Revision Notes for Router Software v7.80 rev 6
Date: 2/24/94
Subj: Revision Notes for 7.80 fix 6
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SITE MANAGER COMPATIBILITY
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Router version is managed by Site Manager version
v7.80 1.80, 2.00
7.80 fix 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 1.80, 2.00, 2.00 fix 1
========================= Version 7.80 fix 6 =============================
The image for FRE hardware is: 1472596 Feb 24 12:33 boot.exe
The image for VME & AFN Floppy hardware is: 1501295 Feb 24 12:57 ace.out
The image for AN hardware is: 1292422 Feb 24 12:40 boot.exe
The image for IN & AFN Flash hardware is: 1368709 Feb 24 12:49 boot.exe
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Revision fix/7.80/6 corrects the following problems:
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CR 13179: Vines.
Vines router tends to PANIC during momentary period of all packet
buffers on a slot being in use.
CR 12807: Bridge.
Bridge SNAP filters do not work over PPP or Frame Relay interfaces.
CR 13166: Vines.
Under particular circumstances servers that use a neighbor as a
gateway can become unreachable from behind a BNET router.
CR 13000: Source Route Bridge.
Source Route Traffic Filter to Forward to Circuit Group only,
also forwards packets to IP Encaps subsystem.
CR 13092: Sync.
The 7.80 install.bat creates an erroneous line definition for
Sync connection.
CR 13131: System.
When the operating system's mechanism for single threading access
to a shared resource is utilized and one process waits behind
another, a 32 byte memory block is lost. Over time, this memory
leak that does not show up in the wfKernelEntry stats other than
a lack of free memory, can cause 'out of memory' slot resets.
CR 10670: OSPF.
OSPF adjacencies do not form when using the dial backup line
after the primary line is disabled.
CR 11762: DLSw.
A particular Netbios SQL application fails when going through
WF DLSw because we only allow for one connection per data link.
This application needs the client and server to have 2 sessions
opened, for 2 different Netbios names, at the same time. The first
session is opened OK but when the second tries to come up the WF
routers will terminate the data link (DISC at both ends).
CR 12905: IP.
Proxy ARP would stop responding to ARP request for reachable
hosts located across sync lines, after a specific sequence of
events. If the sync line connected to the remote router is brought
down and a minute later up again, the first time everything will
still work. The line is then dropped again, but this time the ARP
entry for the PC in the remote site is removed from the station
in the central site. When the line is put back the router will
no longer respond to the ARP requests for the remote PC arriving
at the port with proxy ARP enabled. Routing and ARP tables look
OK at all times. Entering a manual ARP entry for the PC in the
central station or bouncing IP in the router solves the problem.
CR 13021: SNMP.
SNMP Get Request (45 Objects) from SunNet Mgr fails with
Error - Get Request Too Big. It used to work in 7.71 fix 8 and it
fails with 7.80 fix 5 and up.
CR 12671: Vines.
Running Vines with FRP enabled over sync lines with one side 7
series and the other 8.10 can cause slot resets (parity errors)
in the 7 series router.
CR 12895: Vines.
The Vines client program SEND.EXE does not work on serverless
segments.
CR 10946: IP.
An ip circuit configured dynamically on a demand circuit will not
transition to the UP state until the router is rebooted.
CR 12687: LNM.
In the response to a Request Bridge Status in LNM the router
assigns the MAC address of the ring being queried to the Internal
LAN ID. The MAC address should be the pseudo MAC address assigned
by the user. This causes confusion on the management workstation
and reports the wrong ring speed for the ring that the
workstation is connected.
CR 11623: LNM.
When the Token Ring MAC address and the LNM interface MAC address
have a zero in the last digit then we cannot link to the
Wellfleet from the IBM_LNM station.
CR 12830: IP.
IP Router responds to a UDP echo request with the same DST and
SRC ports as the requesting packet.
CR 12532: DLSw.
When DLSw and LNM are both configured on the same slot either
may fail to operate.
CR 12908: LNM.
PANIC in mib_ent.c at line 1041 can occur after disabling LNM
Interface.
CR 11719: Source Route Bridge.
Running NetBIOS Caching may cause exception vector panic in
sr_nb_process_are as a result of RIF entries being aged while
the same RIF entries are being relearned.
CR 12855: SNMP.
Watchdog expiration slot resets can occur if router receives an
SNMP packet containing a zero len INTEGER_TAG.
CR 9266: ETHernet.
With a simple config of bridging with an enet port and fddi port
running 7.71, if you disable the enet port via TI,
's wfCSMACDEntry.2.instance 2', and then check the interface
operator status (wfifEntry.ifOperStatus), it will toggle between
a 1 and a 3. this instability will also occur if the enet cable
is pulled with the exception that the value returned from
wfifEntry.ifOperStatus will now be toggling between a 1 and a 2.
CR 12782: System.
Improved the debug information recorded in the system log on
occurrences of BB TAG violation slot resets.
CR 12583: E1.
E1 board configured with external clock uses the clock received
from port 1 as its clock source. If port 1 goes down then clock
source switches to port 2. After port 1 returns the clock source
remains with port 2 instead of returning to port 1.
CR 12735: Frame Relay.
In a Bridged Environment where a combination of FDDI, Ethernet
and Frame Relay exist, intermittent TAG VIOLATIONS may occur on
the Frame Relay slot.
CR 11058: Config.
