Tag :: Nexthop Group

This document describes the on_nexthop_group_programmed event within the context of both the EOS SDK and the EOS SDK RPC agent. This event is triggered when there is an update to the state of a watched nexthop group.   These state updates include both the hardware programming of the group itself, as well as the hardware status of any counters associated with the group.

With this feature, IPv4 or IPv6 packets matching a static nexthop-group route can be encapsulated within an IP-in-IP tunnel and forwarded

With this feature, IPv4 and IPv6 packets matching a static nexthop-group route can be encapsulated within an IP-in-IP tunnel and forwarded

Enhancement of QOS class maps to match on nexthop groups along with dscp (dscp being optional) to set any QOS actions

Nexthop Group backup-activation events are produced by forwarding agents. Nexthop Groups supports configuring the backup paths through EOS RPC APIs and CLI. Whenever the route or prefix starts pointing to configured backup paths, a backup-activation event will be logged into the event-monitor DB with nexthop-group name, accurate timestamp and other attributes. The event monitoring feature also supports filtering the events based on the nexthop-group name, version etc.

The nexthop group feature allows users to manually configure a set of tunnels. Nexthop group counters provide the ability to count packets and bytes associated with each tunnel nexthop, irrespective of the number of times it appears in one or more nexthop groups. In other words, if a nexthop group entry shares a tunnel resource with another entry, they will also share the same counter.

Nexthop Group Event Monitoring in the RPC layer on Arista switches allows for quick and filterable viewing of Nexthop Group events, i.e., addition or deletion or callbacks associated with hardware programming of Nexthop Groups configured through the EosSdkRpc agent.

When a static route is configured with a nexthop group, by default the static route is eligible for FIB insertion

Nexthop groups is a routing mechanism where users can configure a set of nexthops by specifying their nexthop

This feature comprises two parts:

To extend Traffic Steering to Nexthop Groups (GRE) by allowing us to specify one or more nexthop groups of type DzGRE (DANZ GRE) as the destination for a TAP aggregation steering policy. A DzGRE header will be encapsulated to the packets sending out a nexthop group of type DZGRE.

Traffic steering to nexthop groups allows specifying one or more nexthop groups as the destination, either by default for a TAP port or for a TAP aggregation steering policy. Traffic steering is a TAP aggregation process that uses class maps and policy maps to direct data streams received on TAP ports. A nexthop group is a data structure that defines a list of nexthop addresses and a tunnel type for packets routed to the specified address.