Caveats in Cisco IOS XE 3.7S Releases
Caveats describe unexpected behavior. Severity 1 caveats are the most serious caveats. Severity 2 caveats are less serious. Severity 3 caveats are moderate caveats and only select severity 3 caveats are included in this chapter.
This section describes caveats in Cisco IOS XE 3.7S releases.
In this section, the following information is provided for each caveat:
- Symptom—A description of what is observed when the caveat occurs.
- Conditions—The conditions under which the caveat has been known to occur.
- Workaround—Solutions, if available, to counteract the caveat.
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The following sections describe the open and resolved caveats in 3.7S Releases:
Open Caveats—Cisco IOS XE Release 3.7(6)S
There are no open caveats in Cisco IOS XE Release 3.7(6)S.
Resolved Caveats—Cisco IOS XE Release 3.7(6)S
This section documents the resolved caveats for the Cisco ASR 903 Router in Cisco IOS XE Release 3.7(6)S.
Symptom: Traceback observed on router when J1 functionality is used.
Conditions: This issue occurs when J1 expect message is configured.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: Cross-connect backup force-switchover interface command does not showing the 10G option.
Conditions: This issue occurs on trying to perform a force-switchover for the 10G interface.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: Sub-package mode boot fails on the router.
Conditions: This issue occurs when the sub-package mode boot is performed from USB.
Workaround: Boot using the consolidated mode from USB with stand-alone RSP.
Symptom: Crash observed on router when show frr-manager client det command is executed.
Conditions: This issue is observed when show frr-manager client client-name det command is executed, and the client does not exist.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Open Caveats—Cisco IOS XE Release 3.7(5)S
This section documents the unexpected behavior that might be seen with the Cisco ASR 903 Router in Cisco IOS XE Release 3.7(5)S.
Symptoms: The routers acts as though local proxy-arp is configured and does a proxy-arp for the systems in the same subnet.
Conditions: This issue occurs when the router receives ARP request on an interface when the interface is not fully initialized. The connected routes are not added in the routing table causing the proxy-arp to reply and thus the wrong ARP is entered.
Workaround: Execute a shutdown followed by a no shutdown on the routers.
Symptom: Ping fails to remote MEP.
Conditions: This issue occurs on configure CFM and a ping to remote MEP with packet size greater than 1478 bytes is performed.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: Memory leaks are seen on configuring IP FRR remote LFA on the router.
Conditions: This issue occurs on configuring and un-configuring IP-FRR remote LFA on the router.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: When IFM is configured on EVC BD, with encapsulation default in the core, the remote MEPS are not learned.
Conditions: This issue is observed when encapsulation default is configured towards the core facing side.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: Segmentation faults observed on the router.
Conditions: This issue is seen when IMA, CEM and Serial are configured on different controllers on the router and the image is loaded.
Workaround: Do not combine IMA, CEM and Serial configurations.
Symptom: Multiple priority commands get accepted per policy.
Conditions: This issue occurs when a policy-map with priority is configured in one of its classes. Adding another class with policer first and then with priority causes this issue..
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: The SYNC packets might go out quite irregularly when PTP master (OC/BC) is configured on the router.
Conditions: This issue occurs when the router is configured as PTP master.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: The standby RSP Sync LED goes to holdover after switchover.
Conditions: This issue occurs in normal working conditions. This is a cosmetic issue.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: PFM fails for about fiveminutes after OIR on the master.
Conditions: This issue occurs when OIR is triggered on the master.
Workaround: Wait for 5-6 minutes after the OIR
Symptom: QOS does not reject policy-map with match EXP and extended num ACL (permit L4).
Conditions: This issue occurs when the policy-map with match exp and L4 ACL is configured and applied on main interface.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: Next-hop of a static redistributed route is unexpectedly marked as unreachable.
Conditions: This issue occurs when redistributing a static route into BGP (in global or VRF table (X)), whose next-hop points to another VRF (Y), the next-hop will be looked up in (X), and thus the route may be marked with next-hop unreachable.
Workaround: Manually set the next-hop to 0 when redistributing using the set ip next-hop peer-address command.
Symptom: The PID for the new fan tray is not reflected for show inventory command output.
Conditions: This issue occurs when the show inventory command is issued. The fan tray PID does not show up for SNMP walk for Entity MIB.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: The router may see unicast traffic not being forwarded out of the Gigabit Ethernet interface while multicast traffic is being processed by the router correctly. Pings fail to a directly connected neighbour but OSPF would be up.
Conditions: This issue occurs when BDI configs are configured on the Gigabit Ethernet interface.
Workaround: Reload the router.
Resolved Caveats—Cisco IOS XE Release 3.7(5)S
This section documents the resolved caveats for the Cisco ASR 903 Router in Cisco IOS XE Release 3.7(5)S.
Symptom: The clear ethernet cfm ais command with evc option does not work.
Conditions: This issue occurs when evc name with clear ethernet cfm ais command is specified.
Workaround: Use the service option instead.
Symptom: The show inventory command displays wrong serial number.
Conditions: This issue occurs when the inventory is managed by the main serial number. However the RPS and IM display PCB Serial Number in the show inventory output.
Workaround: Use the show diag all eeprom detail command.
Symptom: OSPF is stuck in INIT after performing a shutdown followed by no shutdown of the OSPF process. The router shows an LSA to be present on flood-list in the show ip ospf flood-list command output.
Conditions: This issue occurs after executing a shutdown followed by no shutdown of the OSPF process. The issue is only seen in timing conditions.
Workaround: Execute a shutdown followed by no shutdown on the physical interface which has LSA on its flood-list.
Symptom: Traffic drop observed on the router after IM OIR.
Conditions: This issue occurs after an IM OIR.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: The 10 Gigabit Ethernet Interface Power and Status LED on the IM does not working as expected.
Conditions: This issue occurs on module OIR or reload.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: Executing show xconnect results in a memory leak. This issue was observed after issuing the show memory debug leaks chunks command as in example below:
Router# show memory debug leaks chunks Adding blocks for GD...
Address Size Alloc_pc PID Alloc-Proc Name
AllocPC Address Size Parent Name
Address Size Alloc_pc PID Alloc-Proc Name AA3F8B4 2348 6D0B528 97 Exec
Conditions: This issue is observed when one or more xconnects are configured with UDP encapsulation.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: An ISIS flap is observed on performing SSO.
Conditions: This issue occurs when nsf ietf is configured and one or more loopbacks are configured as passive interfaces.
Workaround: Perform the following;
a. Use nsf cisco.
b. Use nsf ietf and configure ip router isis process_name on the loopback interfaces.
Symptom: Mismatch of the Gigabit Ethernet interface when Wait-to-Restore (WTR) is configured.
Conditions: This issue occurs when the Gigabit Ethernet interface is configured as input source and the WTR is configured as 0 and shutdown and no shutdown is executed.
Workaround: Configure the WTR greater than 20 seconds.
Symptom: IPv6 BFD with static client does not come up with VRF.
Conditions: This issue is seen on configuring BFD.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: Changing the local label on an existing static (no signaling), Any Transport over MPLS (AToM) pseudowire, or changing the static pseudowire to a dynamic one (with LDP signaling) may cause traffic to fail to traverse the pseudowire.
Conditions: This issue is observed when either the configured value of the static local label is changed, or if the pseudowire is changed to a dynamic one.
Workaround: Unconfigure the existing xconnect or pseudowire before entering the new configuration.
Symptom: The router crashes after OSPFv3 is unconfigured from an interface.
Conditions: This issue is observed when NSR is enabled.
Workaround: Unconfigure NSR before unconfiguring OSPFv3 from an interface.
Symptom: The Cisco ASR 903 TOD port tx when configured as slave does not work.
Conditions: This issue occurs when TOD is configured.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Open Caveats—Cisco IOS XE Release 3.7(4)S
This section documents the unexpected behavior that might be seen with the Cisco ASR 903 Router in Cisco IOS XE Release 3.7(4)S.
Symptom: IFM CC messages are leaked to unmatched encapsulation on that bridge domain (BD).
Conditions: This issue occurs when EVCs with different encapsulation are present on same BD.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: Ping fails to remote MEP.
Conditions: This issue occurs when CFM is configured and a ping to remote MEP with packet size greater than 1478 bytes is executed.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: The router experiences remote CFM MEP flapping.
Conditions: Occurs when the router is connected via a CFM xconnect and the link is running a high traffic rate.
Workaround: Reduce the rate of traffic.
Symptoms: The show ima interface command omits some IMA group information such as ImaGroupSymmetry.
Conditions: This issue occurs when the show ima interface command.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: The router displays object download error messages on the console.
Conditions: This issue occurs under the following conditions
– Execute the mac address sticky command.
– Configure 25 incremental MAC addresses and execute the clean mac-address-table bdomain command
– Remove a mac security sticky configuration from an EVC interface.
Workaround: Avoid issuing the clear mac-address-table command when the mac security sticky command is applied.
Symptom: When IFM is configured on EVC BD, with encapsulation default in the core, the remote MEPS are not learnt.
Conditions: This issue is seen when encapsulation default is configured on the core facing side.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: FP active error messages are seen when the tunnel-tp interface is removed in a high-availability setup.
Conditions: This issue is seen after removing tunnel-tp interface.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: Event hog messages are received when 21k to 25k routes are advertised into MBGP and exported from one PE to another.
Conditions: This issue occurs when the redistributing routes range from 21k to 25k routes from OSFP are moved into MBGP and are exported from one PE to another.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: the SYNC packets go out quite irregularly when PTP master is configured.
Conditions: This issue is seen when the router is configured as PTP master.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: Loss of 70 msec are observed when performing an IM OIR in a remote LFA ring.
Conditions: This issue occurs when soft OIR is performed.
Workaround: Do a hard OIR to get less than 50 msec loss.
Symptom: The standby RSP Sync LED become holdover after switchover.
Conditions: This issue occurs in normal conditions,
Workaround: There is no workaround. This issue is cosmetic.
Symptom: Complete MAC Address space is not available on the RSP.
Conditions: This issue occurs after removing the service instance with the MAC Addresses learnt on the BD.
Workaround: Shutdown the service instance corresponding to bridge-domain and clear the MAC-address-table of that bridge-domain. Remove the service instance.
Symptom: The Gigabit Ethernet port on IMA8S may not come up after reload.
Conditions: This issue occurs when the router is reloaded multiple times
Workaround: Perform an IM OIR.
Symptom: The show interface command output displays incorrect speed values after SSO.
Conditions: This issue occurs when 100M SFPs are used
Workaround: Perform hardware module reset.
Symptom: SNMP MIB variables related to BDI counters do not function properly.
Conditions: This issue occurs when SNMP MIB variables related to BDI interface counters are used.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: The BDI statistics not getting incremented.
Conditions: This issue is observed when the show interface bdi statistics command is executed. The ingress and egress statistics displayed do not get incremented even if the traffic is going through the BDI interface.
Workaround: Use show platform hardware pp active interface statistics bdi command to view the statistics.
Symptom: The BGP session goes down when ICMP echo-request of 1500 pps is received.
Conditions: This issue occurs when the router has BGP peers and receives the ICMP-echo request. The BGP hold timer expires nd BGP peer goes down.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: The transmitting frequency is incorrectly displayed in case of DWDM-XFP-C.
