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Cisco IOS Software Releases 12.2 Special and Early Deployments

Cisco uBR7100 Series - Cisco IOS Release 12.2 BC

Table Of Contents

Release Notes for Cisco uBR7100 Series
for Cisco IOS Release 12.2 BC

Contents

Inheritance Information

Introduction

Overview of Cisco Universal Broadband Routers

Cisco uBR7100 Series Universal Broadband Routers

Cisco uBR7111 and Cisco uBR7111E Universal Broadband Routers

Cisco uBR7114 and Cisco uBR7114E Universal Broadband Routers

Universal Broadband Router Overview

Early Deployment Releases

Unsupported Features

System Requirements

Memory Recommendations

System Interoperability

Supported Hardware

Port Adapter Cards

Determining Your Software Release

Upgrading to a New Software Release

Feature Set Tables

New and Changed Information

No New Hardware Features in Release 12.2(15)BC2i

New Software Features in Release 12.2(15)BC2i

No New Hardware Features in Release 12.2(15)BC2h

New Software Features in Release 12.2(15)BC2h

No New Hardware Features in Release 12.2(15)BC2g

New Software Features in Release 12.2(15)BC2g

No New Hardware Features in Release 12.2(15)BC2f

New Software Features in Release 12.2(15)BC2f

No New Hardware Features in Release 12.2(15)BC2e

New Software Features in Release 12.2(15)BC2e

No New Hardware Features in Release 12.2(15)BC2c

New Software Features in Release 12.2(15)BC2c

No New Hardware Features in Release 12.2(15)BC2b

New Software Features in Release 12.2(15)BC2b

Cable Arp Filter Enhancement

Show Controllers Cable Extensions

Source Verify Lease-Query Throttling

No New Hardware Features in Release 12.2(15)BC2a

No New Software Features in Release 12.2(15)BC2a

No New Hardware Features in Release 12.2(15)BC2

New Software Features in Release 12.2(15)BC2

Cable ARP Filter

CISCO-NBAR-PROTOCOL-DISCOVERY-MIB

Command-Line Interface (CLI) Enhancements

DOCS-IF-MIB Update

DOCSIS Set-Top Gateway

Extended Upstream Frequency Ranges

IEEE 802.1Q Transparent Lan Service

N+1 Support for Load Balancing

PacketCable Enhancements

Vendor-Specific Information Field to Authorize Dynamic Service Requests

No New Hardware Features in Release 12.2(15)BC1g

New Software Features in Release 12.2(15)BC1g

No New Hardware Features in Release 12.2(15)BC1f

New Software Features in Release 12.2(15)BC1f

No New Hardware Features in Release 12.2(15)BC1d

New Software Features in Release 12.2(15)BC1d

Source Verify Lease-Query Throttling

No New Hardware Features in Release 12.2(15)BC1c

No New Software Features in Release 12.2(15)BC1c

Cable ARP Filter

No New Hardware Features in Release 12.2(15)BC1b

No New Software Features in Release 12.2(15)BC1b

No New Hardware Features in Release 12.2(15)BC1a

No New Software Features in Release 12.2(15)BC1a

No New Hardware Features in Release 12.2(15)BC1

New Software Features in Release 12.2(15)BC1

Command-Line Interface Enhancements

Dynamic Shared Secret

Nonstop Forwarding (NSF) Awareness

Subscriber Traffic Management

Support for Cisco Broadband Troubleshooter Version 3.0

No New Hardware Features in Release 12.2(11)BC3d

No New Software Features in Release 12.2(11)BC3d

No New Hardware Features in Release 12.2(11)BC3c

No New Software Features in Release 12.2(11)BC3c

No New Hardware Features in Release 12.2(11)BC3b

No New Software Features in Release 12.2(11)BC3b

No New Hardware Features in Release 12.2(11)BC3

New Software Features in Release 12.2(11)BC3

Transparent LAN Service over Cable

clear cable modem Commands

debug cable Commands

No New Hardware Features in Release 12.2(11)BC2

No New Software Features in Release 12.2(11)BC2

No New Hardware Features in Release 12.2(11)BC1b

No New Software Features in Release 12.2(11)BC1b

No New Hardware Features in Release 12.2(11)BC1a

No New Software Features in Release 12.2(11)BC1a

No New Hardware Features in Release 12.2(11)BC1

New Software Features in Release 12.2(11)BC1

cable source-verify leasetimer Command

No New Hardware Features in Release 12.2(8)BC2a

No New Software Features in Release 12.2(8)BC2a

No New Hardware Features in Release 12.2(8)BC2

New Software Features in Release 12.2(8)BC2

Adding Load Information and a Timestamp to Show Commands

Display Modem Capabilities with the show cable modem mac Command

Support for the cable modem vendor command

Support for the cable tftp-enforce Command

Support for a Secondary Shared Secret

Enhancement to the show hccp brief Command

Enhancement to the cable filter group Command

New Hardware Features in Release 12.2(8)BC1

PA-A3-E3 Port Adapter

New Software Features in Release 12.2(8)BC1

EXEC Commands in Configuration Mode

Secure Shell Support

No New Hardware Features in Release 12.2(4)BC1b

New Software Features in Release 12.2(4)BC1b

Cisco IOS Network-Based Application Recognition (NBAR)

SNMP Cable Modem Remote Query

Turbo Access Control Lists

No New Hardware Features in Release 12.2(4)BC1a

No New Software Features in Release 12.2(4)BC1a

New Hardware Features in Release 12.2(4)BC1

PA-T3+ and PA-2T3+ Port Adapter Cards

New Software Features in Release 12.2(4)BC1

PPPoE Termination Support on Cable interfaces

No New Hardware Features in Release 12.2(4)XF1

New Software Features in Release 12.2(4)XF1

DOCSIS 1.0 and 1.0+ Support

DOCSIS 1.1 Support

DOCSIS 1.1 Quality of Service

Cable ARP and Proxy ARP

Cable Flap List

Cable Intercept Command

Cable Interface Setup Facility

Cable Source Verification Feature

DHCP/TOD/TFTP Server Support

Dynamic Map-Advance

Dynamic Mobile Hosts

Dynamic Ranging Support

Dynamic Upstream Modulation

Internal Modem Configuration File Editor

Link Up/Down Traps Support (RFC 2233)

"MAX-CPE" CLI Override

MPLS VPN Support for Subinterfaces

Overlapping Subinterface IP Addresses

Spectrum Management and Dynamic Upstream Modulation

SNMP Cable Modem Remote Query

Important Notes

Limitions on Upstream Modulation Parameters for PacketCable VoIP Calls

Cable Modems Becoming Stuck in the TFTP Transfer State

CPE IP Addressing

Deprecated and Removed Cable MIB Objects

Using cable helper-address and ip helper-address Commands

Synchronization of the System Clocks

Upgrading When Using Shared Secret Passwords

SNR Algorithm Updated

Avoiding the Dropping of SNMP Traps

DOCSIS 1.0 BPI Support

Limitation on Vendor-Specific Information in the DOCSIS Configuration File

Hot-Standby 1+1 Redundancy Not Supported

Cable Source-Verify and Routing Configurations

EIGRP, IS-IS, and OSPF Not Supported on Cable Interfaces

Configuring the Routing Protocol Causes a Reset of the Cable Modems

Field Notices and Bulletins

Limitations and Restrictions

Transparent LAN Service over Cable

MIBs

Current MIBs

Supported MIBs

Cable-Specific MIBs

Deprecated MIBs

Caveats

Open Caveats for Release 12.2(15)BC2i

Closed and Resolved Caveats for Release 12.2(15)BC2i

Open Caveats for Release 12.2(15)BC2h

Closed and Resolved Caveats for Release 12.2(15)BC2h

Open Caveats for Release 12.2(15)BC2g

Closed and Resolved Caveats for Release 12.2(15)BC2g

Open Caveats for Release 12.2(15)BC2f

Closed and Resolved Caveats for Release 12.2(15)BC2f

Open Caveats for Release 12.2(15)BC2e

Closed and Resolved Caveats for Release 12.2(15)BC2e

Open Caveats for Release 12.2(15)BC2c

Closed and Resolved Caveats for Release 12.2(15)BC2c

Open Caveats for Release 12.2(15)BC2b

Closed and Resolved Caveats for Release 12.2(15)BC2b

Open Caveats for Release 12.2(15)BC2a

Closed and Resolved Caveats for Release 12.2(15)BC2a

Open Caveats for Release 12.2(15)BC2

Closed and Resolved Caveats for Release 12.2(15)BC2

Open Caveats for Release 12.2(15)BC1g

Closed and Resolved Caveats for Release 12.2(15)BC1g

Open Caveats for Release 12.2(15)BC1f

Closed and Resolved Caveats for Release 12.2(15)BC1f

Open Caveats for Release 12.2(15)BC1d

Closed and Resolved Caveats for Release 12.2(15)BC1d

Open Caveats for Release 12.2(15)BC1c

Closed and Resolved Caveats for Release 12.2(15)BC1c

Open Caveats for Release 12.2(15)BC1b

Closed and Resolved Caveats for Release 12.2(15)BC1b

Open Caveats for Release 12.2(15)BC1a

Closed and Resolved Caveats for Release 12.2(15)BC1a

Open Caveats for Release 12.2(15)BC1

Closed and Resolved Caveats for Release 12.2(15)BC1

Open Caveats for Release 12.2(11)BC3d

Closed and Resolved Caveats for Release 12.2(11)BC3d

Open Caveats for Release 12.2(11)BC3c

Closed and Resolved Caveats for Release 12.2(11)BC3c

Open Caveats for Release 12.2(11)BC3b

Closed and Resolved Caveats for Release 12.2(11)BC3b

Open Caveats for Release 12.2(11)BC3

Closed and Resolved Caveats for Release 12.2(11)BC3

Open Caveats for Release 12.2(11)BC2

Closed and Resolved Caveats for Release 12.2(11)BC2

Open Caveats for Release 12.2(11)BC1b

Closed and Resolved Caveats for Release 12.2(11)BC1b

Open Caveats for Release 12.2(11)BC1a

Closed and Resolved Caveats for Release 12.2(11)BC1a

Open Caveats for Release 12.2(11)BC1

Closed and Resolved Caveats for Release 12.2(11)BC1

Open Caveats for Release 12.2(8)BC2a

Closed and Resolved Caveats for Release 12.2(8)BC2a

Open Caveats for Release 12.2(8)BC2

Closed and Resolved Caveats for Release 12.2(8)BC2

Open Caveats for Release 12.2(8)BC1

Closed and Resolved Caveats for Release 12.2(8)BC1

Open Caveats for Release 12.2(4)BC1b

Closed and Resolved Caveats for Release 12.2(4)BC1b

Open Caveats for Release 12.2(4)BC1a

Closed and Resolved Caveats for Release 12.2(4)BC1a

Open Caveats for Release 12.2(4)BC1

Closed and Resolved Caveats for Release 12.2(4)BC1

Open Caveats for Release 12.2(4)XF1

Closed and Resolved Caveats for Release 12.2(4)XF1

Related Documentation

Release-Specific Documents

Platform-Specific Documents

Feature Modules

Cisco Feature Navigator

Cisco IOS Software Documentation Set

Documentation Modules

Release 12.2 Documentation Set

Obtaining Documentation

World Wide Web

Documentation CD-ROM

Ordering Documentation

Documentation Feedback

Obtaining Technical Assistance

Cisco.com

Technical Assistance Center

Cisco TAC Web Site

Cisco TAC Escalation Center


Release Notes for Cisco uBR7100 Series
for Cisco IOS Release 12.2 BC


November 2, 2005
Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2i
OL-2774-20


These release notes for the Cisco uBR7100 series universal broadband routers document the cable-specific, early deployment 12.2 BC train, describing the enhancements and caveats provided in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2i. This release includes features in previous Cisco IOS 12.2BC Releases. Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2g is a child of Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)T.

The 12.2 BC train is an interim release train that provides DOCSIS 1.1 two-way support, along with support for selected new features. Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2i provides a migration path from the earlier 12.2 XF releases, which included a selected subset of the features supported for the Cisco uBR7100 series routers in Cisco IOS Release 12.0 SC, Cisco IOS Release 12.1 EC, and Cisco IOS Release 12.1(7)CX1.

These release notes are updated with each release in the train. For a list of the software caveats that apply to Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2i, see the "Caveats" section and Caveats for Cisco IOS Release 12.2 T. Use these release notes in conjunction with the cross-platform Release Notes for Cisco IOS Release 12.2 T located on Cisco.com and the Documentation CD-ROM.


Note Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2i does not include support for telco-return images.


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 account on Cisco.com, you can find field notices at http://www.cisco.com/warp/customer/770/index.shtml. If you do not have a Cisco.com login account, you can find field notices at http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/770/index.shtml.

Contents

These release notes describe the following topics:

Inheritance Information

Introduction

Early Deployment Releases

System Requirements

New and Changed Information

Important Notes

MIBs

Caveats

Related Documentation

Obtaining Documentation

Obtaining Technical Assistance

Inheritance Information

Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2i is an early deployment release that is a child of Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)T. All features in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)T and specifically all features and caveats in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)T6 are in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2i.

Table 1 References for the Cross-Platform Release Notes for Cisco IOS Release 12.2 T

Topic
Location

Determining the Software Version

Upgrading to a New Software Release

To view information about the topics in the left-hand column, click Cross-Platform System Requirements at: http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios122/122relnt/xprn122t/122treqs.htm

New and Changed Information (Feature Descriptions)

MIBs

Important Notes

To view information about the topics in the left-hand column.

For Cisco IOS Release 12.2 T, go to:

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios122/122relnt/xprn122t/122tnewf.htm

Scroll down and click New Hardware and Software Features in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)T, or MIBs, or Important Notes.

Related Documentation

Obtaining Documentation

Obtaining Technical Assistance

To view information about the topics in the left-hand column, go to:

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios122/122relnt/xprn122t/122tdocs.htm


Introduction

For information on new features and the Cisco IOS documentation set supported by Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2i, see the "New and Changed Information" section and the "Related Documentation" section.

Overview of Cisco Universal Broadband Routers

The Cisco uBR7100 series universal broadband routers—the Cisco uBR7111, Cisco uBR7111E, Cisco uBR7114, and Cisco uBR7114E—are based on the Data-over-Cable Service Interface Specification (DOCSIS) standards and designed to be installed at small cable operators and multiple dwelling unit (MDU) operators to enable them to offer services such as e-mail, high-speed Internet access, voice, and digital video over a bidirectional cable television and IP backbone network. The universal broadband routers function as the cable modem termination system (CMTS) for subscriber-end devices such as Cisco uBR905, Cisco uBR924, and Cisco uBR925 cable access routers, and other DOCSIS-compliant cable modems (CMs) and set-top boxes (STBs).

Both the Cisco uBR7100 series and Cisco uBR7200 series universal broadband routers allow two-way transmission of digital data and Voice over IP (VoIP) traffic over a hybrid fiber-coaxial (HFC) network. The Cisco uBR7100 series routers support IP routing with a wide variety of protocols and WAN interfaces selections.

Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2i supports the Cisco uBR7111, Cisco uBR7111E, Cisco uBR7114, and Cisco uBR7114E universal broadband routers.

Cisco uBR7100 Series Universal Broadband Routers

The Cisco uBR7100 series routers provide a fixed set of WAN and LAN interfaces with a combination of fixed and modular interfaces, allowing both flexibility and simplicity in configuration. Each Cisco uBR7100 series router includes one modular single-width port adapter, one integrated cable interface with an internal upconverter, and two integrated Fast Ethernet ports. The cable interface is based on the Cisco uBR-MC14C cable interface line card and is not field-replaceable.

The Cisco uBR7100 series routers support IP routing through the following optional WAN and LAN port adapters: Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, serial, High-Speed Serial Interface (HSSI), Packet over SONET (POS) OC-3c, and Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) media. For more information, see Table 6.

Depending on the model, the Cisco uBR7100 series routers support the following two standards:

Data Over Cable Service Interface Specifications (DOCSIS), which supports the 6 MHz North American channel plans using the ITU J.83 Annex B RF standard. The downstream uses a 6 MHz channel width in the 85 to 860 MHz frequency range, and the upstream supports the 5 to 42 MHz frequency range.

European Data Over Cable Service Interface Specifications (EuroDOCSIS), which supports the 8 MHz Phase Alternating Line (PAL) and Systeme Electronique Couleur Avec Memoire (SECAM) channel plans using the ITU J.112 Annex A RF standard. The downstream uses an 8 MHz channel width in the 85 to 860 MHz frequency range, and the upstream supports multiple channel widths in the 5 to 65 MHz frequency range.

The Cisco uBR7100 series offers the following models:

The Cisco uBR7111 and Cisco uBR7111E universal broadband routers provide a cable interface with one downstream port and one upstream port. The downstream port can be output either as an RF signal through the integrated upconverter or as an IF signal for processing by an external upconverter. The Cisco uBR7111 router supports DOCSIS cable plants, and the Cisco uBR7111E supports EuroDOCSIS cable plants.

The Cisco uBR7114 and Cisco uBR7114E universal broadband routers provide a cable interface with one downstream port and four upstream ports. The downstream port can be output either as an RF signal through the integrated upconverter or as an IF signal for processing by an external upconverter. The Cisco uBR7114 router supports DOCSIS cable plants, and the Cisco uBR7114E supports EuroDOCSIS cable plants.

Cisco uBR7111 and Cisco uBR7111E Universal Broadband Routers

The Cisco uBR7111 and Cisco uBR7111E provide the following major hardware features:

Integrated network processing engine

1 upstream cable modem interface

1 downstream cable modem interface

2 Fast Ethernet ports

1 port adapter slot

1 service adapter slot

1 AC power supply

1 Personal Computer Memory Card International Association (PCMCIA) slot that allows for software upgrades through the use of Flash memory cards

Cisco uBR7114 and Cisco uBR7114E Universal Broadband Routers

The Cisco uBR7114 and Cisco uBR7114E provide the following major hardware features:

Integrated network processing engine

1 downstream cable modem interface

4 upstream cable modem interfaces

2 Fast Ethernet ports

1 port adapter slot

1 service adapter slot

1 AC power supply

1 Personal Computer Memory Card International Association (PCMCIA) slot that allows for software upgrades through the use of Flash memory cards

Universal Broadband Router Overview

Table 2 provides a quick overview of the major hardware features of the two universal broadband routers.

Table 2 Universal Broadband Router Overview 

Supported Hardware
Cisco uBR7111, Cisco uBR7111E
Cisco uBR7114, Cisco uBR7114E

Upstream Cable Modem Interfaces

1

4

Downstream Cable Modem Interfaces

1

1

Fast Ethernet Ports

2

2

Port Adapter Slots

1

1

Service Adapter Slots

1

1

Power Supplies

1

1

PCMCIA Slots

1

1


Early Deployment Releases

These release notes describe the Cisco uBR7100 series universal broadband routers for Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2i. Release 12.2 XF is an early deployment (ED) release based that contains fixes to software caveats as well as support for new Cisco hardware and software features. Feature support is cumulative from release to release, unless otherwise noted.

Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2i supports a selected subset of the hardware and software features that were released in Cisco IOS Release 12.1 EC for the Cisco uBR7100 series universal broadband routers. Table 3 lists the features supported by the Cisco uBR7100 series in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2i.

Table 3 Early Deployment (ED) Releases for the Cisco uBR7100 Series 

ED Release
Software Features1 and MIBs2
Hardware Features
Hardware
Availability

Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2i

None

None

Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2h

None

None

Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2g

None

None

Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2f

None

None

Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2e

None

None

Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2c

None

None

Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2b

Cable Arp Filter Enhancement

Show Controllers Cable Extensions

Source Verify Lease-Query Throttling

None

Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2a

None

None

Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2

Cable ARP Filter

CISCO-NBAR-PROTOCOL-DISCOVERY-MIB

Command-Line Interface (CLI) Enhancements

DOCS-IF-MIB Update

DOCSIS Set-Top Gateway

Extended Upstream Frequency Ranges

IEEE 802.1Q Transparent Lan Service

N+1 Support for Load Balancing

PacketCable Enhancements

Vendor-Specific Information Field to Authorize Dynamic Service Requests

None

Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC1g

None

None

Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC1f

None

None

Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC1d

Source Verify Lease-Query Throttling

None

Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC1c

Cable ARP Filter

None

Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC1b

None

None

Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC1a

None

None

Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC1

Command-Line Interface Enhancements

Dynamic Shared Secret

Nonstop Forwarding (NSF) Awareness—BGP, OSPF, and Integrated IS-IS

Subscriber Traffic Management

Support for Cisco Broadband Troubleshooter Version 3.0

None

Cisco IOS Release 12.2(11)BC3d

None

None

Cisco IOS Release 12.2(11)BC3c

None

None

Cisco IOS Release 12.2(11)BC3b

None

None

Cisco IOS Release 12.2(11)BC3

Transparent LAN Service over Cable

clear cable modem Commands

debug cable Commands

None

Cisco IOS Release 12.2(11)BC2

None

None

Cisco IOS Release 12.2(11)BC1b

None

None

Cisco IOS Release 12.2(11)BC1a

None

None

Cisco IOS Release 12.2(11)BC1

Support for the cable source-verify leasetimer Command

None

Cisco IOS Release 12.2(8)BC2a

None

None

Cisco IOS Release 12.2(8)BC2

Adding Load Information and a Timestamp to Show Commands

Display Modem Capabilities with the show cable modem mac Command

Support for the cable modem vendor Command

Support for the cable tftp-enforce Command

Support for a Secondary Shared Secret

Enhancement to the show hccp brief Command

Enhancement to the cable filter group Command

None

Cisco IOS Release 12.2(8)BC1

EXEC Commands in Configuration Mode

Secure Shell (SSH)

Support for the PA-A3-E3 port adapter card

Now

Cisco IOS
Release 12.2(4)BC1b

Baseline Privacy Interface Plus (BPI+)

Cisco IOS Network-Based Application Recognition (NBAR)

Turbo ACL

SNMP Cable Modem Remote Query

None

Cisco IOS
Release 12.2(4)BC1

PPPoE3 Termination

Support for PA-T3+ and PA-2T3+ port adapters

Now

Cisco IOS
Release 12.2(4)XF1

DOCSIS 1.0 Support

DOCSIS 1.0+ Support

DOCSIS 1.1 Support, including:

TLV4 Parser Support

BE5 , UGS6 , UGS-AD7 , rtPS8 Service Flows

DSC9 Service Flow, Classifier, and PHS10

Fragmentation

Concatenation

PHS

DS11 Classification and Queuing

Cable Intercept Command

Cable Interface Setup Facility

DHCP/TOD/TFTP12 Server Support

Cable Subinterface Support

Access Lists

Spectrum Management and Dynamic Upstream Modulation

Cable Source Verification Feature

MPLS13 VPN14 Support for Subinterfaces

Dynamic Mobile Hosts Feature

IP NAT/PAT15 Translation

Internal Modem Configuration File Editor

Cable Flap List

Cable ARP16 and Proxy ARP Support

Cable Downstream Frequency Override CLI17

MAX-CPE CLI override

None

Now

1 Only major features are listed.

2 MIB = Management Information Base

3 PPPoE = Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet

4 TLV = Type/Length/Value

5 BE = Best Effort

6 UGS = Unsolicited Grant Service

7 UGS-AD = Unsolicited Grant Service with Activity Detection

8 rtPS = Real-Time Polling Service

9 DSC = Dynamic Service Change

10 PHS = Payload Header Suppression

11 DS = Downstream

12 DHCP = Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, TOD = Time of Day, TFTP = Trivial File Transfer Protocol

13 MPLS = Multiprotocol Label Switching

14 VPN = Virtual Private Network

15 NAT/PAT = Network Address Translation/Port Address Translation

16 ARP = Address Resolution Protocol

17 CLI = command line interface


Unsupported Features

Table 4 lists the features that are not supported in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2i, along with the most recent, recommended Cisco IOS Release that does support that particular feature for the Cisco uBR7100 series routers.

Table 4 Features Not Supported in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2i

Software or Hardware Feature
Supported Cisco IOS Release

MxU Bridging over the Cable Interface

Release 12.1(10)EC

Cable Downstream Frequency Command

Release 12.1(10)EC

Telco-Return Support

Release 12.1(10)EC

Web Cache Communication Protocol

Not supported for the Cisco uBR7100 series


System Requirements

This section describes the system requirements for Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2i and includes the following sections:

Memory Recommendations

System Interoperability

Supported Hardware

Determining Your Software Release

Upgrading to a New Software Release

Feature Set Tables

Memory Recommendations

Table 5 displays the memory recommendations of the Cisco IOS feature sets for the Cisco uBR7100 series universal broadband routers for Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2i. Cisco uBR7100 series routers are available with a 16-MB or 20-MB Type II PCMCIA Flash memory card.

