Release Notes For The Catalyst 4500E Series Switch, Cisco IOS XE 3.4.xSG 27990 OL 01
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- Contents
- Cisco IOS Software Packaging
- Cisco XE Release Strategy
- System Requirements
- New and Changed Information
- Cisco IOS XE to Cisco IOS Version Number Mapping
- Upgrading the System Software
- Limitations and Restrictions
- Caveats
- Cisco Bug Search Tool
- Resolved Caveats for Cisco IOS XE Release 3.4.8 SG
- Open Caveats for Cisco IOS XE Release 3.4.7SG
- Resolved Caveats for Cisco IOS XE Release 3.4.7SG
- Open Caveats for Cisco IOS XE Release 3.4.6SG
- Resolved Caveats for Cisco IOS XE Release 3.4.6SG
- Open Caveats for Cisco IOS XE Release 3.4.5SG
- Resolved Caveats for Cisco IOS XE Release 3.4.5SG
- Open Caveats for Cisco IOS XE Release 3.4.4SG
- Resolved Caveats for Cisco IOS XE Release 3.4.4SG
- Open Caveats for Cisco IOS XE Release 3.4.3SG
- Resolved Caveats for Cisco IOS XE Release 3.4.3SG
- Open Caveats for Cisco IOS XE Release 3.4.2SG
- Resolved Caveats for Cisco IOS XE Release 3.4.2SG
- Open Caveats for Cisco IOS XE Release 3.4.1SG
- Resolved Caveats for Cisco IOS XE Release 3.4.1SG
- Open Caveats for Cisco IOS XE Release 3.4.0SG
- Resolved Caveats for Cisco IOS XE Release 3.4.0SG
- Related Documentation
- Notices
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Release Notes for the Catalyst 4500E Series
Switch, Cisco IOS XE Release 3.4.xSG
Current release
IOS XE 3.4.8SG—Nov 11, 2016
Prior release
IOS XE 3.4.7 SG, IOS XE 3.4.6SG, IOS XE 3.4.5SG, IOS XE 3.4.4SG, IOS XE 3.4.3SG, XE 3.4.2SG, XE 3.4.1, XE 3.4.0SG
This release note describes the features, modifications, and caveats for the Cisco IOS XE 3.4.xSG
software on the Catalyst 4500E series switch with Supervisor Engine 7-E and 7L-E.
Cisco IOS XE Software Release 3.4.2SG introduces the Permanent Right-to-Use (PRTU) license
feature.
Cisco IOS XE Software Release 3.4.0SG delivers new software and hardware innovations in campus
access and aggregation deployments that span across many technologies including Security, Video, High
Availability, Network Virtualization, IP Multicast and Lower TCO as following:
High Availability
•Virtual Switching System (VSS)
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Layer 2 Multichassis EtherChannel (MEC)
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Enhanced Port Aggregation Protocol (ePAgP) split brain detection method
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Cross-chassis Nonstop Forwarding with Stateful Switchover (NSF/SSO)
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Cross-chassis in-service software upgrade (ISSU)
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Support for Power over Ethernet (PoE) line card
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Support for virtual switch link (VSL) on 1 Gigabit and 10 Gigabit links
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All four ports on quad supervisor scenario may be used for uplink
•ISSU—IPv4 Multicast
•ISSU—IPv6 Multicast
•NSF/SSO—IPv4 Multicast
•NSF/SSO—IPv6 Multicast
Security
•IPv6 First Hop Security
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DHCPv6 Guard
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Lightweight DHCPv6 Relay Agent (LDRA)
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IPv6 Destination Guard
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IPv6 Snooping
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IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Multicast Suppression
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IPv6 Router Advertisement (RA) Guard
•Other
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Reverse SSH Enhancements
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Secure Shell SSH Version 2 Client Support
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Secure Shell SSH Version 2 Server Support
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SSH Keyboard Interactive Authentication
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SSHv2 Enhancements
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SSHv2 Enhancements for RSA Keys
Lower Total Cost of Ownership and Ease of Use
•Smart Install (Director Support)
Routing and Multicast Enhancements
•BGP Consistency Checker
•IPv6 BSR Scoped Zone support
•OSPFv3 Address Families
•OSPFv3 Time To Live Security
•Policy Based Routing: Recursive Next Hop
IPv6 Access Control
•IPv6 VACL (Vlan Access Control List)
•SPAN ACL Filtering for IPv6
Other
•FTP IPv6 Support
•IPSLA 4.0 - IPv6 phase 2
•IPSLA Multicast Support
•NTPv4 Orphan Mode support, Range for trusted key configuration
•TFTP IPv6 Support
•WSMA and XMLPI enhancement
Support for Cisco IOS XE Release 3.4.0SG follows the standard Cisco Systems® support policy,
available at
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/products_end-of-life_policy.html
For more information on the Catalyst 4500E series switches, visit the following URL:
http://www.cisco.com//en/US/products/hw/switches/ps4324/index.html
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Contents
Note Although this release note and those for the Catalyst 4900M, Catalyst 4948E, Catalyst 4948E-F Series
Switches, Catalyst 4500 Series Switches, and the Catalyst 4500-X Series Switches differ, each leverages
the same Software Configuration Guide, Command Reference Guide, and System Message Guide.
Contents
This publication consists of these sections:
•Cisco IOS Software Packaging, page 3
•Cisco XE Release Strategy, page 4
•System Requirements, page 5
•New and Changed Information, page 33
•Cisco IOS XE to Cisco IOS Version Number Mapping, page 35
•Upgrading the System Software, page 35
•Limitations and Restrictions, page 35
•Caveats, page 40
•Related Documentation, page 65
•Notices, page 67
Cisco IOS Software Packaging
The Enterprise Services image supports all Cisco Catalyst 4500E Series software features based on
Cisco IOS Software, including enhanced routing.
The IP Base image supports Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) for Routed Access, Enhanced Interior
Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP) "limited" Stub Routing, Nonstop Forwarding/Stateful Switchover
(NSF/SSO), and RIPv1/v2. The IP Base image does not support enhanced routing features such as BGP,
Intermediate System-to-Intermediate System (IS-IS), Internetwork Packet Exchange (IPX), AppleTalk,
Virtual Routing Forwarding (VRF-lite), and policy-based routing (PBR).
The LAN Base image complements the existing IP Base and Enterprise Services images. It is focused
on customer access and Layer 2 requirements and therefore many of the IP Base features are not
required. The IP upgrade image is available if at a later date you require some of those features
Starting with Cisco IOS Release (3.3.0SG or 15.1(1)SG), support for IP SLAs and NSF have been
extended from Enterprise Services to IP Base.
Topics include:
•Feature Support by Image Type, page 12
•MIB Support, page 31
•Features Not Supported on the Cisco Catalyst 4500E Series Switch, page 31
•Orderable Product Numbers, page 32
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Cisco XE Release Strategy
Cisco XE Release Strategy
Customers with Catalyst 4500 Series Switches who need the latest hardware and software features
should migrate to Cisco IOS Release XE 3.4.0SG.
IOS XE 3.2.xSG is an active maintenance train that supports Sup7E only. IOS XE 3.4.xSG is a
maintenance train supporting Sup7E, Sup7L-E and 4500X.
Figure 1 displays the two active trains: 3.2.xSG and 3.4.xSG.
Figure 1 Software Release Strategy for the Catalyst 4500E Series Switch
Support
Support for Cisco IOS Software Release XE 3.4.0SG follows the standard Cisco Systems® support
policy, available at
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/products_end-of-life_policy.html
3.6.0E3.2.0SG 3.3.0SG
EM EM EMSMSM
3.4.0SG 3.5.0E
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System Requirements
System Requirements
This section describes the system requirements:
•Supported Hardware on the Catalyst 4500E Series Switch, page 5
•Supported E Series Hardware on Cisco IOS XE Release 3.4.0SG, page 10
•Feature Support by Image Type, page 12
•MIB Support, page 31
•Features Not Supported on the Cisco Catalyst 4500E Series Switch, page 31
•Orderable Product Numbers, page 32
Supported Hardware on the Catalyst 4500E Series Switch
For information on the minimum supported release for each pluggable module please refer to:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/modules/ps5455/products_device_support_tables_list.html
Table 1 lists the hardware supported on the Catalyst 4500E Series Switch.
Note Linecards with WS-X45xx and below are not supported in VSS.
Table 1 Supported Hardware on Cisco Catalyst 4500E Supervisor Engine 7-E and Supervisor Engine 7L-E
Product Number (append
with “=” for spares)
Product Description
Supervisor Engines
WS-X45-Sup7-E Catalyst 4500E-series switch Supervisor Engine 7-E
Note This engine is supported on E-series, R-E, and R+E chassis.
WS-X45-Sup7L-E Catalyst 4500E-series switch Supervisor Engine 7L-E
Note This engine is supported on E-series, R-E, and R+E chassis.
10 Gigabit Ethernet Switching Modules
WS-X4712-SFP+E 12-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet (SFP+) line card
Not supported on 4507R-E and 4510R-E chassis.
WS-X4606-X2-E 6-port X2 line card
Gigabit Ethernet Switching Modules
WS-X4302-GB 2-port 1000BASE-X (GBIC) Gigabit Ethernet module
WS-X4306-GB 6-port 1000BASE-X (GBIC) Gigabit Ethernet switching module
WS-X4418-GB 18-port 1000BASE-X (GBIC) Gigabit Ethernet server switching module
WS-X4412-2GB-T 12-port 1000BASE-T Gigabit Ethernet and 2-GBIC ports switching module
WS-X4424-GB-RJ45 24-port 10/100/1000BASE-T Gigabit Ethernet RJ-45 switching module
WS-X4448-GB-LX 48-port 1000BASE-LX (small form-factor pluggable) Gigabit Ethernet fiber optic interface
switching module
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WS-X4448-GB-RJ45 48-port 10/100/1000BASE-T Gigabit Ethernet switching module
WS-X4448-GB-SFP 48-port 1000BASE-X (small form-factor pluggable) module
WS-X4506-GB-T 6-port Alternately-Wired 10/100/1000BASE-T Catalyst 4500 series Power over Ethernet (PoE)
802.3af or 1000BASE-X SFP
WS-X4524-GB-RJ45V 24-port 10/100/1000BASE-T RJ-45 Catalyst 4500 series PoE 802.3af
WS-X4548-GB-RJ45 48-port 10/100/1000BASE-T Gigabit Ethernet module
WS-X4548-GB-RJ45V 48-port 10/100/1000BASE-T RJ-45 Catalyst 4500 series PoE 802.3af
WS-X4548-RJ45V+ 48-port 10/100/1000 Premium PoE line card
WS-X4612-SFP-E 12-port 1000BASE-X (small form factor pluggable) module with jumbo frame support
WS-X4624-SFP-E Non-blocking 24-port 1000BASEX (small form factor pluggable) module
WS-X4640-CSFP-E 80 ports with Gigabit compact SFP (4:1 oversubscribed); 40 modules of Gigabit SFP line card
(1000BaseX), providing 24 gigabits per-slot capacity (SFP optional) (2:1 oversubscribed)
Note WS-X4640-CSFP-E is not supported in a 10-slot chassis.
WS-X4648-RJ45-E 48 port 10/100/1000BT with 2 to 1 oversubscription and jumbo frame support
WS-X4648-RJ45V-E 48 port 10/100/1000 Mb with 2 to 1 oversubscription PoE 802.3af providing up to 20 Watts
power/port
WS-X4648-RJ45V+E 48 port 10/100/1000 Mb with 2 to 1 oversubscription PoE 802.3at providing up to 30 Watts
power/port
WS-X4748-RJ45V+E 48-port 10/100/1000 line card nonblocking PoE 802.3at providing up to 30 Watts power/port
WS-X4748-UPOE+E 48-port 10/100/1000 line card nonblocking PoE 802.3at and 60 watt UPoE PoE linecard with
Ethernet Energy Efficient feature.
WS-X4748-RJ45-E 48-port 10/100/1000 nonblocking line card with the Ethernet Energy Efficient feature
Fast Ethernet Switching Modules
WS-X4124-FX-MT 24-port 100BASE-FX Fast Ethernet MT-RJ multimode fiber switching module
WS-X4148-FX-MT 48-port 100BASE-FX Fast Ethernet MT-RJ multimode fiber switching module
WS-X4148-FE-LX-MT 48-port 100BASE-LX10 Fast Ethernet MT-RJ single-mode fiber switching module
WS-X4148-FE-BD-LC 48-port 100BASE-BX10-D module
WS-X4248-FE-SFP 48-port 100BASE-X SFP switching module
WS-U4504-FX-MT 4-port 100BASE-FX (MT-RF) uplink daughter card
Ethernet/Fast Ethernet (10/100) Switching Modules
WS-X4124-RJ45 24-port 10/100 RJ-45 module
WS-X4148-RJ 48-port 10/100 RJ-45 switching module
WS-X4148-RJ21 48-port 10/100 4xRJ-21 (telco connector) switching module
WS-X4148-RJ45V 48-port Pre-standard PoE 10/100BASE-T switching module
WS-X4224-RJ45V 24-port 10/100BASE-TX RJ-45 Cisco Catalyst 4500 series PoE 802.3af
WS-X4232-GB-RJ 32-port 10/100 Fast Ethernet RJ-45, plus 2-port 1000BASE-X (GBIC) Gigabit Ethernet switching
module
Table 1 Supported Hardware on Cisco Catalyst 4500E Supervisor Engine 7-E and Supervisor Engine 7L-E
Product Number (append
with “=” for spares)
Product Description
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WS-X4248-RJ45V 48-port 10/100BASE-T RJ-45 Cisco Catalyst 4500 series PoE 802.3af
WS-X4248-RJ21V 48-port 10/100 Fast Ethernet RJ-21 Cisco Catalyst 4500 series PoE 802.3af telco
WS-X4232-RJ-XX 32-port 10/100 Fast Ethernet RJ-45 modular uplink switching module
Small Form-Factor Pluggable 100 Megabit Ethernet Modules
GLC-FE-100LX 100BASE-LX, 1310 nm wavelength, 10 km over SMF
GLC-FE-100BX-D 100BASE-BX10-D, 1550 nm TX/1310 nm RX wavelength
GLC-FE-100BX-U 100BASE-BX10-U, 1310 nm TX/1550 nm RX wavelength
GLC-FE-100EX 100BASE-EX for Fast Ethernet SFP Ports
GLC-FE-100ZX 100BASE-ZX for Fast Ethernet SFP Ports
GLC-FE-100FX 100BASE-FX SFP for Fast Ethernet SFP ports
GLC-GE-100FX 100BASE-FX SFP for Gigabit Ethernet SFP ports
GLC-EX-SMD 1000BASE-EX GE SFP ports
Small Form-Factor Pluggable Gigabit Ethernet Modules
GLC-BX-D 1000BASE-BX10-D small form-factor pluggable module
GLC-BX-U 1000BASE-BX10-U small form-factor pluggable module
GLC-SX-MM 1000BASE-SX small form-factor pluggable module
GLC-SX-MMD 1000BASE-SX small form-factor pluggable module
GLC-LH-SM 1000BASE-LX/LH small form-factor pluggable module
GLC-LH-SMD 1000BASE-LX/LH small form-factor pluggable module with DOM support
GLC-ZX-SM 1000BASE-ZX small form-factor pluggable module
GLC-T 1000BASE-T small form-factor pluggable module
CWDM-SFP-xxxx CWDM small form-factor pluggable module (See Table 2 on page 9 for a list of supported
wavelengths.)
10 Gigabit Ethernet X2 Pluggable Modules
X2-10GB-LR 10GBASE-LR X2 transceiver module for SMF, 1310-nm wavelength, SC duplex connector
X2-10GB-ER 10GBASE-ER X2 transceiver module for SMF, 1550-nm wavelength, SC duplex connector
X2-10GB-CX4 10GBASE-CX4 X2 transceiver module for CX4 cable, copper, Infiniband 4X connector
X2-10GB-LX4 10GBASE-LX4 X2 transceiver module for MMF, 1310-nm wavelength, SC duplex connector
X2-10GB-LRM 10GBASE-LRM X2 transceiver module for MMF, 1310-nm wavelength, SC duplex connector
X2-10GB-SR 10GBASE-SR X2 transceiver module for MMF, 850-nm wavelength, SC duplex connector
X2-10GB-T 10GBASE-T X2 transceiver module, up to 100m wavelength on CAT6A or CAT7 copper cables
X2-10GB-ZR 10GBASE-ZR X2 transceiver module for SMF, 1550 nm wavelength up to 80 km. DOM is not
supported.
X2-10GB-DWDM 10GBASE-ZR X2 transceiver module for SMF, 32 nontunable ITU 100-GHz wavelengths up to
80 km are supported. DOM is supported. Dual SC/PC connectors are supported.
Table 1 Supported Hardware on Cisco Catalyst 4500E Supervisor Engine 7-E and Supervisor Engine 7L-E
Product Number (append
with “=” for spares)
Product Description
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CVR-X2-SFP10G Hot-swappable input/output (I/O) converter module that fits into a 10-Gigabit Ethernet X2 slot on
a switch or line card module. Hosts one 10-Gigabit Ethernet SFP+ transceiver module.
SFP+ Modules
SFP-10G-SR Cisco 10GBASE-SR SFP+ Module for MMF
SFP-10G-LR Cisco 10GBASE-LR SFP+ Module for SMF
SFP-10G-LRM Cisco 10GBASE-LRM SFP+ Module for MMF
SFP-H10GB-CU1M 10GBASE-CU SFP+ Cable 1 Meter
SFP-H10GB-CU3M 10GBASE-CU SFP+ Cable 3 Meter
SFP-H10GB-CU5M 10GBASE-CU SFP+ Cable 5 Meter
SFP-10G-ER Cisco 10GBASE-ER SFP+ Module for SMF
SFP-10G-ZR Cisco 10GBASE-ZR SFP+ Module for SMF
Gigabit Interface Converter
WS-G5483= 1000BASE-T GBIC
WS-G5484 1000BASE-SX short wavelength GBIC (multimode only)
WS-G5486 1000BASE-LX/LH long-haul GBIC (single mode or multimode)
WS-G5487 1000BASE-ZX extended reach GBIC (single-handed)
CWDM-GBIC-xxxx CWDM gigabit interface converter (See Table 2 on page 9 for a list of supported wavelengths.)
DWDM-GBIC-xx.yy Dense Wavelength-Division Multiplexing ITU 100-Ghz grid 15xx.yy nm GBIC.
