Table Of Contents
Release Notes for the
Catalyst 3550 Multilayer Switch
Cisco IOS Release 12.1(20)EA2
Contents
System Requirements
Hardware Supported
Software Compatibility
Windows
Solaris
Cluster Compatibility
Downloading Software
Finding the Software Version and Feature Set
Deciding Which Files to Use
Upgrading a Switch by Using CMS
Upgrading a Switch by Using the CLI
Upgrading with a Nondefault System MTU Setting
Recovering from Software Failure
Installation Notes
New Features
New Hardware Features
New Software Features
Limitations and Restrictions
Cisco IOS Limitations and Restrictions
New Limitations in This Release
Cluster Limitations and Restrictions
CMS Limitations and Restrictions
Important Notes
Cisco IOS Notes
Cluster Notes
CMS Notes
Open Caveats
Open Cisco IOS Caveats
Open CMS Caveats
Resolved Caveats
Cisco IOS Caveats Resolved in Cisco IOS Release 12.1(20)EA2
CMS Caveats Resolved in Cisco IOS Release 12.1(20)EA2
Documentation Updates
Correction to the Catalyst 3550 Multilayer Switch Software Configuration Guide
Chapter 3, Getting Started with CMS
Chapter 29, Configuring QoS
Related Documentation
Obtaining Documentation
Cisco.com
Ordering Documentation
Documentation Feedback
Obtaining Technical Assistance
Cisco Technical Support Website
Submitting a Service Request
Definitions of Service Request Severity
Obtaining Additional Publications and Information
Release Notes for the
Catalyst 3550 Multilayer Switch
Cisco IOS Release 12.1(20)EA2
May 2004
Cisco IOS Release 12.1(20)EA2 runs on all Catalyst 3550 multilayer switches.
These release notes include important information about this Cisco IOS release and any limitations, restrictions, and caveats that apply to it. Verify that these are the correct release notes for your switch:
•
If you are installing a new switch, refer to the Cisco IOS release label on the rear panel of your switch.
•If your switch is on, use the show version privileged EXEC command. See the "Finding the Software Version and Feature Set" section.
•If you are upgrading to a new release, refer to the software upgrade filename for the Cisco IOS version. See the "Deciding Which Files to Use" section.
For the complete list of Catalyst 3550 switch documentation, see the "Related Documentation" section.
You can download the switch software from these sites:
•http://www.cisco.com/kobayashi/sw-center/sw-lan.shtml
(for registered Cisco.com users with a login password)
•http://www.cisco.com/public/sw-center/sw-lan.shtml
(for nonregistered Cisco.com users)
This Cisco IOS release is part of a special release of Cisco IOS software that is not released on the same 8-week maintenance cycle that is used for other platforms. As maintenance releases and future Cisco IOS releases become available, they will be posted to Cisco.com (previously Cisco Connection Online [CCO]) in the Cisco IOS software area.
Contents
This information is in the release notes:
•"System Requirements" section
•"Downloading Software" section
•"Installation Notes" section
•"New Features" section
•"Limitations and Restrictions" section
•"Important Notes" section
•"Open Caveats" section
•"Resolved Caveats" section
•"Documentation Updates" section
•"Related Documentation" section
•"Obtaining Documentation" section
•"Documentation Feedback" section
•"Obtaining Technical Assistance" section
•"Obtaining Additional Publications and Information" section
System Requirements
The system requirements for this release are described in these sections:
•"Hardware Supported" section
•"Software Compatibility" section
•"Cluster Compatibility" section
Hardware Supported
Table 1Table 1 lists the hardware supported by this Cisco IOS release.
Table 1 Supported Hardware
Switch
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Description
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Catalyst 3550-12G
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10 GBIC-based Gigabit Ethernet slots and 2 Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000BASE-T ports
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Catalyst 3550-12T
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10 Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000BASE-T ports and 2 GBIC1 -based Gigabit Ethernet slots
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Catalyst 3550-24
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24 autosensing 10/100 Ethernet ports and 2 GBIC-based Gigabit Ethernet slots
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Catalyst 3550-24-DC
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24 autosensing 10/100 Ethernet ports, 2 GBIC-based Gigabit Ethernet slots, and an on-board DC2 power converter
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Catalyst 3550-24-FX
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24 100BASE-FX ports and 2 GBIC-based Gigabit Ethernet slots
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Catalyst 3550-24PWR
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24 autosensing 10/100 Ethernet ports, 2 GBIC-based Gigabit Ethernet slots, ability to provide power for Cisco IP Phones and Cisco Aironet Access Points from all 10/100 Ethernet ports, auto-detection and control of inline power on a per-port basis on all 10/100 ports
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Catalyst 3550-48
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48 autosensing 10/100 Ethernet ports and 2 GBIC-based Gigabit Ethernet slots
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GBIC modules
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•1000BASE-SX GBIC
•1000BASE-LX/LH GBIC
•1000BASE-ZX GBIC
•1000BASE-T GBIC
•GigaStack GBIC
•CWDM3 fiber-optic GBIC
•DWDM4 fiber-optic GBIC
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Redundant power system
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Cisco RPS 300 Redundant Power System5
Cisco RPS 675 Redundant Power System6
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Software Compatibility
For information about the recommended platforms for web-based management, operating systems and browser support, the CMS plug-in guidelines, and installation procedures, refer to the "Getting Started with CMS" chapter of the software configuration guide.
Windows
This release uses a CMS plug-in (Windows only) to run CMS. You can download the latest CMS plug-in for Windows from this URL:
http://www.cisco.com/pcgi-bin/Support/ClusterMgmtSuite/cms_plugin_redirect.cgi?platform=
windows&version=1.1
Solaris
This release uses a CMS plug-in (Solaris only) that replaces the Java plug-in. You must download the CMS plug-in to run CMS. You can download the latest CMS plug-in for Solaris from this URL:
http://www.cisco.com/pcgi-bin/Support/ClusterMgmtSuite/cms_plugin_redirect.cgi?platform=
solaris&version=1.1
Cluster Compatibility
This section describes how to choose command and standby command switches when a cluster consists of a mixture of Catalyst switches. When creating a switch cluster or adding a switch to a cluster, follow these guidelines:
•When you create a switch cluster, we recommend configuring the highest-end switch in your cluster as the command switch. Table 2 lists the cluster capabilities and Cisco IOS releases for the switches. The switches are listed from highest- to lowest-end switch.
•If you are managing the cluster through CMS, the switch that has the latest software should be the command switch, unless your command switch is running Cisco IOS Release 12.1(19)EA1 or later.
