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Revision Notes for Router v10.01 rev 2


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                       SITE MANAGER COMPATIBILITY
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       Router Version       is managed by          Site Manager version
                                                                             
       v10.01 revision 1 --------------------------> V4.01, 4.00 rev 2
       v10.01 revision 2 --------------------------> V4.01, 4.00 rev2
              

NOTE: Revision 10.01/1 incorrectly referenced CR 25249. The correct CR 
      number is 24249, as documented in the 10.01/1 revision notes.

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Revision 10.01/2 corrects the following problems:
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CR 26969: DLSw.
          Test polls generated by running a TCL script in a dual switch
          DLS network causes the router to fault with tag violations.

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Revision 10.01/1 corrects the following problems:
==============================================================================

CR 23065: IP.
          Attempting to boot an ASN router configured for IP host-only may
          cause a tag violation to occur.

CR 25483: Switched Services.
          The router fails to redial if the first connection attempt times
          out before the DCE asserts DSR, but after receiving a connection
          indication (CNX) from the DCE.

CR 26247: APPN.
          APPN attempts to connect to a link station 10 times (its fixed
          limit) before it times out. This problem occurs with APPN over
          SDLC when SDLC tries to bring up the link station 10 times before
          timing out and alerting APPN. If APPN reaches its limit of 10
          retries, it deletes the link station. 

CR 26452: GAME.
          A g_fwd may fail before the slot has discovered that the remote
          slot has gone down. This results in a panic as the sending slot
          thinks the remote slot should have received the buffer because
          it is still in its slot mask.

CR 25591: Translation Bridge.
          RIF entries on a Token Ring segment may fail to age properly. 


CR 24346: Translation Bridge.
          Disabling the Translation Bridge base results in bus errors when
          transferring files back and forth to an end station on an
          Ethernet segment from an end station on a Token Ring segment while
          multiple SRFÕs are being received simultaneously.

CR 18837: BOOTP.
          In a multinetting environment, the router chooses the last address
          added to the multinetted interface as the BOOTP gateway. If you
          disable BOOTP for that address, the router continues to use this
          address as the BOOTP gateway instead of selecting the next
          address in the network configuration as the new BOOTP gateway. 

CR 25126: MCT1E1.
          The Munich driver mail may fail to transmit all frames, except
          interrupt queue frames on the priority queue. This problem occurs
          only on logical lines with high error rates.

CR 24714: OSPF.
          When you configure two AN routers across a synchronous interface
          with a MTU size of 4608, OSPF adjacencies can take up to 20
          minutes to form. The AN router receiving the Data Base Description
          packets remains in the loading state while the router sending this
          information will be in the full state. 

CR 19711: Scripts.
          The SHOW HARDWARE SLOT command generates too many columns on a 
          screen, causing Link Serial Number of 1346 wraps on an 80 column
          display down to the next line. For example:

         [1:1]$ show hardware slot


         Hardware Information per Slot
         -----------------------------                   

Slot    Processor  Processor  Processor     Link         Link       Link   
        Module     Revision   Serial No.    Module      Revision   Serial No
------  -------    ---------  ----------  ------------  --------   ------
   1    Access Node   129      00000542   module#1045   2147483777  134
 6

CR 19688: DLSw.
          DLSw drops non-NameQuery/NameRegisterNetBios broadcast frames that
          a router receives in a short interval because of the nature of its
          caching system.

CR 22792: IP.
          Within IP traffic filters, for any rule that has a log action, 
          the router logs an entry. Only the rule with the highest
          procedure should be performed.

CR 23340: LLC.
          The router may fault with the following error during a test poll
          storm:
          
                "Error in Buffer.c at line 157"

CR 24142: IP.
          The router faults after receiving corrupted ICMP packets that have
          an IP length that exceeds 65,000 bytes.

CR 25569: DLSw.
          A Windows NT/NetBIOS session may randomly fail to establish through
          DLSw whenever the server and the client pick up the same local
          session ID for the session they are attempting to establish.