WDM-GBIC-REC Receive-only 1000BASE-WDM GBIC
Other Modules
MEM-X45-2GB-E SD Card, 2G
USB-X45-4GB-E USB Thumb Drive, 4G
PWR-C45-1000AC Catalyst 4500 series switch 1000 Watt AC power supply for chassis 4503, 4506, and 4507R (data
only)
PWR-C45-1400DC Catalyst 4500 series switch 1400 Watt DC triple input power supply (data-only)
PWR-C45-1400DC-P Catalyst 4500 series switch 1400 Watt DC power supply with integrated PEM
PWR-C45-1400AC Catalyst 4500 series switch 1400 Watt AC power supply (data-only)
PWR-C45-1300ACV Catalyst 4500 series switch 1300 Watt AC power supply with integrated voice for chassis 4503,
4506, and 4507R
PWR-C45-2800ACV Catalyst 4500 series switch 2800 Watt AC power supply with integrated voice (data and PoE) for
chassis 4503, 4506, and 4507R
PWR-C45-4200ACV Catalyst 4500 series switch 4200 Watt AC dual input power supply with integrated voice (data and
PoE)
WS-P4502-1PSU Catalyst 4500 series switch auxiliary power shelf (25-slot), including one PWR-4502
PWR-4502 Catalyst 4500 series switch auxiliary power shelf redundant power supply
Table 1 Supported Hardware on Cisco Catalyst 4500E Supervisor Engine 7-E and Supervisor Engine 7L-E
Product Number (append
with “=” for spares)
Product Description
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Table 2 briefly describes the supported CWDM wavelengths in the Catalyst 4500E Series Switch.
Table 3 briefly describes the supported DWDM wavelengths in the Catalyst 4500E Series Switch.
PWR-C45-6000ACV Catalyst 4500 Series Switch 6000 W AC power supply
PWR-C45-9000ACV Catalyst 4500 Series Switch 9000 W AC power supply
Table 1 Supported Hardware on Cisco Catalyst 4500E Supervisor Engine 7-E and Supervisor Engine 7L-E
Product Number (append
with “=” for spares)
Product Description
Table 2 CWDM GBIC and SFP Supported Wavelengths on Cisco Catalyst 4500E Supervisor Engine 7-E
and Supervisor Engine 7L-E
Product Number (append with “=” for
spares)
Product Description
CWDM-GBIC (or SFP) -1470 Longwave 1470 nm laser single-mode
CWDM-GBIC (or SFP) -1490 Longwave 1490 nm laser single-mode
CWDM-GBIC (or SFP) -1510 Longwave 1510 nm laser single-mode
CWDM-GBIC (or SFP) -1530 Longwave 1530 nm laser single-mode
CWDM-GBIC (or SFP) -1550 Longwave 1550 nm laser single-mode
CWDM-GBIC (or SFP) -1570 Longwave 1570 nm laser single-mode
CWDM-GBIC (or SFP) -1590 Longwave 1590 nm laser single-mode
CWDM-GBIC (or SFP) -1610 Longwave 1610 nm laser single-mode
Table 3 DWDM SFP Supported Wavelengths on Cisco Catalyst 4500E Supervisor Engine 7-E
and Supervisor Engine 7L-E
Product Number (append with “=” for
spares)
Product Description
DWDM-SFP-6061= Cisco 1000BASE-DWDM SFP 1560.61 nm
DWDM-SFP-5979= Cisco 1000BASE-DWDM SFP 1559.79 nm
DWDM-SFP-5898= Cisco 1000BASE-DWDM SFP 1558.98 nm
DWDM-SFP-5817= Cisco 1000BASE-DWDM SFP 1558.17 nm
DWDM-SFP-5655= Cisco 1000BASE-DWDM SFP 1556.55 nm
DWDM-SFP-5575= Cisco 1000BASE-DWDM SFP 1555.75 nm
DWDM-SFP-5413= Cisco 1000BASE-DWDM SFP 1554.13 nm
DWDM-SFP-5494= Cisco 1000BASE-DWDM SFP 1554.94 nm
DWDM-SFP-5252= Cisco 1000BASE-DWDM SFP 1552.52 nm
DWDM-SFP-5172= Cisco 1000BASE-DWDM SFP 1551.72 nm
DWDM-SFP-5092= Cisco 1000BASE-DWDM SFP 1550.92 nm
DWDM-SFP-5012= Cisco 1000BASE-DWDM SFP 1550.12 nm
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For details on DOM support for the Catalyst 4500E Series switches, refer to this URL:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/interfaces_modules/transceiver_modules/compatibility/matrix/OL_
6981.html#wp142660
Supported E Series Hardware on Cisco IOS XE Release 3.4.0SG
A brief list of primary E-Series hardware supported by Cisco IOS XE Release 3.4.0SG is shown in
Table 4.
DWDM-SFP-4851= Cisco 1000BASE-DWDM SFP 1548.51 nm
DWDM-SFP-4772= Cisco 1000BASE-DWDM SFP 1547.72 nm
DWDM-SFP-4692= Cisco 1000BASE-DWDM SFP 1546.92 nm
DWDM-SFP-4612= Cisco 1000BASE-DWDM SFP 1546.12 nm
DWDM-SFP-4453= Cisco 1000BASE-DWDM SFP 1544.53 nm
DWDM-SFP-4373= Cisco 1000BASE-DWDM SFP 1543.73 nm
DWDM-SFP-4694= Cisco 1000BASE-DWDM SFP 1542.94 nm
DWDM-SFP-4614= Cisco 1000BASE-DWDM SFP 1542.14 nm
DWDM-SFP-4056= Cisco 1000BASE-DWDM SFP 1540.56 nm
DWDM-SFP-3977= Cisco 1000BASE-DWDM SFP 1539.77 nm
DWDM-SFP-3898= Cisco 1000BASE-DWDM SFP 1539.98 nm
DWDM-SFP-3819= Cisco 1000BASE-DWDM SFP 1538.19 nm
DWDM-SFP-3661= Cisco 1000BASE-DWDM SFP 1536.61 nm
DWDM-SFP-3582= Cisco 1000BASE-DWDM SFP 1535.82 nm
DWDM-SFP-3504= Cisco 1000BASE-DWDM SFP 1535.04 nm
DWDM-SFP-3425= Cisco 1000BASE-DWDM SFP 1534.25 nm
DWDM-SFP-3268= Cisco 1000BASE-DWDM SFP 1532.68 nm
DWDM-SFP-3190= Cisco 1000BASE-DWDM SFP 1531.90 nm
DWDM-SFP-3112= Cisco 1000BASE-DWDM SFP 1531.12 nm
DWDM-SFP-3033= Cisco 1000BASE-DWDM SFP 1530.33 nm
Table 3 DWDM SFP Supported Wavelengths on Cisco Catalyst 4500E Supervisor Engine 7-E
and Supervisor Engine 7L-E
Product Number (append with “=” for
spares)
Product Description
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Table 4 Supported E-Series Hardware
Product Number Description
WS-C4503-E Cisco Catalyst 4500E Series 3-Slot Chassis
•Fan tray
•No Power Supply
WS-C4506-E Cisco Catalyst 4500E Series 6-Slot Chassis
•Fan tray
•No Power Supply
WS-C4507R-E Cisco Catalyst 4500E Series 7-Slot Chassis
•Fan tray
•No Power Supply
•Redundant supervisor engine capability
•In this chassis, supervisor engines must sit in slots 3 and/or 4; the
backplane will enforce this restriction.
WS-C4507R+E Cisco Catalyst 4500E Series 7-Slot 48 GB-ready Chassis
•Fan tray
•No Power Supply
•Redundant supervisor engine capability
•In this chassis, supervisor engines must sit in slots 3 and/or 4; the
backplane will enforce this restriction.
WS-C4510R-E Cisco Catalyst 4500E Series 10-Slot Chassis
Note This chassis does not support the Supervisor Engine 7L-E.
•Fan tray
•No Power Supply
•Redundant supervisor engine capability
•In this chassis, supervisor engines must sit in slots 5 and/or 6; the
backplane will enforce this restriction.
WS-C4510R+E Cisco Catalyst 4500E Series 10-Slot 48 GB-ready Chassis
Note This chassis does not support the Supervisor Engine 7L-E.
•Fan tray
•No Power Supply
•Redundant supervisor engine capability
•In this chassis, supervisor engines must sit in slots 5 and/or 6; the
backplane will enforce this restriction.
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Feature Support by Image Type
Table 5 is a detailed list of features supported on Catalyst 4500E Supervisor Engine 7-E and Supervisor
Engine 7L-E running Cisco IOS XE Software Release 3.4.0SG categorized by image type. Please visit
Feature Navigator for package details:
http://tools.cisco.com/ITDIT/CFN/
Table 5 LAN Base, IP Base, and Enterprise Services Image Support on Cisco Catalyst 4500E
Supervisor Engine 7-E and Supervisor Engine 7L-E
Feature LAN Base IP Base
Enterprise
Services
2-way Community Private VLANs No Yes Yes
8-Way CEF Load Balancing Yes Yes Yes
10 Gigabit Uplink Use Yes Yes Yes
AAA Server Group Yes Yes Yes
AAA Server Group Based on DNIS Yes Yes Yes
ACL - Improved Merging Algorithm Yes Yes Yes
ACL Logging Yes Yes Yes
ACL Policy Enhancements Yes Yes Yes
ACL Sequence Numbering Yes Yes Yes
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) Yes Yes Yes
ANCP Client No Yes Yes
ANSI TIA-1057 LLDP - MED Location Extension Yes Yes Yes
ANSI TIA-1057 LLDP - MED Support Yes Yes Yes
ARP Optimization Yes Yes Yes
Auto QoS Yes Yes Yes
Auto SmartPorts Yes Yes Yes
Auto-MDIX Yes Yes Yes
Auto-Voice VLAN (part of Auto QoS) Yes Yes Yes
AutoInstall Using DHCP for LAN Interfaces Yes Yes Yes
AutoQoS - VoIP Yes Yes Yes
AutoRP Enhancement No Yes Yes
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Release Notes for the Catalyst 4500E Series Switch, Cisco IOS XE Release 3.4.xSG
OL-27990-04
System Requirements
BGP No No Yes
BGP 4 No No Yes
BGP 4 4Byte ASN (CnH) No No Yes
BGP 4 Multipath Support No No Yes
BGP 4 Prefix Filter and In-bound Route Maps No No Yes
BGP 4 Soft Config No No Yes
BGP Conditional Route Injection No No Yes
BGP Configuration Using Peer Templates No No Yes
BGP Dynamic Update Peer-Groups No No Yes
BGP Increased Support of Numbered as-path Access Lists
to 500
No No Yes
BGP Link Bandwidth No No Yes
BGP Neighbor Policy No No Yes
BGP Prefix-Based Outbound Route Filtering No No Yes
BGP Restart Neighbor Session After max-prefix Limit
Reached
No No Yes
BGP Route-Map Continue No No Yes
BGP Route-Map Continue Support for Outbound Policy No No Yes
BGP Soft Rest No No Yes
BGP Wildcard No No Yes
Bidirectional PIM (IPv4 only) No Yes Yes
Bo ot Co nfi g Yes Yes Yes
Broadcast/Multicast Suppression Yes Yes Yes
Call Home No Yes Yes
CDP (Cisco Discovery Protocol) Version 2 Yes Yes Yes
CDP Enhancement - Host presence TLV Yes Yes Yes
CEF/dCEF - Cisco Express Forwarding Yes Yes Yes
Table 5 LAN Base, IP Base, and Enterprise Services Image Support on Cisco Catalyst 4500E
Supervisor Engine 7-E and Supervisor Engine 7L-E
Feature LAN Base IP Base
Enterprise
Services
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Release Notes for the Catalyst 4500E Series Switch, Cisco IOS XE Release 3.4.xSG
OL-27990-04
System Requirements
CEFv6 Switching for 6to4 Tunnels No Yes Yes
CEFv6/dCEFv6 - Cisco Express Forwarding Yes Yes Yes
CFM/IEEE 802.1ag - D8.1 standard Compliant CFM,
Y.1731 multicast LBM / AIS / RDI / LCK, IP SLA for
Ethernet
Yes Ye s Ye s
CGMP - Cisco Group Management Protocol No Yes Yes
Cisco IOS Scripting w/Tcl Yes Yes Yes
CiscoView Autonomous Device Manager (ADP) No Yes Yes
Class Based Ethernet CoS Matching & Marking (802.1p &
ISL CoS)
Yes Ye s Ye s
Class-Based Marking Yes Yes Yes
Class-Based Policing Yes Yes Yes
Class-Based Shaping Yes Yes Yes
Clear Counters Per Port Yes Yes Yes
CLI String Search Yes Yes Yes
CNS Yes Yes Yes
CNS - Configuration Agent Yes Yes Yes
CNS - Event Agent Yes Yes Yes
CNS - Image Agent Yes Yes Yes
CNS - Interactive CLI Yes Yes Yes
CNS Config Retrieve Enhancement with Retry and Interval Yes Yes Yes
Command Scheduler (Kron) Yes Yes Yes
Command Scheduler (Kron) Policy for System Startup Yes Yes Yes
Commented IP Access List Entries Yes Yes Yes
Community Private VLAN No Yes Yes
Configuration Change Tracking Identifier Yes Yes Yes
Configuration Change Notification and Logging No Yes Yes
Table 5 LAN Base, IP Base, and Enterprise Services Image Support on Cisco Catalyst 4500E
Supervisor Engine 7-E and Supervisor Engine 7L-E
Feature LAN Base IP Base
Enterprise
Services
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Release Notes for the Catalyst 4500E Series Switch, Cisco IOS XE Release 3.4.xSG
OL-27990-04
System Requirements
Configuration Replace and Configuration Rollback Yes Yes Yes
Configuration Rollback Confirmed Change Yes Yes Yes
Contextual Configuration Diff Utility Yes Yes Yes
Control Plane Policing (Copp) Yes Yes Yes
CPU Optimization for Layer 3 Multicast Control Packets Yes Yes Yes
Critical Authorization for Voice and Data Yes Yes Yes
DAI (Dynamic ARP inspection) Yes Yes Yes
DBL (Dynamic Buffer Limiting) - Selective DBL Yes Yes Yes
Debounce Timer per Port Yes Yes Yes
Default Passive Interface No Yes Yes
DH CP Cl ie nt Yes Yes Yes
DHCP Configurable DHCP Client Yes Yes Yes
DHCPv6 Relay Agent notification for Prefix Delegation Yes Yes Yes
DHCP Option 82, Pass Through Yes Yes Yes
DH CP Se rver Yes Yes Yes
DHCP Snooping Yes Yes Yes
DHCPv6 Ethernet Remote ID option Yes Yes Yes
DHCPv6 Relay - Reload persistent Interface ID option Yes Yes Yes
DHCPv6 Repackaging Yes Yes Yes
DSCP/CoS via LLDP Yes Yes Yes
Duplication Location Reporting Issue No Yes Yes
Dynamic Trunking Protocol (DTP) Yes Yes Yes
Easy Virtual Network (EVN) No No Yes
EIGRP No No Yes
EIGRP Service Advertisement Framework Yes Yes Yes
EIGRP Stub Routing No Yes Yes
Table 5 LAN Base, IP Base, and Enterprise Services Image Support on Cisco Catalyst 4500E
Supervisor Engine 7-E and Supervisor Engine 7L-E
Feature LAN Base IP Base
Enterprise
Services
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Release Notes for the Catalyst 4500E Series Switch, Cisco IOS XE Release 3.4.xSG
OL-27990-04
System Requirements
Embedded Event Manager (EEM) 3.2 No Yes Yes
Embedded Syslog Manager (ESM) Yes Yes Yes
EnergyWise 2.5 Yes Yes Yes
Enhanced PoE Support (Additional Wattage Range) Yes Yes Yes
Entity API for Physical and Logical Mgd Entities Yes Yes Yes
ErrDisable timeout Yes Yes Yes
EtherChannel Yes Yes Yes
EtherChannel Flexible PAgP Yes Yes Yes
EtherChannel Single Port Channel Yes Yes Yes
Fast EtherChannel (FEC) Yes Yes Yes
FHRP - Enhanced Object Tracking of IP SLAs Yes Yes Yes
FHRP - Enhanced Object Tracking integration with EEM Yes Yes Yes
FHRP - GLBP - IP Redundancy API No Yes Yes
FHRP - HSRP - Hot Standby Router Protocol V2 No Yes Yes
FHRP - Object Tracking List No Yes Yes
Filter-ID Based ACL Application Yes Yes Yes
FIPS 140-2/3 Level 2 Certification Yes Yes Yes
Flexible NetFlow - Full Flow support No Yes Yes
Flexible NetFlow - Ingress support No Yes Yes
Flexible NetFlow - IPv4 Unicast Flows No Yes Yes
Flexible NetFlow - IPv6 Unicast Flows No Yes Yes
Flexible NetFlow - Layer 2 Fields No Yes Yes
Flexible NetFlow - Multiple User Defined Caches No Yes Yes
Flexible NetFlow - NetFlow Export over IPv4 No Yes Yes
Flexible NetFlow - NetFlow v5 Export Protocol No Yes Yes
Flexible NetFlow - NetFlow v9 Export Format No Yes Yes
Table 5 LAN Base, IP Base, and Enterprise Services Image Support on Cisco Catalyst 4500E
Supervisor Engine 7-E and Supervisor Engine 7L-E
Feature LAN Base IP Base
Enterprise
Services
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Release Notes for the Catalyst 4500E Series Switch, Cisco IOS XE Release 3.4.xSG
OL-27990-04
System Requirements
Flexible NetFlow - VLAN ID support No Yes Yes
Flex Links+ (VLAN Load balancing) Yes Yes Yes
Forced 10/100 Autonegotiation Yes Yes Yes
FTP Support for Downloading Software Images Yes Yes Yes
Gateway Load Balancing Protocol GLBP No Yes Yes
Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) No Yes Yes
GOLD Online Diagnostics Yes Yes Yes
HSRP - Hot Standby Router Protocol No Yes Yes
HSRPv2 for IPv6 Global Address Support No Yes Yes
HT TP Se cu ri ty Yes Yes Yes
HTTP TACAC+ Accounting support Yes Yes Yes
IEEE 802.1ab LLDP (Link Layer Discovery Protocol) Yes Yes Yes
IEEE 802.1ab LLDP/LLDP-MED Yes Yes Yes
IEEE 802.1ab LLDP enhancements (PoE+Layer 2 COS) Yes Yes Yes
IEEE 802.1p Support Yes Yes Yes
IEEE 802.1Q VLAN Trunking Yes Yes Yes
IEEE 802.1s Multiple Spanning Tree (MST) Standard
Compliance
Yes Ye s Ye s
IEEE 802.1s VLAN Multiple Spanning Trees Yes Yes Yes
IEEE 802.1t1Yes Yes Yes
IEEE 802.1w Spanning Tree Rapid Reconfiguration Yes Yes Yes
IEEE 802.1x Auth Fail Open (Critical Ports) Yes Yes Yes
IEEE 802.1x Auth Fail VLAN Yes Yes Yes
IEEE 802.1x Flexible Authentication Yes Yes Yes
IEEE 802.1x Multiple Authentication Yes Yes Yes
IEEE 802.1x Open Authentication Yes Yes Yes
Table 5 LAN Base, IP Base, and Enterprise Services Image Support on Cisco Catalyst 4500E
Supervisor Engine 7-E and Supervisor Engine 7L-E
Feature LAN Base IP Base
Enterprise
Services
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Release Notes for the Catalyst 4500E Series Switch, Cisco IOS XE Release 3.4.xSG
OL-27990-04
System Requirements
IEEE 802.1X with User Distribution Yes Yes Yes
IEEE 802.1x VLAN Assignment Yes Yes Yes
IEEE 802.1x VLAN User Group Distribution Yes Yes Yes
IEEE 802.1x Wake on LAN Support Yes Yes Yes
IEEE 802.1x Authenticator Yes Yes Yes
IEEE 802.1x Fallback support Yes Yes Yes
IEEE 802.1x Guest VLAN Yes Yes Yes
IEEE 802.1x Multi-Domain Authentication Yes Yes Yes
IEEE 802.1x Private Guest VLAN Yes Yes Yes
IEEE 802.1x Private VLAN Assignment Yes Yes Yes