Conditions: This issue occurs when show hw-module subslot 0 transceiver idprom command is executed.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: Few CFM primary sessions stays inactive.
Conditions: This issue occurs when CFM domain with SLA is configured.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: The interface clock is not detected after a switchover
Conditions: This issue occurs after a switvchover is performed from RSP0 to RSP1.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Resolved Caveats—Cisco IOS XE Release 3.7(4)S
This section documents the resolved caveats for the Cisco ASR 903 Router in Cisco IOS XE Release 3.7(4)S
Symptom: All commands listed under the REP configuration modes cannot be configured. This was seen while configuring REP with BDI and configuring more than one source ports in a span session.
Conditions: This issue occurs in normal working conditions.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: An Ethernet virtual circuit (EVC) interface stops forwarding traffic.
Conditions: This issue occurs when multiple EVCs are configured on a single interface. The EVCs have the same outer tag VLAN.When one of the EVCs is removed from the configuration, the other EVCs with the same outer tag VLAN stop passing traffic.
Workaround: Issue a shutdown command followed by a no shutdown command on the Ethernet interface.
Symptom: System does not shut down when the temperature sensor reaches shutdown threshold region.
Conditions: This issue occurs when the temperature sensors reaches the shutdown threshold region.
Workaround: Configure the facility-alarm critical exceed-action shutdown command has to enable this system shutdown behavior.
Symptom: Serial Number of the RSP in slot 1 is not displayed some times in the show inventory command output.
Conditions: This issue occurs under normal working conditions.
Workaround: Reload the router again.
Symptom: When one EFP is shut, traffic get stops for other EVCs.
Conditions: This issue occurs where there are multiple qinq EFPs with same outer vlan tag on one interface.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: Tracebacks seen on the router with inject bypass set to OFF.
Conditions: This issue occurs after shutting down the core facing interface or any OSPF enabled interface.
Workaround: There is no workaround.These traces does not have any functional impact.
Symptom: The REP protocol flaps, as indicated by the following error messages:
*Feb 8 06:51:38.857: %REP-4-LINKSTATUS: GigabitEthernet0/0/1 (segment 10) is non-operational due to neighbor not responding *Feb 8 06:51:39.096: %REP-4-LINKSTATUS: GigabitEthernet0/0/1 (segment 10) is operational
Conditions: This issue occurs under the following conditions:
– The router is sending traffic using the incremental MAC address table Fast LSL is configured using a 200ms timer.
– The router is configured with more than 2000 MAC addresses.
Workaround: Remove fast LSL from the REP configuration.
Symptom: The router auto-negotiates full duplex with 1000M half/full duplex configuration.
Conditions: This issue occurs when the router has Copper SFP with auto-negotiate enabled. and SFP is configured with 1000M half-duplex mode.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: The interface modules do not get powered off, when router is reloaded.
Conditions: This issue is occasionally seen on reload.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: Memory allocation observed fro CFM EVC BD offload cases- scale configurations
Conditions: This issue occurs with CFM EVC BD, when 256 session of3.3ms interval and 256 SLM session are configured and a shutdown command followed by a no shutdown command is issued on the traffic sending interface.
Workaround: Configure CFM session between 50-100.
Symptom: OSPF flap with aggressive timers (2 sec hello interval, 6 sec dead interval).
Conditions: This issue occurs on router Stateful switchover (SSO).
Workaround: Use the default OSPF hello timers.
Symptom: Time-hog traceback seen on router reload or IM reload.
Conditions: This issue occurs on router bootup or IM bootup.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: CoS value gets wrongly marked for a qinq packet.
Conditions: This issue occurs when a service instance with dot1q encapsulation and no rewrite is configured on the interface; The policy map attached in the ingress has marking configured.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: Label exhaustion message is seen with scale match vlan and match PHB policy; Classification fails to work.
Conditions: This issue occurs with TEFP with range of BDs that have match VLANs of the corresponding BD and a child policy to match prec/cos.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: Policy-map stops working on removing class default class dynamically.
Conditions: This issue occurs when policy-map is attached to target and class-default of top level is deleted dynamically.
Workaround: Detach and reattach the policy-map on target.
Symptom: Traffic through VPLS pseudowire is flooded due to MAC aging.
Conditions: This symptom is observed when bridge descriptor index (internal index) assigned to MAC address exceeds 20480.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: Process crash on standby router would not generate a core file.
Conditions: This issue occurs under normal conditions.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: IPv4 traffic gets affected on IPv6 ACL applied interface.
Condition: This issue occurs when both If IPv4 and IPv6 ACLs share the same label, the IPv4 traffic on the interface on which IPv6 ACL is applied is impacted.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: The router crashed with local span configuration.
Conditions: This issue occurs with local span configuration.
Workaround: Configure erspan configuration with source and destination erspan sessions in the router.
Symptom: WRED counters for CS0 does not work in show policy-map interface command.
Conditions: This issue is observed when show policy-map interface command is executed.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: Cos inner value gets copied into the cos value.
Conditions: This issue occurs when QinQ without rewrite service instance is configured.
Workaround: Apply the qos policy-map to the cos inner value.
Symptom: The interface LED glows green when shut.
Conditions: This issue occurs after an SSO is performed.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: Micro flaps observed on the router.
Conditions: This issue is seen when system is kept idle for hours.
Workaround: There is no workaround
Symptom: F1 is stuck in init state after the standby RSP reloads.
Conditions: This issue occurs on a reload or OIR of the standby RSP.
Workaround: Reload the standby RSP again.
Symptom: Label exhaust message is seen even on valid case if policy is configured before xconnect is configured on scaled configuration.
Conditions: This issue occurs when a service-policy is configured before configuring xconnect on the router that has consumed close to max labels.
Workaround: First configure xconnect and then configure service-policy.
Symptom: Traffic drops on the router.
Conditions: This issue occurs when configuring multichassis Link Aggregation Control Protocol (MLACP) switchover with Ethernet over Multiprotocol Label Switching (EOMPLS).
Workaround: Configure port channel with EOMPLS.
Symptom: Interface counters do not get updated with IP traffic.
Conditions: This issue occurs when pinging back to back connected interfaces; the interface counters stay at 0.
Workaround: Reload the device
Symptom: When you perform an OIR on the standby and active RSPs, CMAND crashes.
Conditions: This issue is observed after performing multiple standby OIRs and bringing the standby machine up.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: When system crashes, sometimes core files are generated with CRC errors.
Conditions: This issue occurs when the system crashes under stress conditions.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: IOMD crash is seen for any IM on the router.
Conditions: The IOMD crash is seen when show platform software agent IOMD 0/1 driver stats command is executed to verify driver statistics.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: Manager process crash occurs while configuration replace operation is performed.
Conditions: This issue occurs while moving from REP to G8032.
Workaround: Avoid performing a configuration replace.
Symptom: Egress layer3 multicast drops to few BDI outgoing interfaces after a router reload.
Conditions: This issue occurs after router reload.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: Multicast traffic drops on changing interface configuration from TEFP to VPLS over port channel (PoCH).
Conditions: This issue occurs when converting a layer 2 interface to layer 3; and then configuring IP PIM and IP address in quick succession.
Workaround: Use shutdown and no shutdown command on the interface.
Symptom: Traffic stops flowing through QinQ BDI interface after ARP times out and ARP is removed by shutting the BDI.
Conditions: This issue occurs when static routing is configured, and no routing protocol is configured on the interface.
Workaround: Manually resolve the ARP by pinging the BDI interface.
Symptom: The non IP packets get classified under the second class instead of class-default when two class-maps one having match on L4 ACL and other having match on L3 ACL with permit ip any any is configured.
Conditions: This issue occurs when two class-maps one matching on L3 ACL match and another matching on TCP or UDP are configured.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: EFP stats does not work after applying the QoS policy on the EFP.
Conditions: This issue occurs when service policy is applied on the EFP.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: If you dynamically remove the egress markings, ingress marking does not work.
Conditions: This issue is observed if a marking is present at the logical level in the egress direction, DM does not work.
Workaround: Use the egress set at leaf or PHB level.
Symptom: The standby FP is stuck in init state.
Conditions: This issue occurs after ISSU is performed.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: OSPF flap observed on the router.
Conditions: This issue occurs after IM OIR followed by SSO.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: The standby router crashes on bootup when highly scaled configurations and when L2VPN and multicast are configured.
Conditions: This issue occurs on reloading the router 3-4 times with highly scaled configurations and L2VPN and multicast are configured.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: The MTU value does not take effect on an interface.
Conditions: This issue is observed when you try to configure more than eight unique MTU values on the router.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) is unable to resolve neighbor Address Resolution Protocol (ARP).
Conditions: This issue occurs when software BFD is configured with static client; and IM OIR or reload is performed.
Workaround: Use manual ping.
Symptom: UDP based ACLs do not work after a router reload.
Conditions: This issue occurs after reload.
Workaround: Remove and add the ACL.
Symptom: IPv4 VRF ping fails when disabling IPv6 unicast-routing globally.
Conditions: This issue occurs when IPv6 unicast-routing is disabled.
Workaround: Enable IPv6 unicast-routing
Symptom: FMAN-FP crashes when you perform ab IM OIR.
Conditions: This issue is observed when you perform multiple IM OIRs with around 65 BFD sessions.
Workaround: Reload the router.
Symptom: Traffic loss of about six to eight seconds is observed when you perform an SSO.
Conditions: This issue is observed when you perform the switchover before IM OIR or the interface flaps.
Workaround: There is no workaround
Symptom: The TenGigabitEthernet port operates at one gigabit speeds in WAN-PHY mode on Cisco ASR 903 Routers. This leads to a huge amount of output drop.
Conditions: This issue is observed if a QoS policy is configured on the TenGigabitEthernet interface.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: The interface stops forwarding traffic.
Conditions: This issue is observed when the TenGigabitEthernet interface is in WAN-PHY mode and R0 is active.
Workaround: Use R1
Symptom: Replacing the copper SFP with SFP causes traffic drop after SSO is performed
Conditions: This issue occurs after replacing the copper SFP with the fiber SFP.
Workaround: Perform an IM OIR.
Symptom: 10 Gigabit Ethernet interface flaps without trigger causing traffic to switch to protected label-switched path (LSP).
Conditions: This issue occurs when the script is run for continuous SSO.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: Crash observed on the router.
Conditions: This issue occurs when shutdown followed by a no shutdown is performed on the physical interfaces.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Open Caveats—Cisco IOS XE Release 3.7(3)S
This section documents the unexpected behavior that might be seen with the Cisco ASR 903 Router in Cisco IOS XE Release 3.7(3)S.
Symptom: The router crashes when a bridge domain interface (BDI) interface running Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) is deleted.
Conditions: This issue occurs when a static MAC address is assigned on the neighbor interface or on one of the BDI interface on the router and BDI interface running BFD is deleted.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: CMAND process crash and tracebacks observed on the router.
Conditions: This issue occurs after a hard OIR is performed and the standby RSP comes up.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: The 1PPS output from the router is out of range when compared to the 1PPS output of the PTP master clock.
