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Release Notes for the Catalyst 4500-X Series
Switches, Cisco IOS XE Release 3.6.xE
Current release
IOS XE 3.6.8E—January 31, 2018
Prior releases
IOS XE 3.6.7E—July 10, 2017, IOS XE 3.6.6E—December 23, 2016, IOS XE 3.6.5aE, IOS XE 3.6.5E, IOS
XE 3.6.4E, IOS XE 3.6.3E, IOS XE 3.6.2E, IOS XE 3.6.1E, IOS XE 3.6.0E

This release note describes the features, modifications, and caveats for the Cisco IOS XE 3.6.0E software
on the Catalyst 4500-X Series switch.
Cisco IOS XE 3.6.0E is a feature rich new software feature release for IOS and IOS-XE based Catalyst
Access Switching products (Cat4500E/X, 3850/3650, 3K-X, Cat2K and 2K/3K Compact switches)
which brings new innovations for Converged Access in wired and wireless topologies, IT Simplicity,
Application Experience, and Mobility. This release will provide long-lived extended maintenance with
planned rebuilds. It will also have all the Govt. certifications for IOS-XE and currently shipping IOS
platforms.
With IOS XE 3.6.0E, Catalyst 4500-X supports VSS and Easy VSS in IP Base.
Support for Cisco IOS XE Release 3.6.0E 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 4500-X switch, visit the following URL:
http://www.cisco.com//en/US/products/ps12332/index.html

Note

Although their Release Notes are unique, the platforms Catalyst 4500E and Catalyst 4500-X use the
same Software Configuration Guide, Command Reference Guide, and System Message Guide.

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Contents

Contents
This publication consists of these sections:
•

Cisco IOS Software Packaging, page 2

•

Cisco IOS XE Release Strategy, page 2

•

System Requirements, page 3

•

New and Changed Information, page 30

•

Cisco IOS XE to Cisco IOS Version Number Mapping, page 38

•

Upgrading the System Software, page 38

•

Limitations and Restrictions, page 38

•

Caveats, page 43

•

Notices, page 51

Cisco IOS Software Packaging
The Enterprise Services image supports all Cisco Catalyst 4500-X 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), Full OSPF, Full Enhanced Interior Gateway
Routing Protocol (EIGRP) & Virtual Routing Forwarding (VRF-lite).
Starting with Cisco IOS Release XE 3.5.0E, OSPF Routed Access in IP Base supports up to 1000 routes.

Cisco IOS XE Release Strategy
Customers with Catalyst 4500-X Series Switches who need the latest hardware and software features
should migrate to Cisco IOS Release XE 3.6.0E.
IOS XE 3.4.xSG and 3.6.xE are extended maintenance (EM) trains supporting 4500-X. IOS XE 3.3.xSG
and 3.5.xE standard maintenance (SM) trains supporting 4500-X.
Figure 1 displays all the active trains.
Figure 1

Software Release Strategy for the Catalyst 4500-X Series Switch

3.3.0SG
(4500X-32)

3.4.0SG 3.5.0E

EM

SM

EM

346115

SM

3.6.0E

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Support
Support for Cisco IOS Software Release XE 3.6.0E follows the standard Cisco Systems® support policy,
available at
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/products_end-of-life_policy.html

System Requirements
This section describes the system requirements:
•

Supported Hardware on the Catalyst 4500-X Series Switches, page 3

•

Feature Support by Image Type, page 6

•

MIB Support, page 27

•

Features Not Supported on the Cisco Catalyst 4500-X Series Switches, page 27

•

Orderable Product Numbers, page 28

Supported Hardware on the Catalyst 4500-X Series Switches
Table 1 lists the hardware supported on the Catalyst 4500-X Series switches.
Table 1

Supported Hardware on the Cisco Catalyst 4500-X Series Switch

Product Number
(append with “=” for
spares)

Product Description

Small Form-Factor Pluggable Gigabit Ethernet Modules
GLC-BX-D

1000BASE-BX10-D small form-factor pluggable module
For DOM support, see Table 4 on page 6.

GLC-BX-U

1000BASE-BX10-U small form-factor pluggable module
For DOM support, see Table 4 on page 6.

GLC-EX-SMD

1000BASE-EX GE SFP ports

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-ZX-SMD

1000BASE-ZX small form-factor pluggable module with DOM support

GLC-ZX-SM

1000BASE-ZX small form-factor pluggable module

GLC-ZX-SMD

1000BASE-ZX small form-factor pluggable module with DOM support

GLC-T

1000BASE-T small form-factor pluggable module

CWDM-SFP-xxxx

CWDM small form-factor pluggable module (See Table 2 on page 4 for a list of supported
wavelengths.)
For DOM support, see Table 4 on page 6.

SFP-DWDM

Dense Wavelength-Division Multiplexing (DWDM) Small Form Factor Pluggable (SFP) module

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Table 1

Supported Hardware on the Cisco Catalyst 4500-X Series Switch (continued)

Product Number
(append with “=” for
spares)

Product Description

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
Note

This module is only supported on the uplink module in the back-to-front airflow
configuration.

Table 2 briefly describes the supported CWDM wavelengths in the Catalyst 4500-X Series switch.
Table 2

CWDM SFP Supported Wavelengths on the Cisco Catalyst 4500-X Series Switches

Product Number (append with “=” for
spares)

Product Description

CWDM SFP -1470

Longwave 1470 nm laser single-mode

CWDM SFP -1490

Longwave 1490 nm laser single-mode

CWDM SFP -1510

Longwave 1510 nm laser single-mode

CWDM SFP -1530

Longwave 1530 nm laser single-mode

CWDM SFP -1550

Longwave 1550 nm laser single-mode

CWDM SFP -1570

Longwave 1570 nm laser single-mode

CWDM SFP -1590

Longwave 1590 nm laser single-mode

CWDMSFP -1610

Longwave 1610 nm laser single-mode
Table 3 briefly describes the supported DWDM wavelengths on the Catalyst 4500-X Series Switches.

Table 3

DWDM SFP Supported Wavelengths on the Cisco Catalyst 4500-X Series Switches

Product Number (append with “=” for
spares)

Product Description

DWDM-SFP-6141=

Cisco 1000BASE-DWDM SFP 1561.42 nm

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

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Table 3

DWDM SFP Supported Wavelengths on the Cisco Catalyst 4500-X Series Switches

Product Number (append with “=” for
spares)

Product Description

DWDM-SFP-5817=

Cisco 1000BASE-DWDM SFP 1558.17 nm

DWDM-SFP-5736=

Cisco 1000BASE-DWDM SFP 1557.36 nm

DWDM-SFP-5655=

Cisco 1000BASE-DWDM SFP 1556.55 nm

DWDM-SFP-5575=

Cisco 1000BASE-DWDM SFP 1555.75 nm

DWDM-SFP-5494=

Cisco 1000BASE-DWDM SFP 1554.94 nm

DWDM-SFP-5413=

Cisco 1000BASE-DWDM SFP 1554.13 nm

DWDM-SFP-5332=

Cisco 1000BASE-DWDM SFP 1553.33 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

DWDM-SFP-4931=

Cisco 1000BASE-DWDM SFP 1549.32 nm

DWDM-SFP-4851=

Cisco 1000BASE-DWDM SFP 1548.51 nm

DWDM-SFP-4772=

Cisco 1000BASE-DWDM SFP 1547.72 nm

DWDM-SFP-4694=

Cisco 1000BASE-DWDM SFP 1542.94 nm

DWDM-SFP-4692=

Cisco 1000BASE-DWDM SFP 1546.92 nm

DWDM-SFP-4614=

Cisco 1000BASE-DWDM SFP 1542.14 nm

DWDM-SFP-4612=

Cisco 1000BASE-DWDM SFP 1546.12 nm

DWDM-SFP-4532=

Cisco 1000BASE-DWDM SFP 1545.32 nm

DWDM-SFP-4453=

Cisco 1000BASE-DWDM SFP 1544.53 nm

DWDM-SFP-4373=

Cisco 1000BASE-DWDM SFP 1543.73 nm

DWDM-SFP-4134=

Cisco 1000BASE-DWDM SFP 1541.35 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-3739=

Cisco 1000BASE-DWDM SFP 1537.40 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-3346=

Cisco 1000BASE-DWDM SFP 1533.47 nm

DWDM-SFP-3268=

Cisco 1000BASE-DWDM SFP 1532.68 nm

DWDM-SFP-3190=

Cisco 1000BASE-DWDM SFP 1531.90 nm

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Table 3

DWDM SFP Supported Wavelengths on the Cisco Catalyst 4500-X Series Switches

Product Number (append with “=” for
spares)

Product Description

DWDM-SFP-3112=

Cisco 1000BASE-DWDM SFP 1531.12 nm

DWDM-SFP-3033=

Cisco 1000BASE-DWDM SFP 1530.33 nm
For a complete list of Cisco Gigabit Ethernet Transceiver Modules, please refer to the URL:
http://www.cisco.com//c/en/us/td/docs/interfaces_modules/transceiver_modules/compatibility/matrix/
OL_6981.html#38544
Table 4 briefly describes the DOM support on the Catalyst 4500-X Series switches.
Table 4

DOM Support on the Cisco Catalyst 4500-X Series Switches

SFP

GLC-BX-D

SFP

GLC-BX-U

SFP

GLC-EX-SMD

SFP

CWDM

SFP

DWDM (24 wavelengths)

SFP+

SFP-10G-ER

SFP+

SFP-10G-LR

SFP+

SFP-10G-LRM

SFP+

SFP-10G-SR

SFP+

SFP-10G-ZR

For details on transceiver module compatibility information, please refer to the URL:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/modules/ps5455/products_device_support_tables_list.html

Feature Support by Image Type
Table 5 is a detailed list of features supported on Catalyst 4500-X Series switches running Cisco IOS
Software Release 3.6.0E categorized by image type. Please visit Feature Navigator for package details:
http://tools.cisco.com/ITDIT/CFN/

Table 5

IP Base and Enterprise Services Image Support on Cisco Catalyst 4500-X Series

Feature

IP Base

Enterprise
Services

2-way Community Private VLANs

Yes

Yes

8-Way CEF Load Balancing

Yes

Yes

10 Gigabit Uplink Use

Yes

Yes

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IP Base and Enterprise Services Image Support on Cisco Catalyst 4500-X Series

Feature

IP Base

Enterprise
Services

AAA Server Group

Yes

Yes

AAA Server Group Based on DNIS

Yes

Yes

ACL - Improved Merging Algorithm

Yes

Yes

ACL Logging

Yes

Yes

ACL Policy Enhancements

Yes

Yes

ACL Sequence Numbering

Yes

Yes

Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)

Yes

Yes

ANCP Client

Yes

Yes

ANSI TIA-1057 LLDP - MED Location Extension

Yes

Yes

ANSI TIA-1057 LLDP - MED Support

Yes

Yes

ARP Optimization

Yes

Yes

Auto Configuration

Yes

Yes

Auto QoS

Yes

Yes

Auto Security

Yes

Yes

Auto SmartPorts

Yes

Yes

Auto-MDIX

Yes

Yes

Auto-Voice VLAN (part of Auto QoS)

Yes

Yes

AutoInstall Using DHCP for LAN Interfaces

Yes

Yes

AutoQoS - VoIP

Yes

Yes

AutoRP Enhancement

Yes

Yes

Banner Page and Inactivity timeout for HTTP/S
connections

Yes

Yes

BGP

No

Yes

BGP 4

No

Yes

BGP 4 4Byte ASN (CnH)