IEEE 802.1x RADIUS Accounting Yes Yes Yes
IEEE 802.1x RADIUS-Supplied Session Timeout Yes Yes Yes
IEEE 802.1x with ACL Assignments Yes Yes Yes
IEEE 802.1x with Port Security Yes Yes Yes
IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation (LACP) Yes Yes Yes
IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation (LACP) Port-Channel
Standalone Disable
Yes Ye s Ye s
IEEE 802.3af PoE (Power over Ethernet) Yes Yes Yes
IEEE 802.3x Flow Control Yes Yes Yes
IGMP Fast Leave Yes Yes Yes
IGMP Filtering Yes Yes Yes
IGMP Snooping Yes Yes Yes
IGMP Version 1 Yes Yes Yes
IGMP Version 2 Yes Yes Yes
IGMP Version 3 Yes Yes Yes
IGMP Version 3 - Explicit Tracking of Hosts, Groups, and
Channels
Yes Ye s Ye s
Table 5 LAN Base, IP Base, and Enterprise Services Image Support on Cisco Catalyst 4500E
Supervisor Engine 7-E and Supervisor Engine 7L-E
Feature LAN Base IP Base
Enterprise
Services
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Release Notes for the Catalyst 4500E Series Switch, Cisco IOS XE Release 3.4.xSG
OL-27990-04
System Requirements
IGMPv3 Host Stack Yes Yes Yes
IGMPv3 Snooping: Full Support Yes Yes Yes
Image Verification Yes Yes Yes
Individual SNMP Trap Support Yes Yes Yes
Inline Power Auto Negotiation Yes Yes Yes
Inline Power Management Yes Yes Yes
Interface Index Persistence Yes Yes Yes
Interface Range Specification Yes Yes Yes
IOS Based Device Profiling No Yes Yes
IP Enhanced IGRP Route Authentication No No Yes
IP Event Dampening No Yes Yes
IP Multicast Load Splitting - Equal Cost Multipath (ECMP)
using S, G and Next-hop
No No Yes
IP Multicast Load Splitting across Equal-Cost Paths No Yes Yes
IP Named Access Control List Yes Yes Yes
IPv6 Tunnels (in software) No Yes Yes
IP Routing Yes Yes Yes
IP SLAs - DHCP Operations No Yes Yes
IP SLAs - Distribution of Statistics No Yes Yes
IP SLAs - DNS Operation No Yes Yes
IP SLAs - FTP Operation No Yes Yes
IP SLA - HTTP Operation No Yes Yes
IP SLAs - ICMP Echo Operation No Yes Yes
IP SLAs - ICMP Path Echo Operation No Yes Yes
IP SLAs - Multi Operation Scheduler No Yes Yes
IP SLAs - One Way Measurement No Yes Yes
Table 5 LAN Base, IP Base, and Enterprise Services Image Support on Cisco Catalyst 4500E
Supervisor Engine 7-E and Supervisor Engine 7L-E
Feature LAN Base IP Base
Enterprise
Services
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Release Notes for the Catalyst 4500E Series Switch, Cisco IOS XE Release 3.4.xSG
OL-27990-04
System Requirements
IP SLAs - Path Jitter Operation No Yes Yes
IP SLAs - Random Scheduler No Yes Yes
IP SLAs - Reaction Threshold No Yes Yes
IP SLAs - Responder No Yes Yes
IP SLAs - Scheduler No Yes Yes
IP SLAs - Sub-millisecond Accuracy Improvements No Yes Yes
IP SLAs - TCP Connect Operation No Yes Yes
IP SLAs - UDP Based VoIP Operation No Yes Yes
IP SLAs - UDP Echo Operation No Yes Yes
IP SLAs - UDP Jitter Operation No Yes Yes
IP SLAs - VoIP Threshold Traps No Yes Yes
IP Summary Address for RIPv2 No Yes Yes
IP Unnumbered for VLAN-SVI interfaces No Yes Yes
IPSG (IP Source Guard) v4 Yes Yes Yes
IPSG (IP Source Guard) v4 for Static Hosts Yes Yes Yes
IPv4 Routing: Static Hosts/Default Gateway Yes Yes Yes
IPv6 BGP No No Yes
IPv6 Bootstrap Router (BSR) Scoped Zone Support No No Yes
IP v6 CN S A ge nt s Yes Yes Ye s
IPv6 Config Logger Yes Yes Yes
IPv6 First Hop Security (FHS):
DHCPv6 Guard
Lightweight DHCPv6 Relay Agent
IPv6 Destination Guard
IPv6 Snooping
IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Multicast Suppression
IPv6 Router Advertisement (RA) Guard
Yes Ye s Ye s
Table 5 LAN Base, IP Base, and Enterprise Services Image Support on Cisco Catalyst 4500E
Supervisor Engine 7-E and Supervisor Engine 7L-E
Feature LAN Base IP Base
Enterprise
Services
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Release Notes for the Catalyst 4500E Series Switch, Cisco IOS XE Release 3.4.xSG
OL-27990-04
System Requirements
IPv6 HSRP No Yes Yes
IPv6 HTTP(S) Yes Yes Yes
IPv6 ICMPv6 Yes Yes Yes
IPv6 ICMPv6 Redirect Yes Yes Yes
IPv6 Interface Statistics Yes Yes Yes
IPv6 IP SLAs (UDP Jitter, UDP Echo, ICMP Echo, TCP
Connect)
No Yes Yes
IPv6 TCL Yes Yes Yes
IPv6 (Internet Protocol Version 6) Yes Yes Yes
IPv6 Interface Statistics Yes Yes Yes
IPv6 Access Services: DHCPv6 Relay Agent No Yes Yes
IPv6: Anycast Address Yes Yes Yes
IPv6 MLD Snooping v1 and v2 Yes Yes Yes
IPv6 MTU Path Discovery Yes Yes Yes
IPv6 Multicast No Yes Yes
IPv6 Multicast: Bootstrap Router (BSR) No Yes Yes
IPv6 Multicast: Explicit Tracking of Receivers No Yes Yes
IPv6 Multicast: MLD Access Group No Yes Yes
IPv6 Multicast: Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD)
Protocol, Versions 1 and 2
No Yes Yes
IPv6 Multicast: PIM Accept Register No Yes Yes
IPv6 Multicast: PIM Embedded RP Support No Yes Yes
IPv6 Multicast: PIM Source-Specific Multicast
(PIM-SSM)
No Yes Yes
IPv6 Multicast: PIM Sparse Mode (PIM-SM) No Yes Yes
IPv6 Multicast: Routable Address Hello Option No Yes Yes
IPv6 Multicast: RPF Flooding of Bootstrap Router (BSR)
Packets
No Yes Yes
Table 5 LAN Base, IP Base, and Enterprise Services Image Support on Cisco Catalyst 4500E
Supervisor Engine 7-E and Supervisor Engine 7L-E
Feature LAN Base IP Base
Enterprise
Services
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Release Notes for the Catalyst 4500E Series Switch, Cisco IOS XE Release 3.4.xSG
OL-27990-04
System Requirements
IPv6 Multicast: Scope Boundaries No Yes Yes
IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Duplicate Address Detection Yes Yes Yes
IPv6 OSPFv3 NSF/SSO No Yes2Yes
IPv6 OSPFv3 Fast Convergence No Yes2Yes
IP v6 PACL Yes Yes Yes
IPv6 RA Guard (Host Mode) Yes Yes Yes
IPv6 Routing - EIGRP Support No No Yes
IPv6 Routing: OSPF for IPv6 (OSPFv3) No Yes2Yes
IPv6 Routing: RIP for IPv6 (RIPng) No Yes Yes
IPv6 Routing: Route Redistribution No Yes Yes
IPv6 Routing: Static Routing Yes Yes Yes
IPv6 Security: Secure Shell SSH support over IPv6 Yes Yes Yes
IPv6 Services: AAAA DNS Lookups over an IPv4
Transport
No Yes Yes
IPv6 Services: Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) - IPv6
Address Family Support for Neighbor Information
Yes Ye s Ye s
IPv6 Services: DNS Lookups over an IPv6 Transport Yes Yes Yes
IPv6 Services: Extended Access Control Lists Yes Yes Yes
IPv6 Services: Standard Access Control Lists Yes Yes Yes
IPv6 Stateless Auto-configuration Yes Yes Yes
IPv6 Switching: CEF Support No Yes Yes
IPv6 Switching: CEFv6 Switched Automatic
IPv4-compatible Tunnels (in software)
No Yes Yes
IPv6 Switching: CEFv6 Switched ISATAP Tunnels (in
software)
No Yes Yes
IPv6 Tunneling: Automatic 6to4 Tunnels (in software) No Yes Yes
IPv6 Tunneling: Automatic IPv4-compatible Tunnels (in
software)
No Yes Yes
Table 5 LAN Base, IP Base, and Enterprise Services Image Support on Cisco Catalyst 4500E
Supervisor Engine 7-E and Supervisor Engine 7L-E
Feature LAN Base IP Base
Enterprise
Services
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Release Notes for the Catalyst 4500E Series Switch, Cisco IOS XE Release 3.4.xSG
OL-27990-04
System Requirements
IPv6 Tunneling: IPv6 over IPv4 GRE Tunnels (in software) No Yes Yes
IPv6 Tunneling: ISATAP Tunnel Support (in software) No Yes Yes
IPv6 Tunneling: Manually Configured IPv6 over IPv4
Tunnels (in software)
No Yes Yes
IPv6 Virtual LAN Access Control List (VACL) Yes Yes Yes
IPsecv3/IKEv2 (for management traffic only) Yes Yes Yes
IS-IS for IPv4 and IPv6 No No Yes
ISSU (IOS In-Service Software Upgrade) No Yes Yes
Jumbo Frames Yes Yes Yes
Layer 2 Control Packet Yes Yes Yes
Layer 2 Protocol Tunneling (L2PT) No Yes Yes
Layer 2 Traceroute No Yes Yes
Layer 3 Multicast Routing (PIM SM, SSM, Bidir) No Yes Yes
Link State Tracking Yes Yes Yes
Loadsharing IP packets over more than six parallel paths Yes Yes Yes
Local Proxy ARP Yes Yes Yes
Lo ca ti on MI Bs Yes Yes Yes
MAB with Configurable User Name/Password Yes Yes Yes
MAB for Voice VLAN Yes Yes Yes
MAC Address Notification Yes Yes Yes
MAC Authentication Bypass Yes Yes Yes
MAC Move and Replace Yes Yes Yes
Medianet: AutoQoS SRND4 Macro No Yes Yes
Medianet: Integrated Video Traffic Simulator
(hardware-assisted IP SLA); IPSLA generator and
responder
No Yes Yes
Medianet: Flow Metadata No Yes Yes
Table 5 LAN Base, IP Base, and Enterprise Services Image Support on Cisco Catalyst 4500E
Supervisor Engine 7-E and Supervisor Engine 7L-E
Feature LAN Base IP Base
Enterprise
Services
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Release Notes for the Catalyst 4500E Series Switch, Cisco IOS XE Release 3.4.xSG
OL-27990-04
System Requirements
Medianet: Media Service Proxy No Yes Yes
Medianet: Media Monitoring (Performance Monitoring and
Mediatrace)
No Yes Yes
Memory Threshold Notifications Yes Yes Yes
Microflow policers No Yes Yes
Modular QoS CLI (MQC) Yes Yes Yes
Multi-authentication and VLAN Assignment Yes Yes Yes
Multi-VRF Support (VRF lite) No No Yes
Multicast BGP (MBGP) No No Yes
Multicast Fast Switching Performance Improvement No Yes Yes
Multicast HA (NSF/SSO) for IPv4&IPv6 No Yes Yes
Multicast Routing Monitor (MRM) No No Yes
Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP) No Yes Yes
Multicast Subsecond Convergence No Yes Yes
NAC - L2 IEEE 802.1x Yes Yes Yes
NAC - L2 IP Yes Yes Yes
ND Cache Limit/Interface No Yes Yes
NEAT Enhancement: Re-Enabling BPDU Guard Based on
User Configuration
Yes Ye s Ye s
NETCONF over SSHv2 Yes Yes Yes
Network Edge Access Topology (NEAT) Yes Yes Yes
Network Time Protocol (NTP) Yes Yes Yes
Network Time Protocol (NTP) master Yes Yes Yes
Table 5 LAN Base, IP Base, and Enterprise Services Image Support on Cisco Catalyst 4500E
Supervisor Engine 7-E and Supervisor Engine 7L-E
Feature LAN Base IP Base
Enterprise
Services
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Release Notes for the Catalyst 4500E Series Switch, Cisco IOS XE Release 3.4.xSG
OL-27990-04
System Requirements
NMSP Enhancements
•GPS support for location
•Location at switch level
•Local timezone change
•Name value pair
•Priority settings for MIBs
No Yes Yes
No Service Password Recovery Yes Yes Yes
No. of VLAN Support 2048 4096 4096
NSF - BGP No No Yes
NSF - EIGRP No Yes Yes
NSF - OSPF (version 2 only) No Yes Yes
NSF/SSO (Nonstop Forwarding with Stateful Switchover) No Yes Yes
NTP for IPv6 Yes Yes Yes
NTP for VRF aware No No Yes
Onboard Failure Logging (OBFL) Yes Yes Yes
OSPF No Yes2Ye s
OSPF v3 Authentication No Yes2Ye s
OSPF Flooding Reduction No Yes2Yes
OSPF for Routed Access No Yes Yes
OSPF Incremental Shortest Path First (i-SPF) Support No Yes2Yes
OSPF Link State Database Overload Protection No Yes2Yes
OSPF Not-So-Stubby Areas (NSSA) No Yes2Yes
OSPF Packet Pacing No Yes2Ye s
OSPF Shortest Paths First Throttling No Yes2Yes
OSPF Stub Router Advertisement No Yes2Yes
OSPF Support for Fast Hellos No Yes2Ye s
Table 5 LAN Base, IP Base, and Enterprise Services Image Support on Cisco Catalyst 4500E
Supervisor Engine 7-E and Supervisor Engine 7L-E
Feature LAN Base IP Base
Enterprise
Services
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Release Notes for the Catalyst 4500E Series Switch, Cisco IOS XE Release 3.4.xSG
OL-27990-04
System Requirements
OSPF Support for Link State Advertisement (LSA)
Throttling
No Yes2Yes
OSPF Support for Multi-VRF on CE Routers No Yes2Yes
OSPF Update Packet-Pacing Configurable Timers No Yes2Yes
Per Intf IGMP State Limit Yes Yes Yes
Per Intf MrouteState Limit Yes Yes Yes
Per Port Per VLAN Policing Yes Yes Yes
Per-User ACL Support for 802.1X/MAB/Webauth users Yes Yes Yes
Per-VLAN Learning Yes Yes Yes
Permanent Right-to-Use (PRTU) license Yes Yes Yes
PIM Dense Mode State Refresh No Yes Yes
PIM Multicast Scalability No Yes Yes
PIM Version 1 No Yes Yes
PIM Version 2 No Yes Yes
PoEP via LLDP Yes Yes Yes
Policy Based Routing (PBR) No No Yes
Policy-Based Routing (PBR) Recursive Next Hop No No Yes
Port Security Yes (supports
1024 MACs)
Yes (supports 3072
MACs)
Yes (supports 3072
MACs)s
Port Security on Etherchannel Trunk Port Yes Yes Yes
Pragmatic General Multicast (PGM) No Yes Yes
Priority Queueing (PQ) Yes Yes Yes
Private VLAN Promiscuous Trunk Port Yes Yes Yes
Private VLAN Trunk Ports Yes Yes Yes
Private VLANs Yes Yes Yes
Propagation of Location Info over CDP Yes Yes Yes
PVLAN over EtherChannel Yes Yes Yes
Table 5 LAN Base, IP Base, and Enterprise Services Image Support on Cisco Catalyst 4500E
Supervisor Engine 7-E and Supervisor Engine 7L-E
Feature LAN Base IP Base
Enterprise
Services
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Release Notes for the Catalyst 4500E Series Switch, Cisco IOS XE Release 3.4.xSG
OL-27990-04
System Requirements
PVST + (Per VLAN Spanning Tree Plus) Yes Yes Yes
Q-in-Q No Yes Yes
QoS Packet Marking Yes Yes Yes
QoS Priority Percentage CLI Support Yes Yes Yes
RA DI US Yes Ye s Ye s
RADIUS Attribute 44 (Accounting Session ID) in Access
Requests
Yes Ye s Ye s
RADIUS Change of Authorization Yes Yes Yes
Rapid PVST+ Dispute Mechanism Yes Yes Yes
Rapid-Per-VLAN-Spanning Tree (Rapid-PVST) Yes Yes Yes
Reduced MAC Address Usage Yes Yes Yes
Redundancy Facility Protocol Yes Yes Yes
Remote SPAN (RSPAN) Yes Yes Yes
REP (Resilient Ethernet Protocol) Yes Yes Yes
REP - No Edge Neighbor Enhancement Yes Yes Yes
RIP v1 No Yes Yes
RMON events and alarms Yes Yes Yes
Secure Copy (SCP) Yes Yes Yes
Secure Shell SSH Version 1 Integrated Client Yes Yes Yes
Secure Shell SSH Version 1 Server Support Yes Yes Yes
Secure Shell SSH Version 2 Client Support Yes Yes Yes
Secure Shell SSH Version 2 Server Support Yes Yes Yes
Single Rate 3-Color Marker for Traffic Policing Yes Yes Yes
Smart Install Director Support3Yes Ye s Ye s
Smart Port Yes Yes Yes
SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) Yes Yes Yes
Table 5 LAN Base, IP Base, and Enterprise Services Image Support on Cisco Catalyst 4500E
Supervisor Engine 7-E and Supervisor Engine 7L-E
Feature LAN Base IP Base
Enterprise
Services
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Release Notes for the Catalyst 4500E Series Switch, Cisco IOS XE Release 3.4.xSG
OL-27990-04
System Requirements
SNMP Inform Request Yes Yes Yes
SNMP Manager Yes Yes Yes
SNMPv2C Yes Yes Yes
SNMPv3 - 3DES and AES Encryption Support Yes Yes Yes
SNMPv3 (SNMP Version 3) Yes Yes Yes
Source Specific Multicast (SSM) No Yes Yes
Source Specific Multicast (SSM) - IGMPv3,IGMP v3lite,
and URD
No Yes Yes
Source Specific Multicast (SSM) Mapping No Yes Yes
SPAN (# of sessions) – Port Mirroring Yes (4 sessions) Yes (16
bidirectional
sessions)
Yes (16
bidirectional
sessions)
SPAN ACL Filtering for IPv6 Yes Yes Yes
Span Enhancement: Packet Type and Address Type
Filtering
Yes Ye s Ye s
Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) Yes Yes Yes
Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) - Backbone Fast
Convergence
Yes Ye s Ye s
Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) - Loop Guard Yes Yes Yes
Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) - Portfast Yes Yes Yes
Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) - PortFast BPDU Filtering Yes Yes Yes
Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) - Portfast BPDU Guard Yes Yes Yes
Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) - Portfast Support for Trunks Yes Yes Yes
Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) - Root Guard Yes Yes Yes
Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) - Uplink Fast Convergence Yes Yes Yes
Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) - Uplink Load Balancing Yes Yes Yes
Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) Extension Yes Yes Yes
Stateful Switchover No Yes Yes