Table 5 Memory Recommendations for the Cisco uBR7100 Series Routers,
Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2i Feature Sets 

Feature Set
Software Image
Recommended
Flash Memory
Recommended
DRAM Memory
Runs
From
Two-Way Data/VoIP Images

DOCSIS Two-Way

ubr7100-p-mz

16 MB Flash

128 MB DRAM

RAM

DOCSIS Two-Way IP Plus

ubr7100-is-mz

16 MB Flash

128 MB DRAM

RAM

DOCSIS Two-Way with BPI

ubr7100-k8p-mz

16 MB Flash

128 MB DRAM

RAM

DOCSIS Two-Way IP Plus with BPI

ubr7100-ik8s-mz

16 MB Flash

128 MB DRAM

RAM

Boot Image

UBR7100 Boot Image

ubr7100-boot-mz

None

None


The image subset legend for Table 5 is as follows:

i = IP routing, MPLS-VPN support, and noncable interface bridging, including Network Address Translation (NAT)

k8 = DOCSIS Baseline Privacy and MPLS-VPN support

p = IP routing with Intermediate System-to-Intermediate System (IS-IS) and Border Gateway Protocol (BGP); MPLS-VPN support; no NAT

s = "Plus" features: NAT and Inter-Switch Link (ISL)


Note All images support all of the hardware listed in the "Supported Hardware" section, unless otherwise indicated.


System Interoperability

This section clarifies the operation of certain features in the Cisco uBR7100 series universal broadband routers.

DOCSIS 1.0 Baseline Privacy

DOCSIS baseline privacy interface (BPI) gives subscribers data privacy across the RF network, encrypting traffic flows between the CMTS and CM. BPI ensures that a CM, uniquely identified by its Media Access Control (MAC) address, can obtain keying material for only those services to which it has authorized access.

To enable BPI, choose software at both the CMTS and CM that support the mode of operation. For the Cisco uBR7100 series software, choose an image with "k8" in its file name or BPI in the feature set description.

The CM must also support BPI. CMs must have factory-installed RSA private/public key pairs to support internal algorithms to generate key pairs prior to first BPI establishment. BPI must be enabled using the DOCSIS configuration file.


Note RSA stands for Rivest, Shamir, and Adelman, inventors of a public-key cryptographic system.


CM Interoperability

The Cisco uBR7100 series interoperates with DOCSIS (Cisco uBR7111 and Cisco uBR7114) or Euro-DOCSIS (Cisco uBR7111E and Cisco uBR7114E) two-way CMs that support basic Internet access, VoIP, or Virtual Private Networks (VPNs). Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2i does not support telco-return CMs/STBs.

Also, if you have configured a Cisco cable modem for routing mode and are also using the cable-modem dhcp-proxy nat command on the cable modem, you must configure the corresponding cable interface on the Cisco uBR7100 series router with the cable dhcp-giaddr policy command. Otherwise, the cable interface could flap and the CM could go offline unpredictably.

DOCSIS 1.0 Extensions

The Cisco uBR7100 series supports the following DOCSIS 1.0 quality of service (QoS) extensions:

Multi-Service ID (SID) support, allowing the definition of multiple SIDs on the upstream—Voice traffic can be designated on a higher QoS committed information rate (CIR) secondary SID, while data traffic can be forwarded on a best-effort basis on a primary SID. Secondary SIDs are higher QoS CIR-type classes that have a nonzero minimum reserved rate (CIR-type service). These SIDs receive preferential treatment at the CMTS for grants over any tiered best-effort type data SID of that upstream. Reliable operation with voice requires multiple SIDs—at least two per CM to separate voice from data. In DOCSIS 1.0, SIDs are set up statically. When supporting DOCSIS 1.0 extensions, SIDs can be set up statically or dynamically. Both the CMTS and CM must support this capability.

CM-initiated dynamic MAC messages—Dynamic Service Addition (DSA) and Dynamic Service Deletion (DSD). These messages allow dynamic SIDs to be created and deleted at run-time on a per-VoIP call basis.

Unsolicited grant service (constant bit rate [CBR] scheduling) on the upstream—This helps provide a higher-quality channel for upstream VoIP packets from an Integrated Telephony Cable Modem (ITCM) such as the Cisco uBR924 cable access router.

Ability to provide separate downstream rates for any given ITCM, based on the IP-precedence value in the packet—This helps separate voice signaling and data traffic that goes to the same ITCM to address rate-shaping purposes.

Concatenation—To increase the per-CM upstream throughput in certain releases of software, Cisco uBR7100 series software supports a concatenated burst of multiple MAC frames from a CM that supports concatenation.


Note All DOCSIS 1.0 extensions are activated only when a CM or Cisco uBR924 that supports these extensions solicits services via dynamic MAC messages or the feature set. If the CMs in your network are pure DOCSIS 1.0-based, they will receive regular DOCSIS 1.0 treatment from the CMTS.


Supported Hardware

Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2i supports the following Cisco uBR7100 series routers:

Cisco uBR7111

Cisco uBR7114

Cisco uBR7111E

Cisco uBR7114E

Port Adapter Cards

Table 6 lists and describes the port adapters supported by Cisco uBR7100 series routers in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2i.


Note Table 6 identifies some port adapters for the Cisco uBR7100 series routers that are in an end-of-life (EOL) stage.


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Table 6 Cisco uBR7100 Series Port Adapter Releases 

WAN Technology
Product Number and Description
Introduced in Release1
End-of-Life

Ethernet

 

PA-4E—4-port Ethernet 10BASE-T port adapter

12.2(4)XF1

No

 

PA-8E—8-port Ethernet 10BASE-T port adapter

12.2(4)XF1

Yes

Fast Ethernet

 

PA-FE-TX—1-port 100BASE-TX Fast Ethernet port adapter

12.2(4)XF1

No

 

PA-FE-FX—1-port 100BASE-FX Fast Ethernet port adapter

12.2(4)XF1

No

 

PA-2FE-TX—2-port 100BASE-TX Fast Ethernet port adapter

12.2(4)XF1

No

 

PA-2FE-FX—2-port 100BASE-FX Fast Ethernet port adapter

12.2(4)XF1

No

Serial

 

PA-E3—1-port high-speed serial E3 interface port adapter

12.2(4)XF1

No

 

PA-T3—1-port T3 serial interface port adapter

12.2(4)XF1

No

 

PA-T3+—1-port T3 serial interface port adapter enhanced

12.2(4)BC1

No

 

PA-2E3—2-port high-speed serial E3 interface port adapter

12.2(4)XF1

No

 

PA-2T3—2-port T3 serial interface port adapter

12.2(4)XF1

No

 

PA-2T3+—2-port T3 serial interface port adapter enhanced

12.2(4)BC1

No

 

PA-4T+—4-port synchronous serial port adapter

12.2(4)XF1

No

 

PA-4E1G-75—4-port unbalanced (75-ohm) E1-G.703/G.704 synchronous serial port adapter

12.2(4)XF1

No

 

PA-4E1G-120—4-port balanced (120-ohm) E1-G.703/G.704 synchronous serial port adapter

12.2(4)XF1

No

 

PA-8T-232—8-port EIA/TIA-232 synchronous serial port adapter

12.2(4)XF1

Yes

 

PA-8T-V35—8-port V.35 synchronous serial port adapter

12.2(4)XF1

No

 

PA-8T-X21—8-port X.21 synchronous serial port adapter

12.2(4)XF1

Yes

 

PA-MC-2T1—2-port multichannel DS1 Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) Primary Rate Interface (PRI) single-wide port adapter

12.2(4)XF1

Yes

 

PA-MC-4T1—4-port multichannel DS1 ISDN PRI single-wide port adapter

12.2(4)XF1

No

HSSI

 

PA-H—1-port HSSI port adapter

12.2(4)XF1

Yes

PA-2H—2-port HSSI port adapter

12.2(4)XF1

No

ATM

 

PA-A3-E3—1-port E3 ATM, PCI-based, single-width port adapter, that uses an E3 interface with a coaxial cable BNC connector

12.2(8)BC1

No

 

PA-A3-OC3MM—1-port OC-3c ATM, PCI-based multimode port adapter

12.2(4)XF1

No

 

PA-A3-OC3SMI—1-port OC-3c ATM, PCI-based single-mode intermediate reach port adapter

12.2(4)XF1

Yes

 

PA-A3-OC3SML—1-port OC-3c ATM, PCI-based single-mode long reach port adapter

12.2(4)XF1

No

 

PA-A3-8T1/IMA—ATM inverse multiplexer over ATM port adapter with 8 T1 ports

12.2(4)XF1

No

Packet over SONET

PA-POS-OC3SMI—1-port OC3 single-mode, intermediate reach port adapter

12.2(4)XF1

No

1 The number in this column indicates the Cisco IOS release in which the interface was introduced in this train.


Determining Your Software Release

To determine the version of Cisco IOS software running on the Cisco uBR7100 series universal broadband router, log in to the router and enter the show version EXEC command:

Router> show version
Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software 
IOS (tm) 12.2 BC Software (ubr7100-k8p-mz), Version 12.2(15)BC2i, RELEASE SOFTWARE

Upgrading to a New Software Release

For general information about upgrading to a new software release, see Cisco IOS Upgrade Ordering Instructions located at http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/cc/pd/iosw/prodlit/957_pp.htm.

Feature Set Tables

The Cisco IOS software is packaged in feature sets consisting of software images—depending on the platform. Each feature set contains a specific set of Cisco IOS features.

Table 7 lists the features and feature sets supported by the Cisco uBR7100 series in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2i and uses the following conventions:

Yes—The feature is supported in the software image.

No—The feature is not supported in the software image.

In—The number in the "In" column indicates the Cisco IOS release in which the feature was introduced (excluding deferred images). Cisco IOS Release 12.2(4)XF1 is the base release; all features, unless otherwise noted, were introduced in this release.


Note Table 7 might not be cumulative or list all the features in each image. You can find the most current Cisco IOS documentation on Cisco.com. These electronic documents may contain updates and modifications made after the hard-copy documents were printed. If you have a Cisco.com login account, you can find image and release information regarding features prior to Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2i by using the Feature Navigator tool at http://www.cisco.com/go/fn.


Table 7 Feature List by Feature Sets for Cisco uBR7100 Series Universal Broadband Routers 

Feature
Feature Set
In1
DOCSIS Two-way with BPI
DOCSIS Two-way
IP Plus
with BPI
IP Routing

DHCP2 Server

 

Yes

Yes

DRP3 Server Agent

 

Yes

Yes

Easy IP (Phase 1)

 

Yes

Yes

Hot-Standby 1+1 Redundancy

 

No

No

HSRP4 over ISL5 in Virtual LAN Configurations

 

No

No

IP Type of Service and Precedence for GRE6 Tunnels

 

Yes

Yes

IP Enhanced IGRP7 Route Authentication

 

Yes

Yes

MxU Bridging

 

No

No

Nonstop Forwarding (NSF) Awareness—BGP, OSPF, and Integrated IS-IS

12.2(15)BC1

Yes

Yes

Per-Modem Filters

 

Yes

Yes

PPPoE Termination

 

Yes

Yes

Transparent LAN Service over Cable

12.2(11)BC3

Yes

Yes

Management

Cable Interface Setup Facility

 

Yes

Yes

Cisco Broadband Troubleshooter Version 3.0 Support

12.2(15)BC1

Yes

Yes

Cisco Call History MIB Command Line Interface

 

Yes

Yes

DOCSIS Ethernet MIB Objects Support (RFC 2665)

 

Yes

Yes

DOCSIS OSSI8 Objects Support (RFC 2233)

 

Yes

Yes

Dynamic Ranging Support

 

Yes

Yes

Enhanced Modem Status Display

 

Yes

Yes

Enhanced Per-Modem Error Counter

 

Yes

Yes

Internal Modem Configuration File Editor

 

Yes

Yes

LinkUp/Down Traps Support (RFC 2233)

 

Yes

Yes

RF Interface MIB

 

Yes

Yes

SNMPv2C9 and SNMPv310

 

Yes

Yes

Multimedia

Bidirectional PIM11

 

No

No

IP Multicast Load Splitting Across Equal-Cost Paths

 

No

No

IP Multicast over ATM12 Point-to-Multipoint Virtual Circuits

 

No

No

IP Multicast over Token Ring LANs

 

No

No

Stub IP Multicast Routing

 

No

No

Quality of Service

252 Operator Configurable QoS Service Profiles for DOCSIS 1.0

 

Yes

Yes

Admission Control for Load Balancing

 

Yes

Yes

Admission Control (Including Weighting Functions per QoS Profile)

 

Yes

Yes

DOCSIS 1.0 Configuration File Editor (IOS CLI-based)

 

Yes

Yes

Dynamic Upstream Modulation

 

Yes

Yes

DOCSIS 1.0+13 QoS Enhancements

 

Yes

Yes

Downstream QoS Handling

 

Yes

Yes

Downstream Traffic Shaping

 

Yes

Yes

Dynamic SID Support

 

Yes

Yes

Dynamic Map-Advance

 

Yes

Yes

Guaranteed Upstream Minimum Throughput per Modem for DOCSIS 1.0

 

Yes

Yes

Improved Upstream QoS

 

Yes

Yes

Multiple SID Support for DOCSIS 1.0+

 

Yes

Yes

Multiple SID Support for DOCSIS 1.1

 

Yes

Yes

Multiple SID Support (static only)

 

Yes

Yes

QoS Configuration

 

Yes

Yes

QoS Profile Enforcement

 

Yes

Yes

QoS Profile Management via SNMP, CLI, or Dynamic

 

Yes

Yes

RTP14 Header Compression

 

Yes

Yes

Subscriber Traffic Management

12.2(15)BC1

Yes

Yes

Telco Return

 

No

No

Time of Day (ToD) Server

 

Yes

Yes

TOS Bit Restamping and TOS-based QoS for DOCSIS 1.0

 

Yes

Yes

Upstream Address Verification

 

Yes

Yes

Upstream Traffic Shaping

 

Yes

Yes

Security

Automated Double Authentication

 

Yes

Yes

BPI and BPI+ Encryption

 

Yes

Yes

Cable Modem and Multicast Authentication using RADIUS15

 

No

No

Cable source-verify

 

Yes

Yes

Cable source-verify DHCP (Including lease-query)

 

Yes

Yes

Cisco IOS Firewall Enhancements

 

Yes

Yes

Dynamic Mobile Hosts

 

Yes

Yes

Dynamic Shared Secret

12.2(15)BC1

Yes

Yes

HTTP16 Security

 

Yes

Yes

Named Method Lists for AAA17 Authorization & Accounting

 

Yes

Yes

Per-Modem and Per-Host Access List Support

 

Yes

Yes

Per-User Configuration

 

Yes

Yes

Reflexive Access Lists

 

Yes

Yes

Secure Shell (SSH)

 

Yes

Yes

SNMP Access Lists (Including Logging Feature)

 

Yes

Yes

TACACS+

 

Yes

Yes

TFTP-enforce

 

Yes

Yes

Vendor-Proprietary RADIUS Attributes

 

No

No

Switching

Fast-Switched Policy Routing

 

Yes

Yes

VPN

MPLS VPN Support for Subinterfaces

 

Yes

Yes

WAN Optimization

PAD18 Subaddressing

 

Yes

Yes

WAN Services

Bandwidth Allocation Control Protocol (BACP)

 

Yes

Yes

Enhanced Local Management Interface (ELMI)

 

Yes

Yes

Frame Relay Enhancements

 

Yes

Yes

Frame Relay MIB Extensions

 

Yes

Yes

Frame Relay Router ForeSight

 

Yes

Yes

ISDN19 Advice of Charge

 

Yes

Yes

ISDN Caller ID Callback

 

Yes

Yes

ISDN Multiple Switch Type

 

Yes

Yes

ISDN NFAS20

 

Yes

Yes

Microsoft Point-to-Point Compression (MPPC)

 

Yes

Yes

National ISDN Switch Types for BRI21 and PRI22

 

Yes

Yes

VPDN23 MIB and Syslog Facility

 

Yes

Yes

X.25 Enhancements

 

Yes

Yes

X.25 Switching Between PVCs24 and SVCs25

 

Yes

Yes

1 The number in the "In" column indicates the Cisco IOS release in which the feature was introduced in this release train. If a cell in this column is empty, the feature was included in the initial base release.

2 DHCP = Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

3 DRP = Director Response Protocol

4 HSRP = Hot-Standby Routing Protocol

5 ISL = Inter-Switch Link

6 GRE = generic routing encapsulation

7 IGRP = Interior Gateway Routing Protocol

8 OSSI = Operations Support System Interface

9 SNMPv2 = Simple Network Management Protocol version 2

10 SNMPv3 = Simple Network Management Protocol version 3

11 PIM = Protocol Independent Multicast

12 ATM = Asynchronous Transfer Mode

13 The DOCSIS 1.0+ QoS Enhancements is a set of Cisco's Quality of Service extensions to DOCSIS 1.0 to enable basic VoIP service over the DOCSIS link before DOCSIS 1.1 becomes available. The main enhancements include support for dynamic creation and teardown of flows during voice calls, support for one new unsolicited grant service (UGS) slot scheduling mechanism for voice slots, and per IP-precedence rate shaping on the downstream.

14 RTP = Real-Time Transport Protocol

15 RADIUS = Remote Access Dial-In User Service

16 HTTP = Hypertext Transfer Protocol

17 AAA =authentication, authorization, and accounting

18 PAD = packet assembler/disassembler

19 ISDN = Integrated Services Digital Network

20 NFAS = non-facility-associated signaling

21 BRI = Basic Rate Interface

22 PRI = Primary Rate Interface

23 VPDN = virtual private dial-up network

24 PVC = permanent virtual circuit

25 SVC = switched virtual circuit


New and Changed Information

The following sections list the new hardware and software features supported by the Cisco uBR7100 series routers for Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2i. These sections also show the features inherited from Release 12.2(4)XF1 and other earlier releases.

No New Hardware Features in Release 12.2(15)BC2i

There are no new hardware features in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2i.

New Software Features in Release 12.2(15)BC2i

There are no new software features in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2i.

No New Hardware Features in Release 12.2(15)BC2h

There are no new hardware features in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2h.

New Software Features in Release 12.2(15)BC2h

There are no new software features in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2h.

No New Hardware Features in Release 12.2(15)BC2g

There are no new hardware features in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2g.

New Software Features in Release 12.2(15)BC2g

There are no new software features in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2g.

No New Hardware Features in Release 12.2(15)BC2f

There are no new hardware features in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2f.

New Software Features in Release 12.2(15)BC2f

There are no new software features in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2f.

No New Hardware Features in Release 12.2(15)BC2e

There are no new hardware features in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2e.

New Software Features in Release 12.2(15)BC2e

There are no new software features in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2e.

No New Hardware Features in Release 12.2(15)BC2c

There are no new hardware features in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2c.

New Software Features in Release 12.2(15)BC2c

There are no new software features in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2c.

No New Hardware Features in Release 12.2(15)BC2b

There are no new hardware features in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2b.

New Software Features in Release 12.2(15)BC2b

The following software features are new in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2b.

Cable Arp Filter Enhancement

The ip-requests-filtered option was added to the show cable arp-filter command to display the specific Service IDs (SIDs) that are generating or forwarding a minimum number of ARP packets.

Show Controllers Cable Extensions

The Show Controllers Cables Extensions feature has been supported for Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2b.

In this feature, the mem-stats, memory, proc-cpu, and tech-support keywords execute the related command on the processor that runs on are added to obtain the relevant information from the onboard processor on Broadband Processing Engine (BPE) cable interface line cards, such as the Cisco uBR-MC16U/X, Cisco uBR-MC28U/X, and Cisco uBR-MC5X20S/U cards. This allows the user to obtain information that is specific for that particular cable interface card, as opposed to having to run these commands on the entire router.

Source Verify Lease-Query Throttling

When the cable source-verify dhcp and no cable arp commands are configured on a cable interface, problems can occur when viruses, denial of service (DoS) attacks, and theft-of-service attacks begin scanning a range of IP addresses, in an attempt to find unused addresses. When the Cisco CMTS router is verifying unknown IP addresses, this type of scanning generates a large volume of DHCP lease queries, which can result in a number of problems, such as dropped packets and high CPU utilization of both the Cisco CMTS router and DHCP server.

To prevent these problems, you can enable filtering of these requests on upstream interfaces, downstream interfaces, or both. When this feature is enabled, the Cisco CMTS allows only a certain number of DHCP LEASEQUERY requests for each service ID (SID) on an interface within the configured interval time period. If a SID generates more lease queries than the maximum, the router drops the excess number of requests until the next interval period begins.

For more information on this feature, see the document "Filtering Cable DHCP Lease Queries", at the following URL:

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios122/122newft/122limit/122bc/122bc_15/cblsrcvy.htm 


Note The Source Verify Lease-Query Throttling feature is only available in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC1d and Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2b.


No New Hardware Features in Release 12.2(15)BC2a

There are no new hardware features in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2a.

No New Software Features in Release 12.2(15)BC2a

There are no new software features in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2a

No New Hardware Features in Release 12.2(15)BC2

There are no new hardware features in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2.

New Software Features in Release 12.2(15)BC2

The following software features are new in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2.

Cable ARP Filter

Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2 adds support for the cable arp filter command, which enables service providers to filter ARP request and reply packets, to prevent a large volume of such packets from interfering with the other traffic on the cable network. For more information, see the Cable ARP Filtering document, at the following URL:

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios122/122newft/122limit/122bc/122bc_15/cblarpfl.htm

CISCO-NBAR-PROTOCOL-DISCOVERY-MIB

Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2 adds support for the CISCO-NBAR-PROTOCOL-DISCOVERY-MIB to the Cisco uBR7100 series and Cisco uBR7246VXR universal broadband routers. This allows service providers to use SNMP requests to configure and monitor the Network-Based Application Recognition (NBAR) feature.

For more information about NBAR, see the Network-Based Application Recognition and Distributed Network-Based Application Recognition document, at the following URL:

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios122/122newft/122t/122t8/dtnbarad.htm

For more information about the CISCO-NBAR-PROTOCOL-DISCOVERY-MIB, see the Network-Based Application Recognition Protocol Discovery Management Information Base document, at the following URL:

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios122/122newft/122t/122t15/ftpdmib.htm

Command-Line Interface (CLI) Enhancements

Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2 has enhanced or updated the following commands:

cable dhcp-giaddr—Supports a new option, strict, that uses the GIADDR IP address as the source IP address in the forwarded DHCP OFFER packet, when using the policy option. By default, the Cisco CMTS changes the source IP address in the DHCPOFFER packet to match that of the primary address on the cable interface. Use the strict option to prevent this behavior, which could interfere with any access lists applied to the CM when the CM is using a different subnet from the cable interface's primary address space.


Caution You cannot use the strict option with the internal DHCP server that is onboard the Cisco CMTS router, because the strict option requires the use of DHCP relay operation, which is not performed by DHCP termination points such as the internal DHCP server.

cable downstream frequency—Changed to allow the center frequency to be set only in 250 KHz increments. Previously, this command allowed the center frequency to be specified in 125 KHz increments, but this had to be changed to support all of the operational modes of the Broadband Processing Engine (BPE) cards that include integrated onboard upconverters, such as the Cisco uBR-MC16U, Cisco uBR-MC28U, and Cisco uBR-MC5X20S/U.

cable modem qos profile—Supports a new option, no-persistence, which specifies that the quality-of-service (QoS) profile for a cable modem should not remain in force when the modem reboots. Instead, when a cable modem reboots, it uses the QoS profile specified in its DOCSIS configuration file. The default is without this option, so that the QoS profile remains in force for cable modems across reboots.

cable primary-sflow-qos11 keep—Specifies whether the Cisco CMTS should preserve the DOCSIS 1.1 service flow traffic counters after a DOCSIS 1.1-provisioned CM goes offline and then comes back online. This allows service providers to track the total usage of CMs over a period of time, regardless of the number of times the CMs go offline and reboot.

cable service flow qi-rate-limit {all | none | standard | threshold n}—Configures the Cisco CMTS for how it should grant bandwidth requests for extra bandwidth (packets that have the Queue Indicator (QI) bit set) for Unsolicited Grant Service (UGS) service flows.

cable spectrum-group, cable upstream spectrum-group, show cable spectrum-group—The maximum number of spectrum groups has been increased from 32 to 40.

cable upstream fragment-force—Specifies the size of DOCSIS 1.1 frames that should be fragmented, as well as the number of fragments that should be created when fragmenting. By default, the Cisco CMTS fragments DOCSIS frames that are 2,000 bytes or larger in size, and it fragments these frames into three equally-sized fragments.


Note On the Cisco uBR-MC5X20S/U cable interface line cards, do not use a fragment size greater than 2,000 bytes. On all other cable interface line cards, do not use a fragment size greater than 3,500 bytes, unless otherwise instructed by a Cisco TAC engineer.


clear cable hop—Clears the forward error corrections (FEC) hop counters on one or all cable interfaces.

debug hccp sync cable cpe-management—Displays debugging for SYNC messages that concern CPE-related parameters, such as MAX CPE, MAX CPE IP, and max learnable addresses.

dir filesystem: and show filesystem:—These commands display a new field that shows the timezone for the file's date and time. The timezone field shows the number of hours the timezone is offset from the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) timezone. For example:

Router# dir disk0: 

Directory of disk0:/

    1  -rw-     5666024  Jan 24 1981 07:20:02 -05:00  ubr7200-kboot-mz.122BC
    2  -rw-    19445128  Jan 30 2004 10:24:40 -05:00  ubr7200-ik9s-mz.12215BC1
    3  -rw-    19680432   Feb 4 2004 09:17:44 -05:00  ubr7200-ik9s-mz.12215BC2
    4  -rw-        1289   Sep 4 2003 18:53:30 -04:00  startup.cfg
    5  -rw-      241940  Jan 27 2004 18:07:06 -05:00  system-log 

47906816 bytes total (2883584 bytes free)

Router# 

show cable modem verbose—This command now also shows the total time that a particular cable modem has been online.

show hccp detail—This command now shows separate lists of the critical and non-critical CLI commands that are being synchronized for each Working and Protect interface and subinterface.

