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1. 3013 memory The number of allowed telnets has been reduced to 2 5 4 8 in revision 5 4 9 This is a temporary fix 3058 During task startup ie at boot when using RSTP a short 5 4 9 5 11 07 9 59 AM CPC4400 Release Notes 115P0003 Page 8 of 83 Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com a PERFORMANCE TECHNOLOGIES v KILDNE Reported In Fixed In Release Release Tracking Description Number lived loop may occur if the switch is interconnected with more than one other switch or bridge This is caused by the fact that the RSTP task does not get enough CPU cycles at boot to properly participate in the RSTP protocol As a work around for this condition it is recommended that all links be disabled by boot lua and enabled at the end of rc lua This keeps the switch disconnected from the network until it is ready For sample scripts or more information please contact support pt com The DHCP Server does not support the pmid option This 3081 option is used to allow the client to specify parameters 5 4 2 provided by the server RIP should generate a triggered update after a route delete The update should contain the route with an infinity metric 3136 which notifies neighbors that the route is no longer valid If 5 4 107 the router doesn t send the update it can lead to split horizon and it takes RIP an extended period to timeo
2. 5 11 07 9 59 AM CPC4400 Release Notes 115P0003 Page 43 of 83 Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com a PERFORMANCE SS TECHNOLOGIES v PEENE Reported In Fixed In Release Release Tracking Description Number defined in the mib It is a part of Dot1dStpExtPortEntry and therefore needs to be included in the SEQUENCE definition for that entry This does not effect mib ordering but does prevent some SNMP clients from successfully compiling the mib 2 The second issue is more subtle but has the effect of relocating the objects defined in the rstp mib file to a location other then the intended location The responsible line in the mib file reads dotidStp OBJECT IDENTIFIER rstpMIBObjects 1 This line essentially creates a second dot1dStp object under rstpMIBObjects This line should not be in the file The oids in this file are intended to extend tables in the bridge mib For example the object dotldStpVersion is defined as leaf node 16 in the rstp mib file The intent of this definition was to extend the dotIstp table in the bridge mib not to create a new table beginning at leaf node 16 Some SNMP clients ignore this line and place the objects in their proper location under the bridge mibs doldstp group However the net snmp utilitiy sampget interprets the files such that the objects appear under rstpMIBObjects If ho
3. 5 11 07 9 59 AM CPC4400 Release Notes 115P0003 Page 6 of 83 Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com a PERFORMANCE SS TECHNOLOGIES v rue Reported In Fixed In Release Release Tracking Description Number need information on how to do this Refer to IR 1729 dotldTpFdb Table entries are sorted by VLAN and MAC address but this table is not VLAN aware When the user accesses this table through SNMP it may appear that entries 2013 are not sorted by MAC Address as they should be The 5 3 111 dotlqTpFdb table is VLAN aware and entries are sorted by VLAN and MAC address This table appears properly when accessed through SNMP There is only one cwd current working directory supported by vxWorks If a cd command is issued on any CLI session either the console or any telnet session it will be seen by all other sessions When an IP interface is deleted the entries in the Routing Table to support that interface are not removed This may cause OSPF and RIP to continue to advertise the switch as a aoe path to the now deleted interface If RIP or OSPF are in use See Lie and an interface is deleted the switch must be rebooted to allow RIP and OSPF to register the change A high load of broadcast traffic prevents the switch from performing a save operation The save reports save error Remove the traffic load if this occ
4. 3394 3396 Using the edit CLI command if you enter a single line that is greater than 512 bytes the switch may overflow an internal buffer and cause a memory corruption or take an exception Execution of the running cli script generated with the CLI running command may cause RSTP or VRRP protocol failures or may cause Integrity Test 4 to fail This is caused by the fact that the establishment of many settings consumes CPU bandwidth and it is unable to process network traffic as required by these protocols 535235 5 5 14 3403 Simultaneous SFTP accesses can result in connection failure and or an error similar to the following being reported on the client Disconnecting Bad packet length 3156237182 5 5 14 SSeS 3411 The current working directory of the console CLI interferes with the working directory for SFTP If the console CLI is not currently positioned in the flash filesystem then SFTP cannot change directory to the flash filesystem Note that the fix for this problem still leaves the case that when the SFTP session changes to the working directory is moved to where the Console CLI is located You should use absolute path directory name including the filesystem name eg flash or use relative path movement eg _ to get around this 5 5 14 5 3 22 3419 Using the cli call in a Lua script and the process of starting and stopping CLI instances Telne
5. 3489 If a Spanning Tree or RSTP BPDU has a malformed LLC Header eg Length field does not match frame the frame is still passed to the protocol to be processed The MAC and LLC headers are not checked by the receiver and are not made available to higher layers 3490 The SNMP get for the Designated Root is returning a bridge s ID instead of the Root Bridge ID 5 5 24 3491 3492 When running RSTP the switch may incorrectly ignore updated priority vector information from its RSTP protocol partner This problem may cause longer than necessary The Beacon process sends Unicast or Multicast Beacon packets at regular intervals Users may monitor these to 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 24 resolution of RSTP protocol 5 324 5 11 07 9 59 AM CPC4400 Release Notes 115P0003 Page 23 of 83 Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com a PERFORMANCE TECHNOLOGIES v Pe Reported In Fixed In Release Release Tracking Description Number ensure that the switch is operating If the user creates a Unicast Beacon and the target host goes away or has no UDP service on the configured Beacon Port then the Beacon task stops and sets the Beacon Instance to NotInService If the user is using Unicast or Multicast Beacons and the source interface goes away then the Beacon also stops When using the Switch Host Secur
6. 5 11 07 9 59 AM CPC4400 Release Notes 115P0003 Page 48 of 83 Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com A PERFORMANCE TECHNOLOGIES v without the risk of the traffic being monitored or intercepted In addition to operating a secure CLI session the switch supports secure file transfer using SFTP SFTP operates like FTP except that all network traffic is encrypted and decrypted as with SSH The switch uses SSHv2 and operates as a server only SSH and SFTP are disabled by default Both may be enabled by using the sshd enable on command The switch supports both password and public key authentication for SSH and SFTP The switch and the SSH client both have a public key that may be exchanged prior to establishing a connection If these keys are exchanged and installed at each end prior to making a connection then the switch and the client will use these keys to authenticate each other and allow the session to be established without the need for typing in a password If the client does not have the switch s public key or vice versa then automatic authentication will fail and the switch will force a password to be provided This is the same password that is established as the CLI password for telnet or console based CLI access If the proper password is provided then the session is established When the user attempts to connect to the switch the switch will send
7. When the switch forwards a packet to a next hop host on the same network that the packet was received on it should issue an ICMP Redirect message to the source The switch does not This may cause a higher level of traffic on the network 3706 5 11 07 9 59 AM CPC4400 Release Notes 115P0003 Page 39 of 83 Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com a PERFORMANCE S TECHNOLOGIES v FILDOE Reported In Fixed In Release Release Tracking Description Number than would otherwise occur If you use SNMP to set up Packet Filter Rules and set an illegal value for the Action the switch may panic A typo exists in the message printed when a Lua Event Handler does not exist the word launch is misspelled 3709 5 5 0 5 5 28 3737 5 30 5 5 28 02 28 2007 08 10 25 0x14d5490 tLuaEventHandler unable to lauch event handler script flash samples linkevent lua lua_dofile returns 2 RMON Alarms are incorrectly triggered on start up When alarmStartupAlarm is set to risingAlarm 1 and the alarmTable records are created with traffic less than the alarmFallingThreshold an alarmFallingEvent is incorrectly triggered It should not be triggered at startup because the alarmStartupAlarm is set to rising It should not be triggered after startup because the traffic had not previously exceeded 3747 the alarmRisingThreshold 5 5 0 5
8. A rtisan Artisan Technology Group is your source for quality TecmoogyGroup new and certified used pre owned equipment FAST SHIPPING AND SERVICE CENTER REPAIRS WE BUY USED EQUIPMENT DELIVERY Experienced engineers and technicians on staff Sell your excess underutilized and idle used equipment TENS OF THOUSANDS OF at our full service in house repair center We also offer credit for buy backs and trade ins IN STOCK ITEMS www artisantg com WeBuyEquipment 7 EQUIPMENT DEMOS HUNDREDS OF InstraV ea REMOTE INSPECTION LOOKING FOR MORE INFORMATION MANUFACTURERS Remotely inspect equipment before purchasing with Visit us on the web at www artisantg com 7 for more our interactive website at www instraview com information on price quotations drivers technical LEASING MONTHLY specifications manuals and documentation RENTALS ITAR CERTIFIED D a gaa tia Contact us 888 88 SOURCE sales artisantg com www artisantg com My PERFORMANCE _ TECHNOLOGIES Ww PT CPC441x Ethernet Switch Errata List and Release Notes Document Part Number 115P0015 Copyright 2003 Performance Technologies Incorporated Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com Revision History Affected Pages 23p9 Information related to Patch All 8 26 05 5 5 9 24 Information related to Release All 3 31 06 5 5 15 24p1 Information related to Release All 4 6 06
9. RMON Alarms are incorrectly triggered on start up When alarmStartupAlarm is set to risingAlarm 1 and the alarmTable records are created with traffic less than the alarmFallingThreshold an alarmFallingEvent is incorrectly triggered It should not be triggered at startup because the alarmStartupAlarm is set to rising It should not be triggered after startup because the traffic had not previously exceeded the alarmRisingThreshold Similarly when alarmStartupAlarm is set to fallingAlarm 2 and the alarmTable is created with traffic greater than the alarmRisingThreshold the alarmRisingEvent is incorrectly triggered It should not be triggered at startup because the alarmStartupAlarm is set to falling It should not be triggered after startup because the traffic had not previously dropped below the alarmFallingThreshold A trap is not always issued on an RMON Alarm threshold crossing The Lua Event Handler for RMON Rising Falling Alarm is not invoked when an RMON Alarm occurs The eventTable eventLastTimeSent is supposed to be the value of sysUpTime when an RMON event is triggered Instead it takes on a value less than sysUpTime and may be the same value that etherHistoryStart uses The following MIB Parameters in the OSPF General Group do not return values ospfMulticastForwarding and ospfIfDemand These should at least support Getting the default values of these parameters When three or more switches are configured as IGMP Queriers
10. Tracking Description a PERFORMANCE TECHNOLOGIES v Reported In Release Fixed In Release Number command This can occur if a host sends to an unreachable target and then the switch cannot resolve the path to send back the ICMP Unreachable messages to the source host These entries indicate that the subnet mask is all 1 s the Description field is set to local and Use Hardware flag is off route show Destination Subnet Mask Next Hop Description UseHW S Tetstset 255 255 255 255 10 18 24 222 local off This is a display issue only and these entries should be ignored 3234 A potential mismatch in client ID s can occur between the server and switch client The configuration file on the server side requires syntax of TYPE ID in the CLID field The switch client will accept any or 2 byte input from the CLI If the CLID is specified with only 1 byte of input 0x12 for example the result is not right aligned to form 0x0012 but is instead left aligned to form 0x1200 This results in a client ID mismatch between the server and client The CLI should accept both and 2 byte inputs however the input should be right aligned As a workaround use a single byte CLID if possible 5 4 107 3238 The CLI forces the user to specify a VID for the MGMT port when adding a DHCP client The MGMT port of the switch does not have a VID 5 4 107 3250 When an interface supporti
11. When multiple static network routes exist where two or more of these routes are in overlapping networks for example 10 10 0 0 16 and 10 0 0 0 8 then the route with the longer netmask may be erroneously deleted when the route with the shorter netmask is removed from hardware The CLI will continue to show the longer netmask route but it will not be usable When ARP Verify is enabled and the MAC Address of an IP changes and the switch misses the gratuitous ARP the switch may latch the old MAC Address permanently This problem was introduced in 5 5 5 with the change associated with IR3298 Using the edit CLI command if you enter a single line that is greater than 512 bytes the switch may overflow an internal buffer and cause a memory corruption or take an exception Execution of the running cli script generated with the CLI running command may cause RSTP or VRRP protocol failures or may cause Integrity Test 4 to fail This is caused by the fact that the establishment of many settings consumes CPU bandwidth and it is unable to process network traffic as required by these protocols Simultaneous SFTP accesses can result in connection failure and or an error similar to the following being reported on the client Disconnecting Bad packet length 3156237182 The current working directory of the console CLI interferes with the working directory for SFTP If the console CLI is not currently positioned in the flash filesystem th
12. failed The DHCP Client entry is also disabled as a result of this When the switch issues an ICMP Error message such as Host Unreachable Redirect etc the source address in the ICMP packet is the first IP Address found on the interface This is not always the best IP Address With multi homing an interface can have multiple IP Addresses The IP Address that best matches the target of the ICMP should be used This problem can cause incorrect reports of paths taken through a switch when using traceroute 3310 FTP of large file onto switch when switch is acting as client can cause truncated file or Data Exceptions 3312 If ip forward is set to OFF after the switch has learned Layer 3 routes in hardware the switch will continue to route packets via hardware until these entries age out Entries age out when the ARP entry for the target ages which may take up to 60 minutes 5 11 07 9 59 AM CPC4400 Release Notes 115P0003 Page 12 of 83 Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com a PERFORMANCE TECHNOLOGIES v PILE Reported In Fixed In Release Release Tracking Description Number The CPC441x has a much lower amount of free memory when running the 5 5 0 5 5 5 code revisions than it had when running 5 4 x This has led to scenarios where the switch runs out of memory and reports a message like
13. ptiSystemSecureHostStatus secureHostlPGet failed A particular port state transition when running RSTP occurs erroneously This problem may cause longer than necessary resolution of RSTP protocol The particular problem is described in the following test result When port was a Root Port Learning and Forwarding and protocol information expired on the port and the protocol partner was no longer answering to RSTP BPDUs the port should transition to DESIGNATED_DISCARD followed by DESIGNATED_LEARN and DESIGNATED_FORWARD It should stay in the discarding and learning state for the duration of the Forward Delay time Instead such port did not go into a DESIGNATED_DISCARD but continued to forward traffic for the FD time and then went into DESIGNATED_LEARN for the FD time followed by the DESIGNATED_FORWARD The Level One Integrity Tests on the CPC6600 do not include the 10G inter switch link between the two switch chips This data path should be covered by the Switch Chip and or MAC Tests The proper sequence for adding a static unicast MAC entry is to for make an SNMP set with dot1qStaticUnicastAllowedToGoTo then follow with a set of permanent 3 to the same entry with dot1qStaticUnicastStatus However if the first set to dot1qStaticUnicastAllowedToGoTo didn t form correctly or that first step was skipped the following exception can be seen data access Exception current instruction address 0x001af99c Machine Status Register 0x0
14. without a reboot When adding Packet Filters that specify an Ingress port the switch does not install the filter and it generates a set of messages similar to the following 08 02 2005 21 16 34 0x148c070 tPtiCon Unable to install filter 9992 0 Oxfffffff2 08 02 2005 21 16 34 0x148c070 tPtiCon ptiUserInclusiveFilterRulesStatusSet addHwFilter failed When a port transitions to the Spanning Tree Forwarding state the hardware route cache is flushed This is done to ensure that the switch will re evaluate the paths to the next hop for each route and reprogram the hardware with the best path available Flushing of the cache can cause packet loss If a port is not configured to run STP RSTP then the transition to Forwarding should not cause the cache to flush When running the install lua script for 5 5 x the following error occurs when the file cpc441x mib is attempted to be transferred Getting Support Files From X X X X Error code 1 File not found tftpGet Error occurred while transferring the file Error getting files Install Aborted The file should be cpc4400 mi2 The FTP or TFTP transfer of large files to or from the switch file system from a console based CLI can cause protocol timeouts for network protocols such as STP RSTP RIP OSPF or VRRP This is due to the fact that the console interface runs at a higher priority than the network and the file transfer may starve these protocols It is recom
15. 0 5 5 0 5 11 07 9 59 AM CPC4400 Release Notes 115P0003 Page 67 of 83 Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com gt PERFORMANCE TECHNOLOGIES v PTI Bug Tracking Number 3528 3536 3538 Description of fix none An error message should be given and the entry addition should be denied Several counters from the RFC1213 ifTable and RFC2233 ifXTable are not reported properly for the network interfaces They are reported correctly for the ap and ag interfaces The reporting of the following MIB objects are affected ifXTable ifInMulticastPkts ifXTable ifInBroadcastPkts ifXTable ifOutMulticastPkts ifXTable ifOutBroadcastPkts ifXTable ifHCInOctets ifXTable ifHCInUcastPkts ifXTable ifHCInMulticastPkts ifXTable ifHCInBroadcastPkts ifXTable ifHCOutOctets ifXTable ifHCOutUcastPkts ifXTable ifHCOutMulticastPkts ifXTable ifHCOutBroadcastPkts ifTable ifInOctets ifTable ifInUcastPkts ifTable ifInNUcastPkts ifTable ifInDiscards ifTable ifInErrors ifTable ifInUnknownProtos ifTable ifOutOctets ifTable ifOutUcastPkts ifTable ifOutN UcastPkts ifTable ifOutDiscards ifTable ifOutErrors The gettime command prints garbage log message when setting time via time serve protocol For example gettime 192 168 1 1 time 08 29 2006 20 33 57 0x14a5a68 tPtiCon TPClient getting time from 192 168 1 1 08 29 2006 20 33 57 0x14a5a
16. 00 00 00 00 00 So Oo a Oo 2 co 2 oo oo OGOOGO filter rule delete 1 09 12 2005 18 55 52 0x14a64b8 tPtiCon Unable to destroy filter No Template List 10049 33 ORELEEL ELE 09 12 2005 18 55 52 0x14a64b8 tPtiCon ptiUserInclusiveFilterRulesStatusSet delHwFilter failed filter rule delete error filter rule show The switch exposes a possible security hole by opening two TCP ports running a debug service on them which cannot be disabled This might be exploited in a hostile attack on the switch Following the transfer of a file to the switch using FTP or SFTP the size of the file may be incorrectly reported as the value 4294967295 which is equivalent to 1 As a temporary workaround check the file size after transferring it to the switch If it is not the proper size delete the file and transfer it to the switch again When logging to Flash the CPU can stop processing the Reported In Release 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 11 07 9 59 AM CPC4400 Release Notes 115P0003 Page 58 of 83 Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com a PERFORMANCE TECHNOLOGIES v PTI Bug Tracking Number 3358 3359 3360 3365 Description of fix RSTP protocol for more than 3 seconds This may cause failures in
17. 0x05a42000 Condition Register 0x24000080 Data storage interrupt Register 0x0000b030 Task 0x1508ab8 tSnmp 3540 Setting time via SNMP doesn t actually set the time on the switch For example sending the command snmpset IR 192 168 1 21 ptiCommonMiscDateTime 0 s 00 00 00 08 30 2006 This sets the time according to snmp and if you do a snmpget of ptiCommonMiscDateTime 0 you will see that the time is incrementing from what you set it to However if you do a date command from the CLI it still shows the old date and time 5 524 3541 3542 The hardware route table entry for a host is established when the switch is asked to route traffic for the host It is not established simply based on having port and MAC information as determined from the ARP process This may introduce a short delay in the ability of the switch to route to the host at high speeds even after the switch has valid FDB and ARP cache information for the host Simultaneous SSH accesses can result in connection failure and or an error similar to the following being reported on the client Disconnecting Bad packet length 3156237182 5 5 14 5 5 23 3547 Adding 200 Static Multicast MAC entries causes the switch CPU to become overloaded with GARP Timer processing This occurs even if GARP is disabled The switch should support 255 entries when GARP is disabled 3548 If you connect to the switch via HTTP server on the M
18. 29 smp_psp_read_response_process ERROR too many smb_get_data smb_psp_write smb_psp_read_response_process failed retryCnt 5 Accessing the RMON History Control Table via SNMP can cause the switch to hang Do not use RMON History Group until this issue is corrected This was introduced in 5 5 29 The port config CLI Command does not report the same values as were set by the user This was introduced in 5 5 29 Table 13 User Manual Errata Fixes Reported In Release 5 5 29 5 5 29 5 5 29 PTI Bug Tracking ae Reported In 2963 The details of the Beacon frame describing the revision field length timestamp and optional user data should be described in the User Manual The manual should also give some guidance on the use of the priority field especially as it relates to the rate of operation and loss limit that attached clients are configured for 20 3002 The Link Trap code has a throttle mechanism that allows it to send only one link trap every 5 seconds The User Manual does not describe this behavior The user should not depend solely on Traps to determine link states from the switch It is advisable to poll for the current link state after a link change trap is seen 20 N A When walking the Static Route cpc4400L3IpStaticTable in a Lua script using idbGetNext the switch can get into an infinite loop A description of the proper way to perform this walk is needed in the Lua Exam
19. 3337 chance that the hardware route table will not be updated with Dodo DL the new port This can occur following a spanning tree topology change The CLI appears to allow the user to set the same address on the mgmt0O interface and an SW interface A failure is indicated as it should be if you first set the mgmt0 interface and then the sw interface If you set the sw interface first and the the mgmt0 interface the command appears to succeed and displaying the interfaces shows both to have the same address However only the sw interface actually will be usable Using SNMP to configure packet filters can result in invalid states when a Filter Rule is established without having a valid Mask The creation of the Filter Rule reports a failure but the Rule is partially created and cannot be deleted An example is shown below The log message shows where the SNMP command to create the illegal Filter Rule had failed 3336 3340 if OM LA A005 esaa Wx je eisai E ptiUserInclusiveFilterRulesStatusSet addHwFilter failed filter mask show filter rule show Tadexz il IPHEGL EIENS Bont Precedence 3344 5 5 0 5524 Agee Sis POE eo S A iS eS GME SiS TONE F Action Mask Description SECUEWIS 2 00000000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 65 0 iMiLiIeisere IMEIETS valid 0000 eiaa 5 11 07 9 59 AM CPC4400 Release Notes 115P0003 Page 15 of 83 Artisan Technology Group
