- Written by Shyam Kota
- Posted on April 18, 2018
- Updated on October 24, 2018
- 10724 Views
Instead of statically assigning access VLAN on the authenticator port, it's sometimes desirable to offload the work
- Written by Shyam Kota
- Posted on April 18, 2018
- Updated on October 24, 2018
- 10604 Views
MAC Based Authentication is a facility which allows a set of MAC addresses to be programmed into the RADIUS server.
- Written by Yugant Rana
- Posted on April 23, 2018
- Updated on May 14, 2018
- 10106 Views
This feature allows the DHCP relay agent to insert or modify Converged Cable Access Platform (CCAP) Core IPv6
- Written by Michael (Mike) Fink
- Posted on December 22, 2017
- Updated on March 19, 2025
- 19671 Views
The following table describes the advanced mirroring features that are currently supported with links to their respective TOIs.
- Written by Shyam Kota
- Posted on April 23, 2018
- Updated on May 14, 2018
- 9822 Views
EOS's architecture is built around the notion of agents. While the CLI show commands offer great insights into the
- Written by Pradeep Goyal
- Posted on December 22, 2017
- Updated on May 11, 2018
- 13903 Views
This features enables ARPs learnt on an SVI interface to be converted into Host routes which can further be
- Written by Evelyn Wang
- Posted on May 17, 2018
- Updated on May 17, 2018
- 9674 Views
In EOS 4.20.5F, Autonegotiation is supported on 7160 series. This feature provides IEEE802.3 Clause73
- Written by Kenneth Blanc
- Posted on June 6, 2017
- Updated on May 15, 2024
- 13395 Views
BFD Stateful Switchover (SSO) allows for a switchover from an active supervisor to a standby supervisor where BFD
- Written by Vasanth Sabavat
- Posted on April 23, 2018
- Updated on May 14, 2018
- 10099 Views
Community Instances offer a method of selecting BGP routes based on count of communities in the communities path
- Written by Josh Pfosi
- Posted on April 18, 2018
- Updated on May 13, 2018
- 11227 Views
This feature adds support for BGP peering over IPv6 link local addresses. As defined in RFC 4007, IPv6 addresses have
- Written by Shyam Kota
- Posted on May 17, 2018
- Updated on July 6, 2020
- 10033 Views
This feature implements RFC3107 that allows carrying a label stack with BGP route updates, using multi protocol BGP.
- Written by Shubham Kumar
- Posted on February 20, 2018
- Updated on January 24, 2022
- 9667 Views
"Block frames not matching any vlan mappings on trunk port" is a new feature that has been added in 4.20.5 release. When
- Written by Akshay Viswakumar
- Posted on February 22, 2018
- Updated on January 24, 2022
- 9807 Views
"Block Untagged Frames on Dot1Q Tunnel port" is a new feature that has been added in this release. When this feature is
- Written by Shyam Kota
- Posted on April 23, 2018
- Updated on February 4, 2022
- 10518 Views
This feature will provide a common encryption key to be used across all protocols to encrypt the neighbor password
- Written by Jonathan Doyle
- Posted on April 23, 2018
- Updated on December 23, 2021
- 10402 Views
By default, counters are polled from hardware every 2 seconds. This enhancement allows this period to be configured,
- Written by Tom Meng
- Posted on April 23, 2018
- Updated on May 14, 2018
- 10225 Views
Starting from EOS 4.20.5F, power supply low input voltage warning can be configured via a CLI command. Prior to the
- Written by Abhirami Shankar
- Posted on May 17, 2018
- Updated on May 17, 2018
- 9863 Views
EOS 4.20.5F introduces dedicated FEC (Forwarding Equivalence Class) per BGP next hop. This feature will ensure
- Written by Bharath Somayaji
- Posted on April 23, 2018
- Updated on March 30, 2023
- 18174 Views
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.
- Written by José Rios
- Posted on April 18, 2018
- Updated on February 6, 2022
- 12458 Views
DirectFlow is a feature that allows the user to steer traffic by matching on packet headers and/or metadata using the
- Written by Sharad Birmiwal
- Posted on May 17, 2018
- Updated on May 17, 2018
- 10368 Views
EOS 4.20.5F introduces support for disabling local interface, when a fault is signaled by the remote peer. The
- Written by Phani Bandaru
- Posted on May 17, 2018
- Updated on May 17, 2018
- 9544 Views
Source port filtering is enabled by default due to which packets are not allowed to egress on the same interface they
- Written by Lavanya Conjeevaram
- Posted on March 31, 2017
- Updated on July 23, 2025
- 19553 Views
Ethernet VPN (EVPN) is an extension of the BGP protocol introducing a new address family: L2VPN (address family number 25) / EVPN (subsequent address family number 70). It is used to exchange overlay MAC and IP address reachability information between BGP peers within a tunnel
- Written by Baptiste Covolato
- Posted on April 23, 2018
- Updated on May 14, 2018
- 10269 Views
This feature allows the possibility to enable/disable the hardware watchdog. By default the hardware watchdog is
- Written by Stefan Rebaud
- Posted on May 17, 2018
- Updated on August 20, 2024
- 15285 Views
EOS-4.20.5 adds support for hardware-accelerated sFlow on compatible R2 platforms.
- Written by Kaladhar Musunuru
- Posted on April 18, 2018
- Updated on May 13, 2018
- 10090 Views
This feature provides support for per interface ingress packet and byte counters for both IPv4 and IPv6.