For more information on these command changes, see the Cisco Broadband Cable Command Reference Guide, at the following URL:

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/cable/bbccmref/index.htm

DOCS-IF-MIB Update

The DOCS-IF-MIB (released as RFC 2670) has been updated to conform to the version 5 of the DOCSIS 2.0 RF MIB Specification (draft-ietf-ipcdn-docs-rfmibv2-05.txt).

DOCSIS Set-Top Gateway

Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2 supports the initial version of the DOCSIS Set-Top Gateway (DSG) feature, which is an CableLabs specification that allows the Cisco CMTS to provide a class of cable services known as out-of-band (OOB) messaging to set-top boxes (STBs) over existing DOCSIS cable networks. This allows cable Multi-System Operators (MSOs) and other service providers to combine both DOCSIS and STB operations over one, open, vendor-independent network, without requiring any changes to the existing DOCSIS network infrastructure.

For more information about the DSG feature, see the DOCSIS Set-Top Gateway (DSG) for the Cisco CMTS document, at the following URL:

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios122/122newft/122limit/122bc/122bc_15/ubrdsg.htm

Extended Upstream Frequency Ranges

Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2 adds support for the extended upstream frequency range that is used in cable networks in Japan and other areas. This feature also clarifies the configuration of DOCSIS and EuroDOCSIS networks, so that the router shows only those upstream and downstream frequencies that are valid for each mode of operation.

A new CLI command, cable freq-range, was also added to support this feature on the Cisco uBR-MC16U/X and Cisco uBR-MC28U/X cards. For more information, see the Support for Extended Upstream Frequency Ranges, at the following URL:

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios122/122newft/122limit/122bc/122bc_15/mclcjfm.htm

IEEE 802.1Q Transparent Lan Service

Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2 enhanced the existing support for Transparent Lan Services (TLS), which allows the Cisco CMTS to create Layer 2 tunnels for traffic to and from cable modems. This allows customers to create their own virtual local area network (VLAN) using any number of cable modems in multiple sites.

In addition to the ATM PVC Mapping, which was previously supported, Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2 added the ability to map a cable modem's MAC address to an IEEE 802.1Q VLAN on a specific Ethernet interface, so that all traffic from the cable modem is tagged with the specified VLAN ID. Service providers can now map cable modem traffic onto an ATM PVC or onto an Ethernet IEEE 802.1Q VLAN, depending on their customer's specific needs.

For more information on this service, see the Transparent LAN service over Cable document, at the following URL:

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios122/122newft/122limit/122bc/122bc_11/sidatmpv.htm

N+1 Support for Load Balancing

Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2 supports configuring a cable interface for both load balancing and N+1 HCCP redundancy.

PacketCable Enhancements

Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2 supports PacketCable operations on the Cisco uBR-MC5X20S/U cable interface line cards on the Cisco uBR10012 router, and on the Cisco uBR-MC16U/X and Cisco uBR-MC28U/X cards on the Cisco uBR7246VXR router.

In addition, cable interfaces can be configured for both PacketCable operations and for N+1 HCCP redundancy. The debug packetcable hccp and show packetcable event commands have been added as part of this support.

Vendor-Specific Information Field to Authorize Dynamic Service Requests

DOCSIS 1.1 cable modems can request additional bandwidth via the DOCSIS 1.1 dynamic services mechanism, by sending dynamic service add (DSA) and dynamic service change (DSC) messages (known collectively as DSX messages). By default, the CMTS grants these requests because a DOCSIS-compliant cable modem does not request services that would violate their provisioned service flows.

However, a cable modem that is using software that is not DOCSIS-compliant, or that is using software that has been hacked to include unauthorized changes that violate the DOCSIS specifications, could use dynamic services requests to obtain bandwidth that the user is not authorized to use. Users could also use dynamic services requests as part of a denial-of-service attack on the cable network.

To prevent this, Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2 supports including an optional vendor-specific information field (VSIF) in the DOCSIS configuration file to enable or disable DSX requests by the cable modem:

TLV = 43 (VSIF)

SubTLV 12, Length = 1

Value = 0, denies all DSX requests

Value = 1, allows all DSX requests

For example, the following string of decimal digits in the DOCSIS configuration file would enable DSX requests for a cable modem:

43-08-08-03-00-00-12-12-01-01

This string translates to the following TLV values:

TLV = 43 
Length = 08
SubTLV = 08
Length = 03 
Value = 00-00-12
SubTLV = 12
Length = 1
Value = 1 (change to 0 to disable DSX requests) 

By default, all DSX requests are allowed. The show cable modem verbose command has also been enhanced to show whether DSX messages are supported for a particular cable modem. For example, the following excerpt from the command shows the display when a cable modem is allowed to make DSX requests:

Router# show cable modem 0010.7bb3.fcd1 verbose 

MAC Address                         : 00C0.7bb3.fcd1
IP Address                          : 10.20.113.2
Prim Sid                            : 1
QoS Profile Index                   : 6
Interface                           : C5/0/U5
sysDescr                            : Vendor ABC DOCSIS 2.0 Cable Modem

...

Active Classifiers                  : 0 (Max = NO LIMIT) 
DSA/DSX messages                    : permit all 
Dynamic Secret                      : A3D1028F36EBD54FDCC2F74719664D3F 

Router# 

If DSX requests are not allowed, the DSA/DSX messages line would show "reject all."


Tip We recommend also using the cable dynamic-secret and cable tftp-enforce commands to ensure that users cannot substitute their own DOCSIS configuration file in place of the original file provided by the service provider.


No New Hardware Features in Release 12.2(15)BC1g

There are no new hardware features in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC1g.

New Software Features in Release 12.2(15)BC1g

There are no new software features in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC1g.

No New Hardware Features in Release 12.2(15)BC1f

There are no new hardware features in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC1f.

New Software Features in Release 12.2(15)BC1f

There are no new software features in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC1f.

No New Hardware Features in Release 12.2(15)BC1d

There are no new hardware features in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC1d.

New Software Features in Release 12.2(15)BC1d

The following software features are new in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC1d.

Source Verify Lease-Query Throttling

When the cable source-verify dhcp and no cable arp commands are configured on a cable interface, problems can occur when viruses, denial of service (DoS) attacks, and theft-of-service attacks begin scanning a range of IP addresses, in an attempt to find unused addresses. When the Cisco CMTS router is verifying unknown IP addresses, this type of scanning generates a large volume of DHCP lease queries, which can result in a number of problems, such as dropped packets and high CPU utilization of both the Cisco CMTS router and DHCP server.

To prevent these problems, you can enable filtering of these requests on upstream interfaces, downstream interfaces, or both. When this feature is enabled, the Cisco CMTS allows only a certain number of DHCP LEASEQUERY requests for each service ID (SID) on an interface within the configured interval time period. If a SID generates more lease queries than the maximum, the router drops the excess number of requests until the next interval period begins.

For more information on this feature, see the document "Filtering Cable DHCP Lease Queries", at the following URL:

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios122/122newft/122limit/122bc/122bc_15/cblsrcvy.htm 


Note The Source Verify Lease-Query Throttling feature is only available in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC1d and Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2b.


No New Hardware Features in Release 12.2(15)BC1c

There are no new hardware features in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC1c.

No New Software Features in Release 12.2(15)BC1c

The following software feature is new in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC1c:

Cable ARP Filter

Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2 adds support for the cable arp filter command, which enables service providers to filter ARP request and reply packets, to prevent a large volume of such packets from interfering with the other traffic on the cable network. For more information, see the Cable ARP Filtering document, at the following URL:

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios122/122newft/122limit/122bc/122bc_15/cblarpfl.htm

No New Hardware Features in Release 12.2(15)BC1b

There are no new hardware features in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC1b.

No New Software Features in Release 12.2(15)BC1b

There are no new software features in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC1b

No New Hardware Features in Release 12.2(15)BC1a

There are no new hardware features in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC1a.

No New Software Features in Release 12.2(15)BC1a

There are no new software features in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC1a

No New Hardware Features in Release 12.2(15)BC1

There are no new hardware features in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC1.

New Software Features in Release 12.2(15)BC1

The following software features are new in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC1.

Command-Line Interface Enhancements

Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC1 supports the following additions and enhancements to the Cisco IOS command-line interface (CLI):

The cable slfog global configuration command has been added to support a log of deleted service flow entries that is maintained in the DOCSIS-QOS SNMP MIB, which is required by the DOCSIS 2.0 specifications. This command enables service flow logging and configures the number and duration of entries in the log.

The clear cable modem flap-list command was added to reset a particular cable modem's flap list counters to zero.

The output for the show cable modem verbose command includes the value of the sysDescr SNMP attribute, as reported by the cable modem. This field shows a value only when the cable modem remote-query command has been enabled.

For a complete description of these commands and the changes, see the Cisco Broadband Cable Command Reference Guide, at the following URL:

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/cable/bbccmref/index.htm

Dynamic Shared Secret

The Dynamic Shared Secret feature provides service providers a way of providing higher levels of security for their Data-over-Cable Service Interface Specifications (DOCSIS) cable networks, by using randomized, single-use shared secrets to verify the DOCSIS configuration files that are downloaded to each cable modem. The Dynamic Shared Secret feature is enabled using the cable dynamic-secret interface configuration command.

The Dynamic Shared Secret feature automatically creates a unique DOCSIS shared secret on a per-modem basis, creating a one-time use DOCSIS configuration file that is valid only for the current session. This ensures that a DOCSIS configuration file that has been downloaded for one cable modem can never be used by any other modem, nor can the same modem reuse this configuration file at a later time.

This patent-pending feature is designed to guarantee that all registered modems are using only the quality of service (QoS) parameters that have been specified by the DOCSIS provisioning system for that particular modem at the time of its registration.

For information on the Dynamic Shared Secret feature, see the Configuring a Dynamic Shared Secret for the Cisco CMTS document, at the following URL:

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios122/122newft/122limit/122bc/122bc_15/ubrdmic.htm


Note The Dynamic Shared Secret feature does not affect the use of the original shared secret or secondary shared secrets that are configured using the cable shared-secondary-secret and cable shared-secret commands. If these shared secrets are configured, the Cisco CMTS continues to use them to validate the original DOCSIS configuration file that is downloaded from the TFTP server. If the DOCSIS configuration file fails to pass the original or secondary shared secret verification checks, the cable modem is not allowed to register, and the Dynamic Shared Secret feature is not invoked for that particular cable modem.



Tips Verify that a cable modem is able to register with the Cisco CMTS before enabling the Dynamic Shared Secret feature.


Nonstop Forwarding (NSF) Awareness

The Nonstop Forwarding (NSF) Awareness feature, introduced in Cisco IOS release 12.2(15)T and inherited by Cisco IOS release 12.2(15)BC1, allows customer premises equipment (CPE) routers that are NSF-aware to assist NSF-capable routers perform nonstop forwarding of packets.

The NSF Awareness feature is supported on three IP routing protocols—Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), and Integrated Intermediate System-to-Intermediate System (IS-IS).

BGP NSF Awareness

BGP NSF Awareness assists NSF-capable neighbors to continue forwarding packets during a Stateful Switchover (SSO) operation. The BGP NFS Awareness feature allows an NSF-aware router that is running BGP to forward packets along routes that are already known for a router that is performing an SSO operation.

If you use BGP, you need to enable NSF Awareness using the bgp graceful-restart command in global configuration mode. This procedure enables smooth switchover operations on the Cisco uBR10012 CMTS.

For information on the BGP NSF Awareness feature for Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)T, refer to the BGP Nonstop Forwarding (NSF) Awareness feature module at the following URL:

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios122/122newft/122t/122t15/ftbgpnsf.htm

For configuration information, refer to the "Configuring BGP" section in the Cisco IOS IP Configuration Guide, Release 12.2 at the following URL:

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios122/122cgcr/fipr_c/ipcprt2/1cfbgp.htm

OSPF NSF Awareness

The local router's awareness of NSF allows the integrity and accuracy of the RIB and link state database occurring on the neighboring NSF-capable router to be maintained during the switchover process.

For information on the OSPF NSF Awareness feature for Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)T, refer to the OSPF Nonstop Forwarding (NSF) Awareness feature module at the following URL:

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios122/122newft/122t/122t15/ftosnsfa.htm

For configuration information, refer to the "Configuring OSPF" section in the Cisco IOS IP Configuration Guide, Release 12.2 at the following URL:

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios122/122cgcr/fipr_c/ipcprt2/1cfospf.htm

Integrated IS-IS NSF Awareness

The local router's awareness of NSF allows the integrity and accuracy of the RIB and link state database occurring on the neighboring NSF-capable router to be maintained during the switchover process.

For information on the Integrated IS-IS NSF Awareness feature for Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)T, refer to the Integrated IS-IS Nonstop Forwarding (NSF) Awareness feature module at the following URL:

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios122/122newft/122t/122t15/isnsfawa.htm

For configuration information, refer to the "Configuring Integrated IS-IS" section in the Cisco IOS IP Configuration Guide, Release 12.2 at the following URL:

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios122/122cgcr/fipr_c/ipcprt2/1cfisis.htm

Subscriber Traffic Management

The Subscriber Traffic Management feature allows service providers to identify and control subscribers who exceed the maximum bandwidth allowed under their registered quality of service (QoS) profiles. This feature supplements current techniques such as Network-Based Application Recognition (NBAR) and access control lists (ACLs) to ensure a minority of users do not consume a majority of the cable network's bandwidth.

Current subscriber controls, such as NBAR and ACLs, examine all packets coming into the CMTS. These techniques can curb a large volume of problem traffic, but they are not as effective in dealing with the latest generation of peer-to-peer file-sharing applications that can swamp a network's available bandwidth. The Subscriber Traffic Management feature allows service providers to focus on a minority of potential problem users, without impacting network performance or other users who are abiding by their service agreements.

In addition, when a cable modem goes offline and remains offline for 24 hours, the Cisco CMTS deletes its service flow IDs from its internal databases, and also deletes the modem's traffic counters. This can allow some users to exceed their bandwidth limits, go offline, and come back online with new counters.

The Subscriber Traffic Management feature helps to thwart these types of theft-of-service attacks by implementing a penalty period for cable modems that violate their service level agreements (SLA). Even if the cable modem goes offline, its counters are still reset, but the CMTS continues to enforce the penalty period.

For more information about the Subscriber Traffic Management feature, see the Subscriber Traffic Management for the Cisco CMTS document, at the following URL:

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios122/122newft/122limit/122bc/122bc_15/ubsubmon.htm

Support for Cisco Broadband Troubleshooter Version 3.0

Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC1 supports version 3.0 of the Cisco Broadband Troubleshooter, which includes graphic-based spectrum analysis for supported platforms and cable interface line cards. For more information, see the Cisco Broadband Troubleshooter documentation, at the following URL:

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/cable/trblshtr/cbt30/index.htm

No New Hardware Features in Release 12.2(11)BC3d

There are no new hardware features in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(11)BC3d.

No New Software Features in Release 12.2(11)BC3d

There are no new software features in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(11)BC3d.

No New Hardware Features in Release 12.2(11)BC3c

There are no new hardware features in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(11)BC3c.

No New Software Features in Release 12.2(11)BC3c

There are no new software features in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(11)BC3c.

No New Hardware Features in Release 12.2(11)BC3b

There are no new hardware features in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(11)BC3b.

No New Software Features in Release 12.2(11)BC3b

There are no new software features in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(11)BC3b.

No New Hardware Features in Release 12.2(11)BC3

There are no new hardware features in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(11)BC3.

New Software Features in Release 12.2(11)BC3

The following software features are introduced in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(11)BC3.

Transparent LAN Service over Cable

Cisco IOS Release 12.2(11)BC3 introduces support for the Transparent LAN Service over Cable feature for the Cisco uBR7100 series routers.

The Transparent LAN Service over Cable feature enhances the existing Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) support to provide more flexible Managed Access for multiple Internet Service Provider (ISP) support over a hybrid fiber-coaxial (HFC) cable network. This feature allows service providers to map an upstream service identifier (SID) to an ATM permanent virtual connection (PVC).

The Transparent LAN Service over Cable feature enables service providers to provide Layer-2 tunnels over an ATM network, allowing customers to create their own virtual network using any number of cable modems in different sites.

On the Cisco CMTS, you map each cable modem (on the basis of its MAC address) to a separate PVC on an ATM interface. The CMTS then creates an internal database of this one-to-one mapping of cable modems to PVCs, and uses it to determine which packets should be forwarded to the ATM network.

The CMTS encapsulates the CPE traffic from mapped cable modems using AAL5 SNAP encapsulation, as defined in RFC 1483, Multiprotocol Encapsulation over ATM Adaptation Layer 5. It then forwards those packets to the appropriate ATM interface and PVC.

Traffic to and from this group of cable modems is routed to a group of PVCs that are bridged into a single ATM network by the ATM bridge aggregator, creating a secure virtual private network (VPN) for that particular group of cable modems. This allows service providers to provide Layer-2 VPN support that does not have the limitations of Layer-3 VPN solutions, such as MPLS-VPN:

Unlike Layer-3 VPN solutions that support only IP packets, the Transparent LAN Service over Cable feature can support multiple Layer-3 protocols.

Layer-2 VPN solutions provide Ethernet connectivity for the participating devices, so that the service provider does not need to know the addressing and routing details of the customer's private network.

Service providers can provide a Layer-2 VPN with only minimal configuration changes on the providers' routers. The end customer does not need to make any changes to their private network or cable modems, nor does the service provider have to provide any special DOCSIS configuration files to enable this feature.

The Transparent LAN Service over Cable feature has the following prerequisites:

The Cisco uBR7100 series routers must be running Cisco IOS Release 12.2(11)BC3 or later Cisco IOS Release 12.2 BC release.

You must know the hardware (MAC) addresses of the cable modems that are to be mapped to ATM PVCs.

You must create a bridge group for each separate customer on the ATM bridge aggregator, so that traffic from all of the CPE devices for the customer are grouped together into the same ATM tunnel.


Note See Limitations and Restrictions for a summary of the restrictions for the Transparent LAN Service over Cable feature.


For more information on the feature, refer to the Transparent LAN Service over Cable feature module at the following URL:

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios122/122newft/122limit/122bc/122bc_11/sidatmpv.htm

clear cable modem Commands

Cisco IOS Release 12.2(11)BC3 adds support for two new clear cable modem commands:

clear cable modem delete

This command removes one or more CMs from the internal address and routing tables.

clear cable modem offline

This command removes offline CMs from the internal address and routing tables for a cable interface.

For syntax and usage information on the commands, refer to the "Cisco CMTS Commands" chapter of the Cisco Broadband Cable Command Reference Guide at the following URL:

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/cable/bbccmref/bbcmts.htm

debug cable Commands

Cisco IOS Release 12.2(11)BC3 adds support for the following new debug commands:

debug cable arp

This command enables debugging of the Address Resolution Protocol when it is used on the cable interface.

debug cable dhcp

This command enables debugging of the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) when it is used on the cable interface.

debug cable encap

This command enables debugging of encapsulated Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet (PPPoE) packets on the cable interface.

For syntax and usage information on the debug commands, refer to the "Cisco CMTS Debugging Commands" chapter of the Cisco Broadband Cable Command Reference Guide at the following URL:

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/cable/bbccmref/bbcmtsde.htm

No New Hardware Features in Release 12.2(11)BC2

There are no new hardware features in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(11)BC2.

No New Software Features in Release 12.2(11)BC2

There are no new software features in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(11)BC2.

No New Hardware Features in Release 12.2(11)BC1b

There are no new hardware features in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(11)BC1b.

No New Software Features in Release 12.2(11)BC1b

There are no new software features in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(11)BC1b.

No New Hardware Features in Release 12.2(11)BC1a

There are no new hardware features in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(11)BC1a.

No New Software Features in Release 12.2(11)BC1a

There are no new software features in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(11)BC1a.

No New Hardware Features in Release 12.2(11)BC1

There are no new hardware features in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(11)BC1.

New Software Features in Release 12.2(11)BC1

The following new software feature was introduced in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(11)BC1.

cable source-verify leasetimer Command

Cisco IOS Release 12.2(11)BC1 introduces the cable source-verify leasetimer <n> command.

The leasetimer option allows you to configure how often the timer checks the lease times, so as to specify the maximum amount of time a customer premises equipment (CPE) device can use an IP address that was previously assigned by the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server but whose lease time has since expired. The time period can range from 1 minute to 240 minutes (4 hours), with a grace period of 2 minutes to allow a PC enough time to make a DHCP request to renew the IP address.

To turn off the timer, so that the CMTS no longer checks the lease times, issue the cable source-verify command without the dhcp option, or turn off the feature entirely with the no cable source-verify command. The leasetimer option takes effect only when the dhcp option is also used on an interface or subinterface.

The leasetimer option adds another level of verification by activating a timer that periodically examines the lease times for the IP addresses for known CPE devices. If the CMTS discovers that the DHCP lease for a CPE device has expired, it removes that IP address from its database, preventing the CPE device from communicating until it makes another DHCP request. This prevents users from treating DHCP-assigned addresses as static addresses, as well as from using IP addresses that were previously assigned to other devices.


Note The leasetimer option for the cable source-verify command cannot be configured on subinterfaces. Instead, configure the command on the master interface, and the leasetimer will apply to all subinterfaces as well.


The following example shows how to enable the leasetimer feature so that every two hours, the CMTS checks the IP addresses in the CPE database for that particular interface for expired lease times:

router# configure terminal 
router#(config) interface c1/0 
router(config-if)# cable source-verify dhcp 
router(config-if)# cable source-verify leasetimer 120 

For more information on the command, refer to the "Cisco Cable Modem Termination System Commands" chapter in the Cisco Broadband Cable Command Reference Guide at the following URL:

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/cable/bbccmref/bbcmts.htm

No New Hardware Features in Release 12.2(8)BC2a

There are no new hardware features in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(8)BC2a.

No New Software Features in Release 12.2(8)BC2a

There are no new software features in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(8)BC2a.

No New Hardware Features in Release 12.2(8)BC2

There are no new hardware features in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(8)BC2.

New Software Features in Release 12.2(8)BC2

Cisco IOS Release 12.2(8)BC2 supports the following new software feature for the Cisco uBR7100 series routers.

Adding Load Information and a Timestamp to Show Commands

Cisco IOS Release 12.2(8)BC2 adds a new command, exec prompt timestamp, that adds load information and a timestamp to all show commands. This can be useful for troubleshooting and system analysis.

The new command has the following syntax in line configuration mode:

Router(config-line)# [no] exec prompt timestamp

The command has the following syntax in User EXEC mode, so that users who do not know the enable password can also timestamp their show commands:

Router> terminal [no] exec prompt timestamp 

The following example shows how to enable and disable the timestamp for the console connection:

Router# config t 
Router(config)# line console 0 
Router(config-line)# exec prompt timestamp 
Router(config-line)# no exec prompt timestamp 

The following example shows how to enable and disable the timestamp for the first five telnet connections:

Router(config)# line vty 0 4 
Router(config-line)# exec prompt timestamp 
Router(config-line)# no exec prompt timestamp 

The following example shows how to enable and disable the timestamp when logged into User EXEC mode:

Router> terminal exec prompt timestamp 
Router> terminal no exec prompt timestamp 

Display Modem Capabilities with the show cable modem mac Command

In Cisco IOS Release 12.2(8)BC2 and later 12.2 BC releases, the mac option displays both the maximum DOCSIS Version of the CM as well as the currently provisioned DOCSIS version. This allows you to see both the capabilities of the CM as well as its current provisioning.

Router# show cable modem mac 

MAC Address    MAC         Prim  Ver     Prov   Frag  Concat PHS   Priv  DS    US
               State       Sid                                           Saids Sids
0010.64ff.e4ad online      1     DOC1.1  DOC1.0 yes   yes    yes   BPI+  0     4
0010.f025.1bd9 init(rc)    2     DOC1.0  DOC1.0 no    no     no    BPI   0     0
0010.9659.4447 online(pt)  3     DOC1.0  DOC1.0 no    yes    no    BPI   0     0
0010.9659.4461 online(pt)  4     DOC1.0  DOC1.0 no    yes    no    BPI   0     0
0010.64ff.e459 online      5     DOC1.0  DOC1.0 no    yes    no    BPI   0     0
0020.4089.7ed6 online      6     DOC1.0  DOC1.0 no    no     no    BPI   0     0
0090.9607.3831 online(pt)  7     DOC1.0  DOC1.0 no    no     no    BPI   0     0
0090.9607.3830 online(pt)  1     DOC1.0  DOC1.0 no    no     no    BPI   0     0
0050.7366.12fb init(i)     2     DOC1.0  DOC1.0 no    no     no    BPI   0     0
0010.fdfa.0a35 online(pt)  3     DOC1.1  DOC1.1 yes   yes    yes   BPI+  0     4

Support for the cable modem vendor command

Cisco IOS Release 12.2(8)BC2 adds support for associating the name of a vendor with its Organizational Unique Identifier (OUI), so that the vendor name can appear in the displays of the show cable modem vendor command. The software comes with a default database that contains approximately 300 OUIs associated with approximately 60 vendor names, and you can use the cable modem vendor command in global configuration mode to create new associations or overwrite existing associations.

