Release Notes for Cisco Catalyst 8200 and

Catalyst 8300 Series Edge Platforms, Cisco IOS

XE Dublin 17.11.x
First Published: 2023-04-06

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 About The Cisco Catalyst 8200 and Catalyst 8300 Series Edge Platforms

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About The Cisco Catalyst 8200 and Catalyst 8300 Series Edge Platforms

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The Cisco Catalyst 8200 and Catalyst 8300 Series Edge Platforms are best-of-breed, 5G-ready, cloud edge
platforms designed for accelerated services, multi-layer security, cloud-native agility, and edge intelligence
to accelerate your journey to cloud.
Cisco Catalyst 8200 and Catalyst 8300 Series Edge Platforms with Cisco IOS XE SD-WAN Software deliver
Cisco’s secure, cloud-scale SD-WAN solution for the branch. The Cisco Catalyst 8200 and Catalyst 8300
Series Edge Platforms are built for high performance and integrated SD-WAN Services along with flexibility
to deliver security and networking services together from the cloud or on premises. It provides higher WAN
port density and a redundant power supply capability. The Cisco Catalyst 8200 and Catalyst 8300 Series Edge
Platforms have a wide variety of interface options to choose from—ranging from lower and higher module
density with backward compatibility to a variety of existing WAN, LAN, voice, and compute modules.
Powered by Cisco IOS XE, fully programmable software architecture, and API support, these platforms can
facilitate automation at scale to achieve zero-touch IT capability while migrating workloads to the cloud. The
Cisco Catalyst 8200 and Catalyst 8300 Series Edge Platforms also come with Trustworthy Solutions 2.0
infrastructure that secures the platforms against threats and vulnerabilities with integrity verification and
remediation of threats.
The Cisco Catalyst 8200 and Catalyst 8300 Series Edge Platforms are well suited for medium-sized and large
enterprise branch offices for high WAN IPSec performance with integrated SD-WAN services.
For more information on the features and specifications of Cisco Catalyst 8200 and Catalyst 8300 Series Edge
Platforms, refer to the Cisco Catalyst 8300 Series Edge platforms datasheet.

Note Sections in this documentation apply to all models of Cisco Catalyst 8200 and Catalyst 8300 Series Edge
Platforms unless a reference to a specific model is made explicitly.

Note Cisco IOS XE Dublin 17.11.1a is the first release for the Cisco Catalyst 8200 and Catalyst 8300 Series Edge
Platforms in the Cisco IOS XE Dublin 17.11.x release series.

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 Hardware and Software Features-New and Changed

Hardware and Software Features-New and Changed

New and Changed Hardware Features
Table 1: New Hardware in Cisco IOS XE 17.11.1a

Hardware Description

Cisco UCS E-Series M6 Servers Cisco UCS E-Series M6 Servers bring data
center-class blade servers to the branch office. These
powerful, small form-factor, x86 64-bit blade servers
reside in Cisco Catalyst 8300 Series Edge platforms.

Cisco C-NIM-4X and C-NIM-8T The Cisco C-NIM-4X and C-NIM-8T are the next
generation LAN/WAN NIM modules that provide
enhanced security, reliability, and performance. The
Cisco C-NIM-4X module provides Small Form-Factor
Pluggable (SFP) /Small Form-Factor Pluggable Plus
(SFP+), 10G and 1 Gigabit connectivity and the Cisco
C-NIM-8T moduel provides 1 Gigabit RJ45
connectivity to the Cisco Catalyst 8200 and 8300
Series Edge Platforms. Also, Cisco C-NIM-4X and
C-NIM-8T supports Layer 2 and Layer 3 configurable
ethernet NIM module.

New and Changed Software Features

Feature Navigator
You can use Cisco Feature Navigator (CFN) to find information about the software features, platform, and
software image support on Cisco Catalyst 8200 and Catalyst 8300 Series Edge Platforms. To access Cisco
Feature Navigator, go to http://www.cisco.com/go/cfn.

Note To access CFN, you do not require an account on cisco.com.

New Software Features

Table 2: Software Features in Cisco Catalyst 8200 and Cisco Catalyst 8300 Series Edge Platforms IOS XE Dublin 17.11.1a

Feature Description

Attaching Extended Color Communities to BGP VRF This feature introduces new methods of attaching
extended color communities to a prefix. A color
community is an indicator of the bandwidth or latency
level of the traffic sent to the prefix. You can attach
the extended color communities to the prefix in the
following ways: VRF export coloring, VRF import
coloring, Route Redistribution coloring into BGP and
Neighbor inbound coloring.

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New Software Features

Feature Description

Configure DHCP in a VPN-SIP Solution From Cisco IOS XE 17.11.1, you can install and
enable a Session Initiation Protocol Triggered VPN
(VPN-SIP) router behind a home gateway. In this
installation, the home gateway assigns an extension
number to the tunnel interface through Dynamic Host
Configuration Protocol (DHCP) instead of a fixed
telephone number. This allows you to aggregate data
and voice on your network and share the same
physical subscriber line for both analog and digital
data.