20. 5 29 Similarly when alarmStartupAlarm is set to fallingAlarm 2 and the alarmTable is created with traffic greater than the alarmRisingThreshold the alarmRisingEvent is incorrectly triggered It should not be triggered at startup because the alarmStartupAlarm is set to falling It should not be triggered after startup because the traffic had not previously dropped below the alarmFallingThreshold A trap is not always issued on an RMON Alarm threshold crossing The Lua Event Handler for RMON Rising Falling Alarm is not invoked when an RMON Alarm occurs The eventTable eventLastTimeSent is supposed to be the value of sysUpTime when an RMON event is triggered Instead it takes on a value less than sysUpTime and may be the same value that etherHistoryStart uses The following MIB Parameters in the OSPF General Group do not return values ospf MulticastForwarding and ospfIfDemand These should at least support Getting the default values of these parameters When three or more switches are configured as IGMP Queriers and the current Querier is disabled the next highest priority switch becomes the new Querier However the remaining switch es may not update their status indicating the IP Address of the new Querier and may continue the original switch as the Querier This does not affect the operation of the Queriers but only affect the status that they display The 1 MByte ramdisk on the CPC Switch product line is 3763 created with a 128
21. 5 5 16 24p2 Information related to Release All 5 10 06 5 5 19 24p3 Information related to Release All 5 30 06 5 5 20 24p4 Information related to Release All 6 15 06 5 5 21 Updated IR1729 24p5 Information related to Release All 11 13 06 5 5 24 25 Information related to Release All 05 09 07 5 5 30 Copyright Notice 2004 2006 by Performance Technologies Incorporated PTI Printed in USA 205 Indigo Creek Drive Rochester New York 14626 Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com gt PERFORMANCE TECHNOLOGIES v 1 PT CPC441x Release Notes 1 1 Overview This document provides information on newly added features bug fixes incorporated between releases and documentation regarding the known errata for each release This document contains confidential information It should not be distributed without authorization This section covers the current state of the product at time of this writing It provides an overview of all of the product releases and allows the user to see which bugs are completed and which are still outstanding Following this section is a separate section for each release These sections contain information regarding the new features added and bugs fixed by that release These sections also identify the revision of each component included in the release 1 2 _ Components Affected The PT CPC4411 and PT CPC4416 are composed 6 maj
22. 5 5 29 5329 5 5 30 5 5 30 3806 The alarmRising and alarmFalling alarms are being generated each time the threshold is crossed An event should not be generated for a threshold until the opposite threshold is crossed See text from RFC1757 and RFC 2819 3811 If an IP interface supporting Static Routes is deleted the routes are also deleted However underlying information about the static routes is left on the switch and can cause 5 11 07 9 59 AM CPC4400 Release Notes 115P0003 Page 42 of 83 Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com a PERFORMANCE SS TECHNOLOGIES v m Ba 8 begs Reported In Fixed In Tracking Description Release Release Number errors as shown below to be reported if the settings are saved save saving nvmLib c 3341 idbGet Failed for tmsL3Mib tmsL3IpStaticMask nvmLib c 3344 Errno 00c8000a 0 00000000 1 00000000 2 00000000 3 00000000 nvmLib c 3341 idbGet Failed for tmsL3Mib tmsL3IpStaticNextHop nvmLib c 3344 Errno 00c8000a 0 00000000 1 00000000 2 00000000 3 00000000 nvmLib c 3341 idbGet Failed for tmsL3Mib tmsL3IpStaticName nvmLib c 3344 Errno 00c8000a 0 00000000 1 00000000 2 00000000 3 00000000 nvmLib c 3341 idbGet Failed for tmsL3Mib tmsL3IpStaticUseHw nvmLib c 3344 Errno 00c8000a 0 00000000 1 00000000 2 00000000 3 00000000 nvmLi b c 3341 idbGet Failed for tmsL3Mib
23. 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com a PERFORMANCE SS TECHNOLOGIES v If an earlier version of code is booted with a durable file created after 5 5 19 then NVM will display warnings that this parameter is not valid These can be ignored but to remove these warnings on subsequent boots execute a save operation to create a new durable file 5 11 07 9 59 AM CPC4400 Release Notes 115P0003 Page 83 of 83 Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com A rtisan Artisan Technology Group is your source for quality TecmoogyGroup new and certified used pre owned equipment FAST SHIPPING AND SERVICE CENTER REPAIRS WE BUY USED EQUIPMENT DELIVERY Experienced engineers and technicians on staff Sell your excess underutilized and idle used equipment TENS OF THOUSANDS OF at our full service in house repair center We also offer credit for buy backs and trade ins IN STOCK ITEMS www artisantg com WeBuyEquipment 7 EQUIPMENT DEMOS HUNDREDS OF InstraV ea REMOTE INSPECTION LOOKING FOR MORE INFORMATION MANUFACTURERS Remotely inspect equipment before purchasing with Visit us on the web at www artisantg com 7 for more our interactive website at www instraview com information on price quotations drivers technical LEASING MONTHLY specifications manuals and documentation RENTALS ITAR CERTIFIED D a gaa
24. AM CPC4400 Release Notes 115P0003 Page 33 of 83 Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com a PERFORMANCE SS TECHNOLOGIES v FILIE Reported In Fixed In Release Release Tracking Description Number port autoneg admin advertise port autoneg admin restart port framesize If you have the integrity tests set to perform both logging and a reboot after a PHY failure all of the logging should be 3626 completed before the switch reboots Currently only the first 5 5 0 port affected by a four port PHY failures is logged before the switch reboots The current MIB definition for the Integrity Error Code is ptilntegrityTestErrorCode OBJECT TYPE SYNTAX INTEGER ACCESS read only STATUS mandatory DESCRIPTION An unique error code produced when this test fails 3627 and a variable binding in a trap if one is 5 5 0 produced ptilntegrityTestEntry 3 The MIB definition should indicate that the error code is an Integer representation of the port integrity status and that it is in the reverse order This is not a unique error code like the mib currently states A failure in the MAC Integrity test does not always bring down link on the port associated with failed MAC This is intermittent and the circumstances are not understood at this point but the issue is under investigation When Beacons are configured to be sent at 100ms interva
25. It is recommended 5 5 26 5 11 07 9 59 AM CPC4400 Release Notes 1 15P0003 Page 32 of 83 Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com a PERFORMANCE TECHNOLOGIES v Pe Reported In Fixed In Release Release Tracking Description Number that the user select Go Offline or Reboot as the action to take upon failure of either of these tests When you use SNMP to configure switch host security and you create an entry for SNMP eg to allow SNMP from your client s IP the entry is initially created with a Denied type and you have to change it to Allowed with another SNMP Set This causes the SNMP session that you are using to configure the entry to be disallowed and you cannot set the type field Until this is corrected use the CLI to add this type of entry When a MAC Integrity failure occurs the port associated with the MAC should be taken offline and any commands that can be executed on the port should not take effect and display an error message After failing a MAC the following commands are still accepted and do not produce an error 3621 message 5 5 0 5 5 26 3620 5 5 0 5 5 26 port autoneg admin advertise port autoneg admin restart port framesize After a MAC or a Chip Integrity Test fails the ports associated with the MAC or Chip are all marked as notPresent This is expected behavior If you
26. KByte cache Since RAM disks have no 5 5 0 5 5 29 moving parts a cache is unneeded and wasteful If you delete the IP Address that currently in use supporting a VRRP instance the switch panics and takes a watchdog 3748 5 5 0 5929 3750 5 5 0 ay 3751 5 5 0 5529 3752 5 5 0 DDAA 3755 5 5 0 5529 3764 5 5 0 5529 5 11 07 9 59 AM CPC4400 Release Notes 115P0003 Page 40 of 83 Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com a PERFORMANCE S TECHNOLOGIES v Pe Reported In Fixed In Release Release Tracking Description Number Before deleting an IP interface ensure that there are no VRRP instances currently using that interface The Lua API function idbObjIdAnySet does not work given 3767 the usage from the switch manual Please avoid using this API 5 5 0 59529 until this issue is corrected When the switch is acting as an FTP server and two or more clients attempt to access the board simultaneously the data returned to the client or the data written to the board may be corrupt Please avoid multiple simultaneous FTP sessions and verify the file size following all transfers until this issue is resolved The traceroute command on the CLI may lock up when tracing a local unreachable host The traceroute command also consumes a high level of CPU cycles and when it is executed at the CLI it may impact the
27. Number Description If a port fails the MAC Integrity test its link is de asserted but the software still indicates that link is up a PERFORMANCE S TECHNOLOGIES v Reported In Release Fixed In Release 3605 If a Beacon is created with links down it s RowStatus is not Active If the settings are saved and the board rebooted then and NVM error occurs on boot and the Beacon is not restored A related issue is that when a Multicast Beacon is Active and all links go down an error message is generated every ten seconds 11 10 2006 15 44 30 0x124cff0 tBeacon beaconSend write failed 3997697 line 599 These issues are side effects of the fix to IR3492 5 5 24 3607 The time taken to generate SSH Keys on the switch can take up to 20 minutes This is considered excessive and should be reduced 3608 Using SNMP to configure Static Routes can lead to situations where the switch believes that all of the available route entries are in use when they are not This is caused when you perform multiple adds and deletes of Static Routes using SNMP and results in a failure to add any more static routes 5 5 26 3609 Under heavy Layer 3 traffic volumes when many ARP updates are received ie new MACs associated with IP Addresses some may be missed This causes the ARP cache of the switch to be out of sync for up to 10 minutes which is the ARP refresh period It is recommended
28. Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com a PERFORMANCE W TECHNOLOGIES v Pe Reported In Fixed In Release Release Tracking Description Number 00000010 0800 0000 0000 0000 0000 0006 0000 0000 Yo 86 BGO O06 58 MOE ss 00000020 0000 0000 0000 0000 0050 0000 0000 0000 Hoo Go Od bab Papovoe i 00000030 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 Yegqnovoeubaeeved ic filter rule delete 1 09 12 2005 18 55 52 0x14a64b8 tPtiCon Unable to destroy filter No Template List IOAN STOERE IE TEE ER OS AZT ZA0 0S soos 52 0x IAa64 bs ERE Cn E ptiUserInclusiveFilterRulesStatusSet delHwFilter failed filter rule delete error filter rule show The switch exposes a possible security hole by opening two TCP ports running a debug service on them which cannot be disabled This might be exploited in a hostile attack on the switch Following the transfer of a file to the switch using FTP or SFTP the size of the file may be incorrectly reported as the value 4294967295 which is equivalent to 1 As a temporary 550 workaround check the file size after transferring it to the ja switch If it is not the proper size delete the file and transfer it to the switch again When logging to Flash the CPU can stop processing the RSTP protocol for more than 3 seconds This may cause failures in the RSTP protocol when a Hello timer value of 1 second is in effect It is recom
29. RoHS 40 CPC4416N Hardware 120P0435 70 120Q0555 RoHS 20 CPC4416F Hardware 120P1435 70 120Q1555 RoHS 30 CPC4411 Boot PROM 810P0678 60 6 0 0 810Q0855 RoHS 10 1 0 0 CPC4416 Boot PROM 810P0679 61 6 1 0 810Q0816 RoHS 61 6 1 0 SMB Firmware Both 810P0581 31 1 03 models CPC4411 Boot Loader 810P0680 21 5 5 30 CPC4411 Software and MIB 810P0681 21 5 5 30 CPC4416 Boot Loader 810P0682 21 5 5 30 CPC4416 Software and MIB 810P0683 21 5 5 30 CPC441x User Manual 126P0433 41 2 2 New Features The following new features have been introduced in this revision MGMTO0O Port Multi homing The switch now supports multi homing on the MGMTO port A side effect of this enhancement is that the new software removes any IP settings configured on the MGMTO port when a switch defaults is performed Previously MGMTO settings were maintained in a file named persist These settings are now stored in the durable file IGMP Querier 5 11 07 9 59 AM CPC4400 Release Notes 115P0003 Page 47 of 83 Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com p PERFORMANCE TECHNOLOGIES 4 The switch now supports the ability to periodically send IGMP Query PDUs on a VLAN by VLAN basis This enhances the ability to use IGMP in a Layer 2 environment to create multicast domains without requiring the presence of an IGMP Router Please refer to the User Manual
30. When running RSTP and after receiving a BPDU with new information some ports may still send BPDUs with old information for several seconds This problem may cause longer than necessary resolution of RSTP protocol Reported In Release 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 11 07 9 59 AM CPC4400 Release Notes 115P0003 Page 66 of 83 Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com gt PERFORMANCE TECHNOLOGIES vY PTI Bug Tracking Number 3513 3514 3516 3517 3518 3522 3523 3524 Description of fix The RSTP implementation on the PTI switch runs all its state machines once a second Because of this it may not transition into the intermediate states when receiving more than one BPDU on a port This problem may cause longer than necessary resolution of RSTP protocol If a port is not an edge port and is not connected to another switch then bringing the LINK UP or re enabling such port should cause such port to state for some time in DISCARDING and LEARNING state before transitioning to FORWARDING state Instead such port transitions into FORWARDING without any delay When using SSH to access the switch the session hangs after 1000 bytes have been input An SNMP Walk of the Beacon Table returns entries out of order If the switch is configured with multiple IP addresses on an inte
31. and the current Querier is disabled the next highest priority switch becomes the new Querier However the remaining switch es may not update their status indicating the IP Address of the new Querier and may continue the original switch as the Querier This does not affect the operation of the Queriers but only affect the status that they display The 1 MByte ramdisk on the CPC Switch product line is Reported In Release 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 11 07 9 59 AM CPC4400 Release Notes 115P0003 Page 78 of 83 Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com gt PERFORMANCE TECHNOLOGIES v PTI Bug Tracking Number 3764 3767 3779 3780 3781 3782 3785 Description of fix created with a 128 KByte cache Since RAM disks have no moving parts a cache is unneeded and wasteful If you delete the IP Address that currently in use supporting a VRRP instance the switch panics and takes a watchdog Before deleting an IP interface ensure that there are no VRRP instances currently using that interface The Lua API function idbObjIdAnySet does not work given the usage from the switch manual Please avoid using this API until this issue is corrected The traceroute command on the CLI may lock up when tracing a local unreachable host The traceroute command also consumes a high level o
32. but the log message that is displayed only lists the ports that would have actually failed for the chip that failed Code inspection revealed that several tasks were being created without setting the VxWorks FFP_TASK flag This flag tells the OS to save and restore Floating Point registers when switching the task in and out This flag should always be set to allow usage of FP functions from all tasks There is no known bug corrected by this change When configuring switch security hostip entries and none is given for the interface the new hostip entries are installed successfully However when a specific interface is specified the additions are handled incorrectly 1 With Deny on a specific interface for a specific ip that system is still allowed communication 2 With Allow on a specific interface for a specific ip all systems are then blocked If an Integrity Test failure is configured to send a Trap on failure the trap that is issued indicates the wrong Integrity Test has failed and the error code for the test is incorrect This was introduced in 5 5 26 with the change associated with IR3619 and 3621 The MIB for managing the FRU Record ptiIPMIFRU mib defines the Product Version field as an Integer32 instead of OctetString This prevents proper management of this parameter using SNMP Please use CLI until this issue is resolved The current implementation of the telnet server is that upon establishment of a telnet sess
33. definitions e cpc4400MgmtIPIpAddress and cpc4400MgmtIPNetMask are removed The management port is managed via the same IP table as the switch ports cpc4400L3IpSubnetTable e The MIB group for IGMP Query cpc4400CommonIgmpSnoopQueryAgentTable is added to support the Querier function e The Level One integrity test parameter cpc4400IntegrityTestErrorCode is redefined to allow the pass fail status of a component to be readable Please refer to cpc4400 mi2 for the new definition 5 11 07 9 59 AM CPC4400 Release Notes 115P0003 Page 81 of 83 Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com a PERFORMANCE SS TECHNOLOGIES v e The cpc4400L3IpSubnetTable has been modified to allow for new status via the variable cpc4400L3IpSubnetDynamic when the interface is set by Bootp or DHCP Please refer to cpc4400 mi2 for the new definition The following table identifies errors associated with running 5 5 30 with durable and persist files created by previous revisions of code Identified NVM errors will go away after a save is performed but unsaved settings will need to be manually re established and saved Old Version NVM Errors Unsaved Settings User Recommendations 5 3 X N A N A The order of certain variables in the durable file had to be modified This makes the durable file built with 5 3 X incompatible with 5 4 X Remove the durable file and restore setti
34. input buffer discarding the provided password A human would not be able to provide a password between the prompt and reprogramming the TTY line but a program could Shutting down the session and trying again if no prompt is seen within a certain timeframe will get around the problem We have corrected the code for this by reprogramming the TTY before offering the Password prompt Undefined objects cpc4400CommonMiscMgmtDHCPClientRetries and cpc4400CommonMiscMgmtDHCPClientID are listed in cpc4400 mi2 MIB file These are misspellings of the intended object names cpc4400CommonMiscDHCPClientRetries and cpc4400CommonMiscDHCPClientID Syntax error in ptiSwitch mib file at line 230 The characters are treated as an arithmetic operator by some SNMP MIB compilers If you configure the switch with multiple IP addresses on an interface and generate traffic to one of the IP addresses and while traffic is running you delete that IP address and then re configure it the switch will end up with an entry in the L3 Filter Table that will restrict traffic to that IP The L3 Filter Table is a table of IP addresses that are targets for traffic that the switch does not have ARP resolution for The switch will restrict traffic destined to these IP addresses in order to avoid being bogged down with trying to route packets to a nonexistent host When the IP address is initially configured and traffic is started to that IP the source of the traffic
35. its public key to the client machine If the client does not have the correct key for the switch then the client will typically display a message that asks the user to verify that the switch is actually the host that the user believes he she is connecting to This message typically includes a short 16 digit fingerprint of the switch s public key The switch provides a CLI command that allows the fingerprint of the key file to be displayed sshd key export This fingerprint should be used to validate that the user has connected to the proper switch If the user accepts the fingerprint as identifying the switch the client software typically allows the server s key to be added to a known_hosts file to avoid this step after the initial connection is established In order to prepare for public key authentication the user should export the switch s public key to an ASCII formatted file and then incorporate the contents of this file into the client s known_hosts file This process is specific to each client and you should consult the documentation for the SSH client software being used The public key file for each potential client should be placed on the switch in the directory flash private and then each of the client keys needs to be registered in the authorized client key registry This is done by executing the command sshd key add for each client key Once client keys have been registered they may be managed using the sshd
36. key show and sshd key remove commands SFTP is enabled whenever SSH is enabled The same authorized access as described for SSH above applies to SFTP The password used for SFTP access is teh same password as is used for SSH Telnet and Console access to the CLI The following text will be added to the Switch Management Chapter of the User Manual and it describes the new SSH Key Management commands Add a Client Public Key To the Registry Synopsis sshd key add keyfile Where keyfile is an ASCII Label identifying the Client Key File Description Client keys for SSH are stored in the directory flash private Each Key File that is in use is listed in a registry file named id_dsa pub which is also located in the directory flash private This command adds a key file name to the 5 11 07 9 59 AM CPC4400 Release Notes 115P0003 Page 49 of 83 Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com a PERFORMANCE TECHNOLOGIES v registry file and enables the SSH Server to use the key for client authorization The key file must be placed into the directory flash private before adding it to the registry Export the Host Public Key to ASCII Format Synopsis sshd key export keyfile Where keyfile is an ASCII Label identifying the Client Key File Description Export the Switch s Public Key to Base64 Content Transfer Encoding
37. on a port before removing it from all VLANs This will force the port state to be disabled The following MIB Parameters in the OSPF General Group do not return values ospfMulticastExtensions and ospfDemandExtensions These should at least support Getting the default values of these parameters 3660 5 5 0 5 5 26 3666 3669 5 5 0 5 5 26 3671 5 5 0 5 5 28 3672 5 5 0 5 5 28 5 11 07 9 59 AM CPC4400 Release Notes 115P0003 Page 37 of 83 Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com a PERFORMANCE S TECHNOLOGIES v re Reported In Fixed In Release Release Tracking Description Number If a User Defined Trap is being issued and an internal failure occurs on the access of a MIB variable whose value is being reported in the trap then a semaphore may be taken and not released which may lead to an eventual deadlock The OSPF MIB variable ospfAreaStatus does not destroy the Area when the value 6 is set It does not accept the value as valid The MIB also accepts the value of 7 which is not a valid value The switch may lock up during the initialization of the IPMI FRU as shown below The probability of this appears very low and was brought out by a continuous reboot test after 1562 successful boots Hel PTI FILTERS MIB Completed seed S22 PTI SSHMGMT MIB Completed CPC4400 MIB Completed Startup PT
38. out by a continuous reboot test after 1562 successful boots PTI FILTERS MIB Completed PTI SSHMGMT MIB Completed CPC6600 MIB Completed Startup PTI IPMI FRU The OSPF MIB ospfStubMetricType will not accept any Reported In Release 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 11 07 9 59 AM CPC4400 Release Notes 115P0003 Page 76 of 83 Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com gt PERFORMANCE TECHNOLOGIES vY PTI Bug Tracking Number 3679 3680 3683 3685 3698 3703 Description of fix values other than 1 This MIB should be able to be set to 1 ospfMetric 2 comparableCost or 3 nonComparable Note As part of the change associated with this issue the ability to set the OSPF stub metric type when creating an OSPF stub area has been removed Previously if any value other than 1 the default value was passed to route ospf stub add the command would fail The PTI implementation of OSPF only supports a stub metric type of ospfMetric While fixing IR 3619 a new problem was created IR 3619 was a request to have all PHYs MACs and Chips reported as failed when one chip fails instead of just reporting the one chip and the associated MACs and PHYs as failed The integrity status command now reports all of the MACs PHYs and Chips as failed and the ports are taken off line
