Release Notes for the Industrial Ethernet 2000 Switch, Cisco IOS Release 15.2(2)E

System Requirements

• Hardware Supported
• Express Setup Requirements

Hardware Supported

Switch Models Supported

SFP Modules Supported

The SFP modules are switch Ethernet SFP modules that provide connections to other devices. Depending on the switch model, these field-replaceable transceiver modules provide uplink or downlink interfaces. The modules have LC connectors for fiber-optic connections.

You can use any combination of the supported SFP modules.

For the most up-to-date list of supported SFP models for Cisco Industrial Ethernet switches, see http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/interfaces_modules/transceiver_modules/compatibility/matrix/OL_6981.html#wp138176

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/interfaces_modules/transceiver_modules/compatibility/matrix/OL632702.html

Express Setup Requirements

Hardware

• 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
• 1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
• 16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)

Software

• PC with Windows 7, or Mac OS 10.6.x
• Web browser (Internet Explorer 9.0, 10.0, and 11.0, or Firefox 25, 26) with JavaScript enabled
• Straight-through or crossover Category 5 or 6 cable

Express Setup verifies the browser version when starting a session, and it does not require a plug-in.

Finding the Software Version and Feature Set

The Cisco IOS image is stored as a bin file in a directory that is named with the Cisco IOS release. A subdirectory contains the files needed for web management. On IE 2000, the image can be stored on the internal flash or external SD card.

You can use the show version privileged EXEC command to see the software version that is running on your switch. The second line of the display shows the version.

You also can use the dir filesystem : privileged EXEC command to see the directory names of other software images that you might have stored in flash memory.

Deciding Which Files to Use

The upgrade procedures in these release notes describe how to perform the upgrade by using a combined tar file. This file contains the Cisco IOS image file and the files needed for the embedded Express Setup. You must use the combined tar file to upgrade the switch through Express Setup. To upgrade the switch through the CLI, use the tar file and the archive download-sw privileged EXEC command.

Archiving Software Images

Before upgrading your switch software, make sure that you have archived copies of the current Cisco IOS release and the Cisco IOS release to which you are upgrading. You should keep these archived images until you have upgraded all devices in the network to the new Cisco IOS image and until you have verified that the new Cisco IOS image works properly in your network.

Cisco routinely removes old Cisco IOS versions from Cisco.com. See Product Bulletin 2863 for more information:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/iosswrel/ps8802/ps6969/ps1835/prod_bulletin0900aecd80281c0e.html

You can copy the bin software image file on the flash memory to the appropriate TFTP directory on a host by using the copy flash: tftp: privileged EXEC command.

Note Although you can copy any file on the flash memory to the TFTP server, it is time consuming to copy all of the HTML files in the tar file. We recommend that you take advantage of the available SD card memory by copying the extracted image directory and user configuration to SD card using the command [sync flash: sdflash:] to ensure a backup file is stored safely

You can also configure the switch as a TFTP server to copy files from one switch to another without using an external TFTP server by using the tftp-server global configuration command. For more information about the tftp-server command, see the Cisco IOS Configuration Fundamentals Command Reference :

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/fundamentals/command/reference/cf_t1.html

Upgrading a Switch by Using the CLI

This procedure is for copying the combined tar file to the switch. You copy the file to the switch from a TFTP server and extract the files. You can download an image file and replace or keep the current image.

Note On IE2000, the image file can be downloaded to the internal flash or the SD card (if present).

To download software, follow these steps:

Step 1 Use Table 3 to identify the file that you want to download.

Step 2 Download the software image file. If you have a SmartNet support contract, go to this URL, and log in to download the appropriate files:

http://www.cisco.com/cisco/web/download/index.html

To download the image for a Cisco IE 2000 switch, click Switches > Industrial Ethernet Switches > Cisco IE 2000 Series Switches, and then click on the Cisco IOS software for your specific switch model.

Step 3 Copy the image to the appropriate TFTP directory on the workstation, and make sure that the TFTP server is properly configured.

For more information, see Appendix B of the software configuration guide for this release.

Step 4 Log into the switch through the console port or a Telnet session.

Step 5 (Optional) Check that you have IP connectivity to the TFTP server by entering this privileged EXEC command:

For more information about assigning an IP address and default gateway to the switch, see the software configuration guide for this release.

Step 6 Download the image file from the TFTP server to the switch. If you are installing the same version of software that is currently on the switch, overwrite the current image by entering this privileged EXEC command:

The /overwrite option overwrites the software image in flash memory with the downloaded one.

The /reload option reloads the system after downloading the image unless the configuration has been changed and not saved.

For // location, specify the IP address of the TFTP server.

For / directory / image-name .tar, specify the directory (optional) and the image to download. Directory and image names are case sensitive.

