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Revision Notes for Router Software v8.12 rev 18

============================================================================

                       SITE MANAGER COMPATIBILITY
=============================================================================

       Router Version       is managed by          Site Manager version


       v8.12 through 8.12/8  ------------------>  V2.12, V3.00, 3.00 Rev 1,
                                                  3.01 Rev 1

       *8.12 fix 9, ------------------------------> V2.12 fix 1, 3.01 Rev 2
       8.12 fix 10,
       8.12 fix 11,
       8.12 fix 12,
       8.12 fix 13,
       8.12 fix 14 -------------------------------> V2.12 fix 1, 3.01 Rev 2,
                                                    4.01 Rev 2

       8.12 fix 15 -------------------------------> V2.12 fix 1, 3.01 Rev 2,
                                                    4.01 Rev 2

       8.12 fix 16 -------------------------------> V2.12 fix 1, 3.01 Rev 2,
                                                    4.01 Rev 2

       8.12 fix 17 -------------------------------> V2.12 fix 1, 3.01 Rev 2,
                                                    4.01 Rev 2

       8.12 fix 18 -------------------------------> V2.12 fix 1, 3.01 Rev 2,
                                                    4.01 Rev 2



       (* only necessary to enable you to configure
        wfIpInterfaceTrEsArpType correctly. See CR 22267 for details)

       NOTE: CR 23734 was incorrectly noted as being fixed in 8.12/11, but
             actually has been fixed in 8.12/13.

=============================================================================
Revision fix 8.12/18 corrects the following problem:
=============================================================================

CR 27536: IP.
          IP consumes all local memory when pinging through a router to a
          non-existent IP addresses. For instance, this problem could occur
          if a network management workstation ping all IP addresses within
          a subnet.

============================================================================
Revision fix 8.12/17 corrects the following problems:
=============================================================================

CR 27536: IP.
          IP consumes all local memory when pinging through a router to
          non-existent IP addresses. For instance, this problem could occur
          if a network management workstation pings all IP addresses within
          a subnet.

CR 27853: VINES.
          VINES experiences a memory leak in vines_reassembly_act when
          there is a large routing table and several neighbors on the same
          LAN are using sequenced RTP updates.

          The amount of memory lost and the rate at which it is lost is
          proportionate to the size of the network, the amount of neighbors
          on the LAN, and the stability of the network. Excessive memory
          is consumed when the full sequenced RTP updates are received.

CR 28072: Source Route Bridge.
          A router configured to run source routing bridge (SRB) with SRB
          traffic filters may drop Specifically Routed Frames (SRFs)
          randomly.

CR 21794: OSPF.
          When an interface on which IP runs is bounced, an error occurs in
          ospf_rtab.c at line 440.

=============================================================================
Revision fix 8.12/16 corrects the following problem:
=============================================================================

CR 24662: Learning Bridge and Source Route Bridge.
          If a router encounters a slot disconnect, all bridge traffic
          generated from the affected slot will terminate.

CR 24875: Source Route Bridge.
          When the router switches to the backup line and then later
          switches back to the primary line, source route frames get
          dropped.

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 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 26364: APPN.
          You cannot enter a host name consisting of 17 characters
          when issuing an APPN ping at the Technician Interface prompt.
          You should be able to enter up to 17 characters for an APPN
          host name.

CR 26924: DLSw.
          The router code corrupts DLSw data packets during periods of
          buffer depletion. The packets become corrupted when
          the 16-byte DLSw data frames get inserted between the end of the
          TCP header and the start of the DLSw data. This condition causes
          the receiving routers to experience tag violations.

CR 26404: Switched Services.
          An incorrect line in the router code causes a flag to be set
          that mistakenly indicates that the modem is down when it is
          in fact operational.

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

CR 25935: IPX.
          A router configured for hop-based routing responds
          incorrectly to an IPX Get Nearest Server (GNS) request.
          The router responds with the last server in the list, instead
          of the lowest hop count.

CR 26182: MIB.
          MIB variable, ipAdEntReasmMaxSize, is not being set correctly in
          the MIB. The ipAdEntReasmMaxSize attribute is mapped to the
          wfIpInterfaceReasmMaxSize attribute. When the NWIF gate goes down,
          the mapping routine sets the wfIpInterfaceReasmMaxSize attribute
          to zero. However, when the NWIF gate comes back up, this attribute
          is never set back to MAX_IP_PDU.