39. returned was 1 on port s 00000002 12 18 2006 13 10 23 0x14ec9a0 tL1 Integrity Error while running Test number 1 The error code returned was 1 on port s 00000004 12 18 2006 13 10 25 O0x14ec9a0 tL1 Integrity Error while running Test number 1 The error code returned was 1 on port s 00000008 12 18 2006 13 10 27 0x14ec9a0 tL 1 Integrity Error while running Test number 1 The error code returned was 1 on port s 00000010 The fix will be to restore the message to the previous format The DHCP server and relay only supports a total of six interfaces If more than six interfaces are configured to support DHCP Services the switch may lock up The lockup problem is believed to have been introduced with the change associated with IR3564 DHCP server does not handle multiple simultaneous requests If multiple requests from different clients are seen back to back they will not be serviced This problem is believed to have been introduced with the change associated with IR3564 It is recommended that DHCP Server not be used with 5 5 25 Because of the fix of IR3553 a new bug arose which can cause some remote log messages to not be sent This only affects 5 5 25 The output of the Is l command in an SFTP session changed in 5 5 25 The file sizes and read write permissions are no longer displayed Near the time when the vxWorks tick timer rolls over between Ox7fffffff to 0x80000000 ARP Cache entries cannot be maintained Th
40. support V2 SFTP clients A connection is not allowed to be established If an SNMP access is made without a specified index the switch should always return an error Following an access 3426 with a valid index however an access without a specified 5 5 0 5923 index will use the index supplied by the previous access and will succeed When a static multicast MAC is added with no Mandatory or 3427 Forbidden ports specified the CLI reports a failure that these 5 5 0 ports are not exclusive of each other The settings for ip forward and ip ttl are not saved and 3422 3425 5 5 14 535 15 3430 restored across reboots These parameters are supposed to be 5 5 0 5 5 24 durable 3431 SFTP of large files does not work reliably 5515 5 5 16 If SSHD is disabled and a connection attempt is made to the switch the switch will ignore the request rather than close the 3432 session This causes the client to pend forever waiting for the 5 5 15 5 5 16 connection The switch should close the session to inform the client that it cannot service the request SFTP performance is 4 times worse than FTP This was caused by debug code left enabled in the 5 5 16 release When using SFTP you cannot change the working directory to be ramdisk The default root directory is and SFTP clients keep track of the current directory location so changing to ramdisk turns into a command to change directory to ramdisk This is not a val
41. that is issued indicates the wrong Integrity 3685 Test has failed and the error code for the test is incorrect This 5 5 26 DDI was introduced in 5 5 26 with the change associated with IR3619 and 3621 While running Link Aggregation throughput tests the switch did not consistently reach throughput speed within the timeframe required by the test This indicates that there is a learning delay when using Link Aggregation 3687 The MIB for managing the FRU Record ptilPMIFRU mib defines the Product Version field as an Integer32 instead of 3698 OctetString This prevents proper management of this 5 5 0 5 5 28 parameter using SNMP Please use CLI until this issue is resolved The current implementation of the telnet server is that upon establishment of a telnet session the telnet server starts a CLI session which performs the login validation There are two issues with this approach 1 Starting a CLI session uses up a lot of CPU and memory on the switch if an attacker were to repeatedly telnet to the switch even without having a valid user name and password 3703 the CPU would be impacted 5 5 0 5 5 28 2 Starting a CLI session takes a long time the user has to wait for the CLI to fully load and start running before they are given a login prompt By moving the telnet authentication out of the CLI and into the telnet server code the switch will only load the CLI if the user has provided a valid user name and password
42. that multiple Gratuitous ARPs be issued by hosts that take over ownership of an IP Address that may have previously been used by a different host 3610 3611 The change for IR3484 caused the L1 Integrity task to utilize 64 bit registers which are not saved and restored across task switches This could result in a corruption of a register used by another task Tf the log task fails to start a semaphore created for its use is not deleted This causes a leak of a small amount of memory This is not a problem that would be detectable by the user 5 5 24 5 5 25 II 3615 The help screen for the ip config command does not specify the maximum length allowed for the description of the interface The maximum length is 15 characters 5 5 26 3617 MIB objects for dot3Stats are not incremented properly One example is that Jabber Frames are not counted under dot3StatsFCSErrors Jabber Frames are frames that are both too long AND have a bad FCS 3618 If the switch is programmed to not reboot on Watchdog and a watchdog timeout occurs links are forced down but the CLI continues to report that they are up 3619 When the Switch Chip test or the Stuck Receiver test fails the switch may report inconsistent integrity status for the MACs and PHYs If either of these tests fail the switch chip is inaccessible and the MACs and PHYs attached to the chip should be considered unavailable as well
43. the source address in the ICMP packet is the first IP Address found on the interface This is not always the best IP Address With multi homing an interface can have multiple IP Addresses The IP Address that best matches the target of the ICMP should be used This problem can cause incorrect reports of paths taken through a switch when using traceroute FTP of large file onto switch when switch is acting as client can cause truncated file or Data Exceptions The CPC441x has a much lower amount of free memory when running the 5 5 0 5 5 5 code revisions than it had when running 5 4 x This has led to scenarios where the switch runs out of memory and reports a message like the following 07 05 2005 14 01 30 Oxfa29c0 tLuaEventHandler memPartAlloc block too big 68 in partition 0x7b6818 This is especially possible when multiple telnets are in process Reported In Release 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 11 07 9 59 AM CPC4400 Release Notes 115P0003 Page 55 of 83 Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com gt PERFORMANCE TECHNOLOGIES v PTI Bug Tracking Number 3317 3320 3322 3323 3315 3324 Description of fix When using the FTP server on the switch to transfer large files over and over very close together the server hangs after 50 transfers and no FTP transfers are processed again
44. the switch it will use the default ports until the switch is reset With the code change the DHCP client task will not be started at boot if no DHCP clients are configured If a DHCP client is configured after boot and it is the first DHCP client on the switch the DHCP client task will be started using the client s configured transmit and listen ports If multiple Reported In Release 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 11 07 9 59 AM CPC4400 Release Notes 115P0003 Page 71 of 83 Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com gt PERFORMANCE TECHNOLOGIES vY PTI Bug Tracking Number 3583 3592 3596 3597 3600 3601 3602 3603 3604 3605 3607 Description of fix DHCP clients are configured the transmit and listen ports associated with the first DHCP client will be used for all clients The initial prompt sent in a telnet session may not include a leading carriage return This may cause problems with expect scripts that look for a CR LF sequence to detect a prompt If the switch is configured to send SNMP traps to multiple TCP ports and the first port for the trap target address is non responsive eg Service not Available the traps will not get to any of the other specified target ports This only happens if there are multiple tcp port numbers used for the same IP address In ord
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46. used The SFTP server added in 5 5 14 does not support V2 SFTP clients A connection is not allowed to be established If an SNMP access is made without a specified index the switch should always return an error Following an access with a valid index however an access without a specified index will use the index supplied by the previous access and will succeed The settings for ip forward and ip ttl are not saved and restored across reboots These parameters are supposed to be durable SFTP of large files does not work reliably If SSHD is disabled and a connection attempt is made to the switch the switch will ignore the request rather than close the session This causes the client to pend forever waiting for the connection The switch should close the session to inform the client that it cannot service the request SFTP performance is 4 times worse than FTP This was caused by debug code left enabled in the 5 5 16 release When using SFTP you cannot change the working directory to be ramdisk The default root directory is and SFTP clients keep track of the current directory location so changing to ramdisk turns into a command to change directory to ramdisk This is not a valid directory on the switch and so it fails Note that the fix for this is such that when changing the current working directory between ramdisk and flash filesystems you must be located at the root directory ie cd l before you do
47. used with revision 5 5 28 5 5 28 5 5 29 3789 The Lua event handler for 1493 topology change may be invoke multiple times on a single topology change event when running RSTP This does not affect STP The number of events may be up to twice the number expected 3790 When a VRRP instance is deleted the following message may be seen It may be safely ignored 04 05 2007 12 30 35 0x1254920 task deadVRRP ERROR arpDelete failed 3793 Although the RMON MIB RFC 1757 defines the counters for various packet sizes eg etherStatsPkts256to5110Octets as receive packet counts the silicon used on the switch implements these statistics as receive AND transmit packet counts 3802 The following messages are displayed when performing a ipmi fru apply command The FRU changes do get applied and these messages can be ignored but it is recommended that you check the new values with the ipmi fru show command to be sure This was introduced in 5 5 29 smp_psp_read_response_process ERROR too many smb_get_data smb_psp_write smb_psp_read_response_process failed retryCnt 5 SS 5 5 30 3804 3805 Accessing the RMON History Control Table via SNMP can cause the switch to hang Do not use RMON History Group until this issue is corrected This was introduced in 5 5 29 The port config CLI Command does not report the same values as were set by the user This was introduced in 5 5 29
48. 000002 12 18 2006 13 10 23 0x14ec9a0 tL 1 Integrity Error while running Test number 1 The error code returned was 1 on port s 00000004 12 18 2006 13 10 25 0x14ec9a0 tL 1 Integrity Error while running Test number 1 The error code returned was 1 on port s 00000008 12 18 2006 13 10 27 0x14ec9a0 tL 1 Integrity Error while running Test number 1 The error code returned was 1 on port s 00000010 The fix will be to restore the message to the previous format The DHCP server and relay only supports a total of six interfaces If more than six interfaces are configured to 3642 support DHCP Services the switch may lock up The lockup 5925 5 5 26 problem is believed to have been introduced with the change associated with IR3564 When Span Port Protocol is Disabled on the Port Connected to the Root the Switch Does not become Root The switch should stop processing RSTP PDUs on the port and should assume that it is the Root A password recovery mechanism exists where a password can be generated for a switch when its serial number is known The algorithm to generate this password is not published 3644 outside of PTI This backdoor password is currently accepted 5 5 0 as the password for the switch when connecting to the console telnet or SSH It should be restricted to console access only so that physical access is required DHCP server does not handle multiple simultaneous requests If multiple requests from different clients are see
49. 000b030 Data Access Register 0x2150894f Condition Register 0x42000040 Data storage interrupt Register 0x0000b030 Task 0x1508ec0 tSnmp The span rstp version should set the rstpMIB dot1dStpVersion Instead it sets the rstpOEM rstpOEMBridgeStpAdminVersion The former is related to the span version command The span version command sets the rstpOEM Reported In Release 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 11 07 9 59 AM CPC4400 Release Notes 115P0003 Page 64 of 83 Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com gt PERFORMANCE TECHNOLOGIES vY PTI Bug Tracking Number 3487 3488 3490 3491 3492 3499 3500 Description of fix rstpOEMBridgeStpAdminVersion to switch between the 802 1D 2004 RSTP code and the 802 1D 1998 STP code This command requires saving and rebooting the switch The span rstp version needs to set the rstpMIB dot dStpVersion to force the RSTP code to operate in the STP compatibility mode This command does not require rebooting the switch and takes effect immediately When the RSTP switch is connected to the STP switch and a port comes UP then such port should stay in Discarding State for ForwardDelay and in Learning State for ForwardDelay Instead incorrectly the port transitions to Learning and Forwarding without using ForwardDelay timers RSTP should disregard BPDUs with P
50. 3 Filter Table that will restrict traffic to that IP 3372 5 5 0 5 5 11 The L3 Filter Table is a table of IP addresses that are targets for traffic that the switch does not have ARP resolution for The switch will restrict traffic destined to these IP addresses in order to avoid being bogged down with trying to route 3380 packets to a nonexistent host When the IP address is initially 5 5 0 5 5 13 configured and traffic is started to that IP the source of the traffic is using the switch s MAC Address as the target When the IP is deleted the source continues to use the switch s MAC Address but now the IP is no longer that of the switch and the switch tries to route the packets There is no host with that IP so the IP is added to the filter table to limit the amount of traffic to that IP being sent up the stack When the IP address is reconfigured the filter entry is not removed and now traffic to that IP is restricted unnecessarily If a packet is sent to an IP Address that the switch owns an internally created L4 L7 Packet Filter causes the packet to go to CPU based only on a match of the Destination IP In cases where the switch provides a Layer 2 path to a gateway which then routes packets back to the switch the switch will receive and process duplicate packets Under heavy broadcast loads the switch may be unable to manage the RSTP protocol This is because the network load consumes CPU bandwidth and it is unable to pr
51. 68 tPtiCon TPClient time set to JP doing gettime 192 168 1 1 ntp works properly however gettime 192 168 1 1 ntp 08 29 2006 20 34 03 0x14a5a68 tPtiCon NTPClient getting time from 192 168 1 1 08 29 2006 20 34 04 0x14a5a68 tPtiCon NTPClient time set to TUE AUG 29 20 34 04 2006 According to ptiSystem mib the description of ptiCommonMiscDateTime is Get or Set the system time and date The value is expressed in number of UTC seconds since Reported In Release 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 11 07 9 59 AM CPC4400 Release Notes 115P0003 Page 68 of 83 Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com gt PERFORMANCE TECHNOLOGIES vY PTI Bug Tracking Number 3539 3540 3542 3548 3549 Description of fix January 1 1900 and is of type OCTET STRING SIZE 1 64 The correct definition is an OCTET String in the format hh mm ss mm dd yyyy Setting the date and time via SNMP may cause an exception According to ptiSystem mib the description of ptiCommonMiscDateTime is Get or Set the system time and date The value is expressed in number of UTC seconds since January 1 1900 and is of type OCTET STRING SIZE 1 64 However attempting to set the date passing an integer value results in a fault For example snmpset IR 192 168 1 21 ptiCommonMiscDateTime 0 x 300 data access Exception current i
52. 88 88 SOURCE www artisantg com gt PERFORMANCE TECHNOLOGIES v PTI Bug Tracking Number 3305 3306 3307 3309 3310 3313 Description of fix following messages will be seen and the packet will not be sent MBUF train types 2 0 0 0 0 0I 0 0 01 0I 0 0 01 0 0 m1m 1 1 1 1 05 25 2005 13 48 00 0x63ebe80 tFtpdServ1 Too many mb uf fragments port 0 dmaTransferCount 1 clRefCnt 1 clSize 128 Pool mBIkCnt 400 sgCount 21 PACKET len 70 00c08b07 815c00c0 PACKET DUMP When MACs are learned on port 24 the port number is displayed as nil with fdb learned This problem also prevents Layer 3 switching to port 24 since we are not able to build the hardware route entries Layer 2 switching works though since the MAC is really learned by the hardware and the software is not involved in Layer 2 switching When an ARP entry is updated with a new MAC Address without coincident link changes the hardware table may not be updated This may lead to invalid forwarding of frames to the IP Address until the ARP entry for this IP is erased When you try to modify the VID or Retry value for a DHCP Client entry that is enabled the CLI reports an error such as dhcp client vid set tmsL3SwEndMappingRowStatus create failed The DHCP Client entry is also disabled as a result of this When the switch issues an ICMP Error message such as Host Unreachable Redirect etc
53. 9 24 0x1695d68 tPtiCon ptiSystemSecureHostStatus removeSecureHostEntryfailed When the switch is master of a VRRP instance an L2 Table entry exists to perform L3 Routing for packets that are directed to the VRRP MAC When VRRP Mastership is lost this entry should be deleted and possibly replaced by a simple L2 entry to pass this traffic to the port where the new master resides Under heavy load conditions the switch may not remove the Reported In Release 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 26 5 5 0 5 5 28 5 11 07 9 59 AM CPC4400 Release Notes 115P0003 Page 79 of 83 Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com gt PERFORMANCE TECHNOLOGIES v PTI Bug Tracking Number 3802 3804 3805 Description of fix L2 table entries that have the L3 bit set when the switch loses VRRP mastership This prevents traffic from being forwarded to the new VRRP Master and causes loss of connectivity This problem was introduced into 5 5 28 as a result of the change associated with IR3705 It is recommended that VRRP not be used with revision 5 5 28 The following messages are displayed when performing a ipmi fru apply command The FRU changes do get applied and these messages can be ignored but it is recommended that you check the new values with the ipmi fru show command to be sure This was introduced in 5 5
54. AM CPC4400 Release Notes 115P0003 Page 69 of 83 Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com gt PERFORMANCE TECHNOLOGIES vY PTI Bug Tracking Number 3550 3553 3554 3555 3557 3558 3570 Description of fix When an interface has multiple IP Addresses in the same subnet the switch only answers ping to itself for the first address of the interface External pings work until you perform a ping from the switch to itself at which time external pings stop working for 30 seconds If remote logging is enabled and a log message is sent out while the log server is down the server will not receive any new messages once it comes back online If you enable a remote logging instance multiple times then multiple messages will be sent to the target specified by that instance Also if you disable that instance the CLI will report that the instance is disabled but messages will still be logged one less each time it is disabled If the switch is Layer 3 switching traffic to a target for which a hardware entry is not established either MAC Address or port is unknown then the traffic will be passed to the CPU to allow the target to be resolved and a hardware entry to be established If the CPU is currently resolving the MAC or Port to a Host then further traffic to that Host is squelched until the entry is resolved or a short timer se
55. Application Flash programming algorithm These changes affect the manufacturing environment only and do not affect the operation of the switch in the field Also changed the POC TOD Battery Test to report a WARNING when the Battery Low is indicated This allows the switch to boot even if the battery is low When using the CPC4416 with a FlexLink adapter and the FlexLink faults the CPC4416 displays two messages indicating that the fault occurred The second message can be ignored The Time of Day Interrupt Test could fail with a low battery and cause the switch not to boot The switch should be allowed to boot with a bad battery Corrected a problem with the POC TOD Interrupt Test that caused false errors seen after changing the TOD battery or after a battery power failure board powered down while the battery is below minimum operating voltage of the TOD device NA N A IA 810P067830 810P067930 810P067940 810P067840 810P067940 810P067840 810P067850 810P067950 5 11 07 9 59 AM CPC4400 Release Notes 115P0003 Page 5 of 83 Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com gt PERFORMANCE TECHNOLOGIES v When using the CPC4416 with a FlexLink adapter and the FlexLink fails POC the Fault LED on the FlexLink is not illuminated and the switch will continue to boot The switch will then DIOTE e USCIS typically fail t
56. Disabled and Active The default threshold for low memory condition is set at 1M This value is too high and prevents the last 1M of system memory to be used This value should be set to 16K A variable ptiLowMemoryThreshold may be used to override this value in setup sh Contact PTI support at support pt com for instructions on how to do this if needed When VRRP Authentication is enabled and VRRP switches have the same password they do not communicate One switch should become master and the other should become backup Instead both switches become master and both give 3635 error below 550 12 11 2006 15 04 53 0x124d978 Vrrp2 VRRP receive an invalid passwd 12 11 2006 15 04 53 0x124d978 Vrrp2 vrrp_read Received VRRP Packet Validation Failed The switch CLI will not allow using rename when the source and destination file names only differ in case As a work around rename the source file to a temporary name and the rename that to the desired name Example remane cpc4400 Z x rename x cpc4400 z Invalid VRRP advertisement packets sent to the switch do not cause an increment of the VRRP Statistics counters 3634 5 5 14 5 325 3636 virpStatsAdvertiseIntervalErrors vrrpStatsIpTtlErrors virpStatsInvalidTypePktsRcvd virpStatsInvalidAuthType virpStatsAuthTypeMismatch virpStatsPacketLengthErrors 3640 If you cause a failure of an integrity test the error message that is logged to the screen and a log file i
57. I IPMI FRU 3673 5 5 0 5 5 26 3674 5 5 0 5 5 26 The OSPF MIB ospfStubMetricType will not accept any values other than 1 This MIB should be able to be set to l ospfMetric 2 comparableCost or 3 nonComparable Note As part of the change associated with this issue the ability to set the OSPF stub metric type when creating an OSPF stub area has been removed Previously if any value other than 1 the default value was passed to route ospf stub add the command would fail The PTI implementation of OSPF only supports a stub metric type of ospfMetric The switch may fail to boot and will continuously produce the message shown below The probability of this is very low but has been seen on at least two occasions on different boards 3677 5 5 0 5 5 28 3678 Error bad argument 2 to format string expected got 5 5 0 nil in format line 1 source C in anonymous line 175 source cli lua n anonymous line 1 source luac PEPE EEEEETE TEEPE While fixing IR 3619 a new problem was created IR 3619 was a request to have all PHYs MACs and Chips reported as failed when one chip fails instead of just reporting the one chip and the associated MACs and PHYs as failed The integrity status command now reports all of the MACs PHYs and Chips as failed and the ports are taken off line but the log message that is displayed only lists the ports that would have actually failed for the chip that fai
58. Management Chapter of the User Manual and it describes the new command Set Administrative Path Cost on a Port RSTP Only or Display Operation Path Cost on a Port both STP and RSTP Synopsis span port pathcost lt portlist gt pathcost Where portlist is a List of Port numbers Refer to List and Port on page x pathcost is a new path cost value between 0 200000000 Only if RSTP is running Description Set the administratively assigned value for the contribution of this port to the path cost of paths toward the spanning tree root Writing a value of 0 assigns the automatically calculated default Path Cost value to the port based on port speed If no pathcost value is specified then this command displays both the administrative path cost RSTP and the operational path cost STP or RSTP of the port 5 11 07 9 59 AM CPC4400 Release Notes 115P0003 Page 51 of 83 Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com a PERFORMANCE TECHNOLOGIES v 2 3 Errata Corrections The following tables itemize the bugs corrected in this Release relative to the previous releases Table 9 Hardware Errata Fixes PTI Bug Tracking TO Reported In Table 10 Firmware Errata Fixes PTI Bug Tracking zais Reported In When using the CPC4416 with a FlexLink adapter and the FlexLink fails POC the Fault LED on the FlexLink is not N A illuminated and the sw
