Network Convergence System 560 Series Routers


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Cisco IOS XR Release 7.0.2 is an Extended Maintenance Release of Cisco IOS XR Release 7.0.1 for Cisco NCS 560 Series routers. For more details on the Cisco IOS XR release model and associated support, see Guidelines for Cisco IOS XR Software.

Supported Packages and System Requirements

For more information on system upgrade and package installation process, see Perform System Upgrade and Install Feature Packages.

For a complete list of supported optics, hardware and ordering information, see the Cisco NCS 560 Series Routers Interface Modules Data Sheet and Cisco Network Convergence System 560-4 Router Data Sheet.

To install the Cisco NCS 560 Series Routers, see Cisco N560-RSP4 and Cisco N560-RSP4-E Route Processor Hardware Installation Guide and Cisco NCS 560-4 Router Hardware Installation Guide.

Release 7.0.2 Packages

This table lists the Cisco IOS XR Software feature set matrix (packages) with associated filenames.

Table 1. Release 7.0.2 Packages for Cisco NCS 560 Series Router

Composite Package

Feature Set

Filename

Description

Cisco IOS XR IP Unicast Routing Core Bundle

ncs560-mini-x-7.0.2.iso

Contains base image contents that includes:

  • Host operating system

  • System Admin boot image

  • IOS XR boot image

  • BGP packages

  • OS

  • Admin

  • Base

  • Forwarding

  • Modular Services Card

  • Routing

  • SNMP Agent

  • Alarm Correlation

Cisco IOS XR Manageability Package

ncs560-mgbl-2.0.0.0-r702.x86_64.rpm

Telemetry, Extensible Markup Language (XML), Parser, and HTTP server packages, NETCONF, YANG Models, gRPC.

Cisco IOS XR OSPF package

ncs560-ospf-2.0.0.0-r702.x86_64.rpm

Supports OSPF

Cisco IOS XR Security Package

ncs560-k9sec-2.0.0.0-r702.x86_64.rpm

Support for Encryption, Decryption, Secure Shell (SSH), Secure Socket Layer (SSL), and Public-key infrastructure (PKI)

Multicast Package

ncs560-mcast-2.0.0.0-r702.x86_64.rpm

Supports Multicast

Supports Automatic Multicast Tunneling (AMT), IGMP Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD), Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP) and PIM.

Cisco IOS XR ISIS package

ncs560-isis-2.0.0.0-r702.x86_64.rpm

Supports Intermediate System to Intermediate System (IS-IS).

Cisco IOS XR USB Boot Package

ncs560-usb_boot-7.0.2.zip

Supports Cisco IOS XR USB Boot Package

Cisco IOS XR MPLS Package

ncs560-mpls-1.0.0.0-r702.x86_64.rpm

ncs560-mpls-te-rsvp-2.0.0.0-r702.x86_64.rpm

Supports MPLS and MPLS Traffic Engineering (MPLS-TE) RPM. Label Distribution Protocol (LDP), MPLS Forwarding, MPLS Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM), Link Manager Protocol (LMP), Optical User Network Interface (OUNI) and Layer-3 VPN.

Cisco IOS XR MPLS-TE and RSVP Package

MPLS Traffic Engineering (MPLS-TE) and Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP).

Cisco IOS XR LI Package

ncs560-li-1.0.0.0-r702.x86_64.rpm

Lawful Intercept

Determine Software Version

Log in to the router and enter the show version command. 

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:ROUTER#show version 
Sun Mar 15 20:41:21.844 IST
Cisco IOS XR Software, Version 7.0.2
Copyright (c) 2013-2020 by Cisco Systems, Inc.

Build Information:
 Built By     : ahoang
 Built On     : Fri Mar 13 22:19:59 PDT 2020
 Built Host   : iox-ucs-028
 Workspace    : /auto/srcarchive15/prod/7.0.2/ncs560/ws
 Version      : 7.0.2
 Location     : /opt/cisco/XR/packages/
 Label        : 7.0.2

cisco NCS-560 () processor
System uptime is 10 hours 43 minutes

Determine Firmware Support

Log in to the router and enter the show fpd package and show hw-module fpd commands. 


