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EOS 4.15.0F is introducing support of IPv6 management capabilities inside a VRF. This means existing management

This feature adds the support for IPv6 unicast in a VRF context in EOS. This entails static routing and dynamic

IS IS adjacency uptime describes the uptime or downtime of neighbors since the last state change.

Bidirectional Forwarding Detection(BFD) is a low overhead protocol designed to provide rapid detection of

The difference between the two forms of authentication is in the level of security provided. In case of clear text authentication, the password is specified as text in the authentication TLV, making it possible for an attacker to break the authentication by sniffing and capturing IS-IS PDUs on the network.

IS IS Graceful Restart adds support for Restart Signaling for IS IS, IETF RFC 5306. When IS IS is used

By default if there's a hostname configured on the switch, it is used as the IS IS hostname. It is also possible to

An IS IS router can be configured as Level 1 2 which can form adjacencies and exchange routing information with both

IS IS Multi Topology support enables an IS IS router to compute a separate topology for IPv4 and IPv6 links in the

This feature enables an Arista switch to run the IS IS routing protocol over a tunnel interface to another IS IS

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.

Level 1 2 routers set attached bit in their Level 1 LSPs to indicate their reachability to the rest of the network. A

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.

The default behavior of a level 1 router running IS IS is to install a default route to a level 1 2 router present in a

This feature adds Intermediate System to Intermediate System (IS IS) support for IP version 6 (IPv6) address family

This feature provides a way to export non ISIS routes into level 1, level 2 or both by using route map's set clause. The

This feature extends the IS IS set overload bit command to support wait for BGP option. In scenarios

In our current implementation, on a switch with default startup config or no config, all ports come up in access

This feature is available when configuring BGP in the multi agent routing protocol model. Ethernet

L3 interface ingress counters can be used to count routable traffic coming into the box on sub interfaces and vlan

LACP on Loopback Interfaces allows for Active Port Channels on one or more interfaces whose link endpoints terminate

LACP State Transition Event Monitoring on Arista switches allows for quick and filterable viewing of LACP state

LAGs are allocated hardware resources on transition from one member (software LAG) to two members (hardware LAG) and

Arista switches use the hashing algorithm to load balance traffic among LAG (Link Aggregation Group) members

This document describes the current status of LANZ on DCS 7500R, DCS 7280R and DCS 7020R, for both polling and

LANZ on 7160S 32CQ, 7160 48YC6 and 7160 48TC6 adds support for monitoring congestion on front panel ports with Start,

Loop protection is a loop detection and prevention method which is independent of Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) and is not disabled when the switch is in switchport backup mode or port is in discarding state. The LoopProtect agent has a method to detect loops and take action based on the configuration by the user. In order to find loops in the system, a loop detection frame is sent out periodically on each interface that loop protection is enabled on. The frame carries broadcast destination MAC address, bridge MAC source address, OUI Extended EtherType 0x88b7 as well as information to specify the origins of the packet.

The Label Distribution Protocol (LDP) is a protocol in the Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) context that allows

The LDP pseudowire feature provides support for emulating Ethernet connections over a Multiprotocol Label

Leaf Smart System Upgrade (SSU) provides the ability to upgrade the EOS image with minimal traffic disruption.Note: It is possible that SSU shutdown and bootup are not supported in the same image. If a product has shutdown support in image A and bootup support in a later image B, then SSU upgrade cannot be performed from image A to any images earlier than image B, including image A itself. However, upgrading from image A to image B onwards is allowed.

Link Fault Signalling (LFS) is a mechanism by which remote link faults are asserted over a link experiencing

Local Authentication (also known as authentication survivability) is the ability of access points (AP) to authenticate and onboard clients to the network using root CA certificates through the integrated EAP server of the AP. Use Local Authentication when the RADIUS servers are not reachable to authenticate the clients. It is typically a temporary authentication mechanism; avoid using it as a primary authentication. If there are certificate chains, you must upload the root CA certificate along with the certificate chain.

With the 14.0 release, CloudVision Cognitive Unified Edge (CV-CUE) removes the Wireless Manager(WM) UI dependency for login and for applying the service license. You will no longer be redirected to WM and can now directly login to CV-CUE from the UI. 

Support for Media Access Control Security (MACsec) with static keys was added in EOS 4.15.4. This feature brings

Maintenance mode is a framework to allow for the easy removal of elements of a switch or the entire switch from

Maintenance mode with sub interfaces is an extension to the maintenance mode feature released in EOS 4 15 2F. With this

A server cluster or a cluster is a group of Wireless Manager (WM) servers. A cluster comprises a parent WM server and one or more child WM servers.  A cluster is created to manage multiple servers using a single server. 

MapReduce Tracer is an existing feature that monitors MapReduce nodes that are directly connected to Arista

Classification of MPLS packets based on traffic class bits in MPLS header for QoS Policy Maps. DCS

Currently, the 'maximum routes' knob allows one to set an upper bound on the number of routes that can be received from a

Media Access Control Security (MACSec) is an industry standard encryption mechanism to protect all traffic flowing

Port mirroring allows you to duplicate ethernet packets or frames on a source interface to send to a remote host, like DANZ Monitoring Fabric (DMF). The mirrored packets or frames can be sent via a SPAN interface dedicated for communication with the host or over an L2 Generic Routing Encapsulation (L2GRE) tunnel.

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.

In an MLAG setup, routing on a switch (MLAG peer) is possible using its own bridge/system MAC, VARP MAC or VRRP MAC. When a peer receives an IP packet with destination MAC set to one of the aforementioned MACs, the packet gets routed if the hardware has enough information to route the packet. Before introducing this feature, if the destination MAC is peer’s bridge MAC, the packet is L2 bridged on the peer-link and the routing takes place on the peer. This behavior to use the peer-link to bridge the L3 traffic to the peer is undesirable especially when the MLAG peers can route the packets themselves.

MLAG currently checks for basic MLAG configuration to be consistent (e.g. domain id) before formation with the peer.

When MLAG peer link goes down, the secondary peer assumes the primary peer is down/dead, and takes over the primary

In an MLAG setup, periodic TCP/UDP heartbeats are sent over peer link to ensure IP connectivity between peers. Prior

This feature allows users to configure L2 subinterfaces on MLAG interfaces. L2 subinterfaces are not supported on the MLAG peer-link.

If an MLAG flaps on one peer, then we may have to remap the MAC addresses learned, such that the reachability is via the

For packets sent and received on the front-panel interfaces, this feature allows creation of a profile to configure buffer reservations in the MMU (MMU = Memory Management Unit which manages how the on-chip packet buffers are organized). The profile can contain configurations for ingress and egress. On the ingress, configuration is supported at both a port level as well as a priority-group level.