59. Master transitions to Initialize state a zero priority packet is not sent as required by the RFC When the Integrity test for a PHY that is located on the second switch chip fails the CLI command port link all will show the ports failed as expected but the MIB oemArchIfaceLink 1 PORT or cpc4400ArchIfaceLink 1 PORT where PORT is the failed port does not report the port as being down This works properly for the first chip however Using SNMP to set the vrrpOperRowStatus parameter from Active to Disabled while vrrpOperAdminState is Active causes a watchdog error on the switch As a workaround set virpOperAdminState to Disabled before setting vrrpOperRowStatus The second issue is that you cannot re activate a VRRP instance after you de activate it in this way You must destroy the row and recreate a new instance To temporarily disable and then re enable a VRRP instance with SNMP you may set vrrpOperAdminState to Disabled and Active The default threshold for low memory condition is set at 1M This value is too high and prevents the last 1M of system memory to be used This value should be set to 16K A variable ptiLowMemoryThreshold may be used to override this value in setup sh Contact PTI support at support pt com for instructions on how to do this if needed If you cause a failure of an integrity test the error message that is logged to the screen and a log file if this option is enabled used to display the port number tha
60. This generates an ASCII file containing the SSHD Public Host Key of the switch allowing the key to be added to a client s known_hosts key file The name of the output file may be provided as an argument If no output filename is provided the default is flash private id_dsa pub A 16 digit fingerprint of the key is displayed which may be used by the client to validate the key Generate New Host Public and Private Keys Synopsis sshd key generate Description Generate new public and private authentication keys for ssh The user is prompted to enter some random text which is used to add entropy to the cryptographic algorithms used by SSH The new key files are stored as a series of MPINTs in the files flash private sshkey pub and flash private sshkey prv The new public key file may be exported to ASCII format with the sshd key export command and then added to the known_hosts key file on the client machine Remove a Client Public Key From the Registry Synopsis sshd key remove keyfile Where keyfile is an ASCII Label identifying the Client Key File Description Client keys for SSH are stored in the directory flash private Each Key File that is in use is listed in a registry file named id_dsa pub which is also located in the directory flash private This command removes a key file name from the registry file and disables the SSH Server from using it for client authorization Display the Client Public Keys Sto
61. XTable are not reported properly for the network interfaces 3528 They are reported correctly for the ap and ag interfaces 5 5 0 5 5 24 The reporting of the following MIB objects are affected ifXTable ifInMulticastPkts 3527 5 11 07 9 59 AM CPC4400 Release Notes 115P0003 Page 26 of 83 Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com a PERFORMANCE lt TECHNOLOGIES v ag o Reported In Fixed In Tracking Description Release Release Number ifXTable ifInBroadcastPkts ifXTable ifOutMulticastPkts ifXTable ifOutBroadcastPkts ifXTable ifHCInOctets ifXTable ifHCInUcastPkts ifXTable ifHCInMulticastPkts ifXTable ifHCInBroadcastPkts ifXTable ifHCOutOctets ifXTable ifHCOutUcastPkts ifXTable ifHCOutMulticastPkts ifXTable ifHCOutBroadcastPkts ifTable ifInOctets ifTable ifInUcastPkts ifTable ifInNUcastPkts ifTable ifInDiscards ifTable ifInErrors if Table ifInUnknownProtos ifTable ifOutOctets ifTable ifOutUcastPkts ifTable ifOutNUcastPkts ifTable ifOutDiscards ifTable ifOutErrors The gettime command prints garbage log message when setting time via time serve protocol For example gettime 192 168 1 1 time 08 29 2006 20 33 57 0x14a5a68 tPtiCon TPClient getting time from 192 168 1 1 08 29 2006 20 33 57 0x14a5a68 tPtiCon TPClient time set to JP 3536 5 5 0 5 5 24 doing gettime 192 168 1 1 ntp works properl
62. aL ine addresse mro ITTIA Netmask 255 0 0 0 PP raddmecs sore lGSrelead Netmask 255 255 255 0 3360 FDB learning in a split path Layer 3 configuration may cause route table to be configured with incorrect ports This is a configuration where packets between two hosts use the switch as a gateway in on direction but use another path for the reverse direction This can cause the switch to incorrectly set the port number of the next hop of one of the paths incorrectly It is recommended that this type of configuration be avoided 5 5 11 3365 Certain CLI commands can cause VRRP or RSTP protocol errors and Integrity Test 4 failures This is caused by the command consuming too much CPU at a higher priority than the network task This prevents these protocols from receiving packets in a timely fashion These commands include port link all lag config actor akey all lag config aggr all 5 5 11 3367 If RSTP is disabled on a port that port is still processed in calculating the STP states every second This causes the state machines to consume more CPU bandwidth than needed 5 5 10 3368 If the user employs a program to login to the switch and provides the password very quickly upon seeing the Password prompt there is a chance that you will not get a CLI prompt after you send the password The problem is caused because the code sends the Password prompt and then changes the TTY settings to turn
63. anagement Configuration Switch panel the option IGMP Snooping can t be validate and when he save the configuration he get the message Object Name tmsIgmpSnoop tmsIgmpSnoopEnable Error Code 0x00c8000b noSuchObject 5 529 3549 When an interface has multiple IP Addresses the Gratuitous ARPs for all of the addresses uses the first address as the source ip address Gratuitous ARPs are expected to have a 2325 5 11 07 9 59 AM CPC4400 Release Notes 115P0003 Page 28 of 83 Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com a PERFORMANCE S TECHNOLOGIES v Pe Reported In Fixed In Release Release Tracking Description Number target ip set to the same address as the source ip This behavior does not seem to impact operation When an interface has multiple IP Addresses in the same subnet the switch only answers ping to itself for the first 3550 address of the interface External pings work until you 5 5 0 5 5 26 perform a ping from the switch to itself at which time external pings stop working for 30 seconds When a packet is passed to the CPU to be routed the switch decrements TTL The software routing function then decrements TTL again This causes TTL to be decremented twice for some packets forwarded by the switch Once the hardware routing tables are established packets are routed by hardware and TTL is decrement
64. cation indicates that these Reported In Release 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 11 07 9 59 AM CPC4400 Release Notes 1 15P0003 Page 65 of 83 Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com gt PERFORMANCE TECHNOLOGIES vY PTI Bug Tracking Number 3501 3503 3505 3506 3508 3509 3511 3512 Description of fix BPDUs should be processed by the Port Information State Machine When you specify 0 0 0 0 as the Source IP Address of a Unicast Beacon the switch should choose the IP Address of the appropriate switch interface to get to the specified destination IP Address The CLI disallows this and reports an error The Bridge Priority should be only allowed with values incremented by 4096 Setting Bridge Priority to a different value should fail but is allowed by the switch The RSTP should treat RSTP BPDUs with the port role set to UNKNOWN as Configuration BPDUs sent from the designated port Instead the switch interprets these BPDUs as RSTP and the Port Information State Machine 17 18 revdInfo treats them as OTHER In some circumstances this can result in longer than necessary or possibly no resolution of RSTP protocol The RSTP switch should discards the BPDUs that contain the same Bridge ID and port ID as the port on which they are received Instead the RSTP detects such condit
65. cd ramdisk SFTP Read performance is very slow for large files such as the switch image file The performance of PUT was improved with IR3439 but not GET This IR addresses the GET performance When running a background Lua script to provide a critical system function it may be useful to monitor the operation of that script and to include it in the evaluation of switch integrity An API has been developed to allow the user to configure the system watchdog timer to include the operation of a user script Contact PTI support at support pt com if for Reported In Release 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 14 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 15 5 35 15 5 5 16 5 5 16 5 5 16 5 11 07 9 59 AM CPC4400 Release Notes 115P0003 Page 62 of 83 Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com p PERFORMANCE TECHNOLOGIES v PTI Bug Tracking Number 3450 3453 3458 3463 3464 3465 3470 3471 3476 3477 Description of fix guidance if use of this API is needed The MIB parameter dot1dStpRootPort returns a portID priority plus port number rather than simply a port number as defined in the MIB The Port Path Cost parameter is not manageable on the switch The RSTP MIB parameter dot1dStpPortAdminPathCost should be implemented to provide this see New Feature section below A semaphore deadlock can occur if si
66. converted to string 16 ASCII characters instead of all 16 bytes This does not affect any operation of the switch and only affects the ability to properly see the GUID from the CLI If a host is not present no L2 entry but the switch has an entry in its ARP cache for the host and a high rate of traffic is going to that host then the switch may get overloaded until the ARP cache times out Once the ARP cache times out then the ARP filter will protect the CPU The switch does not send ICMP Unreachable messages when forwarding packets to a non existent target This is a side effect of a protective mechanism that installs a dummy route entry in hardware when there is no ARP resolution for the next hop A Data Exception could occur when the switch attempts to connect to a host that is not present in the network This was introduced in 5 5 8 and did not exist in prior patch versions If the MAC Address of the default gateway moves to a new port without link going away on the previous port there is a chance that the hardware route table will not be updated with the new port This can occur following a spanning tree topology change Both the STP and the RSTP should indicate port as Disabled when port is administratively Disabled with span port enable command Instead the span bridge show shows port as Forwarding when the Link is UP Disabled ports will not switch user s traffic and should be displayed as Disabled by the span bridge s
67. could result in a corruption of a register used by another task The help screen for the ip config command does not specify the maximum length allowed for the description of the interface The maximum length is 15 characters When the Switch Chip test or the Stuck Receiver test fails the switch may report inconsistent integrity status for the MACs and PHYs If either of these tests fail the switch chip is inaccessible and the MACs and PHYs attached to the chip should be considered unavailable as well It is recommended that the user select Go Offline or Reboot as the action to take upon failure of either of these tests When you use SNMP to configure switch host security and you create an entry for SNMP eg to allow SNMP from your client s IP the entry is initially created with a Denied type and you have to change it to Allowed with another SNMP Set This causes the SNMP session that you are using to configure the entry to be disallowed and you cannot set the type field Until this is corrected use the CLI to add this type of entry When a MAC Integrity failure occurs the port associated with the MAC should be taken offline and any commands that can be executed on the port should not take effect and display an error message After failing a MAC the following commands are still accepted and do not produce an error message port autoneg admin advertise port autoneg admin restart port framesize When starting
68. cted to another switch then bringing the LINK UP or re enabling such port should cause such port to state for some time in DISCARDING and LEARNING state before transitioning to FORWARDING state Instead such port transitions into FORWARDING without any delay Ht 3516 When using SSH to access the switch the session hangs after 1000 bytes have been input 5322 3517 3518 An SNMP Walk of the Beacon Table returns entries out of order If the switch is configured with multiple IP addresses on an interface and is configured to source Beacons from one of those addresses and that address is deleted the Beacons continue to be sent from that address The Beacons stop if all of the IP Addresses on the interface are removed 5 5 24 5 5 26 5 11 07 9 59 AM CPC4400 Release Notes 115P0003 Page 25 of 83 Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com a PERFORMANCE WS TECHNOLOGIES v PILE Reported In Fixed In Release Release Tracking Description Number Setting the filename of the image file to reprogram the IPMC ipmi pm progfile to a name that is greater than 128 characters can lead to an overflow condition that corrupts memory The implementation of the STP code which transitions between the short and long aging timer upon detection of a Topology Change is incorrect 3522 5 5 0 535 25 The pr
69. ctly set the port number of the next hop of one of the paths incorrectly It is recommended that this type of configuration be avoided Certain CLI commands can cause VRRP or RSTP protocol Reported In Release 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 11 07 9 59 AM CPC4400 Release Notes 115P0003 Page 59 of 83 Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com gt PERFORMANCE TECHNOLOGIES vY PTI Bug Tracking Number 3367 3368 3372 3373 3380 Description of fix errors and Integrity Test 4 failures This is caused by the command consuming too much CPU at a higher priority than the network task This prevents these protocols from receiving packets in a timely fashion These commands include port link all lag config actor akey all lag config aggr all If RSTP is disabled on a port that port is still processed in calculating the STP states every second This causes the state machines to consume more CPU bandwidth than needed If the user employs a program to login to the switch and provides the password very quickly upon seeing the Password prompt there is a chance that you will not get a CLI prompt after you send the password The problem is caused because the code sends the Password prompt and then changes the TTY settings to turn off ECHO to prevent the password from being displayed Turning off ECHO flushes the
70. ded to the manual at RMON Receive Statistics include counts of packets sent as N A well This is a silicon issue and needs to be noted in the 40 manual N A A clarification needs to be made regarding the fact that the 40 Action value in a Packet Filter is specified in Decimal 2 4 Software Upgrade Issues This section details the known issues with upgrading from previous versions of software to 5 5 30 The new features and Routing fixes have resulted in new MIB IDB settings and a new cpc4400 mi 2 file is provided with 5 5 x Previously the switch MIB was not fully MIB 2 compliant and was named cpc441x mib The new MIB is MIB 2 compliant Objects that have been removed from the 5 4 x MIB file are now marked as OBSOLETE in the new 5 5 x MIB file Wherever possible OID numbers have been maintained in the transition from 5 4 to 5 5 The changes between 5 4 x and 5 5 x include e RIP and OSPF private parameters were managed through the cpc4400L3IpMiscRoutingProtocol table These are now managed via separate tables cpc4400RipMiscGroup and cpc4400OspfGeneralGroup The parameters and settings in the new MIB are also somewhat different Please refer to cpc4400 mi2 for the new definitions e BootP and DHCP settings were managed through cpc4400CommonMiscBootpDHCPGroup and are now managed through cpc4400L3BootpDhcp The parameters and settings in the new MIB are different for these variables Please refer to cpc4400 mi2 for the new
71. do not use spaces tabs or characters If a Lua event handler performs a logMsg call the message may be corrupted if the event handler exits before the message is displayed A related issue is that the taskID of the logging function may be displayed as deadTask The MAC Address programmed into the switch chip to be used for MAC Control Frames eg Pause is taken from the 3600 AG instead of the AP In the current software design these 5 5 0 S929 MACs are the same and there is no affect on the user but this may change in the future and the AP MAC should be used If a switch chip fails L1 Integrity Test the Phys attached 3592 5 5 0 5 5 24 3596 5 5 0 5525 3597 5 5 0 5 5 24 5 5 26 3601 should be reset to force link to be de asserted at any attached 55 0 Updated alter clients This does not occur and attached clients do not lose link 5925 CLI commands cannot be used in boot lua Unpredictable iii results may occur To avoid this use IDB sets 350 33 28 A small amount of memory is lost when the switch issues a Trap reporting that one of L1 Integrity tests have failed Since alle failures are rare and the loss is small 16 bytes per failure a a 29 this should not cause any long term issues 5 11 07 9 59 AM CPC4400 Release Notes 1 15P0003 Page 31 of 83 Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com PTI Bug Tracking
72. dotlqStaticUnicastStatus However if the first set to dot1qStaticUnicastAllowedToGoTo didn t form correctly or that first step was skipped the following exception can be seen data access Exception current instruction address 0x001af99c Machine Status Register 0x0000b030 Data Access Register 0x2150894f Condition Register 0x42000040 Data storage interrupt Register 0xO000b030 Task 0x1508ec0 tSnmp 3486 The span rstp version should set the rstpMIB dot dStpVersion Instead it sets the rstpOEM rstpOEMBridgeStpAdminVersion The former is related to the span version command The span version command sets the rstpOEM rstpOEMBridgeStpAdminVersion to switch between the 802 1D 2004 RSTP code and the 802 1D 1998 STP code This command requires saving and rebooting the switch The span rstp version needs to set the rstpMIB dotldStpVersion to force the RSTP code to operate in the STP compatibility mode This command does not require rebooting the switch and takes effect immediately 5 5 24 3487 When the RSTP switch is connected to the STP switch and a port comes UP then such port should stay in Discarding State for ForwardDelay and in Learning State for ForwardDelay Instead incorrectly the port transitions to Learning and Forwarding without using ForwardDelay timers 5 524 3488 RSTP should disregard BPDUs with Protocol Version 0 The switch allows BPDUs like this to be processed 5 5 24
73. e IR3570 expires This operation can cause some segments of fragmented packets to not be delivered until the hardware route table is established Enabling and Disabling Logging to a Remote Server may cause the loss of a File Descriptor There are 60 File Descriptors allocated in the switch If this sequence is performed enough times then file access will be impacted When using SNMP to walk the dot1dTpFdbPort table entries are not returned However once a dot dTpFdbTable request is made all subsequent calls to dotldTpFdbPort will behave correctly until another switch reset is performed The problem is that the switch requires a VLAN ID internally and the default VLAN ID used in the look up for dotl dTpFdbPort is not initialized until an access to dotldTpFdbTable is made This problem may be avoided by using the dotlq MIB instead of dotld The ARP Refresh timer ranges between 10 and 60 minutes Timer values above 10 minutes may lead to excessive delay in detecting changes in MAC Address associated with the IP Address of hosts Also while waiting for ARP resolution the switch installs a dummy route into its hardware tables to prevent high volumes of traffic from overwhelming the CPU until the hardware route table is established These dummy route entries are installed for 60 seconds Network topology changes can cause short lived loss of connectivity often on the order of 3 5 seconds This short term connectivity loss can lead to a dummy ro
74. e remove error 03 27 2007 09 59 24 0x1695d68 tPtiCon ptiSystemSecureHostStatus removeSecureHostEntryfailed It s been observed that there s a delay between performing an sshd enable on and when ssh clients are able to connect This delay appears to be between 1 and 10 seconds The sshd enable command reports a state of on however if an ssh session is immediately started it will get terminated by the switch 3784 5 11 07 9 59 AM CPC4400 Release Notes 115P0003 Page 41 of 83 Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com PTI Bug Tracking Description a PERFORMANCE TECHNOLOGIES v Reported In Release Fixed In Release Number 3785 When the switch is master of a VRRP instance an L2 Table entry exists to perform L3 Routing for packets that are directed to the VRRP MAC When VRRP Mastership is lost this entry should be deleted and possibly replaced by a simple L2 entry to pass this traffic to the port where the new master resides Under heavy load conditions the switch may not remove the L2 table entries that have the L3 bit set when the switch loses VRRP mastership This prevents traffic from being forwarded to the new VRRP Master and causes loss of connectivity This problem was introduced into 5 5 28 as a result of the change associated with IR3705 It is recommended that VRRP not be
75. ed once If remote logging is enabled and a log message is sent out 3553 while the log server is down the server will not receive any 5 5 0 DD new messages once it comes back online If you enable a remote logging instance multiple times then multiple messages will be sent to the target specified by that 3554 instance Also if you disable that instance the CLI will report 5 5 0 5 5 25 that the instance is disabled but messages will still be logged one less each time it is disabled If the switch is Layer 3 switching traffic to a target for which a hardware entry is not established either MAC Address or port is unknown then the traffic will be passed to the CPU to allow the target to be resolved and a hardware entry to be established If the CPU is currently resolving the MAC or Port to a Host then further traffic to that Host is squelched until the entry is resolved or a short timer see IR3570 expires This operation can cause some segments of fragmented packets to not be delivered until the hardware route table is established Enabling and Disabling Logging to a Remote Server may cause the loss of a File Descriptor There are 60 File Descriptors allocated in the switch If this sequence is performed enough times then file access will be impacted When using SNMP to walk the dotldTpFdbPort table entries are not returned However once a dotldTpFdbTable request is made all subsequent calls to dot dTpFdbPort will behave correctly u
76. en SFTP cannot change directory to the flash filesystem Using the cli call in a Lua script and the process of starting and stopping CLI instances Telnet SSH Console login logout can cause memory to become fragmented If memory is fragmented to the point where no block is larger than 1 5M no more CLI instances can be started Reported In Release 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 13 5 5 5 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 14 5 5 14 5 5 0 5 11 07 9 59 AM CPC4400 Release Notes 115P0003 Page 61 of 83 Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com gt PERFORMANCE TECHNOLOGIES vY PTI Bug Tracking Number 3420 3424 3425 3426 3430 3431 3432 3439 3440 3444 3445 Description of fix Packets destined to the Broadcast IP address 255 255 255 255 are throttled from arriving at the switch CPU to a very low level This was designed to prevent overload on the CPU The low rate of packets allowed however has been shown to cause problems when the switch receives many DHCP Discover packets close together These are destined to the Broadcast IP Address and the throttle mechanism restricts the rate that DHCP leases are provided This problem was introduced in 5 4 25 The running command does not capture the state of rstp edgeport pointtopoint or holdcount when RSTP is enabled These parameters are only valid when RSTP is
