
speed of send packets is less than 100M, the flow-control of half duplex is OK. 
3. The packet which length is larger than 1518 bytes will be counted in the giants.  
4. The etherStatsUndersizePkts MIB statistics are not very precise. 
Restriction 3 
When MAC address number reaches to the max-count on the port which mac-address max-mac-
count is enabled, the port will drop the BPDU packets directly (include STP, dot1X, NDP packet).