7.80 Router log shows up as slots booting off different router
versions. With SM 1.80 connect to a 7.71 router, go to Config Mgr
in dynamic mode and save the file. Then reboot the router under
7.80, SM displays msgs showing what versions the slots are
booting off of. What will appear in the log, in an alternating
fashion, is the first slot will show "booting off 7.80", the
second slot will be "booting off 7.71", the third slot will be
"booting off 7.80" and the fourth will be "booting off
7.71", and so on.
CR 12336: X.25.
IP RIP advertisements stop on random X.25 PDN circuits after a
reboot.
CR 12541: IPX.
After executing an incorrect ipx ping such as 'ping -IPX 0x1.0'
the slot running ti will either become disconnected but not show
anything in the log as in the case of VME hardware or reset with
a tag violation in the case of the BN or ASN hardware.
CR 12388: PPP.
When the PPP protocol determines that a sync line has gone down,
through either missing echoes or LQR, the LCP will cause the NCPs
to go into a starting state but the
wfPppCircuitEntry.wfPppCircuitState is still up.
CR 12334: OSPF.
If the router is configured to run OSPF NBMA and does not have
Static Neighbor configured it will not have Dynamic Neighbor in
the MIB even if adjacency with the neighbor can be established.
========================= Version 7.80 fix 5 =============================
The image for FRE hardware is: 1478287 Jan 30 11:40 boot.exe
The image for VME & AFN Floppy hardware is: 1504360 Jan 30 14:33 ace.out
The image for AN hardware is: 1297876 Jan 30 11:58 boot.exe
The image for IN & AFN Flash hardware is 1377302 Jan 30 15:25 boot.exe
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CR 9999: IPX.
Loss of connectivity for IPX hosts that use inter-slot routing
can occur. This usually happens after an IPX interface goes
down/up or End Station Support learns a new RIF for a given
IPX host.
This problem was introduced as a side effect of the repair
documented below in fix/7.80/3 in CR 9999.
CR 12647: IPX.
In IPX networks with large numbers of end stations with many
clients attempting to open connections to one server a system
task and its associated memory can be lost.
CR 12589: PPP.
All bridge traffic is discarded on PPP link between Wellfleet
and Network Systems router/bridge.
CR 12575: Vines.
Zero hop count NetRPC search and search-all broadcasts are
forwarded even if ARP is not enabled on the interface. This can
result in broadcasts storms if a local StreetTalk server goes down.
CR 12555: LLC.
After having opened and closed around 270 LLC sessions through a
router, it is no longer possible to establish new sessions. The
typical error messages in the log are:
933: 01/20/95 12:12:40.271 DEBUG SLOT 2 LLC Code: 11
Context not found or unavailable.
934: 01/20/95 12:12:40.271 DEBUG SLOT 2 LLC Code: 11
LLC ERROR: No Context Available
CR 11932: OSPF.
During a dynamic configuration, the router may BUS ERROR when
adding or deleting area 0 when other areas already exist.
CR 12476: Packet Capture.
Unable to restart packet capture if the first PCAP file is too
large. To reproduce problem:
Calculate the maximum amount of memory allowed for Packet Capture
on a slot. You will be able to successfully run this capture
once, if you stop the capture when the trace is full, and attempt
to restart you get the following warning message for PCAP:
"wfPktCaptureBufSize for line xxx101 invalid"
The wfPktCaptureControl is set to 1 (start), but
wfPktCaptureCapture is set to 2 (stopped). It seems that the
memory resources are being checked but memory resources allocated
for the previous PCAP file are not being considered for the
PCAP file overwrite.
CR 12358: LNM.
Stations cannot insert onto a ring on which an ANts is the only
available Ring Parameter Server. Ring station sends out a Request
Initialization to the RPS functional address C00000000002, and
the frame is returned from the ring with the AR/FC bits set,
indicating an RPS is available. The AN does not return an answer
to this request (it sees them as illegally formatted), and after
3 retries the ring station exits from the ring.
CR 12451: LNM.
Multiple out of memory slot resets can occur while using LNM on
heavily loaded rings.
CR 12423: IP.
IP router allows various types of invalid IP subnet masks. The
IP interface should not come up when an invalid IP subnet mask
is configured.
CR 12436: Vines.
Vines internal network table gets corrupted in a Vines network
with redundant links. This causes servers behind a router to
become unreachable even though the MIB has a valid metric for
the route.
CR 12409: OSPF.
OSPF problem when 2 wf routers are configured as follows:
------- Area A1 ------- Area A2
| R1 |-----------| R2 |--------------
------- Network N1 ------- Network N2
When both routers come up for the first time and establish a full
adjacency network N2 is advertised into A1 by R2 as a summary
link, installed as such in R1's lsdb and also appears in R1's
ip routing table.
At this point R1 is rebooted. When it comes up and establishes
a full adjacency with R2 it correctly installs N2 as a summary
link in the lsdb but N2 is now missing from R1's routing table.
CR 11031: Vines.
When Vines Fragmentation Protocol (FRP) is disabled on a WAN
interface, a bus error panic will occur when the sync interface
is disabled and enabled.
CR 12260: Netboot.
Netboot does not work when bofl is configured on a sync line.
CR 11557: OSPF.
OSPF routes learned over a virtual link are not processed
properly on the backbone router that is receiving them in certain
(large routing table) topologies due to a non-recoverable
hogs bufs situation.
CR 12376: IP.