77. er to create labels that contain special characters in the CLI eg In naming a route or IP Interface Description the user must place quotes around the label However the running command does not capture this type of label properly To avoid this use labels that do not use spaces tabs or characters If a Lua event handler performs a logMsg call the message may be corrupted if the event handler exits before the message is displayed A related issue is that the taskID of the logging function may be displayed as deadTask The MAC Address programmed into the switch chip to be used for MAC Control Frames eg Pause is taken from the AG instead of the AP In the current software design these MACs are the same and there is no affect on the user but this may change in the future and the AP MAC should be used If a switch chip fails L1 Integrity Test the Phys attached should be reset to force link to be de asserted at any attached clients This does not occur and attached clients do not lose link CLI commands cannot be used in boot lua Unpredictable results may occur To avoid this use IDB sets A small amount of memory is lost when the switch issues a Trap reporting that one of L1 Integrity tests have failed Since failures are rare and the loss is small 16 bytes per failure this should not cause any long term issues If a port fails the MAC Integrity test its link is de asserted but the software still indicates that
78. eter or they modify the current value given invalid input The expectation is that the MIB will reject an invalid input and NOT change the current value OIDs affected dot3adAggActorAdminKey dot3adAggActorSystemPriority dot3adAggPortActorSystemPriority dot3adAggPortPartnerAdminKey dot3adAggPortPartnerAdminPort lagPathCostAlgorithm lagStaticNoTimeoutOnOff lagAggregateOrIndividual Valid values are accepted and processed properly The gettime function from the CLI outputs a logMsg on every invocation When logging to flash this can degrade the flash faster than desired To allow the log messages to be turned off a global variable was added suppress_gettime_messages which can be set via setup sh The default value of this variable is zero 0 which allow the log messages to be output Setting this value to a non zero value will suppress these log messages Contact PTI support at support pt com if for guidance if disabling these messages is needed If the switch is configured with an SNMP Trap target located on the Mgmt0 port and no switch links are established traps will not be sent Previously changing the DHCP client transmit and listen port does not take effect until the switch is reset If DHCP clients are configured on multiple interfaces the transmit and listen port for the first interface will be used for all DHCP client interfaces If no DHCP clients are configured when the switch is started and a DHCP client is added to
79. etwork topology changes can cause short lived loss of connectivity often on the order of 3 5 seconds This short term connectivity loss can lead to a dummy route being added which slows recovery of connectivity to some hosts by an additional 60 seconds The ARP Refresh timer now ranges from 5 10 minutes rather than 10 60 minutes The bogus route added while waiting for ARP resolution was reduced from a default of 60 seconds to 5 seconds This can be over ridden in setup sh by setting the variable 13 ArpDelaySecs to the number of seconds desired Contact PTI support at support pt com if for guidance if adjusting this timer is needed The switch stops checking for switch chip failures when one of the chips fails This prevents detection of a second chip 3573 failure The action taken for a chip failure should be to take 5 5 0 5 325 the switch offline or to reboot so this should not normally be an issue The number of SSH and SFTP sessions is limited to 2 This is too restrictive The number of sessions should be modeled E against the number of Telnets and FTP sessions allowed 2 3 3 0 392A 4 Some of the Link Aggregation MIB parameters allows values outside the accepted range They either accept an invalid parameter or they modify the current value given invalid input The expectation is that the MIB will reject an invalid input and NOT change the current value OIDs affected dot3adAggActorAdminKey dot3adAggActorSystemPriority dot3adAg
80. f CPU cycles and when it is executed at the CLI it may impact the operation of timed protocols such as VRRP and STP Please avoid using traceroute from the switch until this is resolved If an error occurs when adding a Filter Rule the rule entry is left in the system but is in a Not Ready state An error could occur for example if an invalid Mask is specified or the Filter is incompatible with the specified Mask The side effect of leaving the rule in place is that the user may not add another rule with that same index and the rule is not displayed with the filter rule show command An error message is displayed when the filter rule add command fails Until this problem is corrected the user should execute a filter rule delete command to remove the rule following a failure to add the rule The change associated with IR3550 causes bogus routes to be displayed with the route show command A bogus route is present when there is no ARP resolution to a host An example is shown below 192 168 1 1 255 255 255 255 127 0 0 1 local off These entries should be ignored When a Host Security entry is added with a non specific network interface then the user is unable to delete this entry and gets a message like the following switch security hostip add 192 168 1 2 255 255 255 255 allowed switch security hostip delete 192 168 1 2 255 255 255 255 0 0 switch_hostIP status type remove error 03 27 2007 09 5
81. f this option is enabled used to display the port number that failed Now the message is showing a hex representation of the bitmap of failed ports Prior to 5 5 24 the messages used to look like 3641 12 18 2006 13 10 19 0x14ec9a0 tL 1 Integrity Error while 5525 5 5 26 running Test number 1 The error code returned was 1 on port s 1 12 18 2006 13 10 21 0x14ec9a0 tL 1 Integrity Error while running Test number 1 The error code returned was 1 on port s 2 12 18 2006 13 10 23 0x14ec9a0 tL 1 Integrity Error while running Test number 1 The error code returned was 1 on port s 3 5 11 07 9 59 AM CPC4400 Release Notes 115P0003 Page 35 of 83 Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com a PERFORMANCE TECHNOLOGIES v ag Reported In Fixed In Release Release Tracking Description Number 12 18 2006 13 10 25 0x14ec9a0 tL 1 Integrity Error while running Test number 1 The error code returned was 1 on port s 4 12 18 2006 13 10 27 0x14ec9a0 tL 1 Integrity Error while running Test number 1 The error code returned was 1 on port s 5 Now they look like 12 18 2006 13 10 19 0x14ec9a0 tL 1 Integrity Error while running Test number 1 The error code returned was 1 on port s 00000001 12 18 2006 13 10 21 0x14ec9a0 tL 1 Integrity Error while running Test number 1 The error code returned was 1 on port s 00
82. fied after the interface has been in use 2247 5 3 111 2367 5 3 111 2396 5 3 111 2536 5 3 204 5 5 4 5 3 1112 5 5 26 5 11 07 9 59 AM CPC4400 Release Notes 115P0003 Page 7 of 83 Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com a PERFORMANCE SS TECHNOLOGIES v KILDNE Reported In Fixed In Release Release Tracking Description Number If an interface is being used for VRRP and it has multiple IP Addresses associated with it multi homed then if you delete one of the IP Addresses on the interface the VRRP packets 2804 will be sent out with a source IP Address of 0 0 0 0 It is 5 3 204 recommended that you disable the VRRP instance before making changes to the interfaces that are being used for VRRP When using SNMP to get the next table entry for multiple objects the switch returns the incorrect table entry for all but the first object For example a GETNEXT for multiple table 2822 objects will return the next entry for the first table object but 5 3 204 5 5 1 will send the next of the next entry for the subsequent objects one entry is skipped It is recommended that GETNEXT be only used for a single object at a time If a save operation is performed too soon after VLAN modifications then NVM Save errors may be reported If 2832 these occur another save is recommended A few second 5 3 111 delay after
83. for more information on this feature DHCP Client Enhancements The switch now supports the ability to use DHCP client to acquire an IP Address on any of the switch s network interfaces This required a change to the CLI commands for these functions bootp and dhcp client command groups to include a mandatory network interface argument Please refer to the User Manual for more information on this feature OSPF and RIP Bug Fixes There have been many bugs with OSPF and RIP in earlier releases of the switch software that prevented their use in most applications These have been corrected and the corrections have resulted in new commands and possibly modified usage of previously existing commands Please refer to the User Manual for more information on the routing command set and the operation of the routing protocol feature Level 1 Integrity Enhancements The switch Level Integrity test subsystem has been modified to allow for better notification of failure and to allow the switch to continue operation after a PHY or MAC failure The following bullets describe the changes made to this subsystem e The MAC and PHY tests are now recoded to run on a per MAC and per PHY basis rather than as a MAC and PHY subsystem of the board as was done previously e The MAC and PHY tests now continue to run on those devices that have not failed Previous to this change three consecutive failures of any device in each of these subsystems caused t
84. gPortActorSystemPriority dot3adAggPortPartnerAdminKey dot3adAggPortPartnerAdminPort lagPathCostAlgorithm lagStaticNoTimeoutOnOff lagAggregateOrIndividual 3578 5 5 0 5 5 26 Valid values are accepted and processed properly The gettime function from the CLI outputs a logMsg on every invocation When logging to flash this can degrade the flash faster than desired To allow the log messages to be turned off a global variable 3580 was added suppress_gettime_messages which can be set 5 5 0 5 5 24 via setup sh The default value of this variable is zero 0 which allow the log messages to be output Setting this value to a non zero value will suppress these log messages Contact PTI support at support pt com if for guidance if disabling these messages is needed If the switch is configured with an SNMP Trap target located on the Mgmt0 port and no switch links are established traps 3581 5 5 0 53524 5 11 07 9 59 AM CPC4400 Release Notes 115P0003 Page 30 of 83 Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com a PERFORMANCE S TECHNOLOGIES v Pe Reported In Fixed In Release Release Tracking Description Number will not be sent Previously changing the DHCP client transmit and listen port does not take effect until the switch is reset If DHCP clients are configured on multiple interfaces the transmit and listen por
85. he backup router however it will learn additional associated IP addresses if the master VRRP router advertises more than 1 associated IP address When the switch assumes the master role it will attempt to advertise these learned associated ip addresses Advertising these learned addresses is not proper protocol and the advertisement is formed incorrectly advertising the learned address as the address 0 0 0 0 The switch CLI does not support commands to add delete or display SNMP Version 3 users DES encryption for SNMPv3 does not work properly SNMPv3 should not be used in 5 5 x 59529 3511 The switch does not allow the user to configure certain legal values of the RSTP Timers RSTP Timer values are specified in the RSTP 802 1D 2004 section 17 14 The validation test for the values is not per the specification and some legal values are disallowed SSA 3512 When running RSTP and after receiving a BPDU with new information some ports may still send BPDUs with old information for several seconds This problem may cause longer than necessary resolution of RSTP protocol 5 5 24 3513 The RSTP implementation on the PTI switch runs all its state machines once a second Because of this it may not transition into the intermediate states when receiving more than one BPDU on a port This problem may cause longer than necessary resolution of RSTP protocol 5 5 24 3514 If a port is not an edge port and is not conne
86. he entry even though if it is a static entry If a network interface is being advertised with OSPF and the interface is deleted the switch will produce an error message such as the following which can safely be ignored ip delete sw0 05 25 2056 19 01 42 0x6422e80 tPtiCon ROUTE_IF_NEWADDR cannot find entry w index 1100001 tmsL3Mib c 2006 If a save operation is attempted after this occurs the save will fail as follows save saving nvmLib c 3341 idbGet Failed for rfc1850 ospflfAreald nvmLib c 3344 Errno 00c8000a 0 0000000a 1 00000000 2 00000000 3 00000002 4 00000000 nvmLib c 3341 idbGet Failed for rfc1850 ospflfStatus nvmLib c 3344 Errno 00c8000a 0 0000000a 1 00000000 2 00000000 3 00000002 4 00000000 The switch allows the user to enter illegal netmasks for IP configurations Netmasks are required to be contiguous 1 s for the network portion If Integrity Test 1 MAC test fails on a port then all ports of the switch become disabled The partner does not lose link Reported In Release 5 4 0 5 4 2 5 4 107 5 4 107 5 4 107 5 11 07 9 59 AM CPC4400 Release Notes 115P0003 Page 53 of 83 Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com gt PERFORMANCE TECHNOLOGIES vY PTI Bug Tracking Number 3265 3267 3281 3289 3290 3298 3302 3304 Description of fix but the switch
87. he test for the entire subsystem to be disabled e A single failure of a test will now cause the test to be disabled for the device that failed For the MAC test the one port that failed will no longer be tested For the PHY test all of the ports that are supported by the failed PHY will be disabled e The test status Error Code for each test will be modified from being a device number in the upper 16 bits and an error code in the low 16 bits to being a bit map of the devices that have failed the test This status will remain intact until the switch is reset e No configuration actions are allowed on a failed device e No traffic is forwarded to or from a failed device Please refer to the User Manual and CPC6600 MIB for more information on this feature SSH SFTP Enhancements 5 5 14 SFTP has been added to this release to allow for secure transfer of files to and from the switch SSH was present prior to this release but this release adds several new commands to allow for the management of SSH Key Files The following text will be added to the Switch Management Chapter of the User Manual and it describes the new SSH SFTP features SSH SFTP The switch supports secure remote management and file transfer through SSH and SFTP SSH is a software based mechanism that automatically encrypts and decrypts messages sent between the client and the server switch A client that runs SSH may connect to the switch and manage it via a CLI session
88. heavy network load This can happen at start up or following the removal or insertion of one of the switches The result is that the routing tables never converge and traffic does not flow Toggling OSPF off and on corrects the problem 5 4 107 5 5 1 3273 The number of files and subdirectories present in the root directory cannot exceed 126 If more files are required on the switch subdirectories may be used 5 4 2 3281 The fix to IR3258 introduced a bug where the failure of one PHY would disable some PHYs that had not failed 5 4 110 5 5 1 3289 3290 Whenever a string is the allowed field in the FRU there is no provision to force the user to put in at least two characters When One character is entered this leads to a type length field of C1 which is the value indicating there are no more fields following This also leads to non zero bytes after the C1 which is a violation of the Platform Management FRU Information Storage Definition v1 0 This can be avoided by always entering a minimum of two characters in each FRU field The sysUpTime MIB variable rolls over to zero after 248 days This should be 497 days 5 4 2 542 3291 When using OSPF and the DR OTHER brings up a new link it sends an LSA update to allDRouters The Switch should then retransmit the LSA out the interface it received it on and consider that retransmission to be an implicit acknowledgement The Switch however sends a
89. how command This is a s display issue only The hardware state is correct This can occur when a port is disabled using the CLI command span port enable x off or via SNMP or IDB using rfc 1493 dot1dStpPortEnable Using SNMP to configure packet filters can result in invalid states when a Filter Rule is established without having a valid Reported In Release 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 8 5 5 1 5 5 1 5 5 0 5 11 07 9 59 AM CPC4400 Release Notes 115P0003 Page 57 of 83 Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com p i PERFORMANCE TECHNOLOGIES PTI Bug Tracking Number 3346 3348 3352 Description of fix Mask The creation of the Filter Rule reports a failure but the Rule is partially created and cannot be deleted An example is shown below The log message shows where the SNMP command to create the illegal Filter Rule had failed 09 12 2005 18 55 45 0x1509428 tSnmp ptiUserInclusiveFilterRulesStatusSet addHwFilter failed filter mask show filter rule show Index 1 Prrority Pores Precedence Ingress ports Bgrsss port Action Mask Description mirror http Status valid 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0010 0800 0000 0000 0000 0000 0006 0000 0020 0000 0000 0000 0000 0050 0000 0000 0030 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 a oe oS aH g 00 00 00
90. id directory on the 3440 switch and so it fails 5 5 16 DDI 3439 5 5 16 5 5 17 Note that the fix for this is such that when changing the current working directory between ramdisk and flash filesystems you must be located at the root directory ie cd before you do cd ramdisk File permissions viewed from SFTP do not match those seen from CLI The permissions seen from CLI include 3443 permissions for GRP and OTHERs Permissions seen from 5 5 16 5322 SFTP only display USER permissions The switch is a single user device so this is not normally a problem SFTP Read performance is very slow for large files such as the switch image file The performance of PUT was 3444 5 5 16 5 5 18 5 11 07 9 59 AM CPC4400 Release Notes 115P0003 Page 20 of 83 Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com PTI Bug Tracking Description a z _ v PERFORMANCE TECHNOLOGIES Reported In Fixed In Release Release Number improved with IR3439 but not GET This IR addresses the GET performance 3445 When running a background Lua script to provide a critical system function it may be useful to monitor the operation of that script and to include it in the evaluation of switch integrity An API has been developed to allow the user to configure the system watchdog timer to include the ope
91. ion the telnet server starts a CLI session which performs the login validation There are two issues with this approach 1 Starting a CLI session uses up a lot of CPU and memory on the switch if an attacker were to repeatedly telnet to the switch even without having a valid user name and password the CPU would be impacted 2 Starting a CLI session takes a long time the user has to Reported In Release 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 26 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 11 07 9 59 AM CPC4400 Release Notes 115P0003 Page 77 of 83 Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com gt PERFORMANCE TECHNOLOGIES v PTI Bug Tracking Number 3709 3737 3747 3748 3750 3751 3752 3755 3763 Description of fix wait for the CLI to fully load and start running before they are given a login prompt By moving the telnet authentication out of the CLI and into the telnet server code the switch will only load the CLI if the user has provided a valid user name and password If you use SNMP to set up Packet Filter Rules and set an illegal value for the Action the switch may panic A typo exists in the message printed when a Lua Event Handler does not exist the word launch is misspelled 02 28 2007 08 10 25 0x14d5490 tLuaEventHandler unable to lauch event handler script flash samples linkevent lua lua_dofile returns 2
92. ion as loop condition and blocks such port Ports should be blocked if they received BPDUs containing the same Bridge ID as the local bridge but different port ID This represents a case when two ports of the same bridge are connected directly to each other thus causing a loop The switch allows Invalid VRRP entries to be created by SNMP For instance when no IP address is assigned to an interface you should not be able to associate a VRRP instance to that interface If you create an invalid VRRP instance using SNMP and then delete it with the CLI the switch will take a watchdog indicating that a protected task the VRRP task has died The VRRP implementation on the switch allows a user to specify 1 and only 1 associated ip address for a given vrrp instance When acting as the backup router however it will learn additional associated IP addresses if the master VRRP router advertises more than 1 associated IP address When the switch assumes the master role it will attempt to advertise these learned associated ip addresses Advertising these learned addresses is not proper protocol and the advertisement is formed incorrectly advertising the learned address as the address 0 0 0 0 The switch does not allow the user to configure certain legal values of the RSTP Timers RSTP Timer values are specified in the RSTP 802 1D 2004 section 17 14 The validation test for the values is not per the specification and some legal values are disallowed
93. is is very similar to the problem described in IR3298 but it occurs 124 days after the switch is booted and then recurs every 248 days following The length of the outage can be up to 60 minutes for releases between 5 5 5 and 5 5 23 For 5 5 24 and above the outage will be less than 10 minutes This difference is due to the change made for IR3570 Following a sequence of adds and deletes of static multicast MAC Addresses the switch may become unable to add new Reported In Release D020 5 5 25 5 5 25 5 5 25 5 5 5 5 5 25 5 11 07 9 59 AM CPC4400 Release Notes 1 15P0003 Page 75 of 83 Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com gt PERFORMANCE TECHNOLOGIES vY PTI Bug Tracking Number 3653 3660 3666 3669 3671 3672 3673 3674 3676 3677 Description of fix multicast entries even though there is room for more in the table A message similar to the following will be logged if this occurs 12 29 2006 02 27 05 0x15e7928 tGarpRecv bcmGmrpCreate Unable to add multicast adress 0 10 This problem is not totally understood at this writing and is currently being investigated but it is believed to have been introduced into 5 5 25 with the change associated with IR3629 When the switch powers up with RSTP enabled and you disable and re enable RSTP the switch hardware port states may be inconsis
94. is using the switch s MAC Address as the target When the IP is deleted the source continues to use the switch s MAC Address but now the IP is no longer that of the switch and the switch tries to route the packets There is no host with that IP so the IP is added to the filter table to limit the amount Reported In Release 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 11 07 9 59 AM CPC4400 Release Notes 1 15P0003 Page 60 of 83 Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com gt PERFORMANCE TECHNOLOGIES vY PTI Bug Tracking Number 3381 3385 3391 3393 3394 3396 3403 3411 3419 Description of fix of traffic to that IP being sent up the stack When the IP address is reconfigured the filter entry is not removed and now traffic to that IP is restricted unnecessarily If a packet is sent to an IP Address that the switch owns an internally created L4 L7 Packet Filter causes the packet to go to CPU based only on a match of the Destination IP In cases where the switch provides a Layer 2 path to a gateway which then routes packets back to the switch the switch will receive and process duplicate packets Under heavy broadcast loads the switch may be unable to manage the RSTP protocol This is because the network load consumes CPU bandwidth and it is unable to process network traffic as required by this protocol
95. itch It is advisable to poll for the current link state after a link change trap is seen When walking the Static Route cpc4400L3lpStaticTable in a Lua script using idoGetNext the switch N A can get into an infinite loop A 30 41 description of the proper way to perform this walk is needed in the Lua Examples section of the manual A clarification is needed in the manual that the VRRP interval value must be W ail N A 5 11 07 9 59 AM CPC4400 Release Notes 115P0003 Page 45 of 83 Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com a PERFORMANCE TECHNOLOGIES vY PTI Bug Tracking Description Reported In Fixed In Release Number Release the same for all switches configured to support a VRRP instance A description of the SC Fiber port on the N A CPC4411 is needed in the Specifications 40 41 section The V I O voltage requirements and pin N A out are not included in the Specifications 40 41 chapter The description of the idbObjIdAnySet N A Lua function is incorrect An example of 40 41 usage is also needed The management of OSPF Metric Type N A on a Stub Area has been removed and the 40 41 manual updated to reflect that The DHCP Configuration for providing a default router address was mis spelled It was spelled router when the correct spelling is rout The link Aggregation configuration for Actor Delay was de