Device Telemetry This functionality enables collection of anonymous

usage telemetry data for Cisco products, which helps
in continuous product improvements. From Cisco IOS
XE 17.11.1a, this functionality is enabled by default.

Deprecation of Weak Ciphers The minimum Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman (RSA)
key pair size must be 2048 bits. The compliance shield
on the device must be disabled using the crypto
engine compliance shield disable command to use
the weak RSA key.

Enabling the RSRP and RSRQ Parameters for Link This feature enables the RSRP (Reference Signal
Recovery on LTE Modems Received Power) and RSRQ (Reference Signal
Received Quality) parameters that detect any network
issues or malfunctions as part of the link-recovery
feature on LTE modems.To enable these parameters,
the user can configure the lte modem link-recovery
rsrp onset-threshold command for RSRP and lte
modem link-recovery rsrq onset-threshold
command for RSRQ.

Quantum-Safe Encryption Using Post-Quantum This feature implements RFC 8784 and Cisco Secure
Preshared Keys Key Integration Protocol (SKIP) for quantum-safe
encryption of IKEv2 and IPsec packets using
Post-quantum Preshared Key (PPK). The PPKs
configured manually are referred to as manual PPKs
and the PPKs imported from an external key source
(KS) using the SKIP protocol are referred to as
dynamic PPKs.This feature is applicable to all
IKEv2/IPsec VPNs such as FlexVPN (SVTI-DVTI)
and DMVPN, except for GETVPN.

Support for RAR PPPoE IPv6 Multicast This feature provides support for IPv6 multicast in
PPPoE-based Radio Aware Routing (RAR) networks.

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 ROMMON Compatibility Matrix

Feature Description

Support for Radio Aware Routing (RAR) and This feature enables Radio-Aware Routing (RAR)
Dynamic Link Exchange Protocol (DLEP) support on Cisco Catalyst 8000 Edge Platforms. RAR
is a mechanism that uses radio signals to interact with
the routing protocol OSPFv3 to signal the appearance,
disappearance, and link conditions of one-hop routing
neighbors. Cisco Dynamic Link Exchange Protocol
(DLEP) is the latest protocol in the RAR family.
DLEP provides a bidirectional, event-driven
communication channel between the router and the
modem/radio to facilitate communication of changing
link characteristics.

ROMMON Compatibility Matrix

The following table lists the ROMMON releases supported in Cisco IOS XE 17.11.x releases.

Table 3: Minimum and Recommended ROMMON Releases Supported on Cisco Catalyst 8200 and Catalyst 8300 Series Edge Platforms
respectively

Platforms Cisco IOS XE Release Minimum ROMMON Recommended

Release Supported for ROMMON Release
IOS XE Supported for IOS XE

Catalyst 8300 Series Edge Platforms

C8300-1N1S-4T2X|6T 17.10.1a 17.3(1r) 17.3(5r)

C8300-2N2S-4T2X|6T 17.10.1a 17.3(1.2r) 17.3(4.1r)

Catalyst 8200 Series Edge Platforms

C8200-1N-4T 17.10.1a 17.4(1r) 17.4(3r)

C8200L-1N-4T 17.10.1a 17.5(1.1r) 17.5(2r)

Resolved and Open Bugs for Cisco IOS XE 17.11.x

Resolved Bugs in Cisco IOS XE 17.11.1a
Identifier Headline

CSCwd47940 PMTU discovery is not working after interface flap.

CSCwe91988 Need to disable CSDL compliance check for NPE images.

CSCwd65945 LR Interface which has NAT enabled is chosen for webex traffic.

CSCwd41236 On the Cisco Catalyst 8200-1N-4T, show version points to /harddisk/core directory,
but file is present in /bootflash/core directory.

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Resolved Bugs in Cisco IOS XE 17.11.1a

Identifier Headline

CSCwd16559 ISG FFR: ARP request to reroute nexthop IP is not triggered if ARP entry not in ARP
table.

CSCwd45363 IPSEC throughput level / ambiguous outputs.

CSCwe28204 Control connection over L3 Tloc extension failing as no NAT table entry created.

CSCwe34808 FMAN FP leak due to the show platform software punt-policercommand.

CSCwe09805 OID for SNMP monitoring of DSP resources are not working as expected.

CSCwd89012 Tested flap-based auto-suspension - Minimum duration value - no results as expected.

CSCwd30578 Wired guest client stuck at IP_LEARN with DHCP packets not forwarded out of the
foreign to anchor.

CSCwd79089 Devices crashes when sending Full line rate of traffic with >5 Intel AX210 stations.

CSCwd87195 NAT configuration with redundancy, mapping id and match-in-vrf options with no-alias
support.

