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Release Notes for Cisco SIP IP Phone 7940/7960 Release 7.3
Obtaining Technical Assistance
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Release Notes for Cisco SIP IP Phone 7940/7960 Release 7.3
November 3, 2004
Contents
This document lists the known problems in Cisco Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) IP Phone 7940/7960 Release 7.3 and contains information about the Cisco SIP IP Phone 7940/7960 (hereafter referred to as the Cisco SIP IP phone) that is not included in the most recent release of the phone documentation.
This document includes the following sections:
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New and Changed Information
There are no new features in this release.
Installation Notes
For Cisco SIP IP phones, follow the instructions in the "Upgrading the Cisco SIP IP Phone Firmware" section at the following URL:
For these instructions, use P023-07-3-00 as the image name for Release 7.3. You can find the current images at the following URL:
http://www.cisco.com/cgi-bin/tablebuild.pl/sip-ip-phone7960
Caveats
This section documents possible unexpected behavior by Cisco IP Phone 7940/7960 Release 7.3. This section lists only severity 1 and 2 caveats and select severity 3 caveats.
Open Caveats—Release 7.3
•CSCef46202: 7960 is not sending ARP request after getting DHCPACK message
Symptom: Cisco 7960 SIP IP Phone configured to use DHCP may not detect a duplicate IP Address assignment.
Condition: This problem was observed on a 7960 SIP IP Phone running 7.1 software version.
Work-around: None
Resolved Caveats—Release 7.3
•CSCea49094: SIP: 79x0 phones are not escaping RESERVED characters in URI/URLs
Note As per SIP RFCs (both 2543 and 3261), when non-alphanumeric characters that are not in the unreserved set is used in URI/URLs (ReqURI, From, To, Contact, Refer-To, RPID, etc.) must be escaped with %hexhex. Prior to this bugfix, the SIP 7940/7960 phone did not escape such characters that needed escaping. Similarly, the phone did not unescape the escaped characters present in the received messages. When the escape characters are in URI/URL, basic calls do not complete and the features do not work as well; the phone sends the 404 NOT FOUND message.
The SIP stack code has been changed through this defect fix to "escape" the characters that need escaping in URL/URI when a request/responses is sent and to "unescape" the escaped characters from the received request/responses before a request/responses is processed.
•CSCed72708: Phone crashes when vcm dtmf debugs are on during dtmf press on conference.
Workaround: None
•CSCed84163: Loader may fail - Application Invalid
Symptom: When a phone is upgrade to release 6.0(1.0), from a 5.0 release, the upgrade may fail to complete. The Display will read "Application Invalid"
Conditions: This may occur if any of the following is true:
–There is no option 150 Set on the DHCP server on the native VLAN
–CDP on the Switch and Phone do not converge in a timely fashion.
Workaround: Insure that if a DHCP server is configured on the native VLAN, that it's option 150 information points to a known good call manager.
•CSCef10221: SIP IP Phone * key enters (.) when in speed dial
Symptom: When editing the speed dials in a 7940/60 running the SIP image, a "." is entered instead of an "*"
Workaround: None
•CSCef11018: Digit followed by dial key press results in stuck DTMF
Symptom: When running a SIP load on the IP Phone 7960 or 7940 you can get into a situation where a pressed number gets stuck and you just hear its DTMF tone.
Conditions: This happens when you would do the following:
–Press the "NewCall" softkey
–Press the "Number" softkey if not already in number entry mode
–Press "0" and keep it held down
–Press the "Dial" softkey
–Release "0" - the DTMF tone for "0" will keep playing
Workaround: Avoid pressing this combination when possible until the problem is fixed.
Further Problem Description: This problem was not seen when running version 5.3 It was seen starting with 6.0 up to 7.1.
•CSCef11614: 7940/7960 SIP phones not handle out of order/mis-sequence packets
Symptom: 7940/7960 SIP phones do not handle out of order packets / mis-sequence packets.