- Written by Shyam Kota
- Posted on April 23, 2018
- Updated on April 23, 2018
- 9927 Views
The route map feature 'invert result' has been added to the 'match community' and 'match extcommunity' statements
- Written by Kartic Bhargav
- Posted on April 23, 2018
- Updated on May 15, 2018
- 11378 Views
Similar to L4 ports, ACL rules can be configured to filter ingress packets based on their IP length (present in the IPv4
- Written by Steve Ulrich
- Posted on April 23, 2018
- Updated on June 29, 2023
- 10837 Views
IS-IS Counters feature adds support to monitor per interface count of received, transmitted and dropped IS-IS PDUs at the Rib/ISIS agent level. The counters start getting incremented once IS-IS is enabled on an interface and persist until IS-IS is disabled on it or the Rib/Isis agent restart.
- Written by Robert Oliveira
- Posted on April 18, 2018
- Updated on May 13, 2018
- 10165 Views
The partial SPF computation avoids a full shortest path computation to achieve quicker convergence and save CPU load
- Written by Navneet Sinha
- Posted on June 29, 2016
- Updated on September 9, 2025
- 21604 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 Przemyslaw Jacak
- Posted on May 17, 2018
- Updated on May 17, 2018
- 10318 Views
This feature allows a user to configure adjacency SID for IS IS adjacencies so that we have deterministic values of
- Written by Przemyslaw Jacak
- Posted on April 18, 2018
- Updated on January 20, 2026
- 10374 Views
This document describes two features that allow dynamic metric change for IS-IS based on interface speed.
- Written by Arpit Bansal
- Posted on April 23, 2018
- Updated on November 7, 2024
- 12993 Views
Traffic Engineering (TE) provides a mechanism to network administrators to control the path that a data packet takes, bypassing the standard routing model which uses routes along the shortest path. Traffic engineered paths are generally computed on the head-end routers of the topology based on various constraints (e.g. minimum bandwidth, affinity) configured for those paths and attributes (e.g available bandwidth, color) received from devices in the network topology. IS-IS Traffic Engineering (IS-IS TE) feature extends IS-IS protocol in EOS to carry TE attributes as part of its Link State Protocol Data Units (LSPs). Note that IS-IS in EOS only acts as a carrier for TE attributes and it is not used by any processing (e.g. SPF).
- Written by Ramakrishnan G
- Posted on April 18, 2018
- Updated on June 22, 2022
- 13568 Views
The L2EVPN MPLS feature is available when configuring BGP in the multi agent routing protocol model.
- Written by Vijay Mahadevan
- Posted on April 18, 2018
- Updated on December 8, 2020
- 17370 Views
The L2EVPN MPLS feature is available when configuring BGP in the multi agent routing protocol model. Ethernet VPN
- Written by Nathan Wolfe
- Posted on February 15, 2018
- Updated on July 15, 2025
- 17893 Views
Introduced in EOS-4.20.1F, “selectable hashing fields” feature controls whether a certain header’s field is used in the hash calculation for LAG and ECMP.
- Written by Nathan Wolfe
- Posted on April 23, 2018
- Updated on May 14, 2018
- 10717 Views
Introduced in EOS 4.20.5, LAG hashing key shift controls how many bits we shift the LAG load balance key.
- Written by Nathan Wolfe
- Posted on April 23, 2018
- Updated on May 14, 2018
- 10735 Views
Introduced in EOS 4.20.5F, LAG ingress interface hashing controls whether the ingress interface is used in the LAG
- Written by Trevor Yu
- Posted on April 18, 2018
- Updated on July 21, 2023
- 11267 Views
LANZ adds support for configuring global thresholds for Ethernet ports on DCS 7020, DCS 7050TX, DCS 7050X2, DCS
- Written by Sahil Midha
- Posted on December 22, 2017
- Updated on February 6, 2022
- 14055 Views
Link Fault Signalling (LFS) is a mechanism by which remote link faults are asserted over a link experiencing
- Written by Chris Roche
- Posted on April 18, 2018
- Updated on May 13, 2018
- 10822 Views
The management tech support policy provides the capability to efficiently manage the output of "show tech support"
- Written by Prakhar Rastogi
- Posted on April 23, 2018
- Updated on September 5, 2025
- 13602 Views
MLAG Smart System Upgrade (SSU) provides the ability to upgrade the EOS image of an MLAG switch with minimal traffic disruption.
- Written by Wendi Liu
- Posted on April 23, 2018
- Updated on December 17, 2020
- 11493 Views
As of release 4.20.5F, this feature is now available on 7160 series switches. Here is a link to earlier
- Written by Kaladhar Musunuru
- Posted on May 17, 2018
- Updated on May 17, 2018
- 10037 Views
This feature provides per label ingress packet and byte counters for MPLS routed packets. DCS
- Written by Mihyar Baroudi
- Posted on August 3, 2018
- Updated on August 3, 2018
- 12603 Views
The EOS Event Handler feature provides the ability to specify a condition and an action to be carried out when that
- Written by Saravanan Balasubramanian
- Posted on April 23, 2018
- Updated on May 8, 2019
- 19974 Views
This document provides an Arista specific solution to deliver multicast traffic in a Vxlan environment where L2
- Written by Mihyar Baroudi
- Posted on April 23, 2018
- Updated on April 25, 2018
- 10946 Views
The EOS Event Handler feature provides the ability to specify a condition and an action to be carried out when that
- Written by Nathan Kitchen
- Posted on April 23, 2018
- Updated on April 23, 2018
- 10111 Views
The SNMP notifications (Trap and Inform messages) that were most recently sent are recorded in a log, as described by
- Written by Padmini Misra
- Posted on April 23, 2018
- Updated on May 14, 2018
- 10617 Views
These are the release notes and configuration guide for the OpenConfig feature available in the 4.20.5F EOS release.
- Written by David Blease
- Posted on February 8, 2017
- Updated on May 17, 2018
- 12367 Views
The OSPF Non Stop Forwarding (NSF) feature adds support for Graceful OSPF Restart (IETF RFC 3623) and Graceful OSPFv3