•The standby command switch must be the same type as the command switch. For example, if the command switch is a Catalyst 3750 switch, all standby command switches must be Catalyst 3750 switches.
Table 2 Switch Software and Cluster Capability
Switch
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Cisco IOS Release
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Cluster Capability
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Catalyst 3750
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12.1(11)AX or later
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Member or command switch
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Catalyst 3560
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12.1(19)EA1b
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Member or command switch
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Catalyst 3550
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12.1(4)EA1 or later
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Member or command switch
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Catalyst 2970
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12.1(11)AX or later
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Member or command switch
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Catalyst 2955
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12.1(12c)EA1 or later
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Member or command switch
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Catalyst 2950
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12.0(5.2)WC(1) or later
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Member or command switch
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Catalyst 2950 LRE
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12.1(11)JY or later
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Member or command switch
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Catalyst 2940
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12.1(13)AY or later
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Member or command switch
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Catalyst 3500 XL
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12.0(5.1)XU or later
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Member or command switch
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Catalyst 2900 XL (8-MB switches)
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12.0(5.1)XU or later
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Member or command switch
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Catalyst 2900 XL (4-MB switches)
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11.2(8.5)SA6 (recommended)
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Member switch only1
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Catalyst 1900 and 2820
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9.00(-A or -EN) or later
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Member switch only
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CMS is not forward-compatible on command switches running Cisco IOS 12.1(14)EA1 and earlier. This means that if a member switch is running a release that is earlier than the release running on the command switch, the new features are not available on the member switch. If the member switch is a new device running a release that is later than the release on the command switch, the command switch cannot recognize the member switch, and the Front Panel view displays it as an unknown device. You cannot configure any parameters or generate a report through CMS for that member; instead, you must launch the Device Manager application to configure and to obtain reports for that member.
Some versions of the Catalyst 2900 XL software do not support clustering, and if you have a cluster with switches that are running different versions of Cisco IOS software, software features added on the latest release might not be reflected on switches running the older releases. For example, if you start CMS on a Catalyst 2900 XL switch running Release 11.2(8)SA6, the windows and functionality can be different from a switch running Release 12.0(5)WC(1) or later.
Downloading Software
Before downloading software, read this section for important information. These are the procedures for downloading software:
•"Finding the Software Version and Feature Set" section
•"Deciding Which Files to Use" section
•"Upgrading a Switch by Using CMS" section
•"Upgrading a Switch by Using the CLI" section
•"Recovering from Software Failure" section
Caution A bootloader upgrade occurs if you are upgrading the switch from a noncryptographic image to cryptographic image, regardless of the current noncryptographic Cisco IOS Release that is running on the switch. The bootloader can take up to 30 seconds to upgrade. Do not power cycle the switch while you are copying this image to the switch. If a power failure occurs when you are copying this image to the switch, call Cisco Systems immediately.
When you upgrade a switch, the switch continues to operate while the new software is copied to flash memory. If flash memory has enough space, the new image is copied to the selected switch but does not replace the running image until you reboot the switch. If a failure occurs during the copy process, you can still reboot your switch by using the old image. If flash memory does not have enough space for two images, the new image is copied over the existing one. Features provided by the new software are not available until you reload the switch.
If a failure occurs while copying a new image to the switch, and the old image has already been deleted, refer to the "Recovering from Corrupted Software" section in the "Troubleshooting" chapter of the software configuration guide.
Finding the Software Version and Feature Set
The Cisco IOS image is stored as a bin file in a directory that is named with the Cisco IOS release. A subdirectory contains the files needed for web management. The image is stored on the system board flash device (flash:).
You can use the show version privileged EXEC command to see the software version that is running on your switch. The second line displays C3550-I5Q3L2 for the enhanced multilayer software image (EMI) or C3550-I9Q3L2 for the standard multilayer software image (SMI).
Note Although the show version output always shows the software image running on the switch (Layer 2 only or Layer 2 and Layer 3), the model name shown at the end of this display is the factory configuration (SMI or EMI) and does not change if you upgrade the software image.
You can also use the dir filesystem: privileged EXEC command to see the directory names of other software images that you might have stored in flash memory.
Deciding Which Files to Use
The upgrade procedures in these release notes describe how to perform the upgrade by using a combined tar file. This file contains both the Cisco IOS image file and the CMS files. You must use the combined tar file to upgrade the switch through CMS.
The tar file is an archive file from which you can extract files by using the tar command. You also use the tar file to upgrade the system by using the archive download-sw privileged EXEC command.
Table 3 lists the software filenames for this Cisco IOS release.
Table 3 Cisco IOS Software Files for Catalyst 3550 Switches
Filename
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Description
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c3550-i9q3l2-tar.121-20.EA2.tar
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Cisco IOS SMI image file and the CMS files.
This image has Layer 2+ and basic Layer 3 routing features.
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| |
Cisco IOS EMI image file and the CMS files.
This image has Layer 2+ and full Layer 3 features.
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c3550-i9k2l2q3-tar.121-20.EA2.tar
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Cisco IOS SMI cryptographic image file and the CMS files. This image has the Kerberos, Secure Shell (SSH), Layer 2+, and basic Layer 3 routing features.
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c3550-i5k2l2q3-tar.121-20.EA2.tar
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Cisco IOS EMI cryptographic image file and the CMS files. This image has the Kerberos, SSH, Layer 2, and full Layer 3 features.
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The Catalyst 3550 switch is supported by either the SMI, which provides Layer 2+ features and basic Layer 3 routing, or the EMI, which provides Layer 2+ features, full Layer 3 routing, and advanced services. All Catalyst 3550 Gigabit Ethernet switches are shipped with the EMI installed. Catalyst 3550 Fast Ethernet switches are shipped with either the SMI or the EMI installed. After initial deployment, you can order the Enhanced Multilayer Software Image Upgrade kit to upgrade the Catalyst 3550 Fast Ethernet switches from the SMI to the EMI.
Upgrading a Switch by Using CMS
You can upgrade switch software by using CMS. From the menu bar, select Administration > Software Upgrade. For detailed instructions, click Help.
Caution A bootloader upgrade occurs if you are upgrading the switch from a noncryptographic image to cryptographic image, regardless of the current noncryptographic Cisco IOS release that is running on the switch. The bootloader can take up to 30 seconds to upgrade. Do not power cycle the switch while you are copying this image to the switch. If a power failure occurs when you are copying this image to the switch, call Cisco Systems immediately.
Upgrading a Switch by Using the CLI
This procedure is for copying the combined tar file to the Catalyst 3550 switch. You copy the file to the switch from a TFTP server and extract the files. You can download an image file and replace or keep the current image. This procedure requires a configured TFTP server.
