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Release Notes for Cisco MWR 2941-DC Mobile Wireless Edge Router for Cisco IOS Release 12.4(19)MR2

Contents

Introduction

System Requirements

Memory Requirements

Determining the Software Version

Upgrading to a New Software Release

New and Changed Information

New Features in the Cisco IOS Release 12.4(19)MR2 Software

Limitations and Restrictions

Supported Hardware—Cisco MWR 2941-DC Router

Supported MIBs

Caveats

Caveats in Cisco IOS Release 12.4(19)MR2

Open Caveats

Resolved Caveats

Troubleshooting

Related Documentation

Services and Support


Release Notes for Cisco MWR 2941-DC Mobile Wireless Edge Router for Cisco IOS Release 12.4(19)MR2

January 13, 2011

OL-18715-01

These release notes are for the Cisco MWR Mobile Wireless Router 2941-DC Mobile Wireless Edge Router for Cisco IOS Release 12.4(19)MR2. These release notes are updated as needed to describe new features, memory requirements, hardware support, software platform deferrals, and changes to the microcode.

For a list of the software caveats that apply to Cisco IOS Release 12.4(19)MR2, see the "Caveats in Cisco IOS Release 12.4(19)MR2" section.

To review all Cisco MWR 2900-DC release notes, including Release Notes for Cisco MWR 2941-DC Mobile Wireless Edge Router for Cisco IOS Release 12.4(19)MR2, go to:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/wireless/mwr_2941_dc/release/notes/2941dc.html

To review release notes for the Cisco IOS Software Release 12.4 main line, go to:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6350/prod_release_notes_list.html

Contents

This document contains the following sections:

•Introduction

•System Requirements

•New and Changed Information

•Limitations and Restrictions

•Caveats

•Troubleshooting

•Related Documentation

•Services and Support

Introduction

The Cisco MWR 2941-DC mobile wireless edge router is a special-purpose networking platform optimized for use in mobile wireless networks. The router is used at the cell site edge as a part of a 2G, 3G, or 4G radio access network (RAN). The Cisco MWR 2941-DC router offers high performance and meets the requirements for deployment in cell sites, including small size, high availability, and DC input power flexibility.

Cisco IOS Release 12.4(19)MR2 for the Cisco MWR 2941-DC is a specific technology early deployment release and introduces a variety of features including PWE3 Circuit Emulation over Packet Switched Networks (CEoPSN), GSM Abis Optimization over IP, IEEE 1588-2008 Timing over Packet (ToP), Adaptive Clock Recovery (ACR), and Synchronous Ethernet.

System Requirements

The Cisco MWR 2941-DC router requires the minimum following system configuration:

•Cisco IOS Release 12.4(19)MR2 software or later.

Memory Requirements

Table 1 lists the required memory for using this software.

Table 1 Cisco IOS Release 12.4(19)MR2 Memory Requirements

Platform
Feature Set
Software Image
Recommended Flash Memory
Recommended DRAM Memory
Runs From

Cisco MWR 2941-DC Mobile Wireless Edge Router

RAN Optimization

mwr2941-iprank9-mz.124-19.MR2.bin

128 MB

512 MB

RAM


Determining the Software Version

To determine the image and version of Cisco IOS software running on your Cisco MWR 2941-DC router, log in to the router and enter the show version EXEC command: 

router> show version

     Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software

	IOS (tm) 2900 Software (MWR2941-IPRANK9-MZ), Version 12.4(19)MR2, EARLY DEPLOYMENT 
	RELEASE SOFTWARE (fcl)

Upgrading to a New Software Release

For general information about upgrading to a new software release, refer to the Software Installation and Upgrade Procedures at:

http://www.cisco.com/web/psa/products/index.html

New and Changed Information

The following sections list the new hardware and software features supported by the Cisco MWR 2941-DC router.

New Features in the Cisco IOS Release 12.4(19)MR2 Software

The following features are supported in release 12.4(19)MR2 of the Cisco IOS software:

•PWE3 Circuit Emulation over PSN (Packet Switched Network)—Allows you to create pseudowires (PWs) that emulate unstructured and structured T1s and E1s over an MPLS infrastructure, down to NxDS0 circuits. The Cisco MWR 2941-DC supports the following PWE3 standards:

–Structure-agnostic TDM over Packet (SAToP)—Encapsulates TDM bit-streams (T1, E1, T3, E3) as PWs over PSNs; the feature is compliant with RFC 4553.