No

Yes

BGP 4 Multipath Support

No

Yes

BGP 4 Prefix Filter and In-bound Route Maps

No

Yes

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Table 5

IP Base and Enterprise Services Image Support on Cisco Catalyst 4500-X Series

Feature

IP Base

Enterprise
Services

BGP 4 Soft Config

No

Yes

BGP Conditional Route Injection

No

Yes

BGP Configuration Using Peer Templates

No

Yes

BGP Dynamic Update Peer-Groups

No

Yes

BGP Increased Support of Numbered as-path Access Lists
to 500

No

Yes

BGP Link Bandwidth

No

Yes

BGP Neighbor Policy

No

Yes

BGP Prefix-Based Outbound Route Filtering

No

Yes

BGP Restart Neighbor Session After max-prefix Limit
Reached

No

Yes

BGP Route-Map Continue

No

Yes

BGP Route-Map Continue Support for Outbound Policy

No

Yes

BGP Soft Rest

No

Yes

BGP Wildcard

No

Yes

Bidirectional PIM (IPv4 only)

Yes

Yes

Bidirectional SXP support

Yes

Yes

Boot Config

Yes

Yes

Broadcast/Multicast Suppression

Yes

Yes

Call Home

Yes

Yes

CDP (Cisco Discovery Protocol) Version 2

Yes

Yes

CDP Bypass

Yes

Yes

CDP Enhancement - Host presence TLV

Yes

Yes

CEF/dCEF - Cisco Express Forwarding

Yes

Yes

CEFv6 Switching for 6to4 Tunnels

Yes

Yes

CEFv6/dCEFv6 - Cisco Express Forwarding

Yes

Yes

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Table 5

IP Base and Enterprise Services Image Support on Cisco Catalyst 4500-X Series

Feature

IP Base

Enterprise
Services

CFM/IEEE 802.1ag - D8.1 standard Compliant CFM,
Y.1731 multicast LBM / AIS / RDI / LCK, IP SLA for
Ethernet

Yes

Yes

CGMP - Cisco Group Management Protocol

Yes

Yes

Cisco IOS Scripting w/Tcl

Yes

Yes

Cisco Service Discovery Gateway Support

Yes

Yes

CiscoView Autonomous Device Manager (ADP)

Yes

Yes

Class Based Ethernet CoS Matching & Marking (802.1p &
ISL CoS)

Yes

Yes

Class-Based Marking

Yes

Yes

Class-Based Policing

Yes

Yes

Class-Based Shaping

Yes

Yes

Clear Counters Per Port

Yes

Yes

CLI String Search

Yes

Yes

CNS

Yes

Yes

CNS - Configuration Agent

Yes

Yes

CNS - Event Agent

Yes

Yes

CNS - Image Agent

Yes

Yes

CNS - Interactive CLI

Yes

Yes

CNS Config Retrieve Enhancement with Retry and
Interval

Yes

Yes

Command Scheduler (Kron)

Yes

Yes

Command Scheduler (Kron) Policy for System Startup

Yes

Yes

Commented IP Access List Entries

Yes

Yes

Community Private VLAN

Yes

Yes

Configuration Change Tracking Identifier

Yes

Yes

Configuration Change Notification and Logging

Yes

Yes

Configuration Replace and Configuration Rollback

Yes

Yes

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Table 5

IP Base and Enterprise Services Image Support on Cisco Catalyst 4500-X Series

Feature

IP Base

Enterprise
Services

Configuration Rollback Confirmed Change

Yes

Yes

Contextual Configuration Diff Utility

Yes

Yes

Control Plane Policing (Copp)

Yes

Yes

CPU Enhancement

Yes

Yes

CPU Optimization for Layer 3 Multicast Control Packets

Yes

Yes

Critical Authorization for Voice and Data

Yes

Yes

DAI (Dynamic ARP inspection)

Yes

Yes

DBL (Dynamic Buffer Limiting) - Selective DBL

Yes

Yes

Debounce Timer per Port

Yes

Yes

Default Passive Interface

Yes

Yes

DHCP Client

Yes

Yes

DHCP Configurable DHCP Client

Yes

Yes

DHCP Gleaning

Yes

Yes

DHCPv6 Relay Agent notification for Prefix Delegation

Yes

Yes

DHCP Option 82, Pass Through

Yes

Yes

DHCP Server

Yes

Yes

DHCP Snooping

Yes

Yes

DHCPv6 Ethernet Remote ID option

Yes

Yes

DHCPv6 Relay - Reload persistent Interface ID option

Yes

Yes

DHCPv6 Repackaging

Yes

Yes

Diffserv MIB

Yes

Yes

DSCP/CoS via LLDP

Yes

Yes

Duplication Location Reporting Issue

Yes

Yes

Dynamic Trunking Protocol (DTP)

Yes

Yes

Easy Virtual Network (EVN)

No

Yes

Easy VSS1

Yes

Yes

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Table 5

IP Base and Enterprise Services Image Support on Cisco Catalyst 4500-X Series

Feature

IP Base

Enterprise
Services

Embedded Event Manager

Yes

Yes

EIGRP

No

Yes

EIGRP Service Advertisement Framework

Yes

Yes

EIGRP Stub Routing

Yes

Yes

Embedded Event Manager (EEM) 3.2

Yes

Yes

Embedded Syslog Manager (ESM)

Yes

Yes

Energywise Agentless SNMP support

Yes

Yes

Energywise Wake-On-Lan Support

Yes

Yes

Entity API for Physical and Logical Mgd Entities

Yes

Yes

ErrDisable timeout

Yes

Yes

EtherChannel

Yes

Yes

EtherChannel Flexible PAgP

Yes

Yes

EtherChannel Enhancement - Single Port Channel

Yes

Yes

Fast EtherChannel (FEC)

Yes

Yes

FHRP - Enhanced Object Tracking of IP SLAs

Yes

Yes

FHRP - EOT integration with EEM

Yes

Yes

FHRP - GLBP - IP Redundancy API

Yes

Yes

FHRP - HSRP - Hot Standby Router Protocol V2

Yes

Yes

FHRP - Object Tracking List

Yes

Yes

Filter-ID Based ACL Application

Yes

Yes

FIPS/CC Compliance for NMSP

Yes

Yes

FIPS 140-2/3 Level 2 Certification

Yes

Yes

Flexible NetFlow - Application ID

Yes

Yes

Flexible NetFlow - CTS Fields

Yes

Yes

Flexible NetFlow - Device type

Yes

Yes

Flexible NetFlow - Ethertype

Yes

Yes

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Table 5

IP Base and Enterprise Services Image Support on Cisco Catalyst 4500-X Series

Feature

IP Base

Enterprise
Services

Flexible NetFlow - Export to an IPv6 address

Yes

Yes

Flexible NetFlow - Full Flow support

Yes

Yes

Flexible NetFlow - Ingress support

Yes

Yes

Flexible NetFlow - IPFIX

Yes

Yes

Flexible NetFlow - IPv4 Unicast Flows

Yes

Yes

Flexible NetFlow - IPv6 Unicast Flows

Yes

Yes

Flexible NetFlow - Layer 2 Fields

Yes

Yes

Flexible NetFlow - Multiple User Defined Caches

Yes

Yes

Flexible NetFlow - NetFlow Export over IPv4

Yes

Yes

Flexible NetFlow - NetFlowV5 Export protocol

Yes

Yes

Flexible NetFlow - NetFlow v9 Export Format

Yes

Yes

Flexible NetFlow - Power Reading

Yes

Yes

Flexible NetFlow - Username

Yes

Yes

Flexible NetFlow - VLAN ID support

Yes

Yes

Flex Links+(VLAN Load balancing)

Yes

Yes

FQDN ACL

Yes

Yes

Forced 10/100 Autonegotiation

Yes

Yes

FTP Support for Downloading Software Images

Yes

Yes

Gateway Load Balancing Protocol GLBP

Yes

Yes

Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE)

Yes

Yes

GOLD Online Diagnostics

Yes

Yes

HSRP - Hot Standby Router Protocol

Yes

Yes

HSRP: Global IPv6 Address

Yes

Yes

HTTP Security

Yes

Yes

HTTP TACAC+ Accounting support

Yes

Yes

Identity 4.1 Network Edge Access Topology

Yes

Yes

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Table 5

IP Base and Enterprise Services Image Support on Cisco Catalyst 4500-X Series

Feature

IP Base

Enterprise
Services

IEEE 802.1ab LLDP (Link Layer Discovery Protocol)

Yes

Yes

IEEE 802.1ab LLDP/LLDP-MED

Yes

Yes

IEEE 802.1p Support

Yes

Yes

IEEE 802.1Q VLAN Trunking

Yes

Yes

IEEE 802.1s Multiple Spanning Tree (MST) Standard
Compliance

Yes

Yes

IEEE 802.1s VLAN Multiple Spanning Trees

Yes

Yes

IEEE 802.1t2

Yes

Yes

IEEE 802.1w Spanning Tree Rapid Reconfiguration

Yes

Yes

IEEE 802.1x Auth Fail Open (Critical Ports)

Yes

Yes

IEEE 802.1x Auth Fail VLAN

Yes

Yes

IEEE 802.1x Flexible Authentication

Yes

Yes

IEEE 802.1x Multiple Authentication

Yes

Yes

IEEE 802.1x Open Authentication

Yes

Yes

IEEE 802.1x with User Distribution

Yes

Yes

IEEE 802.1x VLAN Assignment

Yes

Yes

IEEE 802.1x VLAN User Group Distribution

Yes

Yes

IEEE 802.1x Wake on LAN Support

Yes

Yes

IEEE 802.1x Authenticator

Yes

Yes

IEEE 802.1x Fallback support

Yes

Yes

IEEE 802.1x Guest VLAN

Yes

Yes

IEEE 802.1x Multi-Domain Authentication

Yes

Yes

IEEE 802.1x Private Guest VLAN

Yes

Yes

IEEE 802.1x Private VLAN Assignment

Yes

Yes

IEEE 802.1x RADIUS Accounting

Yes

Yes

IEEE 802.1x RADIUS-Supplied Session Timeout

Yes

Yes

IEEE 802.1x with ACL Assignments

Yes

Yes

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IP Base and Enterprise Services Image Support on Cisco Catalyst 4500-X Series

Feature

IP Base

Enterprise
Services

IEEE 802.1x with Port Security

Yes

Yes

IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation (LACP)

Yes

Yes

IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation (LACP) Port-Channel
Standalone Disable

Yes

Yes

IEEE 802.3x Flow Control

Yes

Yes

IGMP Fast Leave

Yes

Yes

IGMP Filtering

Yes

Yes

IGMP Snooping

Yes

Yes

IGMP Version 1

Yes

Yes

IGMP Version 2

Yes

Yes

IGMP Version 3

Yes

Yes

IGMP Version 3 - Explicit Tracking of Hosts, Groups, and
Channels

Yes

Yes

IGMPv3 Host Stack

Yes

Yes

IGMP Version 3 Snooping: Full Support

Yes

Yes

Image Verification

Yes

Yes

Individual SNMP Trap Support

Yes

Yes

Interface Index Persistence

Yes

Yes

Interface Range Specification

Yes

Yes

Interface Templates

Yes

Yes

IOS Based Device Profiling

Yes

Yes

IP Enhanced IGRP Route Authentication

No

Yes

IP Event Dampening

Yes

Yes

IP Multicast Load Splitting - Equal Cost Multipath
(ECMP) using S, G and Next-hop