Condition: This is SIP and customer is using the NS/RS Proxy. The mis-ordered packets are only from the Gateway to SIP Phone due to network routing. The latest phone load that experiencing these issues is POS3-07-1-00.
Workaround: None
•CSCef17407: SIP 7960 phone: consult transfer does not work - Refer-To incorrect
•CSCef33135: 7960 struck with Booting Dsp alarm on its display
Symptom: The phone display the message "Booting DSP"
Condition: CCM failover
Workaround: Reset the phone from the CCM page, unpower and repower the phone or press "**#**"
•CSCef33488: 79x0 SIP: ACK to 407 Auth sent to incorrect IP addr. w/ outbound pxy
Symptom: 7940 / 7960 SIP phone sends SIP messages to an outbound proxy. The outbound proxy challenges the SIP messages from the phone and the phone sends ACK response to incorrect IP address and hence the response never reaches the outbound proxy.
Conditions: The SIP network must have two proxies, one acting as outbound proxy to the SIP phones and the phones be registered to the main proxy. Also, the proxy authentication must be turned on.
Workaround: Remove outbound proxy and route SIP messages through main proxy
•CSCef35516: 79x0: SIP Phone transfer fails when ONHOOK event during hold state
Symptom: When doing a consultative transfer, if the phone doing the transfer hangs up immediately following the Trnsfer softkey press, the phone will never complete the transfer and result in both calls being left on hold.
Workaround: Do not hang up transferrer until transfer completes. Also, the user could delay the phone hangup as it is a very tight window for the race condition to occur.
•CSCef40058: 79x0: DNS SRV/A record handling of Outbound Proxy results in reorder
Symptom: When Outbound Proxy configured with an A record the phone will not do a DNS lookup properly and fail the transaction.
Workaround: Change DNS entry to SRV, or configure Outbound Proxy with an IP address.
•CSCef40821: Phone responds with g729 to a g711 midcall renegotiation
Symptom: Phone may respond with the incorrect codec g729 to a midcall g711 reinvite for conference.
Workaround: None
•CSCef41027: 7940/7960 resets with Last=Initialized and no DebugDisplay
Symptoms: Intermittent phone rests with reason code Last=Initialized
Conditions: 7940/7960 phone load 6.0(4.2)
Workaround: None
•CSCef44958: 79x0: Outbound Proxy DNS Error Handling not correct
Symptom: When a FQDN is provisioned for Outbound Proxy, failover may not work properly due to retransmit and ICMP logic not being correct.
Workaround: Ensure success path for DNS, or use dotted IP.
•CSCef46533: 79x0: Attended Transfer is delayed when using dotted IP due to DNS
Symptom: Phone will attempt a DNS lookup on a dotted IP address, thus causing a delay in an Attended Transfer.
Workaround: Configure a hostname, or remove the DNS server.
•CSCef63485: SIP 7960 phone misses certain digits pressed by users
Symptom: Certain digit presses are heard as tone by the IP Phone user but do not show up in dialed digits or on the display. This problem is intermittent.
Conditions: SIP phone load 7.2 on a 7960 phone when using an outbound proxy that has a registration timer of 60 seconds and timer_registration_delta on the phone is set to 60 seconds as well
Workaround:
–Change outbound proxy registration timer to higher than 60
–Change timer_registration_delta on phone config to a lower value, for example, 5 seconds
•CSCef67187: 7960 sends out CANCEL to the Record-Route IP in 183 Session Progress
Symptom: Cisco 7960 SIP IP Phone malforms a CANCEL message by not adhering to the IP address and port number specified in the INVITE. Instead of sending it to the IP address and port number of the INVITE, the sends out the CANCEL to the IP address that it had received in the "Record-Route" header of a 183 Session Progress message.
Condition: Observed in SIP IP Phone load 7.1 and 7.2
Workaround: None
•CSCef70735: SIP 7940/7960 send incorrect invite
Symptom: Using a SIP 7940/7960 phone if Hold and Resume and then Hold are pressed in quick succession, the reINVITE to put the call back on hold does not send the appropriate SIP message to put the call on hold. (the "c=" line in the SDP body is set to the IP address of the phone rather than to "0.0.0.0")
Workaround: Leave a second or two before putting a call on hold/off hold and back on hold.
