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The following software releases are in scope of this document:
FlexiPacket Hub 800:
Current Release: R2.0_2.1.0 (a.k.a. R2.0EP2 SU1)
Current Build Version 2.9.37
Release Date: 5 March 2013
WebLCT: 2.9.37
Previous Build Version: 2.9.36 (release R2.0_2.0.0, a.k.a. R2.0EP2)
2.3. Interoperability
5.7. Network with Loops Must Run STP (Spanning Tree Protocol)
Ref. FR_0000012505 – Network with loops but not running STP may cause Management unreachable and
services interrupted
Description: Network with loops but not running STP will make ODU MAC table confused and thus
Ethernet and CES service may be interrupted and Management VLAN unreachable.
It is mandatory to run STP over the network with loops.
2 x ODU 4 x ODU
100m
P+E on Mainboard
40.5V ~ 53V 80m
7.4. Protection
Ref. No.:FR_0000007342 – CIST Port state is not uniform before and after cold reboot
Description: After xSTP is enabled and then disabled, the status of the ports in CIST list becomes
forwarding. However, after cold-reboot, the ports’ status shows “disabled”.
This issue does not affect the traffic. It is just that the port status is not consistently shown before and after
cold-reboot. When the port status is “disabled”, the port is actually still “forwarding”.
Now the port status remains in forwarding state after cold-reboot.
9.1. System
Ref. No.: ID_11585 – Frequently cold-rebooting system may cause 4xGE card to stop forwarding
packets.
Ref. No.: ID_11573 – Changing SFP port mode (GE vs. STM-1) does not turn down SFP component
Description: After changing the mode of a SFP port (GE vs. STM-1), the admin status of the SFP port and
the SFP component in the SFP port is turned down by default. However, the SFP component is not turned
down correctly in this case. As a result, the operation status of both ends of the link remains up (because the
SFP component on both sides is still up) even though the admin and operation status of the end that changed
the port mode are shown as “down” on WebLCT.
Ref. No.: ID_11376 – ALS is not enabled on optical SFP as expected when ALS was disabled
before on an electrical SFP in the same port
Description: Disable ALS on an electrical SFP, then ALS will not be enabled on an optical SFP inserted to
the same port. The right behavior is that ALS is enabled by default on optical SFP.
Ref. No.: ID_11305 – ALS and Laser Shutdown configuration are not reset to default after the slot
with 4xGE optical card is unequipped and then assigned to 4xGE optical card again
Description: After the slot is unequipped while with 4xGE optical card in the slot, it is re-assigned to 4xGE
optical card, ALS and Laser Shutdown configuration are supposed to be initialized. However, their
configuration remains unchanged.
Workaround: ALS and Laser Shutdown can be re-configured.
9.4. Protection
Ref. No.: ID_11660 – Revertive G.8031 protected service won’t switch back to working path
Description: if 1+1 or 2+0 ODU is switching roles (hot <-> standby) during IDU warm rebooting, revertive
G.8031 protected services won’t switch back to working path and will stay on protection path.
9.5. OAM
Ref. No.: ID_11564 – Enabling PM on a large number of G.8031 protected services, then deleting
the services may cause system warm-reboot.
Workaround: disable PM before deleting the service.
Ref. No.: ID_11498 – SLA PM counter for NNI port is not removed (null items)
Ref. No.: ID_11493 – The loopback state becomes unknown after IDU warm-reboot
Description: While loopback is still in the status “in progress” (before release time expires), warm-reboot
will make its status known. The right status should be “in progress”.
Ref. No.: ID_11461 – OAM DM interval in WebLCT is automatically modified from 10s to 1
second.
Description: the interval of Delay Measurement (DM) is either 1s or 10s. When 10s is configured, it will
always become 1s.
Ref. No.: ID_11411 – “MEP Radio Link Down" alarm is not cleared after E-CCM is disabled
Description: in 1+1 hot-standby system type, the standby ODU may generate MEP Radio Link Down alarm
(because it turns off its radio port) but this alarm should have been masked or cleared automatically. It is
expected that disabling E-CCM could mask this alarm. However, this is not the case.
