- Written by Tarun Jaswanth LNU
- Posted on August 24, 2020
- Updated on July 3, 2024
- 23705 Views
802.1X is an IEEE standard protocol that prevents unauthorized devices from gaining access to the network.
- Written by Kenneth Blanc
- Posted on June 6, 2017
- Updated on May 15, 2024
- 7749 Views
BFD Stateful Switchover (SSO) allows for a switchover from an active supervisor to a standby supervisor where BFD
- Written by Jason Shamberger
- Posted on March 11, 2020
- Updated on April 18, 2024
- 14590 Views
EOS 4.21.3F introduces support for BGP Flowspec, as defined in RFC5575 and RFC7674. The typical use case is to filter or redirect DDoS traffic on edge routers.
- Written by Nandan Saha
- Posted on August 24, 2020
- Updated on May 22, 2024
- 10554 Views
The BGP-LS extension allows IGPs (OSPF/IS-IS) link state database information to be injected into BGP. This is typically used in deployments where some external component, (like a controller or Path Computation Engine) can do centralized path computations by learning the entire IGP topology through BGP-LS. The controller can then communicate the computed paths based on the BGP-LS updates to the head end device in the network. The mechanism used by the controller to communicate the computed TE paths is outside the scope of this document. Using BGP-LS instead of an IGP peering with the controller to distribute IGP link state information has the following advantages.
- Written by Rajesh Velandy
- Posted on April 22, 2024
- Updated on April 24, 2024
- 1712 Views
Bidirectional Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) allows routers to build trees to deliver multicast traffic from sources to receivers. It is a variant of sparse-mode PIM that efficiently addresses the use case where receivers for a multicast group are also sources for that group.
- Written by Vikas Hegde
- Posted on November 22, 2017
- Updated on July 9, 2024
- 15090 Views
Connectivity Monitor is an EOS feature that allows users to monitor their network resources from their Arista switches. The resources being monitored may or may not be Arista devices. Connectivity monitoring is unidirectional in nature.
- Written by Fathima Thasneem
- Posted on April 25, 2022
- Updated on May 28, 2024
- 6562 Views
As Ethernet technologies made their way into the Metropolitan Area Networks ( MAN ) and the Wide Area Networks ( WAN ), from the conventional enterprise level usage, they are now widely being used by service providers to provide end-to-end connectivity to customers. Such service provider networks are typically spread across large geographical areas. Additionally, the service providers themselves may be relying on certain internet backbone providers, referred to as “operators”, to provide connectivity in case the geographical area to be covered is too huge.
- Written by Thomas Cannon
- Posted on April 18, 2024
- Updated on April 18, 2024
- 1580 Views
This TOI describes a feature allowing packets that do not match any VLAN translations to be dropped from a port. This can be useful to drop selective Q-in-Q packets that do not receive a VLAN. The Configuration section details CLI commands used to configure the feature.
- Written by Nathanael Dattappa
- Posted on April 18, 2024
- Updated on April 18, 2024
- 1968 Views
Link Flap Damping is a feature designed to detect situations when an interface is continuously flapping. If enough flaps are done, the damping mechanism is triggered temporarily holding the interface link-down. This smoothes out link flap occurrences and reduces churn in the network caused by link flaps.
- Written by Johnny Chen
- Posted on June 24, 2021
- Updated on May 9, 2024
- 10599 Views
ECMP Hash visibility CLI determines the output interface for an ECMP set based on the flow parameters supplied by the user. Ingress interface, source IP address, destination IP address and IP protocol are the required parameters.
- Written by Lavanya Conjeevaram
- Posted on June 29, 2016
- Updated on April 22, 2024
- 9084 Views
ECMP Hash visibility CLI determines the output interface for an ECMP set based on the flow parameters supplied by the user. Ingress interface, source IP address, destination IP address and IP protocol are the required parameters. L4 source and destination ports and VLAN identifier are optional, but should be specified if the packet has them.
- Written by Navneet Sinha
- Posted on May 30, 2024
- Updated on May 30, 2024
- 1208 Views
EOS is now based on AlmaLinux 9. The document outlines the EOS image base operating system (OS) transition from CentOS 7 to AlmaLinux 9. With CentOS 7 reaching its end of life (EOL) in June 2024 and the impending cessation of active support for CentOS Stream 8 in May 2024, It was decided to migrate directly to a RHEL 9 compatible base for EOS skipping RHEL 8/CentOS 8. EOS 4.32.0 is based on AlmaLinux 9 which is binary compatible with RHEL 9.
