New Features in and Important Notes About Cisco ASR 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers Release 3.15S

This chapter provides information about the new features introduced in Cisco ASR 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers Release 3.15S. In addition, important notes about this release are also included.

This chapter contains the following sections:

New and Changed Information

The following sections list the new hardware and software features that are supported by the Cisco ASR 1000 Series Routers for Cisco IOS XE Release 3.15S:

New Hardware in Cisco ASR 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers Release 3.15S

No new hardware features were introduced in Cisco ASR 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers Release 3.15.0S.

New Software Features in Cisco ASR 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers Release 3.15.0S

The following are the new software features introduced in Cisco ASR 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers Release 3.15.0S.

1000M GLC-TE (catskills) support

For detailed information, see the following Cisco document:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/interfaces_modules/shared_port_adapters/install_upgrade/ASR1000/asr_sip_spa_hw.html

Adaptive QoS Manageability

For detailed information, see the following Cisco document:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios-xml/ios/qos_plcshp/configuration/xe-3s/asr1000/qos-plcshp-xe-3s-asr-1000-book/qos-plcshp-adaptive-qos-dmvpn.html

AMT (Automatic Multicast Tunneling)

For detailed information, see the following Cisco document:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios-xml/ios/ipmulti_pim/configuration/xe-3s/asr1000/imc-pim-xe-3s-book/amt.html

AVC in L2 Transparent mode

For detailed information, see the following Cisco document:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios/solutions_docs/avc/guide/avc-user-guide.html

BGP Support of Multiple Sourced Paths per Redistributed Route

For detailed information, see the following Cisco document:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios-xml/ios/iproute_bgp/configuration/xe-3s/asr1000/irg-xe-3s-asr1000-book/bgp-multi-paths-redistribute.html

C3PL - BGP flowspec client

The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) flow specification client feature enables a device to perform the role of a BGP flow specification client and receive flow specification rules from a BGP flow specification controller.

Call Progress Analysis (CPA) over IP-IP Media Session

For detailed information, see the following Cisco document:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios-xml/ios/voice/cube/configuration/cube-book/voi-cube-cpa.html

Cisco Service Discovery Gateway - Phase 3

For detailed information, see the following Cisco document:

 

CLI control to extend port range to entire range

For detailed information, see the following Cisco document:

 

Configurable export interval in EZPM

For detailed information, see the following Cisco document:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios/solutions_docs/avc/guide/avc-user-guide.html

DHCP lease-query support for multiple DHCP Servers

For detailed information, see the following Cisco document:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios-xml/ios/ipaddr/command/ipaddr-cr-book/ip-dhcp-client-network-discovery-TO-ip-nat-sip-sbc.html

EIGRP OTP Support to propagate SGT

For detailed information, see the following Cisco document:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios-xml/ios/iproute_eigrp/configuration/xe-3s/asr1000/ire-xe-3s-asr1000/ire-eigrp-over-the-top.html

EoGRE inter-SSID roaming

For detailed information, see the following Cisco document:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/routers/asr1000/configuration/guide/chassis/IWAG_Config_Guide_BookMap.html

EoMPLS over IPv6 GRE Tunnel

For detailed information, see the following Cisco document:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios-xml/ios/interface/configuration/xe-3s/asr1000/ir-xe-3s-asr1000-book.html

Export absolute timestamp

For detailed information, see the following Cisco document:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/routers/access/ISRG2/AVC/api/guide/AVC_Metric_Definition_Guide.html

Fine-grain NBAR for selective apps

For detailed information, see the following Cisco document:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios-xml/ios/qos_nbar/configuration/xe-3s/asr1000/qos-nbar-xe-3s-asr-1000-book/nbar-fine-selapp-xe.html

FlexVPN - IKEv2 CoA for QoS and ACL

For detailed information, see the following Cisco document:

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios-xml/ios/sec_conn_ike2vpn/configuration/xe-3s/asr1000/sec-flex-vpn-xe-3s-asr1000-book/sec-ikev2-flex-coa.html