Caution A bootloader upgrade occurs if you are upgrading the switch from a noncryptographic image to a cryptographic image, regardless of the current noncryptographic Cisco IOS release that is running on the switch. The bootloader can take up to 30 seconds to upgrade. Do not power cycle the switch while you are copying this image to the switch. If a power failure occurs when you are copying this image to the switch, call Cisco Systems immediately.
To download software, follow these steps:
Step 1 Use Table 3 to identify the file that you want to download.
Step 2 Download the software image file.
•If you have a SmartNet support contract, go to this URL, and log in to download the appropriate files:
http://www.cisco.com/kobayashi/sw-center/sw-lan.shtml
•If you do not have a SmartNet contract, go to this URL, and follow the instructions to register on Cisco.com and download the appropriate files:
http://www.cisco.com/public/sw-center/sw-lan.shtml
To download the SMI and EMI files, select Catalyst 3550 software.
To obtain authorization and to download the cryptographic software files, select Catalyst 3550 3DES Cryptographic Software.
Step 3 Copy the image to the appropriate TFTP directory on the workstation, and make sure that the TFTP server is properly configured.
For more information, refer to Appendix B in the Catalyst 3550 Multilayer Switch Software Configuration Guide.
Step 4 Log in to the switch through the console port or a Telnet session.
Step 5 Check your VLAN 1 configuration by using the show interfaces vlan 1 privileged EXEC command, and verify that VLAN 1 is part of the same network as the TFTP server. (Check the Internet address is line near the top of the display.)
Step 6 Download the image file from the TFTP server to the switch. If you are installing the same version of software that is currently on the switch, overwrite the current image by using this privileged EXEC command:
archive download-sw /overwrite /reload tftp:[[//location]/directory]/image-name.tar
The /overwrite option overwrites the software image in flash memory with the downloaded one.
The /reload option reloads the system after downloading the image unless the configuration has been changed and not been saved.
For //location, specify the IP address of the TFTP server.
For /directory/image-name.tar, specify the directory (optional) and the image to download. Directory and image names are case sensitive.
This example shows how to download an image from a TFTP server at 198.30.20.19 and to overwrite the image on the switch:
Switch# archive download-sw /overwrite tftp://198.30.20.19/c3550-i5q3l2-tar.121-20.EA2.tar
You can also download the image file from the TFTP server to the switch and keep the current image by replacing the /overwrite option with the /leave-old-sw option.
Upgrading with a Nondefault System MTU Setting
If the switch was running Cisco IOS Release 12.1(8)EA1c or earlier and you had used the system mtu global configuration command to configure a nondefault system maximum transmission unit (MTU) size on your switch, follow these steps to upgrade your switch to Cisco IOS Release 12.1(11)EA1 or later:
Step 1 Upgrade the Cisco IOS software to Cisco IOS Release 12.1(11)EA1 or later.
Step 2 If a system MTU size of greater than 2000 is configured on the Catalyst 3550-12T or Catalyst 3550-12G, use the system mtu global configuration command to set it to the maximum supported MTU size.
Note The maximum allowable system MTU for Catalyst 3550 Gigabit Ethernet switches
is 2000 bytes; the maximum system MTU for Fast Ethernet switches is 1546 bytes.
Step 3 Save the running configuration by entering the copy running-config startup-config privileged EXEC command.
Step 4 Reload the switch by using the new Cisco IOS software.
Step 5 When the switch comes back up with Cisco IOS Release 12.1(11)EA1 or later, reload the switch a second time by using the reload privileged EXEC command so that the system mtu command takes effect.
Recovering from Software Failure
If the software fails, you can reload the software. For detailed recovery procedures, refer to the "Troubleshooting" chapter in the software configuration guide.
Installation Notes
You can assign IP information to your switch by using these methods:
•The Express Setup program described in the hardware installation guide.
•The CLI-based setup program described in the hardware installation guide.
•The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)-based autoconfiguration described in the software configuration guide.
•Manually assigning an IP address described in the software configuration guide.
New Features
These are the new supported hardware and the new software features provided in this release.
New Hardware Features
For a list of supported hardware, see the "Hardware Supported" section.
New Software Features
Cisco IOS Release 12.1(20)EA2 contains these new enhancements:
•Automatic quality of service (auto-QoS) when traffic is received on trusted ports and when your switch is connected to a device running the Cisco SoftPhone application.
•Support for 802.1x accounting to track network usage.
•Support for these 802.1x port access entity (PAE) MIBs: IEEE8021-PAE-MIB and CISCO-PAE-MIB.
Limitations and Restrictions
You should review this section before you begin working with the switches. These are known limitations that will not be fixed, and there is not always a workaround. Some features might not work as documented, and some features could be affected by recent changes to the switch hardware or software.
These are the limitations and restrictions:
•"Cisco IOS Limitations and Restrictions" section
•"Cluster Limitations and Restrictions" section
•"CMS Limitations and Restrictions" section
Cisco IOS Limitations and Restrictions
These limitations apply to Cisco IOS configuration:
•The switch does not support tunnel interfaces for unicast routed traffic. Only Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol (DVMRP) tunnel interfaces are supported for multicast routing.
•Modifying a multicast boundary access list does not prevent packets from being forwarded by any multicast routes that were in existence before the access list was modified if the packets arriving on the input interface do not violate the boundary. However, no new multicast routes that violate the updated version of the multicast boundary access list are learned, and any multicast routes that are in violation of the updated access list are not relearned if they age out.
After updating a multicast boundary, the workaround is to use the clear ip mroute privileged EXEC command to delete any existing multicast routes that violate the updated boundary. (CSCdr79083)
•When an IP packet with a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) error is received, the per-packet per-Differentiated Service Code Point (DSCP) counter (for DSCP 0) is incremented. Normal networks should not have packets with CRC errors. (CSCdr85898)
•If you configure the DHCP server to allocate addresses from a pool to the switch, two devices on the network might have the same IP address. Pooled addresses are temporarily allocated to a device and are returned to the pool when not in use. If you save the configuration file after the switch receives such an address, the pooled address is saved, and the switch does not attempt to access the DHCP server after a reboot to receive a new IP address. As a result, two devices might have the same IP address.
