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Caveats for Cisco IOS Release 11.2 P

Caveats for Cisco IOS Release 11.2 P

July 17, 2000

Text Part Number 78-6394-08

Note   You can find the most current Cisco IOS documentation on Cisco Connection Online (CCO). These electronic documents may contain updates and modifications made after the hard copy documents were printed.

This document lists severity 1 and 2 caveats for Cisco IOS Release 11.2 P, up to and including Release 11.2(22)P. Caveats describe unexpected behavior or defects in Cisco IOS software releases. Severity 1 caveats are the most serious caveats; severity 2 caveats are less serious.

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How to Use This Document

This document describes open and resolved severity 1 and 2 caveats:

Within the sections, the caveats are sorted by technology in alphabetical order. For example, AppleTalk caveats are listed separately from, and before, IP caveats. The caveats are also sorted alphanumerically by caveat number.

If You Need More Information

The most up-to-date documentation can be found on the Web through Cisco Connection Online (CCO) and on the latest Documentation CD-ROM. These electronic documents might contain updates and modifications made after the paper documents were printed. For information on CCO, see the "Documentation CD-ROM" section. For more information on the CD-ROM, see the "Documentation CD-ROM" section.

For more information on caveats and features in Cisco IOS Release 11.2P, see the following sources:

The following table lists the release notes that were most recent when this caveats document was published. 
Release Notes

CiscoIOS Release

Revision Date

 Release Notes for the Cisco 1000 Series Routers for  CiscoIOS Release11.2 P


 Release11.2(23)P


 July 17, 2000


 Release Notes for the Cisco 1600 Series Routers for  CiscoIOS Release11.2 P


 Release11.2(23)P


 July 17, 2000


 Release Notes for the Cisco 2500 Series Routers for  CiscoIOS Release11.2 P


 Release11.2(23)P


 July 17, 2000


 Release Notes for the Cisco 3600 Series for  CiscoIOS Release11.2 P


 Release11.2(23)P


 July 17, 2000


 Release Notes for the Cisco 4000 Series for  CiscoIOS Release11.2 P


 Release11.2(23)P


 July 17, 2000


 Release Notes for Catalyst 5000 Series RSM/VIP2  CiscoIOS 11.2 P Software Releases


 Release11.2(23)P


 July 20, 2000


 Release Notes for the Cisco AS5100 and AS5200  Access Servers for CiscoIOS Release11.2 P


 Release11.2(23)P


 July 17, 2000


 Release Notes for the Cisco AS5300 Access Server  for CiscoIOS Release11.2 P


 Release11.2(23)P


 July 17, 2000


 Release Notes for Cisco 7000 Family for Cisco IOS Release11.2 P


 Release11.2(23)P


 July 17, 2000

Open Caveats--11.2(23)P

This section describes possibly unexpected behavior by Release 11.2(22)P. This section describes only severity 1 and 2 caveats.

Basic System Services

When hardware compression is enabled, packets are normally fast-switched. If you disable fast switching and then enable fast switching again, fast switching remains disabled.
Workaround: Reconfigure hardware compression by entering the no compression command followed by the compression stac command.
In Cisco IOS Release 11.2P images, the Dialed Number Identification Service (DNIS) number is not present in RADIUS accounting requests. There is no workaround.
When utilizing Network Time Protocol (NTP) private mode and control type messages for remote query, a router might reload or you might see traceback messages. There is no workaround.
A Cisco router might experience a bus error restart at regular intervals. There is no workaround.
A Cisco 7500 series router with a Route Switch Processor (RSP) that is running Cisco IOS Release 11.2(17)P might reload with an arithmetic exception. There is no workaround.
A Cisco 3620 router using AutoInstall when it has a valid configuration in NVRAM has the same IP address on its serial 0 interface as it does on its serial 0.1 interface. There is no workaround.

IBM Connectivity

A Cisco router that is running Cisco IOS Release 11.2(21)P, and that is configured with Qualified Logical Link Control (QLLC) and data-link switching plus (DLSw+), might reload because of a bus error at PC 0x605B9E64, address 0x2002181 3600, every two to three days. The following stack traces occur:
FP: 0x60AC3750, RA: 0x605B9E64 FP: 0x60AC3770, RA: 0x605F1508 FP: 0x60AC3798, RA: 0x605F1570 FP: 0x60AC37C0, RA: 0x605F1570 FP: 0x60AC37E8, RA: 0x605F1544 FP: 0x60AC3810, RA: 0x605F1544 FP: 0x60AC3838, RA: 0x605B9D2C
There is no workaround.
Logical Unit to Logical Unit (LU to LU) pooling sessions fail in sense code 0812000d, because the small buffers in Advanced Peer-to-Peer Networking (AAPN) commands drain resources.
Workaround: Monitor small buffers. When the number of small buffers exceeds 4,000, schedule a convenient time to stop and start the APPN subsystem.

Interfaces and Bridging

When you upgrade a Cisco router from Cisco IOS Release 11.2(17)P to Cisco IOS Release 11.2(20)P or Cisco IOS Release 11.2(21)P, several PA-8T Port Adapters in a Cisco 7206 router might begin to flap. The flapping might cause most of the serial interfaces within the port adapters to experience poor performance.
Workaround: Upgrade to Cisco IOS Release 11.2(18)P or a later release.

IP Routing Protocols

A Cisco 4700 series router that is running Cisco IOS Release 11.2(16)P might experience a situation where the E0 interface shows "INTERFACE UP, LINE PROTOCOL DOWN," but the data-link switching (DLSW) peers are still shown as connected.
Workaround: Shut down the interface.
A Cisco router might experience a software forced reload while running Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). There is no workaround.
A Cisco router that is running Cisco IOS Release 11.2(21)P or Cisco IOS Release 12.0(7)T might experience a memory leak in the dead process when you configure IP Network Address Translation (NAT) by Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) server using the static ip nat inside source global configuration command, if the global IP address does not belong to anydirectly attached network. You can verify this situation by using the show memory dead command.
Workaround: Configure an interface (such as a loopback interface) with a network IP address including the global IP address.
When approximately 24 multiple hosts disconnect simultaneously, PPP host routes are unable to exit the Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP) topology table of a Cisco router.
Workaround: Configure a static host route and select Null0. Remove the static host route. This action produces a change in the EIGRP topology table that removes the PPP host.