No

Yes

IP Multicast Load Splitting across Equal-Cost Paths

Yes

Yes

IP Named Access Control List

Yes

Yes

IPv6 Tunnels (in software)

Yes

Yes

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Table 5

IP Base and Enterprise Services Image Support on Cisco Catalyst 4500-X Series

Feature

IP Base

Enterprise
Services

IP Routing

Yes

Yes

IP SLAs - DHCP Operations

Yes

Yes

IP SLAs - Distribution of Statistics

Yes

Yes

IP SLAs - DNS Operation

Yes

Yes

IP SLAs - FTP Operation

Yes

Yes

IP SLA - HTTP Operation

Yes

Yes

IP SLAs-ICMP Echo Operation

Yes

Yes

IP SLAs - ICMP Path Echo Operation

Yes

Yes

IP SLAs - Multi Operation Scheduler

Yes

Yes

IP SLAs - One Way Measurement

Yes

Yes

IP SLAs - Path Jitter Operation

Yes

Yes

IP SLAs - Random Scheduler

Yes

Yes

IP SLAs - Reaction Threshold

Yes

Yes

IP SLAs - Responder

Yes

Yes

IP SLAs - Scheduler

Yes

Yes

IP SLAs - Sub-millisecond Accuracy Improvements

Yes

Yes

IP SLAs - TCP Connect Operation

Yes

Yes

IP SLAs - UDP Based VoIP Operation

Yes

Yes

IP SLAs - UDP Echo Operation

Yes

Yes

IP SLAs - UDP Jitter Operation

Yes

Yes

IP SLAs Video Operations

Yes

Yes

IP SLAs - VoIP Threshold Traps

Yes

Yes

IP Summary Address for RIPv2

Yes

Yes

IP Unnumbered for VLAN-SVI interfaces

Yes

Yes

IPSG (IP Source Guard) v4

Yes

Yes

IPSG (IP Source Guard) v4 for Static Hosts

Yes

Yes

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IP Base and Enterprise Services Image Support on Cisco Catalyst 4500-X Series

Feature

IP Base

Enterprise
Services

IPv4 Policy-Based Routing

No

Yes

IPv4 Policy-Based Routing with recursive next hop

No

Yes

IPv4 Routing: Static Hosts/Default Gateway

Yes

Yes

IPv6 (Internet Protocol Version 6)

Yes

Yes

IPv6 Access Services: DHCPv6 Relay Agent

Yes

Yes

IPv6 Anycast Address

Yes

Yes

IPv6 / v4 BFD with OSPF/ BGP/ EIGRP and Static

Yes

Yes

IPv6 BGP

No

Yes

IPv6 Bootstrap Router (BSR) Scoped Zone Support

No

Yes

IPv6 CNS Agents

Yes

Yes

IPv6 Config Logger

Yes

Yes

IPv6 First Hop Security (FHS):

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

IPv6 HSRP

Yes

Yes

IPv6 HTTP(S)

Yes

Yes

IPv6 ICMPv6

Yes

Yes

IPv6 ICMPv6 Redirect

Yes4

Yes

IPv6 IP SLAs (UDP Jitter, UDP Echo, ICMP Echo, TCP
Connect)

Yes

Yes

DHCPv6 Guard
IPv6 Destination Guard
IPv6 Snooping (Data Gleaning, per-limit Address
Limit)
IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Multicast Suppression
IPv6 Router Advertisement (RA) Guard
IPv6 First Hop Security (FHS) Phase 2:
Binding table recovery
Lightweight DHCPv6 Relay Agent (LDRA)
Neighbor Discovery (ND) Multicast Suppress
Source and Prefix Guard3

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Table 5

IP Base and Enterprise Services Image Support on Cisco Catalyst 4500-X Series

Feature

IP Base

Enterprise
Services

IPv6 Interface Statistics

Yes

Yes

IPv6 MLD Snooping v1 and v2

Yes

Yes

IPv6 MTU Path Discovery

Yes

Yes

IPv6 Multicast

Yes

Yes

IPv6 Multicast: Bootstrap Router (BSR)

No

Yes

IPv6 Multicast: Explicit Tracking of Receivers

Yes

Yes

IPv6 Multicast: MLD Access Group

Yes

Yes

IPv6 Multicast: Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD)
Protocol, Versions 1 and 2

Yes

Yes

IPv6 Multicast: PIM Accept Register

Yes

Yes

IPv6 Multicast: PIM Embedded RP Support

Yes

Yes

IPv6 Multicast: PIM Source-Specific Multicast
(PIM-SSM)

Yes

Yes

IPv6 Multicast: PIM Sparse Mode (PIM-SM)

Yes

Yes

IPv6 Multicast: Routable Address Hello Option

Yes

Yes

IPv6 Multicast: RPF Flooding of Bootstrap Router (BSR)
Packets

Yes

Yes

IPv6 Multicast: Scope Boundaries

Yes

Yes

IPv6 Neighbor Discovery

Yes

Yes

IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Duplicate Address Detection

Yes

Yes

IPv6 OSPFv3 NSF/SSO

Yes4

Yes

IPv6 OSPFv3 Fast Convergence

Yes

Yes

IPv6 Policy-Based Routing

No

Yes

IPv6 RA Guard (Host Mode)

Yes

Yes

IPv6 Routing - EIGRP Support

No

Yes

IPv6 Routing: OSPF for IPv6 (OSPFv3)

Yes4

Yes

IPv6 Routing: RIP for IPv6 (RIPng)

Yes

Yes

IPv6 Routing: Route Redistribution

Yes

Yes

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Table 5

IP Base and Enterprise Services Image Support on Cisco Catalyst 4500-X Series

Feature

IP Base

Enterprise
Services

IPv6 Routing: Static Routing

Yes

Yes

IPv6 Security: Secure Shell SSH support over IPv6

Yes

Yes

IPv6 Services: AAAA DNS Lookups over an IPv4
Transport

Yes

Yes

IPv6 Services: Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) - IPv6
Address Family Support for Neighbor Information

Yes

Yes

IPv6 Services: DNS Lookups over an IPv6 Transport

Yes

Yes

IPv6 Services: Extended Access Control Lists

Yes

Yes

IPv6 Services: Standard Access Control Lists

Yes

Yes

IPv6 Static Routing: Support for Tracking Objects

Yes

Yes

IPv6 Stateless Auto-configuration

Yes

Yes

IPv6 Switching: CEF Support

Yes

Yes

IPv6 Switching: CEFv6 Switched Automatic
IPv4-compatible Tunnels (in software)

Yes

Yes

IPv6 Switching: CEFv6 Switched Configured IPv6 over
IPv4 Tunnels (in software)

Yes

Yes

IPv6 Switching: CEFv6 Switched ISATAP Tunnels (in
software)

Yes

Yes

IPv6 TCL

Yes

Yes

IPv6 Tunneling: Automatic 6to4 Tunnels (in software)

Yes

Yes

IPv6 Tunneling: Automatic IPv4-compatible Tunnels (in
software)

Yes

Yes

IPv6 Tunneling: IPv6 over IPv4 GRE Tunnels (in
software)

Yes

Yes

IPv6 Tunneling: ISATAP Tunnel Support (in software)

Yes

Yes

IPv6 Tunneling: Manually Configured IPv6 over IPv4
Tunnels (in software)

Yes

Yes

IPv6 Virtual LAN Access Control List (VACL)

Yes

Yes

IPsecv3/IKEv2 (for management traffic only)

Yes

Yes

IS-IS for IPv4 and IPv6

No

Yes

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Table 5

IP Base and Enterprise Services Image Support on Cisco Catalyst 4500-X Series

Feature

IP Base

Enterprise
Services

ISSU (IOS In-Service Software Upgrade)

Yes

Yes

Jumbo Frames

Yes

Yes

Layer 2 Control Packet

Yes

Yes

Layer 2 Protocol Tunneling (L2PT)

Yes

Yes

Layer 2 Traceroute

Yes

Yes

Layer 3 Multicast Routing (PIM SM, SSM, Bidir)

Yes

Yes

Link State Tracking

Yes

Yes

Loadsharing IP packets over more than six parallel paths

Yes

Yes

Local Proxy ARP

Yes

Yes

Location MIBs

Yes

Yes

MAB for Voice VLAN

Yes

Yes

MAB with Configurable User Name/Password

Yes

Yes

MAC Address Notification

Yes

Yes

MAC Authentication Bypass

Yes

Yes

MAC Move and Replace

Yes

Yes

Medianet 2.0: AutoQoS SRND4 Macro

Yes

Yes

Medianet 2.0: Integrated Video Traffic Simulator
(hardware-assisted IP SLA); IPSLA generator and
responder

Yes

Yes

Medianet 2.0: Flow Metadata

Yes

Yes

Medianet 2.0: Media Service Proxy

Yes

Yes

Medianet 2.0: Media Monitoring (Performance
Monitoring and Mediatrace)

Yes

Yes

Memory Threshold Notifications

Yes

Yes

Microflow policers

Yes

Yes

Modular QoS CLI (MQC)

Yes

Yes

Multi-authentication and VLAN Assignment

Yes

Yes

Multi-VRF Support (VRF lite)

No

Yes

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Table 5

IP Base and Enterprise Services Image Support on Cisco Catalyst 4500-X Series

Feature

IP Base

Enterprise
Services

Multicast BGP (MBGP)

No

Yes

Multicast Fast Switching Performance Improvement

Yes

Yes

Multicast Routing Monitor (MRM)

Yes

Yes

Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP)

Yes

Yes

Multicast Subsecond Convergence

Yes

Yes

Multicast VLAN Registration (MVR)

Yes

Yes

NAC - L2 IEEE 802.1x

Yes

Yes

NAC - L2 IP

Yes

Yes

ND Cache Limit/Interface

Yes

Yes

NETCONF over SSHv2

Yes

Yes

Network Edge Access Topology (NEAT)

Yes

Yes

NEAT Enhancement: Re-Enabling BPDU Guard Based on
User Configuration

Yes

Yes

Network Time Protocol (NTP)

Yes

Yes

Network Time Protocol (NTP) master

Yes

Yes

NMSP Enhancements

Yes

Yes

No Service Password Recovery

Yes

Yes

No. of VLAN Support

4096

4096

NSF - BGP

No

Yes

NSF - EIGRP

Yes

Yes

NSF - OSPF (version 2 only)

Yes

Yes

NSF - SSO

Yes

Yes

NTP for IPv6

Yes

Yes

•

GPS support for location

•

Location at switch level

•

Local timezone change

•

Name value pair

•

Priority settings for MIBs

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Table 5

IP Base and Enterprise Services Image Support on Cisco Catalyst 4500-X Series

Feature

IP Base

Enterprise
Services

NTP for VRF aware

No

Yes

Object Tracking: IPv6 Route Tracking

Yes

Yes

Onboard Failure Logging (OBFL)

Yes

Yes

Open Plug-N-Play Agent

Yes

Yes

OSPF

Yes4

Yes

OSPF v3 Authentication

Yes4

Yes

OSPF Flooding Reduction

Yes4

Yes

OSPF for Routed Access5

Yes

Yes

OSPF Incremental Shortest Path First (i-SPF) Support

Yes4

Yes

OSPF Link State Database Overload Protection

Yes4

Yes

OSPF Not-So-Stubby Areas (NSSA)