The workaround is to make sure that you configure the DHCP server with reserved leases that are bound to each switch by the switch hardware address. (CSCds55220)
•The show ip mroute count privileged EXEC command might display incorrect packet counts. In certain transient states (for example, when a multicast stream is forwarded only to the CPU during the route-learning process and the CPU is programming this route into the hardware), a multicast stream packet count might be counted twice. Do not trust the counter during this transient state. (CSCds61396)
•When changing the link speed of a Gigabit Ethernet port from 1000 Mbps to 100 Mbps, there is a slight chance that the port will stop forwarding packets. If this occurs, shut down the port, and re-enable it by using the shutdown and no shutdown interface configuration commands. (CSCds84279)
•In IP multicast routing and fallback bridging, certain hardware features are used to replicate packets for the different VLANs of an outgoing trunk port. If the incoming speed is line rate, the outgoing interface cannot duplicate that speed (because of the replication of the packets). As a result, certain replicated packets are dropped. (CSCdt06418)
•When you use the no interface port-channel global configuration command to remove an EtherChannel group, the ports in the port group change to the administratively down state.
When you remove an EtherChannel group, enter the no shutdown interface configuration command on the interfaces that belonged to the port group to bring them back on line. (CSCdt10825)
•In the show interface interface-id privileged EXEC command output, the output buffer failures field shows the number of packets lost before replication, whereas the packets output field shows the successful transmitted packets after replication. To determine actual discarded frames, multiply the output buffer failures by the number of VLANs on which the multicast data is replicated. (CSCdt26928)
•Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) packets classified by QoS to map the DSCP value and the class of service (CoS) value in a QoS policy map might only modify the DSCP property and leave the CoS value at zero. (CSCdt27705)
•If you assign both tail-drop threshold percentages to 100 percent by using the wrr-queue threshold interface configuration command and display QoS information for this interface by using the show mls qos interface statistics privileged command, the drop-count statistics are always zero even if the thresholds were exceeded. To display the total number of discarded packets, use the show controllers ethernet-controllers interface-id privileged EXEC command. In the display, the number of discarded frames includes the frames that were dropped when the tail-drop thresholds were exceeded. (CSCdt29703)
•Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) path costs and Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (IGRP) metrics are incorrect for switch virtual interface (SVI) ports. You can manually configure the bandwidth of the SVI by using the bandwidth interface configuration command. Changing the bandwidth of the interface changes the routing metric for the routes when the SVI is used as an outgoing interface. (CSCdt29806)
•Remote Monitoring (RMON) collection functions on physical interfaces, but it is not supported on EtherChannels and SVIs. (CSCdt36101)
•Multicast router information is displayed in the show ip igmp snooping mrouter privileged EXEC command output when IGMP snooping is disabled. Multicast VLAN Registration (MVR) and IGMP snooping use the same commands to display multicast router information. In this case, MVR is enabled, and IGMP snooping is disabled. (CSCdt48002)
•When a VLAN interface has been disabled and restarted multiple times by using the shutdown and no shutdown interface configuration commands, the interface might not restart following a no shutdown command. To restart the interface, re-enter a shutdown and no shutdown command sequence. (CSCdt54435)
•When you use the ip pim spt-threshold infinity interface configuration command, you want all sources for the specified group to use the shared tree and not use the source tree. However, the switch does not automatically start to use the shared tree. No connectivity problem occurs, but the switch continues to use the shortest path tree for multicast group entries already installed in the multicast routing table. You can enter the clear ip mroute * privileged EXEC command to force the change to the shared tree. (CSCdt60412)
•Configuring too many multicast groups might result in an extremely low memory condition and cause the software control data structure to go out of sync, causing unpredictable forwarding behavior. The memory resources can only be recovered by entering the clear ip mroute privileged EXEC command. To prevent this situation, do not configure more than the recommended multicast routes on the switch. (CSCdt63480)
•The dec keyword is not supported in the bridge bridge-group protocol global configuration command. If two Catalyst 3550 switches are connected to each other through an interface that is configured for IP routing and fallback bridging, and the bridge group is configured with the bridge bridge-group protocol dec command, both switches act as if they were the spanning-tree root. Therefore, spanning-tree loops might be undetected. (CSCdt63589)
•If the number of multicast routes configured on the switch is greater than the switch can support, it might run out of available memory, which can cause it to reboot. This is a limitation in the platform-independent code.
The workaround is to not configure the switch to operate with more than the maximum number of supported multicast routes. You can use the show sdm prefer and show sdm prefer routing privileged EXEC commands to view approximate maximum configuration guidelines for the current SDM template and the routing template. (CSCdt63354)
The workaround is to disable the Port Aggregation Protocol (PAgP) on both devices by using the channel-group channel-group-number mode on interface configuration command. PAgP negotiation between these two devices is not reliable. (CSCdt78727)
•When the switch is operating with equal-cost routes and it is required to learn more unicast routes than it can support, the CPU might run out of memory, and the switch might fail.
The workaround is to remain within the documented recommended and supported limits. (CSCdt79172)
•The behavior of a software access control list (ACL) with QoS is different from a hardware ACL with QoS. On the Catalyst 3550 switch, when the QoS hardware rewrites the DSCP of a packet, the rewriting of this field happens before software running on the CPU examines the packet, and the CPU sees only the new value and not the original DSCP value.
When the security hardware ACL matches a packet on input, the match uses the original DSCP value. For output security ACLs, the security ACL hardware should match against the final, possibly changed, DSCP value as set by the QoS hardware. Under some circumstances, a match to a security ACL in hardware prevents the QoS hardware from rewriting the DSCP and causes the CPU to use the original DSCP.
If a security ACL is applied in software (because the ACL did not fit into hardware, and packets were sent to the CPU for examination), the match probably uses the new DSCP value as determined by the QoS hardware, regardless of whether the ACL is applied at the input or at the output. When packets are logged by the ACL, this problem can also affect whether or not a match is logged by the CPU even if the ACL fits into hardware and the permit or deny filtering was completed in hardware.
To avoid these issues, whenever the switch rewrites the DSCP of any packet to a value different from the original DSCP, security ACLs should not test against DSCP values in any of their access control elements (ACEs), regardless of whether the ACL is being applied to an IP access group or to a VLAN map. This restriction does not apply to ACLs used in QoS class maps.
If the switch is not configured to rewrite the DSCP value of any packet, it is safe to match against DSCP in ACLs used for IP access groups or for VLAN maps because the DSCP does not change as the packet is processed by the switch.