Conditions: This issue occurs when the router is configured as a hybrid clock (ordinary or boundary) and there are intermediate hops between the router and the PTP master clock. This issue occurs only when the intermediate hops are through an Cisco ASR 9000 router.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: An event hog message is received when 21000 to 25000 routes are advertised into the Multiprotocol BGP (MBGP) and exported from one PE to other PE.
Conditions: This issue occurs when the redistributing routes range from 21000 to 25000 routes from OSPF into MBGP and exported from a PE to other PE.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: The Cisco ASR 903 manager crashes while flapping local MPLS enabled interfaces at nmpls_label_populate_flow_data.
Conditions: This issue occurs when 6000 Layer3 VPN routes and 600 Layer2 VPN sessions exist.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: The pending objects from virtual forwarding interface (VFI) interfaces exists after shutdown of path when the core link comes up.
Conditions: This issue exists when Ethernet over MPLS (EoMPLS) or VPLS with MPLS Tunnel TE in the core exists.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: Interface mode cannot be entered for serial interfaces.Error messages are displayed.
Conditions: This issue occurs after creation of serial interfaces.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: OSPF connections flap and drop traffic for approximately 20 seconds
Conditions: This issue occurs during stateful switchover (SSO).
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: A crash is observed after completing ISSU. The F0/F1 are getting stuck in init state.
Conditions: This issue occurs after completing ISSU.
Workaround: Reload the router.
Symptom: Performing an IM OIR in a remote LFA ring reports a loss of 70 ms.
Conditions: This issue occurs during a soft OIR of the IM.
Workaround: Perform a hard OIR for a loss less than 50 ms.
Symptom: GLC-ZX-SM-RGD and GLC-LX-SM-RGD rapid SFP OIR causes ipprom to fail.
Conditions: This issue occurs after rapid SFP OIR.
Workaround: Perform each OIR with a delay of 30-40 seconds between the OIR. Reload the IM to recover the port.
Symptom: The Gigabit Ethernet port on interface module does not come up after a reload.
Conditions: This issue occurs when the Cisco ASR 903 router is reloaded multiple times.
Workaround: Perform an OIR of the interface module.
Symptom: The F1 interface is stuck in init state after OIR of the standby RSP or standby reload.
Conditions: This issue occurs after the standby RSP is reloaded or OIR is performed.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: The router displays object download error messages on the console similar to the following example:
%FMFP-3-OBJ_DWNLD_TO_CPP_FAILED"
Conditions: Occurs when you take the following actions:
– Apply the mac address sticky command
– Configure 25 incremental MAC addresses
– Apply the clear mac-address-table bdomain command
– Remove a mac security sticky configuration from an EVC interface
Workaround: Do not issue clear mac-address-table command when the mac security sticky is configured.
Symptom: The REP protocol flaps, as indicated by the following error messages:
*Feb 8 06:51:38.857: %REP-4-LINKSTATUS: GigabitEthernet0/0/1 (segment 10) is non-operational due to neighbor not responding
*Feb 8 06:51:39.096: %REP-4-LINKSTATUS: GigabitEthernet0/0/1 (segment 10) is operational
Conditions: Occurs under the following conditions:
– The router is sending traffic using the incremental MAC address table
– Fast LSL is configured using a 200ms timer.
– The router is configured with more than 2000 MAC addresses.
Workaround: Remove fast LSL from the REP configuration.
Symptom: SNMP MIB variables related to BDI counters do not function properly.
Conditions: Occurs when you use SNMP MIB variables related to BDI interface counters.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: The router drops traffic on VPLS circuits.
Conditions: Occurs when you take the following actions:
– Configure REP with VLAN load balancing
– Configure VPLS VFI on the VLANs
– Issue an stateful switchover (SSO)
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: The show interface BDI command does not display the incrementing of counters when traffic is flowing.
Conditions: This issue occurs after executing the show interface BDI command.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: OSPF flaps occur on interface module stop.
Conditions: This issue occurs when the interface module stops.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: The router displays the following symptoms:
– Object download failures
– OSPF traffic flaps
– High CPU utilization
– Bundling and unbundling of port-channel member links
– Slow console updates
– Remote MEP learning failures
Conditions: Occurs when you configure CFM offloaded MEPs for xconnect on a port-channel interface at a high scale and issue a shutdown / no shutdow n on the port-channel interface.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Resolved Caveats—Cisco IOS XE Release 3.7(3)S
This section documents the issues that have been resolved in Cisco IOS XE Release 3.7(3)S.
Symptom: The router displays the following console error message: %QOSMGR-3-OUT_OF_TCAM_RESOURCES: SIP0: nile_mgr: Out of tcam resources to execute command
Conditions: Occurs when you remove a QoS configuration by setting the interface to the default configuration.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: The router displays CPU utilization traceback messages and drops all multicast traffic for 2050 seconds.
Conditions: Occurs under the following conditions:
– Multicast is enabled with more than 500 multicast groups.
– The router is using RSP1B in SSM mode.
– BDI is configured on the access side of the router.
– There are 24 EFPs on each bridge domain.
– You enter a shutdown command on the access interface.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptoms: The router displays traceback and CPU error messages.
Conditions: Occurs when you configure a high number of MAC address table entries while REP is enabled; the router displays errors during a REP topology change, REP preemption, or when you perform a shutdown/no shutdown on an interface.
Workaround: Reduce the number of MAC address entries.
Symptoms: The show interface command output displays 1000 Mbps information for both 100Mbps and 10 gigabyte transceivers.
Conditions: Occurs when you use 100 Mbps and 10 Gigabit Ethernet transceivers
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: An Ethernet virtual circuit (EVC) interface does not forward IPv4 traffic.
Conditions: Occurs when you apply the encapsulation dot1q command to an EVC, followed by the encapsulation untagged command.
Workaround: Issue a shutdown / no shutdown on the EVC interface.
Symptom: QoS does not function on the router.
Conditions: Occurs under the following conditions:
– You apply a service-policy and an ACL to the same interface
– You modify the ACL by adding an ACE containing a permit ospf statement.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: The 10Mhz reference clock to the SDH Equipment Timing Source (SETS) goes to out-of-resource (OOR).
Conditions: Occurs when you connect both 10Mhz and 1pps inputs.
Workaround: Connect only the 10Mhz interface.
Symptom: The OC-3 interface module (IM) crashes.
Conditions: Occurs when you boot the router with an OC-3 IM and there are is no configuration applied to the IM. The issue occurs intermittently.
Workaround: There is no workaround; wait for the interface module to reset.
Symptom: Multicast statistics in the MFIB output can show NA/NA. This causes multicast traffic to drop every 3 minutes once the 3 minute timer expires.
Conditions: Occurs after an stateful switchover (SSO).
Workaround: Issue another SSO or reload the router.
Symptoms: The router crashes.
Conditions: Occurs when you apply a Network Based Application Recognition (NBAR) configuration to the router. There is no specific trigger.
Workaround: Remove the NBAR configuration, it is not supported.
Symptoms: The show inventory command displays incorrect serial number for SFPs and XFPs.
Conditions: Occurs after you issue repeated stateful switchovers (SSOs).
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptoms: Continuous IOMD crashes occur on OC-3 IM. Interfaces on OC-3 IM are not configurable and the router displays the the following error message:
"stand-by does not support this command"
Conditions: Occurs with OC-3 IM in a redundant configuration when an IOMD crash occurs on the active RSP and the standby IOMD session handle is not cleared.
Workaround: Reload the standby RSP.
Symptoms: The router displays traceback error messages at niles_if_count_initialize
Conditions: Occurs following a reload or stateful switchover (SSO).
Workaround: There is no workaround. However, the issue does not have any functionality impact.
Symptom: The router is unable to ping the remote customer edge (CE) router.
Conditions: Occurs when the router is acting as a provider edge (PE) device and is connected to the remote PE using dual loopback interfaces for peering with iBGP sessions.
Workaround: Use a single loopback interface. Use the same loopback interface for IPv4 and VPNv4 address families.
Symptom: The router loses OC-3 interface configurations after an ISSU upgrade.
Conditions: Occurs on OC-3 serial and POS interfaces after an ISSU software upgrade.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: The router drops PTP traffic.
Conditions: The issue occurs occasionally when you configure PTP slave clock to receive VLAN-tagged traffic.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: The router crashes.
Conditions: Occurs under the following conditions:
– MR-APS is configured on serial interfaces on the OC-3 interface module
– The router is configured with a high number of serial interfaces
– You reset an interface module or reload the router.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: A slave clock displays a high 1PPS offset value from the master clock.
Conditions: Occurs after an interface module reset or stateful switchover (SSO) on the master device.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: The router does not automatically upgrade the FPGA software.
Conditions: Occurs when you load a new image while running an older FPGA version.
Workaround: There is no workaround; however the issue has no functional impact.
Symptom: One out of 48 EFPs in a BDI does not receive traffic when running L3 multicast. The issue does not happen consistently.
Conditions: Occurs under the following conditions:
– You configure Protocol-Independent Multicast-Sparse Mode (PIM-SM) with a static rendezvous point (RP).
– You configure a bridge domain interface (BDI) on the PE2 access side
– You use the BDI to send IGMP v2 static join messages to a single multicast group
– You disable IGMP snooping globally.
– You configure 24 EFPs and map them to a single bridge-domain.
– You initiate multicast traffic.
– With multicast traffic enabled, you configure 24 EFPs and map them to the existing bridge-domain.
One of the 48 EFPs does not receive traffic.
Workaround: Reload the router.
Symptom: The active forwarding processor (FP) is on the standby route switch processor (RSP).
Conditions: Occurs when you boot the two RSPs in quick succession and the FP on the standby RSP becomes active before the FP on the active RSP.
Workaround: Reload the router.
Symptoms: The router displays console error messages when reloading.
Conditions: Occurs when you reload the router.
Workaround: There is no workaround; however, the messages have no impact on device.
Symptom: The ASR 903 router is unable to pass traffic to the ASR 9000.
Conditions: Occurs with a clear-channel ATM over MPLS configuration using AAL0 encapsulation.
Workaround: Enable MPLS control-word on the ASR 9000.
Symptom: The router does not correctly update the J0 byte on the OC-3 or OC-12 interface module.
Conditions: Occurs in a back-to-back configuration with two ASR 903s passing SONET traffic.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: The router experiences flapping on REP connections.
Conditions: Occurs under the following conditions:
– MAC limiting is enabled and a MAC address is at the maximum value
– REP is configured with a 200 millisecond LSL ageout timer
Workaround: Increase the REP timer to above 500 milliseconds or disable the MAC limiting feature.
Symptom: The clear ip mroute * command causes resource leakage.
Conditions: Occurs when you issue the clear ip mroute * command while IP multicast is enabled.
Workaround: Reload the router.
Symptom: The router drops IP multicast traffic.
Conditions: Occurs when you perform the following actions:
– Configure EFPs as members of a port channel containing a single interface.
– Remove the configuration for the EFPs
– Remove the interface from the port channel
– Add the EFPs back onto the interface
Workaround: Reload the router or issue a stateful switchover (SSO).
Symptom: The router stops applying classification and marking for a class.
Conditions: Occurs when you remove a priority level while using dual priority for the
class-map.
Workaround: Remove and reattach the policy-map on the interface.
Symptom: The router does not process egress CoS marking on an Ethernet service instance.
