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It started out as a rumour. But like most strong rumours, it carried the ring of authenticity. And in no time, it had acquired legitimacy and morphed into truth in an almost Goebbelsian way. Now it's a given, a fact: which means that anyone who differs doesn't know what he's talking about. But as a famous Japanese filmmaker once told us through a famous film he made: Truth isn't always what we see, but what we want to see.
What has taken the form of an absolute truth nowadays is that the Hindi film industry has come of age. To elaborate through examples, it has reached a happy place where a melange of arthouse niche (Ship of Theseus, The Lunch Box), meaningful mainstream (Kahaani, Vicky Donor, Queen) and commercial masala (the Dhooms, the Krrishs, the Dabanggs) combine to make one large happy family. In other words, there is a democracy of choice; Bollywood today is cinema paradiso where a hundred flowers bloom.
At best, this is half-truth. At worst, it is a half-lie attempting to cover up the larger truth. There seems to be a coalescing of People like Us — corporates, directors, audience, critics — into a mutual admiration society for a certain kind of cinema for a certain kind of people.
To grasp the larger reality of Hindi cinema today, we must first acknowledge that the story of cinema is inextricably linked to the larger narrative of the nation it is located in. This is not to deny the validity of varied and diverse influences in a globalised world where, ironically, inspiration and creativity today is often a pen drive or an online video away. It is to underline that a rounded film industry mirrors, interprets, examines and reaches out to a nation in totality. Like any good government, it is inclusive and embracing.
The entire debate between India Shining and India Invisible isn't just about what the state is doing but what it is choosing to overlook or ignore. The story of today's bright Bollywood needs to be investigated using the same touchstone. One needs to find out whether its grammar of story-telling is accessible to all classes.
Every age offers its own set of challenges to a filmmaker. By challenge, one means making movies on subjects that are not easily saleable, movies which offer politically and socially incorrect and unpalatable viewpoints and go against the logic of prevalent market economics.
There is also a need to understand that a so-called off-beat movie may just be an alternative formula movie in its own right. There is an economic logic to multiplexed India, a silo of affluent urban Indians that the corporate honcho financing projects is well aware of. Movies such as Kahaani, Queen and Mardaani fit that box. Also take the case of the embellished Mary Kom. Those who invested in the venture sought to score CSR points for making a movie on the life of a woman boxer even as they opted for a face that bore no physical similarity.
As A Bimol Aokijam, who teaches in JNU, wrote in The Hindu newspaper, "The answer is simple: an oriental face is not acceptable to the general public of this multicultural India." Imagine Tom Hanks playing Nelson Mandela, or, Meryl Streep in the role of Aung Sang Suu Ki? A really progressive Bollywood could have played agency here. It didn't.
Undeniably plenty of positives too exist in new Bollywood. Characters portraying women's empowerment, detailing of major and minor characters, specifications of locales, natural acting, real-sounding conversation on life and sex and lyrics that explore the interiorities of characters are some refreshing aspects of new millennium Bollywood. And thankfully, titillating rape scenes too have been dumped.
2013 was a fecund year. Dhoom 3, Chennai Express, Krrish 3, Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani, Bhaag Milkha Bhaag, Jolly LLb, Special 26, Raanjhanaa, Kai Po Che, Saheb Biwi aur Gangster Returns, Bombay Talkies, Ship of Theseus, The Lunch Box, Shahid — at one level, it is easy to argue that this is one of Bollywood's most-rounded crop ever. Of them, Ship of Theseus (organ donation), Shahid (the life and death of a human rights lawyer), Jolly LLB (legal quagmire) were socially realistic cinema. Even this year we have had Filmistan (cross-border bonding through cinema), Miss Lovely (porn industry), Haider (examining Kashmir) and Liar's Dice (distress migration) — movies that treat unlikely topics with art and heart.
Now here are some facts about India today. We have the highest number of maternal deaths in the world, a quarter of global child deaths and the highest proportion of malnutritioned children. Over 20% youths between 15-24 are jobless. Between 2001 and 2011, around 46 farmers committed suicide each day, nearly one every half-hour. And about half of those who enter primary school are out by Class VIII. One of the most discussed things in urban and rural India in recent years was price rise and the slow fall of families to a lower income bracket.
Why doesn't any of this figure in our cinematic mindscape as tragedy, or even satire? Is it possible to ignore most of this in the 200 odd Hindi films we make each year and yet claim that we are in the sweet spot of a soft centre? Why don't we get inspired by the best of modern regional literature? Is it because most of our young and talented GenNext filmmakers, including those from small towns, know little or nothing of it?
Sadly, the logic of market and corporatisation has ensured that such topics are unlikely to be addressed anymore. There's a reason why, barring a handful of films, the farmer, the aging, the underclass has been effaced from the big screen. The bypassing of India Below is a continuing story that few think is worth talking about.
In this backdrop, the real challenge lies in making engaging and inventive movies on subjects that are not easy to watch for People Like Us. Bollywood has largely shut itself out of anything that it perceives as a social and economic tragedy which its core multiplex audience will not enjoy. The challenge today is to back a real small, indie producer with a non-corporate friendly topic.
And by the way, movies such as Ship of Theseus or The Lunchbox (one is not discussing their artistic merits here) should not be misconstrued as small movies. Their budgets may be low but they enjoyed the backing of important people.
The truth is that post 1991, substantial portions of India has earned itself a slice of the good life. One of its depressing fall-outs is mental migration, an abandonment of other India: imagining ourselves to be somebody else, living in someplace else. Fresh and honest cinema infuses empathy among People Like Us for People Unlike Us. Cinema should be speaking to and for all of us; showing us the world and the society in all its colours and contradictions.
What India needs today is good cinema that's accessible to the larger masses and not just smart cinema. Sadly, the attention of most of our better filmmakers escapes this.
There's a reason why we don't get major international awards anymore as in the 1950s and 1980s: because the world has realized that while our ambitions are global, our so-called brave new cinema is essentially derivative in art and craft. We don't push the envelope enough. And we are too smug and self-satisfied to even look into the mirror.


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Table Of Contents
Release Notes for the Cisco 10000 Series ESR
for Cisco IOS Release 12.0(19)SL2
Upgrading to a New Software Release
Upgrading Cisco IOS Software from Earlier Cisco IOS Releases
New Features in Cisco IOS Release 12.0(19)SL
Cisco 10000 Series ESR Software Features
Automatic Protection Switching Support
Controlling the Rate of Logging Messages
Testing Performance of High-Speed Interfaces
Resolved Problems in Cisco IOS Release 12.0(19)SL2
Resolved Problems in Cisco IOS Release 12.0(19)SL1
Caveats in Cisco IOS Release 12.0(19)SL
Resolved Problems in Cisco IOS Release 12.0(19)SL
Resolved Problems in Cisco IOS Release 12.0(17)SL2
Resolved Problems in Cisco IOS Release 12.0(17)SL1
Resolved Problems in Cisco IOS Release 12.0(17)SL
Obtaining Technical Assistance
Contacting TAC by Using the Cisco TAC Website
Release Notes for the Cisco 10000 Series ESR
for Cisco IOS Release 12.0(19)SL2
January 21, 2002
These release notes provide information about Cisco IOS Release 12.0(19)SL2 running on the Cisco 10000 series edge services router (ESR). These notes are identical to the release notes for Cisco IOS Release 12.0(19)SL1, but were updated to include fixes for caveats discovered and resolved since the release of Cisco IOS Release 12.0(19)SL1 (see the "Resolved Problems in Cisco IOS Release 12.0(19)SL2" section).
These release notes are updated as needed to describe new features, memory requirements, hardware support, software platform deferrals, and changes to the microcode and related documents.
Cisco IOS Release 12.0(19)SL2 is based on the following previous releases:
•Cisco IOS Release 12.0(19)SL1
•Cisco IOS Release 12.0(19)SL
•Cisco IOS Release 12.0(17)SL2
•Cisco IOS Release 12.0(17)SL1
•Cisco IOS Release 12.0(17)SL
•Cisco 12.0ST features synchronized with Cisco IOS Release 12.0S
For a list of the software caveats that apply to Cisco IOS Release 12.0(19)SL, see the "Caveats in Cisco IOS Release 12.0(19)SL" section.
Use these release notes in conjunction with the Release Notes for Cisco IOS Release 12.0(S) and the cross-platform Release Notes for Cisco IOS Release 12.0.
