2-19-2000 Several new Cisco Field Notices to report.

Would someone please analyze the significance and ramifications of these field notices. For example, would any of these problems contribute to symptoms similar to DoS attacks or problems related to the NASDAQ board going down on Friday? ? Or what sorts of obvious problems would result?:

LAN Switches Field Notices:

Catalyst 8540 RP CPU Peripheral InterFace Resets and RP Hangs on an Attempt to Reprogram ROMMON

February 16, 2000

Link:

http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/770/fn11031_02162000.shtml

Field Notice: Cisco IOS Deferral for Catalyst 6xxx 12.0XE Images

February 14, 2000

Link

http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/770/45.html

Field Notice: Possible Cause Identified for Intermittent Bus Errors on IGX February 2, 2000 Revised: February 9, 2000 Link:

http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/770/fn10931.shtml

Field Notice: LocalDirector User Interface 3.1 and 3.1.1 SSL Root Certificate Expiration

Updated: February 17, 2000 December 27, 1999

Here's a sample of info contained in one of the field notices above:

Catalyst 8540 RP CPU Peripheral InterFace Resets and RP Hangs on an Attempt to Reprogram ROMMON

February 16, 2000

The ROMMON images on the Catalyst 8540 route processors (RPs) are designed to be upgraded using the reprogram command. In roughly 10 percent of the attempts to reprogram the ROMMON images on the RP, the system hangs after displaying the following message: Resetting in 3 seconds. This happens on a Catalyst 8540 CSR or MSR RP.

In rare circumstances, you can reset the CPU PIF. When this happens, the CPU (RP) no longer sends or receives traffic, although the switch may still pass traffic.

The device hangs on an attempt to reprogram ROMMON. In roughly 10 percent of the attempts to reprogram the ROMMON images on the RP, the system hangs after displaying the following message: Resetting in 3 seconds. The output from the switch follows:

gd83_m84_05#reprogram bootflash:RM.120.4.6.W5.13.srec rommon

WARNING: Old contents will be completely erased before new contents are programmed. Please stop everything else that is running and save any important information before proceeding. 

CPU PIF Problem

The problem symptom is similar to having a port-stuck error on every port on the system, including ports that are shutdown or not being used.

-- Carl Jenkins (Somewherepress@aol.com), February 19, 2000