Conditions: Occurs when you configure QoS on an Ethernet service instance that is a member of a bridge-domain and uses dot1q encapsulation.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptoms: The router accepts a QoS WRED configuration containing match-all configurations for two different prec values, which is not supported.
Conditions: Occurs when you configure a policy with a class-map containing match-all configurations for two different prec values.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: The router crashes.
Conditions: Occurs when the peer device shuts down.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: The router crashes.
Conditions: The issue can occur when:
– The router is configured with multiple ECMP paths
– MPLS IP is not enabled on one of the ECMP paths
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptoms: The router accepts a queue-limit configuration at the parent level of a policy or at the Vlan class/ port level. This configuration is not supported.
Conditions: Occurs when you add a queue-limit configuration on a policy at the parent level or at the vlan class/ port level.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptoms: The router does not learn remote Connectivity Fault Management (CFM) Maintenance Endpoint (MEPs).
Conditions: Occurs when the router is passing REP or STP traffic and one port is in an ALT or BLK state.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: The router displays an object download failure message on the console.
Conditions: Occurs when the number of ip routes reaches its maximum configurable limit.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: The router is unable to establish MPLS neighborship or ping the destination loopback interface.
Conditions: Occurs when you configure two Equal Cost Multipath (ECMP) paths on a bridge domain interface (BDI) using static routes.
Workaround: The following workarounds exist:
– Use Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP) instead of static IP routes.
– Shut down one of the ECMP paths.
Symptom: Some interfaces within a bridge-domain are unable to send outbound L3 multicast traffic.
Conditions: Occurs when the bridge-domain contains EFP interfaces, some of which are on a port-channel. The issue can also occur after a router reload.
Workaround: Issue a shutdown / no shutdown on the BDI interface.
Symptom: Multilink bundles and member links flap when passing traffic.
Conditions: Occurs under the following conditions:
– You configure more than 210 MLPPP bundles with one member link per bundle or 16 bundles with 16 member links each.
– The line is operating at a 64 or 128 byte line rate
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: The router does not learn remote Connectivity Fault Management (CFM) Maintenance Endpoint (MEPs).
Conditions: Occurs when you configure a MEP on an interface.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: The router does not learn remote Connectivity Fault Management (CFM) Maintenance Endpoint (MEPs).
Conditions: Occurs when you configure CFM MEPs on carrier edge (CE) routers and VPLS on provider edge (PE) routers.
Workaround: Create an EVC bridge-domain running CFM on the PE router and enable a virtual forwarding interface (VFI) on the bridge-domain.
Symptom: The router experiences flapping on REP connections.
Conditions: Occurs when you enable MAC limiting at a high scale and the set of MAC addresses changes continuously.
Workaround: Disable MAC limiting.
Symptom: The router drops traffic on an MLPPP bundle.
Conditions: Occurs following a reload while the router is passing traffic close to the line rate. The issue occurs less frequently with lower traffic rates.
Workaround: Issue a shutdown / no shutdown on multilink interface.
Symptom: The router crashes.
Conditions: Occurs when you configure offloaded CFM for xconnect sessions at a high scale.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: The router applies the shaper value to the channel-level PIR for all serial interfaces on the interface module.
Conditions: Occurs when you apply QoS policy with a port level class-default configuration containing a shaper value to a serial interface.
Workaround: Add a dummy class-default level at the top of the policy and apply the shaper as a child policy of this class.
Symptom: The router does not pass loop-free alternate (LFA) IP fast reroute (IPFRR) traffic.
Conditions: Occurs when the router is configured with 10 or more IPv4 prefixes.
Workaround: Configure 9 or fewer prefixes.
Symptom: As OC-3 interface module controller does not become active using loopback local.
Conditions: Occurs with the A900-IMA4OS interface module when there is no SFP inserted in the port.
Workaround: Insert an SFP in the appropriate port.
Symptoms: T1 interfaces do not become active.
Conditions: Occurs when you perform the following actions:
1. Configure T1 interfaces on the router.
2. Use ping to verify that the interfaces are active
3. Perform a stateful switchover (SSO)
4. Use ping to verify that the interfaces are active
5. Remove the T1 interface configuration
6. Reload the standby RSP
7. Reconfigure the T1 interfaces
The T1 interfaces do not become active.
Workaround: Perform an OIR on the interface module.
Symptoms: The router displays CLI options to configure control-plane policing, which is not supported.
ASR903(config)#control-plane
ASR903(config-cp)#service-policy ?
input Assign policy-map to the input of an interface
output Assign policy-map to the output of an interface
Conditions: Occurs when you attempt to configure control plane policing to restrict traffic punted by the CPU.
Workaround: There is no workaround; the feature is not supported.
Further Problem Description: The ASR 903 has an implicit policer to restrict traffic destined for the CPU. The router polices this traffic up to 1Mbps by default, and this value is adjustable. For more detail, see http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios-xml/ios/qos_plcshp/configuration/xe-3s/qos-plcshp-punt-police-monitor.html
Symptom: The router does not update the Rx value for C2, J1, and S1S0 bytes.
Conditions: Occurs when you configure overhead bytes on OC-3 connections.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: The ten Gigabit Ethernet interface drops traffic for 7 seconds following a stateful switchover (SSO).
Conditions: Occurs when the configuration contains static routes to the destination.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: The OC-3 interface module goes into an out of service state.
Conditions: Occurs when you repeatedly perform an interface module reset (OIR) on the OC-3 interface module.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptoms: The convergence time for FRR link/node protection is more than 2 seconds.
Conditions: Occurs when you configure Next-Nexthop (NNHOP) backup tunnels in a ring topology.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptoms: A higher convergence (>5 seconds) is observed for 3107 label imposition prefixes.
Conditions: Occurs when you configure 3107 label imposition prefixes.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptoms: PTP sessions remain in HOLDOVER mode.
Conditions: Occurs when you remove and restore the PTP configuration on the PTP Master device.
Workaround: Do not include the following commands in a PTP configuration unless ToD and 1PPS cables are directly connected:
– tod 0/0 ntp
– input 1pps 0/0
Symptom: The router does not pass traffic in ATM PVP Mode.
Conditions: Occurs when you enable ATM PVP Mode.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: Links on the Gigabit Ethernet interface do not become active.
Conditions: Occurs on the Gigabit Ethernet interface when the local interface is configured for autonegotiation and the remote interface is configured for a speed of 10 Mbps or 100 Mbps.
Workaround: Toggle the auto-negotiation configuration on the Gigabit Ethernet interface.
Symptom: The router crashes with an error message showing nmpls_label_populate_flow_data.
Conditions: This issue occurs when the core interface is reset while the Cisco ASR 903 acts as a PE router running a configuration with Layer2 VPN and Layer3 VPN.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptoms: The serial interface of Circuit Emulation interfaces connected to the CEM interfaces on PE remain down on router reload with scaled configuration.
Conditions: This issue is observed when you have Circuit Emulation Services over Packet (CESoP) and Structure-agnostic TDM over Packet (SAToP) scaled circuits and perform a router reload.
Workaround: Perform IM OIR to resolve the issue.
Symptom: The controller comes up without having a license.
Conditions: This issue occurs 16 port t1/e1 license are installed on PE1_W2
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: Routing over Trunk EFP over port-channel does not work on member ports associated with ASIC #1.
Conditions: This issue occurs if a Trunk EFP on port-channel has members on ASIC #1.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: The show policy map command displays an incorrect number of total dropped packets (total drops).
Conditions: This issue occurs when the show policy-map command displays dropped packets on an interface.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptoms: On system reset or reload, all traffic on certain Ethernet Flow Point (EFP)s do not egress.
Conditions: This issue occurs when traffic completely stops on certain EFPs.
Workaround: Delete and reconfigure EFPs.
Symptom: After performing a shutdown followed by a noshutdown the member-link Connectivity Fault Management (CFM) crash is observed
Conditions: This issue occurs when CFM Trunk Ethernet Flow Point (EFP) is configured with 256 sessions.
Workaround: Configure around 50-100 CFM sessions.
Symptom: Precision Time Protocol (PTP) slave does not start the session with master.
Conditions: This issue occurs when the PTP session is not started when the loopback IP address of slave and Master are in same subnet.
Workaround: Configure Loopback IP addresses of slave and master in different subnets.
Symptom: The control plane protocols such as ISIS, LDP do not come up and pings failure occurs on booting with scaled ACE or ACL. The ACL configurations fail.
Conditions: This issue occurs on reload on the Cisco ASR 903 router.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: The convergence time takes more than 3 seconds.
Conditions: This issue occurs in Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) PIC core when path is moved from one active path to 2 Equal Cost Multipath (ECMP) Paths.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: Classification does not work properly with non-matching traffic when IP ACL is used.
Conditions: This issue occurs only for class-based ACL match. The ACL class are classified properly and other classes based on DSCP or class-default do not work
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: The Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) connections flap, bringing down IGP.
Conditions: This issue occurs when you enable BFD on an interface that is flapping.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: The router displays OSPF protocol flaps causing a 20-30 second traffic loss.
Conditions: The issue occurs very intermittently on a HA system with a 6 second dead-interval value when you issue the redundancy force-switchover command;
Workaround: Increase the dead-interval value.
Symptom: Split horizon configurations does not clear with Layer2 multicast packets.
Conditions: This issue occurs when Ethernet Flow Point (EFP)s with split-horizon are configured.
Workaround: Perform a shutdown followed by no shutdown. Configure EFP first before moving into split-horizon group.
Symptom: The QoS classification does not work in core interfaces.
Conditions: This issue occurs when the output policy applied to interface has bridge domain interface (BDI) as the core interface.
Workaround: Enable mpls ldp explicit null command.
Symptom: S,G does not get created, the forwarding is based on (*,G).
Conditions: This issue occurs with Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP) change leading to Reverse Path Forwarding (RPF) change of the (*,G).
Workaround: Clear the (*,G) and recreate it.
Symptom: (*,G) based forwarding is observed with IIF registry change. The Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP) patch change leads to this issue.
Conditions: This issue occurs when IGP is changed causing a Reverse Path Forwarding (RFP) change notification.
Workaround: Timeout the (*,G) entry and recreate it again either by issuing clear ip mroute command or stopping the joins.
Symptom: Software forwarding of core encapsulation entries causes interface to flap.
Conditions: This issue occurs when interface has Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) enabled on the BDI interface.
Workaround: Perform a soft interface module OIR. Clear the multicast routes for that VRF.
Symptom: The router does not learn the remote Connectivity Fault Management (CFM) Maintenance Endpoint (MEPs).
Conditions: This issue occurs when Resilient Ethernet Protocol (REP) or Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) exists on core with one port as ALT or BLK state.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: The port-channel load balances the traffic on member-links in hot-standby state or down state resulting in loss of traffic.
Conditions: This issue occurs when there are redundant member-links in hot-standby state or down state.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: Quack authentication failure messages are displayed on router console.
Conditions: This issue occurs randomly.
Workaround: Reload the router.
Symptom: Alarms are not forwarded in Circuit Emulation Services over Packet (CESoP).
Conditions: This issue occurs when alarms are not forwarded when AC goes down.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: The Cisco ASR 903 router does not lock to the synchronous Ethernet clock source after reload. It remains in Ql-failed state.