The syntax of the cable modem vendor command is:

[no] cable modem vendor OUI [vendor-name]

where OUI is the first 3 octets (3 bytes, 6 hexadecimal digits) of the CM MAC address and typically indicates the vendor for the CM. Each octet should be separated by a period or colon (for example: 00:01:02 or 00.01.02). The vendor-name is the arbitrary string identifying the vendor for this OUI.

If you specify an OUI with the cable modem vendor command that already exists in the OUI database, the previous value is overwritten with the new value. You can use the default prefix to restore the original value for an OUI in the default database.

Use the no cable modem vendor command to remove the association between an OUI and a vendor name. The show cable modem vendor command then displays only the OUI as the vendor name.


Tip The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is the official issuer of OUI values. The IEEE OUI web site is at http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/oui/index.shtml.


The following shows several examples of the cable modem vendor command using Cisco OUIs:

Router(config)# cable modem vendor 00:01:42 Cisco 
Router(config)# cable modem vendor 00:01:43 Cisco 
Router(config)# cable modem vendor 00:01:63 Cisco 
Router(config)# cable modem vendor 00:01:64 Cisco 
Router(config)# cable modem vendor 00:0A:41 Cisco 
Router(config)# cable modem vendor 00:0A:42 Cisco 

The following example shows sample output for the vendor option on the Cisco uBR10012 router:

Router# show cable modem vendor 

Vendor     MAC Address    I/F       MAC         Prim  RxPwr  Timing  Num BPI
                                    State       Sid   (db)   Offset  CPE Enb
Thomson    0010.9507.01db C5/1/0/U5 online      1     0.00    938   1    N 
Ericsson   0080.37b8.e99b C5/1/0/U5 online      2     -0.25   1268  0    N 
Cisco      0002.fdfa.12ef C6/1/0/U0 online      13    0.00    1920  1    N 
Cisco      0002.fdfa.137d C6/1/0/U0 online      16    -0.50   1920  1    N 
Cisco      0003.e38f.e9ab C6/1/0/U0 online      3     -0.25   1926  1    N 
Cisco      0001.9659.519f C6/1/1/U2 online      26    0.25    1930  1    N 
Motorola   0020.4005.3f06 C7/0/0/U0 online      2     0.00    1901  1    N 
Motorola   0020.4006.b010 C7/0/0/U5 online      3     0.25    1901  1    N 
Cisco      0050.7302.3d83 C7/0/0/U0 online      18    -0.25   1543  1    N 
Cisco      00b0.6478.ae8d C7/0/0/U5 online      44    0.50    1920  21   N 
Cisco      00d0.bad3.c0cd C7/0/0/U5 online      19    0.00    1543  1    N 
Cisco      00d0.bad3.c0cf C7/0/0/U0 online      13    0.00    1546  1    N 
Cisco      00d0.bad3.c0d5 C7/0/0/U0 online      12    -0.50   1546  1    N 
Router# 

Support for the cable tftp-enforce Command

Cisco IOS Release 12.2(8)BC2 adds support for the new cable tftp-enforce cable interface configuration command, which requires all cable modems on a cable interface to attempt a TFTP request for the DOCSIS configuration file through the cable interface with the Cisco CMTS router before being allowed to register and come online. This can help prevent the following situations from occurring:

Users who attempt theft-of-service by reconfiguring their local networks to allow the downloading of an unauthorized DOCSIS configuration file from a local TFTP server. Typically, some users do this to obtain services that they have not paid for, such as higher guaranteed bandwidths or a higher priority Quality of Service (QoS) profile.

Some brands or models of cable modems might be running older software releases that cache the DOCSIS configuration file and use the cached version instead of downloading the actual file from a TFTP server during the registration process. Although this can marginally speed up the registration process, it also violates the DOCSIS requirements and could create a situation in which the cable modem is not using the proper DOCSIS configuration file. A user might then be mistakenly accused of theft-of-service, when in reality the problem is the non-DOCSIS-compliant cable modem.

The cable tftp-enforce command identifies these situations and can block these cable modems from registering and coming online. This command also has an option that allows these cable modems to come online, but it also identifies the cable modems so that the network administrators can investigate the situation further before taking any action.

Command Syntax

The new command has the following syntax:

cable tftp-enforce [mark-only] 
no cable tftp-enforce [mark-only] 

When the command is used without the mark-only option, cable modems that do not download a TFTP file are blocked from registering and coming online. The mark-only option allows the cable modems to come online, but it also prints a warning message and marks the cable modems in the show cable modem command.


Tips Cisco recommends that you initially configure cable interfaces with the mark-only option, so that potential problems are identified without initially interfering with users' ability to come online. After you identify and resolve these initial problems, reconfigure the cable interfaces without the mark-only option to block problem cable modems that attempt to come online without downloading a valid DOCSIS configuration file.


The default behavior is not to require the TFTP download through the cable interface with the Cisco CMTS router. Each cable interface must be configured with this command to require the TFTP download.

Enforcing TFTP Downloads and Blocking Non-Compliant Cable Modems

The following example shows how to enforce TFTP downloads for all of the cable modems on cable interface 1/0. These cable modems must attempt a TFTP download of the DOCSIS configuration file through their cable interface with the Cisco CMTS router. If they do not, they are not allowed to register or come online.

Router# configure terminal 
Router(config)# interface cable 1/0 
Router(config-if)# cable tftp-enforce 
Router(config-if)# exit 
Router(config)# 

When the cable tftp-enforce command is configured, the following message is displayed on the console when a cable modem attempts to register without first attempting a TFTP download through the cable interface with the Cisco CMTS router:

06:53:57: %UBR7100-4-REGISTRATION_BEFORE_TFTP: Registration request unexpected:
Cable Modem did not attempt TFTP.  Registration Rejected. CM Mac Addr <00ff.ff66.12fb>

When a cable modem is rejected for not attempting a TFTP download, it is marked as having a Message Integrity Check (MIC) failure—reject(m)—in the show cable modems command.

Router# configure terminal 
Router(config)# interface cable 1/0 
Router(config-if)# cable tftp-enforce 
Router(config-if)# exit 
Router(config)# 

Router# show cable modems 
Interface   Prim  Online     Timing Rec    QoS CPE IP address      MAC address
            Sid   State      Offset Power
Cable1/0/U1 1     online(pt)  2734    0.50  5   0   10.1.1.38       00ff.fffa.0a35
Cable1/0/U0 2     online(pt)  2729    0.25  5   0   10.1.1.50       00ff.ff07.382f
Cable1/0/U0 3     init(i)     2732    0.25  2   0   10.1.1.48       00ff.ff03.307d
Cable1/0/U1 4     online(pt)  2737    0.75  5   0   10.1.1.34       00ff.ff59.4477
Cable1/0/U1 5     reject(m)   2215    0.25  2   0   10.1.1.47       00ff.ff66.12fb

Router# 

Note DOCSIS-compliant cable modems that are rejected with a MIC failure go into the offline state for a short period of time and then retry the registration process.


The debug cable registration command can be used to display additional information:

Router# debug cable interface c1/0 verbose 
Router# debug cable registration 
CMTS registration debugging is on

Jun  6 23:27:15.859: Registration request from 00ff.ff66.12fb, SID 7 on Cable1/0/U1
Jun  6 23:27:15.859: Found a network access control parameter: Ok
Jun  6 23:27:15.859: Found a class of service block: Ok
Jun  6 23:27:15.859: Found Baseline Privacy config: Ok
Jun  6 23:27:15.859: Found Max CPE: Ok
Jun  6 23:27:15.859: Found CM MIC: Ok
Jun  6 23:27:15.859: Found CMTS MIC: Ok
Jun  6 23:27:15.859: Found modem ip: Ok
Jun  6 23:27:15.859: Found modem capabilities: Ok
Jun  6 23:27:15.859: Finished parsing REG Request
Jun  6 23:27:15.859: Cable Modem sent Registration Request without attempting required 
TFTP
22:33:21 %UBR7100-4-REGISTRATION_BEFORE_TFTP: Registration request unexpected: 
Cable Modem did not attempt TFTP. Registration Rejected. CM Mac Addr <00ff.ff66.12fb>
Registration failed for Cable Modem 00ff.ff66.12fb on interface Cable1/0/U0:
               CoS/Sflow/Cfr/PHS failed in REG-REQ
Jun  6 23:27:15.859: REG-RSP Status : failure (2)
Jun  6 23:27:15.859: Registration Response:
Jun  6 23:27:15.859: 0x0000: C2 00 00 1B 00 00 00 50 73 4E B4 19 00 05 00 E0
Jun  6 23:27:15.859: 0x0010: 56 AC 00 09 00 00 03 01 07 00 00 02 02
Jun  6 23:27:15.859: Registration Response Transmitted

Identifying Non-Compliant Cable Modems But Allowing Them to Come Online

The mark-only option of the cable tftp-enforce command allows CMs that do not attempt a TFTP download through the cable interface to come online, but the Cisco CMTS router displays a warning message on the console and marks the cable modem in the show cable modem command with a pound sign (#). This option allows network providers to identify potential problems and to investigate them before taking any corrective action.

When the mark-only option is configured, the following message is displayed on the console when a cable modem attempts to register without first attempting a TFTP download through the cable interface with the Cisco CMTS router:

06:53:57: %UBR7100-4-REGISTRATION_BEFORE_TFTP: Registration request unexpected:
Cable Modem did not attempt TFTP. Modem marked with #. CM Mac Addr <00ff.ff66.12fb>

In addition, the cable modem is marked with a pound sign (#) in the show cable modems command:

Router# configure terminal 
Router(config)# interface cable 1/0 
Router(config-if)# cable tftp-enforce mark-only 
Router(config-if)# exit 
Router(config)# 

Router# show cable modems 
Interface   Prim  Online     Timing Rec    QoS CPE IP address      MAC address
            Sid   State      Offset Power
Cable1/0/U1 1     online(pt)  2734    0.50  5   0   10.1.1.38       00ff.fffa.0a35
Cable1/0/U0 2     online(pt)  2729    0.25  5   0   10.1.1.50       00ff.ff07.382f
Cable1/0/U0 3     init(i)     2732    0.25  2   0   10.1.1.48       00ff.ff03.307d
Cable1/0/U1 4     online(pt)  2737    0.75  5   0   10.1.1.34       00ff.ff59.4477
Cable1/0/U1 5    #online      2213    0.25  6   0   10.1.1.47       00ff.ff66.12fb

Router# 

The debug cable registration command can be used to display additional information:

Jun  6 23:27:15.859: Registration request from 00ff.ff66.12fb, SID 7 on Cable1/0/U1
Jun  6 23:27:15.859: Found a network access control parameter: Ok
Jun  6 23:27:15.859: Found a class of service block: Ok
Jun  6 23:27:15.859: Found Baseline Privacy config: Ok
Jun  6 23:27:15.859: Found Max CPE: Ok
Jun  6 23:27:15.859: Found CM MIC: Ok
Jun  6 23:27:15.859: Found CMTS MIC: Ok
Jun  6 23:27:15.859: Found modem ip: Ok
Jun  6 23:27:15.859: Found modem capabilities: Ok
Jun  6 23:27:15.859: Finished parsing REG Request
Jun  6 23:27:15.859: Cable Modem sent Registration Request without attempting required 
TFTP
23:27:15: %UBR7100-4-REGISTRATION_BEFORE_TFTP: Registration request unexpected:
Cable Modem did not attempt TFTP. Modem marked with #. CM Mac Addr <00ff.ff66.12fb>
Jun  6 23:27:15.859: Sec sids obtained for all requested classes of service
Jun  6 23:27:15.859: Performing connection admission control (CAC) for each Sid
Jun  6 23:27:15.859: CAC Status for ClassID:1 is CAC_SUCCESS
Jun  6 23:27:15.859: Registration Status: ok (0)
Jun  6 23:27:15.859: Registration Response Transmitted

Support for a Secondary Shared Secret

Cisco IOS Release 12.2(8)BC2 adds support for one or more secondary shared-secret keys that cable modems can use to successfully process the DOCSIS configuration file and register with the Cisco CMTS. Secondary shared secrets can be defined with the cable shared-secondary secret command, which has the following syntax:

cable shared-secondary secret index index-num [0 | 7] authentication-key

no cable shared-secondary secret index index-num

where index-num specifies the order in which the Cisco CMTS will use the secondary shared-secrets to verify the cable modem during the registration process. The valid range is 1 to 16. The authentication-key is the secondary shared secret string, where 0 indicates it is unencrypted and 7 indicates it is encrypted.


Note To store the authentication-key in encrypted form in the configuration file, also use the service password-encryption command.


The cable modem must use the proper shared secret encryption string to successfully decrypt and process the configuration file, and then register with the Cisco CMTS. If the cable modem does not have the proper encryption string, it will be unable to calculate the proper MIC value, and the show cable modem command will show reject(m) for the modem to indicate a MIC authentication failure.

The cable shared-secondary-secret command allows a cable operator to specify up to 16 alternate DOCSIS shared secrets. If a cable modem has a MIC authentication failure during registration, the CMTS then checks the MIC values using the alternate shared secrets. If a match is found, the cable modem is allowed online. If none of the alternate MIC values match the value returned by the CM, the CMTS refuses to allow the cable modem to come online and instead logs a MIC authentication failure.

The use of secondary shared secrets allow the MSO to gradually phase in changes to the shared secret key. If a shared secret has been compromised, or if the MSO decides to regularly change the shared secret, the MSO can use the cable shared-secret command to immediately change the primary shared secret. The previous key can then be made a secondary shared secret, using the cable shared-secondary-secret command, so that CMs can continue to register until the MSO can change all of the DOCSIS configuration files to use the new shared secret.

To use the secondary shared-secret feature, you must do the following:

You must specify a shared secret with the cable shared-secret command. The cable shared-secondary-secret command has no effect if you have not specified a primary shared secret.


Note At any particular time, the majority of cable modems should use the primary shared secret to avoid excessive registration times.


Create DOCSIS configuration files that use the shared-secret encryption string to create the MD5 MIC value. This can be done using the Cisco DOCSIS Configurator tool by entering the shared-secret string in the CMTS Authentication field in the Miscellaneous parameters.


Note The shared-secret string itself is not saved in the DOCSIS configuration file, so you must re-enter the string in the CMTS Authentication field whenever you create or edit a DOCSIS configuration file using the Cisco DOCSIS Configurator tool.


Use the cable shared-secondary-secret command to configure the cable interfaces with one or more matching shared-secret strings. The string configured on an interface must match the string used to create the DOCSIS configuration files downloaded to the CMs on that interface, or the CMs will not be able to register. You can use different shared secrets for each interface, if you are also using a different set of configuration files for each interface.

To encrypt the shared-secret strings in the CMTS configuration, you must include the service password-encryption global configuration command in the router's configuration.


Note You cannot use the secondary shared secret feature with the files created by the internal DOCSIS configuration file editor (cable config-file command) because the internal DOCSIS configuration file editor automatically obtains the correct shared secret from the interface when the modems register.


The following example shows how to specify multiple secondary shared-secret string using encrypted keys:

Router# config t 
Router(config)# service password-encryption 
Router(config)# int c6/0 
Router(config-if)# cable shared-secret n01jk_1a 
Router(config-if)# cable shared-secondary-secret index 1 cabl3-x21b 
Router(config-if)# cable shared-secondary-secret index 2 dasc9_ruld55ist5q3z 
Router(config-if)# cable shared-secondary-secret index 3 j35u556_x_0 
Router(config-if)# exit 
Router(config)# exit 
Router# show running-config | include shared 
cable shared-secret 7 1407513181A0F13253920 
cable shared-secondary-secret 7 14031A021F0D39263D3832263104080407 
cable shared-secondary-secret 7 071B29455D000A0B18060615142B38373F3C2726111202431259545D6 
cable shared-secondary-secret 7 0501555A34191B5F261D28420A555D 
Router#

Note In this example, the shared-secret strings are initially entered as clear text, but because the service password-encryption command has been used, the strings are encrypted in the configuration file.


See the "Cisco Cable Modem Termination System Commands" chapter in the Cisco Broadband Cable Command Reference Guide for more information about the cable shared-secondary secret command at the following URL:

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/cable/bbccmref/bbcmts.htm

Enhancement to the show hccp brief Command

In Cisco IOS Release 12.2(8)BC2 and later 12.2 BC releases, the brief option now shows the amount of time left before the next resynchronization and the time left before a restore:

Router# show hccp brief 

Interface Config Grp Mbr Status WaitToResync WaitToRestore 
Ca5/0/0 Protect 1 3 standby 00:01:50.892 
Ca7/0/0 Working 1 3 active 00:00:50.892 00:01:50.892 

Enhancement to the cable filter group Command

The status option was added to the cable filter group command to allow filter groups to be activated and deactivated without removing the filter group's configuration.

For example, the following command would deactivate a filter without changing its configuration:

Router(config)# cable filter group 1 index 1 status inactive 

The following command would reactivate this filter:

Router(config)# cable filter group 1 index 1 status active 

Note Filter groups are active by default when created.


New Hardware Features in Release 12.2(8)BC1

The following new hardware feature is supported by the Cisco uBR7100 series routers in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(8)BC1.

PA-A3-E3 Port Adapter

The PA-A3-E3 is a single-width, single-port E3 ATM, PCI-based port adapter that uses an E3 interface with a coaxial cable BNC connector.


Note For configuration information on the PA-A3-E3 port adapter, see the PA-A3 Enhanced ATM Port Adapter Installation and Configuration Guide, which is available on the Customer Documentation CD-ROM, and on Cisco.com at the following URL:

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/core/cis7505/portadpt/atm_port/pa_a3/index.htm


New Software Features in Release 12.2(8)BC1

The following new software features are supported by the Cisco uBR7100 series routers in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(8)BC1.

EXEC Commands in Configuration Mode

In Cisco IOS Release 12.2(8)BC1, you can now issue EXEC-level Cisco IOS commands (such as show, clear, and debug commands) from within global configuration mode or other configuration modes by issuing the do command followed by the EXEC command. For example, you can display the run-time configuration file from within global configuration mode by issuing the following command:

Router(config)# do show running-config 

Note You cannot use the do command to execute the configure terminal EXEC command because issuing the configure terminal command changes the mode to configuration mode.


Secure Shell Support

Secure Shell (SSH) allows network administrators to securely log in to the Cisco uBR7100 series routers, using authentication and encryption at the application layer and providing a secure connection even when logging in over insecure networks such as the Internet. Secure Shell allows an administrator to securely monitor and configure a router without having to be logged into the router's local console port or directly connected to the Ethernet port on the router's I/O controller.

To configure SSH on a Cisco uBR7100 router, use the following command in global configuration mode:

uBR7100(config)# crypto key generate rsa general-keys

When you are asked the size of the key seed, enter a value of at least 1024.

To verify whether SSH is configured on the Cisco uBR7100 router, use the following command in Privileged EXEC mode:

uBR7100# show ip ssh

SSH Enabled - version 1.5
Authentication timeout: 120 secs; Authentication retries: 3

To verify whether the Cisco uBR7100 router has an SSH connection, use the following command in Privileged EXEC mode:

uBR7100# show ssh

Connection Version Encryption State           Username
1          1.5     DES        Session started admin

No New Hardware Features in Release 12.2(4)BC1b

There are no new hardware features in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(4)BC1b.

New Software Features in Release 12.2(4)BC1b

The following new software features are supported by the Cisco uBR7100 series routers in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(4)BC1b.

Cisco IOS Network-Based Application Recognition (NBAR)

Cisco IOS Release 12.2(4)BC1b adds support for Cisco IOS Network-Based Application Recognition (NBAR). The NBAR feature is a new classification engine that can recognize a wide variety of network applications, including Web-based applications, client/server applications, and other difficult-to-classify protocols that dynamically assign TCP or UDP port numbers.

NBAR enhances existing methods of application-recognition by adding several new classification features:

Classification of applications that use statically assigned TCP/UDP port numbers, that use dynamically assigned TCP/UDP port numbers, or that use protocols other than TCP and UDP

Classification of HTTP traffic by URL, host, or MIME type

Classification of Citrix ICA traffic by application name

Classification of application traffic using subport information

NBAR can also classify static port protocols. Although access control lists (ACLs) can also be used for this purpose, NBAR is easier to configure and can provide other options and classification statistics that are not available when using ACLs.


Tips The Cisco IOS NBAR feature requires CPU resources to inspect, recognize, and process the packets coming through the router. In laboratory conditions, the use of NBAR can impact CPU performance by approximately 30 percent—the actual performance impact depends on the current CPU load, the number of packets processed, and the type of traffic being inspected. To limit the performance impact when using NBAR, activate the Turbo ACL feature to increase the performance of access list handling.


After NBAR recognizes an application, the Cisco uBR7100 series router can invoke specific services appropriate for that application. These services can provide QoS features such as:

Guaranteed bandwidth

Bandwidth limits

Traffic shaping

Packet coloring

The Cisco IOS NBAR feature can also be used to detect and respond to denial-of-service and other types of network attacks. Cisco IOS NBAR uses a protocol description language module (PDLM) to define the rules by which the NBAR processes recognize an application. New PDLM definitions can usually be loaded without the need for a Cisco IOS software upgrade or a router reboot, allowing for a rapid response to discovered attacks.


Note For basic information on configuring and using the Cisco IOS NBAR feature, see the Network-Based Application Recognition documentation. For information on configuring NBAR for Quality of Service (QoS) control, see the Configuring Network-Based Application Recognition chapter in the Cisco IOS Release 12.2 Quality of Service Solutions Configuration Guide. These documents are available on Cisco.com and the Customer Documentation CD-ROM.



Tips Cisco.com also contains a technical note, Using Network-Based Application Recognition and Access Control Lists for Blocking the Code Red Worm, that provides information on using NBAR to block denial-of-service attacks. This technical note is available at http://www.cisco.com/warp/customer/63/nbar_acl_codered.shtml.


SNMP Cable Modem Remote Query

The remote query feature allows the Cisco Cable Modem Termination System (CMTS) to use Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) requests to periodically poll online CMs to gather the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), upstream power value, transmit timing offset, micro reflection value, and modem state. To enable the remote query feature, use the cable modem remote-query command. To display the collected statistics, use the show cable modem remote-query command, or display the attributes in the CISCO-DOCS-REMOTE-QUERY-MIB MIB. You can also generate SNMP traps to inform the SNMP manager when remote query polling has completed by using the snmp-server enable cable cm-remote-query command.

Turbo Access Control Lists

Cisco IOS Release 12.2(4)BC1b adds support for Turbo Access Control Lists (Turbo ACL), which increases the performance of access lists by compiling them into a form that is more quickly accessed during packet processing. The access-list compiled command enables the Turbo ACL feature, and the show access-lists and show access-lists compiled commands provide status information about these access lists.

Complete information about the Turbo ACL feature is available on Cisco.com at http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios121/121newft/121t/121t5/dttacl.htm. The related commands are also described in the Addressing and Services volume of the Cisco IOS Release 12.1 IP and IP Routing Command Reference. For complete information about access lists, see the Traffic Filtering and Firewall volume in the Cisco IOS Release 12.1 Security Configuration Guide.


Note The Turbo ACL feature was introduced in Cisco IOS Release 12.1(9)EC but was unusable because of caveats CSCdv04414 and CSCdv69271. These caveats have been resolved in Cisco IOS Release 12.1(10)EC.


No New Hardware Features in Release 12.2(4)BC1a

There are no new hardware features in Release 12.2(4)BC1a.

No New Software Features in Release 12.2(4)BC1a

There are no new software features in Release 12.2(4)BC1a.

New Hardware Features in Release 12.2(4)BC1

The following new hardware features are supported by the Cisco uBR7100 series routers in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(4)BC1.

PA-T3+ and PA-2T3+ Port Adapter Cards

The PA-T3+ and PA-2T3+ port adapters provide full-duplex operation at the T3 (45 Mbps) speed. They support both 16- and 32-bit cyclic redundancy checks (CRCs), with the default being 16-bit CRCs. The PA-T3+ port adapter provides one port, and the PA-2T3+ port adapter provides two ports.

Cisco IOS Release 12.2(4)BC1 supports the PA-T3+ and PA-2T3+ port adapters on the Cisco uBR7223 and Cisco uBR7246VXR universal broadband routers. These port adapters are replacements for the PA-T3 and PA-2T3 port adapters, which have reached their end-of-life.


Note For configuration information on the PA-T3+ and PA-2T3+ port adapters, see the PA-T3 Serial Port Adapter Installation and Configuration Guide, which is available on Cisco.com and the Documentation CD-ROM.


New Software Features in Release 12.2(4)BC1

The following new software feature is supported by the Cisco uBR7100 series routers in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(4)BC1.

PPPoE Termination Support on Cable interfaces

The Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet (PPPoE) on Cable Interfaces feature adds support for PPPoE by allowing a direct connection to cable interfaces. PPPoE provides service-provider digital-subscriber line (DSL) support. The support of PPPoE on cable interfaces of the Cisco uBR7100 series routers allows customer premises equipment (CPE) behind the cable modem to use PPP as a mechanism to get their IP addresses and use it for all subsequent data traffic, just like a dial-up PPP client. In a PPP dial-up session, the PPPoE session is authenticated and the IP address is negotiated between the PPPoE client and the server, which could be either a Cisco uBR7100 series router or a Home Gateway.

Information about configuring PPPoE is available in the Configuring Broadband Access: PPP and Routed Bridge Encapsulation chapter of the Cisco IOS Wide-Area Networking Configuration Guide, Release 12.2. Also see the PPPoE on Ethernet feature module and RFC 2516 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2516.txt).