Yes4

Yes

OSPF Packet Pacing

Yes4

Yes

OSPF Shortest Paths First Throttling

Yes4

Yes

OSPF Stub Router Advertisement

Yes4

Yes

OSPF Support for Fast Hellos

Yes4

Yes

OSPF Support for Link State Advertisement (LSA)
Throttling

Yes4

Yes

OSPF Support for Multi-VRF on CE Routers

Yes4

Yes

OSPF Update Packet-Pacing Configurable Timers

Yes4

Yes

Out-of-band Management Port

Yes

Yes

Out-of-band Management Port - IPv6

Yes

Yes

Per Intf IGMP State Limit

Yes

Yes

Per Intf MrouteState Limit

Yes

Yes

Per Port Per VLAN Policing

Yes

Yes

Per-User ACL Support for 802.1X/MAB/Webauth users

Yes

Yes

Per-VLAN Learning

Yes

Yes

Permanent Right-to-Use (PRTU) license

Yes

Yes

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Table 5

IP Base and Enterprise Services Image Support on Cisco Catalyst 4500-X Series

Feature

IP Base

Enterprise
Services

PIM Dense Mode State Refresh

Yes

Yes

PIM Multicast Scalability

Yes

Yes

PIM Version 1

Yes

Yes

PIM Version 2

Yes

Yes

PnP Agent

Yes

Yes

Port Security

Yes (supports 3072
MACs)

Yes (supports 3072
MACs)

Port Security on Etherchannel Trunk Port

Yes

Yes

Pragmatic General Multicast (PGM)

Yes

Yes

Priority Queueing (PQ)

Yes

Yes

Private VLAN Promiscuous Trunk Port

Yes

Yes

Private VLAN Trunk Ports

Yes

Yes

Private VLANs

Yes

Yes

Propagation of Location Info over CDP

Yes

Yes

PVLAN over EtherChannel

Yes

Yes

PVST + (Per VLAN Spanning Tree Plus)

Yes

Yes

Q-in-Q

Yes

Yes

QoS Packet Marking

Yes

Yes

QoS Priority Percentage CLI Support

Yes

Yes

RADIUS

Yes

Yes

RADIUS Attribute 44 (Accounting Session ID) in Access
Requests

Yes

Yes

RADIUS Change of Authorization

Yes

Yes

Rapid PVST+ Dispute Mechanism

Yes

Yes

Rapid-Per-VLAN-Spanning Tree (Rapid-PVST)

Yes

Yes

Reduced MAC Address Usage

Yes

Yes

Redundancy Facility Protocol

Yes

Yes

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Table 5

IP Base and Enterprise Services Image Support on Cisco Catalyst 4500-X Series

Feature

IP Base

Enterprise
Services

Remote SPAN (RSPAN)

Yes

Yes

REP (Resilient Ethernet Protocol)

Yes

Yes

REP - No Edge Neighbour Enhancement

Yes

Yes

RIP v1

Yes

Yes

RMON events and alarms

Yes

Yes

Secure CDP

Yes

Yes

Secure Copy (SCP)

Yes

Yes

Secure Shell SSH Version 1 Integrated Client

Yes

Yes

Secure Shell SSH Version 1 Server Support

Yes

Yes

Secure Shell SSH Version 2 Client Support

Yes

Yes

Secure Shell SSH Version 2 Server Support

Yes

Yes

Security Group ACL at Interface Level

Yes

Yes

Single Rate 3-Color Marker for Traffic Policing

Yes

Yes

Smart Install Director—Configuration-only Deployment
and Smooth Upgrade

Yes

Yes

Smart Port

Yes

Yes

SMI Catalyst 4K Client

Yes

Yes

SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol)

Yes

Yes

SNMP Inform Request

Yes

Yes

SNMP Manager

Yes

Yes

SNMPv2C

Yes

Yes

SNMPv3 - 3DES and AES Encryption Support

Yes

Yes

SNMPv3 (SNMP Version 3)

Yes

Yes

Source Specific Multicast (SSM)

Yes

Yes

Source Specific Multicast (SSM) - IGMPv3,IGMP v3lite,
and URD

Yes

Yes

Source Specific Multicast (SSM) Mapping

Yes

Yes

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Table 5

IP Base and Enterprise Services Image Support on Cisco Catalyst 4500-X Series

Feature

IP Base

Enterprise
Services

SPAN (# of sessions) – Port Mirroring

Yes (16
bidirectional
sessions)

Yes (16
bidirectional
sessions)

SPAN ACL Filtering for IPv6

Yes

Yes

Span Enhancement: Packet Type and Address Type
Filtering

Yes

Yes

Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)

Yes

Yes

Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) - Backbone Fast
Convergence

Yes

Yes

Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) - Loop Guard

Yes

Yes

Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) - Portfast

Yes

Yes

Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) - PortFast BPDU Filtering

Yes

Yes

Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) - Portfast BPDU Guard

Yes

Yes

Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) - Portfast Support for
Trunks

Yes

Yes

Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) - Root Guard

Yes

Yes

Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) - Uplink Fast Convergence

Yes

Yes

Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) - Uplink Load Balancing

Yes

Yes

Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) Extension

Yes

Yes

Standard IP Access List Logging

Yes

Yes

Standby Supervisor Port Usage

Yes

Yes

Sticky Port Security

Yes

Yes

Sticky Port Security on Voice VLAN

Yes

Yes

Storm Control - Per-Port Multicast Suppression

Yes

Yes

STP Syslog Messages

Yes

Yes

Stub IP Multicast Routing

Yes

Yes

Sub-second UDLD

Yes

Yes

SVI (Switch Virtual Interface) Autostate Exclude

Yes

Yes

Switch and IP Phone Security Interaction

Yes

Yes

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Table 5

IP Base and Enterprise Services Image Support on Cisco Catalyst 4500-X Series

Feature

IP Base

Enterprise
Services

Switch Port Analyzer (SPAN)

Yes

Yes

Switch Port Analyzer (SPAN) - CPU Source

Yes

Yes

Syslog over IPV6

Yes

Yes

System Logging - EAL4 Certification Enhancements

Yes

Yes

TACACS SENDAUTH function

Yes

Yes

TACACS Single Connection

Yes

Yes

TACACS+

Yes

Yes

TACACS+ and Radius for IPv6-

Yes

Yes

TCAM4 - Dynamic Multi-Protocol

Yes

Yes

TCAM4 - Service-Aware Resource Allocation

Yes

Yes

Time Domain Reflectometry (TDR)

Yes

Yes

Time-Based Access Lists

Yes

Yes

Time-Based Access Lists Using Time Ranges (ACL)

Yes

Yes

Trusted boundary (extended trust for CDP devices)

Yes

Yes

TrustSec: IEEE 802.1ae MACSec Layer 2 encryption

Yes

Yes

TrustSec: IEEE 802.1ae MACSec encryption on user
facing ports

Yes

Yes

TrustSec: IEEE 802.1ae MACSec encryption between
switch-to-switch links using Cisco SAP (Security
Association Protocol)

Yes

Yes

TrustSec Critical Authentication

Yes

Yes

TrustSec SGT Exchange Protocol (SXP) IPv4

Yes

Yes

TrustSec SGT/ SGA

Yes

Yes

UDI - Unique Device Identifier

Yes

Yes

Uni-Directional Link Routing (UDLR)

Yes

Yes

Unicast Mac Filtering

Yes

Yes

Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding (uRPF)

Yes

Yes

Unidirectional Ethernet

Yes

Yes

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Table 5

IP Base and Enterprise Services Image Support on Cisco Catalyst 4500-X Series

Feature

IP Base

Enterprise
Services

UniDirectional Link Detection (UDLD)

Yes

Yes

Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) for IPv4

Yes

Yes

Virtual Switching System (VSS)

Yes

Yes

Virtual Switching System (VSS) Phase 26

Yes

Yes

Virtual Trunking Protocol (VTP) - Pruning

Yes

Yes

VLAN Access Control List (VACL)

Yes

Yes

VLAN MAC Address Filtering

Yes

Yes

VLAN Mapping (VLAN Translation)

Yes

Yes

VRF-aware TACACS+

No

Yes

VRF-lite for IPv6 on OSPF/ BGP/ EIGRP

No

Yes

VRRPv3: Object Tracking Integration

Yes

Yes

VRRPv3 Protocol Support

Yes

Yes

VTP (Virtual Trunking Protocol) Version 2

Yes

Yes

VTP Version 3

Yes

Yes

WCCP Version 2

Yes

Yes

Web Authentication Proxy

Yes

Yes

Web Authentication Redirection to Original URL

Yes

Yes

Webauth Enhancements

Yes

Yes

Wireshark-based Ethernet Analyzer

Yes

Yes

XML-PI

Yes

Yes

•

Support for Layer 3 MEC—VSS with Layer 3
Multichassis EtherChannel (MEC) at the aggregation
layer

•

Support for VSLP Fast Hello—With VSLP Fast Hello,
the Catalyst 4500-X configured for VSS can now
connect Access Switches that do not support the
ePAgP protocol.

•

Support for VSL Encryption

1. Catalyst 4500-X, Supervisor Engine 7-E, and Supervisor Engine 8-E; IP Base. Supervisor Engine 7L-Ent Services.
2. EEE 802.1t—An IEEE amendment to IEEE 802.1D that includes extended system ID, long path cost, and PortFast.

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3. When either Source or Prefix Guard for IPv6 is enabled, ICMPv6 packets are unrestricted on all Catalyst 4500 series switch
platforms running IOS Cisco Release 15.2(1)E. All other traffic types are restricted.
4. IP Base supports only one OSPFv2 and one OSPFv3 instance with a maximum number of 1000 dynamically learned routes.
5. OSPF for Routed Access supports only one OSPFv2 and one OSPFv3 instance with a maximum number of 1000 dynamically
learned routes
6. As of IOS Release 3.5.0E, VSS supports Smart Install Director—Zero Touch installation without any convergence down-time.

MIB Support
For information on MIB support, please refer to this URL:
ftp://ftp.cisco.com/pub/mibs/supportlists/cat4000/cat4000-supportlist.html

Features Not Supported on the Cisco Catalyst 4500-X Series Switches
The following features are not supported on a Catalyst 4500-X Series switches:
•

CISCO-IETF-IP-FORWARD-MIB

•

CISCO-IETF-IP-MIB

•

LLDP HA

•

SMI Proxy

•

SSO

•

WCCP Version 1

•

isis network point-to-point command

With some exceptions, the VSS maintains “feature parity” with the standalone Catalyst 4500 or 4500-X
series switches. Major exceptions include:
•

CFM D8.1

•

Dot1q Tunnel (“legacy/classic” dot1q tunnel)

•

Dot1q tunneling and L2PT (Layer 2 Protocol Tunneling)

•

Fast UDLD

•

Flexlink

•

Mediatrace (Medianet active video monitoring feature)

•

Metadata (Medianet feature)

•

Per VLAN Learning

•

REP and associated featurettes

•

UDE

•

UDLR

•

VLAN Translation (1:1 and 1:2-Selective QinQ)

•

VMPS Client

•

WCCP

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Orderable Product Numbers
Table 6

Product Number

Cisco IOS XE Software Release 3.6.0E Product Numbers and Images for the Catalyst 4500-X
Series Switches