Conditions: This issue occurs after a reload of router with saved synchronous Ethernet clock configurations is performed.
Workaround: Unconfigure and reconfigure the clock source.
Symptom: The OC-3 interface modules are lost after a In Service Software Upgrade (ISSU) is performed on the Cisco ASR 903 router and configuration mismatch errors are displayed on router console. The standby RSP reaches standby-hot state causing continuous IOMD crash messages at regular intervals.
Conditions: This issue occurs when ISSU is performed.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Try unconfiguring the OC-3 interface module configuration and reconfigure again. Reload the standby RSP to stop IOMD crashes. Perform a hard OIR or process kill if the interface module enters out of service state
Symptom: Traffic stops flowing with a combination of Bandwidth Remaining Ratio (BRR) and policer in different class-maps under a policy.
Conditions: This issue occurs when the bandwidth remaining ratio is configured as a combination of police with cir (total brr and police cir equal to 1000M).
Workaround: Configure total BRR and police cir lesser than 1000M. For example, class A Police cir 100m and class B BRR 90% fails but BRR 89% works.
Symptom: CPU hog messages and IOMD crash observed on the Cisco ASR 903 router.
Conditions: This issue occurs with OC-3 interface module after executing the shutdown command followed by a no shutdown command of the multilink bundle when traffic is sent with a packet size greater then 1500 byte.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: CPU utilization is high when sending traffic with varying source MAC addresses for multiple streams for a bridge domain (BD).
Conditions: This issue occurs when port-channel is configured as Ethernet Flow Point (EFP) for the BD and mac-limit is configured to 0 for that BD.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: FMFP download failure occurs on reaching 1980 odd number even though 2000 ternary content addressable memory (TCAM) space is allocated for ACLs in the IP template.
Conditions: This issue occurs in normal conditions when the scale reaches 1980.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: TI/EI interfaces on interface module are lost as IOMD crashes after a switchover.
Conditions: This issue occurs after IOMD crashes when a switchover was performed.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: Sonet controller as input clock source does not get selected on A900-IMA4OS interface module on a Cisco ASR 903 router.
Condition: This issue occurs when the port above 0 is used for the clock source.
Workaround: Use port 0 for clock source or insert the SFP in the odd port (protect port) adjacent to the actual port using an optical splitter. The cable is fed to the odd port to recover the proper clocking for the port.
Symptom: Ping failure occurs and traffic stops through Multilink bundle when Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (CHAP) authentication is enabled.
Conditions: This issue is seen when Policy Feature Card (PFC) and Control Field Compression (ACFC) is configured on the Cisco ASR 903 router.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: The active RSP synchronization LED displays the state incorrectly.
Condition: This issue occurs after a Stateful Switchover (SSO) is performed without any network clock configuration.
Workaround: There is no workaround. This issue is a cosmetic issue.
Symptom: The A900-IMA16D generates a storm on closing the backup tunnel.
Condition: This issue occur after unshutting the tunnel.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: The IOMD crashes with CPU hog messages.
Conditions: This issue occurs with OC-3 interface module and traffic is sent over a multilink bundle with packet size greater than 600 byte.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: Link goes down with Rev-D I Gigabit interface module.
Conditions: This issue occurs on the 1 Gigabit Ethernet interface module port.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: MAC address synchronization on 1 Gigabit Ethernet port on standby RSP causes traffic to be forwarded to incorrect port after a switchover.
Conditions: This issue occurs after a switchover.
Workaround: Clear MAC address after a switchover is performed.
Symptom: Interface flaps after longevity run is performed.
Conditions: This issue occurs after prolonged tests are performed with SPF interface modules.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: Deleting bridge domain interfaces (BDIs) with routing traffic causes a flood to CPU resulting in control plane traffic loss.
Conditions: This issue occurs after a ping failure and the Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) protocol or OSFP protocol flaps on deleting the BDI while IPv4 traffic is flowing.
Workaround: Delete the Trunk EFP interface and then the BDI.
Symptom: The power supply status displays critical after removing and inserting the power supply on the Cisco ASR903 router.
Conditions: This issue occurs after multiple OIR of the power supply is performed.
Workaround: There is no workaround. This issue is cosmetic.
Symptom: I2C-WRITE and MDIO_READ error messages are displayed on the Cisco ASR903 router.
Conditions: This issue occurs after an interface module hard or soft OIR is performed.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: Virtual circuit counters do not increment after interface module Online Insertion and Removal (OIR) followed by a SSO is performed.
Conditions: This issue occurs after an OIR followed by a SSO is performed.
Workaround: Perform a SSO without a interface module OIR.
Symptom: 1 Gigabit Ethernet or 10 Gigabit Ethernet interface module enters out of service state.
Conditions: This issue occurs when a hard Online Insertion and Removal (OIR) is performed on the interface module.
Workaround: Perform another hard OIR or a Stateful Switchover (SSO) followed by a soft OIR.
Open Caveats—Cisco IOS XE Release 3.7(2)S
This section documents the unexpected behavior that might be seen with the Cisco ASR 903 Router in Cisco IOS XE Release 3.7(2)S.
Symptoms: The router stops passing traffic on EVC interfaces.
Conditions: Occurs when you issue the default interface command and immediately restore the configuration. The issue occurs with configurations containing either a large number of EFPs or features that impact EFP programming at a lesser scale, such as QoS.
Workaround: Wait for the router to clear the old EFP configuration before adding a new configuration.
Symptom: The router displays the following console error message: %QOSMGR-3-OUT_OF_TCAM_RESOURCES: SIP0: nile_mgr: Out of tcam resources to execute command
Conditions: Occurs when you remove a QoS configuration by setting the interface to the default configuration.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: The router displays CPU utilization traceback messages and drops all multicast traffic for 2050 seconds.
Conditions: Occurs under the following conditions:
– Multicast is enabled with more than 500 multicast groups.
– The router is using RSP1B in SSM mode.
– BDI is configured on the access side of the router.
– There are 24 EFPs on each bridge domain.
– You enter a shutdown command on the access interface.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: The show mac-address-table command does not show all of the EFPs with a given static MAC address; the command only displays the first EFP with the MAC address.
Conditions: Occurs when you configure the same static MAC address on multiple EFPs.
Workaround: There is no workaround; however, the issue is cosmetic and functionality is not affected.
Symptom: Bit error rate testing (BERT) does not go in sync state.
Conditions: Occurs when you configure BERT on the PDH controller in local loopback mode.
Workaround: Initiate BERT on both ends of the connection.
Symptom: An Ethernet virtual circuit (EVC) interface does not forward IPv4 traffic.
Conditions: Occurs when apply the encapsulation dot1q command to an EVC, followed by the encapsulation untagged command.
Workaround: Issue a shutdown / no shutdown on the EVC interface.
Symptom: The router crashes.
Conditions: Occurs under the following conditions:
– The router is running static VPLS with 255 MPLS-TP tunnels and 2000 VCs.
– The remote PE device reloads.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: The router displays an OIR SPA error.
Conditions: Occurs under the following conditions:
– The router is running offloaded CFM sessions over an xconnect (pseudowire) interface.
– The router is using a redundant hardware (dual RSP) configuration.
– The remote router is using a non-redundant (single RSP) hardware configuration.
– You reload the router.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: The router experiences remote CFM MEP flapping.
Conditions: Occurs when the router is connected via a CFM xconnect and the link is running a high traffic rate.
Workaround: Reduce the rate of traffic.
Symptom: An Ethernet virtual circuit (EVC) interface stops forwarding traffic.
Conditions: Occurs when:
– You configure multiple EVCs on a single interface
– The EVCs have the same outer tag VLAN
– You remove one of the EVCs from the configuration
When you remove the EVC, other EVCs with the same outer tag VLAN can stop passing traffic.
Workaround: Issue a shutdown / no shutdown on the Ethernet interface.
Symptom: The show ima interface command omits some IMA group information such as ImaGroupSymmetry.
Conditions: Occurs when you apply the show ima interface command.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: Link Control Protocol (LCP) negotiation fails, causing an MLP bundle to stop passing traffic.
Conditions: Occurs under the following conditions:
– The router is configured with a T1 interface on the OC-3 interface module (IM)
– The OC-3 interface module uses SONET framing
– The T1 serial interface is part of an MLP bundle
– You change the CRC configuration value of the MLP bundle
Workaround: Follow these steps:
– Remove the T1 interface from the MLP bundle.
– Perform a soft OIR (IM reset) on both ends of the connection.
– Wait for the T1 interface to become active.
– Add the T1 interface back into the MLP bundle.
Symptom: MPLS convergence can be slower than expected.
Conditions: Occurs when the router switches to a backup MPLS path in the event of a network failure.
Workaround: You can configure the following redundancy features to protect against network failures:
– IPv4 Loop Free Alternate Fast Reroute (LFA FRR)
– Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Prefix-Independent Convergence (PIC)
– MPLS Traffic Engineering (TE)--Fast Reroute (FRR) Link and Node Protection
Symptom: An RSP switchover causes the serial interfaces to flap on the peer device.
Conditions: Occurs when you perform an RSP switchover by physically removing the active RSP.
Workaround: Use the following workarounds:
– Perform an RSP switchover using the redundancy force-switchover command.
Configure the local device to use clock source line and the remote device to use clock source internal.
Symptom: A link remains active while the router shows the line protocol status as down.
Link Stays up with Line Protocol status as down.
Conditions: Occurs when you perform an interface module (IM) OIR, followed by a stateful switchover (SSO).
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: The router loops traffic between two nodes in a ring for approximately 100 ms.
Conditions: Occurs during a failover when multiple ASR 903 routers are configured as nodes in a ring using Remote LFA FRR.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: The 1PPS output from the ASR 903 is out of range when compared to the 1PPS output of the PTP master clock.
Conditions: Occurs when the router is configured as a hybrid clock (ordinary/boundary) and there are intermediate hops between the router and the PTP master clock. To date the problem occurs only when the intermediate hops are through an ASR 9000 router.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: The router displays an error message similar to the following: Oct 1 12:07:21.806 IST: %CMRP-3-CHASSIS_MONITOR_READY_TIME_EXCEEDED: R1/0: cmand: Reloading F1 because it has failed to become ready for packet processing
Conditions: Occurs when you reload the router while running a configuration that contains
– An egress QoS policy attached to a trunk EFP
– An encapsulation dot1q statement within the QoS policy that specifies a large range
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: The router is unable to ping the remote customer edge (CE) router.
Conditions: Occurs when the router is acting as a provider edge (PE) device and is connected to the remote PE using dual loopback interfaces for peering with iBGP sessions.
Workaround: Use a single loopback interface. Use the same loopback interface for IPv4 and VPNv4 address families.
Symptom: The router displays a segmentation fault error message at cgmu_nq_ccm_convert and crashes.
Conditions: Occurs when you:
– Remove QoS policy from an EFP interface
– Remove policy-maps and class-maps from the configuration
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: The router drops traffic during stateful switchover (SSO).
Conditions: Occurs when the router is running HSRP or VRRP; the issue only occurs when the destination MAC address is a virtual MAC (vMAC) address.
Workaround: Change the traffic priority and detour traffic prior to the SSO.