Table 5 LAN Base, IP Base, and Enterprise Services Image Support on Cisco Catalyst 4500E
Supervisor Engine 7-E and Supervisor Engine 7L-E
Feature LAN Base IP Base
Enterprise
Services
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Release Notes for the Catalyst 4500E Series Switch, Cisco IOS XE Release 3.4.xSG
OL-27990-04
System Requirements
Standard IP Access List Logging Yes Yes Yes
Standby Supervisor Port Usage Yes Yes Yes
Sticky Port Security Yes Yes Yes
Sticky Port Security on Voice VLAN Yes Yes Yes
Storm Control - Per-Port Multicast Suppression Yes Yes Yes
STP Syslog Messages Yes Yes Yes
Stub IP Multicast Routing No Yes Yes
Sub-second UDLD Yes Yes Yes
SVI (Switch Virtual Interface) Autostate Exclude Yes Yes Yes
Switch and IP Phone Security Interaction Yes Yes Yes
Switch Port Analyzer (SPAN) Yes Yes Yes
Switch Port Analyzer (SPAN) - CPU Source Yes Yes Yes
Sy sl og over IPV6 Yes Yes Yes
System Logging - EAL4 Certification Enhancements No Yes Yes
TACACS SENDAUTH functio n Ye s Ye s Yes
TACACS Single Connection Yes Yes Yes
TACACS+ Yes Ye s Ye s
TACACS+ and Radius for IPv6- Yes Yes Yes
TCAM4 - Dynamic Multi-Protocol Yes Yes Yes
TCAM4 - Service-Aware Resource Allocation Yes Yes Yes
Time Domain Reflectometry (TDR)4No Yes Yes
Time-Based Access Lists Yes Yes Yes
Time-Based Access Lists Using Time Ranges (ACL) Yes Yes Yes
Trusted boundary (extended trust for CDP devices) Yes Yes Yes
TrustSec: IEEE 802.1ae MACSec Layer 2 encryption No Yes Yes
Table 5 LAN Base, IP Base, and Enterprise Services Image Support on Cisco Catalyst 4500E
Supervisor Engine 7-E and Supervisor Engine 7L-E
Feature LAN Base IP Base
Enterprise
Services
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TrustSec: IEEE 802.1ae MACSec encryption on user
facing ports
No Yes Yes
TrustSec: IEEE 802.1ae MACSec encryption on user
facing ports SSO
No Yes Yes
TrustSec: IEEE 802.1ae MACSec encryption between
switch-to-switch links using Cisco SAP (Security
Association Protocol)
No Yes Yes
TrustSec SGT Exchange Protocol (SXP) IPv4 No Yes Yes
UDI - Unique Device Identifier Yes Yes Yes
Uni-Directional Link Routing (UDLR) No Yes Yes
Unicast Mac Filtering Yes Yes Yes
Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding (uRPF) No Yes Yes
Unidirectional Ethernet Yes Yes Yes
UniDirectional Link Detection (UDLD) Yes Yes Yes
Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) for IPv4 No Yes Yes
Virtual Switching System (VSS)5No Yes
(SUP7E only)
Yes
Virtual Trunking Protocol (VTP) - Pruning Yes Yes Yes
VLAN Access Control List (VACL) Yes Yes Yes
VLAN MAC Address Filtering Yes Yes Yes
VLAN Mapping (VLAN Translation) No Yes Yes
VRF-aware TACACS+ No No Yes
VTP (Virtual Trunking Protocol) Version 2 Yes Yes Yes
VTP Version 3 Yes Yes Yes
WCCP Version 2 No Yes Yes
Web Authentication Proxy Yes Yes Yes
Webauth Enhancements Yes Yes Yes
Wireshark-based Ethernet Analyzer No Yes Yes
Table 5 LAN Base, IP Base, and Enterprise Services Image Support on Cisco Catalyst 4500E
Supervisor Engine 7-E and Supervisor Engine 7L-E
Feature LAN Base IP Base
Enterprise
Services
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MIB Support
For information on MIB support, please refer to this URL:
http://ftp.cisco.com/pub/mibs/supportlists/cat4000/cat4000-supportlist.html
Features Not Supported on the Cisco Catalyst 4500E Series Switch
The following features are not supported on a Catalyst 4500E Series Switch with Supervisor Engine 7-E
and Supervisor Engine 7L-E:
•CISCO-IETF-IP-FORWARD-MIB
•CISCO-IETF-IP-MIB
•LLDP HA
•WCCP Version 1
XM L- PI Yes Ye s Ye s
1. EEE 802.1t—An IEEE amendment to IEEE 802.1D that includes extended system ID, long path cost, and PortFast.
2. IP Base supports only one OSPFv2 and one OSPFv3 instance with a maximum number of 200 dynamically learned routes.
3. Smart Install Director is not supported with VSS.
4. TDR is not supported on 46xx linecards.
5. Older generation line cards are not supported in the 3.4.0SG release with the VSS feature. These include all line cards starting with the 'WS-X45xy' id,
and lower. 'WS-X44xy' and 'WS-X42xy' are some other examples of unsupported line cards. Please remove these line cards from your system when
converting from standalone to VSS mode.
Table 5 LAN Base, IP Base, and Enterprise Services Image Support on Cisco Catalyst 4500E
Supervisor Engine 7-E and Supervisor Engine 7L-E
Feature LAN Base IP Base
Enterprise
Services
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Orderable Product Numbers
Table 6 Cisco IOS XE Software Release 3.4.0SG Product Numbers and Images for the Catalyst
4500E Series Switch
Product Number Description Image
S45EU-34-1512SG CAT4500e SUP7-E/SUP7L-E Universal
Image
cat4500e-universal.SPA.03.04.00.SG.151-2.SG.bin
S45EUK9-34-1512SG CAT4500e SUP7-E/SUP7L-E Universal
Crypto Image
cat4500e-universalk9.SPA.03.04.00.SG.151-2.SG.bin
S45EUN-34-1512SG CAT4500e SUP7-E/SUP7L-E Universal
No MACSEC Image
cat4500e-universalk9npe.SPA.03.04.00.SG.151-2.SG
.bin
C4500E-LIC= Base product ID for paper delivered
software licenses
NA
C4500E-LB LAN BASE software license (paper
delivery)
NA
C4500E-IPB IP BASE software license (paper
delivery)
NA
C4500E-LB-IPB LAN BASE to IP BASE upgrade license
(paper delivery)
NA
C4500E-LB-ES LAN BASE to Enterprise Services
upgrade license (paper delivery)
NA
C4500E-IP-ES IP BASE to Enterprise Services upgrade
license (paper delivery)
NA
C4500E-LIC-PAK Base product ID for paper delivered
software licenses for spare Supervisor
Engine 7-E
NA
C4500E-IP-ES-S IP BASE to Enterprise Services upgrade
license for spare Supervisor
Engine7-E(paper delivery)
NA
C4500E-IPB-S IP BASE software license for spare
Supervisor Engine 7-E (paper delivery)
NA
L-C4500-LIC= Base product ID for electronically
delivered software licenses
NA
L-C4500E-LB-IP LAN BASE to IP BASE upgrade license
(electronically delivered)
NA
L-C4500E-IP-ES IP BASE to Enterprise Services upgrade
license (electronically delivered)
NA
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New and Changed Information
These sections describe the new and changed information for the Catalyst 4500 series switch running
Cisco IOS software:
•New Software Features in Release IOS XE 3.4.2SG, page 33
•New Hardware Features in Release IOS XE 3.4.2SG, page 33
•New Software Features in Release IOS XE 3.4.0SG, page 33
•New Hardware Features in Release IOS XE 3.4.0SG, page 34
New Software Features in Release IOS XE 3.4.2SG
Release IOS XE 3.4.2SG provides the following new software on Catalyst 4500 Series switches:
•Permanent Right-to-Use (PRTU) license
New Hardware Features in Release IOS XE 3.4.2SG
Release IOS XE 3.4.0SG provides no new hardware on Catalyst 4500 Series switches.
New Software Features in Release IOS XE 3.4.0SG
Release IOS XE 3.4.0SG provides the following new software on Catalyst 4500 Series switches:
High Availability
•Virtual Switching System (VSS)
•ISSU—IPv4 Multicast
•ISSU—IPv6 Multicast
•NSF/SSO—IPv4 Multicast
•NSF/SSO—IPv6 Multicast
Security
•IPv6 First Hop Security
–
DHCPv6 Guard
–
Lightweight DHCPv6 Relay Agent (LDRA)
–
IPv6 Destination Guard
L-C4500E-LB-ES LAN BASE to Enterprise Services
upgrade license (electronically
delivered)
NA
Table 6 Cisco IOS XE Software Release 3.4.0SG Product Numbers and Images for the Catalyst
4500E Series Switch
Product Number Description Image
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–
IPv6 Snooping
–
IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Multicast Suppression
–
IPv6 Router Advertisement (RA) Guard
•Other
–
Reverse SSH Enhancements
–
Secure Shell SSH Version 2 Client Support
–
Secure Shell SSH Version 2 Server Support
–
SSH Keyboard Interactive Authentication
–
SSHv2 Enhancements
–
SSHv2 Enhancements for RSA Keys
Lower Total Cost of Ownership and Ease of Use
•Smart Install (Director Support)
Routing and Multicast Enhancements
•BGP Consistency Checker
•IPv6 BSR Scoped Zone support
•OSPFv3 Address Families
•OSPFv3 Time To Live Security
•Policy Based Routing: Recursive Next Hop
IPv6 Access Control
•IPv6 VACL (Vlan Access Control List)
•SPAN ACL Filtering for IPv6
Other
•FTP IPv6 Support
•IPSLA 4.0 - IPv6 phase 2
•IPSLA Multicast Support
•NTPv4 Orphan Mode support, Range for trusted key configuration
•TFTP IPv6 Support
•WSMA and XMLPI enhancement
New Hardware Features in Release IOS XE 3.4.0SG
Release IOS XE 3.4.0SG provides the following new hardware on Catalyst 4500 Series switches:
•X2-10GB-T for 10GBASE-T X2 Support—Provides link lengths up to 100m on CAT6A or CAT7
copper cables
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Cisco IOS XE to Cisco IOS Version Number Mapping
Cisco IOS XE to Cisco IOS Version Number Mapping
As Table 7 shows, each version of Cisco IOS XE has an associated Cisco IOS version:
Table 7 Cisco IOS XE to Cisco IOS Version Number Mapping
Upgrading the System Software
If you are upgrading to Cisco IOS XE Version 3.4.0SG and are planning on using VSS, you must upgrade
your ROMMON to IOS Version 15.0(1r)SG7. Otherwise, you must upgrade your ROMMON to at least
IOS Version 15.0(1r)SG2.
Be aware that you can upgrade a ROMMON image either through a console or telnet.
If dual supervisors are present, first upgrade your software to Cisco IOS XE 3.2.0SG or higher, then
upgrade your ROMMON to IOS Version 15.0(1r)SG7 to avoid an uplinks issue (CSCtj54375).
Identifying an +E Chassis and ROMMON
When supervisor engine 1 (sup1) is in ROMMON and supervisor engine 2 (sup2) is in IOS, only sup2
can read the idprom contents of chassis’ idprom. Chassis type is displayed as “+E” in the output of the
show version command. Conversely, sup1 can only display the chassis type as “E.”
When both sup1 and sup2 are in ROMMON, both engines can read the chassis’ idprom. Chassis type is
displayed correctly as “+E” in the output of the show version command.
When both sup1 and sup2 are in IOS, both engines can read the chassis’ idprom. Chassis type is
displayed correctly as “+E” in the output of the show version command.
Limitations and Restrictions
This section list the limitations and restrictions for the current release of Cisco IOS software on the
Catalyst 4500E series switch.
•Starting with Release IOS XE 3.3.0SG and IOS 15.1(1)SG, the seven RP restriction was removed.
•The WS-X4712-SFP+E module is not supported in the WS-C4507R-E or WS-C4510R-E chassis
and does not boot. This module is supported in the WS-C4503-E, WS-C4506-E, WS-C4507R+E,
and WS-C4510R+E chassis.
Cisco IOS XE Version Cisco IOS Version
03.1.0SG 15.0(1)XO
03.1.1SG 15.0(1)XO1
03.2.0SG 15.0(2)SG
03.3.0SG 15.1(1)SG
03.3.1SG 15.1(1)SG1
03.4.0SG 15.1(2)SG
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•More than 16K QoS policies can be configured in software. Only the first 16K are installed in
hardware.
•Adjacency learning (through ARP response frames) is restricted to roughly 1000 new adjacencies
per second, depending on CPU utilization. This should only impact large networks on the first
bootup. After adjacencies are learned they are installed in hardware.
•Multicast fastdrop entries are not created when RPF failure occurs with IPv6 multicast traffic. In a
topology where reverse path check failure occurs with IPv6 multicast, this may cause high CPU
utilization on the switch.
•The SNMP ceImageFeature object returns a similar feature list for all the three license levels (LAN
Base, IP Base, and EntServices). Although the activated feature set for a universal image varies
based on the installed feature license, the value displayed by this object is fixed and is not based on
the feature license level.
•Standard TFTP implementation limits the maximum size of a file that can be transferred to 32 MB.
If ROMMON is used to boot an IOS image that is larger than 32 MB, the TFTP transfer fails at the
65,xxx datagram.
TFTP numbers its datagrams with a 16 bit field, resulting in a maximum of 65,536 datagrams.
Because each TFTP datagram is 512 bytes long, the maximum transferable file is 65536 x 512 = 32
MB. If both the TFTP client (ROMMON) and the TFTP server support block number wraparound,
no size limitation exists.
Cisco has modified the TFTP client to support block number wraparound. So, if you encounter a
transfer failure, use a TFTP server that supports TFTP block number wraparound. Because most
implementations of TFTP support block number wraparound, updating the TFTP daemon should fix
the issue.
•A XML-PI specification file entry does not return the desired CLI output.
The outputs of certain commands, such as show ip route and show access-lists, contain
non-deterministic text. While the output is easily understood, the output text does not contain strings
that are consistently output. A general purpose specification file entry is unable to parse all possible
output.
Workaround (1):
While a general purpose specification file entry may not be possible, a specification file entry might
be created that returns the desired text by searching for text that is guaranteed to be in the output. If
a string is guaranteed to be in the output, it can be used for parsing.
For example, the output of the show ip access-lists SecWiz_Gi3_17_out_ip command is this:
Extended IP access list SecWiz_Gi3_17_out_ip
10 deny ip 76.0.0.0 0.255.255.255 host 65.65.66.67
20 deny ip 76.0.0.0 0.255.255.255 host 44.45.46.47
30 permit ip 76.0.0.0 0.255.255.255 host 55.56.57.57
The first line is easily parsed because access list is guaranteed to be in the output:
<Property name="access list" alias="Name" distance="1.0" length="-1" type="String"
/>
The remaining lines all contain the term host. As a result, the specification file may report the
desired values by specifying that string. For example, this line
<Property name="host" alias="rule" distance="s.1" length="1" type="String" />
will produce the following for the first and second rules
<rule>
deny
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</rule>
and the following for the third statement
<rule>
permit
<rule>
Workaround (2):
Request the output of the show running-config command using NETCONF and parse that output
for the desired strings. This is useful when the desired lines contain nothing in common. For
example, the rules in this access list do not contain a common string and the order (three permits,
then a deny, then another permit), prevent the spec file entry from using permit as a search string,
as in the following example:
Extended MAC access list MACCOY
permit 0000.0000.ffef ffff.ffff.0000 0000.00af.bcef ffff.ff00.0000 appletalk
permit any host 65de.edfe.fefe xns-idp
permit any any protocol-family rarp-non-ipv4
deny host 005e.1e5d.9f7d host 3399.e3e1.ff2c dec-spanning
permit any any
The XML output of show running-config command includes the following, which can then be
parsed programmatically, as desired:
<mac><access-list><extended><ACLName>MACCOY</ACLName></extended></access-list></mac>
<X-Interface> permit 0000.0000.ffef ffff.ffff.0000 0000.00af.bcef ffff.ff00.0000
appletalk</X-Interface>
<X-Interface> permit any host 65de.edfe.fefe xns-idp</X-Interface>
<X-Interface> permit any any protocol-family rarp-non-ipv4</X-Interface>
<X-Interface> deny host 005e.1e5d.9f7d host 3399.e3e1.ff2c
dec-spanning</X-Interface>
<X-Interface> permit any any</X-Interface>
CSCtg93278
•When attaching a existing policy-map (that is already applied to a control-port) to another
front-panel port, the following message displays:
The policymap <policy-map name> is already attached to control-plane and cannot be
shared with other targets.
