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    SonicOS SonicOS Enhanced 5.6.5.1 Release N otes SonicOS Enhanced 5.6.5.1 Release Notes P/N 232- 00 2002- 00 Rev B Contents Platform Compatibil ity ................................................................................................................................................... 1 Licensing ...........................................[...]

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    2 SonicOS Enhanced 5.6.5.1 Release Notes P/N 232- 00 2002- 00 Rev B Licensing Licensing for the Act ive/Active Clustering (inc luding Stateful H igh Availabilit y) and BGP Advanced R outing features is included with t he following So nicW ALL NSA E-Class appliances , when register ed: SonicW ALL NSA E8500 SonicW ALL NSA E7500 SonicW ALL NSA E6500 S[...]

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    3 SonicOS Enhanced 5.6.5.1 Release Notes P/N 232- 00 2002- 00 Rev B Link Aggregation Link Aggregati on provides the abilit y to group m ultiple Ethernet interfac es to form a trunk which looks and acts like a single p hysical interf ace. S onicOS 5.6.5.1 su pports St atic Link Aggregation , in which the two ends of the trunk have the sam e configur[...]

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    4 SonicOS Enhanced 5.6.5.1 Release Notes P/N 232- 00 2002- 00 Rev B M A C-IP Spoof Detection and Prevent ion Provides additional protec tion against MAC address a nd IP address based spo ofing attacks (such as Man - in -the- Middle attac ks) through conf igurable Layer 2 and Layer 3 adm ission control. Packet Mirroring Provides the abili ty to capt[...]

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    5 SonicOS Enhanced 5.6.5.1 Release Notes P/N 232- 00 2002- 00 Rev B Kno w n Issues This sect ion contains a list of known issues in the Soni cOS 5.6.5.1 rele ase. Symptom Condition / W orkaround Issue In Active/Active clusterin g, a node cannot access MySonicW ALL for license synchronization, and diagnostic tests to the Default Gatewa y and DNS ser[...]

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    6 SonicOS Enhanced 5.6.5.1 Release Notes P/N 232- 00 2002- 00 Rev B Symptom Condition / W orkaround Issue Traffic over static VPN ro utes is dropped after a node level l ink failover. Occurs af ter the X1 link on the Master n ode is disconnected. T raffic will drop over the VPN tunnel, but after flushing the co nnection, traff ic will recommence fl[...]

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    7 SonicOS Enhanced 5.6.5.1 Release Notes P/N 232- 00 2002- 00 Rev B Resolved Issues This section contains a list of resolved issues in the SonicOS 5.6.5.1 release . Symptom Condition / W orkaround Issue Changes m ade on the primar y unit of a High Availabilit y pair are not autom atically synchronize to the backup unit. Occurs when the HA pair is f[...]

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    8 SonicOS Enhanced 5.6.5.1 Release Notes P/N 232- 00 2002- 00 Rev B Upgrading SonicOS Image Pro cedures The following procedures are f or upgrading an existin g SonicOS im age to a newer version: Obtaining the Latest SonicOS Image Version ...............................................................................................................[...]

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    9 SonicOS Enhanced 5.6.5.1 Release Notes P/N 232- 00 2002- 00 Rev B Upgrading a SonicOS Ima ge with Current Pref erences Perform the followin g steps to u pload new firm ware to your So nic W ALL appliance and use your current configuration settings up on startup : 1. Download the Son icOS firm ware image file from mysonicwall.com and save it to a [...]

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    10 SonicOS Enhanced 5.6.5.1 Release Notes P/N 232- 00 2002- 00 Rev B Importing Preferen ces fro m SonicOS Standar d to SonicO S 5.6 Enhanc ed The SonicOS Stan dard to Enhanced Settings Converter is designed to con vert a source Standar d Network Settings file to be compatible with a target SonicO S En hanced app liance. Due to the m ore advanced na[...]

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    11 SonicOS Enhanced 5.6.5.1 Release Notes P/N 232- 00 2002- 00 Rev B Support Matrix for Importing Preferences[...]

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    12 SonicOS Enhanced 5.6.5.1 Release Notes P/N 232- 00 2002- 00 Rev B Upgrading a SonicOS Ima ge with Factory Def aults Perform the followin g steps to u pload new firm ware to your So nic W ALL appliance and start it up using the def ault configuration: 1. Download the Son icOS firm ware image file from mysonicwall.com and save it to a loca tion on[...]

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    13 SonicOS Enhanced 5.6.5.1 Release Notes P/N 232- 00 2002- 00 Rev B Related Technica l Documentation SonicW ALL user guides and referenc e documentation is available at t he SonicW ALL Technical Docum entation Online Librar y: http://www.sonic wall.com /us/Support.ht ml For basic and advance d deployment exam ples, refer to SonicO S Guides and Son[...]