Symptom: The router does not classify egress traffic and the show policy-map interface command counters do not increment.
Conditions: Occurs when you configure an output QoS policy to an EFP interface.
Workaround: Remove and reconfigure the service policy on the EFP interface.
Symptom: A connection between two copper SFPs does not become active.
Conditions: Occurs when two SFP interfaces are connected with one side set to 100 Mbps and the other side set to negotiation auto.
Workaround: Set the speed to 10Mbps at both sides, then configure negotiation auto on one side of the connection.
Symptom: IEEE 802.1S Multiple STP (MSTP) convergence takes more than 4.1 seconds.
Conditions: Occurs under the following conditions:
– An Ethernet interface is acting as the Root forwarding MST port
– The Ethernet interface is configured with more than 1000 EVCs
– You perform a shutdown / no shutdown on the interface.
Workaround: To achieve a convergence time of approximately 900 milliseconds with 1000 VLANs on an Ethernet interface, configure MSTP on a trunk EFP.
Symptom: Debug commands show pending objects on the Forwarding Manager (FMAN) on the forwarding processor (FP), indicating a failure to download configurations from the Route Switch Processor (RSP) to the data plane (DP).
Conditions: Occurs when you apply a QoS shaping configuration at a high scale.
Workaround: Delete the QoS policies and remove the QoS configuration from the interface.
Symptom: The router can drop traffic for approximately 300 milliseconds.
Conditions: The issue occurs in rare instances when the router is configured in a ring topology with loop-free alternate (LFA) IP fast reroute (IPFRR) and the primary path recovers from a down state.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: The ASR 903 is unable to pass traffic to the ASR 9000.
Conditions: Occurs with a clear-channel ATM over MPLS configuration using AAL0 encapsulation.
Workaround: Enable MPLS control-word on the ASR 9000.
Symptom: The router displays a CPU hog error message and crashes.
Conditions: Occurs when you issue an RSP switchover following an interface flap on the 10 Gigabit Ethernet interface module (IM).
Workaround: The issue does not occur in the absence of in interface flap on the 10 Gigabit Ethernet IM.
Symptom: The router experiences flapping on REP connections.
Conditions: Occurs under the following conditions:
– MAC limiting is enabled and a MAC address is at the maximum value
– REP is configured with a 200 millisecond LSL ageout timer
Workaround: Increase the REP timer to above 500 milliseconds or disable the MAC limiting feature.
Symptom: The router drops ping packets over VPN Routing and Forwarding (VRF) connections.
Conditions: Occurs when you specify a packet size using the size parameter.
Workaround: There is no workaround; however, the issue does not occur when you omit the size parameter.
Symptom: BDI adjacency fails on the standby RSP.
Conditions: The issue can occur during an interface module (IM) reset or router reload.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: The router crashes.
Conditions: Occurs when you perform an interface module OIR (reset) on the gigabit Ethernet interface module while the standby RSP is booting.
Workaround: Perform the IM OIR after the standby RSP boots.
Symptom: The router displays a CWAN OIR Handler traceback error.
Conditions: Occurs when you perform an interface module OIR (reset) on the gigabit Ethernet interface module, followed by an RSP switchover.
Workaround: Complete the RSP switchover without resetting the gigabit Ethernet IM.
Symptom: The router CLI does not display some SFP PIDs
Conditions: Occurs when you install one of the following SFPs in the router:
– ONS-SI-155-L2
– ONS-SI-155-L1
– ONS-SI-155-I1
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: The 10 gigabit Ethernet interface module (IM) (IM- A900-IMA1X) flaps.
Conditions: Occurs when the IM passes high traffic volumes for an extended period of time.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: The router does not process egress CoS marking on an Ethernet service instance.
Conditions: Occurs when you configure QoS on an Ethernet service instance that is a member of a bridge-domain and uses dot1q encapsulation.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: The show policy-map command displays an incorrect drop rate value.
Conditions: Occurs when you configuring a policy map that contains a class that applies QoS policing.
Workaround: There is no workaround; however, the issue has no functional impact. The router displays the correct number of drops under the policer’s exceeded bps value.
Symptom: The active RSP displays traceback error messages occurring on the standby RSP.
Conditions: Occurs with the following configuration:
– The router is configured with 1000 multicast groups
– The outgoing interface is a bridge-domain interface (BDI)
– All hosts are receiving a high rate of traffic.
The issue occurs after you issue a stateful switchover (SSO).
Workaround: Avoid performing an SSO with the configuration described.
Symptom: Equal Cost Multipath (ECMP) loopback does not function properly.
Conditions: Occurs when a port-channel link dynamically assigned as an ECMP path.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: The router crashes.
Conditions: The issue can occur when:
– The router is configured with multiple ECMP paths
– MPLS IP is not enabled on one of the ECMP paths
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: The router records incorrect delay measurements after a reload.
Conditions: Occurs under the following conditions:
– You configure Delay Measurement Message (DMM) on a port-channel interface.
– The port-channel member links are on different interface modules (IMs).
– You reload the router.
Workaround: You can use the following workarounds:
– Remove the ethernet cfm global command and re-apply it after the port-channel member links recover.
– Configure PTP clock synchronization.
Symptom: OSPF connections flap and drop traffic for approximately 20 seconds
Conditions: Occurs during stateful switchover (SSO).
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: The router crashes when you apply an access control list (ACL) configuration. The issue occurs rarely and when the router is configured at a high scale.
Conditions: Occurs when:
– You create and apply IPv6 ACLs
– You remove the IPv6 ACLs
– You replace the IPv6 ACLs with IPv4 ACLs
– The IPv6 ACLs and IPv4 ACLs have the same names
Workaround: Create IPv4 ACLs with different names from the IPv6 ACLs.
Symptom: The router is unable to establish MPLS neighborship or ping the destination loopback interface.
Conditions: Occurs when you configure two Equal Cost Multipath (ECMP) paths on a bridge domain interface (BDI) using static routes.
Workaround: The following workarounds exist:
– Use Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP) instead of static IP routes.
– Shut down one of the ECMP paths.
Symptom: Some interfaces within a bridge-domain are unable to send outbound L3 multicast traffic.
Conditions: Occurs when the bridge-domain contains EFP interfaces, some of which are on a port-channel. The issue can also occur after a router reload.
Workaround: Issue a shutdown / no shutdown on the BDI interface.
Symptom: Multilink bundles and member links flap when passing traffic.
Conditions: Occurs under the following conditions:
– You configure more than 210 MLPPP bundles with one member link per bundle or 16 bundles with 16 member links each.
– The line is operating at a 64 or 128 byte line rate
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: The router does not learn remote Connectivity Fault Management (CFM) Maintenance Endpoint (MEPs).
Conditions: Occurs when you configure a MEP on an interface.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: The router displays CPU hog error messages and crashes.
Conditions: Occurs when you reload the router a high number of Structure-agnostic TDM over Packet (SAToP) pseudowires.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: Copper Ethernet interface module (IM) ports remain in a suspended state after stateful switchover (SSO).
Conditions: Occurs when you create a port-channel with
– Two links from a copper Ethernet interface to another copper Ethernet interface
– One link from a copper Ethernet interface to an SFP Ethernet interface
Workaround: Issue a shutdown / no shutdown on copper-to-copper connection interfaces.
Symptom: The router does not learn remote Connectivity Fault Management (CFM) Maintenance Endpoint (MEPs).
Conditions: Occurs when you configure CFM MEPs on carrier edge (CE) routers and VPLS on provider edge (PE) routers.
Workaround: Create an EVC bridge-domain running CFM on the PE router and enable a virtual forwarding interface (VFI) on the bridge-domain.
Symptom: The router experiences flapping on REP connections.
Conditions: Occurs when you enable MAC limiting at a high scale and the set of MAC addresses changes continuously.
Workaround: Disable MAC limiting.
Symptom: The router drops traffic on an MLPPP bundle.
Conditions: Occurs following a reload while the router is passing traffic close to the line rate. The issue occurs less frequently with lower traffic rates.
Workaround: Issue a shutdown / no shutdown on multilink interface.
Symptom: SFP interfaces tied to a port-channel flap.
Conditions: The issue occurs rarely when the router is passing a high traffic volume.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: The router does not pass loop-free alternate (LFA) IP fast reroute (IPFRR) traffic.
Conditions: Occurs when the router is configured with 10 or more IPv4 prefixes.
Workaround: Configure 9 or fewer prefixes.
Resolved Caveats—Cisco IOS XE Release 3.7(2)S
This section documents the issues that have been resolved in Cisco IOS XE Release 3.7(2)S.
Symptom: The router crashes.
Conditions: Occurs when you configure a class-based QoS policy with the following characteristics:
– The policy is attached to the main interface.
– The policy classifies on multiple VLANs.
– The classification statements specify a priority.
– The classification statements are within a child QoS policy.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptoms: The router does not increment QoS port shaper policy counters displayed by the show policy interface command.
Conditions: Occurs when you configure -A class-default policy on a physical interface -A class-based policy on an EVC interface
Workaround: There is no workaround; however, the router applies the QoS policy normally.
Symptom: The router drops cells on a CE-to-CE connection.
Conditions: Occurs with ATM VCC and VPC cell relay mode with 64-byte traffic. The issue occurs between the ASR 903 and ASR 901 routers.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: The OC-3 interface module crashes.
Conditions: Occurs when you issue a soft reload on the OC-3 interface module when the
router is configured with MLPPP at a high scale.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: Security ACLs with port ranges configured on BDI interfaces will not work on NILE1 ports.
Conditions: Issue with only on NILE1 ports. NILE0 ports will work properly
Workaround: There is no workaround.
PSIRT Evaluation: The Cisco PSIRT has assigned this bug the following CVSS version 2 score. The Base and Temporal CVSS scores as of the time of evaluation are 5/4.1: https://intellishield.cisco.com/security/alertmanager/cvssCalculator.do?dispatch=1&version=2&vector=AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N/E:F/RL:OF/RC:C CVE ID CVE-2012-5716 has been assigned to document this issue. Additional information on Cisco’s security vulnerability policy can be found at the following URL: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/products_security_vulnerability_policy.html
Symptom: The router stops passing MLPPP traffic after a Stateful Switchover (SSO).
Conditions: Occurs when you perform an SSO with a TDM interface module.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: The router does not apply OC-3 interface module (IM) configurations.
Conditions: Occurs after an RSP switchover.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: The router does not learn remote Connectivity Fault Management (CFM) Maintenance Endpoint (MEPs).
Conditions: Occurs on interfaces with an xconnect statement after a reload on a peer device.
Workaround: Remove and re-apply the CFM configuration.
Symptom: Interface module (IM) IM FPGA upgrade fails.
Conditions: Occurs on some IMs when you install an IOS image with bundled FPGA software.
Workaround: Manually upgrade the FPGA.
Symptom: The router can crash when you remove a boundary clock (BC) configuration.
Conditions: Occurs very rarely when you remove a BC configuration.
Workaround: There is no workaround. However, the issue occurs very rarely.
Symptom: When handling IS-IS packets, the router punts the traffic to the Route Switch Processor (RSP) and applies policing to limit the traffic to 1 Mbps.
Conditions: Occurs when you enable IS-IS over an Ethernet over MPLS (EoMPLS) connection.
