HP 9304m - New in this Edition; Enhancements Added in; Software Release

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What’s New in this Edition?
The January 2002 edition of the HP ProCurve Routing Switch documentation contains descriptions of the new
features listed below. (For features added in later, minor releases, see the latest release notes in the Technical
Support | Manuals area at http://www.hp.com/go/hpprocurve.)
Enhancements Added in Software Release 07.5.X
The following enhancements are new in software release 07.5. X . These enhancements are present only in
software release 07.5.
X and higher. They are not supported in previous software releases.
Layer 3 Enhancements
• Increased route table capacity
• Support for configuring the ARP age on an individual interface
• Support for enabling or disabling ICMP redirect messages on an individual interface
• Changes to BGP4 Multi-Exit Discriminator (MED) comparison
• Cooperative BGP4 route filtering
• New command to unsuppress a neighbor's routes
• New command to use the IP default route as a valid next hop for a BGP4 route
• Named IP community and AS-path ACLs
• New BGP4 route-map options
• Support for using regular expressions in BGP4 community ACLs
• New option to display the last packet from a BGP4 neighbor that contained an error
• Support for OSPF RFC 2328 Appendix E
• New IP interface options for OSPF
• Dynamic memory allocation for IP multicast groups
• Support for PIM Sparse Mode (SM) on loopback interfaces
• Multi-protocol Border Gateway Protocol (MBGP) support
Layer 2 Enhancements
• SuperSpan – the ability to configure a common STP backbone for a large number of separate customer
spanning trees
• STP per VLAN group
• GARP VLAN Registration Protocol (GVRP)
System-Level Enhancements
• Support for Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) of 1920 bytes
• New command, trunk deploy, to activate trunk group configuration commands without reloading the software
• Support for up to eight 10/100 or Gigabit trunk ports supported per module
• New commands for naming, disabling, and re-enabling individual ports in a trunk group
• Support for monitoring individual ports in a trunk group