Arp Request is discarded if the source IP address is not in the
same subnet.
CR 12373: SNMP.
Snmp packets containing a get request for 24 or more objects
causes various problems (usually ASN1parse errors).
CR 11433: Token Ring.
The ring data rate is incorrect in the 8502 frame sent from the
router to the IBM Lan Network Manager. Even though the ring is
configured for 4Mbps it still sends the ring data rate as 16Mbps.
CR 10842: System.
A VME router fails to boot properly with very large config files.
Some slots are unable to receive the config info.
CR 12086: Circuits.
Enabling Hardware Filters in ESAF 5531-2 Link Modules caused the
interface to hung in the initialization state if it was
configured via install.bat.
CR 11934: IP.
Under very heady loads, routing information may not be properly
maintained after IP on another slot resets.
CR 10722: IP.
IP connectivity can be lost while aging hosts. This is due to the
routing table getting corrupted if no buffers are available while
Host aging is happening.
CR 10520: Source Route Bridge.
A source route packet with length field bits set to 3 (4472)
that originates on a Token Ring segment will have the length
field decreased to 2 (2072) when it crosses an FDDI ring.
CR 12127: Token Ring.
The Token Ring interface on an AN will continuously reset with a
timeout error on a network that is very busy. Some example log
messages are;
Connector MAU1 Cmd (0xa) time-out (s=008c)
(a=0000 0000 0000 0000).
Connector MAU1 stop... env->phy_addr = 04000000.
========================= Version 7.80 fix 4 =============================
The image for FRE hardware is: 1479172 Dec 30 17:11 boot.exe
The image for VME & AFN Floppy hardware is: 1504240 Jan 4 16:08 ace.out
The image for AN hardware is: 1291272 Dec 30 17:41 boot.exe
The image for IN & AFN Flash hardware is: 1377702 Dec 30 17:49 boot.exe
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CR 12134: OSPF.
OSPF does not properly notify IP when an LSU is received with a
change of MASK.
CR 11376: LNM.
LNM can cause 'out of memory' slot resets when receiving excessive
non-isolating errors.
CR 11374: DLSw.
When DLS is terminated at the same port that SRB uses for the SNA
client to continue its communication path to the host, DLS enters
invalid state.
CR 10870: IP.
IP router does not update ARP Cache according to RFC. RFC 826
suggests the desired algorithm for receipt of an ARP request is
for a receiver (even though he may not be the target) to update his
ARP Cache when a request is received containing a new source MAC
address for an entry that already exists. The IP router does not
update the ARP cache for existing entry upon receiving ARP request
containing new source MAC Address if the ARP destination is not for
the local interface.
CR 11845: Vines.
Vines Routing Table Manager uses excessive memory storing remote
end-station information gratuitously.
CR 11866: Vines.
Vines router permanently looses local memory after circuit goes
down/up.
CR None: Spanning Tree Bridge.
Transparent bridge spanning tree tunneled over token ring does not
recognize 5 series BPDU's because of the 8103 protocol id field.
Likewise, the 5 series does not recognize the 7 series BPDU's
because of the 0000 protocol id field.
CR 11814: PPP.
OSI over PPP may not be established; The OSI NCP remains in closed
state. This can happen to any NCP, not just OSI. The problem will
appear if the remote router sends a PPP Protocol Reject packet to
WF in response to WF sending a PPP Configuration Request packet.
RFC 1548 specifies that the NCP should remain in whatever state it
is in when it receives the Protocol Reject, and that the NCP should
stop sending out whatever is causing the peer router to send back
Protocol Rejects. Instead, WF router is generating a closed event
and transitioning to Closed state. This prevents us from
establishing a connection if/when the remote router ever does
send a Connection Request.
CR 11977: Vines.
Running Vines over Source Route Bridge using End Station support
may result in RIFs being changed too often causing Vines servers
to go into suppression.
CR 11190: OSPF.
When OSPF is configured with BGP3 to connect multiple ASs, BGP3
learned routes can become unreachable within OSPF for no apparent
reason.
CR 11839: IPX.
Directed broadcast diag packets are not being forwarded by the IPX
router. These are packets with an IPX socket number of 456 or 7777.
These two sockets are used for IPX ping when the IPX destination
node is not a broadcast, in the case when the destination node is
a broadcast (FFFFFFFF) the router should forward the packet to the
appropriate interface and node if one exists. If the network is
known but not the node the packet should be broadcast on that
known network.
CR 11857: System.
An orphan buffer error can appear in the log with the source gate
ID value in the 0x400 range (I.E. 0x401, 0x402, 0x403 etc).
CR 10557: AppleTalk.
Slot routing AppleTalk can experience Tag Violation reset upon
receipt of illegal NBP tuples.
CR 11529: OSPF.
OSPF no longer advertises attached external interface after CSMACD
bounces. External interface is up and appears in the routing table
but is not found in the LSDB. This occurs after the CSMACD has
bounced (seen in the log). All external routes learned over that
external interface are no longer reachable from the OSPF network.
CR 11638: IP.
The propagation of a zero subnet over the same network/different
IP subnet will not get installed into the IP routing table. This
failure can be seen when the following scenario exists, standard
class b network is sub-netted with a class c mask and a zero subnet
exists within network.
CR 11815: OSI.
OSI connectivity may not be established over Level1 or Level2
PtoP Adjacencies.
CR 11829: IPX.
