- Written by Lavanya Conjeevaram
- Posted on September 11, 2017
- Updated on February 6, 2022
- 1632 Views
Starting EOS release 4.15.2F, the ability to re number front panel ports of 7050QX 32S is supported.
- Written by Gurpreet Singh
- Posted on September 30, 2015
- Updated on June 15, 2018
- 1831 Views
This feature enables user to modify QoS parameters for SVI traffic (L3 VLAN) based on ACL classification. The QoS
- Written by Shashank Hegde
- Posted on September 30, 2015
- Updated on September 30, 2015
- 1603 Views
The active active neutron controller support in CVX enables the deployment of highly available neutron service with
- Written by Anoop Dawani
- Posted on September 30, 2015
- Updated on September 30, 2015
- 1588 Views
This article describes changes to the platform command 'show platform fm6000 agileports'. Earlier this command was
- Written by Anoop Dawani
- Posted on September 30, 2015
- Updated on February 6, 2022
- 1943 Views
This feature detects whether a given EOS image is MLAG ISSU compatible with the currently running version on a switch.
- Written by Akshay Gattani
- Posted on September 30, 2015
- Updated on February 7, 2022
- 2056 Views
BGP additional paths is an enhancement that allows a BGP router to advertise and receive multiple distinct paths for
- Written by Qin Zhang
- Posted on September 30, 2015
- Updated on September 30, 2015
- 1718 Views
The BGP idle restart interval feature allows an idle BGP peer session to automatically restart after a configurable
- Written by Manoj Agiwal
- Posted on September 30, 2015
- Updated on March 28, 2022
- 3417 Views
BGP Non Stop Forwarding (NSF) aims to minimize the traffic loss when the the following scenarios occur:
- Written by Abhiram Kalluru
- Posted on September 30, 2015
- Updated on September 30, 2015
- 1732 Views
Nexthop Groups is a feature that allows users to manually configure a set of nexthops by specifying their nexthop
- Written by Sharad Birmiwal
- Posted on September 30, 2015
- Updated on September 30, 2015
- 1794 Views
The BGP selective route download feature allows learning and advertising BGP prefixes without installing them in
- Written by Yitao (Eric) Wu
- Posted on September 30, 2015
- Updated on September 30, 2015
- 1788 Views
BGP sFlow export is to add BGP route information in sFlow sample packet is the destination IP matches a BGP route. Prior
- Written by Anoop Dawani
- Posted on September 30, 2015
- Updated on April 5, 2016
- 1769 Views
Bidirectional Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) allows routers to build trees to deliver multicast traffic
- Written by Pandurangan R S
- Posted on September 11, 2017
- Updated on September 11, 2017
- 1700 Views
Configurable TPID enables TPID to be configured per switchport (default TPID on switchport is 0x8100) on
- Written by Anupama Srivastava
- Posted on September 30, 2015
- Updated on February 8, 2022
- 1625 Views
This feature optimizes the utilization of hardware resources by sharing tcam entries for a group of SVIs on which an
- Written by Anoop Dawani
- Posted on September 30, 2015
- Updated on September 30, 2015
- 1645 Views
The 7250X and 7300 series use an optimized internal CLOS design with multiple port ASICs interconnected via Fabric
- Written by Prasanth Sasidharan
- Posted on September 30, 2015
- Updated on February 8, 2022
- 1644 Views
Fallback PBR policy enables an alternate policy to be active when PBR policy attached to an interface is being
- Written by Syed Rahi
- Posted on September 30, 2015
- Updated on February 7, 2022
- 1526 Views
When a user configures IPv6 ACLs, by default, the system automatically includes two additional rules : a default
- Written by Qin Zhang
- Posted on September 30, 2015
- Updated on February 7, 2022
- 1602 Views
By default, inner IP header of a GRE packet is used for LAG hashing. With this feature, LAGs can hash GRE traffic
- Written by Anoop Dawani
- Posted on September 30, 2015
- Updated on December 22, 2017
- 1876 Views
Hardware Table Capacity Monitoring is a new feature to keep track of the capacity and utilization of various hardware
- Written by Avininder Grewal
- Posted on September 30, 2015
- Updated on September 30, 2015
- 1731 Views
Arista switches enable high precision time distribution directly in the data path using IEEE1588 Precision Time
- Written by Sarah Chen
- Posted on September 30, 2015
- Updated on September 30, 2015
- 2123 Views
IP Source Guard (IPSG) is a security feature that can help prevent IP spoofing attacks. It filters inbound IP packets
- Written by Kiranmayi Kasarapu
- Posted on September 30, 2015
- Updated on September 30, 2015
- 1588 Views
With this feature, IP packets matching a static Nexthop Group route can be encapsulated within an IP in IP tunnel and
- Written by Anoop Dawani
- Posted on September 30, 2015
- Updated on February 5, 2022
- 1548 Views
Nexthop groups in EOS currently only support IPv4 entries and only IPv4 routes can point to nexthop groups. This
- Written by Dhanashree Nagre
- Posted on March 16, 2022
- Updated on March 17, 2022
- 1378 Views
IPv6 routes of certain prefix lengths can be optimized for enhanced route scale on R/R2 series platforms. This TOI explains the usage of these optimizations.
