TOI Author :: Bharath Somayaji

Class Based Forwarding (CBF) is a means for steering IP traffic into colored tunnels based on the ingress DSCP values.  CBF may be used with SR-TE Policy or RSVP-TE colored tunnels.

In VXLAN EVPN deployments, a distributed anycast address is often used as the gateway address for end devices connected to the Vxlan Tunnel End Points (VTEPs). Similarly, in MLAG configurations in a VXLAN environment, ip address virtual could be used on both MLAG peers.

DHCPv6 Prefix Delegation support enables a DHCP relay agent to program routes for addresses assigned by a DHCP server. The assigned prefixes could either be DHCPv6 IA_PD prefix delegation addresses, or DHCPv6 IA_NA global /128 addresses.

SPF Timers can be used in IS-IS to throttle the frequency of shortest-path-first (SPF) computations. In networks with a lot of churn, using these timers will help in containing the effect of network disruptions arising out of frequent SPF runs.