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

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Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v6.4.2b – GA September 20, 2011
This section lists the defects with Critical, High and Medium Technical Severity closed with a code change as of
September 20, 2011 in Fabric OS v6.4.2b.
Defect ID: DEFECT000326023
Technical Severity: High
Summary: Switch hafailover in IPFC setup.
Symptom: With IPFC configuration, run IPFC Broadcast frames with multi frames in sequence, observe
switch fails over or hareboot after some run time.
Feature: Field Escalation
Function: Panic / OOM
Probability: Low
Found in Release: FOS6.4.0
Service Request ID: 487819
Defect ID: DEFECT000329676
Technical Severity: High
Summary: On FOS v6.4.0a or later, unstable link triggered continuous timeout/discard frame/un-
routable frame tracing to CPU for processing.
Symptom: CPs cold recovery when continuous frame trapped to CPU and makes CPU too busy. This is
reported on 4G directors and is less likely to be triggered on 8G switch/directors. Note: FOS
6.4.2 had improvement, and additional change is back ported from FOS7.0.0GA to
FOS6.4.2b in this area to throttle further.
Feature: Field Escalation
Function: ASIC Driver
Probability: Low
Found in Release: FOS6.4.0
Service Request ID: 501279
Where Else Fixed: FOS6.4.2, FOS7.0.0 GA
Defect ID: DEFECT000333231
Technical Severity: High
Summary: Weblinker terminated and caused FFDC
Symptom: Weblinker crash. GUI hangs until reboot but is still able to use CLI. This happens when
weblinker received the newswitch.html request and the switch has more than 4 IPv6
address configured.
Feature: Field Escalation
Function: Management Embedded
Probability: Medium
Found in Release: FOS6.3.1
Service Request ID: 514459
Where Else Fixed: FOS7.0.0 GA
Defect ID: DEFECT000346914
Technical Severity: High
Summary: Brocade 8000 on v6.4.x does not respond to FLOGI from third-party CNA
Symptom: Third-party CNA does not come on line when connected to a Brocade 8000.
Feature: CEE-FCOE
Function: FCOE PROTOCOL
Probability: Medium
Found in Release: FOS6.4.1
Service Request ID: 588925