Multicast Support Over Port Channel

Release Notes for Cisco Catalyst IE3x00 and IE3100 Rugged, IE3400 Heavy Duty, and ESS3300 Series Switches, Cisco IOS XE 17.17.x

New Features for Cisco IOS XE 17.17.1

Feature Name: G.8032 Ethernet Ring Protection
License Level: Network Essentials
Description: This feature enables protection switching for Ethernet ring topologies. It utilizes the G.8032 Ethernet Ring Protection (ERP) protocol version 1, as defined in ITU-T G.8032, to safeguard Ethernet traffic in ring topologies, including those with non-Cisco devices.
Supported Platforms: IE3100

Feature Name: Multicast Support Over Port Channel
License Level: Network Essentials
Description: From this release, multicast is supported over port channels or EtherChannels. This ensures that multicast traffic is efficiently distributed across multiple physical links within a port channel while maintaining redundancy and preventing duplicate traffic.
Supported Platforms: IE3400, IE3400H, IE3300

Feature Name: 4-pair Power over Ethernet (4PPoE)
License Level: Network Essentials
Description: From this release, ESS3300 supports 4-pair power over ethernet (4PPoE) and the maximum power supported per port is 90W. The system PoE has been enhanced to 2160W.
Supported Platforms: ESS3300

Important Notes
IOx Support for IE3300 Switches
To see if the IE-3300-8P2S switch or IE-3300-8T2S switch supports IOx application environment, check the Hardware Version ID on the switch label. The Hardware Version ID is in the upper-right corner of the label, as shown in the following illustration. Support for the feature is available only with Hardware Version ID 06 or later. In the following illustration, the Version ID appears as "V06" at the end of the string inside the red rectangle in the upper-right corner of the label.

Open Caveats in Cisco IOS XE 17.17.1
Identifier: CSCwn88892
Description: %IMSP_ACLMGR-3-INVALIDACL: Add access-list failed error on IE3400 switches

Identifier: CSCwo38334
Description: Web UI log in page loads slow compared to 17.06.05 release

Resolved Caveats in Cisco IOS XE 17.17.1
Identifier: CSCwj68054
Description: MAT event not working on EEM for IE3400 switches.

Identifier: CSCwk86434
Description: Configuration failed to parse with a good ciscortr.cfg.

Identifier: CSCwm30681
Description: Device not able to ping on trunk port when "vlan dot1q tag native" is configured globally.

Identifier: CSCwm33057
Description: Slowness on IE-3100 when polling SNMP OIDs.

Identifier: CSCwm36038
Description: ESS-3300 forwards unicast traffic to all promiscuous ports.

Identifier: CSCwm47470
Description: Endpoints with 10 Mbps speed in Half-Duplex Mode drop the connection.

Identifier: CSCwm48006
Description: C9300 fails to establish proper STP connection with connected device when interface goes down.

Identifier: CSCwm55828
Description: Websocket connection will not establish using IDA.

Identifier: CSCwm85265
Description: REP ZTP functioning incoherent.

Identifier: CSCwn62607
Description: IE3100-PN connect issues due to out of AR resources.

Identifier: CSCwn65142
Description: Disable REP NEG as REP ZTP functioning incoherent.

Identifier: CSCwo33351
Description: IE3xxx/S5800/S5200: Observed "rep bpduleak" CLI in latest image.