- Written by Dylan Walsh
- Posted on October 20, 2022
- Updated on June 10, 2024
- 6453 Views
EosSdkRpc is an agent built on top of the Arista EOS SDK. It uses gRPC as a mechanism to provide remote access to the EOS SDK. The gRPC interface that EosSdkRpc supports closely matches the interface provided by EOS SDK, and the intent is that the .proto interface can be publically supported. EosSdkRpc allows for remote access and using protobuf to specify the interface isolates user code from the Linux ABI issues that come with building C++ applications on different compiler, libc, and kernel versions. EosSdkRpc is built using C++ but supports clients written in any of the languages currently supported by the gRPC framework.
- Written by Vamsi Anne
- Posted on December 29, 2021
- Updated on May 7, 2024
- 9366 Views
As Ethernet technologies made their way into the Metropolitan Area Networks (MAN) and the Wide Area Networks (WAN), from the conventional enterprise level usage, they are now widely being used by service providers to provide end-to-end connectivity to customers. Such service provider networks are typically spread across large geographical areas. Additionally, the service providers themselves may be relying on certain internet backbone providers, referred to as “operators”, to provide connectivity in case the geographical area to be covered is too huge. This mode of operation makes the task of Operations, Administration and Maintenance (OAM) of such networks to be far more challenging, and the ability of service providers to respond to such network faults swiftly directly impacts their competitiveness.
- Written by Alton Lo
- Posted on May 14, 2024
- Updated on May 15, 2024
- 1416 Views
This new feature explains the use of the BGP Domain PATH (D-PATH) attribute that can be used to identify the EVPN domain(s) through which the EVPN MAC-IP routes have passed. EOS DCI Gateway provides new mechanisms for users to specify the EVPN Domain Identifier for its local and remote domains. DCI Gateways sharing the same redundancy group should share the same local domain identifier and same remote domain identifier.
- Written by Narendra C R
- Posted on January 3, 2023
- Updated on May 28, 2024
- 5369 Views
EOS currently supports EVPN Multicast by setting up PIM tunnels in the underlay with VXLAN as the transport. While this is an efficient delivery mechanism, it requires PIM to be deployed in the underlay. In certain cases, the overheads of provisioning/maintaining the multicast routers and the multicast routing state in the underlay may be significant. To support such scenarios, Ingress Replication (IR) or Head-End Replication (HER) can be used in the underlay to distribute overlay multicast traffic.
- Written by Xuan Qi
- Posted on October 20, 2022
- Updated on August 21, 2024
- 4814 Views
EVPN gateway support for all-active (A-A) multihoming adds a new redundancy model to our multi-domain EVPN solution introduced in [1]. This deployment model introduces the concept of a WAN Interconnect Ethernet Segment identifier (WAN I-ESI). The WAN I-ESI allows the gateway’s EVPN neighbors to form L2 and L3 overlay ECMP on routes re-exported by the gateways. The identifier is shared by gateway nodes within the same domain (site) and set in MAC-IP routes that cross domain boundaries.
- Written by Stefan Kheraj
- Posted on April 18, 2024
- Updated on April 18, 2024
- 2094 Views
Filtered mirroring allows certain packets to be selected for mirroring, rather than all packets ingressing or egressing a mirror source port.
- Written by Feng Zhu
- Posted on May 7, 2024
- Updated on July 18, 2024
- 1368 Views
A forwarding equivalence class (FEC) entry is the data structure that holds all reachable vias where the packets should be sent to, for certain routes. Before this feature, a FEC could not contain both IPv4 next hop vias and IPv6 next hop vias. This feature starts supporting FECs that have both IPv4 next hop vias and IPv6 next hop vias. In an Equal Cost Multi-Path (ECMP) FEC, some of the vias may have IPv4 next hop and others may have IPv6 next hop.
- Written by Kaushik Kumar Ram
- Posted on August 21, 2020
- Updated on May 7, 2024
- 8280 Views
Generic UDP Encapsulation (GUE) is a general method for encapsulating packets of arbitrary IP protocols within a UDP tunnel. GUE provides an extensible header format with optional data. In this release, decap capability of GUE packets of variant 1 header format has been added. This variant allows direct encapsulation using the UDP header without the GUE header. The inner payload could be one of IPv4, IPv6, or MPLS.
- Written by Mithilesh Tiwari
- Posted on April 18, 2024
- Updated on April 18, 2024
- 1491 Views
This document describes the introduction and use of the global knob which facilitates the txQueue percentage-based allocations based on the available bandwidth of the parent interface.
- Written by Abhiram Kalluru
- Posted on December 20, 2019
- Updated on June 10, 2024
- 7075 Views
gRIBI (gRPC Routing Information Base Interface) defines an interface through which OpenConfig AFT (Abstract Forwarding Table) entries can be injected from an external client to a network element. The motivation for gRIBI is described in gribi/motivation.md at master · openconfig/gribi · GitHub.