CR 25968: TCP.
          Enabling and disabling TCP may place the TCP connection
          in an inactive state, from which it never recovers. Resetting or
          rebooting the router resolves this problem.

CR 26542: IPX.
          If the router experiences a bus error while traversing the server
          list inside the IPX SAP table during the processing of a General
          Service Query, the service query flag is set and remains set
          indefinitely.

CR 26690: Switched Services.
          A fault condition in map_rem.c occurs if a slave router receives
          a call via Dial Backup while a Primary Direct Mode PVC line
          still exists. This condition causes the IP interface on the
          specific Direct Mode PVC to remain inactive until you restart the
          physical interface.

CR None:  DECnet.
          After deleting a circuit and then disabling and reenabling
          a DECnet circuit with decnet.bat, the wrong circuit gets
          disabled and enabled.

CR 27155: IPX.
          Adding and removing SAP server name filters may cause a bus error
          to occur because of the manner in which filters are stored in the
          the router. When you attempt to modify the list of filters
          dynamically, this list may become corrupted.

CR 25291: MIB II.
          The ifEntry MIB object contains two attributes, ifInOctets and
          ifOutOctets, which do not contain the correct information when
          corresponding to a multiline circuit where the circuits are
          on different slots. The value for the ifEntry object should be
          the aggregate of both the synchronous interface
          statistics contained in a multiline interface.

CR 26196: DECnet.
          A DECnet circuit may fail to come up (remains in an infinite
          initialization state) after you bounce PPP multiple times.

CR 27474: VINES.
          VINES experiences a bus error after it tries unsuccessfully to
          allocate a buffer and then tries to free the same buffer. As
          a result, the router faults because it runs out of buffers.

CR 26687: MIB.
          While using the SNMP manager, the MIB-11 attribute ifEntry.5
          (speed) does not return the aggregated line speed of a
          multiline circuit.

CR 27489: Switched Services.
          Bus error occurred after the primary circuit in backup mode is
          terminated on the slave side.

=============================================================================
Revision fix 8.12/15 corrects the following problem:
=============================================================================

CR 26884: SDLC.
          A router acting as primary SDLC device fails to send an RR frame
          while transmitting heavy traffic volume. This causes the timer to
          expire and the SDLC session to restart.

=============================================================================
Revision fix 8.12/14 corrects the following problems:
=============================================================================

CR 24608: X25.
          X.25 interfaces configured to run mod128 with large window size
          will stop forwarding traffic when the interfaces get
          congested. This problem usually occurs after a broadcast storm.

CR 24526: GAME.
          A watchdog error may occur on a FRE2/060 when issuing the SHOW
          PROCESS CPU command when the total amount of CPU used on the
          FRE2/060 slot is large enough.

CR 24739: MIB.
          The values for the "wffrCircuitLastTimeChange" and
          "wfFrCircuitCreationTime" variables were calculated incorrectly.

CR 24485: OSPF.
          The memory used by the OSPF soloist task may increase over time at
          approximately 10Kbytes per hour when OSPF announce policies are
          used for deaggregation.

CR 25126: MCT1E1.
          MCE1 high error rate logical lines will only transmit traffic that
          flows through the interrupt queue in the priority queue.

CR 20956: Compression.
          Two routers configured with WCP that are connected back to back
          produce a loop back situation that results in a bus error, causing
          the PPP interface to bounce.

CR 24958: IPX.
          Several hours after enabling wfIpxBaseNetSizeBoundEn,
          connectivity problems occurred on slots on which IPX is configured.

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 16946: IP.
          When the router cannot forward an IP packet with the "Don't
          Fragment" bit set, the router responds to the source with
          an ICMP Destination Unreachable, Fragmentation Required
          packet and returns the next hop interface MTU. The router
          sometimes supplies the correct MTU in this field, and sometimes
          it supplies invalid data. When it returns invalid data, it also
          fills the previously unused 16-bit field with invalid data. This
          field should be filled with all zeros.

          This MTU must be the value of the maximum size packet that can be
          forwarded without fragmentation. It is the configured MTU less
          any level 2 frame overhead. This value is returned correctly
          sometimes.

CR 23215: MIB
          An indexing error with Frame Relay affects Network Management
          stations, which are unable to correlate IP addresses to their
          corresponding Frame Relay direct mode PVC's in Network Management
          maps.