Workaround: Define a policy-map with a different name and then reattach. CSCti26172
•If the number of unique FNF monitors attached to target exceeds 2048 (one per target), a switch
responds slowly:
Workarounds:
–
Decrease the number of monitors.
–
Attach the same monitor to multiple targets. CSCti43798
•ciscoFlashPartitionFileCount object returns an incorrect file count for bootflash:, usb0:, slot0:,
slaveslot0:, slavebootflash:, and slaveusb0:.
Workaround: Use the dir device command (for example, dir bootflash:) to obtain the correct file
count. CSCti74130
•If multicast is configured and you make changes to the configuration, Traceback and CPUHOG
messages are displayed if the following conditions exist:
–
At least 10K groups and roughly 20K mroutes exist.
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–
IGMP joins with source traffic transit to all the multicast groups.
This is caused by the large number of updates generating SPI messages that must be processed by
the CPU to ensure that the platform is updated with the changes in all the entries.
Workaround: None. CSCti20312
•With traffic running, entering clear ip mroute * with larger number of mroutes and over 6 OIFs will
cause Malloc Fail messages to display.
You cannot clear a large number of mroutes at one time when traffic is still running.
Workaround: Do not clear all mroutes at once.
CSCtn06753
•Although you can configure subsecond PIM query intervals on Catalyst 4500 platforms, such an
action represents a compromise between convergence (reaction time) and a number of other factors
(number of mroutes, base line of CPU utilization, CPU speed, processing overhead per 1 m-route,
etc.). You must account for those factors when configuring subsecond PIM timers. We recommend
that you set the PIM query interval to a minimum of 2 seconds. By adjusting the available
parameters, you can achieve flawless operation; that is, a top number of multicast routes per given
convergence time on a specific setup.
•Energywise WOL is not “waking up” a PC in hibernate or standby mode.
Workaround: None. CSCtr51014
•The ROMMON version number column in the output of show module command is truncated.
Workaround: Use the show version command. CSCtr30294
•IP SLA session creation fails randomly for various 4-tuples.
Workaround: Select an alternate destination or source port. CSCty05405
•The system cannot scale to greater than 512 SIP flows with MSP and metadata enabled.
Workaround: None. CSCty79236
•When sup1 is in ROMMON and sup2 is in IOS, only sup2 can read the SEEPROM contents of the
following chassis components:
–
chassis
–
fan-tray
–
clock-module
–
power-supplies
–
mux-buffer for each linecard slot
–
linecards
On sup1, when the sprom read .. command is entered for any of the above components, the
SEEPROM contents are displayed as all “0”s.
When sup1 and sup2 are both in ROMMON (or both in IOS (SSO state)), they can read all
SEEPROMs.
•On the following linecards running IOS XE Release 3.2.3:
–
10/100/1000BaseT Premium POE E Series WS-X4648-RJ45V+E (JAE1348OY52)
–
4 Sup 7-E 10GE (SFP+), 1000BaseX (SFP) WS-X45-SUP7-E (CAT1434L0G4)
the following restrictions apply:
–
Sub-interfaces are not supported on 1 Gigabit and Ten-Gigabit interfaces.
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–
Port-channel members do not support multiple classification criteria for a QoS policy.
–
CEF is disabled automatically when uRFP is enabled and TCAM is fully utilized.
•When either the RADIUS-server test feature is enabled or RADIUS-server dead-criteria is
configured, and either RADIUS-server deadtime is set to 0 or not configured, the RADIUS-server
status is not properly relayed to AAA.
Workaround: Configure both dead-criteria and deadtime.
radius-server dead-criteria
radius-server deadtime
CSCtl06706
•If you use the quick option in the issu changeversion command, the following might occur:
–
Links flap for various Layer 3 protocols.
–
A traffic loss of several seconds is observed during the upgrade process.
Workaround: Do not use the quick option with the issu changeversion command. CSCto51562
•While configuring an IPv6 access-list, if you specify hardware statistics as the first statement in
v6 access-list mode (i.e. before issuing any other v6 ACE statement), it will not take effect.
Similarly, your hardware statistics configuration will be missing from the output of the show
running command.
You will not experience this behavior with IPv4 access lists.
Workaround: During IPv6 access-list configuration, configure at least one IPv6 ACE before the
"hardware statistics" statement. CSCuc53234
•Routed packets that are fragmented are not policed if the egress interface is on the VSS Standby
switch. However, if the egress interface is on the VSS Active switch, these packets are policed.
This applies to QoS policing only. QoS marking, shaping and sharing behave as expected.
Workaround: None. CSCub14402
•When an IPv6 FHS policy is applied on a VLAN and an EtherChannel port is part of that VLAN,
packets received by EtherChannel (from neighbors) are not bridged across the local switch.
Workaround: Apply FHS policies on a non EtherChannel port rather than a VLAN. CSCua53148
•During VSS conversion, the switch intended as the Standby device may require up to 9 minutes to
reach an SSO state. The boot up time depends on the configuration and on the number of line cards
in the system.
Workaround: None. CSCua87538
•Dual connectors (like, an SFP+ transceiver inserted into a CVR-X2-SFP10G module) on the
WS-X4606-X2-E line card are not supported as a VSL.
Workaround: Use any X2-pluggable module on its own in the WS-X4606-X2-E line card.
CSCuc70321
•Memory allocation failures can occur if more than 16K IPv6 multicast snooping entries are present.
Workaround: None. CSCuc77376
•When you connect two PoE-capable Catalyst 4648 or 4748 modules with straight-through copper
cabling, the link may flap, and you may observe incorrect PoE status. If the port belongs to an
EtherChannel, it will repeatedly unbundle, then bundle.
Workarounds:
–
Use a crossover cable.
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Caveats
–
Enter the diagnostic dpm-discovery-disable module m command provided you are running
Cisco IOS XE Release 3.4.1SG or higher. CSCub74707
•Auto negotiation cannot be disabled on the Fa1 port. It must be set to auto/auto, or fixed speed with
duplex auto.
•When performing an ISSU upgrade from a release prior to Cisco IOS 15.1(2)SG to release Cisco
IOS 15.1(2)SG or higher, dynamic ACLs are lost after the first switchover.
Workaround: Enter shut then no shut on any port to restart the authentication session and restore
the ACL. CSCul20163
•When performing an ISSU between any releases prior to Cisco IOS 15.1(1)SG or 3.3.0SG to release
Cisco IOS 15.1(1)SG (or 3.3.0SG) or higher, a switch performing multicast routing may persistently
drop traffic after the upgrade completes. You can recover multicast traffic by reloading the chassis.
Alternately, you can remove all multicast configuration prior to ISSU, and add it back when ISSU
completes. CSCuj42672
Caveats
Caveats describe unexpected behavior in Cisco IOS releases. Caveats listed as open in a prior release are
carried forward to the next release as either open or resolved.
Note For the latest information on PSIRTS, refer to the Security Advisories on CCO at the following URL:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/products_security_advisories_listing.html
Cisco Bug Search Tool
The Bug Search Tool (BST) is the online successor to Bug Toolkit and is designed to improve the
effectiveness in network risk management and device troubleshooting. The BST allows partners and
customers to search for software bugs based on product, release, and keyword, and aggregates key data
such as bug details, product, and version. The tool has a provision to filter bugs based on credentials to
provide external and internal bug views for the search input. You can access the tool at:
https://tools.cisco.com/bugsearch/ .
To view the details of a caveat listed in this document:
1. Click on the link in the Bug ID column.
2. Logon to the BST using your Cisco user ID and password
Resolved Caveats for Cisco IOS XE Release 3.4.8 SG
Bug ID Headline
CSCux65501 4500X forwards Ethernet I frames on stp blocked port
CSCuz10028 ACLHWPROGERR message seen with IPV6 ACL+L4 operator
CSCuy82367 Cisco IOS and IOS XE Software Smart Install Memory Leak Vulnerability
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CSCuy92401 Texel SG6: CTS periodic reviews are started at portBringup
CSCuw17135 Cat4k SUP7L-E CPU temperature sensor failed
CSCuz26852 Interrupts for Parity Error are not enabled after 'reload' command.
CSCva10393 system crashed during boot up on 4948E
CSCuv14614 WS-X4640-CSFP-E ports (Tx) are disabled
CSCur20842 multiple match criteria should not be allowed on EC member ports
CSCur03797 policy-map with policer percent/DBL results in non-sharing of TCAM entry
CSCuu43892 switch crash on qpair_full after executing dhcpd_* functions
CSCup90532 Cisco IOS and IOS XE Software DNS Forwarder Denial of Service Vulnerability
CSCux82995 AmurMR4: EPM ACL Plugin process memory holding increases with CoA
CSCuv03066 Switch crashed
CSCuw48118 ASR920 - crash in bcopy called from 'addnew' during reassembly
CSCux66005 Cisco IOS XE Software IP Fragment Reassembly Denial of Service Vuln.
CSCud36767 Cisco IOS and IOS XE MSDP SA Message Denial of Service Vulnerability
CSCum36951 Cisco IOS Software IKEv2 Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
CSCvb29204 BenignCertain on IOS and IOS-XE
CSCuy47382 Cisco IOS and IOS XE Software IKEv1 1 Fragmentation Denial of Service
Vulnerability
CSCuw85826 Evaluation of Cisco IOS and IOS-XEl for NTP_October_2015
CSCux46898 NTP associations vulnerability
CSCum19502 Inconsistent behavior between telnet and ssh in low memory conditions
CSCva37519 stale flowmgr entry during ipv6 tacacs transaction leads to crash
CSCuy38709 Memory leak with watcher_create_common.
CSCvb16274 PPTP Start-Control-Connection-Reply packet leaks router memory contents
Bug ID Headline
CSCui10480 UDE does not work properly
CSCuc49150 You cannot detach an input QoS policy from VSL member ports
Bug ID Headline
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Resolved Caveats for Cisco IOS XE Release 3.4.7SG
Open Caveats for Cisco IOS XE Release 3.4.6SG
Resolved Caveats for Cisco IOS XE Release 3.4.6SG
Bug ID Headline
CSCus19794 Cisco IOS and IOS XE IPv6 SEND Denial of Service Vulnerability
CSCus21950 Crash seen after getting LINEPROCDEAD errors and tracebacks
CSCuu90695 DM/SM boundary (S,G) are not repopulated: Multicast Missing Registration
CSCul01067 Memory leak in NTP client with IPv6 configuration
CSCuq66263 Switch crashes when ACL add entry
CSCuq53377 AAA AttrL memory Leak due to Auth-Manager
CSCuq24202 Cisco IOS TCL script interpreter privilege escalation vulnerability
CSCut87425 CPU hog in "EEM TCL Proc" after TCL script termination with long runtime
CSCuu77313 4948 - rxSymbolErrors and rxSequenceErrors incrementing
Bug ID Headline
CSCts26844 Disparity btwn Cisco TrustSec and RADIUS accounting
CSCts20229 Mediatrace cannot find the correct inbound interface
CSCtx51561 Problem with adding "bfd" suffix to the snmp server host
CSCuc36612 Error-disable event in a multichassis port channel on a VSS system
CSCud39208 Error messages and traceback for Bidir PIM
CSCui10480 UDE does not work properly
CSCto46018 Device in a guest VLAN has packet loss after a SSO failover
CSCuc49150 You cannot deattach an input QoS policy from VSL member ports
CSCun83237 On VSS active switch, devices cannot reach the internet or server
Bug ID Headline
CSCtf75400 Wrong output for show platform software etherchannel port-channel n map
CSCuf52741 file verify auto always present in default-running-config
CSCug90126 C4510 returns incorrect ciscoEnvMonSupplyState value
CSCul73513 Clock is not matching between server-client after leap configuration
CSCum56902 Sup7L-E FFM Crashes while removing the class-map
CSCun34745 \"ip ssh source-interface\" configuration missing after reload
CSCuo26294 Switch crashes with process FFM terminated abnormally
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Caveats
Open Caveats for Cisco IOS XE Release 3.4.5SG
Resolved Caveats for Cisco IOS XE Release 3.4.5SG
CSCuo28455 SMI - Custom group doesn't work for new PIDS not in the IBD database
CSCup84251 Crash on purge_app_tlv_and_notify
CSCuq01267 HSRP VMAC is not programmed after SSO in cat4k VSS setup
CSCuq04574 WS-C4500X-16 with 3.5.3E crashes due to SNMP polling
CSCuq80812 Incomplete ARP reply received on an active Flex Link port
CSCur21848 WCCP stops redirecting traffic when eighth port added to service group
CSCur23656 Cisco IOS and IOSd in IOS-XE : evaluation of SSLv3 POODLE vulnerability
CSCur84243 WS-X4640-CSFP-E ports (Tx) are disabled on start-up
CSCur98467 VSL-MGMT access-list mac address changes after entire VSS reload
CSCus23266 C4500X deny ACE does not work correctly
CSCus47714 VSS active and standby MAC address teble can not synchronisation issue.
CSCus69731 IOS-XE for Nova device: glibc GHOST vulnerability - CVE-2015-0235
Bug ID Headline
CSCts26844 Disparity btwn Cisco TrustSec and RADIUS accounting
CSCts20229 Mediatrace cannot find the correct inbound interface
CSCtx51561 Problem with adding "bfd" suffix to the snmp server host
CSCuc36612 Error-disable event in a multichassis port channel on a VSS system
CSCud39208 Error messages and traceback for Bidir PIM
CSCui10480 UDE does not work properly
CSCto46018 Device in a guest VLAN has packet loss after a SSO failover
CSCuc49150 You cannot deattach an input QoS policy from VSL member ports
CSCuo18934 After ISSU to 3.2.7, multicast packet loss is observed
CSCun83237 On VSS active switch, devices cannot reach the internet or server
CSCtg00542 LACP delay with netflow sampling
Bug ID Headline
CSCsl41325 Device crashes when a routing adjacency goes down; spurious memory access
CSCse19848 Multicast and broadcast SNMP counters are not populated for some interf.
CSCse78880 ACL config. sync. error: Line-by-line sync. verification failure
CSCts88778 Incorrect ussage of sstrncpy() in "qnq_switch_cli.c" file
CSCuc03836 Switch reports SYS-2-MALLOCFAIL error for a very large amount of memory
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Caveats
CSCuc81286 Entering the "show spi-fc 12" cmd causes the device to crash
CSCud86438 Stack member memory leak in "HULC DOT1X Process"
CSCug17582 Message "Password required, but none set" after entering "enable" cmd
CSCug77784 File table overflow: private-config file open fails
CSCui36462 Random interfaces stop receiving traffic
CSCui87789 Switch fails after entering the "clear ip dhcp conflict *" command
CSCuj66318 Vulnerability in NTP implmntn: allows query with access-group configured
CSCum54321 The switch crash file is not saved on certain IOS platforms
CSCum71764 VLAN intf. not ready when 'ip igmp mroute-proxy' configured after reboot
CSCum80951 TCAM does not share when same policy is applied to multiple interfaces
CSCum91811 Switching loop occurs when removing DTP from port-channel.
CSCun13984 The switch reloads while modifying static mac address-table entry
CSCun11927 OAM not working after link flap between 4500X and ASR9K
CSCun22906 Output drop on Ten port of C4948E with random size packet
CSCun55459 CVV VLAN Policy does not appear in "show auth sess" CLI output
CSCun92058 Memory leak @ *MDA context* after configuring dot1x auth
CSCuo26294 Switch crashes with process FFM terminated abnormally
CSCuo51767 REP preemption is not triggered with link state change
CSCuo73465 RPF not updated in hardware table
CSCuo80260 Call-home message fails; returns "Unknown" serial number
CSCuo88868 Link debounce config passes to port-channel after a flap on members
CSCuo89407 Problem with adding new ports to a channel group.
CSCuo90172 Software returns incorrect MIB value from day 1
CSCup06835 UDLD not working on a switch with port as dot1q trunk
CSCup08161 Stacklow crash when copying file via SNMP
CSCup22590 Multiple Vulnerabilities in IOS/IOSd OpenSSL - June 2014
CSCup39712 Switch crashes with critical software exception during config push
CSCup52101 EnergyWise Denial of Service vulnerabilty
CSCup71993 DOT1x issues while using "authentication open"
CSCuq02796 Catalyst 4500-X VSS failure after adding members to port-channel
CSCuq09636 Single bit error corrected on Sup7-E is inadvertently logged in syslog
CSCuq39071 Mcast packet loss when other receiver leaves group in IGMPv3
CSCur03368 IOS-XE for Nova devices: GNU Bourne Shell "Shellshock" Vulnerability"
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Caveats
Open Caveats for Cisco IOS XE Release 3.4.4SG
This section lists the open caveats for Cisco IOS XE Release 3.4.4SG:
•When you enable both Cisco TrustSec and RADIUS accounting, a disparity occurs between the
RADIUS client (Cisco switch) and the RADIUS/CTS server in how the authenticator field in the
header is computed for DOT1X/RADIUS accounting messages.
A Cisco IOS AAA client uses the PAC secret to compute the authenticator; Cisco Secure ACS 5.2
uses the shared secret. This behavior causes a mismatch that results in a rejection of the accounting
message, and the client marks the server as unresponsive.
Workaround: None. You must disable 802.1X accounting. CSCts26844
•When more than one Equal Cost Multipath (ECMP) is available on the downstream switch, and
Mediatrace is invoked to provide flow statistics, the dynamic policy does not show statistics for a
flow.
Mediatrace cannot find the correct inbound interface and applies the dynamic policy on a different
interface from the one used for media flow.
Workaround: None. CSCts20229
•When you add a "bfd" suffix to the snmp server host x.x.x.x configuration command, the BFD traps,
ciscoBfdSessUp and ciscoBfdSessDown, are not generated.
