Cisco RF Gateway 10, Release Notes

Page 1: ...nformation for Cisco IOS Release 12 2 50 SQ5 For a list of the caveats that apply to this release see the Caveats section on page 20 To download and upgrade to the new ROMMON image for the Cisco RFGW 10 see the ROMMON Release Notes for Cisco RF Gateway 10 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 acco...

Page 2: ...ity solutions and wanting to collapse video and data over cable EQAM systems into a common platform A collapsed Universal EQAM architecture achieves the following business benefits EQAM resource utilization gains cost efficiencies rack space optimization reduced cost and complexity of management and high availability for all services The Cisco RFGW 10 is part of the Cisco cable ecosystem and is fu...

Page 3: ... and 12 RFGW 10 RFSW RF switch card slots Also includes the RFGW 10 fan tray assembly and front panel display FPD Cisco RFGW Series Supervisors RFGW X4516 10GE RFGW Supervisor V 10GE 2x10GE X2 and 4x1GE SFP RFGW X4516 10GE RFGW Supervisor V 10GE 2x10GE X2 and 4x1GE SFP spare Cisco RFGW Series TCC Cards RFGW TCC1 RFGW timing communication and control card v1 RFGW TCC1 RFGW timing communication and ...

Page 4: ...er provide Cisco RFGW 10 specific features as described in this document Determining the Software Version 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 Router show version Cisco IOS Software Catalyst 4500 L3 Switch Software rfgw ENTSE...

Page 5: ...0 FAN ASSY Fan assembly RFGW 10 FPD KIT Front panel display kit Universal Edge QAM M CMTS DOCSIS MPEG Transport Manual Mode M CMTS DTI Offset 1 1 and 1 N DS 48 Line Card Redundancy up to 2 redundancy groups 1 1 Supervisor Card Redundancy 1 1 Timing Communication and Control Card Redundancy Video Table based port mapping for Video on Demand VOD and Digital Video Broadcast DVB SNMP MIBs GUI Monitori...

Page 6: ...ease 12 2 50 SQ2 There are no new hardware features supported in the Cisco IOS Release 12 2 50 SQ2 New Hardware Features in Cisco IOS Release 12 2 50 SQ1 Cisco IOS Release 12 2 50 SQ1 introduces the Cisco RFGW DS48 1G line card The Cisco RFGW DS48 1G line card has similar features as the RFGW DS48 line card however it supports full DOCSIS DRFI compliance up to an operating frequency of 1GHz The op...

Page 7: ...y of the supported hardware features of the Cisco RFGW 10 Cisco RF Gateway 10 Universal Edge QAM Chassis 13 rack unit carrier class chassis 19 inch rack mount capability 4536 watt capacity Front to rear airflow design Integrated RF switching Cable once wire once coaxial connections LCD front panel display 240 Gbps system performance System level redundancy Redundancy system architecture All major ...

Page 8: ...rd The Cisco RFGW 10 Supervisor card terminates DEPI control and communicates the control to each line card in the system via the chassis IPC infrastructure DOCSIS timing information 10 24 MHz synchronous DTI clock is received by the line card from the system TCC cards As a video engine the DS 48 terminates video data path traffic forwarded from the Supervisor card video control plane traffic is t...

Page 9: ... traffic management features include Quality of service QoS Virtual LANs VLANs Multiple traffic queuing techniques such as IP Differentiated Service Code Points DSCPs Full featured traffic classification marking and policing The Cisco RFGW 10 Supervisor Engine V 10GE handles the management of DOCSIS and video traffic for the RF Gateway 10 system Management of data and video traffic can be split in...

Page 10: ...ned to support dual 1 N redundancy groups where N is a group of RF line cards associated with a single protect card There are 12 RF Switch cards per chassis providing 120 RF ports for the system Note The chassis must include all 12 RF Switch cards for proper operation Each RF Switch card supports a single Cisco UCH2 connector header the UCH2 supports 10 MCX coaxial connections per card The RF Swit...

Page 11: ... redundant backup card without loss of data The following is a summary of the TCC card s functions and features Generates and distributes 10 24 MHz clock references and 32 bit time stamp references to every cable interface line card Drives the LCD module used to display the system configuration and status information Proxy control mechanism via Supervisor cards for the RF Switch cards Front panel ...

