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

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Defect ID: DEFECT000304922
Technical Severity: High
Summary: Compact flash failure handling needs enhanced to detect and proactively trigger an
hafailover when a bad flash part is detected.
Symptom: Compact flash can sometimes fail silently, so customer only sees critical daemon failures,
which then trigger a failover. Occasionally no failure is seen at all when this happens, the
switch will continue running but does not produce any logs.
Feature: Field Escalation
Function: OS: Infrastructure
Probability: Low
Found in Release: FOS6.2.1
Service Request ID: 434659
Where Else Fixed: FOS6.4.1, FOS6.3.2 a
Defect ID: DEFECT000312516
Technical Severity: High
Summary: Weblinker processes terminate (core dump) and then restart when management app
(DCFM, etc.) queries Top Talker information using CAL requests over HTTP.
Symptom: Weblinker processes terminate and then restart when querying Top Talker information from
the switch.
Feature: Field Escalation
Function: ASIC Driver
Probability: Low
Found in Release: FOS6.3.1
Service Request ID: 445261
Where Else Fixed: FOS6.4.1, FOS6.2.2 d
Defect ID: DEFECT000313195
Technical Severity: High
Summary: Due to a residual setting left over in the firmware, if Top Talkers is enabled / disabled, and
devices PLOGI in to unknown type ports, class 3 frame rejects are continuously forwarded
to the CPU causing slow performance.
Symptom: Host ports can experience slow performance after enabling and then disabling Top Talker.
This is accompanied by class 3 frame rejects showing in the portlogdump.
Feature: 8G ASIC Driver
Function: C2 ASIC driver
Probability: Low
Found in Release: FOS6.3.1
Where Else Fixed: FOS6.4.1, FOS6.3.2 a
Defect ID: DEFECT000262707
Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Core file size not checked when being generated by several system processes, causing the
core files to exceed size of the Compact Flash (CF) and corrupt FOS system files.
Symptom: Switch will not reboot due to corrupted FOS system files.
Feature: Field Escalation
Function: OS: Linux
Probability: Low
Found in Release: FOS6.1.0
Where Else Fixed: FOS6.3.2, FOS6.4.1