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

CR 25482: Switched Services.
          When a dial on demand circuit (v.25 bis) connection fails on its
          third attempt, the router must wait five minutes before attempting
          to connect again. If you disable and reenable the forced
          dial attribute, the router logs the following message:
          "No line available for dial on demand circuit circuit x".

CR 25591: Translation Bridge.
          When traffic is generated on a Token Ring segment, RIF entries
          fail to age, even though the traffic generated does not contain
          packets to and from MAC addresses of those RIF entries. Users
          who frequently move their PCs to a TR segment via an ASN router
          are unable to access a NetBIOS server until they reboot the
          router, thereby forcing a clearing of RIF entries.


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 19940: MIB.
          The MIB attribute wfHwEntry.wfMotherBdRev is incorrectly stored in
          decimal format. This affects hardware scripts that attempt to
          convert the wfHwEntry.wfMotherBdRev value to decimal when it is in
          decimal format already. The MIB attribute wfHwEntry.wfMotherBdRev
          should be stored in hexadecimal format.

CR 20354: Scripts.
          The install.bat script requires a configuration option for
          the IP global parameter "wfIpBase.wfIpBaseDefaultOverSubnetEnable".
          This option will be used when configuring a default static route
          (0.0.0.0, 0.0.0.0). Install.bat needs to query the
          router on whether it should use the default route for unknown
          subnets after the configuration of a default route.

CR 25483: Switched Services.
          The router fails to redial if the first connection attempt times
          out before the DCE asserts DRS, 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 25731: TCP.
          TCP connections do not recover when the TCP base is disabled and
          enabled, and then enabled again.

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 23340: LLC.
          During a buffer depletion period, IIc traffic may generate the
          following error message:

          "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 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 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 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. This condition
          can be partly attributed to a problem in the flash erase function
          for Series 2 Flash cards. In some cases, the flash erase function
          reports that the Flash card has been erased successfully even
          though the device is still in the process of erasing the card.

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 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.

=============================================================================
Revision fix 8.12/13 corrects the following problems:
=============================================================================
CR 22064: DLSw.
          When an IBM host I9021 replies to an XID T2 poll by TEST Poll,
          DLS transmits this TEST Poll through SSP but does not
          send a Reach_Ack message to ICANREACH in response to the
          the TEST Poll frame. As a result, the session is never
          established.

CR 23734: DLSw.
          DLSw does not forward XID-P if the entry in
          wfDlsConnectionEntry is in a disconnected state. Instead, the
          router drops the XID-P's.

CR 23306: GAME.
          Booting an AN2 router occasionally will corrupt the Flash cards.
          This condition occurs mostly at sites that experience some type
          of console port problem, such as a misconfigured modem.

CR 23479: GAME.
          An AN2 router corrupts Token Ring frames before transmitting
          them to other hosts on the Token Ring network. This problem was
          first detected in IPX frames that were being transmitted by the
          AN2 router.

CR 24909: Flash.
          An AFN router running 8.12/11 or above generates the following
          message when a Maxell Flash card (part number: EF2MTBAA) is placed
          in the router:

         "Unsupported device found in memory card, writes disabled"
         "Flash Card Detected;  Unknown Device detected"
         "Memory card media info; Mfg ID 0xFF, Device ID 0xFF, number chips 8"
         "File System is in a corrupt state, re-format"

CR 22407: AN Token Ring.
          A packet whose length is greater than the default MTU size
          for a Token Ring network (4568) will cause a fault on an AN
          or AN-2 router. The router drops packets up to 8K in size.
          Packets whose size exceeds 8K cause a fault because of a
          hardware limitation.

CR 18562: SMDS.
          When you have configured SMDS as part of your DLS-TCP/IP cloud,
          an orphan buffer occurs that temporarily breaks the TCP
          connections. The TCP connections do recover, however.

CR 23480: GAME.
          GAME debug log message Code: 113 contains incorrect destination
          gate handle information.

CR 23559: PPP.
          The Sync driver does not calculate SaveInOctets correctly. Only
          the current LQR packet is being accounted for. SaveInOctets needs
          to be accumulated for all packets received.

CR 16308: GAME.
          GAME Debug Event Code: 115 messages appear repeatedly in event
          logs, indicating that reliable messages between slots are being
          lost or dropped. This is a normal operating condition, and the
          message is no longer logged.

CR 20487: MIB.
          When you configure a router to send generic SNMP traps and an
          interface changes state (goes up or down), the router sends
          a packet that contains an incorrect field OID string.