To review the release notes for Cisco IOS Release 12.0S, go to www.cisco.com and click Technical Documents. Select Release 12.0 from the Cisco IOS Software drop-down menu. Then click Release Notes > Cisco 12000 Series Routers > Cisco 7000 Family and 12000 Series—Release Notes for Release Cisco IOS 12.0 S.
To review the cross-platform Release Notes for Cisco IOS Release 12.0, go to www.cisco.com and click Technical Documents. Select Release 12.0 from the Cisco IOS Software drop-down menu. Then click Release Notes > Cross-Platform Release Notes.
This document contains the following sections:
•Upgrading to a New Software Release
•New Features in Cisco IOS Release 12.0(19)SL
•Cisco 10000 Series ESR Software Features
•Resolved Problems in Cisco IOS Release 12.0(19)SL2
•Resolved Problems in Cisco IOS Release 12.0(19)SL1
•Caveats in Cisco IOS Release 12.0(19)SL
•Resolved Problems in Cisco IOS Release 12.0(19)SL
•Resolved Problems in Cisco IOS Release 12.0(17)SL2
•Resolved Problems in Cisco IOS Release 12.0(17)SL1
•Resolved Problems in Cisco IOS Release 12.0(17)SL
•Obtaining Technical Assistance
Upgrading to a New Software Release
For specific information about upgrading your Cisco 10000 series ESR to a new software release, see the Cisco 10000 Series ESR Software Configuration Guide.
For general information about upgrading to a new software release, see the product bulletin Cisco IOS Upgrade Ordering Instructions located at:
For additional information about ordering Cisco IOS software, refer to the Cisco IOS Software Releases URL:
Upgrading Cisco IOS Software from Earlier Cisco IOS Releases
Caution If you are upgrading your Cisco 10000 series ESR from Cisco IOS Release 12.(14)SL or from earlier 12.0(x)SL-based releases, read this section.
Before you upgrade to Cisco IOS Release 12.0(19)SL2, save your current configuration file. If you decide to re-install Release 12.0(14)SL, or an earlier release, you must also re-install the configuration file associated with that release. This is because some BGP configuration-file entries in Release 12.0(19)SL2 are not compatible with Release 12.0(14)SL or earlier releases.
System Requirements
We recommend that you use 512 MB of memory for the Performance Routing Engine (PRE). New PREs are shipped with 512 MB of memory. In a redundant setup, both PREs should have the same amount of memory.
New Features in Cisco IOS Release 12.0(19)SL
The following new features and improvements are supported in Cisco IOS Release 12.0(19)SL:
NetFlow Accounting—Supports gathering and exporting Version 5 and Version 8 record types to NetFlow FlowCollectors, and provides basic metering for a key set of applications, including network traffic accounting, usage-based network billing, network planning, and network monitoring capabilities.
GRE Tunneling—Supports GRE IP and DVMRP multicast tunnel modes to transport otherwise unroutable packets across the IP network and provide data separation for VPN services. GRE tunnels make it possible to have multiprotocol local networks running over a single-protocol backbone. They also provide workarounds for networks containing protocols that have limited hop counts, connectivity for discontinuous subnetworks, and allow VPNs to connect across wide-area networks. DVMRP multicast tunnel modes are only supported between the Cisco 10000 series ESR and a Sun SPARCstation running DVMRP Version 3.8 or higher.
Policy-Based Routing (PBR)—Provides a tool for expressing and implementing the forwarding or routing of data packets based on the policies defined by network administrators. PBR is a way to have policy override on routing protocol decisions by selectively applying policies based on access list or packet size. Network administrators can also use PBR to selectively change the IP ToS, IP precedence, and IP QoS Group fields for matching incoming packets on an interface.
The Cisco 10000 series ESR supports a maximum of 255 PBR policies and 32 route maps within each policy. The following subset of policy-based routing commands are supported in this release of Cisco IOS software:
•[no] ip policy route-map map-tag
•[no] route-map map-tag [{permit|deny}] sequence-number
•[no] match ip address {ACL-number | ACL-name} [ACL-number | ACL-name...]
•[no] match length min max
•[no] set [default] interface type number [type number...]
•[no] set ip [default] next-hop ip-address [ip-address...]
•[no] set ip precedence value
•[no] set ip qos-group value
•[no] set ip tos value
•show route-map [map-tag]
Turbo QoS—Provides efficient handling of QoS policy maps for fast packet classification and a QoS solution that scales.
Subinterface Policy Maps—Allows you to use the service-policy command to configure QoS features at the subinterface level in addition to configuring QoS features on main interfaces. The types of subinterfaces supported include Frame Relay, ATM (both UBR and VBR), and 802.1Q VLAN. ATM VBR subinterfaces support all QoS features including queueing. On all other subinterface types, any queueing-related commands in the service-policy such as bandwidth, priority, shape, queue-limit and random-detect are ignored.
Diffserv WRED—Extends the functionality of WRED to enable support for Differentiated Services (DiffServ) and Assured Forwarding (AF) Per Hop Behavior (PHB). DiffServ WRED enables customers to implement AF PHB by coloring packets according to DSCP values and then assigning preferential drop probabilities to those packets.
PQ/CBWFQ on ATM PVCs—Allows a service policy, including class queue policy statements, to be attached to ATM VBR VCs. To enable this feature, use the Modular Quality of Service Command-Line Interface (MQC) syntax.
Cisco 10000 Series ESR Software Features
Table 1 lists the features supported in the Cisco 10000 series ESR.
Table 1 Principal Software Features
Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP)
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
SONET 1+1 Automatic Protection Switching (APS)
Route Processing Redundancy Plus (RPR+)
High-Level Data Link Control (HDLC)
Frame Relay
Point-to-Point (PPP)
Multilink Point-to-Point (MLP)
Multiprotocol Label Switching
Multiprotocol Label Switching Virtual Private Network (MPLS/VPN) edge services
802.1q PXF switching for ARPA encapsulation
Multicast Features
Multicast Static Routes
Multicast Routing Monitor (MRM)
Multicast Services
Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP)
Protocol-Independent Multicast (PIM)
Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol (DVMRP)
Cisco Group Management Protocol (CGMP)
Unidirectional Link Routing (UDLR)
Session Directory Protocol (SDP)
Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP)
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
Quality of Service
Committed Access Rate (CAR)
Class-Based Weighted Random Early Detection (CBWRED)
QoS Policy Propagation on BGP (QPPB)
Priority Queueing (PQ)
Class-Based Weighted Fair Queueing (CBWFQ)
Frame Relay Traffic Shaping (FRTS)
Generic Traffic Shaping (GTS)
Routing Protocols
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
Intermediate System-to-Intermediate System (IS-IS)
Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (IGRP)
Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP)
Routing Information Protocol (RIP)
Security Features
Standard and extended access lists
Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA)
Kerberos authentication and client support on Telnet
Radius authentication
Terminal Access Controller Access Control System Plus (TACACS+)
Limitations and Restrictions
This section describes any limitations and restrictions that you should review before you use the Cisco 10000 series ESR.
Automatic Protection Switching Support
Automatic protection switching (APS) is supported on the OC-12 Packet Over SONET (POS) and Channelized OC-12 (ChOC-12) line cards with this release. However, certain limitations apply if the PRE installed in your system is the ESR-PRE. These limitations do not apply to the ESR-PRE1. You can verify which PRE is installed in the ESR by using the show version command.
For APS to work properly with the ESR-PRE, you must ensure that the OC-12 POS or ChOC-12 line card is installed in the lower-numbered (odd) slot.
The system receives clocking information from the line card in the odd slot. If you remove the odd-numbered card (or if the clocking mechanism on that card fails), the clocking is lost and the data path is shut down (Caveat CSCdr81416).
As a workaround, we recommend the following:
1. For the card pair, fully configure the lower-numbered card, and leave the higher-numbered card set to its default configuration.
2. Before you remove a card from the odd slot, run the no associate command and shut down the card. The following is an example of disabling APS for cards in slots 3 and 4:Router(config)# redundancyRouter(config-r)# no associate 3 4Router(config-r-a-sl)# exitRouter(config)# interface pos 3/0/0Router(config-if)# shutdown
You can now remove the card in slot 3.
3. Move the card located in the even slot to the odd slot and enter the no shutdown command. Traffic flow resumes. Insert a new card into the even slot and reconfigure the pair for redundancy.
