Brocade Fabric OS v6.4.3f Release Notes v1.0

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Defect ID: DEFECT000301612
Technical Severity: High
Summary: VE port "aptpolicy port_based" did not change internal policy
Symptom: When an FX8-24 and a FS8-18 are installed in the same chassis and the user attempts to
set the routing policy to port-based, it may not take effect and the internal policy could
remain as exchanged based routing.
Feature: 8G Platform Services
Function: Routing
Probability: High
Found in Release: FOS6.4.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000302706
Technical Severity: High
Summary: Tape job over FCIP on FID 128 stopped after sometime in port based route policy
environment.
Symptom: In VF-disable mode, observed aborts and timeout on traffic over FCIP on FID 128 with port
based route policy (aptpolicy of 1) in effect.
Feature: Field Escalation
Function: RAS Logging / Tracing
Probability: Medium
Found in Release: FOS6.3.1
Service Request ID: 436473
Defect ID: DEFECT000303951
Technical Severity: High
Summary: Ports changed status to mod_val causing ISL downtime after overnight EEdisable/enable
test - after reboots
Symptom: Port status changed to mod_val and ISL fails to form. It's possible that host may not be
able to access LUNs and I/O can be interrupted.
Feature: System Controls/EM
Function: Mace/Lance
Probability: Low
Found in Release: FOS6.4.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000269189
Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: SERDES tuning values to support BR–804 HBA. In addition for v6.4.0b, regardless what the
fill word mode setting is on the port, it will operate at mode 1 internally with embedded
switch Brocade 5480
Symptom: Fine tune SERDES value for BR–804 HBA support. This change only applies to Brocade
5480 platform.
Feature: Embedded Platform Services
Function: Bulova
Probability: Medium
Found in Release: FOS6.3.0
Where Else Fixed: FOS6.4.0, FOS6.3.1 a, FOS6.3.1 b