Specifications

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Release Notes for Cisco 7000 Family for Cisco IOS Release 12.1 T
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New and Changed Information
Bidirectional PIM
Platforms: Cisco 7200 series and Cisco 7500 series routers
Bidirectional PIM (bidir-PIM) is a variant of the Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) suite of routing
protocols for IP multicast. Bidir-PIM is derived from the mechanisms of Protocol Independent
Multicast sparse mode (PIM SM) and shares many of its protocol elements. In short, bidir-PIM is
PIM SM with shared tree, but no shortest path tree operations. Bidir-PIM also has unconditional
forwarding of source traffic toward the Route Processor (RP) upstream on the shared tree, but no
registering process for sources as in PIM SM. These modifications are necessary and sufficient to allow
forwarding of traffic in all routers solely based on the (*, G) multicast routing entries. This feature
eliminates any source-specific state and allows scaling capability to an arbitrary number of sources.
Configurable Timers in H.225
Platforms: Cisco 7200 series routers
With the Configurable Timers in H.225 feature you can configure the H.255 TCP connection timeout
value for all out-going call attempts (on a per VoIP dial-peer basis).
In previous releases of the Cisco IOS software, the call attempt timeout was 15 seconds and could not
be changed. In some cases, however, users might need a shorter timeout value to facilitate a faster
failover. In other cases, users might need a greater timeout value.
The Configurable Timers in H.225 feature addresses those needs by providing the ability to override the
default of 15 seconds and to configure the timeout value.
Ecosystem Gatekeeper Interoperability Enhancements, Phase 2
Platforms: Cisco 7200 series routers
The Ecosystem Gatekeeper Interoperability Enhancements, Phase 2 feature supplements the existing
support for alternate gatekeepers and adds support for the alternate gatekeeper field (altGKInfo) to the
admission rejection (ARJ). This allows a gateway to move between gatekeepers during the admission
request (ARQ) phase.
Frame Relay PVC Interface Priority Queueing
Platforms: Cisco 7200 series and Cisco 7500 series routers
The Frame Relay PVC Interface Priority Queueing (FR PIPQ) feature provides an interface-level
priority queueing scheme in which prioritization is based on destination PVC rather than packet
contents. For example, with FR PIPQ you can configure a PVC transporting voice traffic to have
absolute priority over a PVC transporting signalling traffic, and a PVC transporting signalling traffic to
have absolute priority over a PVC transporting data.
FR PIPQ provides four levels of priority: high, medium, normal, and low. The Frame Relay packet is
examined at the interface for the data-link connection identifier (DLCI) value. The packet is then sent
to the correct priority queue based on the priority level configured for that DLCI.