If the destination network of a SAP entry does not exist in the
routing table, IPX may panic while calculating the nearest server.
CR 11704: X.25
Querying the router for its MIB-II ifTable on an interface configured
for X.25 returns the value 6 for the ifType. The value 6 is
enumerated to ethernet-csmacd in MIB-II.
CR None: System.
Doing a 'get wfKernelEntry.*.' at TI sometimes returns zeros
for all values.
CR None: IP.
Receipt of IP packets that would cause the router to send an ICMP
redirect would permanently lose memory.
CR 11692: System.
Slot resets infrequently occur with an 'out of GID' error in the log.
CR 11006: DLSw.
The loss of a number of segments in the IP cloud between 2 routers
running DLSw causes a high number (70+ %) of TCP retransmissions
for the rest of the life of the connection. Slots can also reset
with out of memory errors.
The out of memory resets were caused by the method of handling
broadcast frames which are not flow-controlled - if TCP was busy
DLS would try to save incoming broadcast traffic for as long as
there is memory on a slot. In some cases this would result in DLS
eventually using up all available local memory causing a slot to
reset. This problem has been resolved by the following improvements
to the configurability of DLS.
Three new MIB attributes were added to the wfDlsSlotEntry MIB object.
wfDlsCurrentMemory -- to reflect the amount of memory in kilobytes
currently used by DLS on a particular slot.
wfDlsMaxAllowedMemory -- this is a configurable parameter. It
reflects how much memory in kilobytes DLS
is allowed to use on a particular slot.
When this number is reached DLS would start
dropping incoming traffic. Thus preventing
a router from crashing. The default value
is -1, Which means infinity. (all available
memory).
wfDlsHiWaterMark -- to reflect the highest memory consumption
in kilobytes reached on a particular slot
by DLS since the last reboot.
The last attribute is intended to be used in the following way.
Since every customer environment is different and it is hard to
predict an average traffic load, the user should let a router run
with wfDlsMaxAllowedMemory set to the default value for sometime.
Assuming there were no unusual events during this period of time a
user should set wfDlsMaxAllowedMemory to wfDlsHiWaterMark or some
number close to it. For example: after booting wfDlsMaxAllowedMemory
is set to -1. wfDlsHiWaterMark is 0. wfDlsCurrentMemory is 0.
Looking at the above attributes after 3 days one sees
wfDlsMaxAllowedMemory is still set to -1. wfDlsCurrentMemory is 100
and wfDlsHiWaterMark is 300. Now if you set wfDlsMaxAllowedMemory
to 300, it would assure that in an emergency situation DLS would not
run a slot out of memory because of the unlimited consumption of
memory. The optimal amount of memory allowed to be taken by DLS
should be determined experimentally for the particular configuration.
Access to the above attributes is available from TI only for now.
The Site Manager support for this enhancement will be implemented
in a later release.
CR 11754: IP.
When IP circuits are disabled/enabled, OSPF HELLO packets can be
sent to wrong subsystem causing unpredictable results (like
orphaned buffer log entries).
CR None: IPX.
The maximum number of IPX SAP filters per interface that can be
configured has been increased from 50 to 150.
The Site Manager support for this enhancement will be implemented
in versions 2.00 fix 1 and 2.1.
CR 11370: OSPF.
Version 7.xx advertises default summary with stab metric of 0 into
a stub area. Version 5.78 does not have this problem. The metric
for the summary link advertisement is set to the (per-area)
configurable parameter Stub metric.
CR 11596: MIB.
The Mib stat if.ifOutErrors can be erroneously high on enet
circuits. It appears that the mib stat
wfCSMACDEntry.wfCSMACDDeferredTx is incorrectly being added in
the calculation of if.ifOutErrors.
CR 10026: IPX.
Ipx over dial-on-demand circuit intermittently failing on boot.
This problem has been seen using an AFNES 4MB platform configured
for IP and IPX (ipxcp) dial in demand in v7.80. The interface used
was v35/v25bis signaling. The WAN link did not carry any dynamic
information, all routes were statically configured and all IPX
services were statically configured. When booting the routers the
following IPX warning event message was logged on one router:
'IPXWAN/PPP Incorrectly configured: IPX intf non-zero and
PPP-negotiated net is not equal to IPX intf'. After this IPX would
fail to register with the demand cct and no data would be passed.
CR 10922: PPP.
AN is connected to a Network Systems router via sync port. Sync
port is configured for PPP with bridging and IP. IP comes up fine.
When the BNCP negotiation takes place the Network Systems router
sends the AN a BNCP configure reject for all mac types (FDDI
ETHERNET and TOKEN RING). When the AN receives the configure reject
a bus error Panic occurs.
CR 11168: OSI.
OSI router fails to accept packets with pad bytes before the
NLPID when received over PPP interface.
CR 11366: IPX.
IPX is incorrectly processing SAP names followed by NULL chars and
ending with garbage characters. The problem shows up as large SAP
tables with many duplicated entries which are all the same server.
This causes the router to send out many SAP packets with what
appears to be the duplicate server entries.
CR 8101: System.
Slot Resets with 'checksum error found in old system log'. The
entire system log for that slot is then lost. System log validation
has been improved to be more discriminating when making its
decision to eliminate a slot's damaged log.
CR 11477: IP.
IP ARP does not properly resolve the address. When a multi-netted
IP interface receives an ICMP request and needs to ARP to resolve
the address of the next hop router before responding, The router
does not issue the ARP, but logs the following message;
'Tried to send invalid arp for on intf
- is the IP address of the next hop router.