Page 12: ...e monitoring of individual fans Backup temperature monitoring to control individual fan RPM Usage counter based on hours of operation CLI based Front panel LED for alarm status indication Control and power circuit failure alarms On board multi level fan speed control based on system temperature New Software Features in Cisco IOS Release 12 2 50 SQ6 There are no new software features supported in t...

Page 13: ...ands were introduced or modified protect tunnel show depi session show depi tunnel For more information see M CMTS DEPI Control Plane Note The DEPI Path Redundancy feature is not supported on the Cisco uBR MC3GX60V cable interface line card in Cisco IOS Release 12 2 33 SCE For more information see Cisco uBR10012 Router Release Notes for Cisco IOS Release 12 2 33 SCE DEPI EQAM Statistics The DEPI E...

Page 14: ...ecify a list of PIDs to be dropped for a pass through video session PID filtering is used in scenarios where the SI table is replaced in the BDV digital broadcast feed The incoming feed from the video session is a Multiple Program Transport Stream MPTS containing BDV SI tables These SI tables are replaced with locally generated SI tables The PID filtering capability enables the drop of SI tables f...

Page 15: ...s are not reset during a Supervisor switchover The interfaces remain active during the switchover hence the neighboring routers do not detect a physical link flap the link does not go down and back up The SSO feature supports both the DEPI Manual and the DEPI Protocol modes It is unavailable for Video in Cisco IOS Release12 2 50 SQ For more information see 1 1 Supervisor Card Redundancy M CMTS DEP...

Page 16: ...elease 12 2 55 SQ line card redundancy supports Video and DEPI D MPT with DEPI Control Plane in the DEPI Protocol mode In case of line card failure OIR or a forced line card switchover the standby line card becomes active and continues to process Video or DEPI traffic For more information see the 1 1 and 1 N DS 48 Line Card Redundancy New Software Features in Cisco IOS Release 12 2 44 SQ2 This sec...

Page 17: ...ntains SYNC messages DOCSIS time stamps The EQAM finds all the SYNC messages in the D MPT payload and performs the SYNC correction DTI Offset The DOCSIS Timing Interface DTI Offset feature enables DOCSIS timing offset adjustment per channel in the RFGW 10 DS 48 line card The operator must measure the actual timing offset adjustment required on each QAM channel first and then use the DTI Offset CLI...

Page 18: ... active TCC failure the standby TCC becomes active and serves as the DTI client Video The Cisco RFGW 10 performs MPEG 2 video processing for Video on Demand VoD and Digital Video Broadcast applications The video feature involves both video control plane and video data plane functions The control plane resides on the Supervisor card and the data plane runs on the DS 48 line card The video control p...

Page 19: ...ing in the Cisco RFGW 10 Supervisor card The web browser accesses the Cisco RFGW 10 via an authenticated IP connection to the RFGW 10 The GUI includes the following monitoring pages Universal EQAM Usage Summary Inventory Alarm Environment Redundancy QAM Video Performance DTI Important Notes Cisco IOS Behavior Changes Behavior changes describe the minor modifications to the way a device works that ...

Page 20: ...e card version command output modified A new field is added to the output of show cable line card version command Old Behavior The show cable line card version command displays the image version information of the line card The application upgrade version Rommon version and image version are displayed New Behavior The show cable line card version command displays the application permanent version ...

Page 21: ...a running configuration on the Cisco RFGW 10 router Conditions This issue occurs when the Cisco RFGW 10 is reloaded and the saved configuration is replaced with the running configuration Workaround Use the no shut command to unshut the ports CSCud16912 Symptoms The compact flash size is displayed incorrectly on standby Supervisor card Conditions This issue occurs after swapping the compact flashes...

Page 22: ...e redundancy configuration Workaround There is no workaround CSCud00035 Symptoms Traceback and error messages are observed on the Cisco RFGW 10 router after line card revertback Conditions This issue occurred after a line card revertback was performed using redundancy linecard group switchover slot command Workaround There is no workaround CSCul07567 Symptom Hike in CPU utilisation observed while ...

Page 23: ...FG DEPI SESSION message Traceback 10D31900 10D3204C 108A1AF4 108A116C 10889AF8 1088624C 1091D97C 1091B4EC 10920E90 10928EA8 10916A4C 106689A8 1065FB58 RFGW 3 BULK_DNLD Depi Session ID 1073807757 on Qam3 7 1 failed for Module 12 Conditions This could occur under conditions that could cause a continuous teardown and creation of sessions which will result in stale sesions created Workaround Reload of...