Workaround: Do not specify a "bfd" suffix with the snmp-server host x.x.x.x configuration
command. CSCtx51561
•In a multichassis port channel on a VSS system with a very high number of link up and down events
that occur within a second and typically causes an error-disable event, only the ports on the active
switch are error-disabled due to flaps.
Workaround: None. CSCuc36612
•The following (information-only) error message and traceback may occur during MFIB-to-platform
state updates for Bidirectional PIM (*,G/m) entries associated with Bidirectional PIM rendezvous
points:
%SYS-2-NOBLOCK: may_suspend with blocking disabled. -Process= "MFIB_mrib_read", ipl=
0, pid= 370
-Traceback= 1#f95b67f80cdf0886bbf15560d7553abc :152CC000+2699F4C :152CC000+269A310
:152CC000+1F1B55C :152CC000+38D5F4C :152CC000+2C25698 :152CC000+2C2EDF4
:152CC000+5F6F0B0 :152CC000+5F6F1A0 :152CC000+2C2F274 :152CC000+2C24AA4
:152CC000+119935C :152CC000+1D94244 :152CC000+119B070 :152CC000+119699C
:152CC000+2C50D00 :152CC000+2B5901C
These messages are typically observed during SSO, bootup, or when a PIM-enabled interface
undergoes a state transition on a switch containing Bidir PIM state entries.
Workaround: None. CSCud39208
•Configuring an interface as unidirectional with the unidirectional send-only | receive-only
command still allows an interface to send (configured as Send-only Unidirection Ethernet mode) or
receive (configured as Receive-only Unidirection Ethernet mode) packets in a bidirectional mode.
Workaround: None. CSCui10480
•If you enter the show spi-fc 12 command, a crash occurs.
Workaround: Use the show spi-fc all command to dump all SPI channel information. CSCuc81286
•You can attach an input QoS policy to VSL member ports, but you cannot detach it. You only can
configure VSL ports.
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Caveats
Workaround: Default the VSL member ports and detach the input QoS policy. CSCuc49150
•A device in a guest VLAN that is connected behind a phone capable of 2nd-port-notification
experiences packet loss following a SSO failover. The device experiences an authentication restart
after the first CDP frame arrives from the phone.
Workaround: None. CSCto46018
•After performing an ISSU from Cisco IOS Release 3.2.3 to 3.2.7, multicast packet loss is observed
after both supervisor engines are running IOS Release 3.2.7
Workaround: Do a switchover. CSCuo18934
•On a VSS active switch, devices (i.e., hosts, phones, or workstations) directly connected to ports
Gi1/7/38, Gi1/7/39, Gi1/7/40, Gi1/7/43 on VLAN 34 cannot reach the internet or server.
Workaround: None. CSCun83237
•Occasionally, when netflow sampling is enabled, LACP requires about 60-70 sec until members are
bundled.
Workaround: Disable netflow sampling. CSCtg00542
•Upon adding a new static MAC entry on a Catalyst 4500X VSS running version 3.4.3 and 3.5.x, the
switch number is truncated in the running config. Although the entry functions as expected, it
displays incorrectly. Upon reload, it encounters an error because the entry is no longer a valid
switch, module, or port.
4500x_vss(config)#mac address-table static 03bf.ac10.0cb9 vlan 1 interface Te1/2/3
4500x_vss#show run | i mac add
mac address-table static 03bf.ac10.0cb9 vlan 1 interface Te2/3 <--- Missing the 1/
Upon reload, the config errors out
mac address-table static 03bf.ac10.0cb9 vlan 1 interface Te2/3
^
% Invalid input detected at '^' marker.
Workaround: After a reload, manually re-add the static entry into the running config. CSCuo60703
•A switch may crash due to an interaction with PIM.
The exact triggers are unknown.
Workaround: None. CSCuo37416
•When ip igmp mroute-proxy is configured and you reload the switch, it will remove the command:
interface Vlan14
ip address 10.1.1.1 255.255.255.252
ip pim sparse-mode
ip igmp mroute-proxy Vlan2137
end
48 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces
2 Ten Gigabit Ethernet interfaces
511K bytes of non-volatile configuration memory.
ip igmp mroute-proxy Vlan2137
^
% Invalid input detected at '^' marker.
Workaround: Reapply the configuration when the switch reboots. CSCum71764
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Caveats
Resolved Caveats for Cisco IOS XE Release 3.4.4SG
This section lists the resolved caveats for Cisco IOS XE Release 3.4.4SG:
•When you configure open authentication and perform SSO, the spanning tree state and MAC address
are not synchronized to the new Standby supervisor engine. This behavior interrupts traffic only
after the second switchover because the new Standby supervisor engine possesses the wrong state
after the initial switchover and the second switchover starts the port in the blocking state.
Workaround: Enter shut and no shut on the port to synchronize the STP state. CSCtf52437
•Packets that are routed on the same Layer 3 interface (or SVI) that entered on are dropped if received
on the VSS standby switch.
Workaround: None. CSCuj67614
•A switch crashes on receiving a malformed LLDP packet.
LLDP should be enabled.
Workaround: None. CSCun66735
•Upon removing the active supervisor engine from a switch, multicast and unicast packet loss occur
(for 60 seconds) until route convergence completes.
Workaround: None. CSCun97605
Open Caveats for Cisco IOS XE Release 3.4.3SG
This section lists the open caveats for Cisco IOS XE Release 3.4.3SG:
•When an SNMP query includes the cpmCPUProcessHistoryTable, the query time is very slow, and
CPU utilization of the os_info_p process (OS Information provider) increases substantially. The
query time of an almost fully populated table is 68 minutes.
Workaround: None. CSCth42248
•The show ipv6 access-list command displays incorrect match counts when multicast traffic is
matched to an IPv6 access list that is attached to an SVI.
Workaround: None. CSCth65129
•When you configure open authentication and perform SSO, the spanning tree state and MAC address
are not synchronized to the new Standby supervisor engine. This behavior interrupts traffic only
after the second switchover because the new Standby supervisor engine possesses the wrong state
after the initial switchover and the second switchover starts the port in the blocking state.
Workaround: Enter shut and no shut on the port to synchronize the STP state. CSCtf52437
•If you reboot a switch, the configured value of the interface MTU size for the elements of the port
channel interface does not work for IPv6 traffic.
Workaround: After the switch reloads, enter shut and no shut on the port-channel interface.
CSCto27085
•Dynamic buffer limiting might not function at queue limits less than or equal to 128.
Workaround: Increase the queue limit to at least 256. CSCto57602
•A device in a guest VLAN that is connected behind a phone capable of 2nd-port-notification
experiences packet loss following a SSO failover. The device experiences an authentication restart
after the first CDP frame arrives from the phone.
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Caveats
Workaround: None. CSCto46018
•If you perform an OIR on a line card, several %C4K_RKNOVA-4-INVALIDTOKENEXPIRED
messages appear in the logs.
Workaround: None. CSCtu37959
•When you enable both Cisco TrustSec and RADIUS accounting, a disparity occurs between the
RADIUS client (Cisco switch) and the RADIUS/CTS server in how the authenticator field in the
header is computed for DOT1X/RADIUS accounting messages.
A Cisco IOS AAA client uses the PAC secret to compute the authenticator; Cisco Secure ACS 5.2
uses the shared secret. This behavior causes a mismatch that results in a rejection of the accounting
message, and the client marks the server as unresponsive.
Workaround: None. You must disable 802.1X accounting. CSCts26844
•When more than one Equal Cost Multipath (ECMP) is available on the downstream switch, and
Mediatrace is invoked to provide flow statistics, the dynamic policy does not show statistics for a
flow.
Mediatrace cannot find the correct inbound interface and applies the dynamic policy on a different
interface from the one used for media flow.
Workaround: None. CSCts20229
•When a switchover is created on the Mediatrace responder, the dynamic access list created for a
monitored flow tuple is not deleted. Although the Mediatrace initiator creates another set of dynamic
access lists after the switchover, the old ones remain in the configuration.
Stale dynamic access lists force the system to monitor unwanted traffic.
Workarounds:
–
If the switchover is scheduled, remove the scheduled session on the initiator and reschedule the
session after the new active supervisor engine boots on the responder.
–
If the Mediatrace responder SSO is not planned, after the new active supervisor engine boots,
manually delete the stale dynamic access lists. CSCty75070
•When you add a "bfd" suffix to the snmp server host x.x.x.x configuration command, the BFD traps,
ciscoBfdSessUp and ciscoBfdSessDown, are not generated.
Workaround: Do not specify a "bfd" suffix with the snmp-server host x.x.x.x configuration
command. CSCtx51561
•During either a system- or user-initiated reload operation, the following message is observed when
the system shuts down:
HARDWARE WATCHDOG
This message is not observed during a system bootup.
Workaround: None required. This message is information only. CSCtz15738
•In a multichassis port channel on a VSS system with a very high number of link up and down events
that occur within a second and typically causes an error-disable event, only the ports on the active
switch are error-disabled due to flaps.
Workaround: None. CSCuc36612
•If you enter the show spi-fc 12 command, a crash occurs.
Workaround: Use the show spi-fc all command to dump all SPI channel information. CSCuc81286
•When you enter the ip pim register-rate-limit command, the following error message displays:
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Caveats
'Failed to configure service policy on register tunnel' and 'STANDBY:Failed to
configure service policy on register tunnel'.
Workaround: None. The ip pim register-rate-limit command does not function. CSCub32679
•Packets that are routed on the same Layer 3 interface (or SVI) that entered on are dropped if received
on the VSS standby switch.
Workaround: None. CSCuj67614
•Ports occasionally stay down after an OIR of a standby line card in VSS.
Workaround: Enter shut, then no shut to bring up the links. CSCuc37676
•You can attach an input QoS policy to VSL member ports, but you cannot detach it. You only can
configure VSL ports.
Workaround: Default the VSL member ports and detach the input QoS policy. CSCuc49150
•When VSS receives a VTP message with information about the creation of 4000 VLANs, traceback
and syslog messages (containing EM-4-SEARCH) are displayed.
Workaround: None. You might try reducing the number of VLANs created at one time.
CSCuc66206
•For packets with the same ingress and egress Layer 3 interface, ingress QoS marking policy does
not work.
Workaround: Turn off ICMP redirect through the ip redirect command. CSCua71929
•When the Wireshark feature is applied on a control panel, it fails to capture the correct packets as
they travel to the CPU in VSS, under the following conditions:
–
Incoming packets on the VSS standby port are directed to the CPU for host learning.
–
Layer 3 exceptions occur for packets arriving on the VSS standby port.
–
ACL logging occurs on the VSS standby port.
Workaround: None. CSCub33727
•The POST results on the VSS standby switch displayed by the show diagnostic result module all
detail command indicate module number 1 rather than 11. The module number is not interpreted by
Cisco IOS.
Workaround: None. CSCuc73632
•The following (information-only) error message and traceback may occur during MFIB-to-platform
state updates for Bidirectional PIM (*,G/m) entries associated with Bidirectional PIM rendezvous
points:
%SYS-2-NOBLOCK: may_suspend with blocking disabled. -Process= "MFIB_mrib_read", ipl=
0, pid= 370
-Traceback= 1#f95b67f80cdf0886bbf15560d7553abc :152CC000+2699F4C :152CC000+269A310
:152CC000+1F1B55C :152CC000+38D5F4C :152CC000+2C25698 :152CC000+2C2EDF4
:152CC000+5F6F0B0 :152CC000+5F6F1A0 :152CC000+2C2F274 :152CC000+2C24AA4
:152CC000+119935C :152CC000+1D94244 :152CC000+119B070 :152CC000+119699C
:152CC000+2C50D00 :152CC000+2B5901C
These messages are typically observed during SSO, bootup, or when a PIM-enabled interface
undergoes a state transition on a switch containing Bidir PIM state entries.
Workaround: None. CSCud39208
•Configuring an interface as unidirectional with the unidirectional send-only | receive-only
command still allows an interface to send (configured as Send-only Unidirection Ethernet mode) or
receive (configured as Receive-only Unidirection Ethernet mode) packets in a bidirectional mode.
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Caveats
Workaround: None. CSCui10480
Resolved Caveats for Cisco IOS XE Release 3.4.3SG
This section lists the resolved caveats for Cisco IOS XE Release 3.4.3SG:
•On systems performing multicast routing, a brief increase in CPU consumption occurs every few
minutes. In large-scale environments, this CPU increase is more noticeable.
Workaround: None. CSCub44553
•Following a switchover on VSS, CPU may remain high. The show platform cpu packet statistics
command displays high usage due to “SA Miss.”
Workaround: Clear the MAC table. CSCuh50329
•Frequent polling of CPU-PROCESS-MIB may cause a switch to unexpectedly reload.
Workaround: None.CSCug65204
•SNMP may time out and produce CPUHOG messages when lldpXMedMIB is polled.
Workaround: CSCuh88726
•A port configured for webauth is not programmed with the default or fallback ACL when sessions
enter the INIT state.
Workaround: None. CSCuj71597
•When a device authenticates with dot1x after authenticating with MAB, any policies applied by
MAB remain in place.
Wokarounds:
–
Ensure that the dot1x supplicant always authenticates before MAB.
–
Create MAB policies for dot1x hosts that do not supply a URL redirect. CSCui79988
•On a Catalyst 4500 VSS using IOS Release XE 3.4.0SG to 3.4.2SG, or 3.5.0E, the show platform
command may be truncated with a "Timed out" message and may rarely produce an unexpected
reload. The likelihood of a reload increases if the command is issued over an SSH session or if the
output is redirected to a file. The same behavior is observed using IOS Release XE 3.5.0 and the
show tech command.
Workaround: None. CSCul00025
Open Caveats for Cisco IOS XE Release 3.4.2SG
This section lists the open caveats for Cisco IOS XE Release 3.4.2SG:
•When an SNMP query includes the cpmCPUProcessHistoryTable, the query time is very slow, and
CPU utilization of the os_info_p process (OS Information provider) increases substantially. The
query time of an almost fully populated table is 68 minutes.
Workaround: None. CSCth42248
•The show ipv6 access-list command displays incorrect match counts when multicast traffic is
matched to an IPv6 access list that is attached to an SVI.
Workaround: None. CSCth65129
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Caveats
•When you configure open authentication and perform SSO, the spanning tree state and MAC address
are not synchronized to the new Standby supervisor engine. This behavior interrupts traffic only
after the second switchover because the new Standby supervisor engine possesses the wrong state
after the initial switchover and the second switchover starts the port in the blocking state.
Workaround: Enter shut and no shut on the port to synchronize the STP state. CSCtf52437
•If you reboot a switch, the configured value of the interface MTU size for the elements of the port
channel interface does not work for IPv6 traffic.
Workaround: After the switch reloads, enter shut and no shut on the port-channel interface.
CSCto27085
•Dynamic buffer limiting might not function at queue limits less than or equal to 128.
Workaround: Increase the queue limit to at least 256. CSCto57602
•A device in a guest VLAN that is connected behind a phone capable of 2nd-port-notification
experiences packet loss following a SSO failover. The device experiences an authentication restart
after the first CDP frame arrives from the phone.
Workaround: None. CSCto46018
•If you perform an OIR on a line card, several %C4K_RKNOVA-4-INVALIDTOKENEXPIRED
messages appear in the logs.
Workaround: None. CSCtu37959
•When you enable both Cisco TrustSec and RADIUS accounting, a disparity occurs between the
RADIUS client (Cisco switch) and the RADIUS/CTS server in how the authenticator field in the
header is computed for DOT1X/RADIUS accounting messages.
A Cisco IOS AAA client uses the PAC secret to compute the authenticator; Cisco Secure ACS 5.2
uses the shared secret. This behavior causes a mismatch that results in a rejection of the accounting
message, and the client marks the server as unresponsive.
Workaround: None. You must disable 802.1X accounting. CSCts26844
•When more than one Equal Cost Multipath (ECMP) is available on the downstream switch, and
Mediatrace is invoked to provide flow statistics, the dynamic policy does not show statistics for a
flow.
Mediatrace cannot find the correct inbound interface and applies the dynamic policy on a different
interface from the one used for media flow.
Workaround: None. CSCts20229
•When a switchover is created on the Mediatrace responder, the dynamic access list created for a
monitored flow tuple is not deleted. Although the Mediatrace initiator creates another set of dynamic
access lists after the switchover, the old ones remain in the configuration.
Stale dynamic access lists force the system to monitor unwanted traffic.
Workarounds:
–
If the switchover is scheduled, remove the scheduled session on the initiator and reschedule the
session after the new active supervisor engine boots on the responder.
–
If the Mediatrace responder SSO is not planned, after the new active supervisor engine boots,
manually delete the stale dynamic access lists. CSCty75070
•When you add a "bfd" suffix to the snmp server host x.x.x.x configuration command, the BFD traps,
ciscoBfdSessUp and ciscoBfdSessDown, are not generated.
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Caveats
Workaround: Do not specify a "bfd" suffix with the snmp-server host x.x.x.x configuration
command. CSCtx51561
•During either a system- or user-initiated reload operation, the following message is observed when
the system shuts down:
HARDWARE WATCHDOG
This message is not observed during a system bootup.
Workaround: None required. This message is information only. CSCtz15738
•In a multichassis port channel on a VSS system with a very high number of link up and down events
that occur within a second and typically causes an error-disable event, only the ports on the active
switch are error-disabled due to flaps.
Workaround: None. CSCuc36612
•If you enter the show spi-fc 12 command, a crash occurs.
Workaround: Use the show spi-fc all command to dump all SPI channel information. CSCuc81286
•When you enter the ip pim register-rate-limit command, the following error message displays:
'Failed to configure service policy on register tunnel' and 'STANDBY:Failed to
configure service policy on register tunnel'.
Workaround: None. The ip pim register-rate-limit command does not function. CSCub32679
•Packets that are routed on the same Layer 3 interface (or SVI) that entered on are dropped if received
on the VSS standby switch.
Workaround: None. CSCuj67614
•Ports occasionally stay down after an OIR of a standby line card in VSS.
Workaround: Enter shut, then no shut to bring up the links. CSCuc37676
•You can attach an input QoS policy to VSL member ports, but you cannot detach it. You only can
configure VSL ports.
Workaround: Default the VSL member ports and detach the input QoS policy. CSCuc49150
•When VSS receives a VTP message with information about the creation of 4000 VLANs, traceback
and syslog messages (containing EM-4-SEARCH) are displayed.