- is the IP address of a local interface,
diff network'.
Once the router is in this state you need to ping from the router
to the correct next hop address, this properly resolves the address.
CR 11438: IP.
If router A has an adjacent host configured for router B in IP and
router B then sends an ARP request to router A one system task and
its associated memory is lost.
CR None: System.
The message 'gate 0x0c1fe being killed by 0x00049 @ 0x304a2c3e
is dead - ignored' frequently appears in the log. Although this
message can be generated from many subsystems, one particular
problem involving HostCache which produced those messages is
now resolved.
CR 10885: DLSw.
DLSw may cause a MIB panic when deleting instances after
failure of multiple DLSw sessions.
CR 11095: DLSw.
DLS, when configured for an ethernet interface erroneously
responds with a Disconnect Mode packet to sna bind requests
which are destined to hosts on the same local ethernet segment.
This problem has the effect of preventing sna sessions between
hosts on the local ethernet segment from working.
CR none: IPX.
When IPX responds to Get Nearest Server, in the case of a tie in
the hop count to a number of different servers, IPX router should
respond with the one that is first in alphabetical order, which
is not the case starting with 7.71 fix 7. This problem was
introduced by the fix for CR 10746.
CR 11369: IP.
IP router looses track (has no ARP entry and doesn't send ARP
request for new one) of host entries after another slot resets.
CR 11231: IPX.
Multiple instances of the same IPX route will appear in the MIB
if a router has multiple connections to another router, even
with multi-path turned off.
CR 10582: Switched Services.
The dial backup link is not initiated in the following cases:
1. When the modem is set to loopback.
2. When Rx wire is being disconnected either on the master or on
the slave side.
This has been resolved by enhancing the sync drivers to check
for the BOFL packets and detect the loopback condition. The
loopback is detected by comparing the source MAC address in the
BOFL packets with the sync interface's MAC address. When the
loopback is detected the sync line driver is brought down. When
it is trying to come back up it goes into loopback state and stays
in it until it receives the BOFL from the remote side.
A new MIB attribute 'wfSyncRemoteLpbkDetection' has been added to
the wfSyncEntry. The above actions will take place only if this
attribute is set to ENABLED. This has been done intentionally since
most customers are using loopback for verifying that the link
functions properly. Site Manager support for this option will
be implemented in release 2.10.
======================== Version 7.80 fix 3 =============================
The image for FRE hardware is: 1472507 Nov 22 15:02 boot.exe
The image for VME & AFN Floppy hardware is: 1498139 Nov 22 15:16 ace.out
The image for AN hardware is: 1294417 Nov 22 15:25 boot.exe
The image for IN & AFN Flash hardware is: 1372181 Nov 22 15:30 boot.exe
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CR 11259: Frames less than or equal to 16 bytes in length do not get picked
up by Learning Bridge. The initial frame was generated from a client
on an ethernet segment and destined for a server on a remote
ethernet. The two ethernet segments were connected via two Wellfleet
bridges with fddi as the connecting transport.
CR 10860: A network that routes Vines and also has end station support and
servers that are redundantly linked to the bridged network,
may show servers as unreachable on the remote slots where Vines
is routed.
CR 10814: DECnet router does not generate triggered update when adjacency
comes up.
CR 10966: DECNET router may experience a hogs bufs condition which could lead
to multiple PANICS when a topology change occurs. The specific
topology change would be in the form of a number of adjacencies
going unreachable at the same time and the presence of at least one
other router sharing a common segment. What can happen is that when
the adjacencies time-out, DECNET, which does not support
split-horizon, counts to infinity to age out the routes. During
this time of counting to infinity hogs bufs can occur. Also,
counting to infinity takes more CPU cycles than it should.
CR 10793: IPX ping over token ring fails intermittently.
CR 9999: Slot can reset with 'Out of Memory' errors when IPX interface with
many (> 400) hosts entries goes down.
CR 10702: Although a Wellfleet router running version 7.80 and 8.0 software
can transport DHCP requests/replies, there are still areas where
Wellfleet routers are not 100% RFC1532 compliant.
1) The BootP Relay agent should only care about UDP BootP Server
packets (port 67). The current code registers and processes for
both BootPC and BootPS ports. A relay agent MUST silently discard
any received UDP message whose UDP destination port number is
BootPC (68) in paragraph 4.1 of RFC1532.
2) Seconds field should apply to request packets only so one can set
the seconds field to a non-zero number and still let 0 second
replies through. Our implementation checks both request and
replies. The Microsoft implementation has a minor problem of
not setting it to 0 initially and not incrementing it
subsequently (see paragraph 3.2 in RFC1532).
3) The newly defined Broadcast flag is not checked in the current
code, the correct behavior is to broadcast only if 'ciaddr'
field is zero and the flag is set. (See paragraphs 3.1.1 and
5.3 in RFC1532).
CR None: System reliability is now improved on ACE32 processors by the
addition of a watchdog process which will restart a slot if a
single task runs for more than 16 seconds.
CR 10569: When deleting one IP address from a multi-netted interface arp
will no longer function correctly. If an IP address gets deleted
from a multi-netted interface all devices on remaining network
will be unreachable.