CR 22755: SDLC.
          When dynamically configuring a synchronous port for SDLC using
          Site Manager 3.00/rev1 and 9.01/1sqa3, the SDLC link will not
          become active on the router.

CR 23433: NetBoot.
          When trying to netboot an ASN router, the NOVRAM that holds
          Netboot parameters becomes corrupted, causing the router to boot
          continuously.

CR 23838: BOOTP.
          After dynamically adding or deleting BOOTP on an interface,
          a hogs bufs condition may occur in the MIB Manager.

CR 23754: DLSw.
          After disconnecting an SNA session in a dual slot DLS Token Ring
          environment, the session remains disconnected and fails to take
          an alternate path.

CR 19376: SNMP.
          Disabling SNMP while the lock is enabled and in use caused an
          error to occur.

CR 22231: Frame Relay.
          The router encapsulation of OSI over Frame Relay contains an
          optional pad byte, which was eliminated in RFC 1490. The correct
          encapsulation should be DLCI,DLCI,0x03, OSI NLPID.

CR 23938: Datapath.
          Disabling a PPP line with DECnet configured disables DECnet on
          the entire slot rather than the circuit. This problem occurs only
          when you have a bridge configured on the circuit.

CR 22361: OSPF.
          If you disable a virtual interface, OSPF's global MIB object will
          change to the state of 2 (down).

CR 24005: DLSw.
          Disabling and enabling the DLS base causes an SNA Ethernet
          application to fail.

CR 24315: IPX.
          A bug exists is 8.12/6 (+) that can lead to the age of a SAP
          entry to show up as a negative value in the MIB. The Server is
          usually learned from a router over a HSSI line.  If you monitor
          the age, you will see that it increments closer to zero but never
          becomes positive.  If you look at the adjacent router for this
          same entry, it is positive. This does not cause any connectivity
          problems, but is simply cosmetic.

CR 22775: Translation Bridge.
          A circuit is configured for Source Route Bridge and Translation
          Bridge and another circuit is configured for LB. When an ARE frame
          arrives, the Translation Bridge translates it into an Ethernet
          packet and calls the flood alias to flood all gates, including the
          "Ethernet to Source Routing" gate. This gate then converts the
          flooded Ethernet packet to a Source Route Bridge and sends it out
          on the same circuit from which the ARE originated.

CR 24224: LNM.
          Tag violations and bus errors generally occur when a local rings'
          stations leave the ring and the router interface reverts to
          single station state.

CR None:  IPX.
          Two routers connected by multiple redundant links contain routes
          that fail to age over time.

CR 13189/
   21168:  GAME.
           A slot may reset with "Error in msg_fwd.c" when attempting to send
           reliable messages between processes.

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.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Revision fix 8.12/12 corrects the following problems:
=============================================================================

CR 24572: Tools.
          In 8.12, fix 11, the VME-based router boot image,
          ace.out, contains an executable file that was built with an
          incorrect pathname. This causes problems when you attempt to open
          and/or save the ace.out image file using the Image Builder in
          PC and UNIX-based Site Manager. PC Site Manager will not allow
          you to open the ace.out image using the Image Builder; UNIX Site
          Manager will allow you to open ace.out in Image Builder but will
          save the file with zero bytes.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Revision fix 8.12/11 corrects the following problems:
=============================================================================

CR 23479: GAME.
          An AN2 router corrupts Token Ring frames before transmitting
          them to other hosts on the Token Ring network. This problem was
          first detected in IPX frames that were being transmitted by the
          AN2 router.

CR 22750: Telnet.
          When the Telnet client fails to set the "Push Bit" correctly during
          Terminal Type Negotiations, Telnet sessions do not get established.

CR 21767: OSI.
          Router fails to respond to an OSI ping over PPP after the
          synchronous line is bounced.

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 21881: FDDI.
          An attempt to enable or disable an FDDI connector failed because
          the variable "ver" (version) is present in the FDDI.bat script file.

CR 22686: DLSw.
          If a DLS connection gets reestablished through a different
          interface on the same slot, the DLS Connection entry does not
          get updated.

CR 20956: Compression.
          Two routers configured with WCP that are connected back to back
          produce a loop back situation that results in a bus error, causing
          the PPP interface to bounce.

CR 21882: IPX.
          If you disable IPX RIP supply on a router, the router will fail to
          learn about any other IPX routes over that interface.


