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Release Notes for Cisco IOS Release 12.1E on the Catalyst 6500 and Cisco 7600 Supervisor Engine and MSFC

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New Features

• Support for the Network Analysis Module with Supervisor Engine 1 and MSFC2.CSCed81316

• Support for RADIUS load balancing and Virtual Private Networking (VPN) load balancing.

Release 12.1(11b)E provides initial support in 12.1E for the following software features (these features

were previously supported in 12.1(8a)EX releases):

Note The quoted titles in some of the following items refer to chapters in the software configuration guides:

• Catalyst 6500 Series Cisco IOS Software Configuration Guide

• Cisco 7600 Series Router IOS Software Configuration Guide

• SPAN with ports on fabric-enabled switching modules. (CSCds02430)

• MultiProtocol Label Switching (MPLS) Basic, including Provider (P) and Provider Edge (PE)

functionality—Refer to this online publication:

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/core/cis7600/cfgnotes/osm_inst/index.htm

Note The Ethernet LAN ports do not support MPLS. Only WAN ports support MPLS.

• Ethernet over MPLS—Refer to this online publication:

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/core/cis7600/cfgnotes/osm_inst/index.htm

• VLAN 1 Minimization—“Configuring Layer 2 Ethernet Interfaces”

• VLAN Configuration Mode—“Configuring VLANs”

• Private VLANs—“Configuring Private VLANs”

Note With PFC2, Release 12.1(11b)E provides Layer 3 switching for multicast traffic in private

VLANs and supports IGMP Snooping in private VLANs.

• QoS Data Export—“Configuring QoS”

• Cisco IOS Firewall Feature Set—“Configuring Network Security”

• VLAN Access Control Lists (VACLs)—“Configuring Network Security”

• VACL Deny Logging—“Configuring Network Security”

• Order-Dependent ACL Merge (ODM) Algorithm for security ACLs—Refer to the command

reference publication for information about the mls aclmerge algorithm and show fm summary

commands. (For QoS, see the “New Software Features in Release 12.1(12c)E1” section on page 80.)

• Configurable last member query interval for IGMP snooping—Refer to the command reference

publication for information about the ip igmp snooping last-member-query-interval command.

• Content Switching Module, Software Release 2.2—Refer to this publication:

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/lan/cat6000/relnotes/78_12569.htm

• Cisco QoS Device Manager (QDM)—Refer to these publications:

Release and Installation Notes:

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/rtrmgmt/qdm/qdmrn21.htm

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