Page 24: ...o default twice to first clear mode tsid and tunnel configurations except the physical parameters configuration second time set all the physical parameters to default OR Before defaulting the QAM interface remove the remote learn mode then set the QAM interface to default CSCuh47212 Symptom Unused DEPI CP protect tunnels are not deleted The error message occurs ueq01 config no depi tunnel cts01_pr...

Page 25: ...karound There is no known workaround CSCud43963 Symptoms Downstream channel is in down state although the DEPI session is established Conditions This issue occurs when changing the frequency stacking from 4 to 1 the TSID mode in sub interface 2 4 is removed from the configuration When changing the frequency stacking back to 4 the TSID configuration restores to the earlier state But QAM mode does n...

Page 26: ...y remove all the configuration for that line card CSCts77756 Symptom Secondary sup ports are going to admin down Conditions During upgrade Downgrade once after all the LCs bootsup do sh ip int b inc admin on slot 1 No ports will be in admin state and Issue the sh ip int b inc admin CLi in slot 2 all ports are in admin state When I do SSO using red force switch in newly active sup slot 2 all ports ...

Page 27: ...issue is 0 2 QAM interfaces were up before image upgrade Workaround Manually unshut all the affected QAM ports to bring the sessions back to Active state CSCud38024 Symptoms DEPI sessions in other QAM interfaces also get deleted when default interface range qam command is issued on a particular QAM interface Conditions This issue occurs when the default interface range qam command is issued on a p...

Page 28: ...terface command for QAM interfaces displays line protocol status is up Conditions Cable RFGW 10 MPC8540 running Cisco IOS Release 12 2SQ and the following show commands are used to display interface status show ip interface brief show ip interface brief show interface show ip interface Workaround There is no impact on functionality There is no workaround Caveat Description CSCtz57400 Symptoms DEPI...

Page 29: ...ard redundancy is configured on the Cisco RFGW 10 router and line card is reset repeatedly using hw module slot reset command Workaround There is no workaround CSCud02393 Symptoms DEPI midplane pings failed count counter is incremented by 1 or n even when a DEPI route exists on the Cisco RFGW 10 router Conditions This issue occurs when the Cisco RFGW 10 router is left idle for a long time The show...

Page 30: ... switchover Workaround There is no workaround CSCud38024 Symptoms DEPI sessions in other QAM interfaces also get deleted when default interface range qam command is issued on a particular QAM interface Conditions This issue occurs when the default interface range qam command is issued on a particular QAM interface Workaround Do not use the default interface range qam command CSCud38529 Symptoms Da...

Page 31: ...Manually remove all the configuration for that line card CSCud65515 Symptoms Primary DEPI session do not go to the up state for some QAM channels on the Cisco RFGW 10 Conditions This issue occurs when invalid RF power range exists for the QAM channels causing loss of DEPI sessions on the QAM channel Workaround Deconfigure and configure the DEPI tunnel for the QAM channel This should bring up the D...

Page 32: ... The March 27 2013 Cisco IOS Software Security Advisory bundled publication includes seven Cisco Security Advisories All advisories address vulnerabilities in Cisco IOS Software Each Cisco IOS Software Security Advisory lists the Cisco IOS Software releases that correct the vulnerability or vulnerabilities detailed in the advisory as well as the Cisco IOS Software releases that correct all Cisco I...

Page 33: ...ak observed on the Cisco RFGW 10 router Conditions This issue occurs after copying the configuration that contains manual DEPI configuration on the Cisco RFGW 10 router and is connected to Cisco uBR10 MC3GX60V line card Workaround There is no workaround CSCtt07863 Symptoms Traceback and error messages are observed on the Cisco RFGW 10 router LCRED 3 LC_CANT_SET_TXRX Unable to set Active Standby Tx...

Page 34: ...s no workaround CSCtw57111 Symptoms Incorrect bandwidth value is displayed at port level while executing show interface qam command on the Cisco RFGW 10 router Conditions This issue is seen on Cisco RFGW 10 DS 48 line card Workaround There is no workaround CSCtw87166 Symptoms Image upgrade errors are displayed on the Cisco RFGW 10 when image is removed from the flash Conditions This issue occurs w...

Page 35: ...ule slot reset command on the Cisco RFGW 10 DS48 G1 line card Perform an OIR of the card if needed CSCua85399 Symptoms The SNMP query does not get completed when executing the getmany command for entire MIB tree Conditions This issue occurs while running the getmany command for the entire MIB tree Workaround There is no workaround CSCua99738 Symptoms The show inventory command shows incorrect valu...