Note PPPoE is supported only in routing mode. Bridged mode is not supported in the Cisco IOS Release 12.2 BC train for the Cisco uBR7100 series routers.


No New Hardware Features in Release 12.2(4)XF1

There are no new hardware features supported by the Cisco uBR7100 series routers in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(4)XF1.

New Software Features in Release 12.2(4)XF1

The following new software features are supported by the Cisco uBR7100 series routers in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(4)XF1.

DOCSIS 1.0 and 1.0+ Support

Cisco IOS Release 12.2(4)XF1 provides support for the original DOCSIS 1.0 standard that provides for basic best-effort data traffic and Internet access over the coaxial cable network. The DOCSIS 1.0+ extensions provided Quality of Service (QoS) enhancements for real-time traffic, such as voice calls, in anticipation of full DOCSIS 1.1 support.

Cisco IOS Release 12.2(4)XF1 interoperates seamlessly with both DOCSIS 1.0 and 1.0+ cable modems and set-top boxes.

DOCSIS 1.1 Support

Cisco IOS Release 12.2(4)XF1 provides support for the new DOCSIS 1.1 standard for the Cisco Release 12.2(4)XF1 series routers. DOCSIS 1.1 modifies the DOCSIS 1.0 specification to provide better performance, in particular for real-time traffic such as voice calls.

The DOCSIS 1.1 specification provides the following functional enhancements over DOCSIS 1.0 coaxial cable networks:

Enhanced Quality of Service (QoS) to give priority for real-time traffic such as voice and video

The DOCSIS 1.0 QoS model (a Service IDs (SID) associated with a QoS profile) has been replaced with a service flow model that allows greater flexibility in assigning QoS parameters to different types of traffic and in responding to changing bandwidth conditions

Multiple service flows per CM in either direction due to packet classifiers

Support for multiple service flows per cable modem allows a single cable modem to support a combination of data, voice, and video traffic

Greater granularity in QoS per cable modem in either direction, using unidirectional service flows

Dynamic MAC messages that can create, modify, and tear-down QoS service flows dynamically when requested by a DOCSIS 1.1 cable modem

Supported QoS models for the upstream are:

Best effort-Data traffic sent on a non-guaranteed best-effort basis

Committed Information Rate (CIR)—Guaranteed minimum bandwidth for data traffic

Unsolicited Grants (UGS)—Constant bit rate (CBR) traffic, such as voice, that is characterized by fixed size packets at fixed intervals

Real Time Polling (rtPS)—Real Time service flows, such as video, that produce unicast, variable size packets at fixed intervals

Unsolicited Grants with Activity Detection (USG-AD)—Combination of UGS and RTPS, to accommodate real time traffic that might have periods of inactivity (such as voice using silence suppression). The service flow uses UGS fixed grants while active, but switches to RTPS polling during periods of inactivity to avoid wasting unused bandwidth.

Enhanced time-slot scheduling mechanisms to support guaranteed delay/jitter sensitive traffic on the shared multiple access upstream link

Payload Header Suppression (PHS) conserves link-layer bandwidth by suppressing unnecessary packet headers on both upstream and downstream traffic flows

Layer 2 fragmentation on the upstream prevents large data packets from affecting real-time traffic, such as voice and video. Large data packets are fragmented and then transmitted in the timeslots that are available between the timeslots used for the real-time traffic.

Concatenation allows a cable modem to send multiple MAC frames in the same timeslot, as opposed to making an individual grant request for each frame. This avoids wasting upstream bandwidth when sending a number of very small packets, such as TCP acknowledgement packets.

DOCSIS 1.1 cable modems can coexist with DOCSIS 1.0 and 1.0+ cable modems in the same network—the Cisco Release 12.2(4)XF1 series provides the levels of service that are appropriate for each cable modem

DOCSIS 1.1 Quality of Service

The DOCSIS 1.1 QoS framework is based on the following objects:

Service class: A collection of settings maintained by the CMTS that provide a specific QoS service tier to a cable modem that has been assigned a service flow within a particular service class

Service flow: a unidirectional sequence of packets receiving a service class on the DOCSIS link

Packet classifier: A set of packet header fields used to classify packets onto a service flow to which the classifier belongs

PHS rule: A set of packet header fields that are suppressed by the sending entity before transmitting on the link, and are restored by receiving entity after receiving a header-suppressed frame transmission. Payload Header Suppression increases the bandwidth efficiency by removing repeated packet headers before transmission

In DOCSIS 1.1, the basic unit of QoS is the service flow, which is a unidirectional sequence of packets transported across the RF interface between the cable modem and CMTS. A service flow is characterized by a set of QoS parameters such as latency, jitter, and throughput assurances.

Every cable modem establishes a primary service flow in both the upstream and downstream directions. The primary flows maintain connectivity between the cable modem and CMTS at all times.

In addition, a DOCSIS 1.1 cable modem can establish multiple secondary service flows. The secondary service flows can either be permanently created (they persist until the cable modem is reset or powered off) or they can be created dynamically to meet the needs of the on demand traffic being transmitted.

Each service flow has a set of QoS attributes associated with it. These QoS attributes define a particular class of service and determine characteristics such as the maximum bandwidth for the service flow and the priority of its traffic. The class of service attributes can be inherited from a preconfigured CMTS local service class (class-based flows), or they can be individually specified at the time of the creation of the service flow.

Each service flow has multiple packet classifiers associated with it, which determine the type of application traffic allowed to be sent on that service flow. Each service flow can also have a Payload Header Suppression (PHS) rule associated with it to determine which portion of the packet header will be suppressed when packets are transmitted on the flow.

In Cisco IOS Release 12.2(4)XF1, the following new or enhanced software features are implemented for DOCSIS 1.1 functionality. (For more information, see the feature module DOCSIS 1.1 for Cisco Release 12.2(4)XF1 Series Universal Broadband Routers).

Cable ARP and Proxy ARP

The cable arp and cable proxy-arp commands control whether the Cisco Release 12.2(4)XF1 series router allows ARP requests on the cable interfaces and whether the router serves as a proxy ARP server for cable modems, so that cable modems on the same subnet can communicate with each other, without having to send the traffic through the Cisco Release 12.2(4)XF1 series router.

Cable Flap List

The cable flap list is a patented tool that is incorporated in the Cisco IOS software for the Cisco Release 12.2(4)XF1 series universal broadband routers for troubleshooting cable modem connectivity problems. The flap list tracks cable modems that have intermittent connectivity problems (known as "flapping") that could indicate a problem with the cable modem or with the upstream or downstream portion of the cable plant.

The flap-list feature does not require any special polling or data transmissions but instead monitors the registration and station maintenance activity that is already performed over any network that conforms to Data-over-Cable Service Interface Specifications (DOCSIS). The router, therefore, collects its flap-list data without creating additional packet overhead and without impacting network throughput and performance.

The flap-list feature tracks reinsertions (a cable modem re-registers more frequently than a user-specified insertion time, hits and misses (a cable modem responds or does not respond to the DOCSIS MAC-layer "keepalive" messages that the router sends out), and the cable modem's upstream transmission power level adjustments.

Cable Intercept Command

The cable intercept command forwards all traffic to and from a particular CM to a data collector located at particular User Datagram Protocol (UDP) port. This command can be used to comply with the United States Federal Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) and other law enforcement wiretap requirements for voice communications.


Note The cable monitor command, which performs a similar function, is not supported in Cisco IOS 12.2(15)BC2i, Release 12.2(11)BC3c, or Release 12.2(4)XF1.


Cable Interface Setup Facility

The Cable Interface Setup Facility is an alternative mechanism to enable or configure Cisco Release 12.2(4)XF1 series parameters. The setup facility supports automated configuration of upstream parameters.

In earlier releases, upstream ports were put in a default shut-down state after the setup facility was run. You had to use the CLI to configure a fixed frequency or create a spectrum group, assign an interface to it, and enable each upstream port on a cable interface line card. The setup facility now supports configuring and enabling upstream parameters.

In the following example, the upstream parameters for a cable interface line card in slot 5 are configured and enabled. Press Return to accept the default.

Do you want to configure Cable 5/0 interface? [no]: yes 
Downstream setting frequency: 531000000 
For cable upstream [0] 
Shut down this upstream? [yes/no]: no 
Frequency: 33808000 
Would you like to configure the DHCP server? [yes/no]: yes 
IP address for the DHCP server [X.X.X.X]: 10.0.0.2 
Configure IP on this interface? [yes]: 
IP address for this interface [10.20.133.65]: 
Subnet mask for this interface [255.0.0.0]: 255.255.255.248 
Class A network is 10.0.0.0, 29 subnet bits; mask is /29

In this example, the input above generates the following command interface script:

interface Cable 5/0 
no shutdown 
cable downstream frequency 531000000 
no shutdown 
cable downstream modulation 64qam 
cable downstream annex B 
cable downstream interleave-depth 32 
no cable upstream 0 shutdown 
cable upstream 0 frequency 33808000 
cable helper-address 10.0.0.2 
ip address 10.20.133.65 255.255.255.248 


Note Cable modems or set-top boxes with integrated cable modems are brought online when the utility is run.



Note For Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)/time of day (TOD)/Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP), a static route must exist to the host.


Cable Source Verification Feature

The cable source-verify command helps to prevent the spoofing of IP addresses by CMs or their CPE devices by verifying that the upstream packets coming from each CM are known to be associated with the IP address in that packet. Packets with IP addresses that do not match those associated with the CM are dropped.


Note The cable source-verify [dhcp] cable interface command specifies that DHCP lease-query requests are sent to verify any unknown source IP address found in upstream data packets. This feature requires a DHCP server that supports the new LEASEQUERY message type.


DHCP/TOD/TFTP Server Support

The Cisco uBR7100 series routers support onboard Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), Time-of-Day (ToD), and TFTP servers that are compliant with the DOCSIS requirements. This allows the Cisco uBR7100 series routers to provide cable modems with IP address information, to supply an RFC 868-compliant time-of-day timestamp, and to download a DOCSIS configuration file, without requiring separate, external servers.

Dynamic Map-Advance

The Dynamic Map-Advance feature improves the upstream throughput for a cable modem. This feature enables the map-advance to be dynamic and self-adjusting to propagation delay, even for the furthest cable modem in the plant.

Dynamic Mobile Hosts

This feature addresses a security hole that occurs when the Cisco uBR7100 router supports mobile hosts. (Mobile host are hosts that can move from one modem to another modem.) Anyone who knows the MAC address of a mobile host can "fake" the mobile host, thereby causing denial of access for the real mobile host.

To avoid this security hole, the Dynamic Mobile Hosts feature pings the mobile host on the old SID to verify that the host has indeed been moved.

Dynamic Ranging Support

The clear cable modem <mac-address> reset command sends a "Ranging Abort" message instead of just removing the SID. To indicate this, the modem state—Reset (display: resetting)— has been introduced into the modem state list. A modem is deprovisioned when moving into this state as if going offline. Move the modem to the Continue Ranging list. If a ranging request is received from the modem, send a "Ranging Abort" message. Continue until an "Initial Ranging" message is received or until normal timeout (16 attempts). If the modem does not go back to initial ranging, set it to offline.

The Reset modem state may show as follows in the output of show cable modem:

Cable4/0/U1 80 resetting 3575 0.25 3 0 10.30.160.26 0050.7318.e965

This is an intermediate state. A modem will not be in this state for more than a few seconds; if the modem does not respond, it may be in this state for up to 30 seconds. The subsequent modem state is offline.

Dynamic Upstream Modulation

The Dynamic Upstream Modulation feature reduces the risks associated with transitioning to QAM16 modulation in the return path, and provides assurance that subscribers remain online and connected during periods of return-path impairments.

This new feature actively monitors the signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR) and forward error correction (FEC) counters in the active return path of each upstream port. The software tracks whether the current upstream channel signal quality can adequately support the higher modulation scheme configured, and proactively adjusts to the more robust Quadrature Phase-Shift Keying (QPSK) modulation scheme when necessary. When return-path spectrum conditions improve, the software proactively returns the upstream channel to the higher-modulation quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) scheme. This is done through modulation profiles supported in Cisco IOS, which can be configured in a variety of ways to support the unique environment at each user's facility.

The Dynamic Upstream Modulation feature can be configured on interfaces with fixed upstream frequencies or on interfaces with spectrum groups assigned. Cisco IOS provides one preconfigured modulation profile resident in memory, which defines a typical profile for QPSK modulation. In order to use the Dynamic Upstream Modulation feature, a second profile must be created that is unique from the first profile and typically provides a higher modulation scheme.

The cable upstream <n> modulation-profile cable interface command configures the cable interface for the desired modulation profiles.

For more information on the Dynamic Upstream Module feature, including information on creating modulation profiles using the cable modulation-profile command, see the Cisco Release 12.2(4)XF1 Dynamic Upstream Modulation feature module. For more information on the above commands, see the documents listed in the "Related Documentation" section.

Internal Modem Configuration File Editor

This feature adds support for internal DOCSIS cable modem configuration file storage and generation. The cable modem configuration file is generated and stored as part of the Cisco IOS configuration file. The DOCSIS configuration files are not stored in Flash memory but are automatically generated when requested for TFTP downloads to cable modems.

Link Up/Down Traps Support (RFC 2233)

The objects in the varbind list, based on Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standard, are defined in IF-MIB. Since IF-MIB supports subinterfaces, all objects in this varbind list are also supported for subinterfaces. The feature allows the user to base the Link Up/Down trap varbind list on a Cisco-specific or IETF standard with a new CLI configuration command:

snmp-server link-trap [cisco | ietf]

The default is a Cisco-specific link trap (snmp-server link-trap cisco). The user can switch between Cisco and IETF standard.

"MAX-CPE" CLI Override

The following cable-specific configuration command provides a way to override the MAX-CPE parameter in the cable modem's DOCSIS configuration file:

[no] cable modem max-cpe [<n> | unlimited]

When set to unlimited or if n is larger than the "MAX-CPE" value in the configuration file of a cable modem, it overrides the config file value.


Note The cable max-hosts and cable modem max-hosts commands can also be used to set this value for all cable modems on a particular cable interface or for a particular cable modem.


MPLS VPN Support for Subinterfaces

Cisco IOS Release 12.2(4)XF1 includes MPLS support as part of its VPN offerings for cable subinterfaces. The software offers enhancements made to tags placed on the fronts of packets that contain forwarding information used to make switching decisions for cable interfaces and bundles. This tag switching infrastructure combines advanced routing protocol capabilities to define IP VPNs by selectively advertising IP reachability information to just those subscribers within the same VPN or extranet on a cable interface.

The MPLS-VPN approach of creating VPNs for individual Internet service providers (ISPs) requires subinterfaces to be configured on cable interfaces. One subinterface is required for each ISP. The subinterfaces are tied to VPN Routing Forwarding (VRF) tables for respective ISPs.

For more feature information, see the Cisco Release 12.2(4)XF1 Series MPLS VPN Cable Enhancements feature module. For information on feature modules, see the "Feature Modules" section.

Overlapping Subinterface IP Addresses

Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)-based Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), which are created in layer 3, provide privacy and security by constraining the distribution of a VPN's routes to those routers that are members of the VPN only, and by using MPLS forwarding. Each ISP's VPN is insulated from all others sharing the HFC and IP-over-cable infrastructure. MPLS VPN enforces traffic separation by assigning a unique VPN Routing/Forwarding (VRF) instance to each VPN. A VRF instance consists of an IP routing table, a derived forwarding table, a set of interfaces that use the forwarding table, and a set of rules and routing protocols that determine what is in the forwarding table.

Earlier Cisco IOS releases assumed that IP addresses were unique, but it is possible with an MPLS VPN to configure overlapped IP addresses within a VRF. A configuration of overlapped IP addresses could have caused errors. Cisco IOS Release 12.1(4)CX and subsequent releases support a configuration of overlapping IP addresses for subinterfaces. The same IP subnet can be configured for CPEs on different VRFs using a Cisco Release 12.2(4)XF1 to configure an MPLS VPN. See also the "MPLS VPN Support for Subinterfaces" section.

The following CLI commands have been updated to support overlapping IP addresses on subinterfaces:

Old CLI commands:

cable host <ipaddr> [no] access-group <acl>
cable device <ipaddr> [no] access-group <acl>
show cable host <ipaddr> access-group
show cable device
<ipaddr> access-group
clear cable host
<ipaddr>

New CLI commands:

cable host [vrf <vrfname>] <ipaddr> [no] access-group <ac >
cable device [vrf <vrfname> <ipaddr> [no] access-group <acl>
show cable host [vrf <vrfname>] <ipaddr> access-group
show cable device
[vrf <vrfname>] <ipaddr> access-group
clear cable host
[vrf <vrfname>] <ipaddr>

Spectrum Management and Dynamic Upstream Modulation

Spectrum management allows the Cisco Release 12.2(4)XF1 series router to sense downstream and upstream plant impairments, report them to a management entity, and automatically mitigate them by changing to a different frequency using a blind hopping algorithm.

The Dynamic Upstream Modulation feature creates two modulation profiles for and upstream. The feature monitors the upstream channel signal quality and determines if the channel can support the primary modulation scheme. If noise or other impairments occur, the feature automatically adjusts to the most robust modulation scheme when necessary. When return path conditions improve, this feature returns the upstream channel to the higher modulation scheme that includes the modulation profile.

SNMP Cable Modem Remote Query

This feature provides a new MIB, CISCO-DOCS-REMOTE-QUERY-MIB, which, once implemented on a CMTS, facilitates SNMP polling of remote CMs. This MIB includes the configuration of the CMTS CM Poller, as well as status objects of remote CMs that are polled by the CMTS CM poller.

The following CLI command has been implemented for turning on the trap:

snmp-server enable cable cm-remote-query

Important Notes

The following sections contain important notes about Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2i that apply to Cisco uBR7100 series universal broadband routers.

Limitions on Upstream Modulation Parameters for PacketCable VoIP Calls

When PacketCable support is enabled on the Cisco CMTS to provide Voice over IP (VoIP) support, the following combinations of upstream modulation parameters should not be used, because the channel width is too small to allow the upstream MAC scheduler to provide sufficient grants for reliable VoIP communications.

The following Table lists unsupported Upstream Parameter Combinations for VoIP Calls:

Table 8 Unsupported Upstream Parameter Combinations for VoIP Calls 

Modulation
Channel Width
Minislot Size

QPSK

200 KHz

32, 64, 128

QPSK

400 KHz

16, 32, 64

16-QAM

200 KHz

32, 64, 128

16-QAM

400 KHz

16, 32, 64


We recommend configuring upstreams that are being used for PacketCable operations and VoIP calls for a channel width that is larger than 400 KHz. (These channel widths and upstream parameter combinations can still be used, however, for best-effort data communications.)

Cable Modems Becoming Stuck in the TFTP Transfer State

Cable modems can become stuck in the TFTP transfer state under the following conditions. This state is indicated as "init(o)" by the show cable modem command.

The Dynamic Shared Secret feature is enabled on the cable interface, using the cable dynamic-secret command.

The cable modems on that cable interface are downloading a DOCSIS configuration file that is greater than 4 Kbytes in size.

A large number of cable modems are registering at the same time. Some or all of those cable modems could also be downloading the DOCSIS configuration file using multiple TFTP transfers that use multiple TFTP ports on the Cisco CMTS router.

This situation can cause the TFTP server to run out of available ports, resulting in the cable modems failing the TFTP download stage. To prevent this situation from happening, temporarily disable the Dynamic Shared Secret feature on the cable interface or reduce the size of the DOCSIS configuration file.

CPE IP Addressing

If the IP address of a DHCP CPE is changed to a currently unused static IP address, the new IP address is not allowed into the CMTS router's host table and the CMTS router's Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) table. Consequently, traffic destined to the static IP address is dropped by the Cisco CMTS router.

Deprecated and Removed Cable MIB Objects

In Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC1 and later releases, the DOCS-IF-EXT-MIB has been deprecated and removed. The objects in this MIB have been replaced by new objects in the DOCS-IF-MIB and the proposed DOCS-RFI-MIB, so as to conform to the requirements given in the DOCSIS 2.0 Operations Support System Interface Specification (SP-OSSIv2.0-I04-030730). In particular, the following objects are replaced as indicated:

docsIfDocsisCapability (replaced by docsIfDocsisBaseCapability)

docsIfDocsisOperMode (replaced by docsIfDocsisBaseCapability)

docsIfCmtsCmStatusDocsisMode (replaced by docsIfCmtsCmStatusDocsisRegMode)

Also, the following objects have been removed from traps and notifications in DOCS-CABLE-DEVICE-TRAP-MIB because they duplicate existing objects:

docsIfDocsisCapability

docsIfDocsisOperMode

Using cable helper-address and ip helper-address Commands

On the Cisco CMTS, the Cisco IOS software provides two commands to forward User Datagram Protocol (UDP) broadcasts, such as DHCP/BOOTP packets, that are received on an interface—the ip helper-address and cable helper-address commands.

Use the ip helper-address command on all non-cable interfaces, and use the cable helper-address command for cable interfaces.

The cable helper-address command is optimized for cable interfaces and DOCSIS networks and should be used on cable interfaces instead of the ip helper-address command.

For more information on the ip helper-address command, refer to the Cisco IOS Command Reference, Release 12.2 T index page at the following URL:

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios122/122newft/122tcr/crftindx.htm

For more information on the cable helper-address command, refer to the "Cable Modem Termination System Commands" chapter of the Cisco Broadband Cable Command Reference Guide at the following URL:

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/cable/bbccmref/bbcmts.htm

Synchronization of the System Clocks

Ensure that the system clocks on the CMTS and on the time-of-day (ToD) servers are synchronized. If this does not occur, the clocks on the CMs will not match the clocks on the CMTS, which could interfere with Baseline Privacy Interface Plus (BPI+) operations. In particular, this could prevent the proper verification of the digital certificates on the CM.

Upgrading When Using Shared Secret Passwords

Cisco IOS Release 12.2 BC changed the encryption algorithm used for the shared-secret command. If you are upgrading from Cisco IOS Release 12.1 EC or Cisco IOS Release 12.0 SC, you cannot cut and paste the "shared-secret" configuration lines that include an encrypted password. Instead, you must re-enter the original shared secret passwords at the CLI prompt.

For example, if the actual shared secret password is "cm-sharedsecret-password," you would enter the cable shared-secret cm-sharedsecret-password command at the CLI prompt. If you have enabled password encryption, the configuration file will then show only the newly encrypted password.

The following example shows a typical configuration session:

Router# config t 
Router(config)# service password-encryption 
Router(config)# int c6/0 
Router(config-if)# cable shared-secret cm-sharedsecret-password 
Router(config-if)# exit 
Router(config)# exit 
Router# show running-config | include shared 
cable shared-secret 7 0458064B1C294D5C0C1D161211190910673B253B20222D0103 
Router#

Note This change only affects the encryption of the passwords that are stored in the configuration file. It does not affect the actual encryption that is used between the CMTS and CMs, so you do not need to change the shared secret in the DOCSIS configuration files for the CMs.


SNR Algorithm Updated

Since Cisco IOS Release 12.2(4)BC1, the algorithm for calculating the SNR estimate in the show controllers cable upstream command was refined for a more accurate value. The new SNR estimate uses the algorithm as recommended by the chip manufacturer, and depending on plant characteristics, the new SNR value could be up to 6 dB lower than the values shown in earlier software releases.


Note This value is only an estimate—for the most accurate value, use specialized test equipment like a spectrum analyzer.


Avoiding the Dropping of SNMP Traps

When the snmp-server enable traps command is given without any options, it enables all traps, which can generate a significant number of traps at key events, such as system power-up. If the SNMP queue is not large enough to handle all of the traps, new traps will be dropped without notification until the existing traps are sent and slots become available in the queue.

You can do two things to avoid dropping traps in this situation:

Increase the SNMP trap queue size. The default queue size is 10, which is insufficient to handle all traps. Use the snmp-server queue-length length global configuration command to increase the queue size. The length parameter can range from 10 to 1000. Increase the queue size until traps are no longer dropped.

Disable unneeded SNMP traps. For example, if you do not need SYSLOG traps (which are sent for every message displayed on the console), disable those traps as follows:

router(config)# snmp-server enable traps 
router(config)# no snmp-server enable traps syslog 

DOCSIS 1.0 BPI Support

To conform with a recent change in the DOCSIS 1.0 Baseline Privacy Interface (BPI) Specification, Cisco IOS Release 12.2(8)BC1 and later releases require that the Baseline Privacy Configuration Settings Option (Type 17) must be included in the DOCSIS configuration file for all DOCSIS 1.0 cable modems attempting to register for BPI encryption. If the type 17 option is not included, an "Unauthorized SAID" warning will appear in the CMTS console, and the cable modem will not be allowed to come online.

Previous Cisco IOS Releases allowed DOCSIS 1.0 cable modems to register for BPI encryption and to come online, even if the DOCSIS configuration file did not include the type 17 option. The change to the DOCSIS BPI specification, however, made the type 17 option mandatory for BPI operation.

For more information about this requirement, see the TAC technical note on Cisco.com at http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/109/bpi_changes_23895.html.