Workaround: Use IS-IS over another connection type or limit the IS-IS traffic to less than 1 Mbps.
Symptom: The router drops imposition traffic sent to a neighbor device over a VPLS pseudowire.
Conditions: Occurs when the neighbor device configuration includes the no split horizon group command.
Workaround: Remove the no split horizon group command from the VPLS neighbor device.
Symptom: The 10 gigabit Ethernet interface module (IM) flaps.
Conditions: Occurs when the IM passes high traffic volumes for an extended period of time.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: The router does not apply the bandwidth remaining percent command within a QoS policy in some instances.
Conditions: The issue can occur occasionally when:
– There is a large discrepancy in bandwidth remaining values between QoS classes
– The classes containing the bandwidth remaining statements are oversubscribed at a low rate or have a low queue-limit.
Workaround: Apply the following workaround:
– Increase the queue-limit value to 120 kilobytes or above.
– If the QoS configuration uses WRED, increase the minimum threshold value.
– Alter the bandwidth remaining values to reduce the ratio between values.
Open Caveats—Cisco IOS XE Release 3.7(1)aS
This section documents the unexpected behavior that might be seen with the Cisco ASR 903 Router in Cisco IOS XE Release 3.7(1)aS.
Symptoms: The router stops passing traffic on EVC interfaces.
Conditions: Occurs when you issue the default interface command and immediately restore the configuration. The issue occurs with configurations containing either a large number of EFPs or features that impact EFP programming at a lesser scale, such as QoS.
Workaround: Wait for the router to clear the old EFP configuration before adding a new configuration.
Symptom: The router displays packet drops on some VPLS pseudowire virtual circuits (VCs) on the disposition side.
Conditions: Occurs under the following conditions:
– The core network is running MPLS-TP tunnels
– There is an SSO switchover on the remote end or an LDP neighbor reset on the peer end.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: The router displays CPU utilization traceback messages and drops all multicast traffic for 2050 seconds.
Conditions: Occurs under the following conditions:
– Multicast is enabled with more than 500 multicast groups.
– The router is using RSP1B in SSM mode.
– BDI is configured on the access side of the router.
– There are 24 EFPs on each bridge domain.
– You enter a shutdown command on the access interface.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: The show policy-map command displays incorrect information.
Conditions: Occurs when you use the show policy-map command to display QoS policies on an EFP that has a port shaping QoS policy.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: The router crashes.
Conditions: Occurs when you configure CFM, SCE over MPLS, VPLS, or G.8032 services while running SNMP polling.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: The router displays a CPU HOG message.
Conditions: Occurs when you remove a PTP configuration.
Workaround: There is no workaround; however, the issue does not have any functionality impact.
Symptom: The router crashes.
Conditions: Occurs when you configure a class-based QoS policy with the following characteristics:
– The policy is attached to the main interface.
– The policy classifies on multiple VLANs.
– The classification statements specify a priority.
– The classification statements are within a child QoS policy.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: The router drops cells on a CE-to-CE connection.
Conditions: Occurs with ATM VCC and VPC cell relay mode with 64-byte traffic. The issue occurs between the ASR 903 and ASR 901 routers.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: The bandwidth and bandwidth percent commands do not function correctly.
Conditions: Occurs when you configure a service-policy with the priority and police commands in one class and the bandwidth or bandwidth percent commands in another class.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: The router does not learn remote MEPs on an EVC bridge-domain MEP following an interface module reset (soft OIR). The router displays messages indicating object download failure; the interface status of the xconnect MEP on the peer router displays as administratively down.
Conditions: Occurs when you
– Configure offloaded EVC xconnect MEP sessions and the sessions are active
– Configure EVC bridge-domain MEPs
– Perform a reset (soft OIR) of the Ethernet interface module
Workaround: Remove and restore the local MEP configuration on both routers.
Symptom: The router displays a Delay Measurement Message (DMM) delay value of 0.
Conditions: Occurs under the following conditions:
– You configure an EVC down MEP on a port-channel interface.
– You dynamically add a member link to a port-channel interface.
Workaround: Configure PTP synchronization before scheduling DMM.
Symptom: The router is unable to establish an OSPF session.
Conditions: Occurs when you enable an OSPF session over an MPLS TP tunnel.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: The OC-3 interface module crashes.
Conditions: Occurs when you issue a soft reload on the OC-3 interface module when the
router is configured with MLPPP at a high scale.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: Following a reload, the router handles CFM only on 128 VLANs or bridge-domains.
Conditions: Occurs when the router configuration contains CFM and more than 128 VLANs or bridge-domains.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: The router drops MPLS TP sessions, impacting traffic.
Conditions: Occurs following an software upgrade (ISSU).
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: The router does not pass IP traffic with an MPLS LDP tunnel label of Imp-null.
Conditions: Occurs when the router is switching traffic using IP fast-reroute (FRR).
Workaround: Configure the mpls ldp explicit-null command.
Symptom: The router stops passing traffic on pseudowire connections.
Conditions: Occurs in a redundant system following a stateful switchover (SSO).
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: The router passes lower traffic levels when you add links to an IMA bundle and perform IM OIR/router reload.
Conditions: Occurs when you send traffic above the E1 line rate on one link within an IMA bundle and reset (OIR) the interface module.
Workaround: Remove and re-apply the IMA interface configuration.
Symptom: The router does not timestamp traffic on port-channel interfaces.
Conditions: Occurs when you configure a CFM EVC bridge-domain up MEP on a port-channel.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: The 1PPS output from the ASR 903 is out of range when compared to the 1PPS output of the PTP master clock.
Conditions: Occurs when the router is configured as a hybrid clock (ordinary/boundary) and there are intermediate hops between the router and the PTP master clock. To date the problem occurs only when the intermediate hops are through an ASR 9000 router.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: Links on copper SFP interface flap during stateful switchover (SSO).
Conditions: Occurs when you initiate a stateful switchover (SSO) on a redundant system with a copper SFP.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: The router stops passing MLPPP traffic after a Stateful Switchover (SSO).
Conditions: Occurs when you perform an SSO with a TDM interface module.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Resolved Caveats—Cisco IOS XE Release 3.7(1)aS
This section documents the issues that have been resolved in Cisco IOS XE Release 3.7(1)aS.
Symptoms: Ping fails to remote MEPs.
Conditions: Occurs when you configure CFM and ping RMEPs with a packet size of greater than 1478 bytes.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptoms: When you configure the OC-3 interface module, only 1000 of 1008 interfaces are configurable on the router; of the 1000 interfaces, only 957 become active.
Conditions: Occurs when you configure interfaces on the OC-3 interface module.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptoms: The router does not display PID or DOM values.
Conditions: Occurs with the following SFPs:
– ONS-SI-155-L2
– ONS-SI-155-L1
– ONS-SI-155-I1
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptoms: The OC-3 interface module crashes when you create a high number of ATM IMA interfaces.
Conditions: Occurs when you configure multiple ATM IMA interfaces with fewer than 16 links per bundle.
Workaround: Perform a hard OIR on the interface module.
Symptoms: The OC-3 interface module goes into an Out Of Service state.
Conditions: The issue can occur during bootup or OIR of the OC-3 interface module.
Workaround: Perform an OIR on the OC-3 interface module.
Symptoms: The boot system flash command displays unexpected behavior.
Conditions: Occurs when you use the boot system flash command in either of the following formats:
– boot system flash filename—The router does not boot using the specified file.
– boot system flash—The router does not boot the first image in bootflash.
Workaround: Use the boot system bootflash command as follows:
– boot system bootflash : filename—Boots a specific file.
– boot system bootflash:—Boots the first image in bootflash.
Symptoms: The router displays the following warning during bootup:
"Warning: monitor nvram area is corrupt... using default values"
Conditions: Occurs during bootup and indicates that the NVRAM is corrupted, causing loss of a bootloader variable. To verify the issue, confirm whether the set rommon mode command produces output matching the following example:
The issue can be caused by an error during shutdown or saving the configuration and occurs very rarely.
Workaround: Set the bootloader variables on the standby RSP.
Symptoms: The show ima interface command omits some IMA group information such as ImaGroupSymmetry.
Conditions: Occurs when you apply the show ima interface command.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptoms: The show ima interface command omits some IMA group information such as ImaGroupSymmetry.
Conditions: Occurs when you apply the show ima interface command.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: The bandwidth and bandwidth percent commands do not function correctly.
Conditions: Occurs when you configure a service-policy with the priority and police commands in one class and the bandwidth or bandwidth percent commands in another class.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptoms: The router hangs when booting.
Conditions: Occurs under the following conditions:
– You issue the boot command without any arguments, e.g. rommon 1>
boot
– The router attempts to boot using a non-bootable image in bootflash memory.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptoms: The router displays traceback and failure messages on the standby RSP.
Conditions: Occurs after you issue an OIR on the T1/E1 interface module from the active RSP. The issue occurs in a redundant system.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptoms: The router crashes.
Conditions: Occurs when you attach an ingress QoS policy-map to an EVC with a rewrite push configuration.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptom: Some T1/E1 interfaces do not come up.
Conditions: Occurs with T1/E1 configurations at a high scale; the interfaces display a false alarm.
Workaround: Reset individual T1/E1 interfaces; after a reset, the interfaces become active.
Symptoms: When the router boots, copper Gigabit Ethernet ports display an up/up status but do not pass traffic.
Conditions: Occurs when the port has a negotiated speed other than 1 Gigabit, such as 100 Mbps.
Workaround: Issue a shutdown/no shutdown on affected ports.
Symptoms: The router is unable to select a given PTP clock as a network clock source.
Conditions: Occurs when you configure PTP as an input network clock source while the slave clock is still in a holdover state. In the holdover state, the slave clock has not yet attempted to establish a frequency lock with a master clock.
Workaround: Wait for the PTP slave clock to lock to the master clock before configuring PTP as a network clock input source.
Open Caveats—Cisco IOS XE Release 3.7(0)S
This section documents the unexpected behavior that might be seen with the Cisco ASR 903 Router in Cisco IOS XE Release 3.7.0S.
Symptoms: The router stops passing traffic on EVC interfaces.
Conditions: Occurs when you issue the default interface command and immediately restore the configuration. The issue occurs with configurations containing either a large number of EFPs or features that impact EFP programming at a lesser scale, such as QoS.
Workaround: Wait for the router to clear the old EFP configuration before adding a new configuration.
Symptoms: The router does not pass traffic towards the access side on VCs configured with QoS shaping output policy.
Conditions: Occurs when you configure a QoS shaping output policy.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptoms: A configuration with a high number of down MEPs does not function properly.
Conditions: Occurs when you configure 500 or more down MEPs with 500 or more xconnect configurations between service instances.
Workaround: Configure no more than 200 CFM sessions.
Symptoms: The router displays CPU utilization traceback messages and drops all multicast traffic for 2050 seconds.
Conditions: Occurs under the following conditions:
– Multicast is enabled with more than 500 multicast groups
– The router is using RSP1B in SSM mode
– BDI is configured on the access side of the router
– There are 24 EFPs on each bridge domain
– You enter a shutdown command on the access interface.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptoms: The router may crash or restart; the console displays a SW_WDOG: expired message.