Controlling the Rate of Logging Messages
It is important that you limit the rate that system messages are logged by the Cisco 10000 series ESR. This avoids a situation where the router becomes unstable and the CPU is overloaded. Use the logging rate-limit command to control the output of messages from the system.
We recommend that you configure the logging rate-limit command as follows:Router(config)# logging rate-limit console all 10 except critical
This command rate-limits all messages to the console to 10 per second, except for messages with critical priority (level 3) or greater.
For more information on the logging rate-limit command, see the Cisco IOS Configuration Fundamentals Command Reference.
Testing Performance of High-Speed Interfaces
Since Cisco IOS Release 12.0(17)SL, the software has been enhanced with multiple queues for all classes of traffic over high-speed interfaces. The software selects a queue based on the source and destination address for the packet. This ensures that a traffic flow always uses the same queue and the packets are transmitted in order.
When the Cisco 10000 series ESR is installed in a real network, the high-speed interfaces work efficiently to spread traffic flows equally over the queues. However, using single traffic streams in a laboratory environment may result in less-than-expected performance.
Therefore, to ensure accurate test results, you should test the throughput of the gigabit Ethernet, POS, or ATM uplink with multiple source or destination addresses.
Tip To determine if traffic is being properly distributed, use the show hardware pxf cpu queue command.
Important Notes
This section contains important issues that you should be aware of with Cisco IOS Release 12.0(19)SL and previous releases.
Frame Relay and PPP Sessions
You can run up to 4200 Frame Relay sessions or 1300 PPP sessions, and you can configure up to 800 BGP peers on the Cisco 10000 series ESR. The router also supports up to 512 Multilink Point-to-Point (MLP) protocol sessions.
Note Each T1 interface in an MLP bundle represents a single PPP session. Thus, if you configure 130 MLP bundles of 10 T1 interfaces, each results in 1300 PPP sessions (which is the maximum number of PPP sessions that are supported on the Cisco 10000 series ESR).
Cisco Discovery Protocol
Starting with Cisco IOS Release 12.0(15)SL, the Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) is disabled by default. You can enable CDP on an interface using the cdp enable command.
Resolved Problems in Cisco IOS Release 12.0(19)SL2
This section lists problems that were found since the release of Cisco IOS Release 12.0(19)SL1, and have been resolved in Cisco IOS Release 12.0(19)SL2.
Previously, if the router received an ARP packet containing the interface address of that router, but with a different MAC address, it sometimes overwrote the MAC address of the router in the ARP table and caused the interface to stop sending and receiving traffic. This occurred only on interfaces located on the Ethernet segment that were local to the host that sent the ARP packet. This problem has been fixed.
In the past, if you enabled MPLS in a VPN environment on a Cisco router and you issued the aggregate-address command, spurious memory access occurred followed by the router reloading with a bus error. This no longer occurs.
In a Cisco 10000 series ESR with a channelized OC-12 line card installed, sometimes all of the interfaces (channel groups) associated with a given channelized T3 were up, but the line protocol was down. This problem has been fixed.
In the past, when labels were applied to NetFlow export records before being transmitted from the router, the router reloaded unexpectedly. This no longer occurs.
Previously, if you applied an outbound service policy to an ATM physical interface, VBR PVCs experienced unaccounted outbound-traffic loss. This occurred under the following conditions:
•The VBR PVC did not have an outbound service policy.
•The service policy of the physical interface contained bandwidth, priority, or shape commands in a user-defined class.
•VBR traffic matched the class.
This problem has been fixed.
In the past, if the Cisco 10000 series ESR was configured with 100,000 or more routes and you reloaded the PXF microcode, the console prompt did not appear for 30 seconds. This no longer occurs.
Previously, if you configured the class-map using the type match-any command (containing multiple match clauses), the output of the show policy-map interface command showed incorrect packet and byte counts values for the class-map matches. This problem has been fixed.
In the past, if you changed the encapsulation on a subinterface to dot1q while the subinterface was shut down, the following messages appeared:11:08:24: %GENERAL-3-EREVENT: c10k_dot1q_vlan_enable: No tt_info-Traceback= 600EA13C 600EA368 60298F48 60298684 60298374 6026467C 601166606027166C 602BAA0C 602BA9F811:09:53: %GENERAL-3-EREVENT: No current_if_info-Traceback= 600A0538 60090344 600905EC 60091098 601F2BC4 601F321C 603B42F8603B5F7C 603B4D80 603B5218 60374800 602BAA0C 602BA9F811:09:59: %GENERAL-3-EREVENT: get_injection_vcci: no info for VLAN ID %d-Traceback= 600A0808 60073760 60073A00 60293CA4 60375264 603B5194 603B522C60374800 602BAA0C 602BA9F8
This problem has been fixed.
Previously, BGP neighbors sometimes did not establish sessions when they were configured as individual peers or members of a peer group. This no longer occurs.
In the past, if a loopback or a fast Ethernet interface was configured as a VPN, the following messages appeared when you configured or reloaded the Cisco 10000 series ESR:19 08:37:15 ESDT: %GENERAL-3-EREVENT: No c10k_tt_hwsb in c10k_rp_configure_interface_forwarding
This is no longer a problem.
Previously, if 802.1q subinterfaces were present in the startup configuration of the Cisco 10000 series ESR, the following messages appeared as the router was booting:c10k_ttcm_write: Illegal access to toaster memory,state=1.c,r=0,0, flags=0x00000000, src=0x613526E8, dst=0x51C4B200, len=2
This problem has been fixed.
In the past, if you configured BGP as-override for a peer group, and later added members to that group, as-override did not take effect for the new members. This no longer occurs.
Previously, if you configured Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) on an interface and you reloaded the Cisco 10000 series ESR, the CDP commands for the interface did not save. This has been fixed.
In the past, if you enabled CDP on an interface, the interface sometimes flapped. This no longer occurs.
Error messages appeared on the console of a Cisco 10000 series ESR that was connected back-to-back to another Cisco 10000 series ESR through 16 ports of an 8-port unchannelized E3/T3 line card. This occurred with traffic had been running for more the 13 hours. This problem has been fixed.
Previously, you could not send a ping through an MPLS tunnel on the Cisco 10000 series ESR. This problem has been fixed.
With certain Frame Relay RTP priority queue configurations, the Cisco 10000 series ESR stopped using Frame Relay fair-dlci queues and directed all PVC traffic to the interface default queue instead. This no longer occurs.
Previously, if you configured the same ACL to both the inbound and outbound directions of an interface, the entire ACL was deleted. This problem has been fixed.
In the past, if you issued the shutdown command on an ATM point-to-point subinterface, and then enabled it by issuing the no shutdown command, the service policy on the subinterface stopped working. This no longer occurs.
Previously, if you used the service-policy output command, it failed and an error message appeared. This problem has been fixed.
Resolved Problems in Cisco IOS Release 12.0(19)SL1
This section lists problems that were found since the release of Cisco IOS Release 12.0(19)SL, and have been resolved in Cisco IOS Release 12.0(19)SL1.
Previously, if NetFlow Accounting was enabled, and the router received large amounts of traffic, the router reloaded unexpectedly. This no longer occurs.
When large FDL packets of invalid lengths were received by the channelized ChOC-12 line card, the contents of the packet were printed on the line card console. In the case of a large FDL packet, excessive printing on the line card console caused the line card to reset. This has been fixed.
Previously, pings originating from the Cisco 10000 series ESR, PE to CE, failed over Multilink PPP bundles. This no longer occurs.
A small percentage (less than 10%) of OC-12 ATM and OC-3 ATM line cards failed to boot while under the control of Cisco IOS software due to an unexpected Systems Error (SERR) interrupt. This has been fixed.
A problem between the release of Cisco IOS Release 12.0(15)SL and Cisco IOS Release 12.0(17)SL existed in which upgrading Cisco IOS software on some ATM networks failed because all packets, after a few seconds, were marked as ignored input errors. This no longer occurs.
Previously, when a VC was being OAM managed and the VCs were oversubscribed, the status of the VCs could continually change between up and down.
Due to a race condition in the SAR firmware, in rare circumstances it was possible for a VC to become stuck in a close pending state and become unusable. This has been fixed.
Previously, the Cisco 10000 series ESR did not respond to a traceroute if the destination IP address was in the range of x.x.x.224 to x.x.x.239. This no longer occurs.