Description

Image

Catalyst 4500-X 32 Port 10GE IP
Base, Front-to-Back Cooling i.e. Port
Side to Power Supply Cooling with
no Power Supply

cat4500e-universal.SPA.03.04.00.SG.151-2.SG.bin

Catalyst 4500-X 32 Port 10GE IP
Base, Back-to-Front Cooling i.e.
Power Supply to Port Side Cooling
with no Power Supply

cat4500e-universal.SPA.03.04.00.SG.151-2.SG.bin

Catalyst 4500-X 16 Port 10GE IP
Base, Front-to-Back Cooling i.e. Port
Side to Power Supply Cooling with
no Power Supply

cat4500e-universal.SPA.03.04.00.SG.151-2.SG.bin

Catalyst 4500-X 16 Port 10GE IP
Base, Back-to-Front Cooling i.e.
Power Supply to Port Side Cooling
with no Power Supply

cat4500e-universal.SPA.03.04.00.SG.151-2.SG.bin

Catalyst 4500-X 24 Port 10GE IP
Base, Front-to-Back Cooling (Power
Supplies must be configured)

cat4500e-universal.SPA.03.04.00.SG.151-2.SG.bin

Catalyst 4500-X 40 Port 10G
Enterprise Services, Front-to-Back
Cooling, No Power Supply

cat4500e-universal.SPA.03.04.00.SG.151-2.SG.bin

Catalyst 4500-X 24 Port 10G
Enterprise Services, Front-to-Back
Cooling, No Power Supply

cat4500e-universal.SPA.03.04.00.SG.151-2.SG.bin

C4KX-FAN-F

Catalyst 4500-X Back-to-Front
Cooling Fan

NA

C4KX-FAN-R

Catalyst 4500-X Front-to-Back
Cooling Fan

NA

Base Switch PIDs
WS-C4500X-32SFP+

WS-C4500X-F-32SFP+

WS-C4500X-16SFP+

WS-C4500X-F-16SFP+

WS-C4500X-24X-IPB

WS-C4500X-40X-ES

WS-C4500X-24X-ES

cat4500e-universalk9.SPA.03.04.00.SG.151-2.SG.bin

cat4500e-universalk9.SPA.03.04.00.SG.151-2.SG.bin

cat4500e-universalk9.SPA.03.04.00.SG.151-2.SG.bin

cat4500e-universalk9.SPA.03.04.00.SG.151-2.SG.bin

cat4500e-universalk9.SPA.03.04.00.SG.151-2.SG.bin

cat4500e-universalk9.SPA.03.04.00.SG.151-2.SG.bin

cat4500e-universalk9.SPA.03.04.00.SG.151-2.SG.bin

FRU and OIR FANs

Power Supply

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Table 6

Cisco IOS XE Software Release 3.6.0E Product Numbers and Images for the Catalyst 4500-X
Series Switches

Product Number

Description

Image

C4KX-PWR-750AC-F

Catalyst 4500-X 750W AC
Back-to-Front Cooling Power Supply
(primary)

N/A

C4KX-PWR-750AC-F/2

Catalyst 4500-X 750W AC
Back-to-Front Cooling Power Supply
(secondary)

N/A

C4KX-PWR-750AC-R

Catalyst 4500-X 750W AC
Front-to-Back Cooling Power Supply
(primary)

N/A

C4KX-PWR-750AC-R/2

Catalyst 4500-X 750W AC
Front-to-Back Cooling Power Supply
(secondary)

N/A

C4KX-PWR-750DC-F

Catalyst 4500-X 750W DC
Back-to-Front Cooling Power Supply
(primary)

N/A

C4KX-PWR-750DC-F/2

Catalyst 4500-X 750W DC
Back-to-Front Cooling Power Supply
(secondary)

N/A

C4KX-PWR-750DC-R

Catalyst 4500-X 750W DC
Front-to-Back Cooling Power Supply
(primary)

N/A

C4KX-PWR-750DC-R/2

Catalyst 4500-X 750W DC
Front-to-Back Cooling Power Supply
(secondary)

N/A

CAB-CON-C4K-RJ45

Console Cable 6ft with
RJ-45-to-RJ-45

N/A

SD-X45-2GB-E

Cisco Catalyst 4500 2-GB SD card

N/A

USB-X45-4GB-E

Cisco Catalyst 4500 4-GB USB
device

N/A

C4KX-NM-8SFP+

Catalyst 4500-X 8 Port 10GE
Network Module

N/A

S45XU-35-1521E

CAT4500-X Universal Image

cat4500e-universal.SPA.03.05.00.E.152-1E.bin

S45XUK9-35-1521E

CAT4500-X Universal Crypto image

cat4500e-universalk9.SPA.03.05.00.E.152-1.E.bin

Accessories

Software

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New and Changed Information
These sections describe the new and changed information for the Catalyst 4500-X Series switch running
Cisco IOS XE software:
•

New Software Features in Release IOS XE 3.6.8E, page 30

•

New Software Features in Release IOS XE 3.6.7E, page 30

•

New Software Features in Release IOS XE 3.6.6E, page 30

•

New Software Features in Release IOS XE 3.6.1E, page 31

•

New Hardware Features in Release IOS XE 3.6.0E, page 31

•

New Software Features in Release IOS XE 3.6.0E, page 31

New Software Features in Release IOS XE 3.6.8E
There are no new features in this release.

New Software Features in Release IOS XE 3.6.7E
There are no new features in this release.

New Software Features in Release IOS XE 3.6.6E
There are no new features in this release.

New Software Features in Release IOS XE 3.6.5aE
There are no new features in this release.

New Software Features in Release IOS XE 3.6.5E
There are no new features in this release.

New Software Features in Release IOS XE 3.6.4E
There are no new features in this release.

New Software Features in Release IOS XE 3.6.3E
The following table lists the new features for Release IOS XE 3.6.3E.

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Feature Name

Description

CDP Bypass

Authentication sessions are established in single and multi-host modes for IP Phones.
However, if voice VLAN and 802.1x on an interface port is enabled, then CDP Bypass
is enabled when the host mode is set to single or multi-host mode.
Note

By default the host mode is set to single mode in legacy mode and
multi-authentication in the eedge mode.

Use the following commands to configure CDP bypass:
Switch> enable
Switch# configure terminal
Switch(config)# interface interface-id
Switch(config-if)# switchport mode access
Switch(config-if)# switchport voice vlan vlan-id
Switch(config-if)# authentication port-control auto
Switch(config-if)# authentication host-mode {single | multi-host}
Switch(config-if)# dot1x pae authenticator

(IP Base and Enterprise Services)
Flexible NetFlow - CTS Fields

Support for Cisco TrustSec (CTS) fields, to monitor and troubleshoot the CTS network,
and to segregate traffic based on source group tag (SGT) values.
(IP Base and Enterprise Services)

New Software Features in Release IOS XE 3.6.1E
The following table lists the new features for Release IOS XE 3.6.1E.
Feature Name

Description

Device Sensor

(LAN Base)

Policy Based Routing (PBR)

(IP Base)

New Hardware Features in Release IOS XE 3.6.0E
Feature Name

Description

Passive CX1 assemblies

SFP-H10GB-CU1-5M, SFP-H10GB-CU2M, SFP-H10GB-CU2-5M

Active CX1 cable assemblies

SFP-H10GB-ACU7M, SFP-H10GB-ACU10M

Breakout cable on the 10 GbEnd

Support for QSFP-4SFP10G-CU1M, QSFP-4SFP10G-CU3M, QSFP-4SFP10G-CU5M

Cisco SFP+ Active Optical Cables Support for Cisco SFP-10G-AOC1M Cisco SFP-10G-AOC2M Cisco SFP-10G-AOC3M,
Cisco SFP-10G-AOC5M, Cisco SFP-10G-AOC7M, Cisco SFP-10G-AOC10M

New Software Features in Release IOS XE 3.6.0E
The following table list the new features for Release IOS XE 3.6.0E.

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Feature Name

Description
Provides quick and easy access to all relevant documentation for specific platforms. Look
for Quick Links to Platform Documentation on the respective platform documentation
pages.

Use this URL for the Cisco IOS XE
Release 3E Documentation
Roadmap

∙

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/ios‐nx‐os‐software/ios‐xe‐3e/tsd‐pr
oducts‐support‐series‐home.html

∙
Use this URL for the Cisco IOS
Release 15E Documentation
Roadmap

:
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/ios‐nx‐os‐software/ios‐15‐2e/tsd
‐products‐support‐series‐home.html

Auto Conf

Determines the level of network access provided to an endpoint based on the type of the
endpoint device. This feature also permits hardbinding between the end device and the
interface. Auto configuration falls under the umbrella of the Smart Operations solution.

Auto Security

Provides a single line CLI, to enable base line security features (Port Security, DHCP
snooping, DAI).

Banner Page and Inactivity
timeout for HTTP/S connections

Banner Page and Inactivity timeout for HTTP/S connections—Allows you to create a
banner page and set an inactivity timeout for HTTP or HTTP Secure (HTTPS)
connections. The banner page allows you to logon to the server when the session is
invalid or expired.

Bidirectional SXP Support

Enhances the functionality of Cisco TrustSec with SXP version 4 by adding support for
Security Group Tag (SGT) Exchange Protocol (SXP) bindings that can be propagated in
both directions between a speaker and a listener over a single connection.

DHCP Gleaning

This is a read--only DHCP functionality that allows components to register and glean
DHCP packets.

Easy VSS

Enables you to configure VSS with a single command on the active switch and no action
on the VSS standby switch.

FIPS/CC Compliance for NMSP

The NMSP Strong Cipher enhancement enables strong ciphers for new NMSP
connections. The existing NMSP connections will use the default cipher.

FQDN ACL

Helps to resolve the destination domain name to an IP address, which is provided to the
client as a part of the domain name system (DNS) response.

Gateway Load Balancing Protocol Protects data traffic from a failed router or circuit while allowing packet load sharing
between a group of redundant routers.
HSRP: Global IPv6 Address

Allows users to configure multiple non-link local addresses as virtual addresses. The Hot
Standby Router Protocol (HSRP) ensures host-to-router resilience and failover, in case
the path between a host and the first-hop router fails, or the first-hop router itself fails.

Interface Templates

Provides a mechanism to configure multiple commands at the same time and associate it
with a target such as an interface. An interface template is a container of configurations
or policies that can be applied to specific ports.

IPv6 PBR

Allows you to manually configure how the received packets should be routed. PBR allows
you to identify packets by using several attributes and to specify the next hop or the
output interface to which the packet should be sent.

IPv6 Static Routing: Support for
Tracking Objects

Allows an IPv6 Static Route to be associated with a tracked-object.

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Feature Name

Description

MediaTrace 1.0

Provides the capability to diagnose Media Stream on top of various instrumentations in
Cisco routers/switches and endpoints. Also addresses the MediaNet Video monitoring
requirement to discover the signaling path and provides end-to-end diagnostics along the
media stream routes.

Object Tracking: IPv6 Route
Tracking

Expands the Enhanced Object Tracking (EOT) functionality to allow the tracking of IP
version 6 (IPv6) routes.

Open Plug-N-Play Agent

Switch based agent support for zero touch automated device installation solution called
NG-PNP.

Secure CDP

Allows users to select the type, length, value (TLV) fields that are sent on a particular
interface to filter information sent through Cisco Discovery Protocol packets.

Security Group ACL at Interface
Level

Controls and manages the Cisco TrustSec access control on a network device based on an
attribute-based access control list. When a security group access control list (SGACL) is
enabled globally, the SGACL is enabled on all interfaces in the network by default; use
Security Group ACL at Interface Level feature to disable the SGACL on a Layer 3
interface.

SMI Catalyst 4K Client

Enables a Catalyst 4k standalone switch acting as Smart Install Client.
Note

SMI Proxy is not supported.

TrustSec Critical Authentication

Ensures that the Network Device Admission Control (NDAC)-authenticated 802.1X links
between Cisco TrustSec devices are in open state even when the Authentication,
Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) server is not reachable.