CR 25656: GAME.
          The first day of each month the clock on the AN router shifts by
          one extra day. As a result, the Frame Relay circuit on the router
          disconnects, preventing the router from sending LMIs to the
          switch. This condition also has caused the clock to stop
          temporarily.

CR 24249: FRE-2.
          If you plug an incorrect console cable/connector into the SRML
          module of a running BN router, the LED's located in the front of
          the FRE's suddenly stop blinking, indicating that the router is
          inoperable. The lights resume normal operation when you remove
          the console connector.

CR 25844: DLSw.
          Playing a test poll storm in a dual switch configuration
          causes a watchdog to occur on the adjacent router.

CR 24048: LNM.
          An IBM LAN Network Manager station intermittently fails to
          establish a link to a Token Ring interface. This situation occurs
          only when the Token Ring interface was previously linked and then
          unlinked from another LNM station.  

CR 24049: LNM.
          When unlinking an IBM LNM Manager from a Token Ring interface,
          the router generates incorrect LNM link status for the MIB variable
          wfLnmInterfaceEntry. When you unlink the LNM station,
          the LNM link status should reflect a "nil" value, rather than
          retain the previous MAC address of the IBM LNM Manager station.

CR 25418: DLSw.
          When you issue a "get wfDlsSlotEntry.*.5" command from the
          Technician Interface, the router generates invalid information
          for the MIB variables .wfDlsCurrentMemory and .wfDlsHiWaterMark.

CR 25805: NVFS.
          Compacting Series 2 Flash cards (especially Epson Seiko Flash
          cards) can occasionally corrupt file systems. 

CR 25956: IPX.
          IPX may stop sending IPX SAPs if you have not configured IPX RIP.

CR 24311: IPX.
          If IPX tries to send IPX update messages to busy slots, it may
          fault because of a g_fwd failure.

CR 25867: DLSw.
          A router running with hundreds of DLS connections may fault with
          the following error because a buffer is being freed erroneously:

          "Error in Buf.float.c at line 114"
                     

CR 24821: X.25.
          When X.25 processes a connect indicate and you have not enabled the
          flow control negotiation parameter, X.25 rejects all facility
          code. The flow control negotiation parameter is limited to
          packet and window size only.

CR 26107: Frame Relay Switch.
          Excess burst is not being calculated correctly, causing frames
          that exceed excess burst to be dropped at the ingress; the
          data does not exceed excess burst. Excess burst
          uses the large default that should never be exceeded.

CR 26139/
   25737: Frame Relay Switch.
          When one Navtel is configured to send packets at 256 bytes, and the
          second Navtel has a packet size of 32 or lower, the traffic
          stops. Traffic resumes when the packet size is increased to a 
          value of 64 or higher.

CR 26118: Frame Relay Switch.
          When creating multiple mappings for the MIB attribute
          wfCctOptsCngcEntry, the first map fired and deleted all the
          structures and the second map tried to use invalid memory. This
          caused a tag violation to occur.

CR 25846: OSPF.
          After OSPFÕs Dykstra algorithm runs for 65,535 tries, OSPF faults
          with the following message: "LSA in UNEXPECTED STATE". 

CR 26163: MCT1E1.
          When selecting an unused QMCT1 or DMCT1 interface in Site Manager,
          the Link Module Fail LED lights up. When you reboot the router,
          the fail LED's on both the QMCT1 and Dual MCT1 link modules turn
          off.

CR 25900: MCT1E1.
          On a router configured with IP over PPP, with 64-byte packets
          using one slot with 48 logical lines, the QMCT1 is unable to
          utilize 85 percent of the 128K line.

CR 26230: DLSw.
          If SDLC secondary disconnects, and the router reaches a
          CANUREACH state during this period, DLS never reestablishes.

CR 25351: DLSw.
          When a DLS MAC entry is cached (for example, when a test poll was
          received from that MAC address), creating an instance of
          wfDlsDefaultMacEntry for that MAC address may cause the router to
          fault.