–Structure-aware TDM Circuit Emulation Service over Packet-Switched Network (CESoPSN)—Encapsulates structured (NxDS0) TDM signals as PWs over PSNs; the feature is compliant with RFC 5086.

–Transportation of Service Using ATM over MPLS—Uses an Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) PW to carry cells over an MPLS network; the feature is compliant with RFCs 4717 and 4816.

•GSM Abis Optimization over IP Implementation—Allows the Cisco MWR 2941-DC to optimize GSM voice and data traffic and maximize effective utilization of E1/T1 backhaul connections.

•Clocking features—Cisco IOS Release 12.4(19)MR2 introduces several new clocking features that are supported on the ASM-M2900-TOP daughter card, also known as the RTM Module. The RTM module supports the following new clocking features:

–Precision Time Protocol (PTP)—Clocking and clock recovery based on the IEEE 1588-2008 standard; allows the Cisco MWR 2941-DC router to receive clocking from another PTP-enabled device or provide clocking to a PTP-enabled device.

This feature introduces a variety of new global commands: ptp domain, ptp mode, ptp priority1, and ptp priority2; the following interface commands: ptp announce, ptp clock-destination, ptp clock-source, ptp delay-req, ptp enable, ptp master, ptp slave, and ptp sync; and the following show commands: show ptp clock, show ptp foreign-master-record, show ptp parent, show ptp port, and show ptp time-property.

–Adaptive Clock Recovery (ACR)—Pseudowire-based Timing over Packet (TOP) that allows the MWR 2941 to use in-band or out-of-band clocking on a virtual or regular TDM pseudowire interface. ACR allows the Cisco MWR 2941-DC to recover clocking from the headers of a packet stream and is compliant with the G.823 and G.824 standards. You can use the recovered-clock slave command to configure out-of-band clock recovery and the recovered-clock recovered adaptive command to configure adaptive clock recovery.

•Synchronous Ethernet—Allows the network to transport frequency and time information over Ethernet. You can use the network-clock-select command to configure synchronous Ethernet.

Note The RTM module is not required to use Synchronous Ethernet.

•ATM—This release includes ATM support with AAL0 and AAL5 encapsulation, F4 and F5 OAM (Operation, Administration, and Maintenance) monitoring, and Virtual Path (VP) shaping.

•IMA—This feature allows you to connect one or more interfaces to an ATM network using Inverse Multiplexing ATM (IMA). You can define IMA groups that can contain up to 8 bundles, with up to 24 links per bundle.

•IP Header Compression over PPP—This feature introduces support for IP header compression over PPP that is compliant with RFCs 2507, 2508, and 3544.

•Distributed Multilink PPP—Release 12.4(19)MR2 supports multilink PPP that is compliant with the RFC 1990 specification.

•Flexlink—Backup switchport interfaces using the switchport backup interface command.

•IEEE 802.1d Ethernet Switching

•IEEE 802.1q VLANS

•VLAN Trunking Protocol (VTP)

•Per-VLAN Spanning Tree (PVST)+

•BITS Clocking

•Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)

•Bi-Directional Forwarding Detection (BFD) for OSPF

•VPN Routing and Forwarding (VRF) Lite for OSPF

•ATM cell switching

•Label Distribution Protocol (LDP)

Limitations and Restrictions

Caution The Cisco MWR 2941-DC router does not support online insertion and removal (OIR) of WAN interface cards. Any attempt to perform OIR on a card in a powered-on router might cause damage to the card.

Cisco IOS Release 12.4(19)MR2 for the Cisco MWR 2941-DC router has the following limitations and restrictions:

•UMTS Iub Optimization not supported—Release 12.4(19)MR2 does not support UMTS Iub optimization.

•L2TP not supported—The MWR 2941 currently does not support L2TP.

•PTP Boundary mode not supported—This release does not support PTP Boundary mode.

•PTP Transparent mode not supported—This release does not support PTP Transparent mode.

•PTP Master clocking not supported—Release 15.0(1)MR contains commands to configure the Cisco MWR 2941 as a Master clock. These commands are intended for trial use only and are not designed for use in a production network.

•Channel group limitations on GSM-Abis interfaces—Only one channel group per E1/T1 is supported on GSM-Abis interfaces.

•Contiguous time slots on GSM-Abis channel groups—GSM-Abis channel groups cannot use non-contiguous time slots. For example, you can configure channel-group 0 timeslot 8-20, but not channel-group 0 timeslot 1-5, 10-20.