- Written by Anoop Dawani
- Posted on September 30, 2015
- Updated on February 6, 2022
- 1585 Views
Bidirectional Forwarding Detection(BFD) is a low overhead protocol designed to provide rapid detection of
- Written by Kamala R
- Posted on September 30, 2015
- Updated on September 30, 2015
- 1581 Views
Two forms of authentication are supported by the IS IS routing protocol:. Clear text authentication.
- Written by Nandan Saha
- Posted on September 30, 2015
- Updated on September 30, 2015
- 1562 Views
By default if there's a hostname configured on the switch, it is used as the IS IS hostname. It is also possible to
- Written by Arpit Bansal
- Posted on September 30, 2015
- Updated on September 30, 2015
- 1653 Views
An IS IS router can be configured as Level 1 2 which can form adjacencies and exchange routing information with both
- Written by Arunprakash Sekar
- Posted on September 30, 2015
- Updated on September 30, 2015
- 1666 Views
IS IS Multi Topology support enables an IS IS router to compute a separate topology for IPv4 and IPv6 links in the
- Written by Arpit Bansal
- Posted on September 30, 2015
- Updated on April 22, 2020
- 1640 Views
Level 1 2 routers set attached bit in their Level 1 LSPs to indicate their reachability to the rest of the network. A
- Written by Bharath Somayaji
- Posted on September 30, 2015
- Updated on September 30, 2015
- 1574 Views
SPF Timers can be used in IS IS to throttle the frequency of shortest path first (SPF) computations. In networks with a
- Written by Aditya Gujral
- Posted on September 30, 2015
- Updated on September 30, 2015
- 1564 Views
This feature adds Intermediate System to Intermediate System (IS IS) support for IP version 6 (IPv6) address family
- Written by Aditya Gujral
- Posted on September 30, 2015
- Updated on February 7, 2022
- 1583 Views
This feature extends the IS IS set overload bit command to support wait for BGP option. In scenarios
- Written by Greg Poloczek
- Posted on September 11, 2017
- Updated on September 11, 2017
- 2016 Views
Arista switches use the hashing algorithm to load balance traffic among LAG (Link Aggregation Group) members
- Written by Peter Lam
- Posted on September 30, 2015
- Updated on April 10, 2018
- 2512 Views
Leaf Smart System Upgrade (SSU) provides the ability to upgrade the EOS image with minimal traffic disruption.
- Written by Sriram Rajagopalan
- Posted on September 30, 2015
- Updated on February 5, 2022
- 2953 Views
Maintenance mode is a framework to allow for the easy removal of elements of a switch or the entire switch from
- Written by Kevin Amiraux
- Posted on September 30, 2015
- Updated on September 30, 2015
- 2226 Views
Arista switches provide several mirroring features. Filtered mirroring to CPU adds a special destination to the
- Written by Shamit Kapadia
- Posted on September 30, 2015
- Updated on September 30, 2015
- 3848 Views
In an MLAG setup, routing on a switch (MLAG peer) is possible using its own bridge/system MAC, VARP MAC or VRRP MAC.
- Written by Som Neema
- Posted on September 30, 2015
- Updated on September 30, 2015
- 2736 Views
MLAG currently checks for basic MLAG configuration to be consistent (e.g. domain id) before formation with the peer.
- Written by Kaladhar Musunuru
- Posted on September 30, 2015
- Updated on January 20, 2023
- 1701 Views
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.
- Written by Prateek Nigam
- Posted on September 30, 2015
- Updated on September 30, 2015
- 1624 Views
Action TTL decrement in an OpenFlow flow. OpenFlow 1.3 Group support on DCS 7010 series. Clearing
- Written by Rachee Singh
- Posted on September 30, 2015
- Updated on September 30, 2015
- 1551 Views
In previous releases of EOS, Stub area and NSSA area types were supported for OSPFv3, but without support of the "no
- Written by Anoop Dawani
- Posted on September 30, 2015
- Updated on July 13, 2018
- 1943 Views
Policy Based Routing (PBR) provides the flexibility of routing according to custom defined policies in a way that
- Written by Veluchamy Dinakaran
- Posted on September 30, 2015
- Updated on September 30, 2015
- 1653 Views
This feature enables detection of egress queues that are unable to transmit packets for prolonged periods of time
- Written by Padmini Misra
- Posted on September 30, 2015
- Updated on September 30, 2015
- 1948 Views
PIM VRF feature adds VRF support to these existing multicast protocols: PIM SM, PIM BSR, IGMP and MSDP.
- Written by Salam Noureddine
- Posted on September 30, 2015
- Updated on September 30, 2015
- 1508 Views
This feature makes ARP and ND packets use a higher priority output queue when software forwarded on the switch. Doing
- Written by Dan Cunningham
- Posted on September 30, 2015
- Updated on September 30, 2015
- 2936 Views
Forward Error Correction (FEC) is required with some QSFP100 media to achieve error free operation of the link when
- Written by Anoop Dawani
- Posted on September 30, 2015
- Updated on February 4, 2016
- 4065 Views
Some data plane features on some switch platforms may require packets to be recirculated through the switch chip in
- Written by Anoop Dawani
- Posted on September 30, 2015
- Updated on February 7, 2022
- 1389 Views
This feature allows routing traffic across two Vrf domains on the same switch using an external loopback cable
- Written by Anoop Dawani
- Posted on September 30, 2015
- Updated on October 1, 2015
- 1791 Views
Secondary private VLAN trunk ports are introduced in the EOS 4.15.2F release. This feature can