CR 20516: LLC.
          Disabling a DLS interface on a Token Ring network while it is
          transmitting and receiving DLS traffic causes a watchdog timeout
          to occur in llc.

CR 21715/
   22160: DLSw.
          A watchdog timeout occurs in DLS after disabling the DLS base
          record. If you have multiple SAPs configured (for example, all 127
          possible SAPs), DP takes too long to deregister SAPs when DLS
          shuts down. 

CR 23591: DLSw.
          Establishing a DLS over SDLC connection may take a long time
          because of a delay in the transmission of CANUREACH.

CR 24959: MCT1E1.
          When listing the instances of the MIB variable
          wfDs1E1BertStatsEntry, the listing succeeds intermittently for
          port 1 but fails to succeed for subsequent ports.

CR 25119: MCT1E1.
          When a primary clock is lost on a QMCT1, the router fails to
          initiate the secondary clock on port 3.

CR 25255: Hardware Compression.
          The driver faults when it mistakenly determines the state of the
          rings as hung when the rings are functioning properly.

CR 25096: MCT1E1.
          The QMCT1 port 1 primary clock was changed to an external clock.
          However, there is no external clock connected. Therefore, 
          port 1 clocking should revert to the secondary clock but does not.

CR 24161/
CR 25120: Bisynchronous.
          The Bisync/BOT code does not handle a DLE-DLE combination 
          correctly within transparent text.

CR 23255: DataPath.
          When running a bridge storm (bridging loops without Spanning Tree),
          a slot may reset with an "out of memory" error or a watchdog timer
          error.
          
CR 25443: FDDI.
          A hardware problem can occur when the state of a protocol is
          "down", but the state of the interface is "up". If you monitor the
          FDDIEntry, the Tx stats continue to grow while the Rx no longer
          increments. If you perform a packet capture on Rx on this
          interface, the trace will show that packets are being received,
          but unacknowledged. This condition can be caused by hardware
          corrupting information in the Ring Descriptors, which causes the
          interface to hang and never recover.

CR 25473: DLSw.
          Link stations do not recover when a Frame Relay cable is 
          disconnected and connected again.

CR 24918: GAME.
          A new Autosave log feature has been implemented on LN routers
          that allows users to automatically save the log to the Flash card
          or floppy drive when the log is about to wrap. This new feature
          prevents the log information from being lost.
    
          You can enable the Log Autosave feature from the Technician
          Interface only.

          The Log Autosave feature requires that you set two new attributes
          in wfSerialPortEntry object: wfSerialPortAutoSaveNumFiles and 
          wfSerialPortAutoSaveVolume. The wfSerialPortAutoSaveNumFiles
          attribute allows you to specify a value that determines the number
          of times a log will be saved when it wraps. Specifying a value of
          0 disables the feature; 0 is the default.
 
          The wfSerialPortAutoSaveVolume attribute allows you to specify
          a volume number ("2:"), or a volume name ("a:"), which determines
          where you want logs to be saved. Specifying a colon after the
          volume or volume name is optional.

          On a BN platform, there is only one instance of the
          wfSerialPortEntry object. Therefore, you will need to specify the
          attributes described above for this instance.

          On an ASN platform, there are 4 instances of wfSerialPortEntry,
          each corresponding to a possible slot. You can configure the
          feature on only one of the instances corresponding to an existing
          slot.

          On an LN platform, there are also 4 instances of wfSerialPortEntry.
          Enable the feature on the first instance, which should correspond
          to the console port (wfSerialPortEntry.wfSerialPortName.1 =
          "CONSOLE").

          The log gets saved in a file named "auto.log", where  is a
          number from 1 to the number you specify in
          wfSerialPortAutoSaveNumFiles.

          The logs will be saved until the number of logs reaches
          wfSerialPortAutoSave\NumFiles, or until the Flash card or floppy
          drive is full.

          Wrapping a log on any slot automatically saves the log. 

CR 25335: DVMRP.
          A watchdog error can occur in DVMRP if some DVMRP interfaces are
          being dynamically configured while other DVMRP interfaces are
          learning multiple routes.

