- Written by Indu Mahadevan
- Posted on March 12, 2026
- Updated on March 13, 2026
- 339 Views
This feature addresses a restriction on the combination of IKE and IPSec algorithms that can be used in a security configuration. The National Information Assurance Partnership (NIAP) Common Criteria certification requires that:
- Written by Indu Mahadevan
- Posted on December 24, 2024
- Updated on December 24, 2024
- 4315 Views
Support for IPSec connections in a full-cone Network/Port Address Translation (NAT) environment has been added to the Dynamic Path Selection (DPS) setup. DPS optimizes application performance by selecting different paths for various types of traffic. In this configuration, STUN is used to discover the translated IP address of WAN interfaces and export it to BGP.
- Written by Jyothish Kunkumath
- Posted on January 6, 2022
- Updated on October 21, 2025
- 20019 Views
IPSec tunnel mode support allows the customer to encrypt traffic transiting between two tunnel endpoints.
- Written by Navneet Sinha
- Posted on June 29, 2016
- Updated on June 29, 2016
- 13713 Views
This feature enables dataplane forwarding of IPv4 traffic on interfaces that are not IPv4 address enabled, but only
- Written by Dhanashree Nagre
- Posted on April 21, 2015
- Updated on February 7, 2022
- 11780 Views
IPv4 routes of certain prefix lengths can be optimized for enhanced route scale on 7500E, 7280E, 7500R and 7280R
- Written by Sriram Sellappa
- Posted on January 23, 2019
- Updated on April 21, 2026
- 12618 Views
IPv4 routes of certain prefix lengths can be optimized for enhanced route scale. This document describes the enhancements done to IPv4 route scale in subsequent EOS releases.
- Written by Neel Kabra
- Posted on June 27, 2024
- Updated on March 5, 2025
- 6130 Views
This feature enhances IPv4 VRF scale to 1024 VRFs on AWE-7230R and AWE-7250R, and 64 VRFs on AWE-7220R.On CloudEOS, the VRF scale is as follows
- Written by Roland Phung
- Posted on May 1, 2015
- Updated on May 1, 2015
- 10676 Views
As of EOS 4.15.0F, VRRP is supported in a VRF context. Virtual IP addresses can be reused in different VRF contexts,
- Written by Manogna Namburi
- Posted on May 1, 2015
- Updated on July 24, 2023
- 10376 Views
IPv6 access lists can be used to filter IPv6 network traffic. Starting EOS 4.15.0F release, we have added support
- Written by Kumaran Narayanan
- Posted on April 25, 2025
- Updated on July 8, 2025
- 3473 Views
This feature enables IPv6 access control list (ACLs) on cloudEOS and AWE-series platforms, providing access control on incoming traffic (ingress direction). ACLs use packet classification to mark certain packets going through the packet processor pipeline and then take configured action against them. Rules are defined based on various fields of packets.
- Written by Brett Hatch
- Posted on April 30, 2025
- Updated on April 30, 2025
- 3617 Views
This feature provides an IPv6 address provisioning mechanism which is driven by tenant authentication results and offers inter-tenant traffic isolation. The generated IPv6 connected route subnets can also be summarized into aggregate routes dynamically for advertising out to BGP peers.
- Written by Siddharth Verma
- Posted on May 1, 2015
- Updated on May 1, 2015
- 10358 Views
IPv6 egress ACLs applied to routed interfaces across the same chip on the DCS 7500E and the DCS 7280E series can be
- Written by Jason Lai
- Posted on July 15, 2025
- Updated on July 15, 2025
- 2355 Views
This document provides information on how to configure IPv6 Endpoint Independent Filtering (EIF) and debug issues on the nat-vxlan profile on Arista 7170 switches.
- Written by Greg Poloczek
- Posted on April 10, 2015
- Updated on May 1, 2015
- 10531 Views
Arista switches use the hashing algorithm to load balance traffic among LAG (Link Aggregation Group) members
- Written by Shelly Chang
- Posted on October 24, 2024
- Updated on May 13, 2025
- 5634 Views
This solution allows delivery of both IPv4 and IPv6 multicast traffic in an IP-VRF using an IPv6 multicast in the underlay network. The protocol used to build multicast trees in the underlay network is IPv6 PIM-SSM.
