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

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Defect ID: DEFECT000349440
Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Creating an Encryption Group with 15 characters corrupts the name and displays the
encryption group name differently on the switch telnet session, switch's CP console log
session and from Brocade Network Advisor
Symptom: Will result in misleading EG name data when interrogating different management
interfaces
Feature: Data Security
Function: Encryption Group
Probability: Medium
Found in Release: FOS7.0.0
Defect ID: DEFECT000350270
Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: FICON Tape Pipelining Channel aborts I/O after presenting pending Attention status
Symptom: Channel aborts I/O after channel detected errors. Could lead to failed tape jobs in a FCIP
FICON Emulation configuration.
Workaround: Disable FICON Tape pipelining
Feature: FCIP
Function: Emulation
Probability: Medium
Found in Release: FOS6.4.2
Defect ID: DEFECT000351021
Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Enhance tunings to improve CRC error with various blade/platforms
Symptom: CRC errors on following type of blades and platforms:
1. Port 7/0 detected CRC error with good EOF when FC8-16 is placed in DCX-4s Slot7. For
the solution to be effective, one must execute: serdestunemode --set;
2. Port 7/0, 7/10 detected CRC error when FX8-24 is placed in DCX-4s slot7. May also
see CRC error on corresponding core blade backend port 3/10 6/30. Solution is
effective upon upgrade, hafailover or re-init of blade
3. 5100 experience CRC error with 3rd party tape device.
4. FC10-6 in DCX detects backend port with stuck VC after link level error
Feature: Field Escalation
Function: ASIC Driver
Probability: Medium
Found in Release: FOS6.4.2
Defect ID: DEFECT000351973
Technical Severity: Medium
Summary: Brocade 5470 - clear the invalid ordered counters and encoding out counters after link
initialization on the server ports
Symptom: Presence of High Invalid Ordered and enc out on some server ports error during Link Init on
Brocade 5470
Feature: Embedded Platform Services
Function: ASIC Driver
Probability: Medium
Found in Release: FOS6.3.1
Where Else Fixed: FOS6.3.2 c