The DSCP field of an IP packet encompasses the two fields that were originally designated precedence and type of service (TOS). Statements relating to DSCP apply equally to either IP precedence or IP TOS. (CSCdt94355)
•On earlier versions of Catalyst 3550-24 switches, if a 10/100BASE-TX port on the switch is connected to a Catalyst 2820 or Catalyst 1900 switch through an Inter-Switch Link (ISL) trunk at 100 Mbps, bidirectional communication cannot be established. The Catalyst 2820 or Catalyst 1900 switch identifies the Catalyst 3550-24 switch as a CDP neighbor, but the Catalyst 3550-24 switch does not recognize the Catalyst 2820 or Catalyst 1900 switch. On these switches, you should not use ISL trunks between the Catalyst 3550-24 and a Catalyst 2820 or Catalyst 1900 switch. Configure the link as an access link instead of a trunk link.
This problem has been fixed in hardware on Catalyst 3550-24 switches with motherboard assembly number 73-5700-08 or later. To determine the board level on your switch, enter the show version privileged EXEC. Motherboard information appears toward the end of the output display. (CSCdv68158)
•When IGMP filtering is enabled and you use the ip igmp profile global configuration command to create an IGMP filter, reserved multicast addresses cannot be filtered. Because IGMP filtering uses only Layer 3 addresses to filter IGMP reports and due to mapping between Layer 3 multicast addresses and Ethernet multicast addresses, reserved groups (224.0.0.x) are always allowed through the switch. In addition, aliased groups can leak through the switch. For example, if a user is allowed to receive reports from group 225.1.2.3, but not from group 230.1.2.3, aliasing will cause the user to receive reports from 230.1.2.3. Aliasing of reserved addresses means that all groups of the form y.0.0.x are allowed through. (CSCdv73626)
•If a switch stack contains both Catalyst 3550 switches and Catalyst 2900 XL or Catalyst 3500 XL switches, Cross-Stack UplinkFast (CSUF) is not enabled if the management VLAN on the Catalyst 2900 XL or 3500 XL switches is changed to a VLAN other than VLAN 1 (the default).
The workaround is to make sure that the management VLAN of all Catalyst 2900 XL or 3500 XL switches in the stack is set to VLAN 1. (CSCdv79737)
•If you use the ip igmp max-groups interface configuration command to set the maximum number of IGMP groups for an interface to 0, the port still receives group reports from reserved multicast groups (224.0.0.x) and their Layer 2 aliases (y.0.0.x). (CSCdv79832)
•Multicast traffic can be temporarily lost when a link comes up in a redundant network and causes the reverse path forwarding (RPF) to change. This only occurs when there are multiple paths between the rendezvous point (RP) and the multicast source. (CSCdw27519)
•The switch might reload when it is executing the no snmp-server host global configuration command. This is a rare condition that can happen if SNMP traps or informs are enabled and the SNMP agent attempts to send a trap to the host just as it is being removed from the configuration and if the IP address of the host (or the gateway to reach the host) has not been resolved by Address Resolution Protocol (ARP).
The workaround is to ensure that the target host or the next-hop gateway to that host is in the ARP cache (for example, by using a ping command) before removing it from the SNMP configuration. Alternatively, disable all SNMP traps and informs before removing any hosts from the SNMP configuration. (CSCdw44266)
•When you access CISCO-STACK-MIB portTable, the mapping might be off by one from the mapping given by the switch. The objects in this table are indexed by two numbers: portModuleIndex and portIndex. The allowable values for portModuleIndex are 1 through 16. Because 0 is not an allowable value, the value 1 represents module 0.
The workaround is to use the value 1 to represent module 0. (CSCdw71848)
•If a port on the Catalyst 3550 switch that is running the Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP) is connected to another switch that belongs to a different multiple spanning tree (MST) region, the Catalyst 3550 port is not recognized as a boundary port when you start the protocol migration process by using the clear spanning-tree detected-protocols interface interface-id privileged EXEC command. This problem occurs only on the root bridge, and when the root bridge is cleared, the boundary ports are not shown because the designated ports do not receive any bridge protocol data units (BPDUs) unless a topology change occurs. This is the intended behavior.
The workaround is to configure the Catalyst 3550 switch for Per-VLAN spanning-tree plus (PVST+) by using the spanning-tree mode pvst global configuration command bridge, and then change it to MSTP by using the spanning-tree mode mst global configuration command. (CSCdx10808)
•When a large number of VLANs and a large number of trunk ports with allowed VLAN lists are configured on the switch, if you enter the no switchport trunk allowed vlan interface-range command to remove the allowed list for all the trunk ports, the SYS-3-CPUHOG system message might appear.
The workaround is to use the no switchport trunk allowed vlan interface configuration command on each trunk port to remove the allowed list for all the trunk ports. (CSCdx17189)
•When 1000 VLANs and more than 40 trunk ports are configured, and the spanning-tree mode changes from MSTP to PVST+ or vice versa, this message appears on the console:
%ETHCNTR-3-RA_ALLOC_ERROR: RAM Access write pool I/O memory allocation failure
There is no workaround. However, we recommend that you reload the switch by using the reload privileged EXEC command. To avoid this problem, configure the system with fewer VLANs and fewer trunk ports, or use the switchport trunk allowed vlan interface configuration command to reduce the number of active VLANs on each trunk port. (CSCdx20106)
•Ternary content addressable memory (TCAM) generation might fail when there are multiple ACLs in a policy-map. If you add an entry that checks TCP flags to an access list that is used for QoS classification, the system might report that a hardware limitation has been reached for the policy map. This can occur when the policy map already contains several other access list entries that check different TCP flags, or that check TCP or User Datagram Protocol (UDP) port numbers using an operation different from equal (eq), such as not equal (ne), less than (lt), greater than (gt), or range. When the hardware limitation is reached, the service-policy input policy-map-name interface configuration command is removed from the running configuration of the interface.
Checking for TCP flags and TCP/UDP port numbers using operators other than eq share some of the same hardware resources. The switch supports no more than six checks within a single policy map. An identical check repeated in multiple entries in the same policy map counts as a single instance. If this limit is reached during a TCP or UDP port number check, the software can often work around the problem by allocating extra entries in the TCAM. There is no workaround if the limit is reached during a check against the TCP flags in the packet. Similar checks in a port ACL applied to the same physical interface as the policy map also count toward the limit.
Because these resources are allocated on a first-come, first-serve basis, rearranging the order of ACLs within a policy map or the order of entries within a single ACL, placing the TCP flags checks as early as possible, might enable the policy map to be loaded into the hardware.
Similar limits apply for any combination of input VLAN maps, input router ACLs, output VLAN maps, and output router ACLs that share the same VLAN label. The switch supports eight checks for all features on the same VLAN label. When the limit is reached, the system might forward packets by using the CPU rather than through hardware, greatly reducing system performance. To determine the VLAN label assigned to a VLAN or interface on input or output, use the show fm vlan or show fm interface privileged EXEC commands. Then use the show fm vlan-label privileged EXEC command to determine which set of features (input VLAN map, input router ACL, output VLAN map, or output router ACL) share this label.