Miscellaneous

If simultaneous accesses to NVRAM occur, the two accesses might show different sessions within the same Cisco router. For example, one session might attempt to issue the show configuration command and pause at the More prompt while the other session issues the write memory command. The problem is unlikely to occur during normal router usage. There is no workaround.
A Cisco 3640 router might reload with a bus error when you direct Telnet sessions to async ports. There is no workaround.
If a hub router is set to be a multipoint interface on a hub-and-spoke Frame Relay configuration, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) requests will fail.
Workaround: Configure both the hub and the spoke to use point-to-point subinterfaces.
Alternative workaround: Configure the DHCP server address on the spoke router instead of specifying the network address on which the DHCP server resides. This DHCP server address turns into a unicast address instead of a directed broadcast.
A RADIUS server is not responding to the network access server (NAS). This behavior might occur when the password is configured incorrectly. It might also occur when the RADIUS server is unable to contact the NAS because of a network or server problem. There is no workaround.
A Cisco 7200 series router might exhibit bus errors, tracebacks, and spurious memory access. There is no workaround.
A Cisco RSP4 Route Switch Processor might reload and exhibit the following error message:
HKT: %VIP2-1-MSG: slot0 System reloaded by a Bus Error exception
HKT: %VIP2-1-MSG: slot0 caller=0x6009FEC4 .Jan 11 23:48:19 HKT: %VIP2-1-MSG: slot0 System exception: sig=10, code=0x40C, context=0x602491F0
HKT: %VIP2-1-MSG: slot0 $0 : 00000000, AT : 80007DA0, v0 : 00000000, v1 : 0000077F,
HKT: %VIP2-1-MSG: slot0 a0 : 60FFDFC0, a1 : 4C800000, a2 : 00000040, a3 : 00000000,
HKT: %VIP2-1-MSG: slot0 t0 : 00000000, t1 : 4E90424C, t2 : 00000001, t3 : 600CB3EC,
HKT: %VIP2-1-MSG: slot0 t4 : 6009FF00, t5 : 000000F8, t6 : 00000000, t7 : 018AC827,
HKT: %VIP2-1-MSG: slot0 s0 : 00000000, s1 : 6024F970, s2 : 00000000, s3 : 00000001,
HKT: %VIP2-1-MSG: slot0 s4 : 60FFDFC0, s5 : 00000002, s6 : 00000000, s7 : 00000000,
HKT: %VIP2-1-MSG: slot0 t8 : 855EFE95, t9 : 03050D02, k0 : 00000000, k1 : 00000001,
HKT: %VIP2-1-MSG: slot0 gp : 60237E20, sp : 6029EC28, s8 : 00000000, ra : 600C9BD0
HKT: %VIP2-1-MSG: slot0 EPC : 600C8FFC, ErrorEPC : 80008698, SREG : 3400E103
HKT: %VIP2-1-MSG: slot0 Cause 0000040C (Code 0x3)
HKT: %VIP2-1-MSG: slot0 Attempting traceback with FP=0x6029EC28, PC=0x600C8FFC .
HKT: %VIP2-1-MSG: slot0 Traceback= 0x600C9BD0 0x600CB438
HKT: %RSP-3-FOREVER: cmd 2 to VIP2 (slot 0) took 95 usecs, done 1 -Traceback= 601F6EA8 601F74B8 601F0920 601D1CCC 6019A1F0 6016DA1C 60181298 60181284 .
HKT: %RSP-3-FOREVER: cmd 2 to VIP2 (slot 0) took 190 usecs, done 1 -Traceback= 601F6EA8 601F74B8 601F0920 601D1CCC 6019A1F0 6016DA1C 60181298 60181284
HKT: %RSP-3-FOREVER: cmd 24 to VIP2 (slot 0) took 91 usecs, done 1 -Traceback= 601F6EA8 601F74B8 601F214C 601D1CE0 6019A1F0 6016DA1C 60181298 60181284
There is no workaround.
Cisco Encryption Technology (CET) commands, when deployed on an ISDN backup line, encrypt only Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) traffic and ignore Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) traffic.
Workaround: Turn off fast switching.
After displaying sys-2-inlist and sys-2-badshare messages, a router is not able to ping some of its own interfaces, even though they are up/up.
Workaround: Reload the router.

Novell IPX, XNS, and Apollo Domain

The Internetwork Packet Exchange (IPX) fastswitching cache might be invalidated by a number of external (non-IPX) related events, including an interface state change. When an external event calls for a cache invalidation, the entire cache table is invalidated. This event causes the next packet to each destination to be process-switched, possibly causing extra overhead.
Ideally, IPX only invalidates entries for that interface that experience an interface state change. IP fastswitching does something similar. There is no workaround.

Protocol Translation

The session-timeout under the virtual terminal lines (vtys) might not work properly during protocol translation from TCP to X.25. There is no workaround.

Wide-Area Networking

If someone outside tries to connect to a router that is sourcing with a multicast address, the router tries to respond and tries to send the packets out the virtual interface.
Workaround: Apply an input filter to block packets sourced with any mulitcast address.
A Cisco 700 series router (Version 4.1[2]) makes an ISDN call to a Cisco 3640 router running Cisco IOS Release 11.2(16)P, and the Cisco 3640 has a compression module card. After a successful negotiation, subsequent PPP negotiations are unsuccessful, and the Cisco 3640 sends Combinet Proprietary Protocol (CPP) packets with wrong sequence numbers, resulting in ping failures.
Workaround: Enable PPP multilink, or remove the Compression Service Adapter (CSA) module from the Cisco 3640.

Resolved Caveats--11.2(23)P

This section describes possibly unexpected behavior by Release 11.2(20)P. Unless otherwise noted, these caveats apply to all 11.2 releases up to and including 11.2(20)P. For additional caveats applicable to Release 11.2(20)P, see the caveats sections for newer 11.2 releases. The caveats for newer releases precede this section.

All the caveats listed in this section are resolved in release 11.2(21)P.

IBM Connectivity

A Cisco router that is running Cisco IOS Release 11.2P and is configured with data-link switching plus (DLSw+) might reload and report an address of 0xD0D0D0Dwhen IP connectivity issues cause Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) peers to "bounce." There is no workaround.

Interfaces and Bridging

The "interface keep alive" option on a Fast Ethernet interface might become disabled if there is a link down event. There is no workaround.

IP Routing Protocols

Fast switching might fail with packets larger than 1500 bytes when Network Address Translation (NAT) is enabled, even if the router is configured so that the packet is not translated using NAT.
Workaround: Disable NAT, or disable fast switching.

Resolved Caveats--11.2(22)P

All the caveats listed in this section are resolved in Release 11.2(22)P. This section describes only severity 1 and 2 caveats.

IBM Connectivity

A Cisco router that is running Cisco IOS Release 11.2 P and is configured with data-link switching plus (DLSw+) might reload and report an address of 0xD0D0D0Dwhen IP connectivity issues cause Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) peers to "bounce." There is no workaround.

IP Routing Protocols

The fast switching of packets greater than 1500 bytes in size might fail on a Cisco router when you enable Network Address Translation (NAT), even when the router configuration does not translate the packet through NAT.
Workaround: Disable fast switching or NAT.

Resolved Caveats--11.2(21)P

All the caveats listed in this section are resolved in Release 11.2(21)P. This section describes only severity 1 and 2 caveats.

DECnet

If a Cisco router is running a release earlier than Cisco IOS Release 11.3 and is using the DECnet Phase IV routing protocol, the DECnet network might experience loops or the incorrect selection of routes for periods of time up the value entered with the decnet routing-timer command. When a network link goes up or down, one of the routers attached to that link might start sending DECnet traffic down the wrong route. You can enter the show decnet traffic command to show the number of messages that have been discarded with the "too many visits" count. If you enter the show decnet route configuration command, you can check the routes selected by the router.
Workaround: Reduce the time in the decnet routing-timer seconds command to reduce the time taken for the network to converge.

Interfaces and Bridging

The "interface keep alive" option on a Fast Ethernet interface might become disabled if there is a link down event. There is no workaround.

IP Routing Protocols

Fast switching might fail with packets larger than 1500 bytes when Network Address Translation (NAT) is enabled, even if the router is configured so that the packet is not translated using NAT.
Workaround: Disable NAT, or disable fast switching.

Resolved Caveats--11.2(20)P

All the caveats listed in this section are resolved in Release 11.2(20)P. This section describes only severity 1 and 2 caveats.

Access Server

Firmware for a 56-Kbps Microcom modem does not download after a power cycle.
Workaround: Reload your Cisco AS5200 access server manually from the command prompt. Or, download the firmware for modems manually. Or, upgrade to Cisco IOS Release 11.3, Release 12.0, or later releases.

Basic System Services

If you are running a Cisco IOS Release 11.2 P image on a platform with MIPS R4700 and R4600 chips (including all RSP-based platforms), you might experience problems when you send a RS232 BREAK signal over a serial line. The system might reload and drop to the ROM monitor prompt rather than restart the running Cisco IOS. In addition, a malloc failure might appear at the interrupt level. There is no workaround.

Interfaces and Bridging

Running Link Access Procedure, Balanced (LAPB) under a heavy traffic load might cause frames to get lost within the router, which results in REJECTS, backup of output queue, and output drops. There is no workaround.

IP Routing Protocols

If the bandwidth value of serial 0/0 is set to 768 on a Cisco 3640 series router, it translates to a default Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) cost of 130, which prevents the ip ospf command from working properly.
Workaround: If the bandwidth value of serial 0/0 has no other use than the sum of the bandwidth of the subinterface, change the value to 760 or 770, which translates to OSPF cost 131 or 129.

Miscellaneous

A Cisco 3600 series router that is running Cisco IOS Release 11.2 P does not recognize DSU-56K daughter cards. If you enter the show diag command, you will receive an "unknown daughter card" message, but this condition does not affect the functionality of the card. There is no workaround.
An intermittent hardware problem on Route Switch Modules (RSMs) might cause the interface processor that connects to the Catalyst 5000 backplane to fail with the following error message:
%C5IP-0-MSG: slot0 %DB-0-FATAL_ERROR: Fatal error (code=34) status=0x0 cause=0x8020 epc=0x80029974
When this occurs, the RSM has to reload the C5IP microcode, which causes all VLAN interfaces to go down for 30 to 90 seconds, with no packets being forwarded during this time. There is no workaround.