•CSCef75275: Symptom: Phones are intermittently stuck at Universal Application Loader. Phone Displays message "Configuring VLAN"
Condition: Phone load P0030700100. CDP used but no Voice VLAN (Aux VLAN) configured.
Workaround: Configure a Voice VLAN
•CSCef77639: Phone sends SIP register message every second
Symptom:Cisco 7960 will constantly send SIP register messages to the proxy every second
Conditions: Occurs with 7960 running SIP load to a Broadworks proxy with Register timer on proxy at 60 seconds and timer_register_delta on phone at 60 seconds
Workaround:
–Change the expires register timer to be higher than 60 seconds (3600 seconds is normal)
–Set the timer_register_delta to something lower than the expires timer
•CSCef81642: Cisco 7960 phones fail to send a REGISTER req. to the Outbound_proxy
Symptom: Cisco 7960 SIP IP Phone fails to send out a REGISTER message to the configured Outbound_Proxy server if it fails to resolve the DNS name of the Proxy server configured in Proxy1_address
Condition: Observed in the release 5.2, 5.3, 6.3, 7.2 but works in the 4.X release
Workaround: a
–Have an IP Address instead of DNS name for the proxy1_address
–Use a DNS name that can be resolved c) Use 4.X release
•CSCef87670: 7960 requests files from invalid address
Symptom: Under rare circumstances, the Universal Application Loader may attempt to TFTP files from address 12.204.204.204, ignoring whatever has been set as the TFTP address.
Conditions: This is a rare situation, and seems to occur only in lightly-loaded networks, when using DHCP to supply the TFTP address, and when no voice VLAN is configured, and when upgrading from a 5.0(x) phone load.
Workaround: In most cases, the phone will eventually recover by itself. If a console cable is available, the condition can also be corrected by logging in to the phone, manually setting the TFTP address (i.e. set tftp-addr x.y.z.w), and the issuing the restart command. This will cause the phone to be set for alternate TFTP; after the phone has finished upgrading and has registered, the network configuration can be updated to turn alternate TFTP off again.
•CSCef91521: DHCP Option 66 is ignored
Symptom: The phone will ignore DHCP option 66 if it has previously resolved an address for TFTP.
Condition: When the value of option 66 is changed, or the DNS address for the current option 66 value is changed, the phone will ignore the change and continue to use the old value.
Workaround: Allow the phone to boot, erase the current network configuration, and then power cycle the phone.
•CSCef93943: Phone may crash intermittently while answering a call
Symptom: Cisco SIP Phone running 7.2 may occasionally crash while answering a call if the phone is using an outbound proxy FQDN and there is another dns query (sntp/ping/etc) going during the incoming call.
Workaround: Use an IP address for the outbound proxy FQDN.
•CSCuk52432: Echo fades in and out when talking IP phone to IP phone
Symptom: Under some circumstances it is possible to have echo when talking between IP phones on handsets. We are still investigating the cause.
Workaround: None
•CSCuk52433: speaker phone volume too low on CCM 3.3 phone loads
Symptom: This is a duplicate of CSCee77604 for SIP/MGCP. The following is the SCCP description. Customer upgraded from CCM 3.2.2c and 7940/7960 load P00303020204, to CCM 3.3.4 and now all signed phones loads are significantly quieter on the speakerphone. Lab testing shows that max speakerphone volume on P003030204 load is much louder than the 5-0-4, 5-0-5, and 6-0-3 phone loads.
Workaround: None (cannot revert to unsigned load)
Related Documentation
•Cisco SIP IP Phone Administrator Guide, Release 7.2
•Cisco IP Phone 7960/7940 Series - Quick Reference
•Regulatory Compliance and Safety Information for the Cisco IP Phone 7960, 7940, and 7910 Series
•Installing the Wall Mount Kit for the Cisco IP Phone
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