CR 9763: When using Protocol Prioritization - Bandwidth Allocation Method,
there is a condition that the serial port could enter where all
traffic would stop flowing, under saturation conditions. If Bofl
was enabled, the port would be restarted after the Bofl timeout
(resulting in a 'transmitter timeout' logged message), otherwise
the port would hang indefinitely. This problem would often occur
on both sides of the serial link (even if PQ wasn't enabled on
the remote side).
CR 10724: If multiple packets are sent to a dial on demand circuit in quick
sequence bus error/panic will occur before the modem dials out.
The packets in this case were ip encapsulated source route
explorer packets.
CR 8616: Dial back up circuit is unable to establish the PPP link the first
time the primary link goes down after being booted.
CR 10583: In a dial backup configuration. When the Tx wire is disconnected
8630: from a Slave router, the master's primary line goes down. When
the slave accepts the call from the master a bus error occurs.
CR 10029: When configuring out-bound filters based on source or destination
MAC address, the MAX address must be entered in canonical format.
The problem then arises that when entering a MAC address range in
canonical format, the high address range could end up with a lower
value than the low range and Site Manager will give a message
'Minimum Value Greater Than Maximum Value'. Added a new MIB variable
'wfCctOptsEntry.wfCctOptsMacFilterFormat'. The default is 1,
which is canonical. Setting this to 2 will allow entering MAC
filters in token ring format. (Note: All filters on the interface
must be in token ring format!). Site Manager support for this option
will be implemented in a future release.
CR 10563: When running Vines over Frame Relay with Vines Fragmentation
Protocol (FRP) disabled, Vines traffic will not be forwarded.
CR 10746: IPX router responds to Get Nearest Server request when sap
filters are configured on the same interface where both a
server and a client reside (10746).
CR 10857: IPX router doesn't update its SAP advertisement after socket
number changes.
CR 10859: IPX router does not correctly forwarded IPX Netbios frames
(type 14h).
CR 10819: XNS can restart on the slot where one or both sync lines in a
multiline configuration go down/up.
CR 10787: IPX router does not age out rip entries received with a hop
count of 15.
CR 10607: EGP neighbor connection not re-established after circuit goes
down/up.
CR 10667: IPX Routes May Fail to Age Properly. The Lost Route implementation
incorrectly forms the packet to be sent out in the case where that
route was learned to be dead (hop count of 16) from a different
interface than the one that the route was originally learned from.
CR 10763: Transparent bridge / Multiline interface fails to come up on boot
or slot reset.
CR 10745: Enhancement for Dial-on-Demand circuits to allow the configuration
of the inactivity timer to be in seconds instead of minutes. Note
that this change affects existing config files such that what the
network administrator previously configured in minutes is now a
value in seconds.
CR 10696: Learning bridge over token ring does not learn about station
moves as it should.
CR 10314: In particular configuration DECnet router sends incorrect level
2 routing message designating local area as 1 hop and some non
zero cost away.
CR 9958: Vines router does not respond to StreetTalk requests from clients
on serverless segments.
CR 9870: Dynamic disabling of an OSPF interface can cause a PANIC bus
error on non-backbone routers.
CR 10412: When Learning bridge traffic is flooded over FDDI onto a Frame
Relay network the router at the remote side does not flood the
bridge traffic out its other interfaces which reside on the same
slot as the Frame Relay interface.
CR 10417: BGP-3 Update messages are sent with incorrect next hop in
particular configuration.
CR 10543: Slot resets with 'System restart in tmo_wdog.c at line 51' when
XNS router learns many (500) routes after wan link goes down/up.
CR 10685: Running NetBIOS Caching may cause panic in sr_nb_process_are due
to RIF entries being aged while the same RIF entries are being
re-learned.
CR 10684: Running NetBIOS Caching may cause a 'PANIC in mib_ent.c at line
710' due to RIF entries being aged while the same RIF entries
are being learned.
CR 9175: Router responds to SMDS heartbeat poll on logical link 0 instead
of logical link 1.
======================== Version 7.80 fix 2 =============================
The image for FRE hardware is: 1472625 Oct 11 13:02 boot.exe
The image for VME & AFN Floppy hardware is: 1498397 Oct 11 13:10 ace.out
The image for AN hardware is: 1291709 Oct 11 13:16 boot.exe
The image for IN & AFN Flash hardware is 1370974 Oct 11 13:19 boot.exe
_____________________________________________________________________________
CR None: Tag violation slot resets can occur when runt (< 14 byte) frames
are received on HSSI interfaces.
CR 10047: Access Node Token ring interface does not receive a Source
Route Bridge SRF, ARE, or SRE with a RIF of size greater than
14 bytes.
CR 10076: Dial on demand using X21 terminal adaptors, ISDN, V25bis
signaling on 44 pins sync interface does not work. Sync
interface cannot see the modem, reports CTS failure. Incoming
calls never transit out of v25bis signaling to data mode, all
LCP configuration frames are interpreted as illegal v25bis
commands. Outgoing calls never transit from modem signaling
to LCP configuration phase.
CR 9453: When about 300 external networks become unreachable and corresponding
ASE LSAs are flooded with Max Age throughout OSPF AS, OSPF on some
routers (depending upon configuration) may generate Hogs Bufs errors.
CR 10379: The 'show bgp peers' command doesn't show configured values for
Hold and Keep Alive timers.
CR 10380: When exporting routes via BGP with the BGP Export Route Filter
InterAsMetric set to None the receiving router installs a value
of 0 instead of nothing.