These are the workarounds:
–Re-arrange the order of classes within the policy map and the order of entries within the individual access lists in the policy map or within any IP port ACL applied to the interface so that checks for TCP flags are made as early as possible within the policy map. You can also re-arrange the order of the individual ACLs within a VLAN map and the order of the individual entries in a security ACL.
–Add an extra entry to the front of an ACL that checks for the same TCP flags that are checked later on in the ACL. If the first entry of the ACL already matches only the TCP protocol, you can duplicate the entry and add a check for the appropriate TCP flags.
–Reduce the number of different combinations of TCP flags being tested.
If the other workarounds fail, avoid combining any check against the TCP flags with gt, lt, ne, or range checks within the policy map and port ACL configured on the interface or within the VLAN maps and router ACLs that share the same VLAN label. (CSCdx24363)
•If you apply an ACL to an interface that has a QoS policy map attached and the ACL is configured so that the packet should be forwarded by the CPU or if the configured ACL cannot fit into the ternary content addressable memory (TCAM), all packets received from this interface are forwarded to the CPU. Because traffic forwarded to the CPU cannot be policed by the policer configured on the interface, this traffic is not accurately rate-limited to the configured police rate.
The workaround, when QoS rate limiting is configured on an interface, is to configure applied ACLs so that packets are not forwarded by the CPU or reduce the number of ACEs in the ACL so that it can fit into the TCAM. (CSCdx30485)
•When you reboot a Catalyst 3550-24-FX switch, it might loop back packets received on a 100BASE-FX port to its link partner. This can occur before the Cisco IOS software takes control of the system and lasts for about 200 milliseconds.
As a result, the link partner might shut down the port when it detects loopback packets, or MAC addresses might be learned on the wrong ports on upstream switches. The network might be unable to deliver packets to a few devices for up to 5 minutes after rebooting the Catalyst 3550-24-FX switch when:
–The Catalyst 3550-24-FX switch is connected to one or more switches in the network.
–Spanning tree is disabled in the network or the Port Fast feature is enabled on the ports connected to the Catalyst 3550-24-FX switch.
–The Catalyst 3550-24-FX switch is powered cycled or reloaded from CLI.
–One or more devices in the network transmit a broadcast or multicast packet during the 200-millisecond timing window while the Catalyst 3550-24-FX switch is booting.
This problem corrects itself after five minutes or when these devices transmit a broadcast or multicast packet, whichever comes first.
The workaround is to enable spanning tree in the network and to make sure that the Port Fast feature is disabled on all ports connected to the Catalyst 3550-24-FX switch. (CSCdx45558)
•If the switch fails for any reason while you are exiting VLAN configuration mode (accessed by entering the vlan database privileged EXEC command), there is a slight chance that the VLAN database might get corrupted. After resetting from the switch, you might see these messages on the console:
%SW_VLAN-4-VTP_INVALID_DATABASE_DATA: VLAN manager received bad data of type device
type: value 0 from vtp database
$SW_VLAN-3-VTP_PROTOCOL_ERROR: VTP protocol code internal error
The workaround is to use the delete flash:vlan.dat privileged EXEC command to delete the corrupted VLAN database. Then reload the switch by using the reload privileged EXEC command. (CSCdx19540)
•On a Catalyst 3550-24 switch, the switch drops frames received on the 10/100 ports with a destination MAC address of 5xxx.xxxx.xxxx because of frame-check-sequence (FCS) errors. (CSCdx74914)
•If you apply a large ACL and it fills the entire TCAM, the MVR IP multicast data packets are sent to the switch CPU and are not forwarded to the MVR receiver ports. (CSCdx80751)
•When a Cisco RPS 300 Redundant Power System provides power to a switch, after the switch power supply is restored, the RPS 300 continues to provide power until the RPS mode button is pressed. At this point, some switches restart, depending on how quickly the switch internal power supply resumes operation. (CSCdx81023)
•If you create a policy map by using the policy-map policy-map-name global configuration command, enter the class class-map-name policy-map configuration command, and then immediately exit from the policy-map class configuration mode, the policy map does not show its class-map association.
The workaround is to enter another command (such as the police, trust, or set policy-map class configuration command) after entering the class class-map-name policy-map configuration command. (CSCdx81650)
•When you insert a GigaStack GBIC in a GBIC module slot, the CPU utilization increases by six percent. This increase occurs for each GigaStack GBIC added to the switch. Other types of GBICs do not cause additional CPU utilization. (CSCdx90515)
•An RSPAN source session does not forward monitored traffic to the RSPAN destination session if there is an egress SPAN source port in the session with port security or 802.1x enabled. (CSCdy21035)
•Not all traffic is properly mirrored by RSPAN when a port is monitored for egress traffic and the RSPAN VLAN is carried through a Layer 2 Protocol Tunnel to the RSPAN destination switch.
This happens because the MAC addresses for the original packets as well as the mirrored RSPAN packets are all learned on the tunnel VLAN, so the RSPAN traffic is no longer properly segregated on the tunneling switches.
The workaround is to not include any RSPAN VLANs in any Layer 2 Protocol tunnels unless the tunnel is dedicated to a single RSPAN VLAN. (CSCdy37188)
•Ingress forwarding on a SPAN destination port does not work if there is an egress SPAN source port in the session with port security or 802.1x enabled. (CSCdy44646)
•When the switch receives multicast traffic and IGMP join for requests a multicast group at the same time and it begins to forward the multicast packets, some of the packets might be dropped. (CSCdy80326)
•If a Catalyst 3550 switch is connected to two routers (Router 1 and Router 2) in this topology:
–The link between Router 1 and the switch is a BVI (bridge virtual interface) that belongs to two VLANs (VLAN 100 and VLAN 110) and uses one IP address. The IP subnet for the BVI is the same for both VLANs. The ports in both VLANs operate as Layer 2 interfaces. An SVI with an IP address is configured only on VLAN 100.
–The link between Router 2 and the switch is an IP interface that only belongs to VLAN 110.
IP connectivity then exists between Router 1 and the switch. There is no IP connectivity between Router 2 and the switch.
The workaround is to configure another SVI with an IP address on the Catalyst 3550 switch that would be reachable from Router 2. (CSCdy82042)
•The 5 minute input rate and 5 minutes output rate fields in the output of the show interfaces privileged EXEC command show both rates as 0 bits/sec. If you enter the show interfaces command more than once, these fields might show values greater than 0 bits/sec. (CSCdz06305)
•When the link between a device with an AC power supply and a Catalyst 3550-24PWR switch is 10 Mbps and half duplex, and the AC power supply is turned off, the switch is in the error-disabled state.
