Cisco (one of the most important internet infrastructure companies)has posted Field notices reporting a variety of problems since rollover including an apparently minor February 29 date stamping problem with their Optical Product Software:

FSB #15: Y2K Date "February 29, 2000" Will Not Display in Cisco ONS (Cerent 454) Software Revisions R1.0x

Release says in part that when date rolls over to February 28, 2000, Software will read as March 1, 2000. If no action is taken, all alarm stamps and all other related logs correlated to time stamps will be off by one day. The solution is to simply reset the date.

http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/770/55.html

In addition Cisco has reported a variety of other software/hardware problems since rollover which may not be so easily fixed including the following. Would someone please comment on the ramifications of any specific problems listed here? Could any of them caused the Yahoo outage yesterday?

Access Products

 Field Notice: Cisco 6100 Series DSLAM Can Experience Transient Errors on DS3 February 2, 2000  Field Notice: Fan Unit Mechanical Stability Problem on Cisco 6100 Series DSLAM February 2, 2000  Field Notice: Use of Static Host Routes to Implement SC2200 Link Failover January 28, 2000  Field Notice: Access Servers Require Redundant Link Manager V1 for RLM Connection to SC2200 Release 4.2(x) January 28, 2000  Field Notice: Kerberos Client Authentication Fails in Beginning of Leap Years January 1, 2000

Cisco IOS. Field Notices

Field Notice: IPsec/CEF Software Defect on RSPx and RSM January 24, 2000

Last one posted

Cisco IOS 12.0(5)XE3 December 8, 1999

High-End Routers Field Notices

Field Notice: IPsec/CEF Software Defect on RSPx and RSM January 24, 2000

Field Notice: NPE-175 and NPE-225 Recall Due To Anomalous Packet Handling Behavior January 11, 2000

Field Notice: End of Sale for PCMCIA 16MB Flash Memory for Cisco 7200 Series Router January 11, 2000

LAN Switches Field Notices

Field Notice: Boot Flash Memory Size Too Small for Next Feature Release of Catalyst 8540 CSR IOS January 26, 2000

Security Products Field Notices

Field Notice: IPsec/CEF Software Defect on RSPx and RSM January 24, 2000 Field Notice: Cisco Secure PIX Firewall Software Version 4.4(3) Deferral January 7, 2000 Field Notice: Kerberos Client Authentication Fails in Beginning of Leap Years January 1, 2000 Cisco Secure PIX Firewall: PIX-515 Ethernet Controller Issue December 31, 1999

WAN Switches Field Notices

 Field Notice: Bus Errors Reported When UXM or UFM Present February 2, 2000  Field Notice: UVM with T1 Backcard is Stuck in Yellow Alarm When Using CCS January 21, 2000

Field Notice: LocalDirector User Interface 3.1 and 3.1.1 SSL Root Certificate Expiration December 27, 1999 Updated January 17, 2000

Year 2000 Field Notices

Field Notice: Kerberos Client Authentication Fails in Beginning of Leap Years January 1, 2000

All of these Field reports may be accessed at this link:

http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/770/

-- Carl Jenkins (Somewherepress@aol.com), February 08, 2000