- Written by Christopher Brown
- Posted on December 22, 2017
- Updated on December 22, 2017
- 10694 Views
The IPv6 Neighbor Discovery protocol performs Neighbor Unreachability Detection (NUD) in order to determine if two
- Written by Anoop Dawani
- Posted on September 30, 2015
- Updated on December 19, 2024
- 10664 Views
With this feature, IPv4 and IPv6 packets matching a static nexthop-group route can be encapsulated within an IP-in-IP tunnel and forwarded
- Written by Satya Viswanathan
- Posted on December 9, 2015
- Updated on February 5, 2022
- 10515 Views
Policy-Based Routing (PBR) provides the flexibility of routing according to custom-defined policies
- Written by Jahnavi Singhal
- Posted on June 29, 2016
- Updated on February 5, 2022
- 10569 Views
With this, IPv6 routes can be configured pointing to a static Nexthop group of 2 types:. Type
- Written by Jayden Navarro
- Posted on November 22, 2017
- Updated on February 7, 2022
- 10533 Views
IPv6 Router Advertisement Consistency Logging, when enabled, allows for notification through syslogging of
- Written by Srinivasan Viswanathan
- Posted on December 27, 2024
- Updated on July 22, 2025
- 4210 Views
The document describes an extension of the decap group feature, that allows IPv6 addresses to be configured and used as part of a group. IP-in-IP packets with v6 destination matching a configured decap group IP will be decapsulated and forwarded based on the inner header. That will allow any IP-to-IP packet type to be decapsulated, i.e. IPv4 in IPv4, IPv4 in IPv6, IPv6 in IPv4 and IPv6 in IPv6.
- Written by Rachee Singh
- Posted on April 10, 2015
- Updated on May 1, 2015
- 10439 Views
This feature adds IPv6 VRF support to Open Shortest Path First(OSPF) Protocol version 3. It allows for OSPFv3
- Written by Roland Phung
- Posted on April 23, 2015
- Updated on May 1, 2015
- 10476 Views
EOS 4.15.0F is introducing support of IPv6 management capabilities inside a VRF. This means existing management
- Written by Ganesh Sundaresan
- Posted on May 1, 2015
- Updated on May 1, 2015
- 10307 Views
This feature adds the support for IPv6 unicast in a VRF context in EOS. This entails static routing and dynamic
- Written by Navneet Sinha
- Posted on June 29, 2016
- Updated on June 29, 2016
- 10529 Views
IS IS adjacency uptime describes the uptime or downtime of neighbors since the last state change.
- Written by Anoop Dawani
- Posted on September 30, 2015
- Updated on February 6, 2022
- 10368 Views
Bidirectional Forwarding Detection(BFD) is a low overhead protocol designed to provide rapid detection of
- Written by Deepak
- Posted on January 6, 2026
- Updated on January 6, 2026
- 977 Views
The IS-IS BFD Damping feature allows IS-IS to delay adjacency establishment on a link that experiences frequent BFD flaps.
- Written by Deepak
- Posted on February 16, 2026
- Updated on February 16, 2026
- 466 Views
The IS-IS BFD TLV feature implements RFC 6213. When this feature is enabled, IS-IS will prevent adjacency establishment on a link if the BFD peering is down.
- Written by Zetang Lei
- Posted on July 2, 2024
- Updated on March 21, 2025
- 6056 Views
This feature introduces a way for IS-IS to advertise its IP reachability and SID for loopback interfaces only when routes matching an RCF function are present. One example use-case is to use IS-IS Segment Routing to attract traffic to a router only when routes towards the ultimate destination are present. The RCF function is matched against winning routes in the Unicast RIB (seen with 'show rib route …').
- Written by Rabi Narayan
- Posted on January 19, 2026
- Updated on January 20, 2026
- 772 Views
Link State IGPs such as IS-IS depend upon having a consistent LSDB across all the Intermediate Systems (ISs or nodes) in the network in order to provide correct forwarding of data packets. When topology change occurs due to various network events, new/updated LSPs are propagated network-wide. The speed of propagation is key for a faster network convergence.