Ref. No.: ID_11333 – Inconsistent PW index in PW performance table and in alarm table
Description: In PW performance table, PW Index is given by system when creating the CESoP service. In
Alarm table, “source” is expected to be PW index but it uses VC-12 index (in the format of SFP1 PW x/y,
x/y in Alarm table is not the same as in PW index, where x is slot number and y is port number).
Ref. No.: ID_11233 – RMON counters count both sent and received packets
Description: RMON counters should count sent and received packets separately.
Ref. No.: ID_11168 – Oversized frames are counted as dropped frames
Description: There is a dedicated counter for oversized frames. Oversized frames should not be counted as
dropped frames. Frames shorter than MTU, which is configurable per-port (default is 1632, max. is 9600),
are not dropped and so should not be counted as “dropped frames”.
10.2. LPG
Ref. No.: FR_0000013132 – Wrong default priority of E-CCM
Description: the traffic priority of E-CCM is 0. The right priority of E-CCM should be 7.
This issue is solved. Now the priority of E-CCM frames is fixed to 7 (the highest).
Ref. No.: FR_0000013072 – E-CCM of LPG is not sent to the port which used to be in LAG
Description: The GE ports used to be in LAG that was removed later on are now configured in LPG, but E-
CCM is sent only to one of the ports.
Workaround: cold- reboot after removing LAG, then configure LPG.
This issue is solved. Now E-CCM is sent to all the ports in LPG.
10.4. CES
Ref. No.: FR_0000013039 – CESoP traffic is blocked occasionally in one direction when 2+0
becomes 1+1
Description: When a 2+0 link is configured to become 1+1 link, the CES traffic on the link may be blocked
occasionally in one direction.
Workaround: disable and then enable the CES service, it will resume.
In this release, CES traffic will not be blocked.
Ref. No.: FR_0000012707/13046 – some CESoP will recover about 1 min after 1+1/2+0 link
resumes
Description: with 1+1 or 2+0 installation type, for whatever the reason the physical link either goes down or
change its status rapidly (due to multi-path signal fading, e.g.) which brings down CES services. After the
physical link for the CES services has recovered (either when 1+1/2+0 ODUs switch traffic to the one that is
available, or the whole link recovers from deep fading), it takes some (but not all) of the CES services about
1min to come back.
Note that 1+0 does not have this problem, i.e., the problem may arise only with LPG on IDU.
This is solved. In this release, CESoP service will come back right after the physical link recovers.
T1 bit rate accuracy does not meet the standard specification
Description: the T1 bit rate accuracy of T1 CESoP service is required to be 1544 kbps ±3ppm, which does
not meet G.703 specifications (1544 kbps ±50 bits/s or ±32ppm).
In this release, T1 line rate accuracy can be 1544 kbps ±100ppm and T1 CESoP still works normally.
10.5. Management
Ref. No.: FR_0000012646 – The default priority value of Management VLAN is not consistent
with that of ODU
Description: the traffic class for the management frames is priority 6 by default, but it should be 5.
In this release, default priority of the Management VLAN is set to 5.
Ref. No.: FR_0000012940 – VLAN ID 4091-4094 cannot be set for the Management VLAN
In this release, VLAN ID 4091 – 4094 can be used for Management VLAN.
Ref. No.: FR_0000009215 – 4 x GE optical card cannot receive any packets in rare cases
Description: 4 x GE Optical card does not send and receive packets after it is plugged and unplugged many
times or the system is cold/warm rebooted many times.
Ref. No.: FR_0000008124 – ODU Alarm LED is not supported on 4 x GE and Power Injector card
Description: this LED is always off.
In this release, the ODU Alarm LED can be turned on.