FlexVPN RA - Aggregate Auth support for AnyConnect

For detailed information, see the following Cisco document:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios-xml/ios/sec_conn_ike2vpn/configuration/xe-3s/asr1000/sec-flex-vpn-xe-3s-asr1000-book/sec-cfg-flex-aggr.html

HA for Xcoded Calls (Inbox & Box to Box)

For detailed information, see the following Cisco document:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios-xml/ios/voice/cube/configuration/cube-book/voi-cube-dsp.html

HA for Xcoded Calls w/ DTMF & VCC

For detailed information, see the following Cisco document:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios-xml/ios/voice/cube/configuration/cube-book/voi-cube-dsp.html

HA support for REFER call flows upon SSO

For detailed information, see the following Cisco document:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios-xml/ios/voice/cube/configuration/cube-book/voi-stateful-switchover.html

ICE infra and ICE lite support on XE platforms

For detailed information, see the following Cisco document:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios-xml/ios/voice/cube/configuration/cube-book/voi-cube-ice-lite.html

Identify and clear (terminate) FPI hung sessions to prevent reboot

For detailed information, see the following Cisco document:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios-xml/ios/voice/vcr1/vcr1-cr-book/vcr-c5.html

IEEE 802.1ag-2007 Compliant CFM - PW/VFI Support

For detailed information, see the following Cisco document:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios-xml/ios/cether/configuration/xe-3s/asr1000/ce-xe-3s-asr1000-book.html

Layer 2 Transparent Firewall support

For detailed information, see the following Cisco document:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios-xml/ios/sec_data_zbf/configuration/xe-3s/asr1000/sec-data-zbf-xe-asr1k-book/zbfw-l2-transp-fw.html

Modification of unsupport SIP header using SIP Profiles

For detailed information, see the following Cisco document:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios-xml/ios/voice/cube/configuration/cube-book/voi-sip-param-mod.html

NAT MIB Support

For detailed information, see the following Cisco document:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios-xml/ios/ipaddr_nat/configuration/xe-3s/asr1000/nat-xe-3s-asr1k-book/iadnat-addr-consv.html

NBAR custom applications based on DNS Name

For detailed information, see the following Cisco document:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios-xml/ios/qos_nbar/configuration/xe-3s/asr1000/qos-nbar-xe-3s-asr-1000-book/nbar-custapp-dns-xe.html

OSPF: Limit simultaneous adjacency formations

For detailed information, see the following Cisco document:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios-xml/ios/iproute_ospf/configuration/xe-3s/asr1000/iro-xe-3s-asr1000-book/iro-limit-adj-form.html

PfRv3 support for transit hub

For detailed information, see the following Cisco document:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios-xml/ios/pfrv3/configuration/xe-3s/asr1000/pfrv3-xe-3s-asr-1000-book/pfrv3-transit-site.html

PfRv3 Transit Site Support

For detailed information, see the following Cisco document:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios-xml/ios/pfrv3/configuration/xe-3s/asr1000/pfrv3-xe-3s-asr1000-book/pfrv3-transit-site.html

PKI Credentials Expiry Alerts

For detailed information, see the following Cisco document:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios-xml/ios/sec_conn_pki/configuration/xe-3s/asr1000/sec-pki-xe-3s-asr1000-book/sec-pki-alerts.html

PKI IOS XE Certificate Server

For detailed information, see the following Cisco document:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios-xml/ios/sec_conn_pki/configuration/xe-3s/sec-pki-xe-3s-book/sec-cfg-mng-cert-serv.html

PKI MIB

For detailed information, see the following Cisco document:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios-xml/ios/sec_conn_pki/configuration/xe-3s/asr1000/sec-pki-xe-3s-asr1000-book/sec-pki-overview.html

Preserve ISIS metrics when redistributing routes between ISIS instances

For detailed information, see the following Cisco document:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios-xml/ios/iproute_isis/configuration/xe-3s/asr1000/irs-xe-3s-asr1000-book/ip6-route-isis-redis-xe.html

QoS Service Group

For detailed information, see the following Cisco document:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios-xml/ios/qos_svcgrp/configuration/xe-3s/qos-svcgrp-xe-book.html