- Written by Deepak Sebastian
- Posted on November 12, 2019
- Updated on May 7, 2024
- 8526 Views
This feature adds support for offloading BFD Transmit path to hardware (ASIC) for specific types of BFD sessions. This will improve accuracy of transmit timer implementations for BFD (especially with fast timers like 50 ms) and relieve pressure on the main CPU in scenarios of scale.
- Written by Pauric Ward
- Posted on March 3, 2023
- Updated on May 30, 2024
- 4455 Views
This feature enables the user to configure a list or range of BGP attributes to be ignored by the router on receipt of a BGP update message. The BGP attributes are discarded from the BGP update message, and unless the action of discarding an attribute causes the update message to trigger error handling, then the update message is parsed as normal.
- Written by Vinay Garg
- Posted on April 18, 2024
- Updated on April 18, 2024
- 1523 Views
Support for ingress Port ACLs on GUE Packets. The matching of ACLs can be done on outer IP header as well as UDP header fields for gue routed/bridged, decap/transit packets, and the ACL can be applied to Front Panel Ports.
- Written by Neil Jarvis
- Posted on June 13, 2019
- Updated on May 28, 2024
- 6802 Views
The Interface Reflector feature allows performing certain actions (such as source/destination MAC address swap) on bridged packets that are reflected back from the interface. It is useful to test properties and SLAs before deploying the service for a customer.
- Written by Navneet Sinha
- Posted on June 29, 2016
- Updated on July 30, 2024
- 12836 Views
Segment Routing provides mechanism to define end-to-end paths within a topology by encoding paths as sequences of sub-paths or instructions. These sub-paths or instructions are referred to as “segments”. IS-IS Segment Routing (henceforth referred to as IS-IS SR) provides means to advertise such segments through IS-IS protocol.
- Written by Zeyad Tamimi
- Posted on March 3, 2023
- Updated on May 15, 2024
- 7151 Views
At a high level, L1 profiles are a set of configurations which allow EOS users to change the numbering scheme and default L1 configurations of all front panel interfaces across their network switch.
- Written by Yiming Pan
- Posted on April 18, 2024
- Updated on April 18, 2024
- 1662 Views
Arista’s 7135 Connect Series of Layer 1+ switches are powerful network devices that allow for dynamic connections between various layer 1 components on the system, such as the front panel and FPGA. These connections are driven by an underlying CLOS network of crossbar switches. The following commands provide the ability to configure middle stage crossbar switches within the system to create dynamic layer 1 connections.
- Written by Pavan Narasimhaprasad
- Posted on June 27, 2024
- Updated on June 27, 2024
- 672 Views
This feature adds a point to the Supported Scale section of this existing TOI. MAC scale up to 230,000 entries on DCS-7260CX3 series and 100,000 entries on DCS-7060DX5 series running in standalone mode.
- Written by David Mirabito
- Posted on December 30, 2021
- Updated on July 30, 2024
- 13431 Views
MetaWatch is an FPGA-based feature available for Arista 7130 Series platforms. It provides precise timestamping of packets, aggregation and deep buffering for Ethernet links. Timestamp information and other metadata such as device and port identifiers are appended to the end of the packet as a trailer.
- Written by Abdul Haseeb Jehangir
- Posted on March 12, 2020
- Updated on July 17, 2024
- 10103 Views
Mirror on drop is a network visibility feature which allows monitoring of MPLS or IP flow drops occurring in the ingress pipeline. When such a drop is detected, it is sent to the control plane where it is processed and then sent to configured collectors. Additionally, CLI show commands provide general and detailed statistics and status.
- Written by Charlotte Fedderly
- Posted on April 22, 2024
- Updated on April 22, 2024
- 1735 Views
On supported devices, a port-channel can be configured as a mirroring destination for both ingress and egress source directions. Traffic mirrored to a port-channel is load-balanced based on the global port-channel load-balance configuration, which is the same for other port-channels.
- Written by Adrian Fettes
- Posted on April 22, 2024
- Updated on April 22, 2024
- 1627 Views
An interface may be a source for both a mirroring session and sFlow at the same time. For more information about mirroring and ingress and egress sFlow look in the Resources section below.
- Written by Kevin Amiraux
- Posted on September 30, 2015
- Updated on August 16, 2024
- 9097 Views
Arista switches provide several mirroring features. Filtered mirroring to CPU adds a special destination to the mirroring features that allows the mirrored traffic to be sent to the switch supervisor. The traffic can then be monitored and analyzed locally without the need of a remote port analyzer. Use case of this feature is for debugging and troubleshooting purposes.
- Written by Ravi Teja Guthikonda
- Posted on January 21, 2019
- Updated on May 20, 2024
- 4894 Views
Time stamping is an important tool for network engineering and performance analysis. EOS-4.21.3F adds support for payload timestamping of all GRE encapsulated mirrored packets at line rate (initially only supported on the 7500R/7280R/7500R2/7280R2 series). A timestamp is taken on ingress and inserted into the GRE encapsulated mirrored packet payload at egress.