CR 22215: SYNC.
          The Hold Down Timer that is used for Dial Backup fails to work
          correctly if the platform OSYNC net modules, ASN and AN, are being
          used on the Master Primary Line (calling side).

CR 20859: Switched Services.
          When a router with multiple DOD pools receives a call, IPCP fails
          to converge.

CR 21335: DECnet.
          If a slot configured to run DECnet attempts to send an adjacent
          message to another slot, and that slot unexpectedly
          goes down, a fault on the transmitting slot
          occurs, resulting in the following error message:
          "Error in drs_cct_init.c at line 824".

CR 23076: DLSw.
          When you boot a DLS network with multiple (>300) TCP peer
          connections, the routine dls_tcp_rcv_establish exits with orphan
          buffers, but the network remains operational.

CR 22977: DLSw.
          The router faults when 400 TCP peer connections with 212
          DLS connections are running on one slot.

CR 22522: TCP.
          When you run an automated test script that disables and enables
          TCP, an error occurs in tcp_mgr.c at line 1019.

CR 22549: Source Route Bridge.
          The router drops Single Route Explorers if the number of
          route descriptors in the frame exceed the maximum
          number of RDs configured for that interface. According to the IBM
          Source Routing specification, decreasing the number of hops from 7
          (or the "Max numbers of RDs") should affect only ARE's, not
          STEs or Source Route Frames (SRFs). Also, the router will drop
          STEs if you set the new MIB parameter, wfBrSrAreHopCountlimit.

CR 22741: IP.
          When you disable the RIP supply, the router should not respond
          with a RIP supply to any RIP request from other routers or nodes,
          except when the source port of the request is a port other than
          the UDP 520 (the designated RIP port). In this case, the router
          should respond even if the supply is turned off.

CR 21617: BGP.
          Numerous TCP segment retransmissions may cause routers exchanging
          30000 routes via BGP an excessive amount of time to complete.

CR 22415: IPX.
          When you use the IPX maximum path setting to install multiple equal
          cost paths to the router, the router may answer "get nearest
          server" requests when there is a server local to that network.


CR 22398: Telnet.
          When you disable and re-enable TCP, an error occurs in
          tn_tcp_listen.c. This errors occurs because the router fails to
          receive a successful tcp_open call return when attempting to
          establish the listening well known telnet port.

CR 23263: IPX.
          If the router bounces an IPX interface while it is processing
          a general service query, a situation may occur in which the router
          chooses to ignore subsequent general service queries.

CR 22783: Switched Services.
          When a primary circuit fails, the master router selects a modem
          from the pool and initiates the dial recovery process. However,
          if the modem selected has the phone line disconnected, the router
          attempts to dial three times and then terminates the process
          without attempting to use the other operational modems in the
          pool. Also, if the backup line is up and is disconnected from the
          router, the backup process is terminated and no attempt is
          made to establish a connection through one of the remaining
          modems in the pool.

CR 23165: Translation Bridge.
          A router configured with one or two translation bridge interfaces
          on the same slot will experience multiple faults on that slot if
          the interfaces receive several source route packets that require a
          RIF packet to be cached.

CR 23290: TCP.
          A problem exists in 9.00/rel through 9.01/1sqa4 in which breaking
          down 225+ TCP sessions causes a router to run out of resources and
          eventually fault.

CR 23289: IP.
          When an IP interface removes the wfIpNetToMediaEntry for an
          address and then receives an ARP request from that IP address--
          either by the circuit bouncing or when host cache is enabled-- the
          router may fail to respond to the ARP request.

CR 23665: DLSw.
          If you configure DLS on two circuits on the same slot
          (each circuit has a IBM host with same mac address) and
          you disable and re-enable TCP, the existing DLS connection
          disconnects and never recovers.

CR 22790: Translation Bridge.
          Translation bridge caches a RIF incorrectly, sending a bad
          source routing bridge packet whose destination MAC address is a
          Wellfleet proprietary group address (C000A2FFFFF3).

CR 23669: VINES.
          When you add a VINES client to the router's table, the router
          inadvertently sends out full SRTP updates to client neighbors.
          As a result, client neighbors whose routing server is not a
          Bay Networks router are aged out every six minutes, and a full
          update is sent out.

CR 23021: VINES.
          A bus error occurs when a VINES server attached to different
          physical media (Ethernet and Token Ring, for example) on the same
          router on different slots learns a new neighbor that is on the
          same segment as one of the dual attachments.