The workaround is remove the AC power supply, disconnect the Ethernet cable, and then reconnect the Ethernet cable. This ensures that the switch uses inline power. (CSCdz16265)
•When you perform a ping from a VLAN to another VLAN on the same switch, the VLAN counter does not change. (CSCdz17863)
•The Catalyst 3550 switch does not adjust the power allocation based on IEEE class of the power device (PD) When an IEEE PD-compliant device is connected to a switch, it allocates 15 W (the default) to the port. (CSCdz37516)
•When an 802.1x-authenticated client is disconnected from an IP phone, hub, or switch and does not send an EAPOL-Logoff message, the switch interface does not transition to the unauthorized state. If this happens, it can take up to 60 minutes for the interface to transition to the unauthorized state when the re-authentication time is the default value (3600 seconds).
The workaround is to change the number of seconds between re-authentication attempts by using the dot1x timeout re-authperiod seconds global configuration command. (CSCdz38483)
•When the link between two switches is a Ethernet cable to an E3 converter, if MST is enabled on an 802.1Q trunk, traffic is not forwarded or sent for 60 seconds after the shutdown and no shutdown interface configuration commands are entered. (CSCdz45037)
•When a switch receives a bridge STP bridge protocol data unit (BPDU) from an access port and the egress port is a trunk port, the switch assigns the BPDU a CoS value of 0 instead of 7.
There is no workaround. (CSCdz54043)
•If a switch configuration contains a large ACL and a per-port per-VLAN policy map that both are attached to two interfaces, when you are copying it to the running configuration, this process might fail because the switch runs out of memory. (CSCdz54115)
These are the workarounds:
–Copy the new configuration file to the config.txt file, and reboot the switch.
–Save the configuration file as two files: one containing only the ACL configuration and one containing the rest of the configuration (including the QoS and interface configuration). Add the first configuration file to the running-configuration file, and then add the second file to the running-configuration file.
•After the no interface tunnel0 global configuration command is entered to remove the tunnel interface, the output from the show running-config privileged EXEC command still shows the tunnel interface that was removed. (CSCdz66450)
This can occur if HSRP interface tracking is configured on another interface to track a tunnel interface, if the no interface command was entered before the HSRP tracking configuration was removed, or if the no standby tunnel0 global configuration command was entered on the other interface to disable tracking.
These are the workarounds:
–Before removing the tunnel interface from the configuration, remove the HSRP interface tracking commands in the configuration that specify the tunnel interface.
–Use the no standby track global configuration command without specifying an interface to disable HSRP tracking.
•After a MAC address is relearned on a new interface, traffic might not be immediately forwarded to the MAC addresses. (CSCdz75459)
•The Catalyst 3550 switch only supports the read operation in the sysClearPortTime MIB object (.1.3.6.1.4.1.9.5.1.1.13) in the CISCO-STACK-MIB. Use the clear counters privileged EXEC command to clear the counters. (CSCdz87897)
•When a Catalyst 3550 switch is connected to a 3-port Gigabit Ethernet module in a Cisco 12000 Gigabit Switch Router (GSR) that is configured for Ethernet over Multiprotocol Label Switching (EoMPLS), the switch does not reliably send frames to the GSR.
The workaround is to configure the Catalyst 3550 Gigabit Ethernet interface with the spanning-tree portfast interface configuration command. (CSCea04746)
•On a switch running Cisco IOS Release 12.1(12c)EA1 or later, if the switch MTU value is set to a value greater than 1500 and the authentication server and the intermediate devices are not configured with a compatible MTU value, 802.1x authentication with EAP-Transparent LAN Services (TLS) might fail.
The workaround is to reset the switch MTU value to the default value or to configure the same MTU value on the switch, the authentication server, and the intermediate devices. (CSCea05682)
•If a cable on an ingress interface is disconnected, an Alteon A184 cannot detect when a 1000BASE-X link between two Catalyst 3550 switches is down.
There is no workaround. (CSCea09786)
•Performing an extended ping from one interface to another interface on the same switch can cause high CPU utilization. This can occur when a large number of ping packets are sent and received and is the expected behavior.
The workaround is to not perform a ping from one interface to another on the same switch. (CSCea19301)
•The switch does not create an adjacency table entry when the ARP timeout value is 15 seconds and the ARP request times out.
The workaround is to not set an ARP timeout value lower than 120 seconds. (CSCea21674)
•If the output from the show tcam inacl 1 statistics privileged EXEC command shows that the TCAM is not full and you are applying an ACL, this system message might appear:
%FM-3-UNLOADING: Unloading input vlan label 1 feature from all TCAMs
There is no workaround. (CSCea25658)
•The switch uses the same MAC address for all VLAN interfaces. If the destination MAC address in a packet is the same as the MAC address of the VLAN interface, and the VLAN interface for that VLAN is shut down or does not exist, the switch drops the packet.
There is no workaround. (CSCed12004)
•Storm control or traffic suppression (configured by using the storm-control {broadcast | multicast | unicast} level level [.level] interface configuration command) is supported only on physical interfaces; it is not supported on EtherChannel port channels even though you can enter these commands through the CLI.
•The Cisco RPS 300 Redundant Power System supports the Catalyst 3550 multilayer switch and provides redundancy for up to six connected devices until one of these devices requires backup power. If a connected device has a power failure, the RPS immediately begins supplying power to that device and sends status information to other connected devices that it is no longer available as a backup power source. As described in the device documentation, when the RPS LED is amber, the RPS is connected but down. However, this might merely mean that the RPS is in standby mode. Press the Standby/Active button on the RPS to put it into active mode. You can view RPS status through the CLI by using the show rps privileged EXEC command. For more information, refer to the RPS documentation.
•When you configure an EtherChannel between a Catalyst 3550 and a Catalyst 1900 switch, some of Catalyst 3550 links in the EtherChannel might go down, but one link in the channel remains up, and connectivity is maintained.
•Catalyst 3550 switches do not take into account the Preamble and Inter Frame Gap (IFG) when rate limiting traffic, which could result in a slightly inaccurate policing rate on a long burst of small-sized frames, where the ratio of the Preamble and IFG to frame size is more significant. This should not be an issue in an environment where the frames are a mix of different sizes.
•Certain combinations of features and switches create conflicts with the port security feature. In Table 4, No means that port security cannot be enabled on a port on the referenced switch if the referenced feature is also running on the same port. Yes means that both port security and the referenced feature can be enabled on the same port at the same time. A dash means not applicable.