Limitation on Vendor-Specific Information in the DOCSIS Configuration File

DOCSIS requires that when the cable modem sends its Registration Request (REG-REQ) message to the CMTS, it must include the configuration information found in the DOCSIS configuration file. This configuration information must include all vendor-specific information fields (VSIF). Because MAC-layer management messages, such as REG-REQ, have a maximum data size of 1522 bytes, this limits the amount of VSIF information that can be included in the DOCSIS configuration file.

In particular, the maximum packet size imposes a limit on the number of Cisco IOS CLI commands you can include as VSIF fields in the DOCSIS configuration file. The exact number of commands that will fit depends on the other information included in the file, as well as the length of each command.

If the REG-REQ message is larger than 1522 bytes, the cable modem will likely report errors similar to the following errors that appear on Cisco uBR900 series cable access routers:

%LINK-4-TOOBIG: Interface cable-modem0, Output packet size of 1545 bytes too big
%LINEPROTO-5-UPDOWN: Line protocol on Interface cable-modem0, changed state to down

In addition, the CMTS will also report that the cable modem timed out during the registration process. If this occurs, you can try the following steps:

Reduce the length of the commands by using the abbreviated form of the command. For example, you can specify the int c0 instead of the full command interface cable-modem0.

SNMP MIB objects are not included in the Registration Request message, so wherever possible, replace the CLI commands with the corresponding SNMP MIB object statements in the DOCSIS configuration file.

If a large number of CLI commands must be given, use VSIF option 128 to download a Cisco IOS configuration file to the cable modem.

For complete details on what is included in the REG-REQ message, see Chapter 6 of the current DOCSIS 1.1 specification (SP-RFIv1.1-I07-010829 or later).


Note This limitation is being tracked by caveat CSCdv83892 but is not expected to be resolved unless the DOCSIS specification is changed to remove the maximum size limit for MAC-layer management messages.


Hot-Standby 1+1 Redundancy Not Supported

The hot-standby 1+1 redundancy feature is not supported on any model of the Cisco uBR7100 series universal broadband router. The HCCP protocol therefore should not be configured on the cable interface using the hccp interface configuration commands.

Cable Source-Verify and Routing Configurations

In current Cisco IOS Release 12.2 BC software images, the Cisco CMTS can crash with a "bus error exception" when the cable source-verify command is configured on a cable interface, and the routing configuration of that interface is being changed while traffic is passing through the interface.

To avoid this problem, temporarily disable this feature (using no cable source-verify) on the interface before you configure the routing parameters. Then after you have finished the routing configuration, reenable the feature using the cable source-verify command. Alternatively, you can also change the routing parameters when the interface is not passing traffic (such as when the interface is shut down).

EIGRP, IS-IS, and OSPF Not Supported on Cable Interfaces

The Cisco uBR7100 series router supports advanced routing protocols such as Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP), Intermediate System-to-Intermediate System (IS-IS), and Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) only on the WAN interfaces, not on the cable interfaces. On cable interfaces, use a routing protocol that is supported by the cable modems, such as RIPv2.

Configuring the Routing Protocol Causes a Reset of the Cable Modems

Be aware that when configuring a routing protocol on a Cisco uBR7100 series router, the Cisco IOS software must reset the interfaces to enable the change. This normally does not significantly affect operations on the interface, except that when this is done on a cable interface, it causes all cable modems on that particular downstream to reinitialize, potentially interfering with data transmission on that downstream. Therefore, you should use the routing protocol global configuration commands, such as router rip, only when a minimum of subscribers would be affected.

Field Notices and Bulletins

Field Notices—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 account on Cisco.com, you can find field notices at http://www.cisco.com/warp/customer/770/index.shtml. If you do not have a Cisco.com login account, you can find field notices at http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/770/index.shtml.

Product Bulletins—If you have an account on Cisco.com, you can find product bulletins at http://www.cisco.com/warp/customer/cc/general/bulletin/index.shtml. If you do not have a Cisco.com login account, you can find product bulletins at http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/cc/general/bulletin/iosw/index.shtml.

What's New for IOS — What's New for IOS lists recently posted Cisco IOS software releases and software releases that have been removed from Cisco.com. If you have an account on Cisco.com, you can access What's New for IOS at http://www.cisco.com/kobayashi/sw-center/sw-ios.shtml or by logging in and selecting Software Center: Cisco IOS Software: What's New for IOS.

Limitations and Restrictions

The following limitations and restrictions apply to Cisco IOS Release 12.2(11)BC3c.

Transparent LAN Service over Cable

The Transparent LAN Service over Cable feature in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(11)BC3 has the following restrictions and limitations:

The virtual connections (VC) on the ATM interface must be configured to use ATM Adaptation Layer 5 (AAL5) IEEE 802.1a SubNetwork Attachment Point (SNAP) encapsulation. On Cisco routers, this means that each PVC endpoint must be configured for the proper encapsulation using the encapsulation aal5snap command.

If a cable modem is being mapped to an ATM PVC, all of its CPE traffic is sent through the ATM tunnel through the ATM cloud, even if the ultimate destination is another cable modem on the same CMTS.

Cable modems must have a one-to-one mapping with ATM PVCs, with each cable modem being mapped to its own ATM PVC. Cable modems cannot share a single PVC. Multiple PVCs from the same customer are aggregated at the ATM bridge aggregator into the same bridge group.

The spanning tree protocol cannot be used with devices (cable modems, their CPE devices, and the endpoint CPE devices) that are using this feature. In particular, the spanning tree protocol cannot be used between the ATM bridge aggregator and the endpoint customer devices.

MIBs

Current MIBs

To obtain lists of supported MIBs by platform and Cisco IOS release, and to download MIB modules, go to the Cisco MIB web site on Cisco.com at http://www.cisco.com/public/sw-center/netmgmt/cmtk/mibs.shtml

Supported MIBs

The Cisco uBR7100 series universal broadband routers support the following categories of MIBs:

SNMP standard MIBs—These MIBs are required by any agent supporting SNMPv1 or SNMPv2 network management.

Cisco's platform and network-layer enterprise MIBs—Common across most of Cisco's router platforms. If your network management applications are already configured to support other Cisco routers, such as the Cisco 2600 series or Cisco 7200 series, no further configuration is needed unless the version of Cisco IOS software being used has updated these MIBs.

Cable-specific MIBs—Provide information about the cable interfaces and related information on the Cisco uBR7100 series routers. They include both DOCSIS-specific MIBs and Cisco-specific enterprise MIBs. If your network management applications have not already been configured for the Cisco uBR7100 series routers, these MIBs must be loaded.

Deprecated MIBs—Supported in earlier releases of Cisco IOS software but have been replaced by more standardized, scalable MIBs. Network Management applications and scripts should convert to the replacement MIBs as soon as possible.

The cable-specific MIBs are described in the following section. For information on the SNMP standard MIBs and Cisco's platform and network-layer enterprise MIBs, see Cisco's MIB web site at http://www.cisco.com/public/sw-center/netmgmt/cmtk/mibs.shtml

Cable-Specific MIBs

Table 9 shows the cable-specific MIBs that are supported on the Cisco uBR7100 series universal broadband routers. The table also provides a brief description of each MIB's contents and the Cisco IOS software release in which the MIB was initially functional—earlier releases might have had unsupported prototype versions of the MIB; later releases might have added new attributes and functionality. Because of interdependencies, the MIBs must be loaded in the order given in the table.


Note The names given in Table 9 are the filenames for the MIBs as they exist on Cisco's FTP site (ftp://ftp.cisco.com/pub/mibs/ or http://www.cisco.com/public/mibs). Most MIBs are available in both SNMPv1 and SNMPv2 versions; the SNMPv1 versions have V1SMI as part of their filenames.


Table 9 Cable-Specific MIBs Supported on Cisco uBR7100 Series Routers 

MIB Filename
Description
Introduced in Release

SNMPv2-SMI.my

SNMPv2-SMI-V1SMI.my

This module specifies the Structure of Management Information (SMI) for SNMPv2, as defined in RFC 1902.

12.1(5)EC1

SNMPv2-TC.my

SNMPv2-TC-V1SMI.my

This module defines the textual conventions as specified in RFC 1903.

12.1(5)EC1

SNMPv2-MIB.my

SNMPv2-MIB-V1SMI.my

The management protocol, SNMPv2, provides for the exchange of messages that convey management information between the agents and the management stations, as defined in RFC 1907.

12.1(5)EC1

CISCO-SMI.my

CISCO-SMI-V1SMI.my

This module specifies the SMI for Cisco's enterprise MIBs.

12.1(5)EC1

CISCO-TC.my

CISCO-TC-V1SMI.my

This module defines the textual conventions used in Cisco's enterprise MIBs.

12.1(5)EC1

IF-MIB.my

IF-MIB-V1SMI.my

This module describes generic objects for the Layer 3 network interface sublayers. This MIB is an updated version of MIB-II's if table and incorporates the extensions defined in RFC 2233.

12.1(5)EC1

DOCS-IF-MIB.my

DOCS-IF-MIB-V1SMI.my

This module describes the DOCSIS-compliant Radio Frequency (RF) interfaces in cable modems and cable modem termination systems, as defined in RFC 2670.

12.1(5)EC1

DOCS-BPI-MIB.my

This module—available in an SNMPv2 version only—describes the attributes for the DOCSIS-specified Baseline Privacy Interface (BPI) on cable modems and the CMTS.

12.1(5)EC1

CISCO-DOCS-EXT-MIB.my

CISCO-DOCS-EXT-MIB-V1SMI.my

This module extends the DOCSIS standard RFI MIB (DOCS-IF-MIB) with Cisco-specific extensions, such as QoS attributes and connection status and other information regarding the cable modems and CPE devices supported by the CMTS.

12.1(5)EC1

CISCO-DOCS-REMOTE-QUERY-MIB.my

This module facilitates SNMP polling of remote CMs on a CMTS.

12.1(5)EC1

CISCO-CABLE-SPECTRUM-MIB.my

CISCO-CABLE-SPECTRUM-MIB-V1SMI.my

This module describes the spectrum management flap list attributes.

12.1(5)EC1


Deprecated MIBs

Old Cisco MIBs will be replaced in a future release. Currently, OLD-CISCO-* MIBs are being converted into more scalable MIBs without affecting existing Cisco IOS products or network management system (NMS) applications. You can update from deprecated MIBs to the replacement MIBs as shown in Table 10.

Table 10 Replacements for Deprecated MIBs 

Deprecated MIB
Replacement

OLD-CISCO-APPLETALK-MIB

RFC1243-MIB

OLD-CISCO-CHASSIS-MIB

ENTITY-MIB

OLD-CISCO-CPUK-MIB

To be determined

OLD-CISCO-DECNET-MIB

To be determined

OLD-CISCO-ENV-MIB

CISCO-ENVMON-MIB

OLD-CISCO-FLASH-MIB

CISCO-FLASH-MIB

OLD-CISCO-INTERFACES-MIB

IF-MIB CISCO-QUEUE-MIB

OLD-CISCO-IP-MIB

To be determined

OLD-CISCO-MEMORY-MIB

CISCO-MEMORY-POOL-MIB

OLD-CISCO-NOVELL-MIB

NOVELL-IPX-MIB

OLD-CISCO-SYS-MIB

(Compilation of other OLD* MIBs)

OLD-CISCO-SYSTEM-MIB

CISCO-CONFIG-COPY-MIB

OLD-CISCO-TCP-MIB

CISCO-TCP-MIB

OLD-CISCO-TS-MIB

To be determined

OLD-CISCO-VINES-MIB

CISCO-VINES-MIB

OLD-CISCO-XNS-MIB

To be determined



Note Some of the MIBs listed in Table 10 represent feature sets that are not supported on Cisco uBR7100 series universal broadband routers.



Note Cisco Management Information Base (MIB) User Quick Reference is no longer published. If you have an account with Cisco.com, you can find the current list of MIBs supported by Cisco. To reach the Cisco Network Management Toolkit, go to Cisco.com, press Login, and then go to Software Center: Network Mgmt Products: Cisco Network Management Toolkit: Cisco MIB.


Caveats

Caveats describe unexpected behavior in Cisco IOS software releases. Severity 1 caveats are the most serious caveats; severity 2 caveats are less serious. Severity 3 caveats are moderate caveats, and only select severity 3 caveats are included in the caveats document.

All caveats in Cisco IOS Release 12.2 T and specifically in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)T6 are also in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2i.

For information on caveats in Cisco IOS Release 12.2 T, see Caveats for Cisco IOS Release 12.2 T, which lists severity 1 and 2 caveats and select severity 3 caveats for Cisco IOS Release 12.2 T and is located on Cisco.com and the Documentation CD-ROM.

Caveat numbers and brief descriptions for Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2i and earlier releases are listed in this section.


Note If you have an account on Cisco.com, you can use the Bug Toolkit to find select caveats of any severity. To reach the Bug Toolkit, log in to Cisco.com and click Technical Support: Tools & Utilities: Software BUG TOOLKIT (under Configuration Tools). Another option is to enter the following URL in your web browser or go to
http://www.cisco.com/cgi-bin/Support/Bugtool/launch_bugtool.pl


Open Caveats for Release 12.2(15)BC2i

This section documents possible unexpected behavior by Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2i and describes only severity 1 and 2 caveats and select severity 3 caveats.

There are no known open caveats for Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2i.

Closed and Resolved Caveats for Release 12.2(15)BC2i

The caveats listed in Table 12 are resolved in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2i. This table describes only severity 1 and 2 caveats and select severity 3 caveats.

Table 11 Closed and Resolved Caveats for Release 12.2(15)BC2i 

Caveat ID Number
Description

CSCei61732

Cisco IOS may permit arbitrary code execution after exploitation of a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability. Cisco has included additional integrity checks in its software, as further described below, that are intended to reduce the likelihood of arbitrary code execution.

Cisco has made free software available that includes the additional integrity checks for affected customers.

This advisory is posted at http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20051102-timers.shtml.

CSCei76358

Through normal software maintenance processes, Cisco is removing deprecated functionality. These changes have no impact on system operation or feature availability.


Open Caveats for Release 12.2(15)BC2h

This section documents possible unexpected behavior by Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2h and describes only severity 1 and 2 caveats and select severity 3 caveats.

There are no known open caveats for Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2h.

Closed and Resolved Caveats for Release 12.2(15)BC2h

The caveats listed in Table 12 are resolved in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2h. This table describes only severity 1 and 2 caveats and select severity 3 caveats.

Table 12 Closed and Resolved Caveats for Release 12.2(15)BC2h 

Caveat ID Number
Description

CSCef68324

Cisco Internetwork Operating System (IOS) software is vulnerable to a Denial of Service (DoS) and potentially an arbitrary code execution attack from a specifically crafted IPv6 packet. The packet must be sent from a local network segment. Only devices that have been explicitly configured to process IPv6 traffic are affected. Upon successful exploitation, the device may reload or be open to further exploitation.

Cisco has made free software available to address this vulnerability for all affected customers.

More details can be found in the security advisory that is posted at http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20050729-ipv6.shtml..


Open Caveats for Release 12.2(15)BC2g

This section documents possible unexpected behavior by Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2g and describes only severity 1 and 2 caveats and select severity 3 caveats.

There are no known open caveats for Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2g.

Closed and Resolved Caveats for Release 12.2(15)BC2g

The caveats listed in Table 35 are resolved in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2g. This table describes only severity 1 and 2 caveats and select severity 3 caveats.

Table 13 Closed and Resolved Caveats for Release 12.2(15)BC2g 

Caveat ID Number
Description

CSCef93215

A router configured for OSPF may reload unexpectedly and reference the "ospf_build_one_paced_update" process.

This issue is observed on a Cisco router that has a mixture of LSAs (of type 5 and 11) that travel throughout an autonomous system and LSAs (of any type other than type 5 and 11) that travel within a particular OSPF area. The issue may occur at any time without any specific changes or configuration and is not specifically related to any type of LSA.

There are no known workarounds.

CSCeh20178

Stablize periodic station maintenance scheduling. This fix is necessary for cable domains with more then 2000 modems on a single downstream.

There are no known workarounds.


Open Caveats for Release 12.2(15)BC2f

This section documents possible unexpected behavior by Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2f and describes only severity 1 and 2 caveats and select severity 3 caveats.

There are no known open caveats for Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2f.

Closed and Resolved Caveats for Release 12.2(15)BC2f

The caveats listed in Table 14 are resolved in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2f. This table describes only severity 1 and 2 caveats and select severity 3 caveats.

Table 14 Closed and Resolved Caveats for Release 12.2(15)BC2f 

Caveat ID Number
Description

CSCed78149

TCP connections may be vulnerable to spoofed ICMP packets. A spoofed ICMP packet may cause the TCP connection to use a very low segment size for 10 minutes at a time.

This issue is observed when TCP connections are configured for PMTU discovery. Note that PMTU discovery is disabled by default on a router.

Workaround: Disable PMTU discovery.

CSCee67450

A Cisco device running IOS and enabled for the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is vulnerable to a Denial of Service (DoS) attack from a malformed BGP packet.

Only devices with the command bgp log-neighbor-changes configured are vulnerable. The BGP protocol is not enabled by default, and must be configured in order to accept traffic from an explicitly defined peer. Unless the malicious traffic appears to be sourced from a configured, trusted peer, it would be difficult to inject a malformed packet.

Cisco has made free software available to address this problem.

This issue is tracked by CERT/CC VU#689326.

This advisory will be posted at

http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20050126-bgp.shtml 

CSCee76342

When running PacketCable call, without setting secondary RKS ip address in Event-Generation-Info object in Gate-Set message, the CMTS may unexpectedly reloads.

Workaround: Set secondary RKS ip address in Event-Generation-Info object. It can even be a fake one.

CSCef07105

Cable modems will come online fine to online(pt) state, but the following messages will fill up the logs :

%UBR10000-4-NOCFGFILE: Cannot read modem config file 
whatever.bin from <TFTP_IP_addr>: Unknown error

This only occurs when "cable dynamic-secret" enabled.

Sniffer packet capture for "TFTP port 69" shows the malformed TFTP packets from UBR10K.

Workaround: Disable "cable dynamic-secret".

CSCef80943

IOS on MC28U or MC520 cable line card may unexpectedly reload. The stack in the crashinfo file will contiguously list 17 or more ip addresses in a secondary address range configured for the chassis. The IP addresses are addresses of CPEs behind a single modem.

The unexpected reload will only occur if SNMP queries that list or count CPE ip addresses are executed. There must be more than 16 CPEs behind a cable modem to cause a stack overwrite. If there are 23 or more CPEs, the stack overwrite is severe enough to unexpectedly reload.

Workarounds: Change the cable modem config file to allow a maximum of 16 CPEs behind a modem.

Alternative Workaround: Stop all snmp queries for CPE ip addresses. Stop queries for the docsIfCmtsCmStatusEntry snmp table.

CSCef86926

On MC28U linecard with advanced spectrum management, modulation change does not occur when CNR is below the configured thresolds.

There are no known workarounds.

CSCeg01817

A ubr7246vxr running 12.2(15)BC2a may unexpectedly reload due to memory corruption issues. The trigger is unknown.

There are no known workarounds.

CSCeg11416

A cable-modem on a distributed line card is seen as "not registered" by the NPE but seen as "online" by the LC. A sample router log is shown below. Both commands are run on the NPE; the first command gets data from an NPE table, the second command gets data from the distributed LC. When a CM enters this out-of-sync situation, packets from the CM will be silently dropped by the CMTS.

----
uBR-13#show cable modem 0007.0e01.7d9d
MAC Address    IP Address      I/F       MAC         Prim 
RxPwr  Timing  Num BPI
                                        State       Sid  (dB)   
Offset  CPE Enb
Cable modem with MAC address 0007.0e01.7d9d not registered.

uBR-13#show cable modem | incl 0007.0e01.7d9d
MAC Address    IP Address      I/F       MAC         Prim 
RxPwr  Timing  Num BPI
                                        State       Sid  (dB)   
Offset  CPE Enb
0007.0e01.7d9d 192.168.0.1     C4/0/U0   online      3    0.00   
5701    0   N

uBR-13#
----

This issue is observed on a ubr7200 running code version 12.3(9a)BC and 12.2(15)BC2c.

The CMTS usually appears to running normally for about 1 week before the bug is seen.

Workaround: This issue is difficult to detect because no message is displayed on the CMTS when the situation occurs. The only known workaround is to run a script that scans the MAC addresses of CMs, and if the situation is detected, reset the CM.

CSCeg24134

SNMP agent in ubr7200 routers running 12.2(15)BC2 and above will not return values for the MIB table ipNetToMediaTable, even if there are no snmp views configured.

Workaround: IOS version 12.2(15)BC1 seems to work properly.

CSCeg27950

FLAP-LIST is not aging properly in 12.2(15)BC2c. If tested with 12.2(15)BC2b, then it shows properly.

The box was reloaded and all was working as desired for a day or so and then it was broken again.

A recreate was performed with the same code and the same symptoms were seen.

The lab config shows: "cable flap-list aging 1440" so the flap-list is not supposed to have line with more than 24 hours the following occurred:

MAC Address     Upstream     Ins   Hit   Miss  CRC  
P-Adj Flap  Time 
0040.7b74.cb4c  Cable5/0/0/U0  0     24162 164   0    
1168  1172  Oct 12 03:43:43 
000f.9f78.6d54  Cable5/0/0/U0  0     23780 188   0    
440   442   Oct 9  13:51:52 
000a.739a.2c34  Cable5/0/0/U0  2     25332 526   0    
279   293   Oct 12 06:48:13 
0020.40d8.8688  Cable5/0/0/U0  0     24575 380   0    
177   192   Oct 12 05:01:26 
00a0.731f.6865  Cable5/0/0/U0  0     24094 220   0    
30    33    Oct 10 07:39:27 
000a.735d.7b63  Cable5/0/0/U0  0     23944 208   0    
21    25    Oct 12 08:40:46 

There are no known workarounds.

CSCeg32660

Extra UGS grants are being sent by CMTS scheduler. This cause an issue with certain brands of eMTAs causing robotized voice.

This issue occurs in a ubr7246vxr running 12.2(15)BC2a and 20ms interval voice traffic.

There are no known workarounds.

CSCeg40945

The CMTS database may not correctly updated with the ip address of the CPE, and the following message is generated for the CPE mac address abcd.efgh.ijkl.mnop:

Failed to find CM with SID # 0, not to glean from thisDHCP packet
DHCPGLEAN abcd.efgh.ijkl.mnop cmts glean failed

This issue occurs under the following conditions:

The Cisco UBR is configured for MPLS VPN

The CPE requesting an ip address is on one cable sub-interface x/0.n

The DHCP server is one another cable sub-interface y/0.p

The cable interfaces have to be different

There are no known workarounds.

CSCeg68008

Reverse arp might fail on the CMTS for Ethernet (WAN/LAN) interfaces.

This issue may occur anytime on the CMTS during normal operation.

There are no known workarounds.

CSCeg76058

Internal dhcp server on the CMTS in not working only in 12.2(15)BC2f throttle branch. Modems fail to complete dhcp - stay in init(d). The CMTS is fine with the external dhcp server.

Release 12.3(9a)BC1 does not show this problem for modems, however, this release will fail for CPEs to come online with internal dhcp server.

Workaround: Using an external dhcp server.

CSCin33783

Entering the shutdown interface configuration command followed by the no shutdown interface configuration command on an Gigabit Ethernet interface may prevent customer edge-to-customer edge (CE-to-CE) pings from going through.

This issue is observed when Ethernet over Multiprotocol Label Switching (EoMPLS) is configured in VLAN mode on the Gigabit Ethernet interface of a Network Processing Engine G1 (NPE-G1) on a Cisco 7200 series.

Workaround: Configure EoMPLS in VLAN mode on a port adapter such as a Gigabit Ethernet or Fast Ethernet port adapter.

CSCin75000

MC28U may reset. Re-initialization of the card may lead to the NPE unexpectedly reloading.

There are no known workarounds.

CSCsa44474

a UBR7200 router may reload due to a bus error

There are no known workarounds.


Open Caveats for Release 12.2(15)BC2e

This section documents possible unexpected behavior by Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2e and describes only severity 1 and 2 caveats and select severity 3 caveats.

There are no known open caveats for Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2e.

Closed and Resolved Caveats for Release 12.2(15)BC2e

The caveats listed in Table 15 are resolved in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2e. This table describes only severity 1 and 2 caveats and select severity 3 caveats.

Table 15 Closed and Resolved Caveats for Release 12.2(15)BC2e 

Caveat ID Number
Description

CSCdy01705

A Cisco router may experience high cpu utilization at process TTY Background when the command logging synchronous is configured under line con 0.

Workaround: Remove the command logging synchronous from line con 0. However, this should only be performed during a scheduled maintenance window, as the router could pause indefinitely just after removal of the command and may require a manual reboot of the router.

CSCed27848

UBR with IOS 12.2(15)BC1 and 12.2(15)BC1a has a problem with loading startup-config after reload with BPI+ configuration and cable modems. When BPI+ is enabled in a cable modems' config file after reload CMTS doesn't load startup-config. This is version specific 12.2(15)BC1 and 12.2(15)BC1a seems to have this issue.

There are no known workarounds.

CSCee61429

The MC28u, MC28x, MC16u, and MC16x real time clock drifts from the NPE clock.

Due to a code omission in IOS 12.2(15)CX, 12.2(15)BC1a-e, and 12.2(15)BC2a-d, the real time clock on the MC28u, MC28x, MC16u, and MC16x Cable Line Cards for the uBR7246VXR is not kept in sync with the real time clock on the NPE. The estimated drift is approximately +/- 1.3 minutes per month, and is somewhat temperature sensitive.