VRRPv3: Object Tracking
Integration

Allows you to track the behavior of an object and receive notifications of changes. This
feature explains how object tracking, in particular the tracking of IPv6 objects, is
integrated into VRRP version 3 (VRRPv3) and describes how to track an IPv6 object
using a VRRPv3 group.

VRRPv3 Protocol Support

Enables a group of routers to form a single virtual router to provide redundancy. This
feature also provides the capability to support IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.

Web Authentication Redirection
to Original URL

Enables networks to redirect guest users to the URL they had originally requested. This
feature is enabled by default and requires no configuration.

New and Modified IOS Software Features Supported in Cisco IOS XE 3.6.0E
The following new and modified software features are supported in Cisco IOS XE Release 3.6.0E.
New Features:
eEdge integration with MACSEC
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios-xml/ios/san/configuration/15-e/san-macsec.html
DHCP Gleaning
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios-xml/ios/ipaddr_dhcp/configuration/15-e/dhcp-gleaning.html
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios-xml/ios/ipaddr_dhcp/configuration/xe-3e/dhcp-xe-3e-book.html
Service Discovery Gateway

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http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios-xml/ios/ipaddr_dns/configuration/15-e/dns-15-e-book.html
802.1X support for trunk ports
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios-xml/ios/sec_usr_8021x/configuration/15-e/config-ieee-802x-pba.html
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios-xml/ios/sec_usr_8021x/configuration/xe-3e/sec-usr-8021x-xe-3e-book.html
Enhancements/Respins:
Commented IP Access List Entries
http://cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios-xml/ios/sec_data_acl/configuration/15-e/sec-acl-comm-ipacl.html
http://cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios-xml/ios/sec_data_acl/configuration/xe-3e/sec-acl-comm-ipacl.html
IPv6 ACL Extensions for Hop by Hop Filtering
http://cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios-xml/ios/sec_data_acl/configuration/15-e/ip6-acl-ext-hbh.html
ACL Sequence Numbering
http://cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios-xml/ios/sec_data_acl/configuration/15-e/sec-acl-seq-num.html
http://cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios-xml/ios/sec_data_acl/configuration/xe-3e/sec-acl-seq-num.html
ACL Support for Filtering IP Options
http://cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios-xml/ios/sec_data_acl/configuration/15-e/sec-acl-support-filter-ip-option.html
http://cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios-xml/ios/sec_data_acl/configuration/xe-3e/sec-acl-support-filter-ip-option.html
ACL - TCP Flags Filtering
http://cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios-xml/ios/sec_data_acl/configuration/15-e/sec-create-filter-tcp.html
http://cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios-xml/ios/sec_data_acl/configuration/xe-3e/sec-create-filter-tcp.html
ACL - Named ACL Support for Noncontiguous Ports on an Access Control Entry
http://cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios-xml/ios/sec_data_acl/configuration/15-e/sec-named-acl-support-for-noncontiguous-ports.html
http://cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios-xml/ios/sec_data_acl/configuration/xe-3e/sec-named-acl-support-for-noncontiguous-ports.html
IP Access List Entry Sequence Numbering
http://cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios-xml/ios/sec_data_acl/configuration/15-e/sec-acl-seq-num.html

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http://cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios-xml/ios/sec_data_acl/configuration/xe-3e/sec-acl-seq-num.html
IOS ACL Support for filtering IP Options
http://cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios-xml/ios/sec_data_acl/configuration/15-e/sec-acl-support-filter-ip-option.html
ACL syslog Correlation
http://cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios-xml/ios/sec_data_acl/configuration/15-e/sec-acl-syslog.html
IP Named Access Control List
http://cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios-xml/ios/sec_data_acl/configuration/15-e/sec-acl-named.html
http://cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios-xml/ios/sec_data_acl/configuration/xe-3e/sec-acl-named.html
IPv6 PACL support
http://cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios-xml/ios/sec_data_acl/configuration/15-e/ip6-pacl-supp.html
Cisco Data Collection Manager
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios-xml/ios/bsdcm/configuration/15-e/bsdcm-15-e-book.html
SNMPv3 Community MIB Support
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios-xml/ios/snmp/configuration/15-e/snmp-15-e-book.html
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios-xml/ios/snmp/configuration/xe-3e/snmp-xe-3e-book.html
NETCONF XML PI
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios-xml/ios/cns/configuration/15-e/cns-15-e-book.html
IPv6 PIM Passive
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios-xml/ios/ipmulti_pim/configuration/15-e/ip6-mcast-pim-pass.html
HSRP aware PIM
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios-xml/ios/ipmulti_pim/configuration/15-e/imc_hsrp_aware.html
OSPFv3 ABR Type 3 LSA Filtering
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios-xml/ios/iproute_ospf/configuration/15-e/iro-abr-type-3.html
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios-xml/ios/iproute_ospf/configuration/15-e/iro-ospfv3-dc-ignore.html
Graceful Shutdown Support for OSPFv3
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios-xml/ios/iproute_ospf/configuration/15-e/iro-ospfv3-gshutdown.html

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OSPF Support for BFD over IPv4
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios-xml/ios/iproute_bfd/configuration/15-e/irbfd-bfd-ospf-ipv4-supp.html
BFD - VRF Support
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios-xml/ios/iproute_bfd/configuration/15-e/irbfd-vrf-supp.html
BFD - Static Route Support
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios-xml/ios/iproute_bfd/configuration/15-e/irbfd-bfd-static-route-supp.html
Static Route Support for BFD over IPv6
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios-xml/ios/iproute_bfd/configuration/15-e/ip6-bfd-static.html
BFD - EIGRP Support
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios-xml/ios/iproute_bfd/configuration/15-e/irbfd-bfd-eigrp-supp.html
OSPFv3 BFD
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios-xml/ios/iproute_bfd/configuration/15-e/ip6-route-bfd-ospfv3.html
TACACS+ Per VRF
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios-xml/ios/sec_usr_tacacs/configuration/15-e/sec-usr-tacacs-15-e-book.html
SSHv2 Enhancements
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios-xml/ios/sec_usr_ssh/configuration/15-e/sec-secure-shell-v2.html
Client Information Signalling Protocol (CISP)
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios-xml/ios/sec_usr_8021x/configuration/15-e/sec-ieee-neat.html
OSPFv3 MIB
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios-xml/ios/iproute_ospf/configuration/15-e/iro-ospfv3-mib.html
\OSPFv3 Max-Metric Router-Lsa
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios-xml/ios/iproute_ospf/configuration/15-e/ip6-route-ospfv3-max-lsa.html
OSPFv3 VRF-Lite/PE-CE
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios-xml/ios/iproute_ospf/configuration/15-e/iro-vrf-lite-pe-ce.html
VRRPv3 Protocol Support

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http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios-xml/ios/ipapp_fhrp/configuration/15-e/fhp-15-e-book_chapter_0100.html
IPv6 Source/Prefix Guard
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios-xml/ios/ipv6_fhsec/configuration/15-e/ip6f-15-e-book_chapter_0110.html
IPv6 Router Advertisement Throttler
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios-xml/ios/ipv6_fhsec/configuration/15-e/ip6f-15-e-book_chapter_0111.html
IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Multicast Suppress
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios-xml/ios/ipv6_fhsec/configuration/15-e/ip6-nd-mcast-supp.html
IPv6 Destination Guard
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios-xml/ios/ipv6_fhsec/configuration/15-e/ipv6-dest-guard.html
DHCPv6 Relay - Lightweight DHCPv6 Relay Agent
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios-xml/ios/ipaddr_dhcp/configuration/15-e/dhcp-ldra.html
DNS - VRF aware DNS
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios-xml/ios/ipaddr_dns/configuration/15-e/dns-15-e-book_chapter_01.html
DHCPv6 - Relay chaining for Prefix Delegation
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios-xml/ios/ipaddr_dhcp/configuration/15-e/dhcp-15e-book_chapter_010.html
OSPFv3 Retransmission Limits
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios-xml/ios/iproute_ospf/command/ospf-i1.html
OSPFv3 RFC 3101 Support
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios-xml/ios/iproute_ospf/configuration/15-e/iro-ospfv3-nssa-cfg.html
OSPF support for NSSA RFC 3101
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios-xml/ios/iproute_ospf/configuration/15-e/iro-ospfv2-nssa-cfg.html
TFTP IPv6 support
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios-xml/ios/ipv6_nman/configuration/15-e/ip6-tftp-supp.html
Capabilities Manager

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http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios-xml/ios/saf/configuration/15-e/saf-capman.html
Extensible Messaging Client Protocol (XMCP) 2.0
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios-xml/ios/saf/configuration/15-e/saf-xmcp.html

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

Cisco IOS XE Version

Cisco IOS Version

03.3.0SG

15.1(1)SG

03.3.1SG

15.1(1)SG1

03.4.0SG

15.1(2)SG

03.5.0E

15.2(1)E

03.6.0E

15.2(2)E

Upgrading the System Software
•

Before upgrading to Cisco IOS XE Release 3.6.6E, you need to upgrade the Prime Infrastructure
software to Release 3.1.4 with Device Pack(DP) 6.

•

If you are upgrading to IOS XE Version 3.6.0E and plan to use VSS, you must upgrade your
ROMMON to IOS Version 15.0(1r)SG10.

•

ISSU is supported on 4500X in VSS configuration.

•

If dual supervisor engines are present, first upgrade your software to Cisco IOS XE 3.2.0SG or later,
then upgrade your ROMMON to IOS Version 15.0(1r)SG7 to avoid an uplinks issue (CSCtj54375).

Limitations and Restrictions
•

Although the show memory command is supported on Catalyst 4500 series switches, the CLI output
for the command shows the value 0 for the config total, on Catalyst 4500 series switches using a
daughter card on Supervisor Engine 7-E. This issue is, however, not seen on switches with
Supervisor Engine 7-E baseboard. (CSCup28930)

•

Starting with Release IOS XE 3.3.0SG, the seven RP restriction was removed.

•

We recommend that you configure the access-session interface-template sticky timer timer-value
command at the global or interface configuration mode, and not within the template.

•

Performing an ISSU from a prior release to IOS XE 3.6.0E is not supported.

•

More than 16K QoS policies can be configured in software. Only the first 16K are installed in
hardware.

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•

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 (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:


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


will produce the following for the first and second rules

deny


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and the following for the third statement

permit


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:
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

CSCtg93278
•

When attaching an existing policy-map (that is already applied to a control-port) to another
front-panel port, the following message displays:
The policymap  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.
– IGMP joins with source traffic transit to all the multicast groups.

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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
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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

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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.

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Energywise WOL is not “waking up” a PC in hibernate or standby mode.
Workaround: None. CSCtr51014

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When OSPFv3 LSA throttling is configured, rate limiting does not take effect for a few minutes.
WorkAround: None. CSCtw86319

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The ROMMON version number column in the output of show module command is truncated.
Workaround: Use the show version command. CSCtr30294

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IP SLA session creation fails randomly for various 4-tuples.
Workaround: Select an alternate destination or source port. CSCty05405

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The system cannot scale to greater than 512 SIP flows with MSP and metadata enabled.
Workaround: None. CSCty79236

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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
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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.