CR 22064: DLSw.
          When an IBM host I9021 replies to an XID T2 poll by TEST Poll,
          DLS transmits this TEST Poll through SSP but does not
          send a Reach_Ack message to ICANREACH in response to the
          the TEST Poll frame. As a result, the session is never
          established.

CR 22806: DLSw.
          Customer enhancement to ensure that Bay Networks implementation
          of NetBIOS over DLS is compatible with Windows NT's
          implementation of NetBIOS.

          Specifically, Windows NT uses a second NAME_QUERY
          to construct a matrix. The new implementation of NetBIOS over DLS
          employs multiple NameQuery frames to construct two matrices.
          The NBF issues the first NAME_QUERY with an LSN=0 to find the
          remote device. When the remote device responds, the network
          address is extracted and put into the matrix. Then a second
          NAME_QUERY with a real LSN is sent directly to the remote
          device. The Bay Networks implementation of the DLS state machine
          drops the second NAME_QUERY frame. As a result, the matrix is
          never completed, and NetBIOS does not work properly.

CR 23351: LNM.
          When a Token Ring port that you have configured for LNM receives a
          single LLC TEST FINAL frame, it passes it to LNM. But after LNM
          processes the packet, it fails to free it, causing the packet to
          loop back to itself.

CR 23858: Translation Bridge.
          When you disable translation bridge in dynamic mode while RIFs are
          present in the cache, bus error may occur.

CR 22434: TCP.
          When you attempt to boot a router consisting of 500 plus TCP
          connections, an error occurs in mib_ent.c at line 1115.


------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Revision fix 8.12/10 corrects the following problem:
=============================================================================

No CR: IPX
       Bus error may occur in g_gate_status.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Revision fix 8.12/9 corrects the following problems:
=============================================================================

CR 19177: VINES.
          After a slot resets, VINES may stop forwarding packets to
          some networks even though the network table in the MIB is correct.

CR 19507: DLS.
          The DLSw Destination MAC address filters do not work properly.
          As a result, the DLS Drop All Filter fails to
          drop packets according to the filter precedence logic that
          has been defined.

CR 19126: DLS.
          DLSw destination MAC filters do not work properly. Users
          operating PC's running SNA 3270 emulation software are allowed
          to access the Destination MAC addresses 0x400000031723 and
          0x400000000007, both of which are restricted.

CR 21998: IPX.
          Dynamically adding, deleting, or modifying the IPX SAP server or
          network filters using Site Manager will sometimes cause
          a slot fault, which is generated in the form of a bus or watchdog
          error.

CR 22085: FTP.
          When you use the FTP software package QVNET to transfer a file to
          a router, a tag violation error occurs.

CR 22397: TCP.
          Disabling and enabling the DLS base causes an error when you have
          approximately 400 TCP connections (state 3) on a router.

CR 21497: IP.
          Dynamically configuring OSPF summaries may cause routers to
          advertise OSPF summaries with incorrect masks, thereby preventing
          access to routes summarized within those summaries.

CR 22188: Source Route Bridge.
          Source Route Bridge (SRB) filters fail on HSSI and SYNC media.
          The SRB traffic filters you enter in Site Manager in are in
          non-bitswapped format for all media types. These traffic filters
          fail on SYNC and HSSI media when the MAC addresses (entered in
          Site Manager) are compared to a bitswapped MAC address that exists
          when frames get bridged from Token Ring to HSSI/SYNC.

CR 19902: VINES.
          Customer enhancement to provide Ethertype 0x80C4 on Ethernet to
          enable native VINES support on FDDI and to support the
          interoperability of bridging (FDDI to Ethernet) and routing
         (Ethernet).

CR 22610: VINES.
          A neighbor entry on the slot may cause an invalid next
          hop pointer because of a timing error. As a result, that neighbor
          and all of the servers it knows about become unreachable from the
          router. The router will be able to ping its neighbor, but several
          of the servers/routers behind the router that reside on other slots
          will be unable to ping through this router.

CR 19627: Token Ring.
          A fault may occur on an AN router upon receipt of a source route
          frame that contains only the standard source route LLC header and
          its associated RIF field.

CR 22267: MIB.
          You cannot properly configure the 'TR End Station ARP Type'
          parameter in Site Manager revisions 3.00 through 3.01/rev1
          when interacting with 8-series router code versions up to
          8.12/fix8. This problem is caused by an IP Interface MIB parameter
          inconsistency between versions 8.12 and 9.00.