Ref. No.: FR_0000009998 – Changing the management VLAN ID to a C-VLAN ID will make the
C-VLAN disappear in the mapping rules of an E-LAN service
Description: Modifying the Management VLAN ID to one of the C-VLANs used in the mapping rules for
an E-LAN service will generate an error message but the modification succeeds. However, the modification
makes the C-VLAN disappear from the mapping rules.
Ref. No.: FR_0000007901 – CES will stop working during system warm-reboot
Description: Using Reset command in WebLCT (i.e., warm-reboot) causes CES to stop working for a short
period of time and errors are generated. Note that Ethernet services are not impacted by warm-reboot.
Ref. No.: FR_0000007767 – Warm resetting the systems at the same time on both ends of a CES
service interrupts CESoP traffic.
This issue is fixed in this release. Now CESoP traffic won’t be interrupted by warm-rebooting on both ends
of the service.
Ref. No.: FR_0000007350 – CESoP service over E-LAN with LAG port cannot be configured or
deleted
Description: In the previous releases, it is not allowed to establish CES service over E-LAN PW that has
LAG port.
Ref. No.: FR_0000009966 – LOF alarm on working path of CES Linear Protection brings down
service
Description: When LOF alarm is inserted to E1 CES traffic on the working path, it will cause traffic switch-
over to the protection path which is a correct behavior, but the service will go down abnormally.
This issue is solved. Now the service will not go down.
Ref. No.: FR_0000009889/9802 – CES Linear Protection switch-over time may be more than 50ms
when CES traffic is between an interface card and the mainboard and between two interface
cards
Description: In this case, the switch-over time is occasionally (not always) around 60-80ms. Smaller CES
jitter buffer size and frame size has better switching performance.
This issue is solved. Now regardless of where the two interfaces are (on the mainboard and/or on the
interface card), the switchover time is the same.
Ref. No.: FR_0000010008 – G.8031 APS messages cannot be sent over LPG or LAG port to remote
system
Description: if there is LPG or LAG port on the working path of the E-Line service on the local system, APS
messages cannot go through the LPG/LAG port.
Ref. No.: FR_0000009764 – G.8031 commands of lower precedence can be applied but will not
cause problems
Description: G.8031 protection switching can be triggered manually by multiple commands but these
commands have their pre-defined precedence (or privilege). In the current release, command of lower
precedence is allowed to “apply” when the current command has higher precedence, which should be
forbidden, even though the command of lower precedence will not take effect.
Command precedence from high to low is Lockout –> SF to Protection –> Manual Switch to Protection. SF
stands for Signaled Failure, meaning that the path in SF status is made unavailable and thus switch-over
should take place.
This issue is solved. Now WebLCT does not allow the command with lower precedence than the current
command to be applied.
Ref. No.: FR_0000009657 – G.8031 Protection status shows WTR which should be On Protection
Description: WTR (wait-to-restore) status means that the traffic is on protection path but the working path
has recovered and is waiting for the traffic to switch back after WTR timer expires (5min by default). During
this period, G.8031 APS (auto-protection switching) status in WebLCT should show “On Protection” instead
of WTR. Signaled APS status is WTR, though, which is correct.
Ref. No.: FR_0000009530 – No alarm is raised when both the working and protection path fail
Description: System should raise APS_SWITCH_FAIL alarm in this case but it does not.
Ref. No.: FR_0000009339 – Lack of Response alarm is wrongly raised when switch-over happens
to a large number of services
Description: When a large number of E-Line services on the same path are configured with G.8031
protection and protection switching takes place as a result of any failure on their working path, “Lack of
Response” critical alarm may show up in the system randomly. In fact, these services are not impacted, and
this alarm should be ignored.
11.7. OAM
Ref. No.: FR_0000007407 – System crashes when UTP cable is unplugged and plugged on the GE
port with a large number of OAM MEPs configured
Description: Unplugging/plugging cable generates an interrupt to CPU for each MEP and so a large number
of MEPs.
Now the issue is solved and the system won’t crash in this case.