Previously, if you configured mcast, with multiple uplinks over ATM, the mcast connection could timeout every three minutes, requiring that the mcast groups be recreated.
Caveats in Cisco IOS Release 12.0(19)SL
Table 2 describes the caveats for the Cisco 10000 series ESR running Cisco IOS Release 12.0(19)SL.
Table 2 Caveats in Cisco IOS Release 12.0(19)SL
Caveat Description
If you configure an STS-1 on a ChOC-12 line card as unchannelized and then configure the remote side to send idle-character marks (namely, 0xFF), the T3 line stops responding and transmits a Remote Alarm Indication (RAI).
Workaround: When you use unchannelized T3 mode, configure the remote side to send idle-character flags (0x7E). To set this value, use the interface configuration mode idle-character command.
When you send large numbers of packets from the Gigabit Ethernet line card to the PRE in the Cisco 10000 series ESR, you may lose a small number of packets. This only occurs for some packet sizes at very high bandwidths, with loss rates of a few parts per million.
Workaround: There is currently no workaround.
On rare occasions, the system cannot retrieve remote performance data if you are using a channelized OC-12 line card that has its T1s configured with ANSI FDL enabled.
Workaround: There is currently no workaround.
WRED does not drop outbound packets correctly on the Channelized T3 line card (CT3) in the default WRED configuration.
Workaround: Change the WRED policy to a non-default value.
Some MPLS packets are CEF-switched when they should be label-switched. This condition occurs if the Cisco 10000 ESR has two interfaces configured for label switching.
Workaround: Configure only one interface for label switching.
After you enter the show controller command, occasionally an LED alarm appears as active even though no alarms are indicated.
Workaround: Perform a shut/no shut configuration on the SONET controller. For example:conf tcontroller sonet 7/0/0shutno shutend
With multiple PVP tunnels, if the aggregate traffic received by one or more of the PVPs is heavily oversubscribed (starting at about 110% of the tunnel's PCR rate), the traffic on companion PVP tunnels on that interface may experience throughput that is lower than expected.
Workaround: There is currently no workaround.
A Line Protocol on one or two T1s may not come up when you perform a reload with a large configuration (for example, 1008 T1s with PPP encap or 504 MLPPPs).
Workaround: Reload the line card using the hw slot slot_number reset command.
When a redundant power supply is removed or a line card is OIRed, SNMP traps are generated by the syslog mib. There is a request to generate these traps using the env, mon, and entity MIBs respectively.
Workaround: Filter the SNMP traps using the syslog MIB.
In the unlikely event of a total failure of the cooling fan tray, or any other scenario resulting in high-temperature operation, the Cisco 10000 series ESR continues running, and does not power off.
Workaround: If you observe fan failure or over-temperature alarms or log messages, immediately power off the chassis until the problem is corrected.
During the reloading process, the match input-interface Serial3/0/0/1:0 configuration statement is not recognized and disappears from the configuration files after the Cisco 10000 series ESR is reloaded.
Workaround: Reenter the match input-interface Serial3/0/0/1:0 command.
PVCs in the down state can still pass traffic. When a PVP is created with associated F4 OAM VCs and those F4 OAM VCs do not come up (for instance, because there is no VP at the far end or the VP at the far end did not create F4 OAM VCs), traffic can still be passed on the PVCs associated with the PVP in question. When the F4 OAM loopback cells are not returned, Cisco IOS declares all PVP associated PVCs to be down. IOS does not, however, notify the forwarding engine or the line card. This allows traffic routed over the PVCs in question to pass.
Workaround: There is currently no workaround.
MALLOCFAIL with multicast traffic if a high rate of multicast traffic is sent out before multicast routing entries are updated.
Workaround: There is currently no workaround. After the routing entries are updated, this problem disappears.
Sometimes a traceback message is generated during an RPR+ switch over to the new primary PRE. A message similar to the following appears:00:03:07: %IPC-5-INVALID: Sequence Structure port index=0x3-Traceback= 60321EC0 60322868 60806A54 603348C8 60359924 60025B94 602828CC 602828B8
Workaround: This message is harmless. Ignore the message.
If you use snmpwalk or other similar tool to display the value of the different objects associated with a Cisco 10000 series ESR, you can see that when an unchannelized DS3 controller is created in a ChOC-12 line card, the configuration values of the DS3 MIB are not correct. If subsequent configuration commands are issued, the displayed values are correct. This problem probably exists in a channelized STM-1 line card as well, when in unchannelized DS3 mode.
Workaround: Rely on the outcome of the show controller t3 and show interface serial commands.
Verilink-hibit mode does not work on the Cisco 10000 series ESR with ChOC-12 line cards whose paths are configured in unchannelized DS3 mode. When the Verilink-hibit mode is chosen by the network administrator, Verilink-lowbit mode is programmed in the hardware instead.
Workaround: There is currently no workaround for this problem. You must use Verilink-lowbit mode.
ChOC-12 DS3 subrate does not work in Kentrox mode at full bandwidth.
Workaround: Set the ChOC-12 interface to Digital Link mode and full bandwidth (no dsu bandwidth). This works the same as the Kentrox CSU/DSU when set to full bandwidth, and will work with scrambling enabled or disabled (set the same value at both ends).
If you use the set interface command or the set default interface command to configure a point-to-multipoint interface as a PBR route-map routing destination, packets that match the PBR route-map may not get routed to the proper next-hop on that point-to-multipoint interface.
Workaround: Use the set ip next-hop command when you configure PBR routing on a point-to-multipoint interface. This may require the definition of separate route-maps to steer traffic to each of the desired next-hops.
If you reload microcode, and you have changed IP addresses on interfaces just before you reload, traffic may be forwarded to an incorrect interface.
Workaround: Use the shutdown command to shutdown the interface experiencing the problem, and then reactivate it by using the no shutdown command.
If you configure fair queueing on a Frame Relay interface with a large number of PVCs, and the traffic exceeds the link rate, several PVCs may experience a greater number of drops than other PVCs on that interface.
Workaround: There is currently no workaround.
If you configure 998 VPNs over VLAN, and you configure over 146 BGP routes per VPN, the BGP neighbor may start flapping.
Workaround: There is no workaround, but the problem is less likely to occur if you configure fewer than 146 BGP routes per VPN.
If you configure more than 100 BGP routes per VPN, and there are more than 200 VPNs configured on the system, CEF may not function properly after redistributing.
Workaround: Reduce the number of BGP routes per VPN to 100 or less.
If you configure the router with Policy Based Routing (PBR) policies which use a large number of total ACLs as part of IP address-matching criteria, the router may run out of stack space for some processes. This is because some PBR route-maps use a very large total number of ACLs as part of IP address-matching criteria.
Workaround: To avoid this problem, limit the total number of ACEs included in the ACLs used by each PBR route-map policy. For each PBR policy, the maximum allowable number of ACEs (totaled across all ACLs used by that policy) depends on the number of route-maps defined in the policy.
To determine the maximum total number of ACEs used by a PBR policy, divide 10500 by the number of route-maps in that policy. For example, if the number of route-maps defined in a PBR policy is 8, then the maximum total number of ACEs used by that policy would be 1312.
If you enable multicast replication with an MLP bundle as the source, and the MLP broadcaster may exhibit behavior that is not compliant with MLP standards, then replication may not occur for all interfaces.
Workaround: If replication does not occur on all interfaces, reload the microcode.
If you remove the second configured interface from load balancing Policy Based Routing configuration, forwarding does not resume.
Workaround: Use the set next-hop command instead of the set interface command when you configure the PBR route-map.
GRE and DVMRP tunnels are not supported over MLPPP bundles. Sending data over this configuration causes the router to crash.
Workaround: There is currently no workaround.
If you configure the router with many IP Multicast groups, you see CPU Hog messages when you issue the clear ip mroute * command, or if the mroute table is cleared and rebuilt from scratch. This happens when the router is configured with approximately 100 groups and 1000 interfaces, with each interface joining the 100 groups, and multicast traffic is passing through all these groups to all interfaces. The CPU hogs seem to happen in Exec, IP Input, and PIM Process processes. Sometimes the CPU hog is accompanied by IPC timeouts when the table is built from scratch.
Workaround: There is currently no workaround.