CSCwd90168 Unexpected reload after running show voice dsp command while an ISDN Call
disconnects.

CSCwd34941 NAT configuration with no-alias option is not preserved after reload.

CSCwc72588 Router should not allow weak cryptographic algorithms to be configured for IPsec.

CSCwd25107 Interface VLAN1 placed in shutdown state when configured with ip address pool.

CSCwc68069 RTP packets not forwarded when packet duplication enabled, no issue without
duplication feature.

CSCwe00946 System crashes after disabling endpoint-tracker on tunnel interfaces.

CSCwe18058 Unexpected reload with IPS configured.

CSCwd61255 Data Plane crashes on Catalyst 8000 Series devices when making Per-Tunnel QoS
configuration changes with scale.

CSCwe01015 IKEv2/IPSec - phase 2 rekey failing when peer is behind NAT.

CSCwd17272 UTD Packet drop due to fragmentation for ER-SPAN traffic.

CSCwc37465 Unable to push no-alias option on static NAT mapping from management system.

CSCwc67625 OU field is deprecated from CA/B forum certificate authorities.

CSCwd49309 Ucode crash is seen on the device with traffic pointing to segfault in coff handler.

CSCwe33793 Memory allocation failure with extended antireplay enabled.

CSCwe23276 Change in the IPsec integrity parameters breaks the connectivity.

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 Open Bugs in Cisco IOS XE 17.11.1a

Identifier Headline

CSCwd46921 Device is not connecting to second vSmart after both assigned vSmart is down.

CSCwd12330 Invalid TCP checksum in SYN flag packets passing through the device.

CSCwc99453 Enable license feature hseck9 command on the Cisco Catalyst 8200L platform.

CSCwe60059 Device crashes when using dial-peer groups with STCAPP.

CSCwd15487 [MBPL Integration] kernel crash is observed when modem-power-cycle is executed.

CSCwd67654 FNF stats are getting populated with unknown in egress/ingress interface in vpn0.

CSCwd38943 GETVPN: KS reject registration from a public IP.

CSCwb59113 BFD session gets nat translated with static ip over Dialer interface.

CSCwe03614 CWMP: MAC address of ATM interface is not included in Inform message.

CSCwb46968 Device template attachment causes PPPoE commands to be removed from ethernet
interface.

CSCwe19084 NAT: Traffic is not translated to the same global address though PAP is configured.

CSCwd71586 BFD sessions flapping on an interface with SYMNAT may lead to IPSec crash

CSCwe41946 DTMF is failing through IOS MTP during call on-hold.

CSCwd85580 Device reloads after set ospfv3 authentication null command.

CSCvy23366 Cisco Catalyst 8300-2N2S + UCSE: Kernel crash on Cisco Catalyst 8300-2N2S with
UCSE module.

CSCwd06923 Stale ip alias left after NAT statement got removed.

CSCwc48427 BFD issues with clear_omp -> non-PWK + non-VRRP scenario only.

CSCwd28593 Control connection flap of assigned vSmart after shutting down other assigned vSmart.

CSCwe32862 Router IOS-XE crash while executing AES crypto functions.

CSCwe25076 ALG breaks NBAR recognition impacting application firewall performance.

CSCwd68994 ISAKMP profile does not match as per configured certificate maps.

Open Bugs in Cisco IOS XE 17.11.1a

Identifier Headline

CSCwd42523 Same label is assigned to different VRFs.

CSCwd35047 Failed to ping gateway while configuring shared LOM with console te1 interface until
router reload.

CSCwd45508 Device does not form BFD across Serial link when upgrading the image.

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Identifier Headline

CSCwd76364 Device may experience unexpected reload.

CSCwe49509 Some BFD tunnel went down after migration.

CSCwe41234 VMWI race condition causes no ringing for analog phones.

CSCwd73783 Observed qfp-ucode-wlc crash.

CSCwe19394 Device may boot up into prev_packages.conf due to power outage.

CSCwe18276 Route-map not getting effect when its applied in OMP for BGP routes.

CSCwe40024 98% memory utilization on the device.

CSCwe35574 DPDK RX buffer is getting corrupted and causing device to crash.

CSCwd68111 Object group called in Zone-base Firewall gives error after upgrade.

CSCwe39011 GARP on port up/up status from Catalyst 8300 and C8500L device is not received by
remote peer device.

CSCwe49684 BFD sessions keeps flapping intermittently.

CSCwe52971 BFD tunnels remain in down state.

CSCwe47915 Inter-vrf route leaking not working and packet drop seen due to IPv4 no route.

Related Documentation
• Hardware Installation Guide for Catalyst 8200 Series Edge Platforms
• Hardware Installation Guide for Catalyst 8300 Series Edge Platforms
• Smart Licensing Using Policy for Cisco Enterprise Routing Platforms
• Cisco Catalyst 8300 and 8200 Series Edge Platforms Software Configuration Guide

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