Release Notes for Cisco RF Gateway 10, Cisco IOS -XE Release 3.2SQ
Overview of CiscoRF Gateway 10 UEQAM Platform
Determining the Software Version
New Hardware Features in Cisco IOS-XE Release 3.2.3SQ
New Hardware Features in Cisco IOS-XE Release 3.2.2SQ
New Hardware Features in Cisco IOS-XE Release 3.2.1SQ
New Hardware Features in Cisco IOS-XE Release 3.2.0SQ
Cisco RFGW-10 DS-384 Line Card
Cisco RF Gateway 10 Supervisor Engine 7-E
New Software Features in Cisco IOS-XE Release 3.2.3SQ
New Software Features in Cisco IOS-XE Release 3.2.2SQ
Support for the Ethernet Management Port
New Software Features in Cisco IOS-XE Release 3.2.1SQ
New Software Features in Cisco IOS-XE Release 3.2.0SQ
Cisco RFGW-10 DS-384 RF Port Configuration
Software Licensing on the Cisco RFGW-10 DS-384 Line Card
1:1 and 1:N Line card Redundancy
Fan Tray Failure Handling Enhancement
Cisco DS-384 Line Card with P4080 CPU Revision 3
Setting Platform Variables from IOS Environment
Open Caveats for Cisco IOS-XE Release 3.2.3SQ
Resolved Caveats for Cisco IOS-XE Release 3.2.3SQ
Open Caveats for Cisco IOS-XE Release 3.2.2SQ
Resolved Caveats for Cisco IOS-XE Release 3.2.2SQ
Open Caveats for Cisco IOS-XE Release 3.2.1SQ
Resolved Caveats for Cisco IOS-XE Release 3.2.1SQ
Open Caveats for Cisco IOS-XE Release 3.2.0SQ
Resolved Caveats for Cisco IOS-XE Release 3.2.0SQ
Documentation Updates in Cisco IOS-XE Release 3.2.0SQ
Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request
First Released: October 16, 2012
These release notes describe the features and caveats for all releases in the Cisco IOS-XE Release 3.2SQ train for the Cisco RF Gateway 10 (RFGW-10) that supports the Cisco RFGW-10 DS-384 line card and the Cisco Supervisor Engine 7-E.
These release notes are updated with each release in the train. This update adds information for Cisco IOS-XE Release 3.2SQ. For a list of the caveats that apply to this release, see the “Caveats” section.
To download and upgrade to the new ROMMON image for the Cisco RFGW-X45-SUP7-E, see the ROMMON Release Notes for ROMMON Release Notes for Supervisor Engine 7-E on the Cisco RF Gateway 10 at: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/cable/rf_gateway/release/notes/ROMMOM_RN_RFGW10_SUP7E.html
Cisco recommends that you view the field notices for this release to see if your software or hardware platforms are affected. If you have an account on Cisco.com, you can find field notices at: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/support/tsd_products_field_notice_summary.html.
For information on new features and the Cisco IOS documentation set supported on Cisco IOS-XE Release 3.2SQ, see the “New and Changed Information” section and the “Related Documentation” section.
Note Use the service internal command on the Cisco RFGW-10 only for system debugging and troubleshooting purposes. This command should not be used in normal operation mode.
The Cisco RFGW-10 is a carrier-class Universal Edge QAM (UEQAM) platform that offers concurrent support for standard and high-definition digital broadcast television, Switched Digital Video (SDV), Video on Demand (VoD), and DOCSIS/Modular CMTS services. It is a chassis-based product based on open standards with superior performance, capacity, power consumption, ease of management, and scalability. All components of the Cisco RFGW-10 are designed for high availability, including dual Supervisor and Ethernet switching line cards, 1:N Universal Edge QAM line cards, dual timing, communication and control (TCC) line cards, dual load balancing and load sharing DC PEMs and integrated RF switching modules.