CR 7221: IP and OSPF remain up when FDDI interface is disconnected.
CR 10009: After the primary line is disabled, initialization of the
backup dial circuit can cause a panic. The PRIMARY line was
configured as STANDARD.
======================== version 7.80 fix 1 =============================
The image for FRE hardware is 1472061 Sep 28 14:39 boot.exe
The image for VME hardware is 1497508 Sep 28 14:47 ace.out
The image for AN hardware is 1290671 Sep 28 14:52 boot.exe
The image for IN hardware is 1370273 Sep 28 14:55 boot.exe
=========================================================================
CR 7188: Poor performance (Lack of resource errors dropping packets on
ethernet interfaces) in large (1000 nets, 800 saps) IPX networks.
CR 9968: In particular configuration where certain packets are received
on an ethernet interface in a specific order VINES packets are
lost (due to being delivered to wrong ISAP) causing excessive
delays in file transfers.
CR 10273: If there is a default route configured and BGP-3 export filters
as in:
IGNORE default range from ANY protocol from ANY BGP AS from
specific Peer,
PROPAGATE default route (0.0.0.0+255.255.255.255) from ANY
protocol and any AS for specific Peer,
PROPAGATE class B natural network range for everything.
Watchdog expiration slot resets can occur in routine
'ip_ck_export_rules' routine when BGP-3 processes default route.
CR 9197: IP Host is not re-learned after an adjacent host entry for that host
is dynamically disabled. Also, if this host happens to be a router,
then any networks beyond that router become unreachable.
CR 9885: When IP data is to be forwarded to a network which is not directly
connected to the local router and is available via a non-peer
BGP-3 speaker, the router fails to ARP for the next hop media
address of the non peer BGP-3 speaker.
CR 9739: Spanning Tree does not forward packets immediately after changing a
previously blocked port to forwarding when convergence is completed.
CR 9466: The MIB variable 'wfIpInterfaceForwDatagrams' decreases instead
of increasing on OSPF interfaces.
CR 7711: 'PANIC in map_rem.c at line 60' error can occur when dial backup
circuit is changed from primary to normal.
CR 9960: Multiline circuits do not recover properly when there are more than
2 lines per circuit and one of the lines goes down.
CR 9761: When packets are fragmented by X.25 using the M bit, there is a
forced 200ms delay between fragments (even when the window is
open) providing that no in-bound packets are seen. This causes a
sub-optimal use of the transmit window which is especially
noticeable over a satellite link.
CR 9225: Bridge traffic doesn't properly switch back to the primary line
8743: from a dial backup one. The router may stop learning and taking
incoming traffic from the sync port. Also the router may loop
back broadcast packets in the sync port.
CR 9467: The Threshold feature configured under Global Protocols which
allows messages to be put in the log file when certain statistics
reach predefined values, displays the threshold event in the log
with asn.1 notation (such as 1.3.6.1.4.1.18.4.3.1.1.28.2.1)
instead of the variable that it represents (wfCSMACDErr).
This functionality has been provided by a new configuration option
in Statistical Threshold and Alarms (STA). The administrator can
now configure the threshold Object name portion of the MIB
variable to be a user defined string.
For example, if the ThresholdLabel is not configured the logged
event looks like;
'Object 1.3.6.1.4.1.18.3.4.5.1.36.2.1 with value = 233 units/sec
is > low threshold.'
If the ThresholdLabel is configured the logged event looks like;
'Object wfSyncTxOctets.2.1 with value = 235 units/sec is >
low threshold.'
To configure from TI;
s wfStaThresholdEntry.wfStaThresholdLabel.14.1.3.6.1.4.1.18.3.4.5.1.36.2.1
"wfSyncTxOctets.2.1".
With SiteManager version 2.0 or greater it can be configured via
protocols->global->threshold>->wfswconfig->wfline->wfSyncTable->
wfSyncRxoctes, bring up the window to add the port and circuit
number to see the Threshold label screen.
CR 9978: Force take down does not work for dial demand and take down does
not work for dial backup.
CR 9708: After configuring an ospf import route filter to ignore all type
1 externals, the type 1 externals do not get filtered.
CR 9842: With LNM enabled on a Token Ring interface receiving a lot of
traffic continuously 'scheduler exited due to orphaned buffer'
faults can occur.
CR 9839: Setting up Bridge Traffic Filters to drop IP broadcast traffic
while bridging and running IP 'Not Forwarding' mode does not
work. The Traffic Filters are not applied.
CR 9215: The MIB variable wfOspfIfEntry.wfOspfMtuSize added in version
fix/7.71/1 is supposed to control the MTU size for OSPF packets
sent over this interface. When set to a value of 2, it should
send packets no larger than the IP MTU size for Ethernet. This
restriction is not working and much larger packets are being sent.
CR 9690: The External Route Tag Field within an OSPF AS External Link
State Advertisement is inconsistent when the ASE is generated
from a 7 series router. The use of this field, although not
documented in the OSPF specification to this effect, in the 5
series is to list the IP address of the gateway from which an ASE
Type 2 was originally learned via RIP (or other protocol). The 5
series does this consistently and has proved to be an invaluable
troubleshooting tool when debugging a large OSPF network where
there are multiple routers advertising the same ASE Type 2s. The
7 series on the other hand, will use the field in the same way
initially, but seems to lose track of what data is actually being
plugged into the field if the ASE Type 2 is refreshed for any
reason. An example of when this might happen is if an ASE Type
2 is aged, flushed and then re-learned and refreshed again. The
External Route Tag field may look fine in an advertisement prior
to and when it is actually flushed, but when a new instance is
generated, bogus data may appear in this field.