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Workaround: During IPv6 access-list configuration, configure at least one IPv6 ACE before the
"hardware statistics" statement. CSCuc53234
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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

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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

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An incorrect module number is displayed in the console messages during boot up of a Cat4500X
VSS.
*Jul 18 12:36:11.138: %C4K_IOSMODPORTMAN-6-MODULEONLINE: Module 11 (WS-C4500X-32
S/N: JAE154503I8 Hw: 1.0) is online

Because the Catalyst 4500-X is a “fixed” configuration device, in a VSS, you would expect the two
systems to be labeled 'Module 1' and 'Module 2.’ However, because of software implementation
similarities with the modular Catalyst 4500E series switches, the Standby switch is labeled 'Module
11.’
Workaround: None. CSCub11632
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Memory allocation failures can occur if more than 16K IPv6 multicast snooping entries are present.
Workaround: None. CSCuc77376

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Beginning with IOS Release XE 3.5.0E, error messages that occur when a QoS policy is applied will
no longer appear directly on the console when no logging console is configured. They will appear
only when a logging method is active (e.g., logging buffered, logging console, …).
Workaround: None. CSCuf86375

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Setting a cos value based on QoS group triggers the following error message in a VSS system
set action fail = 9

Workaround: None. QoS groups are not supported in VSS. CSCuc84739
•

Auto negotiation cannot be disabled on the Fa1 port. It must be set to auto/auto, or fixed speed with
duplex auto.

•

The following messages are seen during boot up after POST check.
Rommon reg: 0x00004F80
Reset2Reg: 0x00000F00
Image load status: 0x00000000
#####
Snowtrooper 220 controller 0x0430006E..0x044E161D Size:0x0057B4C5 Program Done!
#########################
[ 6642.974087] pci 0000:00:00.0: ignoring class b20 (doesn't match header type 01)
Starting System Services
Calculating module dependencies ...
Loading rtc-ds1307
RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument

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No Mountpoints DefinedJan 17 09:48:14 %IOSXE-3-PLATFORM: process sshd[5241]: error:
Bind to port
22 on :: failed: Address already in use
Starting IOS Services
Loading virtuclock as vuclock
Loading gsbu64atomic as gdb64atomic
/dev/fd/12: line 267: /sys/devices/system/edac/mc/edac_mc_log_ce: No such file or
directory
Aug 8 20:30:29 %IOSXE-3-PLATFORM: process kernel: mmc0: Got command interrupt
0x00030000 even though no command operation was in progress.
Aug 8 20:30:29 %IOSXE-3-PLATFORM: process kernel: PME2: fsl_pme2_db_init: not on
ctrl-plane

These messages are cosmetic only, and no ssh services are available unless configured within IOS.
Workaround: None CSCue15724

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), which is the online successor to Bug Toolkit, 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.
To view the details of a caveat listed in this document:
1.

Access the BST (use your Cisco user ID and password) at https://tools.cisco.com/bugsearch/.

2.

Enter the bug ID in the Search For: field.

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Resolved Caveats for Cisco IOS XE Release 3.6.8E, page 44

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Resolved Caveats for Cisco IOS XE Release 3.6.7E, page 44

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Resolved Caveats for Cisco IOS XE Release 3.6.6E, page 45

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Resolved Caveats for Cisco IOS XE Release 3.6.5E, page 45

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Resolved Caveats for Cisco IOS XE Release 3.6.4E, page 46

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Resolved Caveats for Cisco IOS XE Release 3.6.3E, page 47

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Resolved Caveats for Cisco IOS XE Release 3.6.2E, page 49

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Resolved Caveats for Cisco IOS XE Release 3.6.1E, page 49

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Resolved Caveats for Cisco IOS XE Release 3.6.0E, page 50

Open Caveats for Cisco IOS XE Release 3.6.xE
Bug ID

Headline

CSCuz75030

license feature display issue after IOS upgrade

CSCvc47741

Multiple FFM Crashes on 4500 VSS Setup

CSCuv15017

VSS Active Reload causes CTS Ether-channel links on standby to flap.

CSCvc53252

c4500x crashed due to corrupted magic value. Last function JobReviewBody

Resolved Caveats for Cisco IOS XE Release 3.6.8E
Bug ID

Headline

CSCuw48618

NOVA: Switch crash in FFM with abort called from fib_entry_create_fed_version.

CSCvc40729

Cat 4500x 3.6.2 - crash on Cat4k Mgmt HiPri with Interrupt level Malloc.

CSCve37653

4500 in RPR causing SNMP Input queue full errors and eicore timeouts

CSCve54486

Crash when attempting to assign nonexistent/shutdown VLAN to 802.1x port.

CSCve80873

Service Policy disappears from 10G interface when neighbor port flaps, from 03.06.05.E &
onwards,

CSCve37498

Switch sends duplicate accounting message, that causing ISE to generate Misconfigured
NAS Alarms.

CSCvf02423

C4500 - 03.06.06.E / 15.2(2)E6 - High CPU due to KxAclPathMan reprogr, KxAclPathMan
update.

CSCvf76512

option 82 circuit-id-tag restricted by 6 bytes.

CSCvf83057

Interface flaps once after the port change status from admin down to up

CSCvf96579

2960:AAARadius authentication fails with "switchport voice vlan dot1p" command

CSCvg70852

Unknown MAC addresses appear on port when trying to authenticate using dot1x.

CSCvf18046

sticky timer stops if connected device moved from one port to other within timer expiry.

Resolved Caveats for Cisco IOS XE Release 3.6.7E
Bug ID

Headline

CSCvc88353

QoS TCAM does not share labels with CTS applied .

CSCty18171

SNMP poll of CISCO-PROCESS-MIB may cause high CPU and SNMP poll timeout.

CSCuu34535

Standby reloads on removing flow monitor.

CSCuv22571

Memory corruption crash in slaJitterPacketBuild.

CSCuw15256

IOS PKI: Certificate validation fails after reload.

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Bug ID

Headline

CSCux81234

C4500 VSS port mapped to Drop aggport when the Aggregate port id 656.

CSCuz89309

WS-X4648-RJ45V+E interface becomes unusable after INLINEPOWEROVERDRAWN.

CSCvb76862

4500VSS: Traffic Dropped on VSL due to SPTDROP.

CSCvb97901

4500X 3.8.2 TX-Queue's zero out after multiple reloads.

CSCvc47741

Multiple FFM Crashes on 4500 VSS Setup.

CSCvd01598

Tacacs+ Timeout Retransmission is done 3 times prior marking server down.

CSCvd32541

4500 :: next hop for static route mis-programmed.

CSCvd35291

Removal of "access-session template monitor" creates Drop MAC entries in CAM table.

CSCvd66637

VSS Cat4500 Standby Supervisor memory leak in EICORED process.

CSCve04704

Session blocked in Pending Deletion state due to SM Accounting Feature.

Resolved Caveats for Cisco IOS XE Release 3.6.6E
Identifier

Description

CSCuz30314

Memory leak in DSensor Cache PROTO and epm authz_sess_info.

CSCum58148

Switch crashes when you modify policer rates of QoS policy.

CSCuz24063

Storm-control configured on port-channel cannot reflect to member link.

CSCuz68659

Unexpected packets seen while learning the mcast traffic.

CSCuz72531

PC MAC deleted from port-security table even with sticky config.

CSCva40478

IP DHCP snooping trust on port-channel does not reflect on member link.

CSCvb04162

Cisco Catalyst 4500 IPv6 QoS Policy w/ L4Ops intermittently not installing on
interface.

Resolved Caveats for Cisco IOS XE Release 3.6.5Ea
Bug ID

Headline

CSCvb19326

NTP leap second addition is not working during leap second event

CSCuv87976

CLI Knob for handling leap second add/delete ignore/ handle

CSCvb29204

BenignCertain on IOS and IOS-XE

Resolved Caveats for Cisco IOS XE Release 3.6.5E
Identifier

Description

CSCur57853

4500 VSS cannot send snmp trap when active is down

CSCut93424

CAT4500 - Flexible Netflow start/end time inaccuracy

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Identifier

Description

CSCuw09327

Crash while config ACL- invalid mem access K5CpuEventCodeInputAclCopy

CSCuy23874

4500: Auto-negotiation issue: port going to 100Mbps instead of 1Gbps

CSCuy19990

IOS 15.2 802.1x critical vlan feature - reinitialize is not working

CSCuz02962

Increasing acl-ack-contexts for auth sessions causing memory exhaustion

Resolved Caveats for Cisco IOS XE Release 3.6.4E
Bug ID

Headline

CSCuv39850

Switch crashes @auth_mgr_show_method_status_list

CSCuv87875

Crash seen@Galios_newIosHeapMemoryRef on assigning DACL on reauth

CSCuw58095

AMUR MR3: SUP8E crash at dot1x_switch_handle_vlan_removal

CSCuu97550

FB 4500X - SNMP dot1dTpFdbPort retuning incorrect value

CSCus13479

4500X VSS: multicast traffic blackholed on orphan L3 egress portchannel

CSCut57300

With sec ip in SVI, routed packet is not flooded back on incoming port

CSCut71405

IGMP packet not matched by ingress QoS policy if IGMP Snooping enabled

CSCuu43197

C4500X high CPU due to execute show command continuously

CSCuu85298

FIB/LFIB inconcistency after BGP flap

CSCuv07111

IOS and IOS-XE devices changing the next-hop on BGP route with own IP

CSCuv07620

4500X VSS won't notify about license mismatch

CSCuu21448

ISIS Metric with Multiple instances using ciiCircLevelMetric OID

CSCuu42267

vstack status shows duplicate entries for a single PID

CSCuv23475

CPUHOG and crash on "no network 0.0.0.0" with vnet configuration on intf

CSCuu68776

Multicast boundary filter-autorp broken / WS-C4500X / 15.2(1)E 15.2(3)E1

CSCuv00910

bgp afi1/safi1 and afi1/saf4 only peers in the same update-group

CSCuv07796

Truncated output of 'show platform cpu packet buffered'

CSCuv16769

ISIS: Old path not deleted in Global RIB when new path is filtered out

CSCuv19773

"nmsp attach suppress" not being added into run-config on WS-C3850-24P

CSCuv31135

Disable connected-check in one side only makes route as unreachable

CSCuv32845

no message display even unable to allocate memory for vlan mapping

CSCuw06073

EOL CRLF in startup-config breaks 4500x VSS

CSCuv46710

Segmentation Fault in Auth Manager

CSCuv50834

High CPU due to hung NMSP Session

CSCuw21115

4500/WS-X4724-SFP-E port flaps when GLC-GE-100FX is inserted

CSCuw36865

L2 switched traffic matched by L3 SVI VACL in the output direction

CSCuw39020

access-session vlan-assignment ignore-errors breaks dynamic vlan assign

CSCuv76906

"bfd" disappears after issuing "snmp-server host x.x.x.x ABC bfd"

CSCuw09006

Voice Vlan bocked with NEAT Configuration

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CSCuw48407

47xx line card failing complete diagnostics after temp sensor failure

CSCuw73525

3650 DHCPv6 Guard does not block rogue DHCP server to provide IPv6 addr

CSCtz92812

"ip vrf Liin-vrf" in running-config on a VSS system

CSCub56668

Handle C4K_HWFLOWMAN-3-NFEINTERRUPTSTATUS: module: fi
InterruptStatus:

CSCuj81067

memory leak in crypto_create_pkcs7_msg

CSCum41167

Importing multipath routes changes next-hop to 0.0.0.0 and traffic fails

CSCuw06202

Vstack Download-Config causes 4500 to become unresponsive

CSCuq36627

WAAS Express:Failed to create SSL session. (no available resources)