96. itch will continue to boot The switch 810P067950 will then typically fail to establish connectivity with the FlexLink during the Application initialization Table 11 Boot Loader Errata Fixes PTI Bug Tracking ar Reported In Table 12 Application Software Errata Fixes PTI Bug Tracking Number Reported In Description of fix Release When an IP interface is deleted the entries in the Routing Table to support that interface are not removed This may 2280 cause OSPF and RIP to continue to advertise the switch as a 53 111 path to the now deleted interface If RIP or OSPF are in use and an interface is deleted the switch must be rebooted to allow RIP and OSPF to register the change When configuring more than 8 VLANs the switch fails to establish the proper egress port list for the default VLAN Until this is corrected limit the number of VLANs to 8 or less 2536 5 3 204 If a user creates an IP interface the system will add the IP ALL_HOST MCAST address to the hardware filtering database VRRP OSPF RIP will also add system L2 multicast entries in hardware in order to receive their desired protocol advertisements If a user changes the VID associated with the interface that these protocols are using their multicast entries will not be updated to reflect the new VID in hardware It is recommended that the user perform a reboot if the VID associated with an IP interface is modified after the interface has been in use When usi
97. itches on the DUART chip select line can cause the the DUART s interrupt register to clear before software could read it as a result the console port serial receiver may become inoperable This affects the CPC4411 only not the CPC4416 120P043350 120P 143350 120P043360 120P 143360 120P043360 120P 143360 120P043370 120P143370 3493 On the RoHS CPC4411 the gigabit link activity LEDs will blink as if there is activity with a link when there is no optical cable installed 120Qx59510 120Qx59530 5 11 07 9 59 AM CPC4400 Release Notes 115P0003 Page 4 of 83 Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com a PERFORMANCE TECHNOLOGIES _ vY PTI Bug Tracking Description Reported In Fixed In Release Number Release NOTE The fix to this problem requires both Hardware and Software to change The Hardware revision needed is 30 or higher The software revision must be 5 5 24 or higher Older software will work on new and old boards but the LED issue will be present unless both are up to date 1 3 2 Boot PROM Errata The following table outlines the known errata in the Boot PROM component of the CPC441x Table 3 Boot PROM Errata PTI Bug Tracking Description Reported In Fixed In Release Number Release Fixed improper handling of corrupt or missing TFTP packets and fixed 291v160
98. ity mechanism the following incorrect behavior may be seen e If both allowed and denied entries are present only the denied entries are processed e Ifan entry had a specific protocol number the interface name would be ignored The rule would incorrectly apply for all interfaces 3499 5 5 0 5922 The proper behavior is e All denied entries should be processed before any allowed entries e Entries with both a specific protocol number and a specific interface name specified should be processed independently The switch discards RSTP BPDUs with MessageAge greater than MaxAge However the specification indicates that these BPDUs should be processed by the Port Information State Machine When you specify 0 0 0 0 as the Source IP Address of a Unicast Beacon the switch should choose the IP Address of 3501 the appropriate switch interface to get to the specified 5 5 0 5925 destination IP Address The CLI disallows this and reports an error The Bridge Priority should be only allowed with values 3503 incremented by 4096 Setting Bridge Priority to a different 5 5 0 53 24 value should fail but is allowed by the switch The RSTP should treat RSTP BPDUs with the port role set to UNKNOWN as Configuration BPDUs sent from the designated port Instead the switch interprets these BPDUs as 3505 RSTP and the Port Information State Machine 17 18 5 5 0 5 5 24 rcvdInfo treats them as OTHER In some circumstances this can resu
99. l also cease 5 5 20 3463 3464 The switch allows the user to set the UDP Port Numbers used for DHCP to unique values for each interface However the underlying OS does not support this operation NOTE The workaround for this is to have the DHCP code select the UDP port numbers configured on the first DHCP interface and use these for all interfaces on which DHCP is used To avoid confusion please configure all DHCP interfaces to use the same UDP ports A TFTP access violation error causes the loss of one of the allowed TFTP sessions A TFTP access violation error occurs if you try to write to a file that exists when tftpd access settings do not allow this If 10 errors occur then all of the allowed sessions will have been used up and no further TFTP accesses will be allowed 5 5 20 5 5 20 3465 When using client DHCP the switch does not support the documented feature that a Server IP address and Lua file may 5 5 20 5 11 07 9 59 AM CPC4400 Release Notes 115P0003 Page 21 of 83 Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com a PERFORMANCE TECHNOLOGIES v Pe Reported In Fixed In Release Release Tracking Description Number be provided BootP does support this operation A condition has been observed where the switch acting as VRRP Master can stop sending advertisements and cycle between two state
100. le time of this behavior is 36 minutes If DHCP server provides SIAD but no Default Gateway the SIAD is not set in the MIB The Integrity Tests on the switch include a check that there is at least 16K bytes free at all times Unless there is a memory leak the available memory should never go below this However a big in the memory statistics utility can cause this check to fail reporting that the amount of free memory is 1 negative 1 bytes Port Designated Bridge and Port ID s are reported incorrectly via SNMP Instead of reporting the ID of the Designated Bridge or Port the switch always reports its own Bridge or Port ID Reported In Release 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 4 0 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 11 07 9 59 AM CPC4400 Release Notes 115P0003 Page 63 of 83 Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com gt PERFORMANCE TECHNOLOGIES v PTI Bug Tracking Number 3478 3481 3484 3485 3486 Description of fix When the user accesses the RowStatus MIB object for a Secure Host IP Table entry that does not exist an error message is logged to indicate that the access failed This message does not indicate that there is was a failure but simply that the entry did not exist The message should be removed A sample of the message is shown below 05 17 2006 20 11 32 0x1434ff0 tPtiCon
101. lease Notes 115P0003 Page 44 of 83 Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com a PERFORMANCE TECHNOLOGIES v m pu 8 P Reported In Fixed In Tracking Description Release Release Number on Click To Login the http task to take an exception as shown below 05 11 2007 07 52 59 0x13afd08 tHTTPd panic accept program Exception current instruction address 0x00000000 Machine Status Register 0x0008b030 Condition Register 0x24000048 Task 0x13afd08 tHTTPd 1 3 6 User Manual Errata The following table outlines the known errata in the User Manual PTI Part Number 113P0367 component of the CPC44 1x Table 7 User Manual Errata Number Release 2924 The durability of parameters is not clearly 10 20 described N A Added information on 5 4 Features 10 20 The details of the Beacon frame describing the revision field length timestamp and optional user data should be described in the User Manual The 2963 manual should also give some guidance 20 41 on the use of the priority field especially as it relates to the rate of operation and loss limit that attached clients are configured for The Link Trap code has a throttle mechanism that allows it to send only one link trap every 5 seconds The User Manual does not describe this behavior 3002 The user should not depend solely on 20 30 Traps to determine link states from the sw
102. led Code inspection revealed that several tasks were being created without setting the VxWorks FFP_TASK flag This 3679 5 5 0 wT 3680 5 5 0 5 5 28 5 11 07 9 59 AM CPC4400 Release Notes 115P0003 Page 38 of 83 Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com a PERFORMANCE TECHNOLOGIES v Pe Reported In Fixed In Release Release Tracking Description Number flag tells the OS to save and restore Floating Point registers when switching the task in and out This flag should always be set to allow usage of FP functions from all tasks There is no known bug corrected by this change Code inspection of the change associated with IRs 3563 and 3681 3569 indicate that there is an error condition that is not 55 25 handled properly This could result in a failure of the DHCP T client to acquire an IP Address When configuring switch security hostip entries and none is given for the interface the new hostip entries are installed successfully However when a specific interface is specified the additions are handled incorrectly 1 With Deny on a specific interface for a specific ip that system is still allowed communication 2 With Allow on a specific interface for a specific ip all systems are then blocked 3683 5 5 0 5 5 28 If an Integrity Test failure is configured to send a Trap on failure the trap
103. link is up If a Beacon is created with links down it s RowStatus is not Active If the settings are saved and the board rebooted then and NVM error occurs on boot and the Beacon is not restored A related issues is that when a Multicast Beacon is Active and all links go down an error message is generated every ten seconds 11 10 2006 15 44 30 0x124cff0 tBeacon beaconSend write failed 3997697 line 599 These issues are side effects of the fix to IR3492 The time taken to generate SSH Keys on the switch can take Reported In Release 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 24 5 11 07 9 59 AM CPC4400 Release Notes 115P0003 Page 72 of 83 Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com gt PERFORMANCE TECHNOLOGIES vY PTI Bug Tracking Number 3608 3610 3615 3619 3620 3621 3623 Description of fix up to 20 minutes This is excessive Using SNMP to configure Static Routes can lead to situations where the switch believes that all of the available route entries are in use when they are not This is caused when you perform multiple adds and deletes of Static Routes using SNMP and results in a failure to add any more static routes The change for IR3484 caused the L1Integrity task to utilize 64 bit registers which are not saved and restored across task switches This
104. ll of the reported errata by component for all versions of the product Errata that have been fixed are shaded Errata are organized by component There is a separate table for each major component 1 3 1 Hardware Errata The following table outlines the known errata in the Hardware component of the CPC441x Table 2 Hardware Errata PTI Bug Tracking Description Reported In Fixed In Release Number Release 1329 Ish A decision is made on each packet leaving the switch as to whether it should or should not have a VLAN tag If a packet is Layer 3 switched and a Layer 4 7 Packet Filter also redirects the packet to a specific port ACTION bit 5 the packet will always be sent with a tag Also if a packet is Layer 3 switched and is also mirrored the packet sent on the Mirror To port will always be sent with a tag In this case the Layer 3 destination port will be tagged or untagged correctly 120P043310 120P143310 120P043510 120P143510 2920 The CPC4416 Hardware built at revision 60 and lower does not have enough Ethernet MAC Addresses assigned to it to support operation with a FlexNAT daughter card If your CPC4416 is at one of these revisions then it must be returned to the factory to be updated before it can be used with a FlexNAT adapter 120P043510 120P143510 120P043570 120P143570 N A 2955 The CPC4411 has a zero ohm resistor populated on it that connects signal ground to chassis ground Gl
105. ls 3629 they may occasionally be transmitted late Delays up to 5 5 0 Sa 500ms have been seen When using VRRP and the Master transitions to Initialize 3630 state a zero priority packet is not sent as required by the 5 5 0 5 5 26 RFC When the Integrity test for a PHY that is located on the second switch chip fails the CLI command port link all will show the ports failed as expected but the MIB 3632 oemArchIfaceLink 1 PORT or 5 5 0 5 5 26 cpce4400ArchIfaceLink 1 PORT where PORT is the failed port does not report the port as being down This works properly for the first chip however Using SNMP to set the vrrpOperRowStatus parameter from Active to Disabled while vrrpOperAdminState is Active causes a watchdog error on the switch As a workaround set 3633 virpOperAdminState to Disabled before setting 5 5 0 5 5 28 virpOperRowStatus The second issue is that you cannot re activate a VRRP instance after you de activate it in this way You must destroy the row and recreate a new instance To 3628 5 5 0 5 5 26 5 11 07 9 59 AM CPC4400 Release Notes 115P0003 Page 34 of 83 Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com a PERFORMANCE SS TECHNOLOGIES v re Reported In Fixed In Release Release Tracking Description Number temporarily disable and then re enable a VRRP instance with SNMP you may set vrrpOperAdminState to
106. lt in longer than necessary or possibly no resolution of RSTP protocol The RSTP switch should discards the BPDUs that contain the same Bridge ID and port ID as the port on which they are received Instead the RSTP detects such condition as loop 3506 condition and blocks such port Ports should be blocked if 5 5 0 5 5 24 they received BPDUs containing the same Bridge ID as the local bridge but different port ID This represents a case when two ports of the same bridge are connected directly to each 3500 5 5 0 5924 5 11 07 9 59 AM CPC4400 Release Notes 115P0003 Page 24 of 83 Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com PTI Bug Tracking Description a z _ v PERFORMANCE TECHNOLOGIES Reported In Fixed In Release Release Number other thus causing a loop 3508 The switch allows Invalid VRRP entries to be created by SNMP For instance when no IP address is assigned to an interface you should not be able to associate a VRRP instance to that interface If you create an invalid VRRP instance using SNMP and then delete it with the CLI the switch will take a watchdog indicating that a protected task the VRRP task has died 5 5 28 3509 3510 The VRRP implementation on the switch allows a user to specify 1 and only 1 associated ip address for a given vrrp instance When acting as t
107. lticast entries even though there is room for more in the table A message similar to the following will be logged if this occurs 3652 12 29 2006 02 27 05 0x15e7928 tGarpRecy S25 5 5 26 bcmGmrpCreate Unable to add multicast adress 0 10 This problem is not totally understood at this writing and is currently being investigated but it is believed to have been introduced into 5 5 25 with the change associated with IR3629 When the switch powers up with RSTP enabled and you disable and re enable RSTP the switch hardware port states 3653 may be inconsistent with the RSTP protocol It is 5 5 0 5 5 26 recommended that RSTP not be disabled and re enabled on the fly until this is corrected If you enter multiple ipmi fru xxx apply commands where Xxx is one of the FRU Areas without actually changing anything in that area the FRU area that is specified gets corrupted The switch is susceptible to the ping of death denial of service attack Although it does not lock up the board as is typical 3664 with the ping of death attack the board does stop responding 5 5 0 to pings during the attack thus a denial of service on ICMP is successful RIP Management allows illegal values to be assigned to various parameters When a port is removed from all VLANs its spanning tree algorithm port state is locked at whatever state it had prior to the VLAN removal This may not match its state in the hardware It is recommended to force link down
108. making changes to VLANs before doing a save will avoid this The SNMP MIB Object dot3adAggPortAttachedAggID returns 0 when LAG is disabled This object should always 2833 return the interface index of the aggregator that the port is 5 3 204 attached to whether LAG is enabled or not As a workaround ignore this object if LAG is not enabled When using the CPC4416 with a FlexLink adapter if the user configures a FlexNAT interface with an address that exists on 2864 a system route a system crash can occur To work around this 5 4 2 IR the user should not use addresses in the ranges 224 X X X or 240 X X X When the MGMT0 port is forced down or there is no link partner attached to it at boot an error messages is generated 2946 nyvmLib c 3390 Failed IDB_NVM_SET for 5 4 0 DD ptiIPManagement ptiMgmtDuplexSpeedSet Ox0 This message can be safely ignored When the switch is inserting a Layer 3 hardware table entry it looks up the port on which the next hop MAC Address is located If the MAC Address is not found the ARP table entry 2987 is deleted for that host This was done to force the host to talk 5 4 2 5 5 24 because the next packet destined for this host will require an ARP request reply However the code makes no attempt to determine if the ARP entry being deleted is static or dynamic and will delete the entry even though if it is a static entry Multiple telnets to the switch can exhaust available system
109. may cause longer than necessary resolution of RSTP protocol The particular problem is described in the following test result When port was a Root Port Learning and Forwarding and protocol information expired on the port and the protocol partner was no longer answering to RSTP BPDUs the port should transition to DESIGNATED_DISCARD followed by DESIGNATED_LEARN and DESIGNATED_FORWARD It should stay in the discarding and learning state for the duration of the Forward Delay time Instead such port did not go into a DESIGNATED_DISCARD but continued to forward traffic for the FD time and then went into DESIGNATED_LEARN for the FD time followed by the DESIGNATED_FORWARD The Level One Integrity Tests on the CPC6600 do not include the 10G inter switch link between the two switch chips This data path should be covered by the Switch Chip and or MAC Tests 3485 The proper sequence for adding a static unicast MAC entry is 5 5 0 5 5 24 3481 5 5 0 5524 3484 5 5 0 5524 5 11 07 9 59 AM CPC4400 Release Notes 115P0003 Page 22 of 83 Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com PTI Bug Tracking Description a z _ v Reported In Release PERFORMANCE TECHNOLOGIES Fixed In Release Number to for make an SNMP set with dotlqStaticUnicastAllowedToGoTo then follow with a set of permanent 3 to the same entry with
110. mber 3304 3305 In some cases the switch may be required to send a packet made up of more than 20 mbufs If the amount of data in each mbuf is less than 75 then a 1500 byte packet will require more than 20 mbufs The code arbitrarily limits the number of mbufs in a transmit unit to 20 If this number is exceeded the following messages will be seen and the packet will not be sent MBUF train types 2 0 0 0 0 0 DI 01 01 0 0 01 01 0 0 n1 1 1 1 1 05 25 2005 13 48 00 0x63ebe80 tFtpdServ1 Too many mb uf fragments port 0 dmaTransferCount 1 clRefCnt 1 clSize 128 Pool mBIkCnt 400 sgCount 21 PACKET len 70 00c08b07 815c00c0 PACKET DUMP When MACs are learned on port 24 the port number is displayed as nil with fdb learned This problem also prevents Layer 3 switching to port 24 since we are not able to build the hardware route entries Layer 2 switching works though since the MAC is really learned by the hardware and the software is not involved in Layer 2 switching 3306 When an ARP entry is updated with a new MAC Address without coincident link changes the hardware table may not be updated This may lead to invalid forwarding of frames to the IP Address until the ARP entry for this IP is erased 3307 3309 When you try to modify the VID or Retry value for a DHCP Client entry that is enabled the CLI reports an error such as dhcp client vid set tmsL3SwEndMappingRowStatus create
111. mended that large file transfers be performed using a telnet based CLI ie telnet to the switch and perform the transfer The FTP or TFTP transfer of large files to or from the switch file system from a console based CLI can cause Integrity test 4 to fail because it is testing for network starvation and this occurs during the transfer see IR3315 above This is due to the fact that the console interface runs at a higher priority than the network and the file transfer may starve the network eg Getting Application File From Reported In Release 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 11 07 9 59 AM CPC4400 Release Notes 115P0003 Page 56 of 83 Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com gt PERFORMANCE TECHNOLOGIES v PTI Bug Tracking Number 3325 3326 3327 3334 3337 3335 3344 Description of fix 147 139 30 250 08 12 2005 11 46 49 0x1l0b5aa8 tLlIntegrity Error while running Test number 4 The error code returned was ATs 08712 2005 11 46 49 0xl0b5aae tLlIntegrity Disabling test number 4 due to 1 consecutive failures It is recommended that large file transfers be performed using a telnet based CLI ie telnet to the switch and perform the transfer GUID is a 16 byte Unique Identifier that is displayed to the user as a ASCII character string The fist 8 byte of GUID is
112. mended that the Hello timer be set to 2 seconds to reduce the potential for this condition or that logging to Flash be disabled A condition has been observed that causes telnet to hang when accessing the switch This is not fully characterized but 3358 is believed to be exacerbated by starting a session and then 5 5 0 Doll killing the session from the client before the login prompt is provided If you configure an IP Address on an interface eg sw0 in one VLAN and then configure another IP Address on that same interface in another VLAN the switch accepts the setting and moves all IP Addresses on that interface to the second VLAN The switch should reject this Here is an 3359 example 5 5 0 S925 3346 5 5 0 5 5 11 3348 5 5 28 3352 5 5 0 5 5 10 Paip config EVO WO ioe 2Z5S5 0 0 0 3 ip stats sw Interface sw0 5 11 07 9 59 AM CPC4400 Release Notes 115P0003 Page 16 of 83 Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com PTI Bug Tracking a _ v Reported In Release PERFORMANCE TECHNOLOGIES Fixed In Release Number Description Name None Status Active MACET OOR C ONS CES Sis 2A RET VIDERES IP address 10 1 1 1 Netmask 255 0 0 0 ip config swO 192 168 1 1 255 255 255 0 al ip stats sw Interface sw0 Name None Status Active MAGE TOOT CONSEC 58a 24 ety WANDE
113. multaneous SNMP activity and CLI or Lua script activity is being performed This causes SNMP activity to cease and CLI or Lua scripts that access rfc1213 parameters eg sysUptime sysContact sysLocation will also cease The switch allows the user to set the UDP Port Numbers used for DHCP to unique values for each interface However the underlying OS does not support this operation NOTE The workaround for this is to have the DHCP code select the UDP port numbers configured on the first DHCP interface and use these for all interfaces on which DHCP is used To avoid confusion please configure all DHCP interfaces to use the same UDP ports A TFTP access violation error causes the loss of one of the allowed TFTP sessions A TFTP access violation error occurs if you try to write to a file that exists when tftpd access settings do not allow this If 10 errors occur then all of the allowed sessions will have been used up and no further TFTP accesses will be allowed When using client DHCP the switch does not support the documented feature that a Server IP address and Lua file may be provided BootP does support this operation A condition has been observed where the switch acting as VRRP Master can stop sending advertisements and cycle between two states one state causing the VRRP task to preempt network operation and cause loss of connectivity and the other state where connectivity is restored but still no advertisements are sent The cyc
114. n back to back they will not be serviced This problem is believed to 3643 ne have been introduced with the change associated with L case IR3564 It is recommended that DHCP Server not be used with 5 5 25 Because of the fix of IR3553 a new bug arose which can 3649 cause some remote log messages to not be sent This only S929 5 5 26 affects 5 5 25 5 11 07 9 59 AM CPC4400 Release Notes 115P0003 Page 36 of 83 Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com a PERFORMANCE S TECHNOLOGIES v ag Reported In Fixed In Release Release Tracking Description Number The output of the Is l command in an SFTP session 3650 changed in 5 5 25 The file sizes and read write permissions DD 5 5 26 are no longer displayed Near the time when the vxWorks tick timer rolls over between Ox7fffffff to Ox80000000 ARP Cache entries cannot be maintained This is very similar to the problem described in IR3298 but it occurs 124 days after the switch is booted 3651 and then recurs every 248 days following The length of the 5 5 5 5 5 26 outage can be up to 60 minutes for releases between 5 5 5 and 5 5 23 For 5 5 24 and above the outage will be less than 10 minutes This difference is due to the change made for IR3570 Following a sequence of adds and deletes of static multicast MAC Addresses the switch may become unable to add new mu