Resolved Caveats--11.2(19)P

All the caveats listed in this section are resolved in Release 11.2(19)P. This section describes only severity 1 and 2 caveats.

Interfaces and Bridging

A FDDI port adapter does not filter out unwanted multicast packets. There is no workaround.

Miscellaneous

A Cisco 1605R series router that is running Cisco IOS Release 11.2(15a)P might allow excess User Datagram Protocol (UDP) packets to be sent inside a firewall. If the ip inspect max-incomplete high command is set to 10 half-open sessions, you can send more than 10 UDP packets inside the firewall, and they are not denied. There is no workaround.

Wide-Area Networking

A Versatile Interface Processor (VIP) might experience a software-forced reload followed by a Route Switch Processor (RSP) reload. There is no workaround.

Resolved Caveats--11.2(18)P

All the caveats listed in this section are resolved in Release 11.2(18)P. This section describes only severity 1 and 2 caveats.

Interfaces and Bridging

When you configure a new E1 interface on a port adapter in a Cisco system that is based on the Versatile Interface Processor (VIP2) card, all active E1 interfaces might go down. This condition occurs even when the E1 interfaces are on separate VIP2s. This event occurs when you configure timeslot start-slot-stop-slot on the controller and encapsulation encapsulation-type on the interface. There is no workaround.

Miscellaneous

Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP) and Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) might not work together on Fast Ethernet interfaces that use the DEC211140 chipset. There is no problem if the CyBus chipset is used.
Workaround: Manually enable HSRP first and then PIM. You lose this capability if you reload the router because PIM is configured before HSRP by default.
Encryption over dialer profiles might cause a Cisco router to reload when fast switching is enabled. This situation results in a "get alignment fatal" error.
Workaround: Disable fast switching on the dialer profile interfaces.
When you send a break to a reverse Telnet session using a Cisco 3640 series router, you must press the Break key before pressing Enter. There is no workaround.
A Cisco 7500 series router Versatile Interface Processor (VIP) controller might pause indefinitely when encryption is used. The problem is intermittent. Entering the shutdown command followed by the no shutdown command does not solve the problem.
Workaround: Reload the Cisco 7500 series router.

Wide-Area Networking

A Cisco router that is running Cisco IOS Release 11.3(5.2) and is configured for ATM LAN emulation might experience software-forced reloads with the following trace message:
crashdump process_suspend process_may_suspend cbus_atm_sendcmd cbus_atm_teardown_vc atm_remove_vc atmsig_remove_vc
There is no workaround.

Resolved Caveats--11.2(17)P

All the caveats listed in this section are resolved in Release 11.2(17)P. This section describes only severity 1 and 2 caveats.

Access Server

When under heavy stress, Cisco AS5200 series access servers might display a bus error and reload. There is no workaround.

Basic System Services

Significant numbers of subinterfaces (ATM or Frame Relay) might cause "CPU HOG" messages.
Workaround: Enter the no snmp-server sparse-table command to reduce the number of "CPU HOG" messages.
A Cisco 1005 series router running Cisco IOS Release 10.3(17) might repeatedly report the following errors:
%ETHERNET-1-TXERR: Ethernet0: Fatal transmit error. Restarting...
%QUICC-5-COLL: Unit 0, excessive collisions. Retry limit 15 exceeded
Testing and replacing the hardware that is attached to the router does not solve the problem. There is no workaround.
The Cisco 7206 series router might experience a memory leak. There is no workaround.
A Cisco 4700-m series router that is running Cisco IOS Release 11.2(14)P and is also running traffic shaping with custom queuing might experience a situation where Generic Traffic Shaping (GTS) drops are counted as custom queueing (CQ) queue drops. There is no workaround.

IBM Connectivity

Configuring source route translational bridging and data-link switching (DLSw) to the same bridge group at the same time might result in traceback messages and ultimately might cause the router to reload.
Workaround: Deconfigure source route translational bridging, or deconfigure the DLSw connection to the bridge group.

Interfaces and Bridging

The primary Synchronous Digital Link Control (SDLC) interface might send out an erroneous frame causing a secondary device to send a Frame REJECT(-FRMR). There is no workaround.
Some terminal adapters might toggle control lines during data terminal routing (DTR) pulsing. These line status changes will interrupt the PA-8T/4T+ port adapter controller and cause the Cisco IOS driver to reset the line. The DTR pulse is shortened in this condition. There is no workaround.
The 10-Mbps full-duplex capability of the Cisco 3600 series NM-1FE-TX router in Cisco IOS Release 11.2 P does not operate properly. The speed toggles between 10 Mbps and 100 Mbps, which affects the connectivity. There is no workaround.
When the RX or TX clock is missing, the HSSI3 code waits for the chip reset to be completed at the beginning of the code, but the chip reset is only done at booting or online insertion and removal. When both TX and RX clocks are present, bit 0 of STATUS6 is set, and a microcode can proceed with no difficulties. The microcode, however, sticks at PC=0 when the system possesses only one clock. The system will continue to function regardless of this reset status. There is no workaround.
When you netboot a Cisco 3640 series router over the Fast Ethernet port, the Cisco IOS software proceeds with an interactive setup without trying to load configurations from the network. This situation is caused by an autonegotiation race condition in which the Fast Ethernet port momentarily appears to be in a down state. There is no workaround.

IP Routing Protocols

The C programming language print function "Printf" might suspend the current process if the calling process inhibits a process context switch to protect its processing. This condition will cause a Cisco router to reload. There is no workaround.
For commands without ACKs on NEC V.110 modems, the "notify_tx_complete" message is treated as an ACK, and an appropriate message goes to the sender. This feature might not work in the older revision V.110 from NEC. There is no workaround.
If there is no router at the end of a connection, and you attempt to encrypt to the missing side, problems might occur in the connection setup code. There is no workaround.
On an M4T or M8T adapter, a Cisco router might experience a depletion in packet memory after generating enough network traffic to saturate a serial interface. The only method of recovering the memory is reloading the router. There is no workaround.

Miscellaneous

If you enter the async mode dedicated command or the async mode interactive command on a Cisco AS5200 or Cisco AS5300 access server with a Modem ISDN channel aggregation (MICA) modem, the router might reload with a bus error and exhibit a "%ALIGN-1-FATAL" log message. This situation occurs when a large number of PPP calls are connecting and disconnecting. There is no workaround.
An encryption service adapter does not work with pregeneration.
Workaround: Disable pregeneration functionality by entering the no crypto pregen-dh-pairs command.
When bridging is configured on a Route Switch Module (RSM) VLAN interface that runs Cisco IOS Release 11.2 P or Cisco IOS Release 11.3, NetFlow or optimum switching does not occur. When bridging is configured on a Route Switch Module (RSM) VLAN interface that runs Cisco IOS Release 12.0, Cisco express forwarding (CEF) switching does not occur. IP packets are processed by fast switching instead of flow/optimum/CEF switching, causing a significant decrease in the IP packet forwarding rate. The NetFlow Collector might also fail. There is no workaround.

Wide-Area Networking

When IP fast switching is enabled on a Cisco 1600 series router that has a Basic Rate Interface (BRI) or BRIs, the router might reload if the ISDN connection is being brought up and down repeatedly, and the clear ip cache command is invoked repeatedly while the connection is being disconnected. There is no workaround.

Resolved Caveats--11.2(16)P

All the caveats listed in this section are resolved in Release 11.2(16)P. This section describes only severity 1 and 2 caveats.

Basic System Services

RSP-based platforms might reload at rsp_fs_free_memd_pack because packets need to be fragmented that have the dontfrag bit set in the IP header.
This issue can be seen in several different ways, including bus errors at XX200001, bus errors at 3DFEFEFEF, and process stack corruption due to the overflowing process-switched packet queues (process stacks). There is no workaround.
An IP packet with Don't Fragment (DF) set might be fragmented and switched in the optimum switching path instead of being dropped and replied with an ICMP packet.
Workaround: Disable optimum switching and let the process level handle the IP fragmentation.
Changing encapsulations on a PRI interface while there are users connected might cause a Cisco router to reload.
Workaround: Shut down the PRI interface, and then change the encapsulation.

