Cisco Catalyst 8500 Series Multiservice Switch Routers

Revised October 31, 2005

May 7, 2002

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Products Affected

Problem Description

When the C8540 MSR is placed under heavy load, cells may be misordered when they are sent out of a WAI-OC12-1MM PAM placed in a C85MS-SCAM-2P SuperCAM, causing cell losses and CRC errors.

Background

Cell losses and CRC errors caused by cell misordering occur when a WAI-OC12-1MM PAM is connected to a C85MS-SCAM-2P SuperCam in a Catalyst 8540MSR system. The 1-Port OC12 PAM on any C85MS-SCAM-2P is causes cell corruption that inevitabily leads to packet corruption whenever segmentation and reassembly (SAR) is performed to put the cells back into frames.

Conditions under which the problem occurs:

1. This problem is seen on Catalyst 8540 SuperCAMs using the one port OC12 PAM only.

2. It only manifests at traffic rates above 99% maximum OC-12 (1.398 Mc/sec and above).

Problem Symptoms

Visible symptoms include unexplained cell losses (no rx fifo drops shown in the switch) and CRC errors in frames transiting the hardware. The CRC errors are caused by the misordered cells leaving the WAI-OC12-1MM port adapter module.

Workaround/Solution

For a complete fix, there are two updates required.

1. The C85MS-SCAM-2P SuperCAM FPGA image must be updated to release 1.9 (fi-c8540-scam.B.1-9) or later. Download the file fi-c8540-scam.B.1-9 from the Cisco.com Software Center.

2. For the SCAM/OC12 combination with the C85MS-SCAM-2P installed in slots 10, 11, or 12, the Cisco IOS® software must be upgraded to release 12.0(18)W05(22), 12.1(7a)EY1, or later. If the combination is in slots 10, 11, or 12, then Cisco IOS software must be upgraded to release 12.0(25)$5(26), 12.1(12c)EY, 12.1(13)E1, or later. A simplified matrix is given below. Download the software from the Cisco.com Software Center.

DDTS

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How To Identify Hardware Levels

To identify the hardware version, FPGA and Part Number, run the show hardware detail command.

Platan#show hardware detail

C8540 named Platan, Date: 12:56:02 UTC Fri Apr 6 2001

    Slot Ctrlr-Type   Part No.  Rev Ser No   Mfg Date  RMA No.  Hw Vrs  Tst EEP
    ---- ------------ ---------- -- -------- --------- -------- ------- --- ---
    3/*  Super Cam    73-2739-03 B0 03170TF9 May 02 99 0 3.0 
    3/0  155MM PAM    73-1496-03 A0 10989016 Dec 08 98 00-00-00 3.2     0   2
    3/1  155MM PAM    73-1496-03 A6 03203786 Aug 01 95 00-00-00 3.1     0   2
    9/*  Super Cam    73-2739-03 B0 03170TJ3 May 02 99 0        3.0 
    9/0  155MM PAM    73-1496-03 00 03114831 Feb 26 96 00-00-00 3.0     0   2
    10/* Super Cam    73-2739-03 B0 03200VWZ May 14 99 0        3.0 
    10/0 622MM PAM    73-1864-02 A0 07200135 Dec 12 97 00-00-00 1.2     0   2
    10/1 622MM PAM    73-1864-02 A0 03102177 Nov 29 96 00-00-00 1.2     0   2


slot: 3/* Controller-Type : Super Cam
Part Number: 73-2739-03 Revision: B0 
Serial Number: MIC03170TF9 Mfg Date: May 02 99
RMA Number: 0 H/W Version: 3.0
FPGA Version: 1.8

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