The Cisco RFGW-10 is a centralized switching architecture leveraged from the Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series switches. The Cisco RFGW-10 is a 13-rack unit, modular chassis designed for providing front-to-back airflow and system-level redundancy. All chassis components are hot-swappable and redundant. The chassis supports “wire-once” cabling for RF line cards and an integrated dual-zone RF switch matrix. The Supervisor Engine 7-E provides robust Layer 2 to Layer 4 switching with up to 848 Gbps, and up to 250 Mpps packet throughput
This section describes the system requirements for Cisco IOS-XE Release 3.2SQ series and includes the following sections:
Table 1 provides information on the hardware supported on the Cisco RFGW-10 for Cisco IOS-XE Release 3.2SQ.
Note The Cisco IOS-XE Release 3.2SQ train does not support Cisco RFGW-X4516-10GE, the RFGW Supervisor V-10GE.
For more information on ROMMON, see the ROMMON Release Notes for Supervisor Engine 7-E on the Cisco RF Gateway 10 at: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/cable/rf_gateway/release/notes/ROMMOM_RN_RFGW10_SUP7E.html
Cisco IOS-XE release represents the continuing evolution of Cisco's pre-eminent IOS operating system.
Cisco IOS-XE release retains the exact same look and feel of IOS, while providing enhanced future-proofing and improved functionality. In Cisco IOS-XE Release 3.2SQ, the Cisco IOS Release 15.0(2)SQA runs as a single daemon within a modern Linux operating system. Additional system functions now run as additional, separate processes in the host OS environment. The operation, support and management of IOS-XE does not require re-training from classic IOS.
Cisco IOS-XE Release 3.2SQ includes the IOSd 15.0(2)SQA daemon, inherits features from previous classic IOS 12.2(50)SQ releases and is the base release for a new maintenance train. Cisco IOS Release 12.2(50)SQ is the last maintenance train supporting the Cisco RFGW-10 Supervisor V-10GE. Cisco IOS-XE Release 3.2.0SQ introduces the Cisco RFGW Supervisor 7-E and the Cisco RFGW-10 DS-384 line card.
The following figure shows the software release trains for Cisco RFGW-10. This figure is only indicative of the progression of the release trains.
Figure 1 Cisco IOS Software Release Trains for Cisco RF Gateway 10
To determine the version of Cisco IOS software running on the Cisco RFGW-10 platform, log in to the platform and enter the show version EXEC command.
Below is an example of the output from the show version command:
Cisco IOS Software, IOS-XE Software, RFGW-10 Software (rfgwk10-ENTSERVICESK9-M), Version 03.02.03.SQ RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport
Copyright (c) 1986-2014 by Cisco Systems, Inc.
Compiled Wed 19-Feb-14 13:54 by prod_rel_team
Cisco IOS-XE software, Copyright (c) 2002-2010, 2012 by cisco Systems, Inc.
All rights reserved. Certain components of Cisco IOS-XE software are
licensed under the GNU General Public License ("GPL") Version 2.0. The
software code licensed under GPL Version 2.0 is free software that comes
with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. You can redistribute and/or modify such
GPL code under the terms of GPL Version 2.0.
(http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html) For more details, see the
documentation or "License Notice" file accompanying the IOS-XE software,
or the applicable URL provided on the flyer accompanying the IOS-XE
Image text-base: 0x100A6814, data-base: 0x14233748
Table 3 provides a summary of the features supported in the Cisco IOS-XE Release 3.2.0SQ release train.
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These sections list the new and existing hardware and software features supported by the Cisco RFGW-10:
There are no new hardware features for Cisco IOS-XE Release 3.2.3SQ.
There are no new hardware features for Cisco IOS-XE Release 3.2.2SQ.
There are no new hardware features for Cisco IOS-XE Release 3.2.1SQ.
Starting with Cisco IOS-XE Release 3.2.0SQ, the Cisco RFGW-10 chassis supports the Cisco RFGW-10 DS-384 line card. This card is a high-density downstream QAM card that supports a maximum of 384 downstream channels through flexible QAM-capacity licensing. However, this release only supports a maximum of 128 downstream channels and DOCSIS data only.
The Cisco RFGW-10 DS-384 line card provides high availability—up to two protect line cards can be configured to operate in redundancy mode.