Interfaces and Bridging

XNS over LANE might not work in fast-switching mode on Cisco 7200 series routers.
Workaround: Use process switching.

Miscellaneous

Under rare circumstances, the Modem ISDN channel aggregation (MICA) modems on a Cisco 3600 series router might get stuck in terminating state and possibly be marked "Bad." In this situation, the modem becomes unusable until the router is reloaded. This problem appears to be aggravated when using T1 CAS interfaces for the digital modems. There is no workaround.
When switching from the software engine to the hardware engine and back again, and then applying the crypto map, packets might not get encrypted or decrypted. There is no workaround.
After a connection is set up with the hardware engine, switching to the software engine might result in an error that indicates that the HMA handle could not be found. There is no workaround.

Wide-Area Networking

When there are open channels on a PRI for a Cisco AS5200 access server that is running Cisco IOS Release 11.3(1), some incoming voice calls might be rejected with a "No free channels: CALL_INCOMING, Voice: ERROR" message. This occurs with incoming ISDN voice calls only. There is no workaround.
A Cisco router that is running Cisco IOS Release 11.2P and has a PRI interface that is only used for dial-in ISDN access might experience problems with inbound calls if Dialer Caller is used with Dialer Profiles to screen the inbound calls. When a call is received by the router with the correct bearer capability, the call is rejected as unbindable if the calling party information is from any source not explicitly listed in the dialer profiles, or there is no dialer caller information. The next inbound call attempt will then be released with the cause message of "Requested channel not available." The call control blocks (CCBs) stay allocated for these rejected calls, and the PRI appears hung, which means that dial-in calls cannot be received.
Workaround: Reset the PRI with the shutdown command. Wait 30 seconds, and then enter the no shutdown command.

Resolved Caveats--11.2(15)P

All the caveats in the section are resolved in Release 11.2(15)P. This section describes only severity 1 and 2 caveats.

Basic System Services

Any interface that uses encryption service adapter (ESA) service should have the maximum transmission unit (MTU) configured to no larger than 16 KB because the ESA does not support packets over 16 KB. There is no workaround.
Changing encapsulation on a PRI while users are connected might cause the router to reload.
Workaround: Shut down the PRI first, then change the encapsulation.

IBM Connectivity

A downstream physical unit (DSPU) cannot be configured under a VLAN interface. There is no workaround.

Interfaces and Bridging

Transparent bridging IP over FDDI might fail. There is no workaround.
A Cisco 7200 series router that is running Cisco IOS Release 11.2(13)P1 with fast switching enabled cannot handle a small packet, which is less than 46 bytes for IP datagram size.
Workaround: Enter the no ip route-cache command on the Bridge Group Virtual Interface (BVI). Fast switching works with any data length.

LLC Type 2

Retransmitted frames by an Advanced Peer-to-Peer Networking (APPN) router using remote source-route bridging are truncated. There is no workaround.

Miscellaneous

If you are using the Cisco IOS firewall feature with context-based access control to inspect TCP, the router might reset if fast switching is enabled. There is no workaround.
When using encryption with the backup feature and the line protocol, and the primary connection goes down, the router might not clear existing crypto connections on the primary path, and crypto connections using the backup circuit fail to establish correctly. According to the output generated by the show crypt eng conn act command, the router behaves as if the crypto connections are running correctly over the down interface. This behavior persists until the primary path is restored. This problem does not occur if the primary path goes down physically. There is no workaround.
Routers that are configured to host Cisco Cache Engines that are using the Web Cache Control Protocol (WCCP) might treat any host that sends them valid WCCP data as a Cache Engine, regardless of whether that host is actually a legitimate cache service provider. This condition can be exploited to divert HTTP traffic to unauthorized users.
Workaround: Use input access lists to prevent WCCP traffic sent by unauthorized hosts from reaching the router. WCCP uses User Datagram Protocol (UDP) on port 2048.
A VIP crypto engine might not successfully negotiate a crypto connection with a crypto peer if traffic that needs to be encrypted or decrypted by the VIP is received at an initialization time, such as after a reload or an online insertion and removal (OIR). After the VIP has reinitialized, entering show crypto connection shows an ID of "0." However, entering show crypto map will show a negative connection ID.
Workaround: Clear the ID manually by entering the clear cryp connection connection_ID vip_slot # command. The router will display an error message, but it will successfully negotiate a crypto connection.

Wide-Area Networking

When configuring integrated routing and bridging (IRB) to bridge over a serial interface with High-Level Data Link Control (HDLC) or Frame Relay encapsulation, AppleTalk might not work properly. AppleTalk pings fail, and zone information is not transferred. There is no workaround.
A Cisco router might display an "unknown sub-interface type 0x2" message when Frame Relay subinterfaces are configured on Frame Relay Network-to-Network Interface (NNI). This display might cause a system reload or a kernel error message, such as "SYS-2-NOBLOCK messages." There is no workaround.

Resolved Caveats--11.2(14)P

All the caveats in this section are resolved in Release 11.2(14)P. This section describes only severity 1 and 2 caveats.

Access Server

Incoming calls to a Cisco AS5200 or Cisco AS5300 access server that has a T1/E1 controller running Robbed Bit Signaling type "E&M feature group D" might fail because of the short delay between winks. Outgoing calls are not affected. There is no workaround.
A Cisco AS5300 access server that is using E1/R2 signaling, channel associated signaling (CAS) 3, and analog modems might reload when it receives incoming analog calls. This problem can occur with Cisco IOS Release 11.2(11)P, Cisco IOS Release 11.2(12)P, and Cisco IOS Release 11.3(2)T.
Workaround: Configure dnis-digits x under cas-custom, where the integer "x" is the number of DNIS digits expected from the CO switch. Range: 0 < x < 66.

Basic System Services

If you are upgrading to Cisco IOS Release 11.3(0.8), Cisco IOS Release 11.2(9.2), Cisco IOS Release 11.3(0.8)T, Cisco IOS Release 11.2(9.2)P, Cisco IOS Release 11.2(9.2)BC, or Cisco IOS Release 11.3(0.8)MA, and you are using the TACACS+ update accounting packet to track assigned user IP addresses, you must configure the aaa accounting update newinfo command before the update accounting packet can be generated in the newer release. There is no workaround.

EXEC and Configuration Parser

A problem occurs when a client that is configured with 7 data bits and even parity dials into an asynchronous interface that is configured for 8 data bits, no parity, and autoselect. The autoselect process does not recognize a carriage return and does not start an EXEC session. The carriage return comes into the router as hex 0x8D. There is no workaround.

Interfaces and Bridging

If CRC32 is configured between two Packet OC-3 Interface Processors (POSIPs) with hardware revision 1.4 or below, upgrading one POSIP to hardware revision 1.5 or above may lead to packets that are 2 bytes too short or too long as reported by the debug ip packet command. In this situation, only a router reload solves the problem.
Workaround: Set CRC16 on both ends before upgrading the POSIP.

IP Routing Protocols

Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP) might not take directly connected host routes into the topology table and redistribute them to other routers. There is no workaround.

Wide-Area Networking

In some cases, outgoing calls where the call ID is 0x8000-0xfff are not properly released. The call ID assigned to a new, outgoing call is not checked against outstanding calls, and the call ID is incorrectly assigned when a call already exists with that call ID. The result is that the incorrect call is released when a call with the duplicate call ID is disconnected. There is no workaround.
When a Cisco router creates and releases multiple Frame Relay switched virtual circuits, some of the switched virtual circuits might not be released correctly. This problem does not happen when only one switched virtual circuit is created and released. There is no workaround.

Resolved Caveats--11.2(13)P

All the caveats in this section are resolved in Release 11.2(13)P. This section describes only severity 1 and 2 caveats.

Access Server

If the T1 controller framing mode changes after a cas-group is configured, the state of the a/b/c/d bits might become unreliable. This is only known to be a problem under heavy load. The symptom is a high percentage of connection failures.
Workaround: Remove and re-enter the cas-group command on the controllers.