CR 25499: DLSw.
          After activating flow control, traffic flow of the remaining
          unsent frames will be sluggish after the traffic congestion
          is rectified.

CR 23216: SDLC.
          When deleting a primary SDLC circuit and then reconfiguring it,
          DLS connections will not recover.

CR 25065: AN2.
          An enhancement request has been issued to allow non-Token Ring AN
          routers to support buffer sizes similar to the Token Ring ANÕs.
          
          You can set buffers sizes on non-Token Ring AN routers to 1824 or
          4800 bytes. This setting will be saved in NOVRAM and will be read
          in at boot time.

          Buffers can be carved by issuing the following set commands from
          the Technician Interface:
   
           set wfKernCfgParamEntry.wfKernCfgParamDelete.1 1
           set wfKernCfgParamEntry.wfKernCfgParamBufSize.1 4800 (or 1824)
           set wfKernCfgParamEntry.wfKernCfgParamDelete.1 2
           commit
           reset 1

           To return to the default buffer sizes, enter the following
           set command from the Technician Interface:
   
           set wfKernCfgParamEntry.wfKernCfgParamBufSizeReset.1 1 ; commit

           *** We recommend that you follow the above steps in the order in
               which they appear. We also recommend that you delete
               instances of wfKernCfgParamEntry before saving the config.
               This process is similar to carving local/global memory
               partitions.  

           When you set wfKernCfgParamEntry.wfKernCfgParamBufSize.1, the
           buffer size gets saved to NOVRAM. At boot time, this setting
           determines the buffer size.

CR 23172: IPX.
          IPX accepts broadcast packets with an incorrect destination
          address and tries to forward them.

CR 25212: Frame Relay.
          Access Circuit does not recover after you pull a cable out and
          plug it back in when the management type is NONE.

CR 24049: LNM.
          When issuing the SHOW LNM LINKS command or viewing the MIB
          (wfLnmInterfaceEntry) for LNM, the router displays incorrect
          information about LNM link status after unlinking an IBM LNM
          station. 

CR 23288/:IGMP.
CR 23783  A fault occurs in igmp.misc.c when attempting to create a new
          IGMP interface. 

CR 25742: Frame Relay Switch.
          A typographic error occurs in the translating tool, add2base. The
          second description for each time unit should be Tx not Rx. For
          example, for time unit 13, the description should be
          StatsDcLbcTxMaxDelta13 not StatsDcLbcRxMaxDelta13!

          Circuit (cct) number 8 (0x8)
          StatsDcLbcRxMaxDelta13 448
          StatsDcLbcRxMaxDelta13 508        <-----
          StatsDcLbcRxMaxDelta14 448
          StatsDcLbcRxMaxDelta14 508        <-----

CR 25399: Frame Relay Switch.
          The add2base tool did not comply with channel assignment
          requirement.

CR 25777: DLSw.
          A session cannot be re-established after disabling and 
          then enabling DLS on an interface.

CR 25727: Frame Relay Switch.
          The DE bit has not been set properly after the circuit has been
          idle for a while. A Frame Relay circuit is up and passing traffic
          and traffic is stopped for a period of time. When traffic resumes
          at line rate (128k) and CIR is set low (10k), a certain
          amount of traffic will be passed before the DE is set. The amount
          of traffic allowed through before setting DE is directly
          proportionate to the amount of time the circuit is idle.

CR 24378: OSPF.
          When the OSPF backup soloist transitions from backup to primary,
          OSPF neighbors may time out.

CR 25820: TI.
          Running install.bat script displays the option of 'QMCT1_RJ48'.
          This is not a supported link module. 

CR 25557: LB.
          A problem exists in which packets bridged from FDDI to Frame Relay
          are being corrupted. The router is incorrectly modifying the
          Ethertype to an invalid and different value for every
          bridge packet transmitted from the FDDI. The receiving router does
          not understand the Ethertype so it drops these frames.

