NEW SOFTWARE RELEASE
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 Products involved: AXIS OfficeBasic Parallel (02)

 Release date:      Nov 3, 2005

 Release type:      PRODUCTION

 Software version:  7.06

 File size:         962 908 bytes 

 Last preceding
 release:           7.00


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 Contact Information
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 Please contact Axis Communications for product information, updates 
 and support at:

 http://www.axis.com


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 Added features in version 7.06
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 - A new parallel port speed mode, ECP, has been added. This should be used
   with printers that support ECP but not PJL.

 - A Robots.txt file has been added to the built-in web server to avoid being
   indexed by search engines.


 Corrected problems in version 7.06
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 - The NPS no longer ends up in a non recoverable endless loop if it receives
   the slp-directory-agent option from the DHCP server, and an SLP DA is is
   present on the net.

 - When upgrading NPS's connected directly to a Cisco Catalyst switch with FTP,
   the client occasionally times out and terminates the upgrade operation.
   The reason is that the NPS during the upgrade process first closes and then
   re-established the Ethernet link to the switch. When the link is established
   again the switch does not forward packets to and from the NPS for
   approximately 30 secs, which makes some clients time out the operation.
   This problem has been solved. The NPS no longer terminates the link.

 - When upgrading an NPS with FTP, in some cases the upgrade would fail,
   it would get stuck before upgrading begun due to a bug in the FTP flash
   programmer code. This problem has now been solved. 

 - In some network environments the NPS could have difficulties obtaining an
   address using DHCP due to late answers from the DHCP server. The DHCP client
   in the NPS now tries for a longer period of time before giving up.

 - The NPS now sends a gratuitous ARP after boot and whenever the IP address
   changes.

 - Corrected behaviour when receiving ICMP packets sent to Ethernet multicast
   addresses. The NPS no longer replies to them unless the IP address is our 
   own, or an IP multicast address that we listen to.

 - Rendezvous is now known as Bonjour.

 - Improved handling of PJL communication with the printer. 
   * No PJL commands are sent before print jobs.
   * Status command is sent once at startup or when connecting a printer.
   * Changes in PJL parsing to handle changes in PJL command syntax.
   
 - Pagecount command is sent after the print job to make sure that we show the
   correct pagecount on the web page.

 - Corrected background color on some web pages.


 Limitations in version 7.06
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 - Firmware release 7.00 and onwards only supports print servers with Axis
   brand name.