If the router receives a PIM Join/Prune packet, in which group1 and group2 are pruned and both are Multicast group addresses, the router interprets that as an instruction to prune group1 and join and prune group2 instead of just prune group2.
This behavior can be seen in the mroute table output when you use the sh ip mroute summary command. The group1 entry appears as pruned and will eventually time out, whereas the group2 entry does not time out and continually refreshes because of the joins in between the prunes.
Workaround: If supported, configure the remote connecting device to send prunes in two separate packets instead of one.
Large numbers of group joins/leaves over a DVMRP tunnel may cause Traceback messages in the log. However, this does not affect the DVMRP tunnel performance and does not require that you reload.
Workaround: There is currently no workaround.
If you use the access-list 101 deny ipinip any any command with an ACL to control traffic, and it is the first line in the ACL, it will prohibit all ip traffic. If the ACL is not entered first, the problem does not occur.
Workaround: We recommend that you be explicit when using ipinip ACL, for example:
access-list 101 deny ipinip host 184.108.40.206 host 22.214.171.124
If you configure the router with Policy Based Routing (PBR) route-maps, including setting default next-hop or default interface using the set ip default next-hop command or the set default interface command, then those routing destinations are not used as defaults. The current precedences for packet routing destinations are:
1. PBR set ip next-hop routes
2. PBR set interface routes
3. PBR set ip default next-hop routes
4. PBR set default interface routes
5. Normal [non-PBR] explicit routes
The precedences should be as follows:
1. BBR set ip next-hop routes
2. PBR set interface routes
3. Normal [non-PBR] explicit routes
4. PBR set ip default next-hop routes
5. PBR set default interface routes
If labels are applied to NetFlow export records before they are sent, the router reloads unexpectedly.
Workaround: Only specify export destinations not requiring tagging.
If you enable NetFlow accounting on an interface that imposes labels on arriving packets, the packets are not forwarded properly. The label stack may become corrupt, and the downstream neighbor may drop the packets.
Workaround: Turn off NetFlow accounting on interfaces on which incoming traffic is likely to have labels imposed. Or, disable MPLS.
Resolved Problems in Cisco IOS Release 12.0(19)SL
This section lists problems that were found and resolved in Cisco IOS Release 12.0(19)SL.
The Flash disk can fall into the chassis when you insert the disk into the empty space to the right of slot B in the PRE flash assembly.
The show interface output occasionally displays an extremely large number of configured VCs which do not exist.
If incoming multicast packets match an input access list that has the log option enabled, the output of the show log command and show access-list commands display double the number of matches.
Ping traffic does not resume after switching from an explicit path to a dynamic path.
The flash file delete function may choose the wrong default device when you request deletion of a file from flash storage. The incorrect default used is slot0:.
When the ACL is downloaded from the tftp server, the CPU advances to 100% utilization and several line cards lost IPC with the PRE and are reset.
In a chassis using TACACS security and running redundant PREs, you can access the console while the secondary PRE is cutting over to primary PRE. If no action is taken on the console for the length of the session timeout period, TACACS engages on the console. If the user does access the console during the cutover, the user enters exec mode (not enable mode).
TFIB table failure.
In some cases, ATM counters display incorrect packet input values after receiving packets from several locations (for example, the line card, IOS, and the PXF forwarding engine).
When the interface on the remote end is set to be administratively down, and you are attempting to bring up the PPP protocol, the status of the interface alternate between down and up until the PPP protocol is up.
Cannot ping Cisco 10000 series ESR over PPLB group.
Resolved Problems in Cisco IOS Release 12.0(17)SL2
This section lists problems that were found and resolved in Cisco IOS Release 12.0(17)SL2.
If you preconfigured a line card using the card command, PRE performance is no longer affected.
The access level issue that occurred when using the Web interface has been corrected.
If you enter the wr mem command, the router no longer fails.
A PFX stall error with 126 multilink PPPs in a QoS configuration no longer occurs.
Priority queues no longer experience tail drops when the line card is under heavy load.
Duplicate caveat which was resolved (see CSCdu73749).
When you unconfigure and configure the router using the copy tftp run command, the router no longer stops responding.
A large increase in latency for multilink PPP bundles combined with an increase in the number of packet tail drops no longer causes a dramatic decrease in performance.
Duplicate caveat which was resolved (see CSCdv12192).
The PXF stall error no longer occurs in column 6 during low traffic.
There is no longer a slow buffer leak when you run multicast input on MLP.
There is no longer a buffer leak in multilink PPP column 7.
Resolved Problems in Cisco IOS Release 12.0(17)SL1
This section lists problems that were resolved in Cisco IOS Release 12.0(17)SL1.
If you enter the dir disk0/1 command at the rommon prompt, a TLB (Store) Exception error message no longer appears.
If the router receives an IP packet with Ethernet padding over the MLP bundle, it now properly passes the packet to the line card.
When the router was configured with large numbers of routes, clearing the entire routing table caused high CPU use. In rare cases, the line cards or Cisco IOS software rebooted. This problem no longer occurs.
Resolved Problems in Cisco IOS Release 12.0(17)SL
This section lists problems that were resolved in Cisco IOS Release 12.0(17)SL. For a list of problems that were resolved in previous Cisco IOS Releases, refer to the release notes for those particular versions.
When you enter the hw-module slot_number reset command, and the logging console is configured to informational, the event sequence no longer appears in a different order than that shown by the reload command.
CSCdr52081 and CSCdj94209
Previously, the PRE could crash if you repeatedly changed a port back and forth from channelized to unchannelized. This no longer occurs.
Previously, large multicast groups could cause CPU hog issues with PIM. This has been fixed.
When older CT3 line cards were powered on, with live DS3 signals present at the receive BNC connector, the receive line interface device on the board could possibly lock up, preventing the controller from running. This no longer occurs.
If the interface between a PE (PE1) and CE router went down, MPLS labels would disappear at the far end provider edge peer (PE2) MPLS interface. This has been fixed.
If you entered the clear ip mroute command on a system with large multicast groups, CPU hog issues could arise that caused problems of moderate severity (such as losing keepalives). This no longer occurs.
Previously, if you performed an SNMP walk or viewed entries in the if table, cef-layer internal interfaces appeared in the interface table.
Previously, the Kentrox DS3 subrate mode did not work when you set it to full bandwidth (45.2 Mbps on Kentrox CSU, 44210 kbps on a Cisco 10000 series ESR).
If you issued the dir or show slot0: or show slot1: command, the router reported Open device slot0 failed (Device not ready). This has been fixed.
If large OIDs (1024.1 fields) were sent to the router, the Cisco 10000 series ESR stopped responding. This no longer occurs.
Previously, if you deleted a T1/E1, IP routes associated with subinterfaces were not removed.
On a Cisco 10000 series ESR system with channelized OC-12 line cards, the output of the show controllers command is now complete and correct.
When a large number of VBR-nrt VCs are configured (200 and above) and the link transitions DOWN, the host software running on the OC-12 ATM line card no longer takes a SW Watchdog timeout, forcing the line card firmware to reload.
If you perform OIR on a line card configured for 768 PPP sessions with traffic running on all interfaces, interfaces no longer fail to come up. The show interface command now displays the correct IPCP state.
On rare occasions, line cards would not be recognized when you performed an OIR of multiple cards on a new system, or in a system in which the configuration was erased (for example, using write erase). This has been fixed.
If an access-list with logging option enabled is attached to an interface, and you send traffic through the interface, the interfaces no longer go down.
Under circumstances where ATM VCs are created and deleted on a regular basis, the OC-12 ATM segmenter firmware will no longer transition to a state in which it drops some packets without counting them in a data stream where packet sizes alternate from small to large.
Previously, when a TU-AIS was received at a particular TU in TUG3#3, the next TU at the T1 or E1 level contained data corruption. This no longer occurs.
If you remove an APS configuration for a channelized OC-12 line card, and then issue the show controllers sonet high_slot_number command, or the show controllers sonet command, the Cisco 10000 series ESR no longer crashes.
Other Resolved Caveats
This section includes caveats listed in previous release notes that are regarded as resolved because they are unreproducible or do not affect the behavior of the Cisco 10000 series ESR. In the event a caveat listed in this section causes problems, please contact Cisco customer service.
For a list of unreproducible caveats in previous Cisco IOS Releases, refer to the release notes for those particular releases.