- Written by Sarah Chen
- Posted on January 12, 2022
- Updated on August 22, 2025
- 17494 Views
IS-IS flexible algorithm (FlexAlgo) provides a lightweight, simplified mechanism for performing basic traffic engineering functions within a single IS-IS area. FlexAlgo requires the cooperation of all nodes within the IS-IS area but does not require an external controller. Paths are computed by each node within the area, resulting in an MPLS switched forwarding path to nodes that are advertising a node Segment Identifier (SID) for the algorithm. The results of the path computation are placed in the colored tunnel RIB or system tunnel RIB, which simplifies route resolution.
- Written by Kamala R
- Posted on September 30, 2015
- Updated on July 20, 2023
- 11117 Views
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.
- Written by Nikhil Goyal
- Posted on November 22, 2017
- Updated on December 23, 2021
- 11324 Views
IS IS Graceful Restart adds support for Restart Signaling for IS IS, IETF RFC 5306. When IS IS is used
- Written by Nandan Saha
- Posted on September 30, 2015
- Updated on September 30, 2015
- 10440 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
- 10483 Views
An IS IS router can be configured as Level 1 2 which can form adjacencies and exchange routing information with both
- Written by Subham Burnwal
- Posted on January 5, 2026
- Updated on January 5, 2026
- 959 Views
IS-IS LSP out-delay is a feature implemented to mitigate transient micro-loops that can occur during topology changes in an IS-IS network.When a topology change occurs (e.g., a link state or metric change), different routers in the network receive and process the updated Link State PDUs (LSPs) at slightly different times. This can lead to a transient state where some routers have updated their Forwarding Information Base (FIB) based on new LSPs, while others have not, causing traffic to be incorrectly forwarded and forming micro-loops.
- Written by Arunprakash Sekar
- Posted on September 30, 2015
- Updated on September 30, 2015
- 10566 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 Navneet Sinha
- Posted on June 29, 2016
- Updated on June 29, 2016
- 10950 Views
This feature enables an Arista switch to run the IS IS routing protocol over a tunnel interface to another IS IS
- Written by Navneet Sinha
- Posted on June 29, 2016
- Updated on September 9, 2025
- 22192 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 Arpit Bansal
- Posted on September 30, 2015
- Updated on April 22, 2020
- 10977 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 Przemyslaw Jacak
- Posted on April 18, 2018
- Updated on January 20, 2026
- 10652 Views
This document describes two features that allow dynamic metric change for IS-IS based on interface speed.
- Written by Bharath Somayaji
- Posted on September 30, 2015
- Updated on March 7, 2024
- 10950 Views
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.
- Written by Ashish Yadav
- Posted on February 8, 2017
- Updated on February 9, 2017
- 10251 Views
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
- Written by Aditya Gujral
- Posted on September 30, 2015
- Updated on September 30, 2015
- 10292 Views
This feature adds Intermediate System to Intermediate System (IS IS) support for IP version 6 (IPv6) address family
- Written by Weichen Zhao
- Posted on August 25, 2016
- Updated on August 25, 2016
- 10669 Views
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
- Written by Aditya Gujral
- Posted on September 30, 2015
- Updated on February 7, 2022
- 10386 Views
This feature extends the IS IS set overload bit command to support wait for BGP option. In scenarios
- Written by Liam Smyth
- Posted on August 29, 2025
- Updated on August 29, 2025
- 1848 Views
Data entries from journald can be viewed through the CLI and the REST API. If the REST API is used the data is returned to the user in the form of a list of structured entries. This API is only for viewing journal data contained on the node being queried. The user is given the option to pass parameters to the API that can be used for pagination and for filtering the data that gets returned, e.g. only returning entries that were written by a specific application or after a specific start time.
- Written by Patrycja Kochmanska
- Posted on October 10, 2025
- Updated on October 10, 2025
- 1689 Views
The routing table is not available on the standby supervisor in EOS, hence running any diagnostics or scripts that talk to the standby supervisor through the forwarding plane is not possible. This feature adds a new Cli command that configures a default route on a standby supervisor. This default route will offload routing to the forwarding plane. Therefore it behaves the same way as the routing table on the active supervisor. The default route is installed on all VRFs.
- Written by Zeyad Tamimi
- Posted on March 3, 2023
- Updated on April 1, 2026
- 14988 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. On Arista network switches, front panel transceiver cages are exposed as ports which are numbered sequentially: 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. These identifiers are usually marked on the front panel to allow for easier identification.