Page 36: ...r Free 640572 Cause Memory fragmentation Alternate Pool None Free 0 Cause No Alternate pool Process SNMP ENGINE ipl 0 pid 350 Traceback 10D32524 10D32C70 1181EED0 118213F0 11821700 11832D1C 11833958 11696644 11696844 11691144 116918FC 1094ECF8 1094C6D8 11694628 116693F0 11659D5C Conditions This issue occurs when snmpwalk command is run continuously for 9 hours causing memory leak Workaround There ...

Page 37: ...d65986 Symptoms Error messages are observed on the Cisco RFGW 10 router console RFGW 3 LINECARD_ERRMSG_ERR SLOT 13 TCC_ERRMSG_GEN_LCD_BUSY_TIMEOUT proc boot tcc_front_panel RFGW 3 LINECARD_ERRMSG_ERR SLOT 13 TCC_ERRMSG_LCD_GEN_PRINT_FAILED RFGW 3 LINECARD_ERRMSG_ERR SLOT 13 TCC_ERRMSG_GEN_LCD_BUSY_TIMEOUT proc boot tcc_front_panel RFGW 3 LINECARD_ERRMSG_ERR SLOT 13 TCC_ERRMSG_LCD_GEN_COMMAND_FAILE...

Page 38: ...OT 6 MV_ERRMSG_DP_MSG_RECONFIG_SES error message and RFGW 3 UNEXPECTED Invalid response received for CNFG DEPI SESSION message traceback CSCto14916 Symptoms On upgrade or reload of the Cisco RFGW 10 the Cisco RFGW 10 DS 48 1G line card in the standby slot becomes active for one of the Cisco RFGW 10 DS 48 primary line card Conditions This issue occurs as the Cisco RFGW 10 DS 48 line cards take long...

Page 39: ...13 or slot 14 does not reach the Ready state Conditions This issue occurs when the TCC cards are booted from the Supervisor in slot 2 If the cards are booted from the Supervisor in slot 1 the cards reach the Ready state Workaround There is no workaround CSCtq58396 Symptoms DEPI sessions on RF port 12 are not functional Conditions This symptom happens only when QAM or DEPI configuration is applied ...

Page 40: ...rred on the Cisco uBR10012 router Workaround The RFGW 3 UNEXPECTED Error updating state from LC traceback may be suppressed if M CMTS statistics collection is disabled using the no depi eqam stats command There is no workaround for the RFGW 3 LINECARD_ERRMSG_ERR SLOT 6 MV_ERRMSG_DP_MSG_RECONFIG_SES error message and RFGW 3 UNEXPECTED Invalid response received for CNFG DEPI SESSION message tracebac...

Page 41: ...ed on the Cisco RFGW 10 and the peer CMTS does a DEPI Path Redundancy DPR line card switchover Workaround Execute no depi eqam stats command to disable EQAM statistics information sent to the CMTS router CSCtn15255 Symptom Tracebacks and error messages are observed on the Cisco RFGW0 10 when DEPI sessions are present Conditions This issue occurs when both primary and secondary DEPI sessions are pr...

Page 42: ...isco CMTS and Cisco RFGW 10 Workaround There is no workaround CSCtl00116 Symptoms Secondary line card member is not added Conditions This issue occurs when line card redundancy is configured and the line card redundancy group ID is not 0 or 1 Workaround Use line card redundancy group ID 0 or 1 Caveat Description CSCth59227 Symptoms The Supervisor HTTP process takes more number of CPU cycles and le...

Page 43: ...e active Supervisor in slot 2 is removed Workaround There is no workaround CSCtj82785 Symptoms The Cisco RFGW 10 DS 48 line card RF ports remain in admin shutdown mode and Video DEPI sessions remain IDLE Conditions This issue occurs after line card image upgrade and reload Workaround Execute no shutdown at QAM port level to enable all the interfaces CSCtj82810 Symptoms The standby Supervisor crash...

Page 44: ...the heartbeat timers of the warning timeout fatal timeout and alive timeout to their respective default values of 3 sec 5 sec and 300 sec Conditions This issue occurs while executing the default service heartbeat configuration command Workaround Set the three timers individually as follows Router config service heartbeat warning timeout 3 Router config service heartbeat fatal timeout 5 Router conf...

