Cisco Cisco Gigabit Ethernet Switch Module (CGESM) for HP

These severity 3 Cisco IOS configuration caveats apply to the CGESM switch:

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If a port-based ACL (PACL) is applied to an 802.1x-enabled port and the client is then disconnected 
from that port, the PACL is not removed from the port. 

There is no workaround.

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When you power on or restart a switch that does not have a config.text file in flash memory, the 
switch tries to get configuration files from a TFTP server. If the configuration files are not found, 
the switch automatically configures the service config global configuration command, which causes 
the switch to continue searching (in the background) for the expected configuration files.

If the service config command does not find the configuration files, these error messages appear:

%Error opening tftp://255.255.255.255/network-confg (Timed out)

%Error opening tftp://255.255.255.255/cisconet.cfg (Timed out)

%Error opening tftp://255.255.255.255/router-confg (Timed out)

%Error opening tftp://255.255.255.255/ciscortr.cfg (Timed out)

These system messages also appear:

00:01:40: %SYS-4-CONFIG_RESOLVE_FAILURE: System config parse from 

(tftp://255.255.255.255/network-confg) failed

 00:01:40: %SYS-4-CONFIG_RESOLVE_FAILURE: System config parse from 

(tftp://255.255.255.255/cisconet.cfg) failed

 00:01:40: %SYS-4-CONFIG_RESOLVE_FAILURE: System config parse from 

(tftp://255.255.255.255/switch-confg) failed

 00:01:40: %SYS-4-CONFIG_RESOLVE_FAILURE: System config parse from 

(tftp://255.255.255.255/ciscortr.cfg) failed

 

These messages are for information only.   There is no problem with the switch operation. 

Because the switch automatically configures the service config global configuration command, it is 
in the switch startup-config file when you save the running-config file. This command runs every 
time the switch is restarted, even if a config.text configuration file is in the switch flash memory.

The workaround is to prevent these messages from being generated. To do this, enter the switch 
configuration mode, and issue the no service config command. Save the configuration to flash by 
using the copy running-config to startup-config command. The preceding error and system 
messages no longer appear and do not appear when the switch is restarted.

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When using SNMP, the CGESM switch returns an incorrect value of 65534 for the 
ciscoFlashPartitionFileCount MIB; the switch actually contains 1367 files.

There is no workaround.

CSCsb85001 

If traffic is passing through VMPS ports and you perform a shut operation, a dynamic VLAN is not 
assigned and a VLAN with a null ID appears. 

The workaround is to clear the MAC address table. This forces the VMPS server to correctly 
reassign the VLAN.