CR 9887: During the learning of BGP-3 routes from 2 BGP-3 peers (both
advertising the same routes) router may generate Hogs Bufs errors
in the BGP-3 module leading to PANIC's from other processes
trying to get buffers.
CR 8044: X25 has 6 point to point connections to 6 different destinations.
If Connection ID 1 and 2 are used to set up call from A to
destination B. Then you cannot use connection ID 1 and 2 to
set up a call from A to Destination C. From a LAN analyzer once
A connects to B connection ID 1 and 2 are being Used. IF A then
tries to connect C, A will report that it already has a call on
connection ID 1 and 2, dropping the connection from C. This
contradicts The Wellfleet Manual which states that Different
destinations can use the same connection ID.
CR 9477: Learning Bridge sometimes PANICs during momentary period of all
packet buffers on a slot being in use.
CR 9330: Booting the router with configuration that contains import and
export route filters will FAULT continuously with 'Watchdog
expired, service terminating' message. This problem was introduced
at revision fix/7.71.4.
CR none: IPX NetBios static routes may now be used to direct a NetBios
propagation packet (type 20) through a network. This done by
setting a NetBios static route filter for a destination server,
and setting wfIpxBaseNovellCertificationConformance to disable (2).
This MIB attribute must be set to 2 in all routers in the network
for this feature to work. This also requires all NetBios
propagation packets to be sent from a client with the destination
network as zero, unless this packet will pass a static route
filter in that router. (Packets are tested against the static
route filters before the destination is checked. This allows
accepting packets that may not have a destination network of
zero, and will allow for redirecting the packet.)
CR None: The configuration of IPX NetBios Static Routes has been improved
to allow the use of partial NetBios server names for static
routes. This partial name will act as a wildcard. Any NetBios
packet that matches this partial name will be sent to the static
route. The MIB attribute 'wfIpxNetBiosStaticRouteEntry' may now
contain names of less than 16 characters. When a NetBios packet
is received, it is compared to this static route name. The
comparison is now done by the length of the static route name.
If the static route name is 5 characters, the FIRST 5 characters
of the NetBios name in the packet is compared to the static route.
This provides wildcard like name matching on the ending portion
of the NetBios server name.
Note: A NetBios static route of length zero will match ALL packets.
CR 9301: The get wfKernelEntry.*. command uses excessive amount of
CPU time.
Performance improvements have been made to the way that process
ids are searched. Before this revision (fix/7.71/7), an ACE
booted with the default config file would use 400ms to complete
the get wfKernelEntry.*. command. The same setup now uses
only 20ms.
CR 9468: When running Translating Bridge (TR to Ethernet) in the presence
of an older application, the manner in which we cache (backwards)
and then include a RIF when translating a packet from Ethernet
to Token Ring may cause an application failure.
CR 9553: Router token interface configured for IP Host Only/Source Route
Bridge Local ARP request (no rif field) for different IP address
than router causes wfBrSrInterfaceDropInvalidRings to increment.
CR 9185: NetBIOS cache incorrectly stores the RIF from a Name Recognized
frame causing all subsequent packets to be dropped due to a
non-optimal RIF path.
CR 9716: The TI 'save log' command has been improved to record the load
map and image stamp in the log before saving.
CR 9646: When two ABRs bordering the same areas and all members of an area
summary range disappear on one ABR, the configured area summary
range is used for forwarding traffic to the other ABR. (this is
correct). But when the local interfaces come back on the first
ABR, the summary entry is still used for forwarding when it's
not supposed to.
CR 9428: If three routers (a,b,c) are connected together in the config-
uration (a--b--c) where (a) is a AS boundary router, (b) is a
area border router and (c) is a router connected to the area border
router, a problem occurs when we sever the connection between
routers (b) and (c). If we look at the ip routing table on
router (c), we will still see an entry for the AS external that
is advertised by router (a). This problem will not occur if all
of the routers are in the backbone. Also the problem will not
occur if another router is attached to router (c).
CR None: Decnet router exhibits poor performance (sometimes including
watchdog PANICs upon circuits going down/up) in large topology
of many (> 15) areas.
CR 9482: Router running OSPF as an AS Boundary Router may generate
'PANIC: exception vector 2 - Bus error' in routine
'add_network_route' when it shares advertisement of a common
AS External Route with an adjacent neighbor.
CR 9866: IP router drops TCP packets when IP option padding bytes are
non-zero.
CR 9849: IP proxy arp does not respond to different networks as it did
in 5 series platform.
Note: The fix for this problem was to add a new attribute
wfArpBaseNonlocalDest into ARP_BASE_GROUP mib record. If
wfArpBaseNonlocalSDest is set to DROP, the arp request will
be dropped if the source and destination are from different
networks/subnetworks; If wfArpBaseNonlocalSDest is set to
ACCEPT, the arp request will be processed. The default option
is DROP.
CR 9197: IP Host is not re-learned after an adjacent host entry for that host
is dynamically disabled. Also, if this host happens to be a router,
then any networks beyond that router become unreachable.
CR 9029: IPX router configured for Tick based routing responds to getnearest
server requests with a remote file server even though there is a
local file server of the same type on the network.
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