CSCuo93205

Enable SSL Server Identity Check during SSL handshake

CSCur28336

Memory leak and possible crash when using a logging discriminator

CSCtg15739

Failed sessions are not removed in multi-auth mode

CSCur45606

logging discriminator doesn't work

CSCtb44674

High CPU due to SA-MISS event caused by own mac address packets received

CSCuq46932

Crash on dhcpd_find_binding_by_hw

CSCuu55421

Error - The FRULink 10G Service Module (C3KX-SM-10G) is not responding

CSCuv19258

DACL may not work under IBNS 2.0

CSCuv47729

Packet gets flooded back to the ingress port, when a MEC port is down

CSCuv50669

Port-security blocks X/Y/38 port due to incorrect MAC address

CSCuw52729

Enabling auto qos causes "line vty 0 4" length set to 0

CSCux18867

4500 3.6.0 False port-security alarms on standby supervisor

CSCux38988

redundancy config-sync failures mcl define interface range adds fifth ,

Resolved Caveats for Cisco IOS XE Release 3.6.3E
Bug ID

Headline

CSCui35423

DHCP bindings are not happening at first try

CSCul73513

Server-client clock not in sync after leap configuration

CSCum17258

EPM_SESS_ERR: Error in activating feature (EPM ACL PLUG-IN)

CSCum56902

Device crashes when classes removed from a policy-map

CSCum65703

Inconsistency on config "privilege" commands as seen in running-config

CSCun14713

Create new accounting session whenever the principal identity changes

CSCun33897

4500 IOS-XE: Crash on ACL/PBR configuration

CSCuo59641

wireshark does not work when file location is usb0:

CSCuo67491

c4500X after enabling MACSEC on the interface IS-IS does not work

CSCuo69316

Console hung for 4+ mnt on issuing 'no int vlan' with ipv6 config

CSCup66629

Traceback @psecure_platform_delete_all_addrs on executing neg events

CSCup81878

Line by Line Sync fails while deleting dynamic NTP peer

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CSCup89543

ping with packet size 1469 fails after config span on 4500X VSS

CSCuq31722

The show platform software flood profile command caused SUP8 to crash

CSCuq53140

High cpu seen while sending IPV6 traffic

CSCuq54573

Service Policy disappears from Running Configuration of the interface

CSCuq66263

Switch crashes when ACL add entry

CSCur09175

IPDT is turned on automatically even when dot1x configs are disabled

CSCur58372

snmp-server enable traps syslog shows in "show run all" output after removal

CSCur59242

Crash due to tplus_client_stop_timer

CSCus09761

IOS-Phone not placed in critical voice VLAN when AAA server is not reachable

CSCus13476

CSR handled only one MACSec interface's authentication

CSCus13924

Device crashes while configuring 'Identity' commands

CSCus23125

MAC not learnt after removal of auth config

CSCus32213

CTS manual link does not come up

CSCus46741

Service Policy disappears from running configuration of a 10G iinterface

CSCus47009

Switch does not increment the "Received on untrusted ports" DHCP counter

CSCus79132

Dot1x authentication legacy behaviour broken

CSCut05808

UDP(1975) causes Error msg %IPC-2-INVALIDZONE

CSCut10251

Some commands are not in running-config after AUTOINSTALL finishes

CSCut11679

FFM memory leak is observed when WCCP flaps

CSCut13064

BPDU filter does not work on output port when STP is disabled

CSCut13753

ACLs not syncing to the member switches on stack reload or member reload

CSCut20271

C3560X responds to ARP request from management port

CSCut27272

CPUHOG and crash due to Auth Manager process

CSCut79680

ip default-gateway is not seen in running-config after AUTOINSTALL

CSCut87425

CPU hog in "EEM TCL Proc" after TCL script termination with long runtime

CSCuu22144

Vlan1 IP apply method inconsistencies across Static / DHCP / TFTP

CSCuu25770

IOSd crash triggered by certain CDP packet

CSCuu48400

Amur-E3: HW CoPP counters are not incrementing.

CSCuu50392

Auth Manager memory leak with ISE authentication

CSCuu82134

IBC:VSS-Predator: Active Predator went SMI upgrade but not standby

CSCuu90639

IP address is missing by end of Autoinstall

CSCuu92251

Removing auth mgr configs stops MAC learning on port (no MACs on MATM)

CSCuu97116

Acct messages should include Class attribute from authentication

CSCuv06451

IOSd crash in eap_auth_terminal_state calling free_internal

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Resolved Caveats for Cisco IOS XE Release 3.6.2E
Bug ID

Headline

CSCur25174

Memory usage of the cli_agent process keeps growing

CSCur28069

Traffic does not flow over CTS link during failover

CSCus46086

Dot1x/Mab re-authentication success with "Status: Unauthorized"

CSCus75890

Switch does not resync to NTP server after clock set command or reload

CSCur20444

I/O memory leak due to DHCPv6 packets

CSCur48634

HA fails due to bulk synch failure with encrypted password

CSCus57511

Switch detects high temp, and SNMP trap causes shutdown

CSCug90126

Switch returns incorrect ciscoEnvMonSupplyState SNMP values for 6000/4200 W
PSUU.

CSCul29298

Delayed detection of LinkDown message on peer interfaces

CSCuq80812

Incomplete ARP reply received on an active Flex Link port

CSCsv36934

BRIDGE-MIB query does not return information for inactive ports

CSCus32292

4506-E | SUP7L-E | 03.06.00.E | Crash - ffm ACL

CSCui99162

When IP device tracking is enabled, ARP probe response floods the VLAN

CSCtf75400

Wrong output for show platform software etherchannel port-channel n map

CSCur58074

Some SFPs are not recognized when inserted into random ports on a switch

CSCuq04533

Cost for secondary VLANs is lost after each reload

CSCur21848

WCCP stops redirecting traffic when eighth port added to service group

CSCur11299

Switch crashes when policy-maps are modified

Resolved Caveats for Cisco IOS XE Release 3.6.1E
Bug ID

Headline

CSCuc03836

Switch reports SYS-2-MALLOCFAIL error for a very large amount of memory

CSCum47115

EtherType 888e unicast can not pass 2960 with new releases

CSCum80951

TCAM is not sharing when same policy is applied to multiple interfaces

CSCun13984

Catalyst 4500-X reloads while modifying static mac address-table entry

CSCun80959

Desg port on the RootBridge experienced block forward for 30 sec

CSCuo51767

REP preemption is not triggered with link state change

CSCuo80260

Call-home message fails; returns "Unknown" serial number

CSCuo89407

Problem with adding new ports to a channel group.

CSCup48832

Identical IPv6 DHCP remote ID for L2 ports running source-guard/snooping

CSCup96299

IPv6 Multicast RIB entry refer to wrong distanc

CSCuq02796

4500X VSS failure after adding members to port-channel

CSCuq03562

PBR: Not working in XE 3.5.0E under IPBASE license

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Bug ID

Headline

CSCuq10827

C3560X cHsrpGrpStandbyState is incorrect

CSCuq32728

3.6.0 - IP phones reboots continuously

CSCuq39071

Mcast packet loss when other receiver leaves group in IGMPv3

CSCup39712

Switch crashes with critical software exception during config push

CSCuq44784

Mingla2: Storm-control on EC suspended post reload

CSCur00722

Hard Reset of the Active Sup cause switch to power cycle

Resolved Caveats for Cisco IOS XE Release 3.6.0E
Bug ID

Headline

CSCty67871

Baseboard links remain up on improper uplink module removal

CSCub44553

CPU spike seen while sending the multicast traffic to 10k Groups.

CSCub63571

AdjSameIfFail packets in a user defined vnet are dropped

CSCuc49150

User can attach input QoS policy to VSL ports, but cannot dettach it

CSCuf08112

Cat4k Active Sup crash with multi telnet session cli show power module

CSCtk68692

kron-initiated 'write mem' locks nvram indefinitely

Hardware Documents
Installation guides and notes including specifications and relevant safety information are available at the
following URLs:
•

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

•

Catalyst 4500-X hardware installation information is available at:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps12332/prod_installation_guides_list.html

Software Documentation
Software release notes, configuration guides, command references, and system message guides are
available at the following URLs:
•

Cisco 4500-X release notes are available at:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps12332/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

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Notices

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
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).

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License Issues
The OpenSSL toolkit stays under a dual license, i.e. both the conditions of the OpenSSL License and the
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.
OpenSSL License:

Copyright © 1998-2007 The OpenSSL Project. All rights reserved.
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided
that the following conditions are met:
1.

Redistributions of source code must retain the copyright notice, this list of conditions and the
following disclaimer.

2.

Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions, and
the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

3.

All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software must display the following
acknowledgment: “This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the
OpenSSL Toolkit (http://www.openssl.org/)”.

4.

The names “OpenSSL Toolkit” and “OpenSSL Project” must not be used to endorse or promote
products derived from this software without prior written permission. For written permission, please
contact openssl-core@openssl.org.

5.

Products derived from this software may not be called “OpenSSL” nor may “OpenSSL” appear in
their names without prior written permission of the OpenSSL Project.

6.

Redistributions of any form whatsoever must retain the following acknowledgment:
“This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit
(http://www.openssl.org/)”.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE OpenSSL PROJECT “AS IS”' AND ANY EXPRESSED OR
IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES
OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN
NO EVENT SHALL THE OpenSSL PROJECT OR ITS CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY
DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES
(INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR
SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER
CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT
LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY
OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH
DAMAGE.
This product includes cryptographic software written by Eric Young (eay@cryptsoft.com). This product
includes software written by Tim Hudson (tjh@cryptsoft.com).
Original SSLeay License:

Copyright © 1995-1998 Eric Young (eay@cryptsoft.com). All rights reserved.
This package is an SSL implementation written by Eric Young (eay@cryptsoft.com).
The implementation was written so as to conform with Netscapes SSL.

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This library is free for commercial and non-commercial use as long as the following conditions are
adhered to. The following conditions apply to all code found in this distribution, be it the RC4, RSA,
lhash, DES, etc., code; not just the SSL code. The SSL documentation included with this distribution is
covered by the same copyright terms except that the holder is Tim Hudson (tjh@cryptsoft.com).
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
the library used. This can be in the form of a textual message at program startup or in documentation
(online or textual) provided with the package.
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided
that the following conditions are met:
1.

Redistributions of source code must retain the copyright notice, this list of conditions and the
following disclaimer.

2.

Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and
the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

3.

All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software must display the following
acknowledgement:
“This product includes cryptographic software written by Eric Young (eay@cryptsoft.com)”.
The word ‘cryptographic’ can be left out if the routines from the library being used are not
cryptography-related.

4.

If you include any Windows specific code (or a derivative thereof) from the apps directory
(application code) you must include an acknowledgement: “This product includes software written
by Tim Hudson (tjh@cryptsoft.com)”.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY ERIC YOUNG “AS IS” AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED
WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO
EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT,
INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT
NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE,
DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY
THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT
(INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF
THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
The license and distribution terms for any publicly available version or derivative of this code cannot be
changed. i.e. this code cannot simply be copied and put under another distribution license [including the
GNU Public License].

Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request
For information on obtaining documentation, submitting a service request, and gathering additional
information, see the monthly What’s New in Cisco Product Documentation, which also lists all new and
revised Cisco technical documentation, at:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/general/whatsnew/whatsnew.html
Subscribe to the What’s New in Cisco Product Documentation as a Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feed
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