If you configure a DS3 BERT pattern 2^20-O153 on any unchannelized DS3 (by using the bert pattern 2^20-O153 interval 1-14400 command), and you then connect the line card to T-Bird 310 test set, the pattern does not synchronize with T-Bird 310.
The router sends out DHCP INFORM and DISCOVER messages containing an incorrect Ethernet address.
When you use the Frame Relay autosense feature, the Cisco 10000 series ESR sends all three LMI status message types immediately after the interface starts responding. However, sometimes the switch at the other end is not ready to receive messages and as a result, misses one or two messages that were sent. LMI autosense waits until the next scheduled interval (default is 1 minute) to send the messages again.
This problem primarily affects clear channel CT3 interfaces.
During periods of heavy traffic (approaching interface line rate), some interfaces may experience inconsistent performance between interfaces of the same type.
If large MLP configurations are in use, and you attempt to copy the configuration from a TFTP server directly into the running config, the copy may fail. Failures may include interfaces not appearing, or IPCP or LCP states not opening correctly.
The number of VPNs that can be created on gigabit Ethernet subinterfaces is limited to under 100.
When a ChOC-12 line card is reconfigured from a channelized T3 configuration to an unchannelized T3 configuration or vice-versa, the initial packets are not forwarded.
When the encapsulation mode is changed from PPP to HDLC or vice-versa, the system drops about 3 of the next 10 packets transmitted. After that, the packets are transmitted normally.
If you send a large number of small packets in large multicast groups, this may cause the following certain debug messages to appear on the console.
The default logging parameter (logging rate-limit console all 10 except critical) sets console logging to disabled.
Mass configuration (which occurs during boot/reload and can occur during link state changes) takes a long period of time (for example, more than 40 minutes for 2000 VCs associated with a main interface) with large numbers of PVCs (100s to 1000s). This problem occurs when you attempt to configure large numbers of PVCs on the main interface (or multipoint subinterfaces) with static maps on each PVC.
If you reload a Cisco 10000 series ESR, some initialization messages are logged to the console before the startup-config is loaded. These initialization messages are transitional and may report an incorrect state, especially for the FastEthernet interface.
The show atm pvc command displays Unexpected QoS type for its traffic parameters. This occurs when a PVC was previously configured with only an ATM vc-class, and then the vc-class was subsequently deleted.
When a segment on an MPLS traffic engineered path is disabled, the PXF engine reloads, temporarily causing all forwarding to stop.
Note This problem was fixed in Cisco IOS Release 12.0(17)SL, but was reported in error as an open caveat in 12.0(17)SL, 12.0(17)SL1, and 12.0(17)SL2.
When you boot the Cisco 10000 series ESR, the system may display the following messages:*Oct 17 12:32:48.287: %SNMP-3-TRAPBLOCK: Attempt to generate SNMP trap from a process with blocking disabled-Traceback= 60565064 606A6B34 60678238 60678438 6067AD88 6067AF30 602FCBDC 6024817C 60248168
Occasionally, after you reload routers (with background traffic load equal to no_drop rate), the throughput is some 3 to 400 pps below the expected rate.
On rare occasions, after a single reload while under load, the Gigabit Ethernet line card is up but drops nearly all packets on the output queue.
When a serial interface is configured to be part of an MPLS/VPN, if you enter the no channelized command on the T3 controller, this clears the interface. However, the sh ip vrf vrf_name continues to show the interface as part of the vrf.
When MPLS TE is configured and the logging console is turned on, the following error message appears repeatedly:"00:58:10: %TFIB-7-SCANSABORTED: TFIB scan not completing. MAC string updated."
ISIS adjacencies recalculated with 65-85MB of tcp traffic to rtr.
A Cisco 10000 series ESR running Release 12.0(10)SL may experience a buffer leak when interfaces are down but not administratively down.
If in a Frame-Relay environment a handful of interfaces are flapping continuously, the interface statistics report input errors (overruns) on the flapping interfaces.
Following a reload of the Cisco IOS software, the Gigabit Ethernet interface does not always come back up. The interface remains in the "GigabitEthernet1/0/0 is down, line protocol is down" state.
During a reload, if the router continuously receives IP packets, CPUHOG messages may have appeared in the log, and the router may have taken longer to come up.
After you reload line cards under background traffic load, one or more interfaces may not come up.
If you issue a write erase command on the primary PRE followed by an erase sec-nvram: command, and then reload both PREs simultaneously, some line cards may not be recognized correctly on reboot.
The router stopped responding after several hours of receiving multicast traffic over 500 CT3 ds0 Frame Relay interfaces, at a rate of 10 pps of 260-byte packets.
The ip address negotiate command sent dhcp requests out all serial line interfaces.
In some test instances, Frame Relay interfaces did not correctly join a multicast group when it should have. The result is that multicast packets destined for those interfaces will be punted to the route processor. If enough packets were received, the CPU usages on the route processor to run at a high usage.
On rare occasions, when a large number of ds0 interfaces is configured on a CT3 line card, buffer with corrupt pool pointer error messages may appear.
On rare occasions, if a large number of ds0 interfaces are configured on a CT3 line card, spurious memory error messages may appear.
On rare occasions in which relatively high rates of bursty traffic are received on the OC-12 ATM line card, some packets may be dropped but not counted by the software.
Bad file magic number - cannot load bootflash.
Under rare conditions when scripts of VC creates and VC deletes are executed in turn, some VBR-nrt VCs are not created.
At the end of the line in the show run command output, 0.0.0.0 is appended randomly.
With 500 Frame Relay interfaces on CT3 running IP Multicast, multicast packets get punted to the RP causing IPC OIR on the CT3. This causes the line protocol on the router connected to the Cisco 10000 series ESR to go down (and remain down) on some interfaces. The interface stats show no traffic over the affected interface. On the Cisco 10000 series ESR the Frame Relay PVC corresponding to it shows as Deleted.
When the Cisco 10000 series ESR series ESR is configured for 802.1q VLANs, the output of the show vlans command reports values for gigabit Ethernet received packets, gigabit Ethernet received bytes, and VLAN received packets to be higher than they should be.
If you perform a reload, the values for the transmitted and received output of the show vlans command indicates, incorrectly, that those values incremented.
When the destination IP address of an incoming 802.1q packet matches one of the IP addresses of the router, the output of the show vlans command for 802.1q packets increments two times. Ping request packets, however, are always counted correctly regardless of destination.
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Whole body MRI will be performed in patients with neurofibromatosis Type 1
To determine the total tumor load (neurofibroma) and to diagnose plexiform neurofibromas or malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors. All patients will be scanned two years after the baseline whole body MRI to investigate to investigate the changes of total tumor load.
PURPOSE 2: added value of diffusion weighted imaging in diagnosis of high-risk neurofibromas
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|Official Title:
|Whole Body Magnetic Resonance Imaging With Diffusion Weighted Imaging : Potential Role in Neurofibromatosis
- Estimation of total tumor load and diagnosis of high-risk neurofibromas [ Time Frame: 1 month ]Estimation of the total tumor load of neurofibromas with whole body MRI (head to knee). Diagnosis of high risk neurofibroma in the chest, abdomen, pelvis, and extremities with T2-weighted sequence and diffusion weighted sequence.
- To diagnose high-risk neurofibroma [ Time Frame: 2 months ]Some patients with neurofibromatosis have lesions, pre-malignant or malignant neurofibromas. Additional imaging (PET-CT), a biopsy or surgical treatment is necessary in combination with histopathology of the lesion.
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|December 2010
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|January 2014
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|January 2013 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Neurofibromatosis 1
All patients diagnosed with neurofibromatosis type 1. GROUP 1:ADDITIONAL IMAGING OR SURGERY There will be patients with high-risk neurofibromas (potential malignant). These patients will underwent additional examinations or surgery (outside this study). Follow-up MRI within 2 years (study MRI )
No suspicious lesions at MRI. Follow-up within 2 years(Study MRI).
Other: Additional imaging or surgery
No specific intervention is necessary. If a suspicious lesion is diagnosed on MRI, further investigation will be planned (PET-CT or surgery - biopsy)
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|6 Years to 50 Years (Child, Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
|Sampling Method:
|Non-Probability Sample
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients with neurofibromatosis type 1, between 6 and 50 years old
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patients who are not allowed to be scanned on MRI (contra-indications: pacemaker ed.)