IBM Connectivity

The ip  helper-address command might not work on a FDDI interface on a Cisco 7200 series router if the User Datagram Protocol (UDP) frame contains a Routing Information Field (RIF) source, and source-route bridging (SRB) is enabled on the interface. There is no workaround.
A Cisco 7513 series router that is running remote source-route bridging (SRB) with a large number of peers might reload on start-up if the traffic load is high.
Workaround: Remove the peers, and then reinsert them one by one. This solution allows the router to assume the load gradually and continue functioning.

Interfaces and Bridging

A Cisco router might reload if there is an sw56k/ft1 CSU/DSU in slot 1, and slot 0 is either empty or has a module other than an sw56k/ft1 CSU/DSU.
Workaround: Insert the sw56k/ft1 CSU/DSU in slot 0 of 2524.
A Cisco 7200 series router Ethernet interface that is configured for PIM might not receive multicast packets if the interface has not joined that group. As a result, the router does not receive Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) v2 group membership reports (sent by members to the group address) if the router is not a member of the group.
Workaround: Enter the shutdown command followed by the no shutdown command on the interface after rebooting.

IP Routing Protocols

A Cisco router that is supporting Fast Ethernet that is configured with Inter-Switch Link (ISL) encapsulation will place an entry in its Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) table if a client in one VLAN is incorrectly configured with an IP address in the subnet assigned to another VLAN that is supported within that trunked interface. There is no workaround.

Miscellaneous

A Cisco 3640 router with a six-modem MICA SIMM might reload during bootup unless the six-modem MICA SIMM is installed in Bank 0 of the Digital Modem Network Module. There is no workaround.
When Route Switch Modules (RSMs) are configured to use DEC spanning tree protocol on a bridge group, the RSMs might not block an interface that should be blocked, creating a bridging loop. There is no workaround.
Boardware on a Cisco AS5300 access server might slice the data incorrectly. The problem occurs at random on a per-line basis across all boards and ports running Cisco IOS Release 11.2(10a)P1 with 2.0.1.7 portware, 1.3.3.5 boardware, and revision A0 on the Amazon board. You will see trashed data in and out of a bad line. If you are running PPP over the modem link, the symptom will be input errors. If you are running a dialin EXEC session, the characters entered might be echoed out of order. If you are running a reverse Telnet session, lines of data sent from the modem to the telnet session might appear out of order.
Workaround: Powercycle the Cisco AS5300.
If the number Teralink systems that are configured but not connected reaches four, the Cisco 7500 series router signaling software might not respond to requests sent from connected Teralink systems. If you try to remove cable configuration entries, those entries will still show up with a "show cable channel" message. If new modems come online, the router will not display those modems, and exhibit a "show cable modem" message. Modems will stay in "disconnected" state within the Teralink indefinitely. If modems are disconnected, entries will still show up with the show cable modem command. There is no workaround.

Resolved Caveats--11.2(12)P

All the caveats in this section are resolved in Release 11.2(12)P. This section describes only severity 1 and 2 caveats.

Basic System Services

Better reload information is needed to debug data/stack corruption reloads. The solution is to write reload information to default to bootflash:crashinfo in RSP and flash:crashinfo in RP. A series of test crash command selections are used to control and change the crashinfo collection mechanism. The reload information contains up to 32 KB in RSP and up to 20 KB in RP of error message log plus command history including configuration commands that the user enters. The reload information also contains up to 32 KB on RSP and 20 KB on RP for all the following information:
The show stack command displays ("cat" as in UNIX) the bootflash:crashinfo file if there was a crash. The user can also use the command copy flash tftp to dump the ASCII file bootflash/flash:crashinfo to a server.
The size is 16 KB of errmsg/command, plus up to 16 KB of memory dump and other crash information. There is one 16-KB DRAM declared for this crash information collection mechanism. Only Cisco 7000 series routers and RSP are activated with new crashinfo mechanism and the 16 KB. The Cisco 4500 router and other devices will see no difference.

Interfaces and Bridging

When using E1 or T1 port adapters in channelized mode, the open timeslots should be assigned to an interface while the interface is shut down. If not, the router might affect other used timeslots and degrade their performance. There is no workaround.
After you unplug the cable and then plug it back in again, the ATM interface might ignore packets at a low packet rate.
Workaround: Enter the shutdown command followed by the no shutdown command to reinitialize the interface.
A Cisco router might reload with a bus error when you configure source-route translational bridging. There is no workaround.
The PA-8T port adapters on VIP2-40 interfaces flap intermittently when you enable hardware compression. This problem does not occur when compression is disabled. Note that hardware compression does not work with High-Level Data Link Control (HDLC) encapsulation in Cisco IOS Release 11.2(9)P, so PPP encapsulation is used in this case. The eight-port serial port adapter might have intermittently flapping interfaces when used with a hardware compression port adapter.
Workaround: Set the serial restart-delay to the maximum value.

Miscellaneous

The IOS recovery actions for a Cisco Catalyst 5000 Route Switch Module (RSM) experiencing controller errors might cause network outages that last for a few seconds. The output from the show controller c5ip command can tell you if the controller has experienced these errors. For example, the example below reveals that this particular controller has detected 1387265 CRC errors and 1213882 DMA synchronization errors on Channel 0:
DMA Channel 0 (status ok) Received 11525644K packets, 8940433M bytes One minute rate, 183331545 bits/s, 28869 packets/s Ten minute rate, 183690578 bits/s, 28899 packets/s Dropped 285660 packets 285472 ignore, 0 line-down, 0 runt, 0 giant, 188 unicast-flood Last drop (0xA1F446D), vlan 109, length 1295, rsm-discrim 0, result-bus 0xD Error counts, 1387265 crc, 0 index, 0 dmac-length, 1213882 dmac-synch Transmitted 224504 packets, 15939644 bytes One minute rate, 313 bits/s, 1 packets/s Ten minute rate, 313 bits/s, 1 packets/s

DMA Channel 1 (status ok) Received 5473296K packets, 4209913M bytes One minute rate, 86473427 bits/s, 13724 packets/s Ten minute rate, 86453598 bits/s, 13719 packets/s Dropped 55916 packets 0 ignore, 0 line-down, 0 runt, 0 giant, 55916 unicast-flood Last drop (0x814001), vlan 1, length 64, rsm-discrim 0, result-bus 0x5 Error counts, 0 crc, 0 index, 0 dmac-length, 0 dmac-synch Transmitted 198226401 packets, 153955044K bytes One minute rate, 402 bits/s, 1 packets/s Ten minute rate, 404 bits/s, 1 packets/s.
There is no workaround.

Wide-Area Networking

PRI might pause indefinitely or return a busy signal even though not all channels are in use. This condition is usually accompanied by the following console messages:
ISDN Se9/0/1:23: Error: CCB run away: 0x61D97560:
ISDN Se9/0/1:23: Error: CCB run away: 0x61C494F8:
ISDN Se9/0/1:23: Error: CCB run away: 0x61C494F8:
A call control block (CCB) is an internal structure. You should only have one per call and B channel. For an example, interface serial 9/0/1 has 60 CCBs.
Workaround: Reset the controller manually entering the shut command followed by the no shutdown command for the interface serial0:XX or by reloading the router.
A Cisco 7200 series router might reload at the atmSig_input routine under normal operations. There is no workaround.

Resolved Caveats--11.2(11)P

All the caveats in this section are resolved in Release 11.2(11)P. This section describes only severity 1 and 2 caveats.

Basic System Services

If you have enabled optimum or NetFlow switching, the input counters from the show frame-relay pvc command are not correctly updated. There is no workaround.
A Cisco AS5300 access server will allow the creation of more than five vtys only in the enterprise image. There is no workaround.

IBM Connectivity

If you configure source-route bridging on the FDDI interface of a Cisco 7200 series router that is running Cisco IOS Release 11.2, IP routing protocols on the same FDDI might stop working. There is no workaround.

Interfaces and Bridging

A PA-4RFDX port adapter with a VIP2/20 might experience problems with interfaces initializing. The output queue on the interface might fill up (40/40).
Workaround: Use the recommended VIP2/40 for the 4R full-duplex card. This does not apply to regular 4R.