This line card supports the following features:
For more information, see Cisco RF Gateway 10 Downstream 384 Line Card Hardware Installation Guide.
When using the Cisco RFGW-10 DS-384 line card, a Supervisor card with greater throughput capabilities is required. Starting with Cisco IOS-XE Release 3.2.0SQ, the RFGW-10 supports the Cisco RF Gateway 10 Supervisor Engine 7-E.
The Cisco RF Gateway 10 Supervisor Engine 7-E is supported by the Cisco IOS-XE Release 3.2.0SQ release train.
The Cisco RF Gateway 10 Supervisor Engine 7-E has the following features:
For more information on the Cisco RF Gateway 10 Supervisor Engine 7-E, see the Cisco RF Gateway 10 Hardware Installation Guide.
There are no new software features for Cisco IOS-XE Release 3.2.3SQ.
This section describes the new software features supported in Cisco IOS-XE Release 3.2.2SQ.
Starting with Cisco IOS-XE Release 3.2.2SQ, the Cisco RFGW-10 Supervisor Engine 7-E provides support for the Ethernet Management Port.
The Ethernet management port is a Layer 3 host port to which a personal computer can be connected. This port supports speeds of 10/100Mbps in Auto-negotiation mode.
For more information, see http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/cable/rf_gateway/feature/guide/RFGW10_sup_cf.html.
Starting with Cisco IOS-XE Release 3.2.2SQ, the Cisco RFGW-10 Supervisor Engine 7-E also provides limited support for the EtherChannel.
EtherChannel provides automatic recovery for the loss of a link by redistributing the load across the remaining links. If a link fails, EtherChannel redirects traffic from the failed link to the remaining links in the channel without intervention. EtherChannel bundles up to eight individual Ethernet links into a single logical ink that provides an aggregate bandwidth.
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/cable/rf_gateway/feature/guide/RFGW10_sup_cf.html.
This section describes the new software features supported in Cisco IOS-XE Release 3.2.1SQ.
Starting with Cisco IOS-XE Release 3.2.1SQ, the Cisco RF Gateway 10 DS-384 line card supports Annex A DEPI with up to 96 QAMs on a port and up to 96 QAMs on each line card. It also supports mixed Annex A and Annex B on the line card with granularity per port, such that
Number_of_Annex_B_QAMs + (4/3)Number_of_Annex_A_QAMs <= 128.
For more information, see M-CMTS DEPI.
This section describes the new software features supported in Cisco IOS-XE Release 3.2.0SQ.
The Cisco RFGW-10 DS-384 line card is a high-density card and has the following features:
The Cisco RFGW-10 licenses are used to control access to the RF channels. It supports QAM-capacity licensing where a customer can invest in partial QAM-capacity of the line card. Table 4 lists the licenses for the Cisco RFGW-10 DS-384 line card.
Note The Cisco IOS-XE Release 3.2.0SQ only supports 128 channels and DOCSIS data on the Cisco RFGW-10 DS-384 line card.
Starting Cisco IOS-XE Release 3.2.0SQ, the 32-bit session IDs are generated internally for the DEPI sessions, and is configured manually on the M-CMTS node, thus improving the performance of the system with higher session load for new line cards.
In Cisco IOS-XE Release 3.2.0SQ, all QAM channels on the RF port can be used for DEPI when the QAM subinterface is configured for DEPI. A QAM-port load-balancing group is a QAM block or midplane 10 Gigabit-Ethernet interface. Two QAM-port load-balancing groups exist per line card and a QAM-port load-balancing group is assigned to QAM channels while configuring local DEPI sessions.
The QAM channels are equally divided between the two QAM-port load-balancing groups on any line card. Each QAM port load-balancing group supports 192 carriers for the Cisco RFGW-10 DS-384 line card, and 24 carriers for the Cisco RFGW-10 DS-48 line card. The show cable linecard load-balancing-group command lists the current carriers on the line card.
For more information, see M-CMTS DEPI.