This example shows how to download an image from a TFTP server at 198.30.20.19 and to overwrite the image on the switch:

You can also download the image file from the TFTP server to the switch and keep the current image by replacing the /overwrite option with the /leave-old-sw option.

Recovering from a Software Failure

For additional recovery procedures, see the “Troubleshooting” chapter in the software configuration guide for this release.

Open Plug-N-Play Agent

Cisco Open Plug-n-Play agent is a software application that is running on a Cisco IOS or IOS-XE device and provides zero-touch deployment of all new devices. The application facilitates the acquisition and loading of pertinent images, configuration files, and other required files to the device along with notifications for various events. (Cisco IE 2000 only supports Cisco IOS).

Cisco EnergyWise

Cisco EnergyWise includes software and services that help you measure and manage the energy use of all the connected devices across your networks. IE 2000 supports Cisco EnergyWise version 2.8. For more information, see the Cisco EnergyWise software release notes and the configuration guide here: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/lan/energywise/version2_8/ios/release/notes/ol23554.html

Smart Install

Smart Install is a plug-and-play configuration and software upgrade feature that provides zero-touch deployment for new switches. You can ship a switch to a location, place it in the network and power it on with no configuration required on the device. For more information, see Smart Install Configuration Guide here: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/lan/smart_install/configuration/guide/smart_install.html

Note IE2000 can be a Smart Installation Director

Device Sensor

Device Sensor is supported from Cisco IOS Release 15.2(2)E1.

Cisco IOS Limitations

• Ethernet
• IP
• QoS
• RADIUS
• SPAN and RSPAN
• Spanning Tree Protocol
• Trunking
• VLAN

Ethernet

• Traffic on EtherChannel ports is not perfectly load-balanced. Egress traffic on EtherChannel ports are distributed to member ports on load balance configuration and traffic characteristics like MAC or IP address. More than one traffic stream may map to same member ports based on hashing results calculated by the ASIC.

If this happens, uneven traffic distribution will happen on EtherChannel ports.

Changing the load balance distribution method or changing the number of ports in the EtherChannel can resolve this problem. Use any of these workarounds to improve EtherChannel load balancing:

– for random source-ip and dest-ip traffic, configure load balance method as src-dst-ip

– for incrementing source-ip traffic, configure load balance method as src-ip

– for incrementing dest-ip traffic, configure load balance method as dst-ip

– Configure the number of ports in the EtherChannel so that the number is equal to a power of 2 (i.e. 2, 4, or 8)

For example, with load balance configured as dst-ip with 150 distinct incrementing destination IP addresses, and the number of ports in the EtherChannel set to either 2, 4, or 8, load distribution is optimal.(CSCeh81991)

IP

• When the rate of received DHCP requests exceeds 2,000 packets per minute for a long time, the response time might be slow when you are using the console.

The workaround is to use rate limiting on DHCP traffic to prevent a denial of service attack from occurring. (CSCeb59166)

QoS

• Some switch queues are disabled if the buffer size or threshold level is set too low with the mls qos queue-set output global configuration command. The ratio of buffer size to threshold level should be greater than 10 to avoid disabling the queue.

The workaround is to choose compatible buffer sizes and threshold levels. (CSCea76893)

• When auto-QoS is enabled on the switch, priority queuing is not enabled. Instead, the switch uses shaped round robin (SRR) as the queuing mechanism. The auto-QoS feature is designed on each platform based on the feature set and hardware limitations, and the queuing mechanism supported on each platform might be different. There is no workaround. (CSCee22591)

RADIUS

• RADIUS change of authorization (COA) reauthorization is not supported on the critical auth VLAN.

There is no workaround. (CSCta05071)

SPAN and RSPAN

• When the RSPAN feature is configured on a switch, Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) packets received from the RSPAN source ports are tagged with the RSPAN VLAN ID and forwarded to trunk ports carrying the RSPAN VLAN. When this happens a switch that is more than one hop away incorrectly lists the switch that is connected to the RSPAN source port as a CDP neighbor.

This is a hardware limitation. The workaround is to disable CDP on all interfaces carrying the RSPAN VLAN on the device connected to the switch. (CSCeb32326)

• CDP, VLAN Trunking Protocol (VTP), and Port Aggregation Protocol (PAgP) packets received from a SPAN source are not sent to the destination interfaces of a local SPAN session. The workaround is to use the monitor session session_number destination { interface interface-id encapsulation replicate} global configuration command for local SPAN. (CSCed24036)

Spanning Tree Protocol

• CSCtl60247

When a switch or switch stack running Multiple Spanning Tree (MST) is connected to a switch running Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP), the MST switch acts as the root bridge and runs per-VLAN spanning tree (PVST) simulation mode on boundary ports connected to the RST switch. If the allowed VLAN on all trunk ports connecting these switches is changed to a VLAN other than VLAN 1 and the root port of the RSTP switch is shut down and then enabled, the boundary ports connected to the root port move immediately to the forward state without going through the PVST+ slow transition.

