NEW SOFTWARE RELEASE Version 1.00 1(3) ==================== Product involved: AXIS 5400, AXIS 5600 Release date: July 1, 1999 Release type: PRODUCTION Software version: 6.00 Software media: AXIS 5400 Flash AXIS 5600 Flash Last preceding release: AXIS 5400 5.64 AXIS 5600 5.64 Upgrade instructions: See upgrinfo.txt document --------------------------------------------------------------------- Important: - The 6.00 print server software requires NetPilot 2.61 or later. Easy Release Description: 1. New web pages have been added. 2. Support for Axis Print System has been added. 3. Support for NetWare Pure IP has been added. 4. Support for Dynamic DNS has been added. 5. The DHCP Enable / Disable parameter is now precious. 6. Changed account file format. 7. Changed the product type name. 8. The printer information visible on the internal WWW-pages and in NetPilot are now updated directly after start-up. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Appendix A - DETAILED TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION OF RELEASE App A Product involved: AXIS 5400, AXIS 5600 Software version: 6.00 1. New embedded WWW-pages have been added. The WWW-browsers Netscape Navigator / Netscape Communicator v3.x and later or Internet Explorer 3.x and later are supported. JavaScript should be enabled. 2. Axis Print System, which supported by the 6.00 firmware, helps users to easily find and install printers on a network. SLP (Service Location Protocol) version 2 has been added to the print servers for Axis Print System to localise the print servers. 3. The NetWare Pure IP support enables Dual Stack support. This means that both NetWare over IP and IPX can be used at the same time. 4. Dynamic update support in Domain Name System (DNS) has been added to the print server. Three new parameters has been added for this purpose: Domain Name and DNS primary and secondary server. The Dynamic update is done by the print server itself, by informing the primary or secondary DNS server if the IP address or host name is changed. The DNS server has to support dynamic updates from clients for this to work. 5. The DHCP Enable / Disable (DHCP_ENB) parameter does not change by factory default anymore. 6. The account header 'LPR' has been changed to 'PORT' to more clearly show the network print server port used for printing. Additionally, the 'OTIME' entry has been removed. 7. The product type was in earlier releases "Print Server". This has now changed to "Network Print Server". This is e.g. visible if using telnet or ftp to log in to the to the network print server. 8. The printer information is only available if the printer supports bi-directional communication. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Appendix B - SOFTWARE LIMITATIONS App B Product involved: AXIS 5400, AXIS 5600 Software version: 6.00 1. Secondary printer function doesn't work when printing from AXPUW nor AXIS Print Monitor. 2. The maximum number of simultaneous TCP connections is set to 200. If many users are monitoring the status or accounting web pages, all connections may under rare circumstances be consumed by the automatic refresh function. This can cause problems accepting new print jobs using TCP/IP printing protocols. 3. Connecting a printer to a running print server causes a 30 seconds period when the print server is not accessible. The same behaviour is experienced when changing a printer from LPT1 to LPT2 on a three port print server. 4. Serial port printing does not work properly when using XON/XOFF with some printer models. 5. TCP/IP printing over a 10 Mbit/s network may for some network configurations be faster than printing over a 100 Mbit/s network. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Appendix C - AFFECTED MATERIAL App C Product involved: AXIS 5400, AXIS 5600 Software version: 6.00 The AXIS 5400 / 5600 User's Manual and User's Guide version 1.2 fully describes the features of this software release. ----------------------------------------------------------------------