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- Page 3 Overview ..............................5 FOS v7.0.1 Feature Descriptions ....................... 6 Optionally Licensed Software ........................8 Temporary License Support ........................10 Supported Switches ..........................10 Standards Compliance ..........................10 Technical Support ............................. 11 FOS Migration Considerations ........................ 13 Important Notes ............................15 Blade Support ............................
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- Page 33 Defect ID: DEFECT000285745 Technical Severity: High Summary: Kernel watchdog timer expired when pulling Ethernet cable or connected to an unstable link Symptom: Switch kernel watchdog panics with BR5100 and BR5300 occasionally Risk of Fix: Low Feature: OS Services Probability: Low Function: Linux Kernal Reported In Release: FOS6.2.0 Service Request ID: 423329...
- Page 34 Defect ID: DEFECT000358972 Technical Severity: High Summary: Port is negotiating to 16G even though optic is only capable of 8G Symptom: Customer will see multiple problems with I/O. Workaround: bounce the problem port with this kind of mismatch speed setting. Risk of Fix: Low Feature: 16G Platform Services Probability: Medium...
- Page 35 Defect ID: DEFECT000368909 Technical Severity: Medium Summary: AG is not registering descriptor and creating /var/log/ag_desc.txt Symptom: Switch experiences excessive CF usage due to generation of /var/log/ag_desc.txt. Risk of Fix: Low Feature: FOS Software Probability: Low Function: Management Services Reported In Release: FOS6.4.1 Service Request ID: 671597 Defect ID: DEFECT000369660 Technical Severity: Medium...
- Page 36 Defect ID: DEFECT000374751 Technical Severity: Medium Summary: Security vulnerability check for CVE-2011-3192 fails on switches running on FOS prior to v7.0.2 Symptom: When the vulnerability is explored, it may trigger increase in memory and CPU usage and lead to a Denial of Service condition with Httpd server.
- Page 37 Defect ID: DEFECT000379996 Technical Severity: High Summary: Configdownload fails with segmentation fault. Symptom: If a configdownload is done to a chassis having motd set with a config file having no motd set, confidownload operation will fail due to ‘segmentation fault’ Risk of Fix: Low Feature: FOS Security Probability: Low...
- Page 38 Defect ID: DEFECT000381361 Technical Severity: Medium Summary: After hareboot on B5460, internal ports go offline/online with warm recovery Symptom: FOS version of 6.4.2 and before, traffic will be disrupted during HCL on B5460. This issue cannot be resolved without a FPGA upgrade. FOSv6.4.3 contains upgrade of FPGA code. For the fix to be effective, please schedule window on upgrade: Upgrade to FOS v6.4.3 Run fpga_update after upgrade...
- Page 39 Defect ID: DEFECT000382643 Technical Severity: Medium Summary: CP panicked during core blade reseat Symptom: During core blade replacement, a race condition caused a removed blade object being access by routing module. Customer observed unintended Hafailover. Risk of Fix: Low Feature: FOS Software Probability: Medium Function: Fabric Services Reported In Release: FOS6.4.1...
- Page 40 Defect ID: DEFECT000384078 Technical Severity: High Summary: FCIP tunnel performance drop in FOS v7.x Symptom: Small performance drop in FCIP tunnel from FOS v6.4.x to FOS v7.x when running small IO throughput. Risk of Fix: Low Feature: FCIP Probability: Medium Function: FCIP Performance Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1 Defect ID: DEFECT000384682...
- Page 41 Defect ID: DEFECT000386528 Technical Severity: High Summary: Switch panic upon detecting SRAM parity error on 7500 and FR4-18i Symptom: Parity error in ASIC is very rare and may be observed after a long up time. This specific parity error in 7500/FR4-18i SRAM cannot be recovered by software refresh, thus the attempted refresh generated switch panic.
- Page 42 Defect ID: DEFECT000387371 Technical Severity: Medium Summary: Replication application getting errors after upgrading from FOSv6.4.1_fcoe to FOSv7.0.x with FCIP emulation Symptom: Customer will get failures in Teradata replication Risk of Fix: Low Feature: FOS Software Probability: High Function: FCIP Reported In Release: FOS7.0.0 Service Request ID: 706489 Defect ID: DEFECT000387536 Technical Severity: Medium...