Workaround: None. You might try reducing the number of VLANs created at one time.
CSCuc66206
•For packets with the same ingress and egress Layer 3 interface, ingress QoS marking policy does
not work.
Workaround: Turn off ICMP redirect through the ip redirect command. CSCua71929
•On systems performing multicast routing, a brief increase in CPU consumption occurs every few
minutes. In large-scale environments, this CPU increase is more noticeable.
Workaround: None. CSCub44553
•When the Wireshark feature is applied on a control panel, it fails to capture the correct packets as
they travel to the CPU in VSS, under the following conditions:
–
Incoming packets on the VSS standby port are directed to the CPU for host learning.
–
Layer 3 exceptions occur for packets arriving on the VSS standby port.
–
ACL logging occurs on the VSS standby port.
Workaround: None. CSCub33727
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•The POST results on the VSS standby switch displayed by the show diagnostic result module all
detail command indicate module number 1 rather than 11. The module number is not interpreted by
Cisco IOS.
Workaround: None. CSCuc73632
•The following (information-only) error message and traceback may occur during MFIB-to-platform
state updates for Bidirectional PIM (*,G/m) entries associated with Bidirectional PIM rendezvous
points:
%SYS-2-NOBLOCK: may_suspend with blocking disabled. -Process= "MFIB_mrib_read", ipl=
0, pid= 370
-Traceback= 1#f95b67f80cdf0886bbf15560d7553abc :152CC000+2699F4C :152CC000+269A310
:152CC000+1F1B55C :152CC000+38D5F4C :152CC000+2C25698 :152CC000+2C2EDF4
:152CC000+5F6F0B0 :152CC000+5F6F1A0 :152CC000+2C2F274 :152CC000+2C24AA4
:152CC000+119935C :152CC000+1D94244 :152CC000+119B070 :152CC000+119699C
:152CC000+2C50D00 :152CC000+2B5901C
These messages are typically observed during SSO, bootup, or when a PIM-enabled interface
undergoes a state transition on a switch containing Bidir PIM state entries.
Workaround: None. CSCud39208
•Configuring an interface as unidirectional with the unidirectional send-only | receive-only
command still allows an interface to send (configured as Send-only Unidirection Ethernet mode) or
receive (configured as Receive-only Unidirection Ethernet mode) packets in a bidirectional mode.
Workaround: None. CSCui10480
•Following a switchover on VSS, CPU may remain high. The show platform cpu packet statistics
command displays high usage due to “SA Miss.”
Workaround: Clear the MAC table. CSCuh50329
•Frequent polling of CPU-PROCESS-MIB may cause a switch to unexpectedly reload.
Workaround: None.CSCug65204
•SNMP may time out and produce CPUHOG messages when lldpXMedMIB is polled.
Workaround: CSCuh88726
•A port configured for webauth is not programmed with the default or fallback ACL when sessions
enter the INIT state.
Workaround: None. CSCuj71597
•When a device authenticates with dot1x after authenticating with MAB, any policies applied by
MAB remain in place.
Wokarounds:
–
Ensure that the dot1x supplicant always authenticates before MAB.
–
Create MAB policies for dot1x hosts that do not supply a URL redirect. CSCui79988
•On a Catalyst 4500 VSS using IOS Release XE 3.4.0SG to 3.4.2SG, or 3.5.0E, the show platform
command may be truncated with a "Timed out" message and may rarely produce an unexpected
reload. The likelihood of a reload increases if the command is issued over an SSH session or if the
output is redirected to a file. The same behavior is observed using IOS Release XE 3.5.0 and the
show tech command.
Workaround: None. CSCul00025
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Resolved Caveats for Cisco IOS XE Release 3.4.2SG
This section lists the resolved caveats for Cisco IOS XE Release 3.4.2SG:
•A GLC-GE-100FX pluggable may not operate when used in WS-X4624-SFP-E,
WS-X4640-CSFP-E or WS-X4612-SFP-E modules.
Workaround: None CSCui23911
•The switch may reload unexpectedly or become inaccessible when the integrated web server is used,
either through direct web access to the switch, or indirectly through the webauth feature.
Workaround: Enter either the no ip http server or the no ip http secure-server command. This
disables the http/s server. CSCui14525
Open Caveats for Cisco IOS XE Release 3.4.1SG
This section lists the open caveats for Cisco IOS XE Release 3.4.1SG:
•When an SNMP query includes the cpmCPUProcessHistoryTable, the query time is very slow, and
CPU utilization of the os_info_p process (OS Information provider) increases substantially. The
query time of an almost fully populated table is 68 minutes.
Workaround: None. CSCth42248
•The show ipv6 access-list command displays incorrect match counts when multicast traffic is
matched to an IPv6 access list that is attached to an SVI.
Workaround: None. CSCth65129
•When you configure open authentication and perform SSO, the spanning tree state and MAC address
are not synchronized to the new Standby supervisor engine. This behavior interrupts traffic only
after the second switchover because the new Standby supervisor engine possesses the wrong state
after the initial switchover and the second switchover starts the port in the blocking state.
Workaround: Enter shut and no shut on the port to synchronize the STP state. CSCtf52437
•If you reboot a switch, the configured value of the interface MTU size for the elements of the port
channel interface does not work for IPv6 traffic.
Workaround: After the switch reloads, enter shut and no shut on the port-channel interface.
CSCto27085
•Dynamic buffer limiting might not function at queue limits less than or equal to 128.
Workaround: Increase the queue limit to at least 256. CSCto57602
•A device in a guest VLAN that is connected behind a phone capable of 2nd-port-notification
experiences packet loss following a SSO failover. The device experiences an authentication restart
after the first CDP frame arrives from the phone.
Workaround: None. CSCto46018
•If you perform an OIR on a line card, several %C4K_RKNOVA-4-INVALIDTOKENEXPIRED
messages appear in the logs.
Workaround: None. CSCtu37959
•When you enable both Cisco TrustSec and RADIUS accounting, a disparity occurs between the
RADIUS client (Cisco switch) and the RADIUS/CTS server in how the authenticator field in the
header is computed for DOT1X/RADIUS accounting messages.
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A Cisco IOS AAA client uses the PAC secret to compute the authenticator; Cisco Secure ACS 5.2
uses the shared secret. This behavior causes a mismatch that results in a rejection of the accounting
message, and the client marks the server as unresponsive.
Workaround: None. You must disable 802.1X accounting. CSCts26844
•When more than one Equal Cost Multipath (ECMP) is available on the downstream switch, and
Mediatrace is invoked to provide flow statistics, the dynamic policy does not show statistics for a
flow.
Mediatrace cannot find the correct inbound interface and applies the dynamic policy on a different
interface from the one used for media flow.
Workaround: None. CSCts20229
•When a switchover is created on the Mediatrace responder, the dynamic access list created for a
monitored flow tuple is not deleted. Although the Mediatrace initiator creates another set of dynamic
access lists after the switchover, the old ones remain in the configuration.
Stale dynamic access lists force the system to monitor unwanted traffic.
Workarounds:
–
If the switchover is scheduled, remove the scheduled session on the initiator and reschedule the
session after the new active supervisor engine boots on the responder.
–
If the Mediatrace responder SSO is not planned, after the new active supervisor engine boots,
manually delete the stale dynamic access lists. CSCty75070
•When you add a "bfd" suffix to the snmp server host x.x.x.x configuration command, the BFD traps,
ciscoBfdSessUp and ciscoBfdSessDown, are not generated.
Workaround: Do not specify a "bfd" suffix with the snmp-server host x.x.x.x configuration
command. CSCtx51561
•During either a system- or user-initiated reload operation, the following message is observed when
the system shuts down:
HARDWARE WATCHDOG
This message is not observed during a system bootup.
Workaround: None required. This message is information only. CSCtz15738
•In a multichassis port channel on a VSS system with a very high number of link up and down events
that occur within a second and typically causes an error-disable event, only the ports on the active
switch are error-disabled due to flaps.
Workaround: None. CSCuc36612
•If you enter the show spi-fc 12 command, a crash occurs.
Workaround: Use the show spi-fc all command to dump all SPI channel information. CSCuc81286
•When you enter the ip pim register-rate-limit command, the following error message displays:
'Failed to configure service policy on register tunnel' and 'STANDBY:Failed to
configure service policy on register tunnel'.
Workaround: None. The ip pim register-rate-limit command does not function. CSCub32679
•Packets that are routed on the same Layer 3 interface (or SVI) that entered on are dropped if received
on the VSS standby switch.
Workaround: None. CSCuj67614
•Ports occasionally stay down after an OIR of a standby line card in VSS.
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Workaround: Enter shut, then no shut to bring up the links. CSCuc37676
•You can attach an input QoS policy to VSL member ports, but you cannot detach it. You only can
configure VSL ports.
Workaround: Default the VSL member ports and detach the input QoS policy. CSCuc49150
•When VSS receives a VTP message with information about the creation of 4000 VLANs, traceback
and syslog messages (containing EM-4-SEARCH) are displayed.
Workaround: None. You might try reducing the number of VLANs created at one time.
CSCuc66206
•For packets with the same ingress and egress Layer 3 interface, ingress QoS marking policy does
not work.
Workaround: Turn off ICMP redirect through the ip redirect command. CSCua71929
•On systems performing multicast routing, a brief increase in CPU consumption occurs every few
minutes. In large-scale environments, this CPU increase is more noticeable.
Workaround: None. CSCub44553
•When the Wireshark feature is applied on a control panel, it fails to capture the correct packets as
they travel to the CPU in VSS, under the following conditions:
–
Incoming packets on the VSS standby port are directed to the CPU for host learning.
–
Layer 3 exceptions occur for packets arriving on the VSS standby port.
–
ACL logging occurs on the VSS standby port.
Workaround: None. CSCub33727
•The POST results on the VSS standby switch displayed by the show diagnostic result module all
detail command indicate module number 1 rather than 11. The module number is not interpreted by
Cisco IOS.
Workaround: None. CSCuc73632
•The following (information-only) error message and traceback may occur during MFIB-to-platform
state updates for Bidirectional PIM (*,G/m) entries associated with Bidirectional PIM rendezvous
points:
%SYS-2-NOBLOCK: may_suspend with blocking disabled. -Process= "MFIB_mrib_read", ipl=
0, pid= 370
-Traceback= 1#f95b67f80cdf0886bbf15560d7553abc :152CC000+2699F4C :152CC000+269A310
:152CC000+1F1B55C :152CC000+38D5F4C :152CC000+2C25698 :152CC000+2C2EDF4
:152CC000+5F6F0B0 :152CC000+5F6F1A0 :152CC000+2C2F274 :152CC000+2C24AA4
:152CC000+119935C :152CC000+1D94244 :152CC000+119B070 :152CC000+119699C
:152CC000+2C50D00 :152CC000+2B5901C
These messages are typically observed during SSO, bootup, or when a PIM-enabled interface
undergoes a state transition on a switch containing Bidir PIM state entries.
Workaround: None. CSCud39208
•Configuring an interface as unidirectional with the unidirectional send-only | receive-only
command still allows an interface to send (configured as Send-only Unidirection Ethernet mode) or
receive (configured as Receive-only Unidirection Ethernet mode) packets in a bidirectional mode.
Workaround: None. CSCui10480
•The switch may reload unexpectedly or become inaccessible when the integrated web server is used,
either through direct web access to the switch, or indirectly through the webauth feature.
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Workaround: Enter either the no ip http server or the no ip http secure-server command. This
disables the http/s server. CSCui14525
•A GLC-GE-100FX pluggable may not operate when used in WS-X4624-SFP-E,
WS-X4640-CSFP-E or WS-X4612-SFP-E modules.
Workaround: None CSCui23911
•Following a switchover on VSS, CPU may remain high. The show platform cpu packet statistics
command displays high usage due to “SA Miss.”
Workaround: Clear the MAC table. CSCuh50329
•Frequent polling of CPU-PROCESS-MIB may cause a switch to unexpectedly reload.
Workaround: None.CSCug65204
•SNMP may time out and produce CPUHOG messages when lldpXMedMIB is polled.
Workaround: CSCuh88726
•A port configured for webauth is not programmed with the default or fallback ACL when sessions
enter the INIT state.
Workaround: None. CSCuj71597
•When a device authenticates with dot1x after authenticating with MAB, any policies applied by
MAB remain in place.
Wokarounds:
–
Ensure that the dot1x supplicant always authenticates before MAB.
–
Create MAB policies for dot1x hosts that do not supply a URL redirect. CSCui79988
•On a Catalyst 4500 VSS using IOS Release XE 3.4.0SG to 3.4.2SG, or 3.5.0E, the show platform
command may be truncated with a "Timed out" message and may rarely produce an unexpected
reload. The likelihood of a reload increases if the command is issued over an SSH session or if the
output is redirected to a file. The same behavior is observed using IOS Release XE 3.5.0 and the
show tech command.
Workaround: None. CSCul00025
Resolved Caveats for Cisco IOS XE Release 3.4.1SG
This section lists the resolved caveats for Cisco IOS XE Release 3.4.1SG:
•With IGMP snooping enabled, multicast traffic received through a tunnel interface is not forwarded
through the Outgoing Interface List.
Workaround: Disable IGMP snooping. CSCuc65538
•When MLD snooping is enabled, control-plane policing on IPv6 ND packets stops working. This
does not impact other control packets.
Workaround: None. CSCua89658
•When a port connected to a CDP, DHCP, or LLDP speaker goes down, a small memory leak occurs
(typically less than 300 bytes).
Workaround: Disable these protocols on interfaces that might flap frequently. CSCub85948
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•VSS allows you to configure the router MAC address that is used by spanning tree to calculate its
bridge ID. When a switchover occurs, this MAC address is retained at the newly active switch.
However, the spanning tree bridge ID changes because it uses the local chassis MAC address,
instead of the configured router MAC address, to calculate the bridge ID.
Workaround: Ensure that the spanning-tree root is configured in the network. This avoids a
topology change. CSCud94151.
•The show inventory command does not display mux buffers information on the local chassis after
a switchover although this information is displayed prior to a switchover.
Workaround: Enter the show idprom muxbuffer command to display the missing information.
CSCuc79728
•When the VSS active switch is running and the VSS standby switch is booting, ports on the standby
switch boot long before the control plane is fully functional. This may cause channel ports on the
standby switch to start working in independent mode before the channel ports are bundled.
Workaround: Do not configure LACP independent mode. Because the PAgP does not have a
workaround, it may cause a traffic loss of several seconds until the ports are bundled. This situation
occurs only when a switch is booting; it does not apply to a port going down and coming up after
bootup. CSCud94258.
•If REP is configured on a dot1q trunk and the native VLAN is administratively set to something
other then the default, REP packets are not sent on the native VLAN
Workaround: Retain the trunk native VLAN as 1. CSCud05521
•When a session is neither authenticated nor granted fallback authorization (e.g. by entering
guest-vlan or auth-fail-vlan) in multi-auth mode, unauthenticated sessions remain indefinitely and
are not cleared by the system.
Workaround: Clear sessions manually with the clear authentication sessions command.
CSCtg15739
•redirect-url and redirect-acl are not cleared after a successful CoA, causing the final step of Central
Web Authentication to fail.
Workaround: Return a dACL in the authorization profile with successful guest authentication.
CSCue62019
•If URL redirect installed as part of authorization and either of the following occurs, memory will be
leaked:
–
a fast stream of traffic matches the URL redirect ACL as IPDT clears an address,
–
a traffic stream matches the URL redirect ACL and no URL redirect policy is installed for that
IP address,
If this occurs repeatedly, IPDT and other control packet processing ultimately ceases.
Workaround: If this behavior completely fills the CPU buffer, the switch must be reloaded.
However, the frequency of encountering a stuck queue can be reduced to nearly zero by modifying
the URL redirect ACL to permit only 80/443 traffic. CSCug56646
•If a dACL name is too long (about 24 characters, depending on the interface where it is applied), the
ACL will be incorrectly shared over multiple ports.
Workaround: Shorten the dACL name. CSCug78653
•On a switches polled for OIDs under CISCO-PROCESS-MIB and running IOS Release XE 3.3.0SG,
3.3.1SG, 3.3.2SG or 3.4.0SG, the show process memory sorted command displays an increasing
memory usage by the eicored process.
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Workaround: Exclude polling of the CISCO-PROCESS-MIB using an SNMP view:
snmp-server view restrict iso included
snmp-server view restrict ciscoProcessMIB excluded
snmp-server community cisco view restrict RO
CSCud55965
•Whenever a S,G entry expires, a switch shows increasing memory utilization in by the
MFIB_mrib/read/write process.
Workaround: Minimize leak by avoiding S,G deletion events:
–
Extend the receiver-less S,G duration (e.g. ip pim sparse sg-expiry-timer <big value>).
–
If sources are varied, try to minimize them.
–
If some static sources send infrequently, extend the expiry timer to cover the gaps in the packet
stream.
–
If some receivers are unreliable, consider static joins.
S,G clears:
–
Minimize Layer 2 or Layer 3 topology changes that would require multicast reconvergence.
–
Avoid manually clearing mroutes. CSCua62262
•A switch running IOS Release XE 3.4.0SG loses all Layer 3 connectivity to or from the switch IP
address. Switching is unaffected, but routed IP traffic (snmp, ntp, telnet, ssh, etc.) is affected.
Workaround: Once the problem occurs, reboot the switch.
Disabling Fa1 prevents the problem. CSCue76243
•A switch running IOS Release 3.3.0SG, 3.3.1SG, 3.3.2SG or 3.4.0SG drops some fragmented
packets that are routed through the switch. Bridged traffic is unaffected.
Workaround: None. CSCue96534
•SNMPGET queries for CISCO-PROCESS-MIB fail with the message "No Such Instance currently
exists at this OID."
Workaround: Use SNMPWALK. CSCtz67068
•If a switch issues CLI commands at a high rate (usually by script), it crashes with a message like the
following:
%IOSXE-2-PLATFORM: process ng_dumper: Process eicored: terminated abnormally.
Workaround: Avoid scripted CLI. CSCtz19897
•On Supervisor Engine 7L-E, MAC address learning does not occur on dot1q-tunnel ports.
This behavior is not observed on Supervisor Engine 7-E.
Workaround: None. CSCub01918
Open Caveats for Cisco IOS XE Release 3.4.0SG
This section lists the open caveats for Cisco IOS XE Release 3.4.0SG:
•When an SNMP query includes the cpmCPUProcessHistoryTable, the query time is very slow, and
CPU utilization of the os_info_p process (OS Information provider) increases substantially. The
query time of an almost fully populated table is 68 minutes.