IP Routing Protocols

In Cisco 7500 series routers, packet transmission failure is expected if the inbound Switched Multimegabit Data Service (SMDS) encapsulated packet size is greater than the maximum transmission unit (MTU) of outbound media. This problem will occur only if the optimum switching is turned off by entering the no ip route-cache opt command, and if fast switching is enabled.
Workaround: Enter the ip route-cache optimum command on the serial interface that has SMDS encapsulation.
Entering the no ipx routing command and then enabling Enhanced IGRP with the router eigrp command might cause a Cisco router to reload. There is no workaround.

Resolved Caveats--11.2(10)P

All the caveats in this section are resolved in Release 11.2(10)P. This section describes only severity 1 and 2 caveats.

Basic System Services

If you configure an FTC trunk and an SPVC connection and then delete these configurations, a Cisco router might display a "Sparc process not responding, reloading" message the next time you configure the FTC trunk. The failure might occur after one such sequence or after a number of similar sequences of commands. This will only occur if the operator has yet not saved the configuration.
Workaround: Update the configuration changes immediately by entering the write memory command.
The copy bootflash {rcp | tftp} and copy {rcp | tftp} commands are not supported in Cisco IOS Release 11.2(10)P.
Workaround: Use the copy flash {rcp | tftp | file-id} command to copy from flash memory to TFTP, or RCP instead of using the flash keyword. Please note that this workaround does not work with the boot flash command.
Periodical chunk sanity check might not check the sibling chunk list. Normal chunk operation is not affected. There is no workaround.

IBM Connectivity

When enabling the source-route translational bridging feature, a Cisco router might run out of I/O memory because of a buffer leak in small and middle buffers.
Workaround: Disable source-route translational bridging.

Interfaces and Bridging

The internal clock on an ATM port adapter might not initialize properly. This situation causes a loopback ping to fail because neither end is providing the clock. There is no workaround.
Custom queueing does not work on a Cisco 7505 series router that is running Cisco IOS Release 11.1(14)CA with an RSP4 and an E1 port adapter. There is no workaround.
The ATM port adapter on a VIP2 platform might not function properly. In this situation, the interface output gets stuck, and the interface keeps resetting. There is no workaround.

Wide-Area Networking

Fast switching might not work properly on a Cisco 7200 series router that is running Multilink PPP on a Channelized T1/E1 ISDN PRI port adapter. Only the first packet is sent through the interface, and subsequent packets are dropped.
Workaround: Disable fast switching by entering the no ip route-cache command on the interface.
A Cisco router that is configured with "isdn incoming-voice data 56" might incorrectly recognize an incoming voice call as 64K. There is no workaround.
When an ATM port adapter is the third of the three Fast Ethernet port adapters on an NPE-150, and its receive pool is forced to operate out of DRAM, or when an ATM port adapter is running in an NPE-100, where it is designed to operate out of DRAM, packets that should be handled at the process level will end up in wrong queues. There is no workaround.
An ATM port adapter that is connected to a Newbridge might cause the laser to shut down for two seconds after running for eight seconds. When you replace the ATM port adapter with an AIP, the laser works. There is no workaround.

Resolved Caveats--11.2(9)P

All the caveats in this section are resolved in Release 11.2(9)P. This section describes only severity 1 and 2 caveats.

Basic System Services

Cisco 7200 series routers do not produce a core dump for the I/O memory region in any Cisco IOS release, but you might need this information if memory corruption is suspected. There is no workaround.
When using distributed compression (VIP software compression), if input congestion occurs where an input buffer cannot be allocated, an illegal packet might be sent to the host causing unpredictable results including "output stuck" messages that result in a CBUS reset. This has been found on a VIP with four PRI interfaces doing distributed compression.
Workaround: Disable distributed compression.
A Cisco 3600 series router is missing the modemcap and modem auto discovery subsystems in the Service Provider subset images (c3620-p-mz and c3640-p-mz) in Cisco IOS Release 11.1 AA and Cisco IOS Release 11.2 P. Other Cisco 3600 series router images are not affected. There is no workaround.
A Cisco router with a MIPS 4000 processor might not reply correctly to Network Time Protocol (NTP) time requests. This problem exists only in Cisco IOS Release 11.2 P. There is no workaround.
In Cisco IOS Release 11.2 P images, traffic-shaping is not enabled in the process-switching path when FIFO queuing is active on the output interface and in the fast-switching path. Traffic shaping shapes well above CIR on interface with FIFO queuing enabled.
Workaround: Change the queuing algorithm from FIFO to fair-queue on that interface if you want to use a Release 11.2 P image, or a Release 11.2 mainline image.

IBM Connectivity

The source-route translational bridging (SR/TLB) feature might not function correctly, and sessions through SR/TLB cannot be established. There is no workaround.
When doing source-route bridging (SRB), specifically routed or directed frames might have 4 bytes appended to the frames.
Workaround: Disable fast switching.

Interfaces and Bridging

A Versatile Interface Processor (VIP) with a PA-A1 port adapter might reload when configured to do distributed local switching on the same interface, for example, packets coming into the PA-A1 port adapter on one VC and going out on another VC on the same PA-A1 port adapter interface. There is no workaround.
Call setup might fail with AIPREJCMD & AIP-3-FAILCREATEVC messages on a PA-A1 port adapter. There is no workaround.
Mx serial port adapters (PA-4T+, PA-8T, PA-H1T, PA-H2T) might pause indefinitely and experience buffer errors and bad reference counts. There is no workaround.
Cisco 7200 series routers do not support both integrated routing and bridging (IRB) and multicast enabled. The router might exhibit the following error message if IRB and multicast are enabled:
%SYS-2-BADBUFFER: Attempt to use scattered buffer as contiguous src, ptr= 60C0C3BC, pool= 60C0AC28 %ALIGN-3-CORRECT: Alignment correction made at 0x6026ADB0 reading 0x1AA0056 %ALIGN-3-CORRECT: Alignment correction made at 0x6026B078 reading 0x1AA0046
There is no workaround.
The external/test port status display shown in the output from the show cont t3 command is not reliable. Regardless of the port's real state, it might show
Ext1: OK, Ext2: OK, Ext3: OK, Test: OK
If the state of any port changes sometime after booting, then all four ports will display their actual state. If no such change happens, the display will continue to show OK, OK, OK, OK, regardless of the actual state. There is no workaround.
A Cisco router might not respond to Address Resolution Protocols (ARPs) correctly when bridging IP on a channelized T1 interface, and Telnet sessions to and from the router will fail. There is no workaround.
The ATM port adapter's PCI bus latency timer value is too small, which might cause some inefficiency on the PCI bus utilization on a VIP2. There is no workaround.
Under certain circumstances, the Fast Ethernet interface on a Cisco router might stop passing traffic. Resetting the interface in this condition by entering the shutdown command followed by the no shutdown command might cause the router to reload. There is no workaround.
When a virtual circuit creation fails because the maximum number of virtual paths are used up, it might waste the virtual circuit descriptor (VCD) being used and not recycle it. The VCD remains unusable afterwards. There is no workaround.

IP Routing Protocols

After a Cisco 1600 series router that is running Cisco IOS Release 11.2(7.3)F with Network Address Translation reloads, the router might fail to establish a Dial on Demand connection over the asynchronous interface. The condition occurs in configurations that use Easy IP over the asynchronous interface in addition to Network Address Translation.
Workaround: Enter the no ip nat command followed by the ip nat command.

Miscellaneous

The Cisco IOS Release 11.2(7)P RSP encryption images might reload if booted on a router which has not had the configuration setup before.
Workaround: Boot a non-encryption image. Or, boot an older encryption image to create the initial configuration.

TN3270

International (8-bit) characters might not echo when using TN3270. There is no workaround.

Resolved Caveats--11.2(8)P

All the caveats in this section are resolved in Release 11.2(8)P. This section describes only severity 1 and 2 caveats.