The linecard clock is updated each time the system is reloaded, but not afterwards.

The linecard clock is not updated even if NTP is configured on the NPE.

The drift can cause a problem where modems will eventually be in the reject(ts) state if the modem config file is set to contain a timestamp (see CSCef71411) and the drift is greater than 30 seconds.

Workaround: If possible, write a script to periodically extract the current time from the NPE and login to the linecard using if-con/if-quit and set the time to the NPE value.

Alternative workaround 1: Reload during a service window.

Alternative workaround 2: Turn off timestamp.

CSCef04492

snmpwalk on cdrqCmtsCmStatusTable does not show consistent result.

There are no known workarounds.

CSCef09586

If DHCP server in one of the configured VRF's has IP address that is matching broadcast address of the IP subnetwork used in another VRF (another subinterface), than cable modems will not come on-line and stay in init(d).

This issue occurs if the user has DHCP server in VRF1 using IP address 10.2.16.15 and configure ip address 10.2.16.1 255.255.255.240 on subinterface that belongs to VRF2.

This issue has been noticed with following tested images: 12.2(11)BC2 and 12.2(15)BC1d.

Workaround: Changing IP address of the DHCP server or changing IP address scope in another VRF will resolve this issue.

CSCef09770

Each flow appear in a different time with a different sid in docsIfCmtsServiceTable, but the docsIfCmtsServiceCreateTime are the same for all sids.

There are no known workarounds.

CSCef19398

Momentary (about 1 second) of ping packet lost was observed when changing downstream modulation rate on another cable interface on the same line card.

Once DS cable interface is reinitialized, ping operation returns to normal (successful reception of ping packets).

There are no known workarounds.

CSCef20890

A Cisco ubr7246VXR running Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC1 may reload unexpectedly due to a bus error.

There are no known workarounds.

CSCef27943

The following error message is displayed at inappropriate times:

DSG tunnel MAC address already defined in DOCSIS

The following three valid configuration sequences have been incorrectly flagged with the above error message:

1. add/remove/readd of a DSG mapping on a cable bundle master interface.

2. mapping more than 1 IP address to a tunnel on a cable bundle master interface.

3. Configuring an RFC1112 based DSG tunnel and an non-DSG static IP multicast group which both use the same MAC address on a cable bundle master interface.

Workaround: For the first sequence listed above, a shut/no shut will turn of the cable bundle master and will allow the DSG tunnel to be readded. No workaround exists for the other 2 sequences.

CSCef31956

This caveat improves reverse arp lookup on the CMTS for modem bringup.

There are no known workarounds.

CSCef37495

Sync Pulse failure detection mechanism is not working for N+1/7200 solution.

Workaround: Use Fast Failure Detection for crash detection.

CSCef46191

A specifically crafted Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) connection to a telnet or reverse telnet port of a Cisco device running Internetwork Operating System (IOS) may block further telnet, reverse telnet, Remote Shell (RSH), Secure Shell (SSH), and in some cases Hypertext Transport Protocol (HTTP) access to the Cisco device. Telnet, reverse telnet, RSH and SSH sessions established prior to exploitation are not affected. All other device services will operate normally.

User initiated specially crafted TCP connection to a telnet or reverse telnet port results in blocking further telnet sessions. Whereas, services such as packet forwarding, routing protocols and all other communication to and through the device remains unaffected.

There are no known workarounds.

The detail advisory is available at
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20040827-telnet.shtml 

CSCef54205

If an MTA has multiple lines and both the lines are being used to make calls, call failures could happen in certain scenarios.

Examples:

Scenario 1:

Line 1 has a call in progress, meanwhile, Line 2 makes a new call, then hangs up, and makes another new call, then hangs up, and so on. After sometime line 2 will not be able to make a call.

Scenario 2:

Line 1 is having a call, Line 2 makes a new call. Before Line 2 hangs up, Line 1 hangs up and makes another call. Same for Line 2, it hangs up and makes another call _before_ Line 1 hangs up, and vice versa. After sometime line 1 and 2 will not be able to make new calls.

This issue occurs because activity count on the CMTS does not get decremented in each of the above scenarios (even if the call on a line goes away). As a result the activity count reaches its limit and new calls are not allowed.

However, at any instance, if both lines are disconnected, the activity count will be reset again.

Workaround: Increase the activity count on BTS to a large number. This way, even if the activity counts are not decremented at call termination, new calls will be allowed till the activity count is maxed out. When both the lines are terminated, the count will be reset automatically.

In the case where the MTA contains 2 lines only, it should not have a big impact since it won't use up a lot of resources even if someone is trying to abuse the system by making multiple calls simultaneously. Moreover, it is a counter issue only, all the actual resources, such as service-flows, gates, etc, they are all freed up.

CSCef59093

Cisco uBR-MC28U cable interface line card may unexpectedly reload in an ubr7200 series CMTS running IOS release 12.2(15)BC2b.

The issue only occurs with MC28U line card. MC16C in the same chassis works fine.

There are no known workarounds.

CSCef68286

A cable modem termination system (CMTS) may record a traceback when you either remove a Fast Ethernet (FE) member interface of an EtherChannel interface by entering the shutdown interface configuration command or you add an FE member interface to an EtherChannel interface by entering the no shutdown interface configuration command.

This issue is observed on a Cisco uBR7200 series when IP unicast traffic is sent in both the downstream and the upstream direction.

Workaround: When new member FE interface is added to the EtherChannel interface, take the following steps:

1. Enter the shutdown interface configuration command on both the new FE member interface and the EtherChannel interface.

2. Add the FE member interface by entering the channel-group port-channel-number interface configuration command on the FE member interface.

3. Enter the no shutdown interface configuration command on the Etherchannel interface.

When an FE member interface is remove from the EtherChannel interface, take the following steps:

1. Enter the shutdown interface configuration command on the EtherChannel interface.

2. Remove the FE member interface by entering the no channel-group port-channel-number interface configuration command on the FE member interface.

3. Enter the no shutdown interface configuration command on the Etherchannel interface.

CSCef70739

A "MAXMEMORY USED Reached maximum amount of memory allocated for stile" error is displayed at the console and the "Active links" for the show ip nbar resources command will show 4 GB plus.

This issue occurs when the NBAR feature is activated, i.e when "match protocol <protocol-name>" is included in a policy map, or "ip nbar protocol-discovery" is applied on an interface, the "MAXMEMORY USED Reached maximum amount of memory allocated for stile" error may appear on the console.

Workaround: Perform no ip nbar resources to reset active links back to zero.

CSCef73242

Cisco ubr7200 series CMTS running IOS release 12.2(15)BC2b may not guarantee configured QoS levels on Downstream dynamic Service Flows in VoIP networks.

The issue can be seen with very high SFIDs (between 32768 and 65535) and when cable modems are provisioned with non-zero Active QoS Timeout.

Workaround: Increase the bandwidth for Best Effort (BE) flow.

CSCin82407

Cisco Internetwork Operating System (IOS) Software release trains 12.2T, 12.3 and 12.3T may contain vulnerabilities in processing certain Internet Key Exchange (IKE) Xauth messages when configured to be an Easy VPN Server.

Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities may permit an unauthorized user to complete authentication and potentially access network resources.

This advisory will be posted to http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20050406-xauth.shtml


Open Caveats for Release 12.2(15)BC2c

All the caveats listed in Table 16 are open and reported in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2c. This table lists only severity 1 and 2 caveats and select severity 3 caveats.

Table 16 Open Caveats for Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2c 

Caveat ID Number
Description

CSCdy10666

Remote-query unconfiguring does not work properly.

There are no known workarounds.

CSCed10546

Ping can use wrong interface ip address as source ip address.

This issue only occurs if a load balancing with CEF is performed.

There are no known workarounds.

CSCed27848

UBR with IOS 12.2(15)BC1 and 12.2(15)BC1a has a problem with loading startup-config after reload with BPI+ configuration and cable modems. When BPI+ is enabled in a cable modems' config file after reload CMTS does not load startup-config. This is version specific 12.2(15)BC1 and 12.2(15)BC1a seems to have this issue.

There are no known workarounds.

CSCed64701

Unexpected packet loss at a certain rate and frame size and the overrun incrementing on the interface can be observed on the GigaEthernet Interfaces.

There are no known workarounds.

CSCee02297

A CPE behind a cable modem should be allowed to assume the IP address of a previous CPE behind the same cable modem.

Currently, if a new CPE does have to assume its IP address behind a particular CM like this, one has to perform a "clear cable host" on the CMTS so that the CMTS releases the IP/MAC binding for the previous CPE with the CM its behind.

There are no known workarounds.

CSCee52091

Demand for IPv6 is growing and some governments are requiring that their networks to support ipv6 natively.

This DDTS is to request that support for IPv6 is enabled on cable interfaces.

There are no known workarounds.

CSCee76997

A Software forced crash, PC 0x60659EFC when I/O card inserted.

There are no known workarounds.

CSCee80483

UBR7246VXR running 12.2(15)BC2a crashes due to watchdog timeout.

UBR7246VXR unexpectedly reloads due to watchdog timeout when a cable modem entry is cleared per the following snip:

clear cable modem X.X.X.X delete

UBR7200-3-BADARPDELETE: Tried to remove arp entry for X.X.X.X that is not dynamicProcess aborted on watchdog timeout, process = DHCPD Receive.

+++++++++

X.X.X.X represents IP address of the cable modem.

There are no known workarounds.

CSCef00276

UBR7200 reboots unexpectedly with an Bus error address 0xE2.

There are no known workarounds.

CSCef04492

snmpwalk on cdrqCmtsCmStatusTable does not show consistent result.

There are no known workarounds.

CSCef09574

Extended ping is OK with IOS 12.1.19ECx. After upgraded to 12.2.15.BC1, user with privilege level 14 could not execute extended ping command.

Workaround: IOS 12.1.19ECx works fine.

CSCef19528

CMTS records alignment errors after "debug cable keyman" is turned on.

Workaround: Do not turn "debug cable keyman" on.

CSCef19578

The no debug cable map command does not work to turn off the "debug cable map".

Workaround: The undebug all (aliased to "u all") works.

CSCef20891

CMTS fails to send encrypted multicast traffic for CPEs that are behind BPI+ enabled modems.

There are no known workarounds.

CSCef24304

Router crashed with software forced crash.

The trigger is unknown. From the log, it indicates that router unexpectedly reloads with watchdog timeout. There was no config changes or interruptions made to the router when this occurred.

There are no known workarounds.

CSCin21618

A uBR7246 with an OC-12 SRP interface can crash with the following sequence of commands:

test pas oir 2 pull
test pas oir 2 push
test pas oir 1 pull
test pas oir 1 push

Workaround: Do not "test pas oir" the high slot of a double wide card. "test pas oir 1 pull" followed by a push can be done repeatedly without error.

CSCin45061

Mobile host functionality does not work.

There are no known workarounds.


Closed and Resolved Caveats for Release 12.2(15)BC2c

The caveats listed in Table 17 are resolved in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2c. This table describes only severity 1 and 2 caveats and select severity 3 caveats.

Table 17 Closed and Resolved Caveats for Release 12.2(15)BC2c 

Caveat ID Number
Description

CSCeb46870

Service Assurance Agent (SAA) running on Cisco Routers with versions 12.2(10.7)T2 or later can sometime report wrong values for "Number of operations attempted" and "Number of operations skipped".

The issue is observed in a probe if that probe is running for more than 49 days.

Workaround: Restart the probe which have the problem.

CSCec27338

Network Based Access Recognition (NBAR) is used to classify packet streams.

When packet streams contain packets that are fragmented, it's important that all the fragments for a packet traverse the same router running NBAR. If some packets are dropped or routed around a particular router running NBAR, then that can cause high CPU. This is a result of the fragment table getting too large when all fragments of a packet are not presented to NBAR.

There are no known workarounds.

CSCed49726

When DMIC is enabled, the CMTS needs to download the config file from the provisioning server. if the CMTS cannot download the file, the modems cannot register.

Work around: Configure the management network such that the CMTS can download the CM config file from the provisioning server.

CSCed61686

Using a local ToD Server when MPLS/VPN is configured was not routing ToD packets correctly.

This fix allows Local ToD Time server to be configured with MPLS/VPN.

There are no known workarounds.

CSCed86260

When two Cable interface are bundled, the ifInUcastPkts of the secondary cable interface is decreasing.

There are no known workarounds.

CSCed89815

A bus error may occur on a Cisco router when trace command is enabled.When show version EXEC command is entered, the following error messages may be displayed:

System returned to ROM by bus error at PC 0xXXXXXXXX, address 
0xYYYYYYYY

0xXXXXXXXX represents the program counter at which the router reloads. 0xYYYYYYYY represents the address at which the router reloads.

This issue is observed on a Cisco router that runs Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC1.The platform would be UBR7200. The following is a sample command:

trace www.a.net

More information on Bus error can be gathered off the following link:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/iosswrel/ps1831/products_tech_note09186a00800cdd51.shtml 

There are no known workarounds.

CSCee26361

A DHCPACK or DHCPNACK with a chaddr == 0 is not forwarded by the Cisco DHCP stack to the cable CMTS code when the CMTS is a relay agent.

The DHCP stack must forward such a reply to the CMTS code so that the CMTS can make a decision on an active or inactive lease on the DHCP server.

There are no known workarounds.

CSCee29081

CMTS does nor receive the DHCP response to a DHCP lease query even though the response was sent from the DHCP server. CSCee26361 fixed this problem. What this DDTS is now adding is a check in CMTS code to not continue with dhcp gleaning if a response to a lease query is received by the CMTS.

There are no known workarounds.

CSCee32609

The CMTS may report a CPU hog error when processing GetBulk SNMP requests.

There are no known workarounds.

CSCee48935

Tracebacks on a UBR7200.

IOS (tm) 7200 Software (UBR7200-K8P-M), Version 12.2(15)BC1b.

When the issue occurs, a lot of cable modems in status init(r1) are seen.

Workaround: Resetting the interface solves the problem.

Log Buffer (1000000 bytes):

*May  6 07:10:37.886: %SYS-2-LINKED: Bad enqueue of 639A4B24 
in queue 629DAFE0
-Process= "CMTS MAC Protocol", ipl= 3, pid= 45
-Traceback= 6083B6F0 604B4530 6051DEC4 604D3E50 604B34C8 
604B031C 604B0544 6056D2F4

*May  6 07:10:37.886: %SYS-2-NOTQ: unqueue didn't find 
6391FAC8 in queue 629DAFE0
-Process= "CMTS MAC Protocol", ipl= 3, pid= 45
-Traceback= 6083B8F8 604B44A8 604D2AD0 604D3E20 604B34C8 
604B031C 604B0544 6056D2F4

*May  6 07:10:37.890: %SYS-2-LINKED: Bad enqueue of 6391FAC8 
in queue 629DAFE0
-Process= "CMTS MAC Protocol", ipl= 3, pid= 45
-Traceback= 6083B6F0 604B4530 6051DEC4 604D3E50 604B34C8 
604B031C 604B0544 6056D2F4

*May  6 07:10:38.238: %SYS-2-NOTQ: unqueue didn't find 
63A15470 in queue 629DAFE0
-Process= "CMTS MAC Protocol", ipl= 3, pid= 45
-Traceback= 6083B8F8 604B44A8 604D2AD0 604D3E20 604B34C8 
604B031C 604B0544 6056D2F4

*May  6 07:10:38.242: %SYS-2-LINKED: Bad enqueue of 63A15470 
in queue 629DAFE0
-Process= "CMTS MAC Protocol", ipl= 3, pid= 45
-Traceback= 6083B6F0 604B4530 6051DEC4 604D3E50 604B34C8 
604B031C 604B0544 6056D2F4

CSCee49594

The ENTITY-MIB does not recognize the NPE-G1 processor.

There are no known workarounds.

CSCee55989

When SNMP query getnext/getbulk DOCS-QOS-MIB: docsQosCmtsMacToSrvFlowTable (docsQosCmtsIfIndex), NMS will see the infinite loop if the number of CMs is greater than 1000.

All the platforms are affected.

Workaround: Use cli to get the info. If only docsQosCmtsIfIndex is needed, use the CM mac address, snmp get exact cdxCmCpeIfIndex which is the same value as docsQosCmtsIfIndex.

CSCee64504

A CPUHOG may occur for about 4.5 seconds when you enter the show running-config command.

This issue is observed on a Cisco uBR10000 series but may also occur on other platforms.

Workaround: Do not enter the show running-config command. Rather, enter the show config command.

CSCee66672

High CPU might be seen when OIR cable linecard if CM onoff trap is enabled and throttled.

Workaround: Disable the CM onoff trap before OIR. No cable enable-trap cmonoff-notification.

CSCee81149

With IOS 12.2(15)CX, it is possible to configure 125 KHz steps.

With IOS 12.2(15)BC2a, it is not possible to configure 125 KHz steps.

A change was made to minimum frequency step size since the original release of MC28u in 12.2(15)CX. This was done in order to support alternate suppliers of upconverter modules.

This change restricts the step size to 250 Khz increments. That is why 168.125 Mhz is not accepted by 12.2(15)BC2a software.

There are no known workarounds.

CSCef22962

If BPI is enabled, DSx messages with key sequence number 0 are rejected.

There are no known workarounds except waiting until the key sequence number changes and retrying the command.


Open Caveats for Release 12.2(15)BC2b

All the caveats listed in Table 18 are open and reported in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2b. This table lists only severity 1 and 2 caveats and select severity 3 caveats.

Table 18 Open Caveats for Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2b 

Caveat ID Number
Description

CSCdy10666

Remote-query unconfiguring does not work properly.

There are no known workarounds.

CSCed10546

Ping can use wrong interface ip address as source ip address.

This issue only occurs if do load balancing with CEF is performed

CSCed27848

UBR with IOS 12.2(15)BC1 and 12.2(15)BC1a has a problem with loading startup-config after reload with BPI+ configuration and cable modems. When BPI+ is enabled in a cable modems' config file after reload CMTS doesn't load startup-config. This is version specific 12.2(15)BC1 and 12.2(15)BC1a seems to have this issue.

There are no known workarounds.

CSCed64701

Unexpected packet loss at a certain rate and frame size and the overrun incrementing on the interface can be observed on the GigaEthernet Interfaces.

There are no known workarounds.

CSCed86260

When two Cable interface are bundled, the ifInUcastPkts of the secondary cable interface is decreasing.

There are no known workarounds.

CSCee02297

A CPE behind a cable modem should be allowed to assume the IP address of a previous CPE behind the same cable modem.

Currently, if a new CPE does have to assume its IP address behind a particular CM like this, one has to perform a "clear cable host" on the CMTS so that the CMTS releases the IP/MAC binding for the previous CPE with the CM its behind.

There are no known workarounds.

CSCin21618

OC-12 CMTS got hanged with OIR on SRP interface.

There are no known workarounds.

CSCin45061

Mobile host functionality does not work.

There are no known workarounds.


Closed and Resolved Caveats for Release 12.2(15)BC2b

The caveats listed in Table 19 are resolved in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2b. This table describes only severity 1 and 2 caveats and select severity 3 caveats.

Table 19 Closed and Resolved Caveats for Release 12.2(15)BC2b 

Caveat ID Number
Description

CSCed06848

With DMIC turned on, CMs may not be able to download IOS config files.

If a CM is online and tries to download an IOS.cfg file from the same tftp server as specified in the DHCP offer, it will fail. The problem only happens with DMIC turned on and seen on CMs (e.g., Cisco CMs in routing mode), that try downloading a second config file after coming online.

There are no known workarounds.

CSCed36625

On cable routers, including uBR7200s and uBR10ks, CPE OSs such as Linux and FreeBSD may appear to frequently change the mac address of their gateway IP address. Linux will show:

Dec 15 00:12:17 home /kernel: arp: 192.168.0.1 moved from
00:01:42:1d:4d:54 to 00:01:42:1d:4d:a8 on dc0
Dec 15 00:13:26 home /kernel: arp: 192.168.0.1 moved from
00:01:42:1d:4d:a8 to 00:01:42:1d:4d:54 on dc0
Dec 15 00:26:17 home /kernel: arp: 192.168.0.1 moved from
00:01:42:1d:4d:54 to 00:01:42:1d:4d:a8 on dc0

FreeBSD will show:

arp: 10.0.0.1 moved from 00:08:e2:33:0c:54 to 
00:08:e2:33:0c:70 on ed0
arp: 10.0.0.1 moved from 00:08:e2:33:0c:70 to 
00:08:e2:33:0c:54 on ed0

This issue occurs when cable bundling is configured. Modems and CPEs on the bundle slave interface(s) will experience the problem. Those on the master interface will not experience it.

The problem is that the L2 header for arp replies and arp requests are not consistent on a bundle slave. An arp reply will have a source mac in the L2 header of the bundle slave interface. A broadcast arp request will have a source mac of the bundle master and the arp request packets will have a mac source of the bundle master.

Workaround: In theory, using a static arp entry on the CPE device binding the gateway IP address to the mac address of the CMTS slave interface will prevent the CPE from changing its arp entry for the gateway.

CSCed61110

Cisco ubr7200 series CMTS running IOS release 12.2(15)BC1 may experience a software-forced crash after a watchdot timiout in CMTS MAC Timer process.

The failure occurred on a platform with NPE-G1.

There are no known workarounds.

CSCed83867

uBR7246VXR with NPE-1G and MC28U blades with 'cable source-verify dhcp'enabled results in:

1. 100% CPU load and flooding the CNR with service queries, the contributor to high CPU load is identified to be 'DHCPD Receive' process.

2. The few mac-address in the arp entry shows all zeros

Workaround: Turning off the "cable source-verify dhcp" option in the config will bring the CPU back down.

CSCed88709

When a service-policy that corresponds to a policy-map with no fair-queueing classes is applied outbound on a Cable interface and one class performs shaping the uBR7200 may drop outbound packets and generate error messages similar to

%LINK-4-BADQID: Interface Cable4/0, bad output queue ID 
specified (265). Packet dropped

when the shaping classes becomes active because of traffic rates that exceed the prescribed limits in the class.

Workaround: Have at least one class with a fair-queueing configuration in the policy-map. This means using one of the "bandwidth", "priority", or "fair-queue" commands within the policy-map for at least one class.

CSCed95436

uBR7246VXR may run into a issue with the Total-Kbyte Value being to high when issuing the <Show Subscriber-Usage> command.

This behavior has been observed on 12.2(15)BC1 and 12.2(15)BC1b.

Example:

uBR7246VXR#show cable subscriber-usage over-consume
Sfid Mac Address   Enforce-rule Total-Kbyte  Last-detect    
Last-penalty   Pen
                      Name         Count        time           
time        Flag
761  0000.0000.0002 RESA1-UP    4294967087 Mar10 21:55:01  
Mar10 22:55:01  Act
762  0000.0000.0002 RESA1-DOWN  4294967270 Mar10 21:55:01  
Mar10 22:55:01  Act

uBR7246VXR#show cable modem 0000.0000.0002 counters 
MAC Address    US Packets   US Bytes   DS Packets   DS Bytes
0000.0000.0002 1631         219278     1467         1187222  

cable qos enforce-rule RESA1-UP
  penalty-period 60
  registered qos-profile 92
  enforced qos-profile 12
  monitoring-duration 120
  activate-rule at-byte-count 38400 upstream enforce
  enabled

cable qos enforce-rule RESA1-DOWN
  penalty-period 60
  registered qos-profile 92
  enforced qos-profile 12
  monitoring-duration 120
  activate-rule at-byte-count 450000 downstream enforce
  enabled

cable qos profile 12 max-burst 1544
cable qos profile 12 max-downstream 575
cable qos profile 12 max-upstream 128

cable qos profile 92 max-burst 1544
cable qos profile 92 max-downstream 1600
cable qos profile 92 max-upstream 128

There are no known workarounds.

CSCee12282

A uBR7246VXR CMTS router with output QMC traffic-shaping enabled and active on a cable interface can leak processor pool memory under high load, i.e. when multiple particles are used for packet buffering.

Workaround: Remove output QMC shaping command from cable interface to stop leak; reload router to reclaim memory.

CSCee16342

The CMTS may crash when the following command is issued:

"show packetcable gate <gateid>"

The crash would happen if the command is issued during the time duration when that particular gate is being deleted (e.g., as a result of call teardown)

There are no known workarounds.

CSCee12868

docsIfCmtsCmStatusSignalNoise returns a wrong value. It should represent 10th dB rather than just dB.

Workaround: Multiply the received number by 10.

CSCee20869

In order to protect from DOS service attacks on the CMTS, it is decided to add per SID basis throttling of lease queries and global rate limit for lease queries initiated by downstream traffic. This is meant to reduce the CPU utilization of DHCP Receive process & ISR context when "cable source-verify dhcp" and "no cable arp" is configured.

There are n o known workarounds.

CSCee21114

When "source-verify dhcp" and "no cable arp" is configured, DHCP lease query response for dst address of pkts coming from the back-haul is dropped.

CPE is unreachable from the back-haul until the CPE itself send an ARP or IP packet.

Workaround: Do not configure "no cable arp".

CSCee23838

If a downstream packet received at the CMTS is destined for a modem whose ARP entry is incomplete or not present in the CMTS arp database, the CMTS goes into a loop of issuing out DHCP lease queries and receiving ACKs till an upstream packet for the modem populates the ARP database on the CMTS.