115. n explicit ACK additionally This is not believed to cause any interoperability problems 3298 When the system uptime gets nears its rollover value of 248 days the ARP cache timers do not function properly An ARP entry is placed in the cache with an expiry time in the future say 20 minutes The expiry time is kept as a tick counter If the current tick count plus the ARP timeout value causes an overflow the expiry tick timer will have a lower absolute value than the current time This causes the ARP entry to age on the next arptimer tick This prevents ARP cache entries from being maintained and prevents the switch from communicating on the network Once the system uptime rolls over the switch will begin communicating again until the next rollover 3302 If a tftp transfer is initiated to a server on which the tftp service is disabled and the initiating task is running at a priority lower than the network manager eg telnet or backgroung Lua script the task loops endlessly consuming CPU cycles This results in slow performance for any task running at a low priority including SNMP 5 11 07 9 59 AM CPC4400 Release Notes 115P0003 Page 11 of 83 Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com PTI Bug Tracking Description a a _ v PERFORMANCE TECHNOLOGIES Reported In Fixed In Release Release Nu
116. ne Erro COSE merte WaS nT 08 12 2005 11 46 49 0x10b5aa8 tLlIntegrity Disabling test number 4 due to 1 consecutive failures It is recommended that large file transfers be performed using a telnet based CLI ie telnet to the switch and perform the transfer GUID is a 16 byte Unique Identifier that is displayed to the user as a ASCII character string The fist 8 byte of GUID is converted to string 16 ASCII characters instead of all 16 bytes This does not affect any operation of the switch and only affects the ability to properly see the GUID from the CLI If a host is not present no L2 entry but the switch has an entry in its ARP cache for the host and a high rate of traffic is 3326 going to that host then the switch may get overloaded until 5 5 0 Doll il the ARP cache times out Once the ARP cache times out then the ARP filter will protect the CPU The switch does not send ICMP Unreachable messages when forwarding packets to a non existent target This is a side 3325 5 5 0 5325 3327 effect of a protective mechanism that installs a dummy route 5 5 0 5 5 11 entry in hardware when there is no ARP resolution for the next hop A Data Exception could occur when the switch attempts to 3334 connect to a host that is not present in the network This was 5 5 8 5 5 9 introduced in 5 5 8 and did not exist in prior patch versions Both the STP and the RSTP should indicate port as Disabled when port is administratively Di
117. ng SNMP to get the next table entry for multiple objects the switch returns the incorrect table entry for all but the first object For example a GETNEXT for multiple table objects will return the next entry for the first table object but 2643 5 3 112 2822 5 3 204 5 11 07 9 59 AM CPC4400 Release Notes 115P0003 Page 52 of 83 Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com gt PERFORMANCE TECHNOLOGIES v PTI Bug Tracking Number 2946 2987 3143 3177 3258 Description of fix will send the next of the next entry for the subsequent objects one entry is skipped It is recommended that GETNEXT be only used for a single object at a time When the MGMTO port is forced down or there is no link partner attached to it at boot an error messages is generated nymLib c 3390 Failed IDB_NVM_SET for ptilPManagement ptiMgmtDuplexSpeedSet Ox0 This message can be safely ignored When the switch is inserting a Layer 3 hardware table entry it looks up the port on which the next hop MAC Address is located If the MAC Address is not found the ARP table entry is deleted for that host This was done to force the host to talk because the next packet destined for this host will require an ARP request reply However the code makes no attempt to determine if the ARP entry being deleted is static or dynamic and will delete t
118. ng a route entry is removed the route entry is not removed This can lead to invalid entries in the route cache As a workaround remove all static routes that are associated with an interface before the interface is removed 5 4 107 3251 The switch does not work as an Area Border Router to a Stubby Area This configuration requires that the switch advertise itself to the Stubby Area as a default gateway but that does not currently work 5 4 107 3258 3265 If Integrity Test 1 MAC test fails on a port then all ports of the switch become disabled The partner does not lose link but the switch will report that link is down and no traffic will be forwarded on any port The desired operation is to allow good ports to continue functioning RSTP may lock up when SNMP Traps for RSTP Topology changes are enabled The following messages may be seen 5 4 107 5 4 110 5 4 110 5 11 07 9 59 AM CPC4400 Release Notes 115P0003 Page 10 of 83 Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com PTI Bug Tracking Description a PERFORMANCE TECHNOLOGIES v Reported In Release Fixed In Release Number interrupt unable to send RSTP tick 3267 When multiple switches are used with OSPF the OSPF Neighbor State machine can get stuck or lead to incorrect router states when the switches are under a
119. ngs manually As as alternative the running command may be used to capture the settings prior to the upgrade then the running cli script could be used to re instantiate the settings 5 4 X N A N A The new features added to this release have caused the addition or removal of IDB MIB objects This makes the durable file built with 5 4 X incompatible with 5 5 X Remove the durable file and restore settings manually As an alternative the running command may be used to capture the settings prior to the upgrade then the running cli script could be used to re instantiate the settings Please note that if this method is used and DHCP or BootP client operation is enabled then the running cli file must be manually adjusted to account for the new mandatory network interface argument to the dhcp client and or bootp commands If DHCP or BootP client operation was not enabled while running the 5 4 X code then no changes are required to the running cli file 5 5 X rstpMIB dot1dStpPortAdminPathCost The Port Path Cost variable was one for each port introduced in 5 5 19 Durable files created with previous revisions of code will not have settings stored for this variable On boot NVM will silently set the variable to its default value 5 11 07 9 59 AM CPC4400 Release Notes 115P0003 Page 82 of 83 Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed
120. nstruction address 0x0001a6b0 Machine Status Register 0x0000b030 Data Access Register 0x05a42000 Condition Register 0x24000080 Data storage interrupt Register 0xO000b030 Task 0x1508ab8 tSnmp Setting time via SNMP doesn t actually set the time on the switch For example sending the command snmpset IR 192 168 1 21 ptiCommonMiscDateTime 0 s 00 00 00 08 30 2006 This sets the time according to snmp and if you do a snmpget of ptiCommonMiscDateTime 0 you will see that the time is incrementing from what you set it to However if you do a date command from the CLI it still shows the old date and time Simultaneous SSH accesses can result in connection failure and or an error similar to the following being reported on the client Disconnecting Bad packet length 3156237182 If you connect to the switch via HTTP server on the Management Configuration Switch panel the option IGMP Snooping can t be validate and when he save the configuration he get the message Object Name tmsIgmpSnoop tmsIgmpSnoopEnable Error Code 0x00c8000b noSuchObject When an interface has multiple IP Addresses the Gratuitous ARPs for all of the addresses uses the first address as the source ip address Gratuitous ARPs are expected to have a target ip set to the same address as the source ip This behavior does not seem to impact operation Reported In Release 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 14 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 11 07 9 59
121. ntil another switch reset is performed The problem 3558 is that the switch requires a VLAN ID internally and the 5 5 0 5925 default VLAN ID used in the look up for dotldTpFdbPort is not initialized until an access to dot1dTpFdbTable is made This problem may be avoided by using the dotlq MIB instead 3551 3555 5 5 0 5 5 24 3557 5 5 0 5 5 24 of dotld If a switch interface is configured as a DHCP client and the 3563 3564 switch currently has another interface programmed with a 3565 default gateway which is in hardware then the DHCP 5 5 0 3569 responses from the server will be routed by hardware toward the default gateway The ARP Refresh timer ranges between 10 and 60 minutes Timer values above 10 minutes may lead to excessive delay 3570 5 5 0 5 5 24 5 11 07 9 59 AM CPC4400 Release Notes 115P0003 Page 29 of 83 Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com a PERFORMANCE TECHNOLOGIES v PTI Bug Tracking Description Number Reported In Fixed In Release Release in detecting changes in MAC Address associated with the IP Address of hosts Also while waiting for ARP resolution the switch installs a dummy route into its hardware tables to prevent high volumes of traffic from overwhelming the CPU until the hardware route table is established These dummy route entries are installed for 60 seconds N
122. o establish connectivity with the FlexLink during the Application initialization 1 3 3 Boot Loader Errata The following table outlines the known errata in the Boot Loader component of the CPC441x Table 4 Boot Loader Errata PTI Bug Tracking Description Reported In Fixed In Release Number Release 1 3 4 SMB Firmware Errata The following table outlines the known errata in the SMB Firmware component of the CPC441x Table 5 SMB Firmware Errata PTI Bug Tracking Description Reported In Fixed In Release Number Release 1 3 5 Application Software Errata The following table outlines the known errata in the Software component of the CPC441x Table 6 Application Software Errata PILEng Reported In Fixed In Release Release Tracking Description Number There is no way to configure the switch to filter all multicast addresses If both rfc2674q dotlqForwardUnregisteredStaticPorts and rfc2674q dotlqForwardAlStaticPorts are nil the switch should filter all mcasts but it floods them instead 1729 A modification was put in place in 5 4 38 to allow the user to 5 3 111 specify whether the switch should flood unknown multicasts or not The default setting is to flood but the user may change this so that the switch will not flood To use this feature requires taking advantage of an undocumented debug mechanism on the switch to override the startup condition of the switch chip driver Please contact support pt com if you
123. oblem is that the STP code works on the assumption that since the switch itself generated a topology change it can 3523 switch over to a short aging without any further delay 5 5 0 5 5 24 According to the specification the switch should wait until it receives a Configuration BPDU with TC flag set from the Root Bridge before switching over to the short aging time This is a minor problem in that it simply causes early aging of FDB entries If an improper interface descriptor is given in a switch security hostip add no error message is given and none is assumed For example switch security hostip add 10 0 0 3 255 255 255 255 allowed 17 udp3 switch security hostip show SECURE HOST IP TABLE Ei IP Subnet IP List IP Interface ae S523 Address Mask Result Type Protocol Name An error message should be given and the entry addition should be denied Static ARP entries added with ip arp add command are not restored after a reboot These should be durable m The implementation of this variable does not lend itself to be aa made durable ARP entries with static MAC Addresses should be re establish by rc lua on boot If you use the route ospf interface admin command to turn this setting off then save your settings and perform a switch 550 reset the setting is reported as on after the reset The setting T should be durable and saved by the save command Several counters from the RFC1213 ifTable and RFC2233 if
124. ocess network traffic as required by this protocol When running RSTP and the current Root bridge is removed the state information about that bridge continues to be advertised by the switch unless the switch is directly attached and detects the links from the Root going down This may cause a short lived loop in the network 3381 5 5 0 Salta 3385 5 5 0 5 5 14 3386 5 11 07 9 59 AM CPC4400 Release Notes 115P0003 Page 18 of 83 Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com PTI Bug Tracking Description a PERFORMANCE lt TECHNOLOGIES v Reported In Release Fixed In Release Number Note The likelihood of this problem occurring is greater in code revisions lower than 5 5 14 3391 When multiple static network routes exist where two or more of these routes are in overlapping networks for example 10 10 0 0 16 and 10 0 0 0 8 then the route with the longer netmask may be erroneously deleted when the route with the shorter netmask is removed from hardware The CLI will continue to show the longer netmask route but it will not be usable 558 5529 3393 When ARP Verify is enabled and the MAC Address of an IP changes and the switch misses the gratuitous ARP the switch may latch the old MAC Address permanently This problem was introduced in 5 5 5 with the change associated with IR3298 5 5 14
125. off ECHO to prevent the password from being displayed Turning off ECHO flushes the input buffer discarding the provided password A human would not be able to provide a password between the prompt 5 5 12 5 11 07 9 59 AM CPC4400 Release Notes 115P0003 Page 17 of 83 Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com a PERFORMANCE S TECHNOLOGIES v Pe Reported In Fixed In Release Release Tracking Description Number and reprogramming the TTY line but a program could Shutting down the session and trying again if no prompt is seen within a certain timeframe will get around the problem We have corrected the code for this by reprogramming the TTY before offering the Password prompt Undefined objects cpc4400CommonMiscMgmtDHCPClientRetries and cpc4400CommonMiscMgmtDHCPClientID are listed in cpc4400 mi2 MIB file These are misspellings of the intended object names cpc4400CommonMiscDHCPClientRetries and cpc4400CommonMiscDHCPClientID Syntax error in ptiSwitch mib file at line 230 The characters 3373 are treated as an arithmetic operator by some SNMP 5 5 0 5 5 11 MIB compilers If you configure the switch with multiple IP addresses on an interface and generate traffic to one of the IP addresses and while traffic is running you delete that IP address and then re configure it the switch will end up with an entry in the L
126. operation of timed protocols such as VRRP and STP Please avoid using traceroute from the switch until this is resolved If an error occurs when adding a Filter Rule the rule entry is left in the system but is in a Not Ready state An error could occur for example if an invalid Mask is specified or the Filter is incompatible with the specified Mask The side effect of leaving the rule in place is that the user may not add another rule with that same index and the rule is not displayed with the filter rule show command 3778 3779 5 5 0 55929 3780 5 5 0 5 5 29 An error message is displayed when the filter rule add command fails Until this problem is corrected the user should execute a filter rule delete command to remove the tule following a failure to add the rule The change associated with IR3550 causes bogus routes to be displayed with the route show command A bogus route is present when there is no ARP resolution to a host An 3781 example is shown below 5 5 26 5 5 29 192 168 1 1 255 255 255 255 127 0 0 1 local off These entries should be ignored When a Host Security entry is added with a non specific network interface then the user is unable to delete this entry and gets a message like the following 3782 switch security hostip add 192 168 1 2 255 255 255 255 allowed 5 5 0 5 5 29 switch security hostip delete 192 168 1 2 255 255 255 255 0 0 switch_hostIP status typ
127. or components Hardware Boot PROM Boot Loader SMB Firmware Software and User Manual Each of these components is maintained separately and has individual revision histories A product release is a snapshot of each of these components at a particular revision See the individual Release Sections in this document for the revision of each of these components for a particular release The following table provides the PTI part numbers for each major component of the CPC441x product Table 1 Component Part Numbers Component PTI Part Number Current Revision CPC4411F Hardware 120P0433 70 120Q0595 RoHS 40 CPC4411E Hardware 120P1433 70 120Q1595 RoHS 40 CPC4416N Hardware 120P0435 70 120Q0555 RoHS 20 CPC4416F Hardware 120P1435 70 120Q1555 RoHS 30 CPC4411 Boot PROM 810P0678 60 6 0 0 810Q0855 RoHS 10 1 0 0 CPC4416 Boot PROM 810P0679 61 6 1 0 810Q0816 RoHS 61 6 1 0 SMB Firmware Both 810P0581 31 1 03 models CPC4411 Boot Loader 810P0680 21 5 5 30 CPC4411 Software and MIB 810P0681 21 5 5 30 CPC4416 Boot Loader 810P0682 21 5 5 30 CPC4416 Software and MIB 810P0683 21 5 5 30 CPC441x User Manual 126P0433 41 5 11 07 9 59 AM CPC4400 Release Notes 1 15P0003 Page 3 of 83 Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com gt PERFORMANCE TECHNOLOGIES v 1 3 Errata Summary The following tables summarize a
128. ples section of the manual 30 N A N A A clarification is needed in the manual that the VRRP interval value must be the same for all switches configured to support a VRRP instance A description of the SC Fiber port on the CPC4411 is needed in the Specifications section 30 40 N A The V I O voltage requirements and pin out are not included in the Specifications chapter 40 N A The description of the idbObjIldAnySet Lua function is incorrect An example of usage is also needed 40 5 11 07 9 59 AM CPC4400 Release Notes 115P0003 Page 80 of 83 Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com gt PERFORMANCE TECHNOLOGIES v PTI Bug Trackin nae Reported In N A The management of OSPF Metric Type on a Stub Area has 40 been removed and the manual updated to reflect that The DHCP Configuration for providing a default router N A address was mis spelled It was spelled router when the 40 correct spelling is rout The link Aggregation configuration for Actor Delay was N A described as a single value for the switch when it is actually a 40 per port setting The Packet Filter usage of the Egress port filter is not clear N A The Egress Port filter can only be used for known unicast 40 MAC addresses The usage of DHCP client consumes packet filters A note to Ae this effect was ad
129. ration of a user script Contact PTI support at support pt com if for guidance if use of this API is needed 5324 3446 When using a Lua script to walk the static route table and a default gateway is configured the script will end up looping forever unless certain precautions are taken The cause is that the index to the entry for the default gateway is 0 0 0 0 and the idbGetNext code treats this index as meaning get the first table entry The index of the first table entry is returned as 0 0 0 0 and this is used in the subsequent idbGetNext call The code still interprets this as get the first table entry and the same entry is returned etc etc To avoid this check if an entry at 0 0 0 0 exists and process it then start the getNext calls at index 0 0 0 1 If you require an example please contact PTI customer support 3450 3453 The MIB parameter dot1dStpRootPort returns a portID priority plus port number rather than simply a port number as defined in the MIB The Port Path Cost parameter is not manageable on the switch The RSTP MIB parameter dot1dStpPortAdminPathCost should be implemented to provide this see New Feature section below 5 5 24 5 5 19 3458 A semaphore deadlock can occur if simultaneous SNMP activity and CLI or Lua script activity is being performed This causes SNMP activity to cease and CLI or Lua scripts that access rfc1213 parameters eg sysUptime sysContact sysLocation wil
130. red in the Registry Synopsis sshd key show Description 5 11 07 9 59 AM CPC4400 Release Notes 115P0003 Page 50 of 83 Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com a PERFORMANCE TECHNOLOGIES v Client keys for SSH are stored in the directory flash private Each Key File that is in use is listed in a registry file named id_dsa pub which is also located in the directory flash private This command displays all of the currently registered Client Keys RSTP Port Path Cost Management 5 5 19 The RSTP MIB has been enhanced to allow support of the port path cost The MIB variable dot1dStpPortAdminPathCost has been implemented along with associated CLI commands This parameter is provided in the current darft standard for the RSTP MIB The MIB definition for this parameter is The administratively assigned value for the contribution of this port to the path cost of paths toward the spanning tree root Writing a value of 0 assigns the automatically calculated default Path Cost value to the port If the default Path Cost is being used this object returns 0 when read This complements the object dot dStpPortPathCost or dot1dStpPortPathCost32 which returns the operational value of the path cost The value of this object MUST be retained across reinitializations of the management system The following text will be added to the Switch
131. rface and is configured to source Beacons from one of those addresses and that address is deleted the Beacons continue to be sent from that address The Beacons stop if all of the IP Addresses on the interface are removed Setting the filename of the image file to reprogram the IPMC ipmi pm progfile to a name that is greater than 128 characters can lead to an overflow condition that corrupts memory The implementation of the STP code which transitions between the short and long aging timer upon detection of a Topology Change is incorrect The problem is that the STP code works on the assumption that since the switch itself generated a topology change it can switch over to a short aging without any further delay According to the specification the switch should wait until it receives a Configuration BPDU with TC flag set from the Root Bridge before switching over to the short aging time This is a minor problem in that it simply causes early aging of FDB entries If an improper interface descriptor is given in a switch security hostip add no error message is given and none is assumed For example switch security hostip add 10 0 0 3 255 255 255 255 allowed 17 udp3 switch security hostip show SECURE HOST IP TABLE IP Subnet IP List IP Interface Address Mask Result Type Protocol Name 10 0 0 3 255 255 255 255 10 0 0 3 allowed 17 Reported In Release 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5
132. rotocol Version 0 The switch allows BPDUs like this to be processed The SNMP get for the Designated Root is returning a bridge s ID instead of the Root Bridge ID When running RSTP the switch may incorrectly ignore updated priority vector information from its RSTP protocol partner This problem may cause longer than necessary resolution of RSTP protocol The Beacon process sends Unicast or Multicast Beacon packets at regular intervals Users may monitor these to ensure that the switch is operating If the user creates a Unicast Beacon and the target host goes away or has no UDP service on the configured Beacon Port then the Beacon task stops and sets the Beacon Instance to NotInService If the user is using Unicast or Multicast Beacons and the source interface goes away then the Beacon also stops When using the Switch Host Security mechanism the following incorrect behavior may be seen e If both allowed and denied entries are present only the denied entries are processed e Ifan entry had a specific protocol number the interface name would be ignored The rule would incorrectly apply for all interfaces The proper behavior is e All denied entries should be processed before any allowed entries e Entries with both a specific protocol number and a specific interface name specified should be processed independently The switch discards RSTP BPDUs with MessageAge greater than MaxAge However the specifi
133. s one state causing the VRRP task to 3470 preempt network operation and cause loss of connectivity 5 4 0 5 5 21 and the other state where connectivity is restored but still no advertisements are sent The cycle time of this behavior is 36 minutes If DHCP server provides SIAD but no Default Gateway the SIAD is not set in the MIB The Integrity Tests on the switch include a check that there is at least 16K bytes free at all times Unless there is a memory leak the available memory should never go below this However a big in the memory statistics utility can cause this check to fail reporting that the amount of free memory is 1 negative 1 bytes Port Designated Bridge and Port ID s are reported incorrectly via SNMP Instead of reporting the ID of the Designated Bridge or Port the switch always reports its own Bridge or Port ID When the user accesses the RowStatus MIB object for a Secure Host IP Table entry that does not exist an error message is logged to indicate that the access failed This message does not indicate that there is was a failure but simply that the entry did not exist The message should be removed A sample of the message is shown below 3471 5 5 0 Sell 3476 5 5 0 5 5 24 3477 5 5 0 5 5 24 3478 5 5 0 S922 05 17 2006 20 11 32 0x1434ff0 tPtiCon ptiSystemSecureHostStatus secureHostlPGet failed A particular port state transition when running RSTP occurs erroneously This problem