Access Server

A Cisco AS5200 access server that is connected to a noisy line might reload with a bus error at PC 0, address 0 if there is a very high rate of channelized T1/E1 signalling transitions. There is no workaround.
A Cisco AS5200 access server that is running Cisco IOS Release 11.2(6.4)F might exhibit the following messages during a reload:
*Mar 1 00:02:19.651: %CALLS_MGMT-1-CPM_Q_POOL: Cannot get memory for process watched queue entry *Mar 1 00:02:21.851: %CALLS_MGMT-1-CPM_Q_POOL: Cannot get memory for process watched queue entry *Mar 1 00:02:25.931: %CALLS_MGMT-1-CPM_Q_POOL: Cannot get memory for process watched queue entry
The Call Management (CM) code maintains a circular buffer from which it retrieves space for its process queue entry. Under normal operating conditions, there is enough space on this buffer to accommodate CM. However, during system start-up, if start-up tests are enabled for a modem, it might behave as if it is connecting a call. This causes messages to be sent to CM. While CM will be able to recognize that no actual call is being setup, the sheer number of messages sent by 48 modems (Brasil) in parallel could result in overflows and cause corruptions in the buffer. The manifestation of this problem is the display of the following messages during system start-up:
... %CALLS_MGMT-1-CPM_Q_POOL: Cannot get memory for process watched queue entry %CALLS_MGMT-1-CPM_Q_POOL: Cannot get memory for process watched queue entry %CALLS_MGMT-1-CPM_Q_POOL: Cannot get memory for process watched queue entry %CALLS_MGMT-1-CPM_Q_POOL: Cannot get memory for process watched queue entry %CALLS_MGMT-1-CPM_Q_POOL: Cannot get memory for process watched queue entry ...
If you are running an image which does not have the fix for this problem (CSCdj22879), the workaround would be to disable the start-up tests for the modems. This problem has been observed with Microcom modems, and at the time of this writing, Amazon modems are not yet available for testing. There is no workaround.
A High-Speed Serial Interface (HSSI) port adapter might handle packets abnormally under high traffic conditions. Customers using 7200/HSSI PAs are strongly encouraged to upgrade to an image containing the fix for this bug. There is no workaround.

Basic System Services

A Cisco 3640 series router might pause indefinitely while running Cisco IOS Release 11.2(8)P. There is no workaround.
The performance of frame switching from the Ethernet interface to an FTC trunk interface is approximately 500 fps (frames per second). This condition causes severe limitation on performance. There is no workaround.

IBM Connectivity

A Cisco router might refuse to accept the configuration of the Role or character type if you attempt to configure binary synchronous communication (BSC) on a low-speed interface of the NP-2T 16S-RS323 network interface card (NIC). There is no workaround.

Interfaces and Bridging

When a shutdown is issued on an PA-A1 port adapter interface while it's transmitting large packets (>512 bytes) at a high rate, there is a chance that it will reload the router. Similarly, when a shutdown is done while it's receiving traffic, there is a chance it will lose some buffers. There is no workaround.
This bug is caused by the 8T and 4T+ on the VIP could not send out a dial string. The fix was committed and it should me available at 11.1(13)CA and 11.2(8)P. Without the fix, the above synchronous interface (on VIP) can not support Dial on Demand feature. There is no workaround.
When a Cisco 3600 series router is configured for HSRP, and pinging the standby's router real address, there are duplicated echo replies. The same when configured for MHSRP. There is no workaround.
Under high traffic conditions the HSSI PA may handle the packets abnormally.
Customers using VIP2/HSSI PAs are strongly encouraged to upgrade to an image containing the fix for this bug. See "Field Alert: VIP2 Cisco IOS Software Release Deferrals" for image availability and additional information. There is no workaround.
The async/sync interfaces in async. mode did not support group-async until 11.2(6.01)P. This problem was addressed by CSCdi86295 which was fixed and was put in 11.2(6.01)P in general. But for 3600 platform with 4/8 A/S Network Module in particular, the group-async command still does not work properly with the current release. It would result in loosing configuration for those async/sync interfaces in async mode under group-async after reload. The work around is to avoid using the group-async command with 4/8 A/S Network Module interfaces in async. mode. Each 4/8 A/S in aysnc. mode must configured individually. There is no workaround.
Compression with stac and HDLC had performance impact and encapsulation PPP didn't do any compression. There is no workaround.
OVERVIEW: This update provides information on bug fixes for the CT3IP available in the 11.1(12)CA1 IOS software release. Because of these fixes, 11.1(12)CA1 will be the minimum IOS for new CT3IP orders.
PROBLEMS: 1. Problems with packet error accounting. Ignores on the CT3IP were regularly being counted as overruns. Incorrect error accounting can lead to erroneous information on network status being provided to network operations personnel.
2. Packet handling errors: In lab tests Cisco engineers discovered a latent bug in the CT3IP that can result in abnormal packet handling under unusually severe operating conditions. While Cisco is taking preemptive action to correct this bug, Cisco does not expect this bug to manifest itself in operational networks.
Workaround: Run the CT3 above 80Kpps on average per direction, upgrade to IOS 11.1(12)CA1 available on CCO now.

ISO CLNS

When configuring "connectionless service" using the clns command, a Cisco 3800 series router will reload with a bus-error after entering the clns route command. There is no workaround.

Miscellaneous

If you attempt to configure the ignore-dcd command under Cisco IOS Release 11.1(xx)AA, the command looks as though it should be there but does not work. This command applies to WIC-1T interfaces on the Cisco 3600 series. There is no workaround.

Novell IPX, XNS, and Apollo Domain

When the Internetwork Packet Exchange (IPX) packet (incoming) is greater than 1500, it gets dropped even if the maximum transmission unit (MTU) size of the outgoing interface says that the interface should be able to handle the incoming packet.
Workaround: Update the interface data structure to reflect the any new changes to the MTU.

Wide-Area Networking

It was found that the DRQ was becoming corrupted as a result of recursive invocation of drq_io (Interprocess Communications (IPC) packet passed to IPC code via dtq_consumer could result in a packet being returned via drq). drq_io was made safe for recursion. There is no workaround.
With changes made for CSCdj 7845 (recursive drq_io allowed), it became possible for QE to start work on a DRQ transfer entry, only to have the kernel code later change that entry. Solution is to write transfer entry after all other data entries. There is no workaround.

Resolved Caveats--11.2(7)P

All the caveats in this section are resolved in Release 11.2(7)P. This section describes only severity 1 and 2 caveats.

Basic System Services

When a voice circuit is configured for SVC operation from a Cisco 3800 series router to a another Cisco 3800 series router over an FTC or FTM, the bandwidth required for each circuit is about 2 times the compression rate. For example, adpcm32k requires 76.8k trunk bandwidth, csacelp8k requires 20k. This inefficiency is not present in a circuit between a C3800 and a CDP or CVM on a switch node. There is no workaround.
A PVC configuration and in some cases an SVC configuration can fail to ring both voice ports on the same Rincon simultaneously. The system should ring one port then ring the other then return to ring the first port until they are answered but it will ring one port only and not ring the other until the ringing phone is answered at which time it will then ring the other port correctly. This is dependent on phone type in part and may appear intermittent in different applications. There is no workaround.
Release-note: When a voice port is configure for VAD and coder is set to csacelp, VAD is left inoperative after a reboot. The workaround is to re-establish VAD by entering no vad then vad for the port. There is no workaround.
Under some configurations, an SNMP poll of the csmStackName MIB object can cause the router to reload. This object exists in the ciscoStackMakerMIB (CISCO-STACKMAKER-MIB.my).
This MIB can essentially be disabled (SNMP is prevented from polling this MIB) via use of SNMP views. This can be changed to: snmp-server view no-stackmib internet included snmp-server view no-stackmib ciscoStackMakerMIB excluded snmp-server community public view no-stackmib ro.
The result is that SNMP polls using the "public" community string can access objects in the entire MIB space (internet) except for those objects in the ciscoStackMakerMIB space.
This workaround will, of course, affect any NMS applications which rely on the ciscoStackMakerMIB objects.
Symptom: Under extremely heavy CPU interrupt states, a router with an FSIP, CT3, or any serial interface might experience the following "output stuck" error message:
%RSP-3-RESTART: interface Serial12/0/0:28, output stuck %RSP-3-RESTART: interface Serial12/0/0:6, output stuck %RSP-3-RESTART: interface Serial12/0/0:12, output stuck %RSP-3-RESTART: interface Serial12/0/0:2, output stuck
This is a result of a internal timer utility that can incorrectly return a false value under extreme interrupt situations, which causes the transmit buffers backing-store mechanism to falsely declare serial interface "output stuck."
Conditions: The symptom occurs on Cisco 7000 family routers using the CT3, 4- or 8-port FSIP cards, or any serial interface under Cisco IOS Release 11.1(10)CA, 11.1(11), and 11.2. It is only observed under oversubscribed traffic load conditions.
Workaround: Configure the interface to FIFO queueing using the no fair-queue command.
The command transmit-buffers backing-store is on by default when an interface is configured for weighted fair-queueing. If the interface command no fair-queue is used, which changes the queueing strategy to FIFO, the transmit buffers backing-store is off by default.
During Customer configuration of a 3640 from multiple telnet sessions or from console and a telnet session the following sequence causes a NVRAM corruption:
From one of the sessions: sho conf
From the other session: wr m
These commands occur at the same point in time causing the router to do any of the following: a) Seg V b) PCI Master Abort c) Spurious memory access d) NVRAM corruption e) "trash" displayed to screen of "^@^@^@..."