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01777451
|Contact: Steven Pans, MD
|University Hospitals Leuven
|Leuven, Belgium
|Contact: Steven Pans, MD 3216340505 email@example.com
|Principal Investigator:
|Steven Pans, MD
|Universitaire Ziekenhuizen Leuven
|Responsible Party:
|Steven Pans, Medical Doctor Radiologist, Universitaire Ziekenhuizen Leuven
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01777451 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
S52684 ( Other Identifier: Clinicla trial Center UZ Leuven )
|Study First Received:
|January 23, 2013
|Last Updated:
|January 23, 2013
Keywords provided by Steven Pans, Universitaire Ziekenhuizen Leuven:
Whole Body Imaging
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Neurofibromatosis 1
Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumors, Malignant
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Nerve Sheath Neoplasms
Neurofibromatosis 1
Neoplasms, Nerve Tissue
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Neoplastic Syndromes, Hereditary
Neurocutaneous Syndromes
Nervous System Diseases
Heredodegenerative Disorders, Nervous System
Neurodegenerative Diseases
Genetic Diseases, Inborn
Peripheral Nervous System Neoplasms
Nervous System Neoplasms
Peripheral Nervous System Diseases
Neuromuscular Diseases
Neuroendocrine Tumors
Neuroectodermal Tumors
Neoplasms, Germ Cell and Embryonal
Neoplasms, Fibrous Tissue
Neoplasms, Connective Tissue
Neoplasms, Connective and Soft Tissue
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Yitzchak Ettinger
Yitzchak the son of Aharon Shmuel and Chaya Ettinger was born on 22 Adar, 5681 (April 1, 1921) in the city of Podhajce, Poland. He made aliya in 1935, joined the Haganah, and was a member of the guards of Kofer Hayeshuv. He served in the coast guard starting from 1939.
During the War of Independence, he fulfilled a senior role in the military command in Acre (Akko). Later, he was appointed in charge of security information and smuggling in the entire Galilee region.
Yitzchak spent the best of his years in the service of the nation: in the Haganah, in Aliya B and in the information corps, where he served as a captain during his final years He was a dedicated and very active captain, who fulfilled his roles with excellence. On more than one occasion, he risked his life during his service on the borders.
Yitzchak fell in fulfillment of his duties on 13 Sivan 5719 (June 18, 1959). He was brought to eternal rest in the military cemetery in Nahariya. He left behind a wife and three children.
May there be honor to his memory, and may his soul be bound in the bonds of the nation, for which his entire life was dedicated to its protection.
The Family
My father, the righteous rabbi Rabbi Yitzchak Eizikl Eichenstein of holy blessed memory, settled in Podhajce in the year 5669 (1909) at the age of 33. He came to settle in that city with the approval of the rabbi of the city, the rabbi and Gaon Rabbi Shalom Lilienfeld of blessed memory, for there were many Jews in the city who were Hassidim of his father-in-law Rabbi Nachumche of holy blessed memory of Bursztyn.
When he came to Podhajce, many Hassidim of all streams drew close to him. As well, many householders who were not members of any Hassidic sect supported him and followed him, since they were impressed with his demeanor and were convinced that he was indeed a righteous, pure and upright man.
With the assistance of his supporters and Hassidim, a large house was set up, in which the rabbi lived with his family. There, there was also a Beis Midrash for Torah and prayer. The Rebbe was a great Tzadik, worker of wonders, and unparalleled charitable person.
Thus was life conducted until the outbreak of the First World War. The war brought in its wake many changes in the lives of the Jews in general, and in religious life in particular. Many of the householders of the city who left their city on account of the tribulations of the war, did not return after the war. The elders of the generation passed on, and the face of the city changed in a very great fashion. There were new householders, new customs, and also a new intelligentsia. Various Zionist factions blossomed and rose up people of the right and people of the left as well as factions whose color was Red. Various factions were also formed within Orthodox Judaism. Thus was the face of Jewish life that took root in the city after the recovery from the destruction of the First World War.
However, these changes did not have much influence on the way of life in the Rebbe's court. The house was filled with light and joy on the Sabbaths and festivals. The large congregation who came to the Rebbe's table drew a full measure of spiritual bliss. Hassidim from cities and towns close to Podhajce would recline around his table on festivals.
The situation in the city became increasingly severe during the final years before the Second World War; however the people of the city assisted the Rebbe in maintaining his household in an honorable fashion. Thus did things continue until the days of the major Holocaust during the era of Nazi rule. The Rebbe died on 13 Adar I 5702 (1942), and his entire family was murdered during the final aktion on 3 Sivan 5702. I alone was saved through the help of G-d, since I had been in New York from 1936.
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|Rabbi Yitzchak Izak Eichenstein
of holy blessed memory,
the Admor of Bursztyn (the Bursztyner Rebbe).
He died in the Podhajce Ghetto on
13 Adar I, 5702 (1942)
|Rabbi Zeida Eichenstein
of blessed memory,
the son of Rabbi Yitzchak Izak
of holy blessed memory.
(See his article in Yiddish on page 152)
The son-in-law of the Rebbe, the husband
of his daughter Babele, with a group of
young men who were close to him. The
first on the left is Eli Kohn. Next to him
is the son of the rabbinical judge Eisen
|From the right: Yitzchak (Yitzchakl)
the Gabbai of the Admor of Bursztyn.
In the center: the son-in-law of the
Rebbe and two of his grandchildren,
Naftali and Avraham in the year 1938
From left to right: The rabbinical judge
Rabbi Avraham Eisen and his brother-in-law
Rabbi Yaakov-Yitzchak Weisselblum.
The first on the right is Reb Leibish Perl
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Travis Credit Union has announced plans for this year's Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program. The VITA Program offers free tax help to low- to moderate-income people who cannot prepare their own tax returns.
This year, individuals and families earning up to $51,000 are eligible for the free services. Area residents can now visit Travis Credit Union's Corporate Headquarters to get free tax preparation services by calling 469-4317 to make an appointment.
"From financial education to home ownership programs our goal is to put money back into the pockets of our working families and individuals," said Patsy Van Ouwerkerk, president and CEO of Travis Credit Union. "As a socially responsible corporate citizen, the VITA Program is one of a number of ways Travis Credit Union can support the communities we serve."
The credit union will initiate the free service by offering tax assistance by certified volunteers, on Saturday, Feb. 2, Feb. 9, Feb. 23, March 2, March 9, and March 16, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at One Travis Way in Vacaville.
Weekday appointments are also available through our partnership with Dixon Family Services, located at 155 North 2nd Street in Dixon, from today through April 15.
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I know this topic has been discussed in many forums, but I still can't find a solution.
I have a Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Li1718, with an Atheros AR5006EG wireless card. I googled to see how to make it work and I found 2 main solutions:
1. Use ndiswrapper
2. Use the latest snapshot of Madwifi-NG (http://www.ubuntugeek.com/atheros-5007e ... tform.html).
I tried both the solutions, and both seem to work: in fact my wifi is correctly detected as ath0; here are some outputs:
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ath_pci 114728 0
ath_rate_sample 15232 1
ath_hal 280544 3 ath_pci,ath_rate_sample
wlan 211248 5 ath_pci,wlan_wep,wlan_scan_sta,ath_rate_sample
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ath0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:C0:A8:FD:B6:3E
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
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rita@ebony:~$ iwconfig ath0
ath0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"" Nickname:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power:16 dBm Sensitivity=1/1
Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=0/70 Signal level=-256 dBm Noise level=-256 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
But the problem is:
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rita@ebony:~$ iwlist ath0 scan
ath0 No scan results
The wifi should see two access points instead, in fact on Windows I see them both.
I read somewhere on the net that probably the kill switch is off, so the possible solution is to activate it by default from the BIOS. I tried that to, but without any success. Any suggestions? Thank you!


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Luxoft: Play On US Recovery, Cheaper Than Global IT Peers, J.P. Morgan Raises PT To $40
A day after I speculated that Russian IT service provider Luxoft (LXFT) may get a broker upgrade, J.P.Morgan raised its price target, from $28.5 to $40.
Luxoft is not a familiar name to most. It went public in June, in a small deal that totaled only $70 million.
But investors may soon hear about it more. Rus Lux, which owns about 9% of Luxoft, intends to sell its shares via a follow-on offering when its lock up period expires in late December. This would bring Luxoft's free-float to about 22% and boost Luxoft's liquidity. Luxoft has about $1 billion market cap right now.