Workaround: None. CSCth42248
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•The show ipv6 access-list command displays incorrect match counts when multicast traffic is
matched to an IPv6 access list that is attached to an SVI.
Workaround: None. CSCth65129
•When you configure open authentication and perform SSO, the spanning tree state and MAC address
are not synchronized to the new Standby supervisor engine. This behavior interrupts traffic only
after the second switchover because the new Standby supervisor engine possesses the wrong state
after the initial switchover and the second switchover starts the port in the blocking state.
Workaround: Enter shut and no shut on the port to synchronize the STP state. CSCtf52437
•If you reboot a switch, the configured value of the interface MTU size for the elements of the port
channel interface does not work for IPv6 traffic.
Workaround: After the switch reloads, enter shut and no shut on the port-channel interface.
CSCto27085
•Dynamic buffer limiting might not function at queue limits less than or equal to 128.
Workaround: Increase the queue limit to at least 256. CSCto57602
•A device in a guest VLAN that is connected behind a phone capable of 2nd-port-notification
experiences packet loss following a SSO failover. The device experiences an authentication restart
after the first CDP frame arrives from the phone.
Workaround: None. CSCto46018
•If you perform an OIR on a line card, several %C4K_RKNOVA-4-INVALIDTOKENEXPIRED
messages appear in the logs.
Workaround: None. CSCtu37959
•When you enable both Cisco TrustSec and RADIUS accounting, a disparity occurs between the
RADIUS client (Cisco switch) and the RADIUS/CTS server in how the authenticator field in the
header is computed for DOT1X/RADIUS accounting messages.
A Cisco IOS AAA client uses the PAC secret to compute the authenticator; Cisco Secure ACS 5.2
uses the shared secret. This behavior causes a mismatch that results in a rejection of the accounting
message, and the client marks the server as unresponsive.
Workaround: None. You must disable 802.1X accounting. CSCts26844
•When more than one Equal Cost Multipath (ECMP) is available on the downstream switch, and
Mediatrace is invoked to provide flow statistics, the dynamic policy does not show statistics for a
flow.
Mediatrace cannot find the correct inbound interface and applies the dynamic policy on a different
interface from the one used for media flow.
Workaround: None. CSCts20229
•When a switchover is created on the Mediatrace responder, the dynamic access list created for a
monitored flow tuple is not deleted. Although the Mediatrace initiator creates another set of dynamic
access lists after the switchover, the old ones remain in the configuration.
Stale dynamic access lists force the system to monitor unwanted traffic.
Workarounds:
–
If the switchover is scheduled, remove the scheduled session on the initiator and reschedule the
session after the new active supervisor engine boots on the responder.
–
If the Mediatrace responder SSO is not planned, after the new active supervisor engine boots,
manually delete the stale dynamic access lists. CSCty75070
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Caveats
•Configuring an interface as unidirectional with the unidirectional send-only | receive-only
command still allows an interface to send (configured as Send-only Unidirection Ethernet mode) or
receive (configured as Receive-only Unidirection Ethernet mode) packets in a bidirectional mode.
Workaround: None. CSCui10480
•When you add a "bfd" suffix to the snmp server host x.x.x.x configuration command, the BFD traps,
ciscoBfdSessUp and ciscoBfdSessDown, are not generated.
Workaround: Do not specify a "bfd" suffix with the snmp-server host x.x.x.x configuration
command. CSCtx51561
•During either a system- or user-initiated reload operation, the following message is observed when
the system shuts down:
HARDWARE WATCHDOG
This message is not observed during a system bootup.
Workaround: None required. This message is information only. CSCtz15738
•In a multichassis port channel on a VSS system with a very high number of link up and down events
that occur within a second and typically causes an error-disable event, only the ports on the active
switch are error-disabled due to flaps.
Workaround: None. CSCuc36612
•If you enter the show spi-fc 12 command, a crash occurs.
Workaround: Use the show spi-fc all command to dump all SPI channel information. CSCuc81286
•When you enter the ip pim register-rate-limit command, the following error message displays:
'Failed to configure service policy on register tunnel' and 'STANDBY:Failed to
configure service policy on register tunnel'.
Workaround: None. The ip pim register-rate-limit command does not function. CSCub32679
•Packets that are routed on the same Layer 3 interface (or SVI) that entered on are dropped if received
on the VSS standby switch.
Workaround: None. CSCuj67614
•Ports occasionally stay down after an OIR of a standby line card in VSS.
Workaround: Enter shut, then no shut to bring up the links. CSCuc37676
•You can attach an input QoS policy to VSL member ports, but you cannot detach it. You only can
configure VSL ports.
Workaround: Default the VSL member ports and detach the input QoS policy. CSCuc49150
•With IGMP snooping enabled, multicast traffic received through a tunnel interface is not forwarded
through the Outgoing Interface List.
Workaround: Disable IGMP snooping. CSCuc65538
•When VSS receives a VTP message with information about the creation of 4000 VLANs, traceback
and syslog messages (containing EM-4-SEARCH) are displayed.
Workaround: None. You might try reducing the number of VLANs created at one time.
CSCuc66206
•For packets with the same ingress and egress Layer 3 interface, ingress QoS marking policy does
not work.
Workaround: Turn off ICMP redirect through the ip redirect command. CSCua71929
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•On systems performing multicast routing, a brief increase in CPU consumption occurs every few
minutes. In large-scale environments, this CPU increase is more noticeable.
Workaround: None. CSCub44553
•When the Wireshark feature is applied on a control panel, it fails to capture the correct packets as
they travel to the CPU in VSS, under the following conditions:
–
Incoming packets on the VSS standby port are directed to the CPU for host learning.
–
Layer 3 exceptions occur for packets arriving on the VSS standby port.
–
ACL logging occurs on the VSS standby port.
Workaround: None. CSCub33727
•The POST results on the VSS standby switch displayed by the show diagnostic result module all
detail command indicate module number 1 rather than 11. The module number is not interpreted by
Cisco IOS.
Workaround: None. CSCuc73632
•The show inventory command does not display mux buffers information on the local chassis after
a switchover although this information is displayed prior to a switchover.
Workaround: Enter the show idprom muxbuffer command to display the missing information.
CSCuc79728
•The following (information-only) error message and traceback may occur during MFIB-to-platform
state updates for Bidirectional PIM (*,G/m) entries associated with Bidirectional PIM rendezvous
points:
%SYS-2-NOBLOCK: may_suspend with blocking disabled. -Process= "MFIB_mrib_read", ipl=
0, pid= 370
-Traceback= 1#f95b67f80cdf0886bbf15560d7553abc :152CC000+2699F4C :152CC000+269A310
:152CC000+1F1B55C :152CC000+38D5F4C :152CC000+2C25698 :152CC000+2C2EDF4
:152CC000+5F6F0B0 :152CC000+5F6F1A0 :152CC000+2C2F274 :152CC000+2C24AA4
:152CC000+119935C :152CC000+1D94244 :152CC000+119B070 :152CC000+119699C
:152CC000+2C50D00 :152CC000+2B5901C
These messages are typically observed during SSO, bootup, or when a PIM-enabled interface
undergoes a state transition on a switch containing Bidir PIM state entries.
Workaround: None. CSCud39208
•When a port connected to a CDP, DHCP, or LLDP speaker goes down, a small memory leak occurs
(typically less than 300 bytes).
Workaround: Disable these protocols on interfaces that might flap frequently. CSCub85948
•VSS allows you to configure the router MAC address that is used by spanning tree to calculate its
bridge ID. When a switchover occurs, this MAC address is retained at the newly active switch.
However, the spanning tree bridge ID changes because it uses the local chassis MAC address,
instead of the configured router MAC address, to calculate the bridge ID.
Workaround: Ensure that the spanning-tree root is configured in the network. This avoids a
topology change. CSCud94151.
•When the VSS active switch is running and the VSS standby switch is booting, ports on the standby
switch boot long before the control plane is fully functional. This may cause channel ports on the
standby switch to start working in independent mode before the channel ports are bundled.
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Workaround: Do not configure LACP independent mode. Because the PAgP does not have a
workaround, it may cause a traffic loss of several seconds until the ports are bundled. This situation
occurs only when a switch is booting; it does not apply to a port going down and coming up after
bootup. CSCud94258.
•When a port connected to a CDP, DHCP, or LLDP speaker goes down, a small memory leak occurs
(typically less than 300 bytes).
Workaround: Disable these protocols on interfaces that might flap frequently. CSCub85948
•When MLD snooping is enabled, control-plane policing on IPv6 ND packets stops working. This
does not impact other control packets.
Workaround: None. CSCua89658
•If REP is configured on a dot1q trunk and the native VLAN is administratively set to something
other then the default, REP packets are not sent on the native VLAN
Workaround: Retain the trunk native VLAN as 1. CSCud05521
•When a session is neither authenticated nor granted fallback authorization (e.g. by entering
guest-vlan or auth-fail-vlan) in multi-auth mode, unauthenticated sessions remain indefinitely and
are not cleared by the system.
Workaround: Clear sessions manually with the clear authentication sessions command.
CSCtg15739
•redirect-url and redirect-acl are not cleared after a successful CoA, causing the final step of Central
Web Authentication to fail.
Workaround: Return a dACL in the authorization profile with successful guest authentication.
CSCue62019
•If URL redirect installed as part of authorization and either of the following occurs, memory will be
leaked:
–
a fast stream of traffic matches the URL redirect ACL as IPDT clears an address,
–
a traffic stream matches the URL redirect ACL and no URL redirect policy is installed for that
IP address,
If this occurs repeatedly, IPDT and other control packet processing ultimately ceases.
Workaround: If this behavior completely fills the CPU buffer, the switch must be reloaded.
However, the frequency of encountering a stuck queue can be reduced to nearly zero by modifying
the URL redirect ACL to permit only 80/443 traffic. CSCug56646
•If a dACL name is too long (about 24 characters, depending on the interface where it is applied), the
ACL will be incorrectly shared over multiple ports.
Workaround: Shorten the dACL name. CSCug78653
•On a switches polled for OIDs under CISCO-PROCESS-MIB and running IOS Release XE 3.3.0SG,
3.3.1SG, 3.3.2SG or 3.4.0SG, the show process memory sorted command displays an increasing
memory usage by the eicored process.
Workaround: Exclude polling of the CISCO-PROCESS-MIB using an SNMP view:
snmp-server view restrict iso included
snmp-server view restrict ciscoProcessMIB excluded
snmp-server community cisco view restrict RO
CSCud55965
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•Whenever a S,G entry expires, a switch shows increasing memory utilization in by the
MFIB_mrib/read/write process.
Workaround: Minimize leak by avoiding S,G deletion events:
–
Extend the receiver-less S,G duration (e.g. ip pim sparse sg-expiry-timer <big value>).
–
If sources are varied, try to minimize them.
–
If some static sources send infrequently, extend the expiry timer to cover the gaps in the packet
stream.
–
If some receivers are unreliable, consider static joins.
S,G clears:
–
Minimize Layer 2 or Layer 3 topology changes that would require multicast reconvergence.
–
Avoid manually clearing mroutes. CSCua62262
•A switch running IOS Release XE 3.4.0SG loses all Layer 3 connectivity to or from the switch IP
address. Switching is unaffected, but routed IP traffic (snmp, ntp, telnet, ssh, etc.) is affected.
Workaround: Once the problem occurs, reboot the switch.
Disabling Fa1 prevents the problem. CSCue76243
•A switch running IOS Release 15.1(1)SG, 15.1(1)SG1, 15.1(1)SG2, or 15.1(2)SG, drops some
fragmented packets that are routed through the switch. Bridged traffic is unaffected.
Workaround: None. CSCue96534
•SNMPGET queries for CISCO-PROCESS-MIB fail with the message "No Such Instance currently
exists at this OID."
Workaround: Use SNMPWALK. CSCtz67068
•If a switch issues CLI commands at a high rate (usually by script), it crashes with a message like the
following:
%IOSXE-2-PLATFORM: process ng_dumper: Process eicored: terminated abnormally.
Workaround: Avoid scripted CLI. CSCtz19897
•On Supervisor Engine 7L-E, MAC address learning does not occur on dot1q-tunnel ports.
This behavior is not observed on Supervisor Engine 7-E.
Workaround: None. CSCub01918
•From Cisco IOS Release XE 3.2.0 onwards, configuring an interface as uni-directional with the
unidirectional send-only | receive-only command, still allows the interface to send or receive
packets in a bi-directional mode. An interface that is configured as "Send-only Unidirection
Ethernet mode" receives the packets; an interface configured as "Receive-only Unidirection
Ethernet mode" sends the packets.
Workaround: None. CSCui10480
•A GLC-GE-100FX pluggable may not operate when used in WS-X4624-SFP-E,
WS-X4640-CSFP-E or WS-X4612-SFP-E modules.
Workaround: None CSCui23911
•Following a switchover on VSS, CPU may remain high. The show platform cpu packet statistics
command displays high usage due to “SA Miss.”
Workaround: Clear the MAC table. CSCuh50329
•Frequent polling of CPU-PROCESS-MIB may cause a switch to unexpectedly reload.
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Workaround: None.CSCug65204
•SNMP may time out and produce CPUHOG messages when lldpXMedMIB is polled.
Workaround: CSCuh88726
•On a Catalyst 4500 VSS using IOS Release XE 3.4.0SG to 3.4.2SG, or 3.5.0E, the show platform
command may be truncated with a "Timed out" message and may rarely produce an unexpected
reload. The likelihood of a reload increases if the command is issued over an SSH session or if the
output is redirected to a file. The same behavior is observed using IOS Release XE 3.5.0 and the
show tech command.
Workaround: None. CSCul00025
Resolved Caveats for Cisco IOS XE Release 3.4.0SG
This section lists the resolved caveats for Cisco IOS XE Release 3.4.0SG:
•Following an upgrade to IOS Release XE 3.3.1SG, the following error messages might display for
switches with PWR-C45-4200ACV power supplies:
%C4K_CHASSIS-3-INSUFFICIENTPOWERSUPPLIESDETECTED: Insufficient power supplies present
for specified config
%C4K_CHASSIS-3-MIXINVOLTAGEDETECTED: Power supplies in the chassis are receiving
different voltage inputs
%C4K_CHASSIS-3-MIXINPOWERDETECTED: Power supplies in the chassis are of different
types (AC/DC) or wattage
Use the show power command to determine whether 220V inputs are incorrectly detected as “off”
or 110V.
Workaround: Unseat or reseat the impacted power supply and turn on the input power.
CSCuc50555.
•Dynamic ACLs do not function correctly if they have advanced operators, including dscp/ipp/tos,
log/log-input, fragments, and TCP flag operators.
Workaround: Remove these operators from any dynamic ACLs. CSCts05302
•A peer policy is not updated after reauthentication if the policy is changed on the AS beforehand.
After reauthentication, the original peer policy is retained.
Workaround: Enter shut and no shut on the port. CSCts29515
•A switch running a Supervisor Engine 7-E or Supervisor Engine 7L-E fails if you enter show
memory debug leak on the console while show memory detailed process iosd debug leaks is
being executed from another Telnet session.
Workaround: Avoid running both commands simultaneously. CSCty27680
Related Documentation
Refer to the following documents for additional Catalyst 4500 series information:
•Catalyst 4500 Series Switch Documentation Home
http://www.cisco.com//en/US/products/hw/switches/ps4324/index.html
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Hardware Documents
Installation guides and notes including specifications and relevant safety information are available at the
following URLs:
•Catalyst 4500 E-series Switches Installation Guide
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/lan/catalyst4500/hardware/catalyst4500e/installation/g
uide/Eseries.html
•For information about individual switching modules and supervisors, refer to the Catalyst 4500
Series Module Installation Guide at:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/lan/catalyst4500/hardware/configuration/notes/OL_25
315.html
•Regulatory Compliance and Safety Information for the Catalyst 4500 Series Switches
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/lan/catalyst4500/hardware/regulatory/compliance/78_
13233.html
•Installation notes for specific supervisor engines or for accessory hardware are available at:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps4324/prod_installation_guides_list.html
Software Documentation
Software release notes, configuration guides, command references, and system message guides are
available at the following URLs:
•Catalyst 4500E release notes are available at:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps4324/prod_release_notes_list.html
Software documents for the Catalyst 4500 Classic, Catalyst 4500 E-Series, Catalyst 4900 Series, and
Catalyst 4500-X Series switches are available at the following URLs:
•Catalyst 4500 Series Software Configuration Guide
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps4324/products_installation_and_configurati
on_guides_list.html
•Catalyst 4500 Series Software Command Reference
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps4324/prod_command_reference_list.html
•Catalyst 4500 Series Software System Message Guide
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps4324/products_system_message_guides_list
.html
Cisco IOS Documentation
Platform- independent Cisco IOS documentation may also apply to the Catalyst 4500 and 4900 switches.
These documents are available at the following URLs:
•Cisco IOS configuration guides, Release 12.x
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6350/products_installation_and_configuration_guides_list.html
•Cisco IOS command references, Release 12.x
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http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6350/prod_command_reference_list.html
You can also use the Command Lookup Tool at:
http://tools.cisco.com/Support/CLILookup/cltSearchAction.do
•Cisco IOS system messages, version 12.x
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6350/products_system_message_guides_list.html
You can also use the Error Message Decoder tool at:
http://www.cisco.com/pcgi-bin/Support/Errordecoder/index.cgi
Commands in Task Tables
Commands listed in task tables show only the relevant information for completing the task and not all
available options for the command. For a complete description of a command, refer to the command in
the Catalyst 4500 Series Switch Cisco IOS Command Reference.
Notices
The following notices pertain to this software license.
OpenSSL/Open SSL Project
This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit
(http://www.openssl.org/).
This product includes cryptographic software written by Eric Young (eay@cryptsoft.com).
This product includes software written by Tim Hudson (tjh@cryptsoft.com).
License Issues
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original SSLeay license apply to the toolkit. See below for the actual license texts. Actually both licenses
are BSD-style Open Source licenses. In case of any license issues related to OpenSSL please contact
openssl-core@openssl.org.
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3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software must display the following
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This library is free for commercial and non-commercial use as long as the following conditions are
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Copyright remains Eric Young’s, and as such any Copyright notices in the code are not to be removed.
If this package is used in a product, Eric Young should be given attribution as the author of the parts of
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The word ‘cryptographic’ can be left out if the routines from the library being used are not
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