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Cross-Platform Release Notes for Cisco IOS Release 12.0S
OL-1617-14 Rev. Q0
Resolved Caveats—Cisco IOS Release 12.0(28)S
CSCec07592
Symptoms: The best path is not chosen correctly on a Cisco router.
Conditions: This symptom is observed when the bgp deterministic med router configuration
command is configured on a Cisco router. The symptom occurs when different values of Multi Exit
Discriminator (MED) are set for peers. In this particular situation, the symptom occurs when
different values of MED are set to different peers.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
CSCec07636
Symptoms: When the following Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) MIB tables are queried via
snmpwalk, some interfaces may not be displayed:
ospfNbrTable
ospfIfTable
ospfIfMetricTable
Conditions: This symptom is observed on any Cisco platform that runs OSPF.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
CSCec23167
Symptoms: During BGP scalability testing, error messages and tracebacks similar to the following
ones may be logged, indicating a difficulty with TCP and buffer usage:
%SYS-2-MALLOCFAIL: Memory allocation of 4692 bytes failed from 0x6076F714,
align
Pool: I/O Free: 11143248 Cause: Memory fragmentation
Alternate Pool: None Free: 0 Cause: No Alternate pool
-Process= "Pool Manager", ipl= 0, pid= 6
-Traceback= 607FE10C 607FF1EC 6076F71C 6080C1D0 6080C400
%TCP-6-NOBUFF: TTY0, no buffer available
-Process= "BGP I/O", ipl= 0, pid= 139
-Traceback= 6098B4EC 609938C8 60993C1C 60D55CE4 60D0BEB0
%TCP-6-NOBUFF: TTY0, no buffer available
-Process= "BGP Router", ipl= 0, pid= 138
-Traceback= 6098B4EC 609938C8 60993C1C 60D55CE4 60D29858 60D2AF88 60D1B4BC
Conditions: This symptom is observed on a Cisco router that is in the processing of building BGP
sessions for about 80,000 prefixes and about 1200 BGP peers.
Workaround: There is no workaround.
CSCec55418
Symptoms: A Cisco router may reload unexpectedly at “ospf_area_delete().
Conditions: This symptom is observed on a router that is configured for Open Shortest Path First
(OSPF) when all of the following conditions are present:
A large number of network commands are removed from the configuration at once via a
cut-and-paste operation.
All of the network commands for an area are removed.
A no area command is entered for an area that is referenced in the network commands.