Conditions: Occurs under the following conditions:
– The router is configured with 63 or more instances of a unique EVC configured with a unique bridge domain interface (BDI).
– The router is sending IGMP joins to one multicast group.
– You perform a shutdown/no shutdown on the interface sending IGMP join messages.
– You perform an OIR on the router.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptoms: Port shaper rate changes do not take effect.
Conditions: Occurs when QoS policies attached to EVCs on an interface do not include a shaper configuration; the issue does not occur on EFP policies that include a shaper in a class.
Workaround: Include a shaper in one class of the EFP policy.
Symptoms: The router experiences CPP download failures when sending IGMP join messages.
Conditions: Occurs when the router is configured with a trunk EFP in SM mode on the access side and is sending IGMP join messages to more than 1970 multicast groups.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptoms: The router displays traceback and CPU error messages.
Conditions: Occurs when you configure a high number of MAC address table entries while REP is enabled; the router displays errors during a REP topology change, REP preemption, or when you perform a shutdown/no shutdown on an interface.
Workaround: Reduce the MAC scale.
Symptoms: CFM up and down MEPs do not reach a scale of 1000 CFM sessions.
Conditions: Occurs when you configure CFM on a trunk EFP.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptoms: The router applies the class-default QoS policy to all outgoing traffic.
Conditions: Occurs under the following conditions:
– You configure multiple egress QoS policies on a Gigabit Ethernet interface.
– You configure a multilink interface with no ingress QoS policy
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptoms: The router crashes.
Conditions: Occurs when you perform an OIR on the OC-3 IM after an SSO switchover.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptoms: Traceroute to a remote MEP fails.
Conditions: Occurs under the following conditions:
– You configure a EVC bridge-domain MEP on a remote device
– You configure a MIP on a trunk EFP on an intermediate device.
– You issue the traceroute command to the remote MEP
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptoms: Traffic floods on an EFP interface.
Conditions: Occurs when you configure a multicast static MAC on a bridge-domain and add more than 24 EFPs.
Workaround: Remove the extra EFPs from the bridge-domain.
Symptoms: The router crashes.
Conditions: Occurs when you configure CFM, SCE over MPLS, VPLS, or G.8032 services while running SNMP polling.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptoms: The router does not pass traffic over an EVC PC port-channel.
Conditions: Occurs when you perform the following sequence of actions:
– Remove an EVC member link from a port-channel interface
– Configure a trunk EFP -Set the interface to default
– Add the EVC member link back into the port-channel interface
Workaround: Reload the router.
Symptoms: The router stops passing traffic and crashes.
Conditions: Occurs when you remove a QoS policy applied to a trunk EFP.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptoms: The router intermittently drops packets.
Conditions: Occurs on 10 Gigabit Ethernet core links when the router passes traffic for an extended period and running a VPLS-TP configuration.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptoms: The router’s convergence time is greater than 90 seconds when you clear the multicast routing table.
Conditions: Occurs with a ring topology with 2 parallel paths from the FHR to the LHR Receivers.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptoms: The router duplicates multicast traffic when configured as a static rendezvous point (RP) node.
Conditions: Occurs under either of the following conditions:
– You remove Auto RP announce configurations on all routers.
– You configure the router as a static RP and enable multicast traffic
Workaround: Select an RP mode: static, auto, or bootstrap router (BSR) and avoid switching dynamically between RP modes.
Symptoms: MAC learning fails and the router displays FIFO table overflow messages.
Conditions: Occurs with a MAC security configuration running at high scale.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptoms: L3 multicast replication fails on some of the EFPs.
Conditions: Occurs under the following conditions:
1. You configure a group of EFPs and map each EVC to a different bridge-domain.
2. You create a QoS policy-map on each EVC.
3. All BDI send IGMP joins to single multicast group.
4. The router initiates multicast data traffic
5. You remove and reconfigure some of the EFPs
Workaround: Configure the EFPs and bridge-domains and initiate traffic flow before attaching QoS policies.
Symptoms: The router displays error messages similar to the following: %EVENTLIB-3-CPUHOG: SIP0: nile_mgr:
Conditions: Occurs when you boot the router running QoS configurations at a high scale, particularly queues.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptoms: The IOMD process corresponding to OC3 IM (interface module) crashes.
Conditions: Occurs when you perform an IM OIR after the router has been passing traffic.
Workaround: There is no workaround; the IM recovers after the crash and resumes traffic.
Symptoms: IPv6 BFD sessions drop after you perform an SSO.
Conditions: Occurs when you perform an SSO on the router while running an IPv6 BFD configuration. The issue does not occur with an IPv4 BFD configuration.
Workaround: After SSO, perform a shutdown/no shutdown on the physical interface.
Symptoms: Some IPv6 multi-hop BFD over BGP sessions flap.
Conditions: Occurs on port-channel interfaces running IPv6 multi-hop BFD over BGP sessions after you perform an SSO.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptoms: Convergence caused by an interface flap takes more than 50 milliseconds.
Conditions: Occurs when you enable BGP PIC core and LFA FRR at the same time.
Workaround: Use LFA FRR, as it converges in less than 50 milliseconds for BGP VPNv4 prefixes.
Symptoms: A CFM configuration crashes after passing traffic for several hours.
Conditions: Occurs when you create the following configuration:
– A port-channel interface configured with an EVC and applied to a bridge-domain
– A physical interface configured as a trunk EFP
– The offload sampling command is configured on both interfaces
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptoms: The router does not pass multicast traffic consistently; only some traffic passes.
Conditions: Occurs when you configure 255 EVCs spanning across different slots on the router.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptoms: The router forwards multicast traffic on 63 out of 255 multicast output interfaces (OIFs).
Conditions: Occurs when you configure the following:
– 255 EVCs on a single port mapped to 255 BDIs (one EVC per BDI) using rewrite tagging.
– 255 BDIs which send IGMP v2 Joins to a single multicast group.
– 255 EVCs configured as a routed port with the port a member link of a port-channel.
– 255 EVCs configured on a port-channel and sending multicast traffic to a multicast group
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptoms: The router displays a QoS Stats Stalled error message and stops applying QoS configurations.
Conditions: Occurs when you apply a flat VLAN policy to a trunk EFP interface.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptoms: QoS classification does not function properly.
Conditions: Occurs when you create QoS class containing a policy that classifies on both ACL and DSCP value.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptoms: QoS classification fails when you configure the match vlan command under a class-map.
Conditions: Occurs when the router is configured with an EVC with the encapsulation default command.
Workaround: Change the encapsulation to dot1q.
Symptoms: The router does not learn remote CFM MEPs on EFP interfaces.
Conditions: Occurs when you configure rewrite push operation on an EFP interface.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptoms: The router crashes when you attach a QoS policy.
Conditions: Occurs when you apply a QoS class-map that
– Matches traffic based on an ACL
– References an ACL not present in the running configuration
– Is referenced in a policy with a DSCP marking action
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptoms: The router does not learn remote CFM MEPs.
Conditions: Occurs under the following conditions:
– The router is connected to the remote MEPs via a pseudowire connection.
– The router is configured with MPLS on a bridge-domain interface
– Dot1q encapsulation is configured on an EFP.
Workaround: Configure the EFP encapsulation as untagged.
Symptoms: The OC-3 interface module crashes when you create a high number of ATM IMA interfaces.
Conditions: Occurs when you configure multiple ATM IMA interfaces with fewer than 16 links per bundle.
Workaround: Perform a hard OIR on the interface module.
Symptoms: Gigabit Ethernet port 0/5/1 does not timestamp Ethernet OAM Y.1731 packets.
Conditions: Occurs when you configure Ethernet OAM on port 0/5/1 of a copper or SFP Gigabit Ethernet interface module.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptoms: Changes to the police QoS command do not take effect.
Conditions: Occurs under the following conditions:
– You create a QoS policy with a policer and attach the policy to an interface.
– You make a dynamic change to the police action such as altering the policer value, conform-action value, or exceed-action value.
Workaround: Remove the policy from the interface, make the necessary changes, and re-attach the policy.
Symptoms: The router does not transmit Y.1731 Delay Measurement Message (DMM) values using QinQ encapsulation.
Conditions: Occurs with the following configuration:
– An EFP is configured and applied to a bridge-domain.
– The EFP is configured with QinQ encapsulation.
– A Y.1731 Delay Measurement Message (DMM) value is applied.
– The Y.1731 traffic uses a CoS value other than 0.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptoms: The router does not update Gigabit Ethernet interface bitmaps after you remove an EFP from a multicast group. The router can display CPU hog messages.
Conditions: Occurs under the following conditions:
– You create an EFP on a single bridge-domain interface (BDI)
– The router receives IGMP v2 or v3 SSM Joins to the BDI
– You create a second EFP on the same BDI
– You delete the first or second EFP.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptoms: The router stops passing traffic on 10-15 HDLC interfaces.
Conditions: Occurs when you configure a large number of HDLC interfaces: 84 per port or 336 per interface module.
Workaround: Remove and reconfigure the interface.
Symptoms: The router does not increment QoS port shaper policy counters displayed by the show policy interface command.
Conditions: Occurs when you configure -A class-default policy on a physical interface -A class-based policy on an EVC interface
Workaround: There is no workaround; however, the router applies the QoS policy normally.
Resolved Caveats—Cisco IOS XE Release 3.7(0)S
This section documents the issues that have been resolved in Cisco IOS XE Release 3.7.0S.
Symptoms: The standby RSP crashes during bootup.
Conditions: The issue can occur during bootup of a dual RSP system.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptoms: The router displays intermittent traceback errors.
Conditions: Occurs when you configure REP.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptoms: BFD sessions flap on the router.
Conditions: Occurs when the router is running IP BFD sessions in echo mode with 64 200ms X3 timers.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptoms: A REP topology may reconverge during an RSP switchover. The consoles displays REP no-neighbor messages.
Conditions: Occurs when you configure REP between two Cisco ASR 903 Routers and you perform an RSP switchover.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptoms: The port shaper rate changes on RSP switchover.
Conditions: Occurs under the following conditions:
– You attach a shaper policy to an interface
– The interface is configured with multiple EVCs
– The EVC has a QoS policy attached.
Workaround: Remove and re-attach the policy on the interface.
Symptoms: The standby RSP crashes during ISSU.
Conditions: Occurs when you perform an ISSU downgrade from Release 3.6 to 3.5.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptoms: The router cannot establish a PTP session when configured as a PTP slave device.
Conditions: Occurs when the router receives PTP packets containing a VPN or VRF label.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptoms: REP flaps intermittently.
Conditions: Occurs with a hybrid REP configuration containing ports with and without Fast LSL enabled.
Workaround: Configure all interfaces with Fast LSL.
Symptoms: The router drops MPLS packets with a checksum of 0xFFFF.
Conditions: Occurs when the ASR 903 is acting as a label disposition edge label switch router (LSR).
Workaround: There is no workaround.
Symptoms: The ASR 903 does not establish BFD neighbors over port-channel 16.
Conditions: Occurs when you configure BFD on port-channel 16 between two ASR 903 routers.
Workaround: Configure BFD on port-channels 1 - 15.