90% of Luxoft's revenue already comes from the Eurozone, which is stabilizing, and the U.S., which is recovering. J.P. Morgan raised its target price in large part because of Luxoft's increasing exposure to the U.S. Here are analysts Alexei Gogolev, Tien-tsin Huang, and Puneet Jain:
In 2Q14 the share of Luxoft revenues coming from US reached 41.3% vs. 40% in 1Q14 and 35.7% at the end of 2Q13. We welcome growing exposure to North America, which comes primarily at the expense of Eurozone countries and Russia, particularly in light of slowing macro in Russia and weakening RUB against USD.
Currently, IT services providers on average trade at 17.9 times 2014 P/E and 16 times 2015 P/E, whereas Luxoft trades at 15.8 times and 12.3 times, a 12% and 23% discount respectively. EPAM Systems (EPAM), its closest Eastern European peer, trades at 18.6 times and 15.6 times respectively. Infosys (INFY) trades at 20.2x and 18.5x. Cognizant (CTSH) trades at 20x and 18.5x. Wipro (WIT) is valued at 18.3x and 16.4x.


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Bolstered by strong support in Los Angeles County and other Democratic strongholds, voters approved a historic tax-hike measure that will generate $6 billion annually and avert catastrophic cuts to California's public schools, colleges and universities.
Backed by Gov. Jerry Brown and bankrolled by organized labor, Proposition 30 was approved on Tuesday by a 54-46 margin, with late-night returns from Los Angeles County giving it a come-from-behind win. Voters also rejected rival Proposition 38, with less than 28 percent supporting the broad income-tax hike to fund education.
On Wednesday, political experts said turnout was key to the success of Prop. 30, with Democrats, Latinos and young people who turned out to re-elect President Barack Obama also voting to increase the state's sales tax and the income tax on the wealthy.
"It was saved by a transforming electorate who mobilized in the last few weeks," said Raphael Sonenshein, executive director at the Pat Brown Institute for Public Affairs at Cal State Los Angeles.
At the same time, the issue resonated with voters concerned about the fate of California's struggling schools.
"Voters have been telling us in polls that the area they least want to see cut is schools and the area they would most be willing to see taxes go up is for schools," said Mark Baldassare, president of the Public Policy Institute of California. "We've never really had the opportunity at the state level to vote in a way to test their inclination to do so."
Prop. 30 lagged for much of the night, creating worry for local educators as opposition from inland counties kept the percentage of yes votes below the 50 percent mark.
Their outlook brightened as San Francisco County came in with 77 percent approval, with more than 1.3 million voters in Los Angeles County pushing the tally over the 50 percent mark before midnight.
Prop. 30 raises the sales tax a quarter-percent for the next four years, starting Jan. 1, 2013. It also increases the tax rate on incomes of more than $250,000 for the next seven years, retroactive to Jan. 1, 2012.
An estimated $6 billion annually in revenue will plug a hole in this year's state budget and will begin repaying the per-pupil money that has been withheld from school districts during the recession.
Had the measure failed, public schools and community colleges would have had to cut $5.4 billion from this year's budgets, and the University of California and California State University systems would have lost $250 million each.
To cope with the cuts, school districts were widely expected to lop three weeks off their already shortened school year, from 175 to just 160 days. Community colleges would have had to slash thousands of courses, while tuition hikes were likely at the universities.
Now, however, Cal State will refund a $249 tuition hike to its 425,000 students and reconfigure financial aid packages as it readjusts tuition to last year's $5,472 rate. It will also start processing applications for next fall.
Community college system Chancellor Brice Harris said campuses will get an additional $210 million this fiscal year that can be used to enroll 20,000 more students.
And local school districts will be able to put aside new cost-cutting plans and even look for ways to begin stabilizing their operations.
In the state's largest school district, Los Angeles Unified, which would have had to cut $255 million this year, officials hope to cancel some of the 10 furlough days used to balance this year's budget and eventually restore some of the thousands of jobs lost to layoffs.
"No new cuts from the state means we can manage our own situation," Superintendent John Deasy said. "With the money borrowed from us replaced, we can finally begin to turn the corner."
Dan Schnur, director of the Jesse Unruh Institute of Politics at USC, credited Brown with being able to overcome voter skepticism about state government and its expenditure of taxpayer money.
"Brown realized Prop. 30 is not a blank check, and he had to convince voters that they'd made the right decision," he said.
"Voters are very reluctant to raise taxes at any time, and they're even more reluctant to tax themselves. As skeptical as they are about about politicians, they're even more worried about the state of our public schools."
While voters were willing to make a small investment in public education - the quarter-percent sales tax is expected to cost consumers about $30 a year - they balked at Proposition 38's tax hike for incomes over $7,500.
"A broad-based tax increase is political poison on the ballot, and it didn't stand a chance," Sonenshein said.
In a victory speech late Tuesday in a hotel ballroom in Sacramento, Brown applauded voters for deciding to pour money into California's schools, which rank 47th for per-pupil spending.
"I know a lot of people had some doubts, had some questions - can we really go to the people and ask them for a tax?" Brown said. "Well here we are, we have a vote of the people.
"I think this is the only place in America where a state actually said, `Let's raise our taxes for our kids, for our schools, for our California dream."


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BLACK Country people planning an Easter getaway are being urged to stay safe by air ambulance medics.
Flying lifesavers say they see a rise in call-outs over the bank holiday weekend with more traffic leading to more collisions.
Holiday fun can also end in disaster with burn injuries at barbecues and accidents related to sports including swimming, horse riding, hill walking and climbing.
Becky Tinsley, air operations manager for Midlands Air Ambulance Charity, said: "Naturally we all want to make the most of the long Easter weekend, and while we'd encourage people to have a good time, we're also asking the public to consider their safety and that of others."
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Alistair Sommerlad has been appointed as the first chairman of the new Stonehenge and Avebury WHS Partnership Panel.
Mr Sommerlad has been a resident of Wiltshire for 18 years, living in both Amesbury and Stapleford.
He is a history graduate with a passion for archaeology who worked in the British Army before taking up a career with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
As well as being knowledgeable about Stonehenge he has always followed closely developments at Avebury while living in Wiltshire.
Mr Sommerlad said: "I am delighted and privileged to take up this new role as chair of the Stonehenge and Avebury World Heritage Site at what is an exciting time for the World Heritage Site with the opening of the new Stonehenge visitor centre, the closer working between the two halves of the WHS and the development of a new joint management plan.
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Aflatoxin is definitely on the radar screen this year. The key number to remember when quantifying aflatoxin contamination is 20 parts per billion (ppb). This is both the Food and Drug Administration's Action Level for feeds whose intended use is unknown, and the low end of the range in which a total mixed ration will cause milk contamination to be greater than the FDA allowable level.
As with most years, the majority of samples that are tested for aflatoxin contain only very low levels. However, being aware of potential aflatoxin sources and monitoring contamination levels will become increasingly important. Particular caution should be applied to corn and corn silage stored in bags or vertical silos, since these feeds can make up a large portion of the diet and these storage structures will have as much variation in contamination as the fields from which they were harvested.
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Eleven recycling banks at fire stations across Wiltshire have contributed to the Fire Fighters Charity, raising more than £1 million in just four years.
The recycling scheme, which focuses on textiles - including unwanted clothing, shoes and household items - is managed for the charity by a consortium of textile recycling companies.
Wearable items are sent to Third World countries to help those who are experiencing extreme poverty, while unwearable items are recycled into day-to-day products such as car insulation and furniture padding.
Since its inception, the recycling scheme has grown year on year and the Charity now receives an annual income of £300,000 from members of the public recycling their unwanted items.
Wiltshire Fire & Rescue Service has the charity's bright yellow clothing bins at fire stations in Amesbury, Chippenham, Corsham, Devizes, Ludgershall, Malmesbury, Melksham, Mere, Salisbury, Warminster and Westbury.
John Parry, chief executive of the Fire Fighters Charity, said: "We would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who has recycled with us over the last four years – they have helped us to reach this huge landmark for income from recycling.
"We do, however, need people to continue to support the scheme and help us keep firefighters fit, healthy and happy so they can continue saving lives.
"It costs £9 million a year to keep the Fire Fighters Charity running and, with no government funding, we rely completely on the donations and goodwill of our supporters."
For further information about the charity, visit www.firefighterscharity.org.uk