Table 4 Port Security Incompatibility with Other Switch Features
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Catalyst 2940
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Catalyst 2950 and Catalyst 2955
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Catalyst 2970
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Catalyst 3550
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Catalyst 3560 and Catalyst 3750
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DTP1 port2
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No
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No
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No
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No
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No
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Trunk port
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No
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Dynamic-access port3
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No
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No
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No
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No
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No
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Routed port
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—
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—
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—
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No
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No
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SPAN source port
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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SPAN destination port
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No
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No
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No
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No
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No
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EtherChannel
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No
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No
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No
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No
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No
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Tunneling port
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—
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—
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—
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Yes
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—
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Protected port
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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802.1x port
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—
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Yes4
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Voice VLAN port5
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Private VLAN port
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—
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—
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—
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—
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No6
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IP source guard
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—
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—
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—
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—
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Yes6
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Dynamic ARP7 inspection
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—
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—
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—
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—
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Yes6
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Flex Links
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—
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—
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Yes
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—
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Yes
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New Limitations in This Release
These limitations are new in Cisco IOS Release 12.1(20)EA2:
•When three or more Catalyst 3550-24PWR switches are connected through GigaStack GBICs, you can access all the VLANs on the uplink switch, but you can only access VLAN 1 on the other switches.
The workaround is to enter the switchport mode trunk interface configuration command on all of the GigaStack interfaces and do one of these:
–Use the shutdown and then the no shutdown interface configuration commands on the ports.
–Save the switch configuration by using the copy running-config startup-config privileged EXEC command, and reload all the switches. (CSCec86258)
•When the switch has many routes that use loadsharing among multiple next hops, some of the routes might not loadshare but instead pick only one of the next hops for forwarding all packets on that route. This happens when the portion of the adjacency RAM that has been allotted for multipath routes has been used up.
There is no workaround. (CSCed22152)
•The DHCP option-82 format on the Catalyst 3550 switch is inconsistent with other Cisco switches. When the Catalyst 3550 switch is used as the relay agent with DHCP snooping and the option-82 feature using the VLAN-module-port (vlan-mod-port) format, the switch does not assign the correct value to the port identifier (circuit ID suboption). The value is offset by 1 from the actual interface module- and port-number values. Also, the circuitID/port-identifier for Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet interfaces have the same module-number but different port-number values. For example, on a Catalyst 3550-24 switch, fastethernet0/1 is reported as module 0/port 0 and gigabitethernet0/1 is reported as module 0/port 24.
There is no workaround. (CSCed29525)
•Packets received from media types that require SNAP encapsulation of IPv4 packets require the switch to forward SNAP-encapsulated packets. Layer 2 forwarding of IPv4 in SNAP encapsulation ordinarily takes place in hardware (unless a VLAN map or port ACL contains an IP ACL). However, on the Catalyst 3550 switch, Layer 3 forwarding of IPv4 in SNAP can only be done in software. SNAP-encapsulated IPv4 packets that are directed to the router MAC address or the HSRP group MAC address (if this device is the active router in the HSRP group) are forwarded to the switch CPU, potentially causing high CPU utilization levels.
This is a hardware limitation, and there is no workaround. (CSCed59864)
•When Multi-VRF-CE is enabled on the switch, the switch does not support the ip directed-broadcast interface configuration command used to enable forwarding of IP-directed broadcasts on an interface.
There is no workaround. (CSCee05670)
Cluster Limitations and Restrictions
These limitations apply to cluster configuration:
•When there is a transition from the cluster active command switch to the standby command switch, Catalyst 1900, Catalyst 2820, and Catalyst 2900 4-MB switches that are cluster members might lose their cluster configuration. You must manually add these switches back to the cluster.
(CSCds32517, CSCds55711)
•When a Catalyst 2900 XL or Catalyst 3500 XL cluster command switch is connected to a Catalyst 3550 switch, the command switch does not find any cluster candidates beyond the Catalyst 3550 switch if it is not a member of the cluster. You must add the Catalyst 3550 switch to the cluster. You can then see any cluster candidates connected to it. (CSCdt09918)
•If both the active command switch and the standby command switch fail at the same time, the cluster is not automatically recreated. Even if there is a third passive command switch, it might not recreate all cluster members because it might not have all the latest cluster configuration information. You must manually recreate the cluster if both the active and standby command switches simultaneously fail. (CSCdt43501)
•When the active switch fails in a switch cluster that uses Hot Standby Routing Protocol (HSRP) redundancy, the new active switch might not contain a full cluster member list.
The workaround is to ensure that the ports on the standby cluster members are not in the STP blocking state. Refer to the "Configuring STP" chapter in the software configuration guide for more information about verifying port status. (CSCec31495)
CMS Limitations and Restrictions
These limitations apply to CMS configuration:
•CMS performance degrades if the Topology View is open for several hours on a Solaris machine. The cause might be a memory leak.The workaround is to close the browser, reopen it, and launch CMS again. (CSCds29230)
•If you are printing a Topology View or Front Panel View that contains many devices and are running Solaris 2.6 with JDK1.2.2, you might get an Out of Memory error message. The workaround is to close the browser, re-open it, and launch CMS again. Before you perform any other task, open the view that you want to print, and click Print in the CMS menu. (CSCds80920)
•A red border appears around the text-entering area of some CMS dialogs. The color of the border changes to green when text is entered. This is only a cosmetic error. The colored border does not prevent you from entering text. (CSCdv82352)
•You cannot switch modes (for example, from Guide Mode to Expert Mode) for an open CMS window. The workaround is to close the open window, select the mode that you want, and then reopen the CMS window. For the mode change to take effect on any other CMS window that is open, you need to close that window and then reopen it after you select the new mode. (CSCdw87550)
•If you open a window in which you can enter text, open another window, and return to the first window, right-clicking in the text field might make the cursor in this field disappear. You can still enter text in the field. (CSCdy44189)
•CMS fails when a switch is running the cryptographic software image and the vty lines have been configured to use only SSH using the transport input ssh and line vty 0 15 global configuration commands. The workaround is to allow SSH and Telnet access through the vty lines by using the transport input ssh telnet and line vty 0 15 global configuration command. (CSCdz01037)
•When you add a new member with a username and password that is different from the existing cluster member usernames and passwords, CMS produces an exception error because of an authentication failure. The workaround is to add the new member without any username and password. When the new member is added to the cluster, remove the existing username and password from the Username and Password fields, enter a new username and password, and then apply it to all cluster members. (CSCdz07957)
•When the Link G