Ref. No.: FR_0000012757 – the IP fragmentation bug in VxWorks may make FPH800 crash when
NetViewer is trying to repeatedly get some MIB nodes of the FPH800
Description: VxWorks is the operating system of FPH800 and this release has fixed the IP fragmentation
bug in VxWorks.
Ref. No.: FR_0000011822 – System crash after rounds of PM data collection by NetViewer
Description: After a number of collections of performance measurement data (i.e., statistics) by NetViewer,
the system may crash. This issue is fixed by this release.
Ref. No.: FR_0000009209 – Sometimes two login windows pop up
Description: After launching WebLCT, the user login window may pop up twice. Either of them can be used
for login, though.
Ref. No.: FR_0000009187 – C-VLAN for CESoP service can be configured but will not be brought
into effect
Description: When creating CESoP service, WebLCT allows users to select a new C-VLAN, but it will be
ignored and the default C-VLAN will always be used for this CESoP service. As C-VLAN for CESoP is
only for internal use, this issue has no effect on the service.
12.1.2. OAM
Ref. No.: FR_0000013508 (ID_10755) – Control protocol packets are counted as InDropped
Packets
Description: The control packets of the following protocols are counted as dropped packets in Performance
Monitoring (PM):
Link OAM, G.8031, Y.1731 Loss and Delay Measurement, Loopback, SSM ECCM, xSTP BPDU, LLDP
etc.
12.2. Known Limitations since R2.0_1.13.0 (build 2.7.30 for R2.0 EP1 PU6)
12.2.1. Management
Ref. No.: FR_0000012646 – The default priority value of Management VLAN is not consistent
with that of ODU
Description: the traffic class for the management frames is priority 6 by default, but it should be 5.
Ref. No.: FR_0000012940 – VLAN ID 4091-4094 cannot be set for the Management VLAN
Ref. No.: FR_0000012936 – The priority of the management frames is changed after passing from
one NNI port to another
Description: The frames tagged with the Management VLAN ID (i.e. the management frames) will be
tagged with the traffic class priority configured on the port for the Management VLAN. If this configuration
is different from port to port, the priority of the management frames will also change accordingly.
12.2.2. Protection
Ref. No.: FR_0000012748 – Ethernet and CESoP traffic get hit by change of role of 2+0 ODU
Description: Warm rebooting the active ODU of 2+0 XPIC will change the role of ODUs (master/slave)
which will hit the Ethernet and CES traffic until LPG switch-over ends. This is because that ODU sends P-
CCM and E-CCM by CPU, so warm-rebooting one ODU will make IDU switch traffic to another ODU.
Ref. No.: FR_0000013036 – The current release supports up to 4 LPG groups
12.3. Known Limitations since R2.0_1.4.0 (build version 2.8.21 for R2.0 EP1)
Ref. No.: FR_0000010100 – Mapping rule precedence can only use odd index number when
creating service with G.8031 protection
Description: Mapping rule precedence can only use odd number. The even index numbers are reserved for
G.8031 protection service.
12.4. Known Limitations since R2.0_1.1.0 (build version 2.8.14 for R2.0 EP1)
Ref. No.: FR_0000009936 – CESoP traffic will go down with Jumbo Frame traffic under 7/14MHz
QPSK modulation of FPMR R2.4
Description: This issue only happens when FPH800 is working with FPMR2.4, and will be solved in FPMR
2.5.
12.6.1. System
Ref. No.: FR0000004051 – OOB port does not work with 10Mbps
Description: When the Ethernet interface of WebLCT PC is forced to 10Mbps, WebLCT will not be able to
communicate with the system.
Solution: Do not force 10Mbps on the Ethernet interface of the WebLCT PC.
12.6.2. QoS
Ref. No.:FR_0000001740 – WRR not accurate for large frames
Description: WRR scheduling is not always accurate when frame MTU is larger than 1000 bytes, in which
case, queue 7 and queue 6 (i.e., the two highest priority queues) demonstrate the same weight regardless of
the actual weight configured for them.