CR 25647: Frame Relay Switch.
          The Status Enq. on a Frame Relay Switch circuit configured for
          bi-directional polling will drift past the polling interval when
          the slot is experiencing heavy traffic volume.


CR 25592: IPX.
          A bus error occurs when enabling and disabling IPX globally on a
          router with a large RIP and SAP table.

CR 25539: IP.
          After configuring an OSPF Announce policy range, disabling the
          interface will cause OSPF to change the LSDB to announce the last
          address set in the range.

CR 25830: Frame Relay.
          When setting wfCctOptsCngcEntry.wfCctOptsCngcCfgHwtxQThreshold to
          a value greater than the value of the
          wfLogicalLineEntry.wfLogicalLineCfgTxQueueLength, the following
          MIB does not get set to that value:

          wfCctOptsCngcEntry.wfCctOptsCngcHwtxQThreshold

CR 25822: Frame Relay Switch.
          Configuring the Statistics Data Collector to run on a a switch
          caused a bus error to occur.

CR 25460: SYNC.
          A buffer leak may occur on a slot in which priority queuing and
          BOFLs are enabled and the synchronous interface is in a down state.
 
CR 25480: NetBIOS.
          A router configured with NetBIOS static routes may not forward 
          packets correctly because of a timing problem that causes a host
          entry to be created with the wrong slot information.

CR 26564: DLSw.
          Specific DLSw gates will incorrectly increase their memory
          consumption each time you establish a session involving non-NULL
          XIDs through the router.

CR 26537: DLSw.
          An orphan buffer occurs when a DLS connection disconnects and
          then attempts to reestablish itself. The DLS disconnection can
          be caused by disabling and reenabling TCP, DLS, or physical
          circuits. 

CR 26748: OSPF.
          An OSPF bus error occurs on routers that contain multiple
          flopping OSPF point-to-point links.

CR None:  IPX.
          An orphan buffer error occurs as a result of encaps failure.

CR 25525: MCT1E1.
          Removing the cable does not report 'Loss of Signal' in the
          expected threshold. 

CR 25925: Frame Relay Switch.
          After resetting the slot on a Dual MCT1 and QMCT1 that contain an
          external clock, the slot uses the secondary clock (internal)
          rather than the primary clock (external). The slot should 
          use the primary clock because it is still operational.

CR 25847: MCT1E1.
          When hotswapping (specifically when putting it back in) the QMCT1
          in slot 2 on a BCN router while under load, the router
          faults and fails to recover.
 
CR 25924: Frame Relay Switch.
          Under certain conditions a logical line on a port with 12 logical
          lines stops receiving packets and receives no interrupts.

CR 21181: SDLC.
          When you disable SDLC globally, the MIB attribute wfSdlcDisable
          is set to 2, but SDLC continues operating.

CR 25679: SDLC.
          Disabling the SDLC base does not disconnect an SDLC session; it
          remains operational.

CR 22101: OSPF.
          The outcome of applying an Accept Policy filter is not used when
          submitting an external route to IP.

CR 24731: Switched Services.
          When the dial-on-demand inactivity timer elapsed, IP shuts down
          on a WAN interface and fails to recover.

CR 25988: Frame Relay Switch.
          RCN time delta value overlap will cause problems with billing
          systems. The TIME DELTA for the switch RCN file is set for 24 hours
          (or 8640000). Because the start time is also at midnight, there
          will be a overlap or .0001 second if each file is created at
          midnight and the time delta is always 24 hours (or 8640000).

CR 25960: BNX Switch.
          wfDs1E1PortLoopbackState does not change when the 
          wfDs1E1ConfigLoopbackConfig attribute is set to lineloop(3) or
          payloadloop(2).

CR None:  HSSI.
          This attribute determines how many seconds to wait before
          transitioning to the Carrier Lost state when the Carrier Signal
          is lost. When set to 0 (default), the Driver immediately
          transitions to the lost state upon detecting Carrier Loss. If
          the Carrier Signal returns before reaching this threshold,
          the Driver fails to enter the Carrier Lost state.


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