Page 45: ...th00685 Symptoms Incorrect bandwidth information is displayed in the GUI of the Cisco RFGW 10 Conditions This issue occurs when the Cisco RFGW 10 is configured with more than one line cards and an attempt is made to view the bandwidth information of these line cards Workaround Click the Session radio button to view the bandwidth information for all line cards CSCth29058 Symptoms The Layer 3 pings ...

Page 46: ...d power range below 10 dB of maximum power supported is not calibrated and may not be accurate Caveat Description CSCsu27160 Symptoms The GUI HTTP CORE process may use a large amount of Supervisor CPU at web page refresh Conditions This issue occurs when a GUI web browser page is refreshed Workaround There is no workaround CSCsv01988 Symptoms The GUI Summary page does not display dual Supervisor i...

Page 47: ...t of the TCC FRU Therefore when the TCC cards are switched over the RF Switch cards to generate the FRURemoved and FRUInserted traps Workaround There is no workaround CSCtb86762 Symptoms The default keyword does not set the default value for some QAM CLIs Conditions This issue was seen in the following commands cable downstream annex cable downstream rf shutdown cable downstream stacking Workaroun...

Page 48: ...30 dB lower than maximum supported channel power maximum power 30 dB However a commanded power range below 10 dB of maximum power supported is not calibrated and may not be accurate RF Gateway 10 Cablelabs DRFI Compliance The noise floor and spurious emissions of the Cisco RF Gateway 10 DS 48 line card do not meet the requirements of the Cablelabs DRFI technical specification 12 2 44 SQ to 12 2 44...

Page 49: ...pback interfaces are displayed These messages should not been seen by the user Conditions The messages are displayed during a system boot up Workaround There is no workaround CSCsy14112 Symptoms During a Cisco RFGW 10 DS 48 line card failover and switchback a spike in the noise floor is seen in the RF spectrum The noise floor lasts about half a second Conditions The RF noise shows up on the line c...

Page 50: ... configuration 00 36 27 RFGW 3 UNEXPECTED Cold not allocate qam database rollback buffer Conditions This happens while configuring a large number of QAMs using a combination of the following commands cable downstream stacking 1 cable depi offset no cable downstream rf shutdown Workaround Set the stacking level on all ports to 4 while configuring the DEPI offset and executing the rf shutdown comman...

Page 51: ...r DRFI requires support for an 8 dB range of commanded transmit power per channel below the maximum power supported for the channel maximum power is 8 dB The Cisco RFGW 10 is tested to a range of 10 dB of commanded power below the maximum supported channel power Note The Cisco RFGW 10 CLI allows a commanded RF power range 30 dB lower than maximum supported channel power maximum power 30 dB However...

Page 52: ... are required for a full fix CSCso04657 and CSCsg00102 CSCsv04836 Multiple Cisco products are affected by denial of service DoS vulnerabilities that manipulate the state of Transmission Control Protocol TCP connections By manipulating the state of a TCP connection an attacker could force the TCP connection to remain in a long lived state possibly indefinitely If enough TCP connections are forced i...

Page 53: ...s no data returned Workaround There is no workaround CSCsx24891 Symptoms The SNMP trap message is not displayed in the log file for line card reset Conditions The SNMP trap works when running shut no shut interface command on the line card but the trap message is not logged after a line card reset Workaround Use snmp server queue length command to increase the size of the trap queue During line ca...

Page 54: ... raises the noise floor around the RF channels supported momentarily for several hundreds of milliseconds There are no reported issues of cable modem performance though the impact is observed on a spectrum analyzer Conditions This issue occurs during muting the RF port output power Workaround There is no workaround CSCsw26789 Symptoms The DocsDevEvent table does not function Conditions When the MI...

Page 55: ...crafted TCP IP packets could cause any of the following results The configured feature may stop accepting new connections or sessions The memory of the device may be consumed The device may experience prolonged high CPU utilization The device may reload Cisco has released free software updates that address this vulnerability Workarounds that mitigate this vulnerability are available in the workaro...

Page 56: ...sco IOS software documentation set consists of the Cisco IOS configuration guides Cisco IOS command references and several other supporting documents Cisco IOS Software Cisco IOS Software Release 12 2SQ Family Cisco IOS Software Releases 12 2 44 SQ Configuration Guide and Command Reference Documentation Modules Each module in the Cisco IOS documentation set consists of one or more configuration gu...

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