          Support for 'TR End Station Arp Type' was implemented in 8.11/fix2
          and 9.00/rel. The attribute wfIpInterfaceTrEsArpType was added to
          both the 8.10 and 9.00 MIB revisions but at different offsets,
          thus preventing 3.00/3.01 users to set this attribute dynamically
          against an 8.12 router version.

          To use this MIB attribute for 8.12/fix9, you MUST consider the
          following:

           o Update previous configurations and use the correct version of
             Site Manager when implementing future configuration changes.

           o Configuration files created by version 2.12/rel or earlier
             will be upgraded automatically when booted on a router running
             8.12/fix9 to correct the MIB inconsistency and preserve the
             original attribute setting.

           o Site Manager 2.12/fix1 and 3.01/rev2 users will now be able to
             configure this attribute dynamically against 8.12/fix9. If you
             are using Site Manager version 2.12/fix1 or version 3.00 or
             higher, you MUST upgrade your router software to version
             8.12/fix9 (minimally) to correctly manage this attribute.

CR 20863: DECnet.
          If you bounce a DECnet circuit while it is learning adjacencies,
          bus errors may occur.

CR 22628: OSI.
          OSI routing may stop whenever a reset occurs on a slot that routes
          OSI traffic. This failure condition occurs after you manually
          reset a slot or after it encounters a software failure (fault,
          resetting a slot).

CR 13463: IP.
          When upgrading router software from 8.01/4 to 8.10, the
          processing of multiple ARPs could result in a hogs bufs
          condition.

CR 22814: IP.
          Removed changes for CR 13523 (introduced in 8.12/8) pending
          resolution of the problems identified in CR 22814.

CR 22502: Token Ring.
          A fault in the tms380 driver may occur when a Token Ring card
          (quad or dual) that is running DLS attempts to initialize
          interfaces on a slot that supports over 100 TCP connections. The
          failure occurs because the driver code fails to wait long
          enough for the token diagnostics to complete on a busy system.

CR 23182: IP.
          An OSPF Point-to-Point interface fails to receive Hello packets
          from its neighbor, causing an established adjacency
          to go down. This condition may occur in environments in which a
          default route is used, thus affecting those interfaces that
          receive packets destined for the default route.

CR 22020: LLC.
          If you change the Source Route Bridge Ring ID dynamically, DLSw
          fails, preventing connections established over DLSw (SNA and
          NetBIOS) from functioning.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Revision 8.12/8 corrects the following problems:
==============================================================================

CR 17620: Frame Relay.
          Certain Protocol Prioritization/Outbound Bridge Filters over Frame
          Relay cause ARP to erroneously drop ARP frames.

CR 20237: X.25.
          X.25 PDN connections are off by 1 when accepting calls.
          For example, when you set max_connections to
          a value of 2, the service allows 3 calls. Likewise, when you set
          max_connections to a value of 4, the service allows 5 calls.

CR 19805: MIB.
          MIBII ifentry iftype 46 does not exist for HSSI interface.
          Therefore, when attempting to run a WAN summary against the HSSI
          port, the field displays all zeros (0000s), and never updates.

CR 21332: DLSw.
          Dynamically deleting the DLS slot IP address disrupts the existing
          TCP connections on other slots on a router.

CR 16192: DLSw.
          When using DLS between LANDP/DOS and the host system, the XID
          format 8 is dropped, preventing LANDP/DOS from receiving the
          negative XID response. As a result, LANDP/DOS and the host are
          unable to establish a connection.

CR 19600: DLSw.
          DLS creates invalid wfDlsConnectionEntry entries on local switch,
          causing a panic in dls_netbios.c, which in turn causes all NetBIOS
          and SNA sessions to bounce.

CR 21331: TCP.
          TCP peers fail to reconnect when you dynamically delete and later
          add a DLS peer entry that has already established a TCP
          connection.

CR 19502: SYNC.
          When you enable the RTS/CTS option (used to provide sync line flow
          control to some DCE equipment) on an AN or an ASN router,
          the synchronous interface goes down, preventing it from
          transmitting and receiving frames.

              AN---------|Break Out Box|------------BLN
              sync         sync

          The Break Out Box is configured to act as a modem eliminator.

CR 20131: PCAP.
          Packet Capture receive filters on source or destination MAC
          address and do not work on TOKEN or FDDI.