- Written by Dickson Chum
- Posted on January 3, 2023
- Updated on May 15, 2024
- 6366 Views
Mirroring to a GRE tunnel allows mirrored packets to transit to a L3 network using GRE encapsulation.
- Written by Sam Ho
- Posted on August 25, 2019
- Updated on May 2, 2024
- 8085 Views
This feature adds support for allowing multiple destinations in a single monitor session.
- Written by Johnny Chen
- Posted on September 15, 2023
- Updated on June 12, 2024
- 3879 Views
For traffic mirroring, Arista switches support several types of mirroring destinations. This document describes a new type of mirroring destination in which mirrored traffic is tunneled over VXLAN as the inner packet to a remote VTEP. This feature is useful for when the traffic analyzer is a VTEP reachable over a VXLAN tunnel.
- Written by Dickson Chum
- Posted on April 18, 2024
- Updated on April 18, 2024
- 1580 Views
Mirrored packets may be configured to be truncated per mirroring session.
- Written by Wade Carpenter
- Posted on August 16, 2018
- Updated on May 22, 2024
- 7159 Views
IP traceroute and path MTU (PMTU) discovery both require that routers send ICMP reply messages to the host that invokes each network function. When the route to the destination host traverses an MPLS label-switched path (LSP), the label switching routers (LSRs) will also need to send ICMP reply messages to the originating host.
- Written by Sharad Birmiwal
- Posted on April 18, 2024
- Updated on April 18, 2024
- 2367 Views
EOS supported two routing protocol implementations: multi-agent and ribd. The ribd routing protocol model is removed starting from the EOS-4.32.0F release. Multi-agent will be the only routing protocol model. Both models largely work the same way though there are subtle differences.
- Written by Chitra Ramachandran
- Posted on April 18, 2024
- Updated on July 31, 2024
- 2120 Views
Multicast VRF leak allows multicast traffic from a sender in one domain or VRF to be forwarded to a different domain or VRF, in which the receivers are connected. In the rest of this document, the VRF to which the multicast sender belongs to is referred to as the “source VRF” and the VRF that the multicast receiver belongs to is referred to as the “receiver VRF”.
- Written by Xuan Qi
- Posted on April 18, 2024
- Updated on April 18, 2024
- 1834 Views
This feature adds all-active (A-A) multihoming support on the multi-domain EVPN VXLAN-MPLS gateway. It allows L2 and L3 ECMP to form between the multihoming gateways on the TOR devices inside the site and on the gateways in the remote sites. Therefore, traffic can be load-balanced to the multi-homing gateway and redundancy and fast convergence can be achieved.
- Written by Aparna Karanjkar
- Posted on June 17, 2019
- Updated on May 3, 2024
- 8951 Views
EOS supports reading and streaming various OpenConfig configuration and state models over gNMI (gRPC Network Management Interface), RESTCONF, and NETCONF transports. A subset of the configuration models may also be modified over these transports
- Written by Robert Rada
- Posted on April 22, 2024
- Updated on April 24, 2024
- 1471 Views
By default, the scheduling between parent interfaces and the attached shaped subinterfaces is done in strict priority mode where the parent interface has the highest priority. Subinterfaces that are not shaped use the same queues as the parent so the traffic on these subinterfaces will also have strict priority over shaped subinterfaces.
- Written by Santosh Kumar
- Posted on December 22, 2017
- Updated on May 2, 2024
- 6316 Views
PIM Static Source Discovery (SSD) is a feature implemented as part of PIM-SM. Familiarity with setting up and configuring PIM-SM (Sparse Mode) and PIM-SSM (Source-Specific Multicast) is assumed.
- Written by Paulo Panhoto
- Posted on April 18, 2024
- Updated on July 17, 2024
- 1592 Views
This feature provides a continuous, live, stream of ingress counters for Policy-Based Routing (PBR) rules in terms of bytes and packets. It is implemented as a special call in EosSdkRpc and follows this definition:
- Written by Gabor
- Posted on April 18, 2024
- Updated on April 18, 2024
- 2109 Views
Port mirroring is used to send a copy of packets seen on one port to a network monitoring connection on another switch port. Port mirroring is commonly used with network probes or other monitoring devices; examples include intrusion detection devices, latency analyzers, or packet capture and protocol analysis tools.
- Written by Padmanabh Ratnakar
- Posted on April 20, 2021
- Updated on July 15, 2024
- 12569 Views
The postcard telemetry (GreenT - GRE Encapsulated Telemetry) feature is used to gather per flow telemetry information like path and per hop latency. For network monitoring and troubleshooting flow related issues, it is desirable to know the path, latency and congestion information for flows at different times.