- Page 43 Defect ID: DEFECT000389202 Technical Severity: Medium Summary: After changing F-port buffers via WebTools 0n 7800 cannot set buffers back to 8 (Default) Symptom: After set F-port buffer credits to 16 using WebTools > port admin (advanced mode) > F-port BB credit, was unable to set it back to 8 and get the following error message:"Error when performing specified action for port 1 - F-Port BB credits with value less than 9 is not allowed.
- Page 44 Defect ID: DEFECT000390650 Technical Severity: Critical Summary: Device does not register FC4 type and path unable to failover Symptom: Device is not failing over to its alternate port if that alternate port happens to be on the upper part of the FC8-64 port blade such as port indexes 868 to 884 Workaround: Use port indexes 239-254 Risk of Fix: Low...
- Page 45 Defect ID: DEFECT000393131 Technical Severity: Medium Summary: BR5300 goes to faulty after portloopback tetsing Symptom: Customer performed portloopbacktest repeatedly on FOS v7.0.1 and v7.0.1a in a loop script, this repeated test was "PASSED" a few times and then switch changed to faulty status. This affects BR5300 only.
- Page 46 Defect ID: DEFECT000395750 Technical Severity: Medium Summary: Update various man pages. Symptom: Added more information on: 1. perfaddeemonitor -force parameter 2. perfttmon/perfaddeemonitor -force, -delete -all option 3. Dport over DWDM link 4. islshow 5. fdmishow Risk of Fix: Medium Feature: Man Pages Probability: Low Function: Edit/Correct Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1...
- Page 47 Defect ID: DEFECT000397135 Technical Severity: Medium Summary: change Port Fencing raslog severity Symptom: Change Port Fencing raslog message FW- 1202 FW-1501 from Warning to Error. No functional impact. Risk of Fix: Low Feature: Infrastructure Probability: Low Function: Other Reported In Release: FOS6.4.3 Defect ID: DEFECT000397275 Technical Severity: Medium Summary: Performing switchdisable,configdefault, portcfgpersistenetenable, portcfgdefault, then...
- Page 48 Defect ID: DEFECT000399130 Technical Severity: Medium Summary: Switch ports report CRC with Good EOF Errors. Symptom: Large number of CRC with good EOF errors on DCX system when an FC8-64 is installed in slot 1,3,9 Risk of Fix: Low Feature: 8G ASIC Driver Probability: Low Function: C2 ASIC driver Reported In Release: FOS6.4.2...
- Page 49 Defect ID: DEFECT000400194 Technical Severity: High Summary: Selected switch configuration accessible without authenticating Symptom: Able to query switch via HTTP for information without authenticating with a username/password Risk of Fix: Low Feature: FOS Software Probability: High Function: Security Reported In Release: FOS6.0.0 Service Request ID: 732065 Defect ID: DEFECT000401218 Technical Severity: Medium...
- Page 50 Defect ID: DEFECT000403223 Technical Severity: Medium Summary: perfttmon --show [number of flows] does not show expected results. Symptom: When user enters the number of flows value which is equal to 32 in platforms where the maximum flows allowed is 32 , then the output of perfttmon --show does not match with the expected results. Risk of Fix: Low Feature: FOS Software Probability: Low...
- Page 51 Defect ID: DEFECT000406655 Technical Severity: High Summary: Switch experiences panic during firmwaredownload and CPs loose HA sync Symptom: While managing switch via SMI-A and when SMI-A sends management server request "MS_GPORT_NG command" during code upgrade, switch panics Risk of Fix: Low Feature: FOS Software Probability: Medium Function: Management Services...
- Page 52 Defect ID: DEFECT000410075 Technical Severity: Medium Summary: CRC with Good EOF errors detected on DCX Symptom: Observe CRC with Good EOF errors on 5/139 link when FC8-32 card installed in slot 3 and on 5/100 link when FX8-24 card installed in slots 4. These errors could impact traffic. Risk of Fix: Low Feature: 8G ASIC Driver Probability: Low...
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