RP/0/RP0/CPU0:ROUTER#show hw-module fpd 
Sun Mar 15 20:41:24.540 IST
                                     FPD Versions
                                                   
Location   Card type             HWver FPD device       ATR Status   Running Programd
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
0/0        A900-IMA8CS1Z-M       0.0   IMFPGA               CURRENT    1.95    1.95  
0/4        A900-IMA8Z            0.0   IMFPGA               CURRENT   17.02   17.02  
0/5        A900-IMA8Z            0.0   IMFPGA               CURRENT   17.02   17.02  
0/7        N560-IMA2C            0.0   IMFPGA               CURRENT    3.04    3.04  
0/9        A900-IMA8Z            0.0   IMFPGA               CURRENT   17.02   17.02  
0/10       A900-IMA8Z            0.0   IMFPGA               CURRENT   17.02   17.02  
0/11       A900-IMA8Z            0.0   IMFPGA               CURRENT   17.02   17.02  
0/13       A900-IMA8CS1Z-M       0.0   IMFPGA               CURRENT    1.95    1.95  
0/15       A900-IMA8CS1Z-M       0.0   IMFPGA               CURRENT    1.95    1.95  
0/RP0      N560-RSP4-E           0.0   ADM                  CURRENT    1.05    1.05  
0/RP0      N560-RSP4-E           0.0   IOFPGA               CURRENT    0.56    0.56  
0/RP0      N560-RSP4-E           0.0   PRIMARY-BIOS         CURRENT    0.16    0.16  
0/RP0      N560-RSP4-E           0.0   SATA                 CURRENT    1.30    1.30  
0/RP1      N560-RSP4-E           0.0   ADM                  CURRENT    1.05    1.05  
0/RP1      N560-RSP4-E           0.0   IOFPGA               CURRENT    0.56    0.56  
0/RP1      N560-RSP4-E           0.0   PRIMARY-BIOS         CURRENT    0.16    0.16  
0/RP1      N560-RSP4-E           0.0   SATA                 CURRENT    1.30    1.30  
0/FT0      N560-FAN-H            1.0   PSOC                 CURRENT    2.02    2.02

Supported Software Features

GLC-TE

On the GLC-TE (1000BASE-T SFP transceiver module for Category 5 copper wire, RJ-45 connector) speed configuration works regardless of autonegotiation.

For more information on GLC-TE, see the section Restrictions and Limitations on the Cisco NCS 560 Series Router in this release notes.

L3VPN Support in Segment Routing IPv6

This feature enables Layer 3 Virtual Private Network in Segment Routing in an IPv6 network.

SPAN over Pseudo-Wire

Pseudo-wire traffic mirroring (known as PW-SPAN) is an extra functionality on the existing SPAN solutions. The existing SPAN solutions are monitored on a destination interface or through a GRE tunnel or RSPAN. In PW-SPAN, the traffic mirroring destination port is configured to be a pseudo-wire rather than a physical port. Here, the designated traffic on the source port is mirrored over the pseudo-wire to a central location. Mirroring the designated traffic on the source port over the pseudo-wire to a central location allows the centralization of expensive network traffic analysis tools.

For more information about this feature, see the Configuring Traffic Mirroring chapter in the Interface and Hardware Component Configuration Guide for Cisco NCS 560 Series Routers.

See SPAN over Pseudo-Wire.

SRv6: Basic Network Instructions

In an SR-MPLS enabled network, an MPLS label is used as the Segment Identifier (SID) and the source router chooses a path to the destination and encodes the path in the packet header as a stack of labels.

For more information on this feature, see Segment Routing over IPv6 (SRv6) chapter of the Segment Routing Configuration Guide for Cisco NCS 560 Series Routers.

SRv6 Topology-Independent Loop-Free Alternate Node and Shared Risk Link Groups Protection

This feature introduces support for Topology-Independent Loop-Free Alternate (TI-LFA) node protection and Shared Risk Link Groups (SRLG) protection using Segment Routing over IPv6 (SRv6) for the IS-IS protocol.

  • TI-LFA node protection functionality provides protection from node failures. The neighbor node is excluded during the post convergence backup path calculation.

  • TI-LFA SRLG protection functionality attempts to find the post-convergence backup path, which excludes the SRLGs of the protected link. All local links that share any SRLG with the protecting link are excluded during the post convergence backup path calculation.

SRv6 IS-IS

Intermediate System-to-Intermediate System (IS-IS) protocol already supports segment-routing with MPLS data plane (SR-MPLS). This feature enables extensions in ISIS to support segment-routing with IPv6 data plane (SRv6). The extensions include exchanging a node’s SRv6 capabilities and node and adjacency segments as SRv6 SIDs.

SRv6 L3VPNv4 OAM

This feature enables to use the existing Internet Control Message Protocol version 6 (ICMPv6) mechanism for basic Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) functionality to address the OAM requirements for SRv6 enabled L3VPN networks.