•Out-of-band master mode not supported—This release does not support out-of-band master mode for Timing over Packet/adaptive clock recovery. If your network design requires out-of-band master clocking, you can use the CEoPs SPA on the 7600 router for this purpose.

•ACR out-of-band payload limitation—The MWR 2941 only supports the payload-size values 486 (625 packets per second) or 243 (1250 packets per second) for out-of-band clock recovery.

•Limited BFD support—Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) is supported on VLAN interfaces only. OSPF is the supported BFD client.

•T1 SAToP is not supported on the HWIC-4T1/E1.

•L3VPNs (also known as MPLS VPNs) are not supported.

•Limited OAM support—ATM OAM (Operation, Administration, and Maintenance) is not supported on the short haul side of the Cisco MWR 2941-DC.

•The Cisco MWR 2941-DC does not support the mpls traffic-eng tunnels command at the global or interface level.

Supported Hardware—Cisco MWR 2941-DC Router

The Cisco MWR 2941-DC supports the following interface cards:

•HWIC-4T1/E1

•ASM-M2900-TOP

The Cisco MWR 2941-DC router supports the following SFP modules:

•SFP-GE-S

•SFP-GE-L

•SFP-GE-Z

•GLC-ZX-SM-RGD

•GLC-LX-SM-RGD

•GLC-SX-MM-RGD

Other hardware interfaces are not supported.

Supported MIBs

The Cisco MWR 2941-DC router supports the following MIBs:

•CISCO-ACCESS-ENVMON-MIB

•CISCO-CDP-MIB

•CISCO-CONFIG-COPY-MIB

•CISCO-CONFIG-MAN-MIB

•CISCO-ENHANCED-MEMPOOL-MIB

•CISCO-ENTITY-EXT-MIB

•CISCO-ENTITY-FRU-CONTROL-MIB

•CISCO-ENTITY-SENSOR-MIB

•CISCO-ENTITY-VENDORTYPE-OID-MIB

•CISCO-ENVMON-MIB

•CISCO-FLASH-MIB

•CISCO-IETF-PW-MIB

•CISCO-IETF-PW-TC-MIB

•CISCO-IF-EXTENSION-MIB

•CISCO-IMAGE-MIB

•CISCO-IP-RAN-BACKHAUL-MIB

•CISCO-L2-TUNNEL-CONFIG-MIB

•CISCO-MEMORY-POOL-MIB

•CISCO-PROCESS-MIB

•CISCO-PRODUCTS-MIB

•CISCO-RTTMON-MIB

•CISCO-SMI

•CISCO-SYSLOG-MIB

•CISCO-TC

•CISCO-VTP-MIB

•ENTITY-MIB

•HCNUM-TC

•IANAifType-MIB

•IF-MIB

•IMA-MIB

•INET-ADDRESS-MIB

•MPLS-VPN-MIB

•OLD-CISCO-CHASSIS-MIB

•OLD-CISCO-INTERFACES-MIB

•OLD-CISCO-SYS-MIB

•OLD-CISCO-TS-MIB

•PerfHist-TC-MIB

•RMON2-MIB

•RMON-MIB

•SNMP-FRAMEWORK-MIB

•SNMP-TARGET-MIB

•SNMPv2-CONF

•SNMPv2-MIB

•SNMPv2-SMI

•SNMPv2-TC


Caveats

This section documents the open and resolved caveats for the Cisco MWR 2941-DC router running Cisco IOS Release 12.4(19)MR2 and later. Only severity 1 through 3 caveats are included.

Caveats describe unexpected behavior in Cisco IOS software releases. Severity 1 caveats are the most serious caveats, severity 2 caveats are less serious, and severity 3 caveats are the least serious of these three severity levels.

For information on caveats in Cisco IOS Software Releases 12.4 Mainline, go to:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6350/prod_release_notes_list.html

These documents list severity 1 and 2 caveats, and are located on the Documentation DVD and Cisco.com.

Note If you have an account with Cisco.com, you can use the Bug Toolkit to find caveats of any severity for any release. To reach the Bug Toolkit, log in to Cisco.com and click the Support tab and select Support from the drop-down menu. Under Frequently Used Resources, click Bug Toolkit. You must then log in. Another option is to go directly to: http://www.cisco.com/pcgi-bin/Support/Bugtool/launch_bugtool.pl.

The following sections document the opened and resolved caveats by Cisco IOS release:

•Caveats in Cisco IOS Release 12.4(19)MR2

•Troubleshooting

Caveats in Cisco IOS Release 12.4(19)MR2

The following caveats apply to Cisco IOS Release 12.4(19)MR2.