The Cisco RFGW-10 DS-48 and Cisco RFGW-10 DS-384 line cards have different ports, hence cannot be used in the same redundancy group. Starting with Cisco IOS-XE Release 3.2.0SQ, the Cisco RFGW-10 supports multiple line card types. Table 5 lists the line card redundancy compatibility between the Cisco RFGW-10 line cards within the same redundancy group.
For more information, see For more information, see the 1:1 and 1:N Line Card Redundancy.
Starting with Cisco IOS-XE Release 3.2.0SQ, the DOCS-DRF-MIB is used to configure Downstream External Physical Interface (DEPI) on the Cisco RFGW-10. Querying these tables displays the QAM interfaces and channels for the Cisco RFGW-10 DS-384 line card.
In addition, the Cisco RFGW-10 supports MIBs common in Cisco IOS, which can be found in the Cisco RF Gateway 10 MIB Specifications Guide.
The Cisco RF Gateway 10 Supervisor Engine 7-E uplink ports are not recommended for data or management traffic in Supervisor Redundancy Mode.
The Supervisor 7-E card has four uplink ports on its front panel. Only the top two ports are active in redundancy mode. However, in redundancy mode, packet loss occurs in the traffic paths between the uplink ports on the standby Supervisor card and the switch fabric on the active Supervisor card. There is no packet loss for uplink ports on active supervisors.
The uplink ports on the Cisco RFGW-10 DS-384 and the Cisco RFGW-10 DS-48 line cards are recommended for data and management traffic.
Effective from Cisco IOS-XE Release 3.2.3SQ, the Fan Tray Failure Handling Enhancement provides the warning system for fan failure events.
The failure of fan controllers is handled by the software in the following condition-action sets:
For partial failure, an error message is logged in syslog and the show environment and show facility-alarm status commands display the error messages. Errors are logged once in syslog; they are not displayed continuously.
For critical error, an error message is logged in syslog and the Supervisor card starts the four-minute shutdown timer. The Supervisor card shuts down all line cards and the second Supervisor card at the four-minute timeout. The active Supervisor card continues to be operational.
Effective with Cisco IOS-XE Release 3.2.3SQ, the Cisco RFGW-10 supports the new version of the Cisco DS-384 line card with P4080 CPU revision 3. The Version Identifier (VID) of the revised Cisco DS-384 line card is 2. Ensure that you run Cisco IOS-XE Release 3.2.3SQ or later releases, or Cisco IOS-XE Release 3.3.1SQ or later releases on the Supervisor engine 7-E to use the Cisco DS-384 VID 2 line card (with P4080 CPU revision 3).
Note If the Supervisor engine 7-E is running a release earlier than Cisco IOS-XE Release 3.2.3SQ, the Cisco RFGW-10 DS-384 VID 2 line card (with P4080 CPU revision 3) does not downgrade and hence, does not work.
For more information on the Cisco DS-384 line card, see Cisco RF Gateway 10 DS-384 Line Card Hardware Installation Guide at this URL:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/cable/rf_gateway/linecard/ds384/installation/guide/b_ds384_hig.html
Effective with Cisco IOS-XE 3.2.3SQ, platform environment variables such as BootParam1 can be modified from the IOS Command Line Interface. This provides a convenient way to modify these variables, instead of using a directly connected console to modify them via the ROMMON.
For details, see Configuring the Cisco RFGW-10 for the First Time at:
This section lists the limitations and restrictions for the Cisco IOS-XE Release 3.2SQ train on the Cisco RFGW- 10.
Note In Cisco IOS-XE Release 3.2.0SQ and Cisco IOS-XE Release 3.2.1SQ, the configuration for the management port always appears in the running configuration in shutdown state. The configuration cannot be changed to the no shut state.
Note Effective with Cisco IOS-XE Release 3.2.1SQ Annex A is supported.
Note This limitation applies only to Cisco IOS-XE Release 3.2.0SQ.
This chapter describes open and resolved severity 1 and 2 caveats and select severity 3 caveats:
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The following structural changes have been made in Cisco RF Gateway 10 Software Feature and Configuration Guide :
These documents are available for the Cisco RFGW-10 platform on Cisco.com:
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