SRv6-OAM: Ping or Trace Using Network Instructions

Segment Routing over IPv6 data plane (SRv6) implementation adds a new type of routing extension header. Hence, the existing ICMPv6 mechanisms including ping and traceroute can be used in the SRv6 network.

For more information on this feature, see Using Segment Routing OAM chapter of the Segment Routing Configuration Guide for Cisco NCS 560 Series Routers.

SRv6-Services: VPNv4 - IPv4-L3VPN active/standby Redundancy

L3VPN VPNv4 active/standby redundancy using Port-Active Mode feature provides all-active per-port load balancing for multihoming. The forwarding of traffic is determined based on a specific interface rather than per-flow across multiple provider edge routers. This feature enables efficient load-balancing and provides faster convergence.

For more information on this feature, see Segment Routing over IPv6 (SRv6) chapter of the Segment Routing Configuration Guide for Cisco NCS 560 Series Routers.

SRv6-Services: VPNv4 - IPv4-L3VPN—(End.DX4, End.DT4)

The SRv6-based IPv4 L3VPN feature enables deployment of IPv4 L3VPN over a SRv6 data plane. Traditionally done over an MPLS-based system.

For more information on this feature, see Segment Routing over IPv6 (SRv6) chapter of the Segment Routing Configuration Guide for Cisco NCS 560 Series Routers.

SRv6 Services: EVPN VPWS — IPv6 QoS Traffic-Class Marking

This feature allows the ingress EVPN VPWS PE to copy the CoS value from the top-most VLAN header to the traffic-class (TC) field of the outer-most IPv6 header. This functionality enables prioritization of traffic in the IPv6 network.

To enable this feature, use the hw-module profile segment-routing srv6 encapsulation traffic-class propagate command. This command requires you to reload the router for the configuration to take effect.

Support for IPv4 Unnumbered Interfaces on SR-TE Head-End and SR-PCE

An IPv4 interface is typically identified by its own unique IPv4 address; an unnumbered IPv4 interface is identified by the router ID of the node where this interfaces resides and the local SNMP index assigned for this interface.

This feature allows IPv4 unnumbered interfaces to be part of an SR-TE head-end/SR-PCE topology database and to be used for path computation.

Supported Hardware Features

There are no new hardware features introduced in this release.

Supported MIBs

The Cisco NCS 5500 MIB support list is also applicable to the Cisco NCS 560 Series Routers. For the list of supported MIBs, see the Cisco NCS5500 MIB Support List.

Restrictions and Limitations on the Cisco NCS 560 Series Router

  • Starting from Cisco IOS XR Release 7.0.2, 1G SFP (Copper) is supported on the A900-IMA-8CS1Z interface module, using GLC-TE optics with a speed of 1000M/100M.

  • The speed configuration works regardless of autonegotiation. If autonegotiation is enabled, it overwrites and works in ‘Forced mode’.

  • The show inventory and the show diagnostic commands do not display the fan serial number.

  • The hw-module profile MFIB statistics command is not supported.

  • Ensure that the IS-IS hello interval-timer value is not greater than six seconds, otherwise it may result in an IS-IS adjacency flap.

  • Do not use the Cisco N560-RSP4 and Cisco N560-RSP4-E route processors together in the same router.

Caveats

This section describes open and resolved severity 1 and 2 caveats and select severity 3 caveats:

  • The “Open Caveats” sections list open caveats that apply to the current release and may apply to previous releases. A caveat that is open for a prior release and is still unresolved applies to all future releases until it is resolved.

  • The “Resolved Caveats” sections list caveats resolved in a specific release, but open in previous releases.

The bug IDs are sorted alphanumerically.


Note

The Caveats section includes the bug ID and a short description of the bug. For details on the symptoms, conditions, and workaround for a specific caveat you must use the Bug Search Tool.

Cisco IOS XR Caveats Release 7.0.2

Following are the caveats for this release.

Caveat ID Number

Description

CSCvt07000

G8032-3-PORT_STATE_ACK getting timed out for G8032 ports after causing traffic glitch

CSCvs92635

ISSU load phase aborted due to ipv6_ma/ipv6_nd process blockage

CSCvn99774

FPD upgrade is not happening with auto FPD upgrade CLI

Upgrading Cisco IOS XR Software

Cisco IOS XR Software is installed and activated from modular packages, allowing specific features or software patches to be installed, upgraded, or downgraded without affecting unrelated processes. Software packages can be upgraded or downgraded on all supported card types, or on a single card (node).

The upgrade document (NCS560_Upgrade_MOP_7.0.2.pdf) is available along with the software images.

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