Open Caveats

This section lists the open caveats in Cisco IOS Release 12.4(19)MR2.

CSCsy18615

If you indiscriminately remove and add a multilink PPP interface, this may cause the router to reload unexpectedly. This may occur when packets are unexpectedly received by a multilink interface during a transitional state.

Workaround: Perform the shutdown and no shutdown commands on the underlying multilink components in the sequence as indicated by the following configuration example. In the example, the multilink interface consists of two underlying links. 

int multilinkl 1

shutdown

no int multilink 1


int serial0/1:0 

shutdown

int serial0/2:0 

shutdown


controller t1 0/1

shutdown

controller t1 0/2

shutdown


controller t1 0/1

no channel-group 0 

controller t1 0/2

no channel-group 0


controller t1 0/1

channel-group 0 timeslot 1-24

controller t1 0/2

channel-group 0 timeslot 1-24


int serial0/1:0 

no ip address

encapsulation ppp

ppp multilink group 1


int serial0/2:0 

no ip address

encapsulation ppp

ppp multilink group 1


interface multilink 1

ip address 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0

ppp multilink

ppp multilink interleave

ppp multilink group 1

ppp multilink fragment delay 0 1

ppp multilink multiclass

ppp timeout multilink lost-fragment 1


controller t1 0/1

no shutdown

controller t1 0/2

no shutdown


int serial0/1:0 

no shutdown

int serial0/2:0 

no shutdown

CSCsy30207

If you indiscriminately remove and add a multilink PPP interface, this may cause the router to reload unexpectedly. This may occur when packets are unexpectedly received by a multilink interface during a transitional state.

Workaround: Perform the shutdown and no shutdown commands on the underlying multilink components in the sequence as indicated by the following configuration example. In the example, the multilink interface consists of two underlying links. 

int multilinkl 1

shutdown

no int multilink 1


int serial0/1:0 

shutdown

int serial0/2:0 

shutdown


controller t1 0/1

shutdown

controller t1 0/2

shutdown


controller t1 0/1

no channel-group 0 

controller t1 0/2

no channel-group 0


controller t1 0/1

channel-group 0 timeslot 1-24

controller t1 0/2

channel-group 0 timeslot 1-24


int serial0/1:0 

no ip address

encapsulation ppp

ppp multilink group 1


int serial0/2:0 

no ip address

encapsulation ppp

ppp multilink group 1


interface multilink 1

ip address 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0

ppp multilink

ppp multilink interleave

ppp multilink group 1

ppp multilink fragment delay 0 1

ppp multilink multiclass

ppp timeout multilink lost-fragment 1


controller t1 0/1

no shutdown

controller t1 0/2

no shutdown


int serial0/1:0 

no shutdown

int serial0/2:0 

no shutdown

Resolved Caveats

There are no closed caveats for Cisco IOS Release 12.4(19)MR2.

Troubleshooting

Collecting Data for Router Issues

To collect data for reporting router issues, issue the following command:

•show tech-support—Displays general information about the router if it reports a problem.

Collecting Data for ROMmon Issues

To collect data for ROMmon issues, issue the following command while in EXEC mode:

•show rom-monitor—Displays currently selected ROM monitor.

Related Documentation

Related documents for implementing the Cisco MWR 2941-DC mobile wireless edge router are available on Cisco.com and the Documentation DVD.

To access the related documentation on Cisco.com, go to:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps9395/tsd_products_support_series_home.html

Documents related to the Cisco MWR 2941-DC-A mobile wireless edge router include the following guides:

•Cisco MWR 2941-DC Mobile Wireless Edge Router documents

–Cisco MWR 2941-DC Mobile Wireless Edge Router Hardware Installation Guide

–Cisco MWR 2941-DC Mobile Wireless Edge Router Software Configuration Guide

–Regulatory Compliance and Safety Information for the Cisco MWR 2941-DC Mobile Wireless Edge Router

•Cisco Interface Cards Installation Guides

–Quick Start Guide: Interface Cards

–Cisco Interface Cards Installation Guide

•Release Notes—Release Notes for Cisco MWR 2941-DC-A Mobile Wireless Edge Router for Cisco IOS Release 12.4(19)MR2

Services and Support

For information on obtaining documentation, obtaining support, providing documentation feedback, security guidelines, and also recommended aliases and general Cisco documents, see the monthly What's New in Cisco Product Documentation, which also lists all new and revised Cisco technical documentation, at:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/general/whatsnew/whatsnew.html