Ref. No.:FR_0000001741 – DDR not accurate for large frames
Description: DRR scheduling is not always accurate – same phenomenon as FR_0000001740.
Ref. No.:FR_0000003490 – Odd DRR weight becomes even
Description: When DRR weight is configured with an odd number, the system will set the actual value as
odd +1.
Suggestion: operators can use even numbers for weights. For example, instead of 1, 3, and 5, operators can
use 2, 6, and 10.
Ref. No.:FR_0000004848 – Rate limiting not accurate when Whole Traffic and BC/MC/Unknown
Traffic policing are both applied on the same port
Description: Rate limiting is not accurate when both Whole Traffic Policer and BC/MC/Unknown Policer
are applied at the same time.
Note: Whole Traffic Policer is an independent traffic policer that can be applied to a port and limit the rate
of all the traffic on this port. BC/MC/Unknown Policer is the traffic policer that limits all the Broadcast,
Multicast and Unknown-Address traffic rate on a port for all the E-LAN services on this port.
Workaround solution: In most cases, Whole Traffic Policer is not used because each service has its own
traffic policer. In this case, Whole Traffic Policer can be disabled and this problem will not appear.
12.6.3. Protection
Ref. No.:FR_0000003311 – xSTP does not work while system is warm rebooting
Description: When the system is warm rebooting, temporary loops may exist in the network until xSTP is up
and running.
12.6.4. OAM
Notes on CCM (Continuity Check Messages ) Scalability
Description: FPH800 supports 3.33ms CCM interval for up to 256 services. However, there should be no
more than 32 CCM of 3.33ms flows on one GE port.
12.6.5. CES
Ref. No.:FR_0000004032 – SSRC range not fully supported
Description: SSRC (Synchronization Source) range does not fully comply with the standard CESoPSN
(RFC5086) and SAToP (RFC4553). The supported range is 0x00000000~0x7FFFFFFF. Range 0x80000000
~ 0xFFFFFFFF is not supported.
Ref. No.: FR_0000005647 – Non-interoperability with FM200 in UDP port range 63488 to 65535
Description: Because UDP ports 63488 to 65535 are reserved by FPH800 for TDM cross-connect which
FM200 does not support, FPH800 does not interoperate with FM200 in this UDP port range.
13.1.2. Protection
Ref. No.: ID_11665 – In 1+1 mode, MEP Radio Link Down alarm may arise randomly
Description: this alarm should arise only when the radio link is down, but in 1+1 hot-standby mode, the
standby ODU shuts down its radio port and so generates “radio link down” alarm that should have been
masked.
Ref. No.: ID_11635 – B-bit alarm and R-bit alarm raised at the same time
Description: In G.8031 linear protection, FPH800 supports 1:1 protection only (B-bit is always 1) and
revertive mode is configurable (R-bit can be either 0 or 1). In pure NSN environment, there should never be
B-bit alarm. However, when connecting with 3rd party device, FPH800 may generate both R-bit and B-bit
alarms.
In this case, operators should check G.8031 configurations on both FPH800 and the 3rd party device to see
whether 1:1 is configured on the 3rd party device and whether revertive/non-reviertive mode is configured
consistently in both devices.
13.1.3. OAM
Ref. No.: ID_11632 – One record of 15min PM date is split into two records (1s and 899s)
13.2.1. System
Ref. No.: FR_0000012593 – The IP address of SNTP server is not set to default after the
configuration is set to factory default
Description: After “set to factory default” is operated, the IP address of the SNTP server does not go back to
factory default (0.0.0.0).
Ref. No.: FR_0000013137 – Electrical GE SFP cannot be turned up automatically
Description: when electrical GE SFP is inserted to the SFP port on the mainboard, it cannot be turned up
automatically.
Workaround is to set manually the auto-negotiation parameters of the SFP in WebLCT, and then it can be
turned up.