Workaround: Disable "no cable arp" on the cable interface.

CSCee27443

Second service flow can not be created if Docsis 1.0+ vendor specific encodings are used for data transfer.

This is regression issue which was triggered by CSCeb21271 and CSCdz66185.

Workaround: For any TOS except 5 the second DS flow will be created BUT we will end up reserving bandwidth for those flows.

CSCee27994

The default ranging-backoff value should be changed from "auto" to values of 3 6.

Workaround: Hard code the ranging-backoff values to 3 6.

CSCee37649

Under high load with BPI active, the ubr7200 may lock up, permitting no console access. Higher level protocols will be unresponsive (for example, the system will not respond to ARP requests). The system may still forward packets.

Workaround: Take off the load for a period of time (physically disconnect all connected modems) until the system recovers.

Alternative Workaround: Disable BPI on systems with constantly high CPU load.

CSCee46490

Customers and internal tech support have a need to monitor the status and collect debug information from the RF cards with on-board processors (e.g., MC520 and MC28U). This is currently done by using telnet or if-con to login to the line card and issue show commands to collect the data. Logging into the line card should only be done by the direction of a Cisco support person. New options to the existing "show controllers" CLI command will be added to collect line card data from the NPE.

Workaround: Telnet or if-con to the line card.

CSCee47911

The number of errors on the "show interface cable x/y upstream z" has increased dramatically after upgrading to 12.2(15)BC2a. This problem is appearing on theMC28C. This does not appear to be affecting packet loss.

There are no known workarounds.

CSCee55916

Users can logon to RF line cards with onboard processors without having "service internal" configured on the NPE/PRE.

This issue occurs when the user executes the telnet CLI command to logon to an RF line card without "service internal" configured.

There are no known workarounds.

CSCee55444

See CSCed06821 for modem security details which prevents modems from coming online and getting stuck in init(o).

Modems which get an ip address which is not the same subnet as the primary ip address of the cable interface can get stuck in init(o).

Workaround: Use the ip source-interface loopback 0 command.

CSCin71529

When the cable QoS permission for the modems is disabled, the qos profile created by the modem may not be removed from the QoS profile table.

Also, if a cable interface is shutdown or if one issues a "clear cable modem cax/y/z all delete" on the CMTS, the qos profile feature gets broken for deletion of qos profiles - the profile should be deleted, but it won't since the internal reference count of the profile is messed up.

There are no known workarounds.


Open Caveats for Release 12.2(15)BC2a

All the caveats listed in Table 20 are open and reported in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2a. This table lists only severity 1 and 2 caveats and select severity 3 caveats.

Table 20 Open Caveats for Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2a 

Caveat ID Number
Description

CSCdx62698

This problem was observed while doing spot checking for CMTS image.

Workaround: To prevent CPE behind the Cable modem to accessing the CMTS, the interface specific access-group can be configured as a workaround.

CSCdy10666

Remote-query unconfiguring does not work properly.

There are no known workarounds.

CSCea13693

When there are about 2800 cable modems connected to a cable interface, a few hundred cable modems will go offline in a short period of time.

It is recommended to have no more than 2000 cable modems connected to a cable interface.

There are no known workarounds.

CSCec09369

Under certain circumstances the reporting of CPU utilization could be inaccurate.

This could occur if the timed scheduling of upstream traffic coincides exactly with the system clock that is used to calculate system timing for an extended period of time.

There are no known workarounds.

CSCed06848

With DMIC turned on, CMs may not be able to download IOS config files.

If a CM is online and tries to download an IOS.cfg file from the same tftp server as specified in the DHCP offer, it will fail. The problem only happens with DMIC turned on and seen on CMs (e.g., Cisco CMs in routing mode), that try downloading a second config file after coming online.

There are no known workarounds.

CSCed10546

Ping can use wrong interface ip address as source ip address.

This is happen only if we do load balancing with CEF

There are no known workarounds.

CSCed12040

Cable source-verify needs to be modified to cater for internal changes within IOS.

There are no known workarounds.

CSCed27848

UBR with IOS 12.2(15)BC1 and 12.2(15)BC1a has a problem with loading startup-config after reload with BPI+ configuration and cable modems. When BPI+ is enabled in a cable modems' config file after reload CMTS doesn't load startup-config. This is version specific 12.2(15)BC1 and 12.2(15)BC1a seems to have this issue.

There are no known workarounds.

CSCed36625

On cable routers, including uBR7200s and uBR10ks, CPE OSs such as Linux and FreeBSD may appear to frequently change the mac address of their gateway IP address. Linux will show:

Dec 15 00:12:17 home /kernel: arp: 192.168.0.1 moved from
00:01:42:1d:4d:54 to 00:01:42:1d:4d:a8 on dc0
Dec 15 00:13:26 home /kernel: arp: 192.168.0.1 moved from
00:01:42:1d:4d:a8 to 00:01:42:1d:4d:54 on dc0
Dec 15 00:26:17 home /kernel: arp: 192.168.0.1 moved from
00:01:42:1d:4d:54 to 00:01:42:1d:4d:a8 on dc0

FreeBSD will show:
arp: 10.0.0.1 moved from 00:08:e2:33:0c:54 to 
00:08:e2:33:0c:70 on ed0
arp: 10.0.0.1 moved from 00:08:e2:33:0c:70 to 
00:08:e2:33:0c:54 on ed0

This issue occurs when cable bundling is configured. Modems and CPEs on the bundle slave interface(s) will experience the problem. Those on the master interface will not experience it.

The problem is that the L2 header for arp replies and arp requests are not consistent on a bundle slave. An arp reply will have a source mac in the L2 header of the bundle slave interface. A broadcast arp request will have a source mac of the bundlemaster and the arp request packets will have a mac source of the bundle master.

Workaround: In theory, using a static arp entry on the CPE device binding the gateway IP address to the mac address of the CMTS slave interface will prevent the CPE from changing its arp entry for the gateway.

CSCed42120

Cisco ubr7200 series CMTS installed with NPE-G1 Network Processor Engine and running IOS release 12.2(15)BC1 may show high amount of uncorrectable FEC errors.

The issue occurs only when upstream cable interfaces are configured with a non-default modulation profile optimized to use long grants for voice.

IOS releases 12.2(15)BC1b, 12.2(15)CX, 12.2(15)CX1 show the same symptoms.

Workaround: Use the default modulation profile.

CSCed44559

uBR7246 experiencing performance issue under IOS version ubr7200-k8p-mz.122-15.BC1a.bin

Some indication of the performance issue is

1. high number of input errors and ignored on FastEthernet 2/0

2. high cpu spikes sometimes

Because the input rate is rather lower than 100Mbps, customer complains the performance capability of uBR7246.

There are no known workarounds.

CSCed47892

CPU interrupt burst to 100% immediately from 50% The console will hang for 5 to 10 minutes. The CMTS stops forwarding traffic but does not crash. After the hang, normal operation resumes until the next hang.

There are no known workarounds.

CSCed61110

Cisco ubr7200 series CMTS running IOS release 12.2(15)BC1 may experience a software-forced crash after a watchdot timiout in CMTS MAC Timer process.

The failure occurred on a platform with NPE-G1.

There are no known workarounds.

CSCed83867

uBR7246VXR with NPE-1G and MC28U blades with cable source-verify dhcp'enabled results in:

1. 100% CPU load and flooding the CNR with service queries, the contributor to high CPU load is identified to be 'DHCPD Receive' process.

2. The few mac-address in the arp entry shows all zeros

Workaround: Turning off the "cable source-verify dhcp" option in the config will bring the CPU back down.

CSCed86260

When two Cable interface are bundled, the ifInUcastPkts of the secondary cable interface is decreasing.

There are no known workarounds.

CSCed88709

When a service-policy that corresponds to a policy-map with no fair-queueing classes is applied outbound on a Cable interface and one class performs shaping the uBR7200 may drop outbound packets and generate error messages similar to

%LINK-4-BADQID: Interface Cable4/0, bad output queue ID 
specified (265). Packet dropped

when the shaping classes becomes active because of traffic rates that exceed the prescribed limits in the class.

Workaround: Have at least one class with a fair-queueing configuration in the policy-map. This means using one of the bandwidth, priority, or fair-queue commands within the policy-map for at least one class.

CSCed95436

uBR7246VXR may run into a issue with the Total-Kbyte Value being to high when issuing the <Show Subscriber-Usage> command. This behavior has been observed on 12.2(15)BC1 and 12.2(15)BC1b.

ex.
uBR7246VXR#show cable subscriber-usage over-consume
Sfid Mac Address   Enforce-rule Total-Kbyte  Last-detect    
Last-penalty   Pen
                      Name         Count        time           
time        Flag
761  0000.0000.0002 RESA1-UP    4294967087 Mar10 21:55:01  
Mar10 22:55:01  Act
762  0000.0000.0002 RESA1-DOWN  4294967270 Mar10 21:55:01  
Mar10 22:55:01  Act

uBR7246VXR#show cable modem 0000.0000.0002 counters 
MAC Address    US Packets   US Bytes   DS Packets   DS Bytes
0000.0000.0002 1631         219278     1467         1187222  

cable qos enforce-rule RESA1-UP
  penalty-period 60
  registered qos-profile 92
  enforced qos-profile 12
  monitoring-duration 120
  activate-rule at-byte-count 38400 upstream enforce
  enabled

cable qos enforce-rule RESA1-DOWN
  penalty-period 60
  registered qos-profile 92
  enforced qos-profile 12
  monitoring-duration 120
  activate-rule at-byte-count 450000 downstream enforce
  enabled

cable qos profile 12 max-burst 1544
cable qos profile 12 max-downstream 575
cable qos profile 12 max-upstream 128

cable qos profile 92 max-burst 1544
cable qos profile 92 max-downstream 1600
cable qos profile 92 max-upstream 128

This issue was discovered after a period of time. Currently amount of time and circumstances in which the event takes places are being explored.

There are no known workarounds.

CSCee09491

The cmts running 12.1(19)EC1 has experienced that some cms were stucking in init(r1) state with continuous following messages.

Log messages:
Mar 22 18:40:56 KST: %SYS-2-LINKED: Bad enqueue of 62783A24 in 
queue 61EA4ECC 
-Process= "CMTS MAC Protocol", ipl= 3, pid= 40 
-Traceback= 60650134 60332F48 60380A3C 603351E0 60332700 
60332928 603929F4 60392EDC 6063136C 60631358 
Mar 22 18:42:52 KST: %SYS-2-NOTQ: unqueue didn't find 6272FBC8 
in queue 61EA4ECC 
-Process= "CMTS MAC Timer Process", ipl= 3, pid= 41 
-Traceback= 60650340 60332EB0 6035F284 60381914 6035EA88 
6063136C 60631358

Workaround is to OIR the MC16c in question.

CSCee11283

ubr7246vxr(config-if)#cable up 0 power-adjust continue ?

<2-15> Power level in dB

The default "continue ranging" value in CMTS software to date is 1 dB. This value is an arbitrary value in the software and does not reflect Cisco RF Engineering best practices recommendation of a window of 3-6.

The 1 dB window can unnecessarily cause cable modems to attempt to come online and then fall offline and repeat this cycle thus causing customers to have intermittent network connectivity.

Workaround: Change the command on the CMTS to open the window by hand:

cable up X power-adjust continue 4

CSCee12270

A uBR7256VXR CMTS router with cable bundling, subscriber management, NBAR, and output QMC traffic-shaping enabled can crash in cmts_safe_start with %ALIGN-1-FATAL access to addr=0x3 errors.

There are no known workarounds.

CSCee12282

A uBR7246VXR CMTS router with output QMC traffic-shaping enabled and active on a cable interface can leak processor pool memory under high load, i.e. when multiple particles are used for packet buffering.

Workaround: Remove output QMC shaping command from cable interface to stop leak; reload router to reclaim memory.

CSCin21618

OC-12 CMTS got hanged with OIR on SRP interface.

There are no known workarounds.

CSCin36946

When a OIR pull is done on the Fastethernet interface which is part of a FastEtherchannel, the interface may still remain as member of the port-channel. And the packet input rate counter may not decrement to zero after the above OIR operation.

There are no known workarounds.

CSCin45061

Mobile host functionality does not work.

There are no known workarounds.

CSCin55008

After a OIR operation on the links which form part of the etherchannel, the channel group config on the links is lost.

There are no known workarounds.

CSCeb61346

Changing the cable interface queueing configuration does not update the "show" and "running config" correctly.

This issue occurs during change output policy on the 7200

There are no known workarounds, but the desired queueing will take effect, even though it does not show up in the "show" or "running config" correctly.

CSCed64701

Unexpected packet loss at a certain rate and frame size and the overrun incrementing on the interface can be observed on the GigaEthernet Interfaces.

There are no known workarounds.

CSCee02297

A CPE behind a cable modem should be allowed to assume the IP address of a previous CPE behind the same cable modem.

Currently, if a new CPE does have to assume its IP address behind a particular CM like this, one has to perform a "clear cable host" on the CMTS so that the CMTS releases the IP/MAC binding for the previous CPE with the CM its behind.

There are no known workarounds.


Closed and Resolved Caveats for Release 12.2(15)BC2a

The caveats listed in Table 21 are resolved in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2a. This table describes only severity 1 and 2 caveats and select severity 3 caveats.

Table 21 Closed and Resolved Caveats for Release 12.2(15)BC2a 

Caveat ID Number
Description

CSCed91527

The Request Collision counter does not appear to be incrementing on the MC8u card, when using the show controller command.

There are no known workarounds.

CSCee06228

The SRP protocol on a ubr7246vxr running 12.2(15)BC1b may not fully initialize during the boot sequence if one side is wrapped.

Workaround: Force a wrap using "srp ips request forced-switch <x>" and remove this forced wrap. Note this would have to be done manually after a reload/reboot.

CSCee17648

MAC Scheduler incorrectly Calculates max-unfrag-sz resulting in packet loss.

Workaround: Modify Modulation profile so max burst option matches that of max-unfrag-sz.


Open Caveats for Release 12.2(15)BC2

All the caveats listed in Table 22 are open and reported in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2. This table lists only severity 1 and 2 caveats and select severity 3 caveats.

Table 22 Open Caveats for Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2 

Caveat ID Number
Description

CSCdx62698

This problem was observed while doing spot checking for CMTS image.

Workaround: To prevent CPE behind the Cable modem to accessing the CMTS, the interface specific access-group can be configured as a workaround.

CSCdy10666

Remote-query unconfiguring does not work properly.

There are no known workarounds.

CSCea13693

When there are about 2800 cable modems connected to a cable interface, a few hundred cable modems will go offline in a short period of time.

It is recommended to have no more than 2000 cable modems connected to a cable interface.

There are no known workarounds.

CSCec09369

Under certain circumstances the reporting of CPU utilization could be inaccurate.

This could occur if the timed scheduling of upstream traffic coincides exactly with the system clock that is used to calculate system timing for an extended period of time.

There are no known workarounds.

CSCed06848

With DMIC turned on, CMs may not be able to download IOS config files.

If a CM is online and tries to download an IOS.cfg file from the same tftp server as specified in the DHCP offer, it will fail. The problem only happens with DMIC turned on and seen on CMs (e.g., Cisco CMs in routing mode), that try downloading a second config file after coming online.

There are no known workarounds.

CSCed10546

Ping can use wrong interface ip address as source ip address.

This is happen only if we do load balancing with CEF

There are no known workarounds.

CSCed12040

Cable source-verify needs to be modified to cater for internal changes within IOS.

There are no known workarounds.

CSCed27848

UBR with IOS 12.2(15)BC1 and 12.2(15)BC1a has a problem with loading startup-config after reload with BPI+ configuration and cable modems. When BPI+ is enabled in a cable modems' config file after reload CMTS doesn't load startup-config. This is version specific 12.2(15)BC1 and 12.2(15)BC1a seems to have this issue.

There are no known workarounds.

CSCed36625

On cable routers, including uBR7200s and uBR10ks, CPE OSs such as Linux and FreeBSD may appear to frequently change the mac address of their gateway IP address. Linux will show:

Dec 15 00:12:17 home /kernel: arp: 192.168.0.1 moved from
00:01:42:1d:4d:54 to 00:01:42:1d:4d:a8 on dc0
Dec 15 00:13:26 home /kernel: arp: 192.168.0.1 moved from
00:01:42:1d:4d:a8 to 00:01:42:1d:4d:54 on dc0
Dec 15 00:26:17 home /kernel: arp: 192.168.0.1 moved from
00:01:42:1d:4d:54 to 00:01:42:1d:4d:a8 on dc0

FreeBSD will show:
arp: 10.0.0.1 moved from 00:08:e2:33:0c:54 to 
00:08:e2:33:0c:70 on ed0
arp: 10.0.0.1 moved from 00:08:e2:33:0c:70 to 
00:08:e2:33:0c:54 on ed0

This issue occurs when cable bundling is configured. Modems and CPEs on the bundle slave interface(s) will experience the problem. Those on the master interface will not experience it.

The problem is that the L2 header for arp replies and arp requests are not consistent on a bundle slave. An arp reply will have a source mac in the L2 header of the bundle slave interface. A broadcast arp request will have a source mac of the bundlemaster and the arp request packets will have a mac source of the bundle master.

Workaround: In theory, using a static arp entry on the CPE device binding the gateway IP address to the mac address of the CMTS slave interface will prevent the CPE from changing its arp entry for the gateway.

CSCed42120

Cisco ubr7200 series CMTS installed with NPE-G1 Network Processor Engine and running IOS release 12.2(15)BC1 may show high amount of uncorrectable FEC errors.

The issue occurs only when upstream cable interfaces are configured with a non-default modulation profile optimized to use long grants for voice.

IOS releases 12.2(15)BC1b, 12.2(15)CX, 12.2(15)CX1 show the same symptoms.

Workaround: Use the default modulation profile.

CSCed44559

uBR7246 experiencing performance issue under IOS version ubr7200-k8p-mz.122-15.BC1a.bin

Some indication of the performance issue is

1. high number of input errors and ignored on FastEthernet 2/0

2. high cpu spikes sometimes

Because the input rate is rather lower than 100Mbps, customer complains the performance capability of uBR7246.

There are no known workarounds.

CSCed47892

CPU interrupt burst to 100% immediately from 50% The console will hang for 5 to 10 minutes. The CMTS stops forwarding traffic but does not crash. After the hang, normal operation resumes until the next hang.

There are no known workarounds.

CSCed61110

Cisco ubr7200 series CMTS running IOS release 12.2(15)BC1 may experience a software-forced crash after a watchdot timiout in CMTS MAC Timer process.

The failure occurred on a platform with NPE-G1.

There are no known workarounds.

CSCed83867

uBR7246VXR with NPE-1G and MC28U blades with 'cable source-verify dhcp'enabled results in:

1. 100% CPU load and flooding the CNR with service queries, the contributor to high CPU load is identified to be 'DHCPD Receive' process.

2. The few mac-address in the arp entry shows all zeros

Workaround: Turning off the "cable source-verify dhcp" option in the config will bring the CPU back down.

CSCed86260

When two Cable interface are bundled, the ifInUcastPkts of the secondary cable interface is decreasing.

There are no known workarounds.

CSCed88709

When a service-policy that corresponds to a policy-map with no fair-queueing classes is applied outbound on a Cable interface and one class performs shaping the uBR7200 may drop outbound packets and generate error messages similar to

%LINK-4-BADQID: Interface Cable4/0, bad output queue ID 
specified (265). Packet dropped

when the shaping classes becomes active because of traffic rates that exceed the prescribed limits in the class.

Workaround: Have at least one class with a fair-queueing configuration in the policy-map. This means using one of the bandwidth, priority, or fair-queue commands within the policy-map for at least one class.

CSCed95436

uBR7246VXR may run into a issue with the Total-Kbyte Value being to high when issuing the <Show Subscriber-Usage> command. This behavior has been observed on 12.2(15)BC1 and 12.2(15)BC1b.

ex.
uBR7246VXR#show cable subscriber-usage over-consume
Sfid Mac Address   Enforce-rule Total-Kbyte  Last-detect    
Last-penalty   Pen
                      Name         Count        time           
time        Flag
761  0000.0000.0002 RESA1-UP    4294967087 Mar10 21:55:01  
Mar10 22:55:01  Act
762  0000.0000.0002 RESA1-DOWN  4294967270 Mar10 21:55:01  
Mar10 22:55:01  Act

uBR7246VXR#show cable modem 0000.0000.0002 counters 
MAC Address    US Packets   US Bytes   DS Packets   DS Bytes
0000.0000.0002 1631         219278     1467         1187222  

cable qos enforce-rule RESA1-UP
  penalty-period 60
  registered qos-profile 92
  enforced qos-profile 12
  monitoring-duration 120
  activate-rule at-byte-count 38400 upstream enforce
  enabled

cable qos enforce-rule RESA1-DOWN
  penalty-period 60
  registered qos-profile 92
  enforced qos-profile 12
  monitoring-duration 120
  activate-rule at-byte-count 450000 downstream enforce
  enabled

cable qos profile 12 max-burst 1544
cable qos profile 12 max-downstream 575
cable qos profile 12 max-upstream 128

cable qos profile 92 max-burst 1544
cable qos profile 92 max-downstream 1600
cable qos profile 92 max-upstream 128

This issue was discovered after a period of time. Currently amount of time and circumstances in which the event takes places are being explored.

There are no known workarounds.

CSCee09491

The cmts running 12.1(19)EC1 has experienced that some cms were stucking in init(r1) state with continuous following messages.

Log messages:
Mar 22 18:40:56 KST: %SYS-2-LINKED: Bad enqueue of 62783A24 in 
queue 61EA4ECC 
-Process= "CMTS MAC Protocol", ipl= 3, pid= 40 
-Traceback= 60650134 60332F48 60380A3C 603351E0 60332700 
60332928 603929F4 60392EDC 6063136C 60631358 
Mar 22 18:42:52 KST: %SYS-2-NOTQ: unqueue didn't find 6272FBC8 
in queue 61EA4ECC 
-Process= "CMTS MAC Timer Process", ipl= 3, pid= 41 
-Traceback= 60650340 60332EB0 6035F284 60381914 6035EA88 
6063136C 60631358

Workaround is to OIR the MC16c in question.

CSCee11283

ubr7246vxr(config-if)#cable up 0 power-adjust continue ?

<2-15> Power level in dB

The default "continue ranging" value in CMTS software to date is 1 dB. This value is an arbitrary value in the software and does not reflect Cisco RF Engineering best practices recommendation of a window of 3-6.

The 1 dB window can unnecessarily cause cable modems to attempt to come online and then fall offline and repeat this cycle thus causing customers to have intermittent network connectivity.

Workaround: Change the command on the CMTS to open the window by hand:

cable up X power-adjust continue 4

CSCee12270

A uBR7256VXR CMTS router with cable bundling, subscriber management, NBAR, and output QMC traffic-shaping enabled can crash in cmts_safe_start with %ALIGN-1-FATAL access to addr=0x3 errors.

There are no known workarounds.

CSCee12282

A uBR7246VXR CMTS router with output QMC traffic-shaping enabled and active on a cable interface can leak processor pool memory under high load, i.e. when multiple particles are used for packet buffering.

Workaround: Remove output QMC shaping command from cable interface to stop leak; reload router to reclaim memory.

CSCin21618

OC-12 CMTS got hanged with OIR on SRP interface.

There are no known workarounds.

CSCin36946

When a OIR pull is done on the Fastethernet interface which is part of a FastEtherchannel, the interface may still remain as member of the port-channel. And the packet input rate counter may not decrement to zero after the above OIR operation.

There are no known workarounds.

CSCin45061

Mobile host functionality does not work.

There are no known workarounds.

CSCin55008

After a OIR operation on the links which form part of the etherchannel, the channel group config on the links is lost.

There are no known workarounds.

CSCeb61346

Changing the cable interface queueing configuration does not update the "show" and "running config" correctly.

This issue occurs during change output policy on the 7200

There are no known workarounds, but the desired queueing will take effect, even though it does not show up in the "show" or "running config" correctly.

CSCed64701

Unexpected packet loss at a certain rate and frame size and the overrun incrementing on the interface can be observed on the GigaEthernet Interfaces.

There are no known workarounds.

CSCee02297

A CPE behind a cable modem should be allowed to assume the IP address of a previous CPE behind the same cable modem.

Currently, if a new CPE does have to assume its IP address behind a particular CM like this, one has to perform a "clear cable host" on the CMTS so that the CMTS releases the IP/MAC binding for the previous CPE with the CM its behind.

There are no known workarounds.


Closed and Resolved Caveats for Release 12.2(15)BC2

The caveats listed in Table 23 are resolved in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(15)BC2. This table describes only severity 1 and 2 caveats and select severity 3 caveats.

Table 23 Closed and Resolved Caveats for Release 12.2(15)BC2 

Caveat ID Number
Description

CSCdu13269

If the router is low on memory it may print out the foll. error messages. The router may become non functional.

There are no known workarounds.

CSCdy66891

When a cable modem receives a docsis binary file with network access disabled and bpi enabled, the CMTS will show it in the "online(pt)" state instead of "online(d)".

Workaround: Remove BPI from the docsis binary file.

CSCdz58997

Under Cisco IOS Release 12.2(11)BC1b, show cable modem phy shows DSpwr in wrong way.

There are no known workarounds.

CSCdz80580

A DPT-OC-12 port adapter (PA-S