CR 13523: Source Routing Bridge.
          A failure of IP Encapsulated source route traffic may occur under
          certain circumstances immediately following the replacement of
          router hardware. The problem occurs as a result of an unexpected
          change to the Time of Day clock, which can be introduced by a
          change in hardware. This is considered a problem because IP
          Encapsulation runs on a UDP based application that uses time
          stamped sequence numbering.

CR 20679: MIB.
          The MIB entry wfIfEntry.wfIfOperStatus used to indicate that
          an interface is disabled is not set correctly for
          Token Ring, Ethernet and Synchronous interfaces. The current value
          is set to 3 for TESTING. This value should be set to 2 for DOWN.

CR 21555: IP.
          An IP error occurs continuously after booting a router, and IP
          fails to recover. The problem occurs only when attempting to
          process an invalid host adjacent host, whose nexthop
          interface address does not exist.

CR 20955: PING_MIB.
          When issuing a series of pings, the ping MIB may receive
          echo replies out of sequence, therefore causing the ping MIB to
          report invalid positive values for total and maximum delay.

CR 21639: X.25.
          A panic in mib_ent.c occurs when you add or delete X.25 VCs.
          VCs get added and deleted when sessions are being added or timed
          out or when a router tries to start a session to a remote site but
          the remote end is not operational.

CR 21269: DECnet
          When you issue the SHOW DECNET CIRCUITS command under certain
          circumstances, the link module type is displayed incorrectly. If
          the link module that resides in the slot is an FDDI card, the
          script shows it incorrectly as a Token Ring card
          under the circuit type. The script reflects the link module type
          correctly if the card is either a Token Ring or an Ethernet.

CR 21893: DLSw.
          NetBIOS Name recognized frame is duplicated by DLS in a local
          switch configuration with Source Routing Bridge enabled.

CR 19206: DLSw.
          A fault can occur in tcp_prep_xbuf.c when establishing DLS
          connections.

CR 21944: Source Routing Bridge.
          A Source Route frame whose destination address is a Wellfleet
          Group MAC Address does not get filtered by Source Routing Bridge
          (SRB) traffic filters on a Token Ring interface when the SRB
          traffic filters are configured for the real destination address
          and not the Wellfleet group MAC address.

CR 21268: SCRIPTS.
          If you have configured more than one SNMP Manager and issue the
          the SHOW SNMP COMMUNITY command, the output format for the SNMP
          Managers display incorrectly on your screen. Insert a carriage
          return at the end of the first SNMP Manager to ensure that they
          format correctly.

CR None:  VINES.
          A router may experience memory loss or corruption when numerous
          VINES routes are aged simultaneously.

CR 21691: DLSw.
          When you configure a DLSw filter with the action "Forward to
          Peer", any matching packet is not forwarded. The log indicates
          that the filter rule matched successfully, but shows an
          invalid IP address.


CR 19711: Scripts.
          The SHOW HARDWARE SLOT command generates too many columns on your
          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 16330: SCRIPTS.
          When you issue the script SHOW STATE ALL command with Frame Relay
          or BGP configured, the state.bat script calls the fr.bat script
          with invalid parameters. This causes the fr.bat script to display
          its help information.

CR 21835: IP.
          A router acting as a BOOTp gateway fails to forward BOOTp replies
          back to the requester over a Frame Relay interface configured in
          Group Mode.

CR 21553: DLSw.
          When using SRB Encaps on a Token Ring interface,
          wfDlsInterfaceEntry.7 & wfLlcInterfaceEntry.24, the XID is not
          getting passed to the Token Ring. The RIF field has the explorer
          bit still asserted.

CR 19724: IP.
          The route tables for each slot are inconsistent. When a packet
          destined for a network that is missing from a particular slot's
          route table is forwarded, the packet is sent out the Default
          Route. The default router receives the packet, does a lookup for
          the destination, and the packet is sent back to the original
          router on a different slot/interface. Because this slot
          has a correct route table, the packet is forwarded out the correct
          interface.

CR 22390: TCP.
          TCP connections for an unconfigured peer may fail to reach a full
          "ESTABLISHED" state, preventing DLSw connectivity between the
          peers. This condition applies only to connections from Write to
          Read port.

CR 22: TCP.
          When you have approximately 400 TCP connections (state 3) on a
          router and you disable and enable the DLS base
          s wfDls.2.0 2;commit; s wfDls.2.0 1;commit, and error occurs.

CR 21673: DLSw.
          SDLC sends RNRs and never exits in a half duplex mode.




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