Interfaces and Bridging

The POS interface specific configuration commands pos specify-s1s0 and pos specify-c2 do not work correctly. There is no workaround.
When there is another port adapter (could be another FDDI FDX PA) besides the FDDI FDX port adapter in the same VIP2, the port adapter could hesitate before going into FDX operation. After the port adapter goes into FDX operation, it might fall out of FDX mode for no good reason, and see a large number of claims at the interface. There is no workaround.
On a 7206 running Cisco IOS Release 11.1.10.4 CA1 when ipx route-cache is enabled on an interface clients are unable to connect to novell servers through the router. When ipx route-cache is disabled they are able to connect. There is no workaround.
In 11.1(8)CA images and later, when transparent bridging is configured on the c7200 platform, a system reload can happen under heavy loads. The error message issued by the system will indicate a bus error due to an illegal access to a low address. There is no workaround.
Selecting line (recovered) clocking on the CT3's t1 #23 does not work. There is no known workaround, other then to not do it, i.e. always use internal clocking on t1 #23. Depending on what equipment is at the remote end, this workaround may cause the remote end to slip.
This is fixed in CT3 f/w version 2.2.0. To determine your current CT3 f/w version, use the "show cont t3" exec command:
CT3 H/W Version : 5, CT3 ROM Version : 1.2, CT3 F/W Version : 2.2.0 ^^^^^
must be 2.2.0 or greater in order to use line clocking on t1 #23.
Other t1s are not affected.
This fix will be checked into cal_p and 11.2(7)P throttle branch. VIP reload due to a NULL pointer (in v0) can now be avoided. There is no workaround.
Multi Channel Interface Processor (MIP), when controller t1 X/X is configured for a pri test on a 7k router instead of the serial X/X:23 interface getting configured, the ether X/X:23 interface gets configured. After this point, any attempt to configure the interface reloads the router. There is no workaround.

Novell IPX, XNS, and Apollo Domain

IPX packets are getting corrupted with MIP and CT3 hardware with fast switching. Work around is to disable ipx fastswitching on these interfaces. There is no workaround.

TCP/IP Host-Mode Services

No more than one DLSw peer comes active in a Cisco 3640 router running Cisco IOS Release 11.1(10). It is possible to configure the second peer, but this one will never be in a CONNECT state.
Workaround: Enter the no transport input command on the auxport line.
User Datagram Protocol (UDP) turbo flooding is now supported on the Cisco 3600 series. There is no workaround.

Resolved Caveats--11.2(6)P

All the caveats in this section are resolved in Release 11.2(6)P. This section describes only severity 1 and 2 caveats.

Basic System Services

A problem has been found in RSP code within Cisco IOS 11.2 P images. The failure condition can occur when BACKING-STORE or fair queuing are enabled. The conditions that could cause one of the above behaviors to occur are expected to be extremely rare.
For those customers running 11.2 P, Cisco highly recommends upgrading all RSP-based systems to one of the Cisco IOS release 11.2(6)P or later. For those systems that cannot upgrade, this problem can be avoided by disabling both BACKING-STORE and fair queuing. Please see instructions for this at the end of this message.
When packet load on RSP-equipped systems causes datagrams to be forwarded from SRAM to DRAM, a function of BACKING-STORE, 32 bytes of data may be randomly written into DRAM. This could result in several anomalous system behaviors including: - Software-induced system reloads - Dropped datagrams - Other anomalous errors
SOLUTION:
FOR CUSTOMERS WITH RELEASE 11.2 P
Option #1: Cisco highly recommends the installation of 11.2(6)P or later for 11.2(x)P images.
This problem was fixed as bug CSCdi71609 in images 10.3 through 11.2. Unfortunately it was reintroduced as a result of merged code in ONLY 11.2 P.
Option #2: Below are options to work around this bug.
Disable backing store AND fair queuing on each interface with IOS commands
no transmit-buffers backing-store and no fair-queue
ALSO disable udp-turbo flooding if the image is 11.0 or later The IOS command to disable UDP turbo flooding is no ip forward-protocol turbo-flood which is OFF by default in all releases.
However, it is important to look at the current configuration. An image configured before backing-store defaulted to OFF may have it ON for router interfaces. There is no workaround.

Interfaces and Bridging

When integrated routing and bridging (IRB) is configured on a Cisco 4500 series router in order to route AppleTalk across an Inter- Switch Link (ISL) trunk, the input queue may fill up and stop receiving traffic. There is no workaround.

IP Routing Protocols

On a Cisco 7500 RSP system, access list processing does not work with optimum switching. Packets that should be dropped are forwarded, and packets that should be forwarded are switched via the slower fast switching. The workaround is not to use optimum switching if access lists are defined. There is no workaround.

Wide-Area Networking

In the presence of traffic on the ATM side (LANE configuration), if you reset the ATM module, then wait for the module to come on line and for the first spanning-tree ports (forwarding mode) to show up under the ATM port, then reset the ATM module, it fails to come on line and displays the following error message:
CDL-3W-1 (debug-eng) reset 4 Resetting module 4... CDL-3W-1 (debug-eng) Syndiags failed on Module Number 4 CDL-3W-1 (debug-eng) Wed Apr 2 1997, 16:37:48 Module 4 failed to come online.
At this point, the only workaround is to remove and reinstall the ATM module.
The traffic pattern that caused this had to be "incrementing Destination Address" generated by an Ethernet sniffer. This has been seen with NMP 2.1(705), ATM 3.2(3), and 3.2(2). This will be fixed in ATM 3.2(4). There is no workaround.

Resolved Caveats--11.2(5)P

All the caveats in this section are resolved in Release 11.2(5)P. This section describes only severity 1 and 2 caveats.

EXEC and Configuration Parser

When you change the encapsulation on an interface from one that supports weighted fair queueing to one that does not and you make the change from the console or auxiliary port, there may be a memory loss of 8 KB each time you change the encapsulation. You can identify this problem by examining the output of the show memory allocating-process command, which shows that the number of memory blocks allocated by the EXEC software increases each time you change the encapsulation. If you do not change the encapsulation on an interface often, this problem should not have a significant impact on system performance. There is no workaround.

Resolved Caveats--11.2(4)P

All the caveats in this section are resolved in Release 11.2(4)P. This section describes only severity 1 and 2 caveats.

Interfaces and Bridging

When pinging over synchronous DDR with HDLC Stacker compression, the router will unexpectedly reset. There is no workaround.

Resolved Caveats--11.2(3)P

All the caveats in this section are resolved in Release 11.2(3)P. This section describes only severity 1 and 2 caveats.

IBM Connectivity

A hang of APPN's APPC stack (used to send locates and TDUs) can occur in rare situations when an outbound locate or TDU is in the process of being transmitted on a CP-CP session at the exact time that session is terminated (due to link failure or other reason). The APPC component does not handle this situation properly, and after the condition occurs, APPC and all locates and TDU processing becomes stuck. There is no workaround.

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