13.2.2. Protection
Ref. No.: FR_0000013072 – ECCM of LPG is not sent to the port which used to be in LAG
Description: The GE ports used to be in LAG that was removed later on are now configured in LPG, but E-
CCM is sent only to one of the ports.
Workaround: cold- reboot after removing LAG, then configure LPG.
Ref. No.: FR_0000013132 – Wrong default priority of E-CCM
Description: the default E-CCM priority is 0. The right default priority of E-CCM should be 7.
Suggestion: it is better to change the priority of E-CCM in WebLCT to 7.
Ref. No.: FR_0000009999 – SFP port cannot be added to LAG when the port’s admin status is
down
Description: LAG requires its member ports to be Full-Duplex. When Auto-negotiation is disabled on SFP
port, its default duplex type is sometimes null when admin is down, so LAG cannot be established with this
port.
Workaround solution: Setting admin status of the port up, the default duplex type will become non-null, and
LAG can be established. Another way around is to disable auto-negotiation and set port duplex to Full-
Duplex.
13.2.3. CES
Ref. FR_0000012707/13046 – some CESoP will recover about 1 min after 1+1/2+0 link resumes
13.2.6. G.8031
Ref. No.: FR_0000010063 – G.8031-protected E-Line service enters wrong status after the
working channel has recovered
Description: When the failed G.8031 working path becomes available again, both ends of the G.8031
protected service should enter WTR (wait-to-restore) state when revertive mode is enabled for G.8031
protection. However, one of the ends of the service enters hold-off status but it can switch traffic back to the
working path after WTR timer expires.
Ref. No.: FR_0000009981 – Far-end has wrong APS status when there is G.8031 Signal Fail on the
working path
Description: when there is Signal Fail (SF) alarm on the working path, the near end has the right signaled
APS status (which is SF on Working), but the far end has “no request on protection”, which is wrong.
13.3. Known Issues since R2.0_1.1.0 (build version 2.8.14 for R2.0 EP1)
13.3.1. System
Ref. No.: FR_0000009702 – Restore to Factory Default will force the system to warm-reboot
Description: Sometimes, Restore to Factory Default makes the system to warm reboot, but the correct
process should be “cold reboot”.
Suggestion: to make sure that the system will cold-reboot after the configuration is restored to factory
default, it is better to run “hardware reboot” in WebLCT.
Ref. No.: FR_0000009149 – Status LED on Power Injector card does not work when surge occurs
Description: When electricity surge appears, the status LED on Power Injector card goes off.
13.4.1. CES
Ref. No.: FR_0000007687/9153 – T1 port counters do not count the FAS or CRC errors injected to
T1 traffic coming into T1 ports on the mainboard of the system.
13.5.1. System
Ref. No.: FR0000007212 – Ethernet Port LED wrongly displayed
Description: After factory default configuration is restored, all the ports of 4xGE Card are down, but their
LED’s are still on.
13.5.3. Protection
Ref. No.:FR_0000007342 – CIST Port state is not uniform before and after cold reboot
Description: After xSTP is enabled and then disabled, the status of the ports in CIST list becomes
forwarding. However, after cold-reboot, the ports’ status shows “disabled”.
This issue does not affect the traffic. It is just that the port status is not consistently shown before and after
cold-reboot. When the port status is “disabled”, the port is actually still “forwarding”.
Ref. No.:FR_0000007085 – ECCM includes SFP ports when configured as STM-1
Description: When the two SFP ports on the base system are configured to STM-1, they still appear in
ECCM configuration table. In fact, in this case, the two SFP ports are not relevant to ECCM and should not
appear in ECCM configuration table.
Ref. No.:FR_0000005356 – STM-1 1+1 MSP has wrong switch-over priority
Description: Manual Switch has higher priority level than SF (Signaled Failure). The right behavior is that
SF has higher priority level than Manual Switch.
13.5.4. CES
Ref. No.: FR_0000006902 – LP_DEG alarm is raised when STM-1 1+1 MSP is switching over
14. Documentations
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