There is no workaround.

Trunking

• IP traffic with IP options set is sometimes leaked on a trunk port. For example, a trunk port is a member of an IP multicast group in VLAN X but is not a member in VLAN Y. If VLAN Y is the output interface for the multicast route entry assigned to the multicast group and an interface in VLAN Y belongs to the same multicast group, the IP-option traffic received on an input VLAN interface other than one in VLAN Y is sent on the trunk port in VLAN Y because the trunk port is forwarding in VLAN Y, even though the port has no group membership in VLAN Y.

There is no workaround. (CSCdz42909).

• For trunk ports or access ports configured with IEEE 802.1Q tagging, inconsistent statistics might appear in the show interfaces counters privileged EXEC command output. Valid IEEE 802.1Q frames of 64 to 66 bytes are correctly forwarded even though the port LED blinks amber, and the frames are not counted on the interface statistics.

There is no workaround. (CSCec35100).

VLAN

• If the number of VLANs times the number of trunk ports exceeds the recommended limit of 13,000, the switch can fail.

The workaround is to reduce the number of VLANs or trunks. (CSCeb31087)

• When line rate traffic is passing through a dynamic port, and you enter the switchport access vlan dynamic interface configuration command for a range of ports, the VLANs might not be assigned correctly. One or more VLANs with a null ID appears in the MAC address table instead.

The workaround is to enter the switchport access vlan dynamic interface configuration command separately on each port. (CSCsi26392)

• When many VLANs are configured on the switch, high CPU utilization occurs when many links are flapping at the same time.

The workaround is to remove unnecessary VLANs to reduce CPU utilization when many links are flapping. (CSCtl04815)

IPv4 Static Routing Notes

Cisco IE 2000 supports IPv4 static routing in the LAN Base image. To access static routing commands, you need to change the SDM template from the default template to lanbase-routing, followed by a switch reload sequence.

61000-4-3 Standard Notes

The following note is an update to the Regulatory Compliance and Safety Information (RCSI) guide. This note applies to the 61000-4-3 standard listed in the “EMC Interface Immunity” section of Table 1 of the guide.

Note To meet 10V/m or 20V/m Radiated Immunity levels, shielded cables must be used on the uplink ports, G1/1 and G1/2.

This note applies to these SKUs:
– IE-2000-4T-G-L
– IE-2000-4T-G-B
– IE-2000-8TC-G-L
– IE-2000-8TC-G-B
– IE-2000-8TC-G-E
– IE-2000-16TC-G-L
– IE-2000-16TC-G-E
– IE-2000-16TC-G-X

Express Setup Notes

• This browser setting is recommended for speeding up the time required to display Express Setup from Microsoft Internet Explorer:

1. Choose Tools > Internet Options.

2. Click Settings in the Temporary Internet files area.

3. From the Settings window, choose Automatically.

4. Click OK.

5. Click OK to exit the Internet Options window.

• The HTTP server interface must be enabled to display Express Setup. By default, the HTTP server is enabled on the switch. Use the show running-config privileged EXEC command to see if the HTTP server is enabled or disabled.

Beginning in privileged EXEC mode, follow these steps to configure the HTTP server interface:

• Express Setup uses the HTTP protocol (the default is port 80) and the default method of authentication (the enable password) to communicate with the switch through any of its Ethernet ports and to allow switch management from a standard web browser.

If you change the HTTP port, you must include the new port number when you enter the IP address in the browser Location or Address field (for example, http://10.1.126.45:184 where 184 is the new HTTP port number). Write down the port number through which you are connected. Use care when changing the switch IP information.

If you are not using the default method of authentication (the enable password), you need to configure the HTTP server interface with the method of authentication used on the switch.

Beginning in privileged EXEC mode, follow these steps to configure the HTTP server interface:

Note ● IE-2000-4S-TS-G do not have copper ports for PC, a Gigabit GLC-T copper SFP is required to perform express setup.

• If the Express Setup failed in the Web Browser, use the reset button to reset the switch to factor default

Open Caveats

No Open Caveats.

Caveats Resolved in Cisco IOS Release 15.2(2)E6

Caveats Resolved in Cisco IOS Release 15.2(2)E5a

Caveats Resolved in Cisco IOS Release 15.2(2)E5

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Caveats Resolved in Cisco IOS Release 15.2(2)E4

Caveats Resolved in Cisco IOS Release 15.2(2)E3

Caveats Resolved in Cisco IOS Release 15.2(2)E2

No caveats were resolved in this release

Caveats Resolved in Cisco IOS Release 15.2(2)E1

Caveats Resolved in Cisco IOS Release 15.2(2)E

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