QoS: Spoke to Spoke per tunnel QoS for DMVPN

For detailed information, see the following Cisco document:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios-xml/ios/sec_conn_dmvpn/configuration/xe-3s/asr1000/sec-conn-dmvpn-xe-3s-asr1000-book/sec-conn-dmvpn-per-tunnel-qos.html

Remote Id Format : IR.61 compliance

For detailed information, see the following Cisco document:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/routers/asr1000/configuration/guide/chassis/IWAG_Config_Guide_BookMap.html

SEQUENCE / SORT DIAL PEERS

For detailed information, see the following Cisco document:

A new command show running-config dial-peer for this feature. http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios-xml/ios/voice/vcr4/vcr4-cr-book/vcr-s7.html

SIP Profile to provide tag, sequence number and modification of unsupported SIP header

For detailed information, see the following Cisco document:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios-xml/ios/voice/cube/configuration/cube-book/voi-sip-param-mod.html

SSL custom application and DSCP based L3 custom application

For detailed information, see the following Cisco document:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios-xml/ios/qos_nbar/configuration/xe-3s/asr1000/qos-nbar-xe-3s-asr-1000-book/nbar-ssl-custom-appl-xe.html

undetermined transport support for deny ipv6 any any

For detailed information, see the following Cisco document:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios-xml/ios/sec_data_acl/configuration/xe-3s/asr1000/sec-data-acl-xe-3s-asr1k-book/ipv6-undeter-trans-xe.html

VLAN ID based policy control

For detailed information, see the following Cisco document:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/routers/asr1000/configuration/guide/chassis/IWAG_Config_Guide_BookMap.html

Zone-Based Firewall Handling of  Zone Mismatch Traffic

For detailed information, see the following Cisco document: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios-xml/ios/sec_data_zbf/configuration/xe-3s/asr1000/sec-data-zbf-xe-asr1k-book/zbf-zone-mismatch.html

Zone-Based Firewall: Serviceability Enhancements Phase 4

The Zone-Based Firewall Serviceability Enhancements Phase 4 feature provides the following functionalities:

  • Enhances the zone-based firewall client debugs
  • Enhances the firewall client statistics related to zone, zone pair, VRF, per-filter and PAM
  • Provides policy transaction debugs.
  • The following command was introduced: debug platform condition feature fw controlplane submode. For more information on this command, see Cisco IOS Debug Command Reference - Commands M through R.
  • The following commands were removed: set platform software trace forwarding-manager FP active fw, set platform software trace forwarding-manager RP active fw, set platform software trace forwarding-manager F0 fw, s et platform software trace forwarding-manager R0 fw. For more information on these commands, see Cisco IOS Security Command Reference: Commands M to R.

Important Notes

The following sections contain important notes about Cisco ASR 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers.

End-of-Sale and End-of-Life of the Cisco Traditional NetFlow Feature

Cisco announces the end-of-sale and end-of-life of the Cisco Traditional NetFlow (TNF) Feature on the Cisco ASR1000 platform. Cisco will not have any future development, CLI support, TAC support, and documentation pertaining to the Cisco TNF feature beyond Cisco IOS XE Software Release 3.10.

Customers with the Cisco TNF feature on the Cisco ASR1000 platform are encouraged to migrate to the Cisco Flexible NetFlow (FNF) feature on the Cisco ASR1000 platform.

For details on transition to Cisco FNF, see the Migrating from Traditional to Flexible NetFlow white paper:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/iosswrel/ps6537/ps6555/ps6601/ps6965/white_paper_c11-545581.html

Deferrals

Cisco IOS software images are subject to deferral. We recommend that you view the deferral notices at the following location to determine whether your software release is affected:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/products_security_advisories_listing.html

Field Notices and Bulletins

  • Field Notices—We recommend that you view the field notices to determine whether your software or hardware platforms are affected. You can find the field notices at the following location:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/support/tsd_products_field_notice_summary.html

  • Bulletins—You can find bulletins at the following location:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/iosswrel/ps5012/prod_literature.html

Important Notes About Cisco ASR 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers Release 3.15S

There are no important notes specific to Cisco ASR 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers Release 3.15S.