134. sabled with span port enable command 3335 Instead the span bridge show shows port as Forwarding Deol 5 5 10 when the Link is UP Disabled ports will not switch user s traffic and should be displayed as Disabled by the span bridge show command This is a s display issue only The hardware state is correct 5 11 07 9 59 AM CPC4400 Release Notes 115P0003 Page 14 of 83 Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com a PERFORMANCE TECHNOLOGIES v re Reported In Fixed In Release Release Tracking Description Number This can occur when a port is disabled using the CLI command span port enable x off or via SNMP or IDB using rfc 1493 dot1dStpPortEnable A loop can form in the network when RSTP is used This has been seen in situations where the switch is not directly connected to the Root when the Root is removed The problem seems to be related to old Bridge information circulating amongst the remaining bridges When the Root bridge stops sending BPDUs eg when it is removed from the network the switch may continue to advertise the missing Root Bridge information for up to MaxAge seconds Setting MaxAge to a low value 6 seconds is recommended appears to reduce the potential for the loop to form If the MAC Address of the default gateway moves to a new port without link going away on the previous port there is a
135. scribed as a single value for the switch when it is actually a per port setting The Packet Filter usage of the Egress port filter is not clear The Egress Port filter can only be used for known unicast MAC addresses The usage of DHCP client consumes N A packet filters A note to this effect was 40 41 added to the manual RMON Receive Statistics include counts N A of packets sent as well This is a silicon 40 41 issue and needs to be noted in the manual A clarification needs to be made N A regarding the fact that the Action value in 40 41 a Packet Filter is specified in Decimal A clarification needs to be made N A regarding the fact that Packet Filter 40 41 settings are NOT saved across reboots N A 40 41 N A 40 41 N A 40 41 5 11 07 9 59 AM CPC4400 Release Notes 115P0003 Page 46 of 83 Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com gt PERFORMANCE TECHNOLOGIES v 2 Latest Changes This section outlines the changes made to this document relative to the previous revision of this document 2 1 Current Component Revisions The following table provides the PTI part numbers for each major component of the CPC441x product Table 8 Component Part Numbers Component PTI Part Number Current Revision CPC4411F Hardware 120P0433 70 120Q0595 RoHS 40 CPC4411E Hardware 120P 1433 70 120Q1595
136. t SSH Console login logout can cause memory to become fragmented If memory is fragmented to the point where no block is larger than 1 5M no more CLI instances can be started 5 5 14 3420 Packets destined to the Broadcast IP address 255 255 255 255 are throttled from arriving at the switch CPU to a very low level This was designed to prevent overload on the CPU The low rate of packets allowed DDS 5 11 07 9 59 AM CPC4400 Release Notes 115P0003 Page 19 of 83 Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com a PERFORMANCE S TECHNOLOGIES v ag Reported In Fixed In Release Release Tracking Description Number however has been shown to cause problems when the switch receives many DHCP Discover packets close together These are destined to the Broadcast IP Address and the throttle mechanism restricts the rate that DHCP leases are provided This problem was introduced in 5 4 25 If a script is executed from a telnet session and then the telnet session is killed before the script completes that is prior to the CLI prompt re appearing then not telnets are allowed until the script completes The running command does not capture the state of rstp 3424 edgeport pointtopoint or holdcount when RSTP is enabled 5 5 0 5 5 15 These parameters are only valid when RSTP is used The SFTP server added in 5 5 14 does not
137. t failed Now the message is showing a hex representation of the bitmap of failed ports Prior to 5 5 24 the messages used to look like 12 18 2006 13 10 19 0x14ec9a0 tL I Integrity Error while running Test number 1 The error code returned was 1 on port s 1 12 18 2006 13 10 21 Ox14ec9a0 tL 1 Integrity Error while running Test number 1 The error code returned was 1 on port s 2 12 18 2006 13 10 23 Ox14ec9a0 tL 1 Integrity Error while running Test number 1 The error code returned was 1 on port s 3 12 18 2006 13 10 25 0x14ec9a0 tL 1 Integrity Error while running Test number 1 The error code returned was 1 on Reported In Release 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 14 5 5 25 5 11 07 9 59 AM CPC4400 Release Notes 115P0003 Page 74 of 83 Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com gt PERFORMANCE TECHNOLOGIES vY PTI Bug Tracking Number 3642 3645 3649 3650 3651 3652 Description of fix port s 4 12 18 2006 13 10 27 0x14ec9a0 tL1 Integrity Error while running Test number 1 The error code returned was 1 on port s 5 Now they look like 12 18 2006 13 10 19 0x14ec9a0 tL 1 Integrity Error while running Test number 1 The error code returned was 1 on port s 00000001 12 18 2006 13 10 21 0x14ec9a0 tL 1 Integrity Error while running Test number 1 The error code
138. t for the first interface will be used for all DHCP client interfaces If no DHCP clients are configured when the switch is started and a DHCP client is added to the switch it will use the default ports until the switch is reset E With the code change the DHCP client task will not be 3 3 0 35 25 started at boot if no DHCP clients are configured If a DHCP client is configured after boot and it is the first DHCP client on the switch the DHCP client task will be started using the client s configured transmit and listen ports If multiple DHCP clients are configured the transmit and listen ports associated with the first DHCP client will be used for all clients The initial prompt sent in a telnet session may not include a 3583 leading carriage return This may cause problems with expect 5 5 0 D5 scripts that look for a CR LF sequence to detect a prompt If the switch is configured to send SNMP traps to multiple TCP ports and the first port for the trap target address is non responsive eg Service not Available the traps will not get to any of the other specified target ports This only happens if there are multiple tcp port numbers used for the same IP address In order to create labels that contain special characters in the CLI eg In naming a route or IP Interface Description the user must place quotes around the label However the running command does not capture this type of label properly To avoid this use labels that
139. t function properly An ARP entry is placed in the cache with an expiry time in the future say 20 minutes The expiry time is kept as a tick counter If the current tick count plus the ARP timeout value causes an overflow the expiry tick timer will have a lower absolute value than the current time This causes the ARP entry to age on the next arptimer tick This prevents ARP cache entries from being maintained and prevents the switch from communicating on the network Once the system uptime rolls over the switch will begin communicating again until the next rollover If a tftp transfer is initiated to a server on which the tftp service is disabled and the initiating task is running at a priority lower than the network manager eg telnet or backgroung Lua script the task loops endlessly consuming CPU cycles This results in slow performance for any task running at a low priority including SNMP In some cases the switch may be required to send a packet made up of more than 20 mbufs If the amount of data in each mbuf is less than 75 then a 1500 byte packet will require more than 20 mbufs The code arbitrarily limits the number of mbufs in a transmit unit to 20 If this number is exceeded the Reported In Release 5 4 110 5 4 107 5 4 110 5 4 2 5 4 2 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 11 07 9 59 AM CPC4400 Release Notes 115P0003 Page 54 of 83 Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 8
140. tent with the RSTP protocol Itis recommended that RSTP not be disabled and re enabled on the fly until this is corrected If you enter multiple ipmi fru xxx apply commands where xxx is one of the FRU Areas without actually changing anything in that area the FRU area that is specified gets corrupted RIP Management allows illegal values to be assigned to various parameters When a port is removed from all VLANs its spanning tree algorithm port state is locked at whatever state it had prior to the VLAN removal This may not match its state in the hardware It is recommended to force link down on a port before removing it from all VLANs This will force the port state to be disabled The following MIB Parameters in the OSPF General Group do not return values ospfMulticastExtensions and ospfDemandExtensions These should at least support Getting the default values of these parameters If a User Defined Trap is being issued and an internal failure occurs on the access of a MIB variable whose value is being reported in the trap then a semaphore may be taken and not released which may lead to an eventual deadlock The OSPF MIB variable ospfAreaStatus does not destroy the Area when the value 6 is set It does not accept the value as valid The MIB also accepts the value of 7 which is not a valid value The switch may lock up during the initialization of the IPMI FRU as shown below The probability of this appears very low and was brought
141. the RSTP protocol when a Hello timer value of 1 second is in effect It is recommended that the Hello timer be set to 2 seconds to reduce the potential for this condition or that logging to Flash be disabled A condition has been observed that causes telnet to hang when accessing the switch This is not fully characterized but is believed to be exacerbated by starting a session and then killing the session from the client before the login prompt is provided If you configure an IP Address on an interface eg sw0 in one VLAN and then configure another IP Address on that same interface in another VLAN the switch accepts the setting and moves all IP Addresses on that interface to the second VLAN The switch should reject this Here is an example ip contig sw 10 1 1 1 255 0 0 0 3 ip stats sw sw0 None Interface Name Status Active MAC 00 c0 8 58 24 E7 VID 3 IP address 10 1 1 1 Netmask 255 0 0 0 ip contig swO 192 168 1 1 255 255 255 0 i ip stats sw sw0 None Interface Name Status Active MAC 00 0 8 58 24 f7 VIDS 1 IP address 10 1 1 1 Netmask 255 0 0 0 IP address 192 168 1 1 Netmask 255 255 255 0 FDB learning in a split path Layer 3 configuration may cause route table to be configured with incorrect ports This is a configuration where packets between two hosts use the switch as a gateway in on direction but use another path for the reverse direction This can cause the switch to incorre
142. the following 3313 07 05 2005 14 01 30 Oxfa29c0 5 5 0 5 5 6 tLuaEventHandler memPartAlloc block too big 68 in partition 0x7b6818 This is especially possible when multiple telnets are in process The FTP or TFTP transfer of large files to or from the switch file system from a console based CLI can cause protocol timeouts for network protocols such as STP RSTP RIP OSPF or VRRP This is due to the fact that the console interface runs at a higher priority than the network and the file transfer may starve these protocols It is recommended that large file transfers be performed using a telnet based CLI Ge telnet to the switch and perform the transfer When using the FTP server on the switch to transfer large files over and over very close together the server hangs after 50 transfers and no FTP transfers are processed again without a reboot When adding Packet Filters that specify an Ingress port the switch does not install the filter and it generates a set of messages similar to the following 3315 5 5 0 5 5 10 3317 5 5 0 5524 08 02 2005 21 16 34 0x148c070 tPtiCon 3320 Unable to install filter 9992 0 5 5 0 Sai Oxfffffff2 08 02 2005 21 16 34 0x148c070 tPtiCon ptiUserInclusiveFilterRulesStatusSet addHwFilter failed When a port transitions to the Spanning Tree Forwarding state the hardware route cache is flushed This is done to ensure that the switch will re evaluate the paths to the ne
143. tmsL3IpStaticGateway nvmLib c 3344 Errno 00c8000a 0 00000000 1 00000000 2 00000000 3 00000000 nvmLib c 3341 idbGet Failed for tmsL3Mib tmsL3IpStaticRowStatus These messages can be safely ignored Only valid settings on the switch will be saved The tmsL3Mib mi2 file has a parameter named tmsL3IpStaticAllowDefaultRouteInHw which has the same OID value as the parameter tmsL3IpStaticRouteCurrentRows Both have the value tmsL3 IpStatic 8 This MIB file is not provided to customers and this issue should not have any affect on switch users Lua event handler for RMON events should be triggered 3815 when a threshold value is hit exactly However the even 5 5 0 handler is only triggered after the threshold is crossed The switch chip contains a large frame buffer which is not covered by the background integrity tests If a failure occurs in the frame buffer the switch could forward corrupted packets with recalculated good FCS The integrity tests need to be enhanced to cover this case The probability of this kind of error is very low After an sshd key show reveals an ssh key is active one must wait an addition amount of time 10 seconds before one can attempt to log in using that key Otherwise the switch will terminate any sessions started with that key There are two issues that are seen in the PTI Private RSTP 3844 mee 5 5 0 1 The object dot dStpPortAdminPathCost is not correctly 3813 3830 3836
144. try to bring one of those ports up or down while in this state nothing happens but there is no error message displayed to the user to let them know the command did not work When starting up a telnet session it may hang if a current SSH session is outputting characters Also the SSH session may be prematurely aborted when starting a telnet session These issues only occur when starting a telnet session and can be avoided by not using SSH and Telnet simultaneously 3622 3623 As a temporary aid to avoiding issues with this IR we have 5 5 14 5 5 28 added two variables in 5 5 25 to allow setting of the number of concurrent SSH and or telnet sessions They are ptiNumTelnetSessions and ptiNumSSHSessions The values of these variables may be overridden using setup sh Contact PTI support at support pt com for instructions on how to do this if needed The ether like MIB parameters ifMauAutoNegRemoteSignaling ifMauAutoNegRemoteFaultAdvertised and ifMauAutoNegRemoteFaultReceived do not return values when queried These parameters should be supported to allow SNMP management of Auto negotiation When a PHY Integrity failure occurs the port associated with the PHY should be taken offline and any commands that can 3625 be executed on the port should not take effect and display an 5 5 0 error message After failing a PHY the following commands are still accepted and do not produce an error message 3624 5 11 07 9 59
145. up a telnet session it may hang if a current SSH session is outputting characters Also the SSH session may be prematurely aborted when starting a telnet session These issues only occur when starting a telnet session and can be avoided by not using SSH and Telnet simultaneously As a temporary aid to avoiding issues with this IR we have added two variables in 5 5 25 to allow setting of the number of concurrent SSH and or telnet sessions They are ptiNumTelnetSessions and ptiNumSSHSessions The values of these variables may be overridden using setup sh Contact PTI support at support pt com for instructions on how to do this if needed Reported In Release 5 5 0 5 5 24 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 14 5 11 07 9 59 AM CPC4400 Release Notes 115P0003 Page 73 of 83 Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com gt PERFORMANCE TECHNOLOGIES v PTI Bug Tracking Number 3628 3629 3630 3632 3633 3634 3641 Description of fix A failure in the MAC Integrity test does not always bring down link on the port associated with failed MAC This is intermittent and the circumstances are not understood at this point but the issue is under investigation When Beacons are configured to be sent at 100ms intervals they may occasionally be transmitted late Delays up to 500ms have been seen When using VRRP and the
146. urs and re execute the save If a route requires an ICMP redirect the packets using that route must be seen by the CPU in order to generate the ICMP message If the route is in hardware then the CPU does not see the packets and cannot send the ICMP Redirect This may cause a higher level of traffic on the network than would otherwise occur When configuring more than 8 VLANs the switch fails to establish the proper egress port list for the default VLAN Until this is corrected limit the number of VLANs to 8 or less The Route table is not CIDR compliant The route table in the switch MIB is indexed by Destination network The Destination network parameter however does not include the 2558 subnet mask for the route so two networks with the same 5 3 111 apparent Destination network value cannot co exist An example is 10 10 0 0 24 has the same Destination network value as 10 10 0 0 16 These are different networks though Tf a user creates an IP interface the system will add the IP ALL_HOST MCAST address to the hardware filtering database VRRP OSPF RIP will also add system L2 multicast entries in hardware in order to receive their desired 2643 protocol advertisements If a user changes the VID associated with the interface that these protocols are using their multicast entries will not be updated to reflect the new VID in hardware It is recommended that the user perform a reboot if the VID associated with an IP interface is modi
147. ut the route If a network interface is being advertised with OSPF and the interface is deleted the switch will produce an error message such as the following which can safely be ignored ip delete sw0 05 25 2056 19 01 42 0x6422e80 tPtiCon ROUTE_IF_NEWADDR cannot find entry w index 1100001 tmsL3Mib c 2006 If a save operation is attempted after this occurs the save will fail as follows 3143 5 4 107 5 5 0 save saving nvmLib c 3341 idbGet Failed for rfc1850 ospflfAreald nvmLib c 3344 Errno 00c8000a 0 0000000a 1 00000000 2 00000000 3 00000002 4 00000000 nvmLib c 3341 idbGet Failed for rfc1850 ospflfStatus nvmLib c 3344 Errno 00c8000a 0 0000000a 1 00000000 2 00000000 3 00000002 4 00000000 ocr done 3144 If a default gateway is learned via OSPF the user cannot then 5 4 107 use the CLI to configure a static default gateway A 3170 OSPF Virtual Links to allow for areas not attached to area 0 54 107 do not operate properly This feature should not be used _ The switch allows the user to enter illegal netmasks for IP 3177 configurations Netmasks are required to be contiguous 1 s 5 4 107 Doe for the network portion 3196 Invalid Host routes may be displayed with the route show 5 4 107 5 11 07 9 59 AM CPC4400 Release Notes 115P0003 Page 9 of 83 Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com PTI Bug
148. ute being added which slows recovery of connectivity to some hosts by an additional 60 seconds The ARP Refresh timer now ranges from 5 10 minutes rather than 10 60 minutes The bogus route added while waiting for ARP resolution was reduced from a default of 60 seconds to 5 Reported In Release 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 5 0 5 11 07 9 59 AM CPC4400 Release Notes 1 15P0003 Page 70 of 83 Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com gt PERFORMANCE TECHNOLOGIES v PTI Bug Tracking Number 3573 3577 3578 3580 3581 3582 Description of fix seconds This can be over ridden in setup sh by setting the variable 13 ArpDelaySecs to the number of seconds desired Contact PTI support at support pt com if for guidance if adjusting this timer is needed The switch stops checking for switch chip failures when one of the chips fails This prevents detection of a second chip failure The action taken for a chip failure should be to take the switch offline or to reboot so this should not normally be an issue The number of SSH and SFTP sessions is limited to 2 This is too restrictive The number of sessions should be modeled against the number of Telnets and FTP sessions allowed 2 4 Some of the Link Aggregation MIB parameters allows values outside the accepted range They either accept an invalid param
149. wever you walk the mib using snmpwalk v 2c c public lt IP gt dotldstp the main part of the dot1dStp table is ignored and all you see are the additional rstp definitions If you configure a Lua event handler to run on change of status of an AG or SW the handler may execute when a link associated with the AG SW goes down but other link s are still up The event should only trigger on the last link change It is recommended that the handler check the status of the links When a port transitions from Forwarding to Discarding and the port is currently used for L3 switching the L3 table may not be updated to remove the port or to replace the now Discarding port with one that is Forwarding If a link change or a Spanning Tree topology change is associated with the port state change then the L3 table is updated However 3854 there are cases that can result in a port state change which 5 5 0 does not involve either a link change or a topology change One example is when a state change is caused by port path cost changes on a bridge 3850 The L3 table will eventually be updated by the ARP refresh mechanism but this could take up to 10 minutes When trying to log into the Web interface on the switch via one of the switch ports when there is no link on the nee management port the switch will fault This does not occur Sere when there is a link on the Management port When you click 5 11 07 9 59 AM CPC4400 Re
150. will report that link is down and no traffic will be forwarded on any port The desired operation is to allow good ports to continue functioning RSTP may lock up when SNMP Traps for RSTP Topology changes are enabled The following messages may be seen interrupt unable to send RSTP tick When multiple switches are used with OSPF the OSPF Neighbor State machine can get stuck or lead to incorrect router states when the switches are under a heavy network load This can happen at start up or following the removal or insertion of one of the switches The result is that the routing tables never converge and traffic does not flow Toggling OSPF off and on corrects the problem The fix to IR3258 introduced a bug where the failure of one PHY would disable some PHYs that had not failed Whenever a string is the allowed field in the FRU there is no provision to force the user to put in at least two characters When One character is entered this leads to a type length field of C1 which is the value indicating there are no more fields following This also leads to non zero bytes after the C1 which is a violation of the Platform Management FRU Information Storage Definition v1 0 This can be avoided by always entering a minimum of two characters in each FRU field The sysUpTime MIB variable rolls over to zero after 248 days This should be 497 days When the system uptime gets nears its rollover value of 248 days the ARP cache timers do no
151. xt 3322 hop for each route and reprogram the hardware with the best 5 5 0 Sel path available Flushing of the cache can cause packet loss If a port is not configured to run STP RSTP then the transition to Forwarding should not cause the cache to flush When running the install lua script for 5 5 x the following error occurs when the file cpc4400 mib is attempted to be transferred Getting Support Files From X X X X 3323 Error code ki mile Tot round SM SIE tftpGet Error occurred while transferring the file Error getting files Install Aborted 5 11 07 9 59 AM CPC4400 Release Notes 115P0003 Page 13 of 83 Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com a PERFORMANCE TECHNOLOGIES v Pe Reported In Fixed In Release Release Tracking Description Number The file should be cpc4400 mi2 The FTP or TFTP transfer of large files to or from the switch file system from a console based CLI can cause Integrity test 4 to fail because it is testing for network starvation and this occurs during the transfer see IR3315 above This is due to the fact that the console interface runs at a higher priority than the network and the file transfer may starve the network eg Getting Application File From WAT 1397307250 3324 08 12 2005 11 46 49 0x10b5aa8 5 5 0 5 5 10 tLlIntegrity Error while running Test Memos As Ali
152. y however gettime 192 168 1 1 ntp 08 29 2006 20 34 03 0x14a5a68 tPtiCon NTPClient getting time from 192 168 1 1 08 29 2006 20 34 04 0x14a5a68 tPtiCon NTPClient time set to TUE AUG 29 20 34 04 2006 According to ptiSystem mib the description of ptiCommonMiscDateTime is Get or Set the system time and date The value is expressed in number of UTC seconds since January 1 1900 and is of type OCTET STRING SIZE 1 64 The correct definition is an OCTET String in the format hh mm ss mm dd yyyy Setting the date and time via SNMP may cause an exception According to ptiSystem mib the description of ptiCommonMiscDateTime is Get or Set the system time and 3539 date The value is expressed in number of UTC seconds since 5 5 0 5 5 24 January 1 1900 and is of type OCTET STRING SIZE 1 64 3538 5 5 0 SSA 5 11 07 9 59 AM CPC4400 Release Notes 115P0003 Page 27 of 83 Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com PTI Bug Tracking Description a PERFORMANCE lt TECHNOLOGIES v Reported In Release Fixed In Release Number However attempting to set the date passing an integer value results in a fault For example snmpset IR 192 168 1 21 ptiCommonMiscDateTime 0 x 300 data access Exception current instruction address 0x0001a6b0 Machine Status Register 0x0000b030 Data Access Register

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