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IPSec tunnel mode support allows the customer to encrypt traffic transiting between two tunnel endpoints.

This feature enables dataplane forwarding of IPv4 traffic on interfaces that are not IPv4 address enabled, but only

IPv4 routes of certain prefix lengths can be optimized for enhanced route scale on 7500E, 7280E, 7500R and 7280R

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.

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

As of EOS 4.15.0F, VRRP is supported in a VRF context. Virtual IP addresses can be reused in different VRF contexts,

IPv6 access lists can be used to filter IPv6 network traffic. Starting EOS 4.15.0F release, we have added support

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.

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.

IPv6 egress ACLs applied to routed interfaces across the same chip on the DCS 7500E and the DCS 7280E series can be

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.

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

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.

The IPv6 Neighbor Discovery protocol performs Neighbor Unreachability Detection (NUD) in order to determine if two

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

Policy-Based Routing (PBR) provides the flexibility of routing according to custom-defined policies

With this, IPv6 routes can be configured pointing to a static Nexthop group of 2 types:. Type

IPv6 Router Advertisement Consistency Logging, when enabled, allows for notification through syslogging of

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.

This feature adds IPv6 VRF support to Open Shortest Path First(OSPF) Protocol version 3. It allows for OSPFv3

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 IS-IS BFD Damping feature allows IS-IS to delay adjacency establishment on a link that experiences frequent BFD flaps.

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.

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 …').

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.

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.

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 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.

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

This document describes two features that allow dynamic metric change for IS-IS based on interface speed.

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

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.

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.

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.

Arista’s 7135 Connect Series of Layer 1+ switches are powerful network devices that allow for dynamic connections between various layer 1 components on the system, such as the front panel and FPGA. These connections are driven by an underlying CLOS network of crossbar switches. The following commands provide the ability to configure middle stage crossbar switches within the system to create dynamic layer 1 connections.

This feature allows transport of multicast frames to an endpoint across an IP network by tunneling them through MPLSoGRE or MPLSoGUE. The tunneling of multicast frames is achieved with a traffic policy applied on the ingress interface which will match on all packets destined to a multicast IP address and redirect that traffic to a MoG nexthop group. The traffic policy will also specify “forced routing” in order to set the fwd_layer_index to 1 so that the L2 header is removed before encapsulation.

L2 protocol frames - LLDP, LACP and STP are trapped to the CPU by default. This feature allows for disabling the per protocol trap on a given set of interfaces. Starting from 4.32.1F, forwarding of MACsec EAPoL frames is also supported on a per interface basis on certain platforms. Starting from 4.35.0F, specific platforms support forwarding LLDP VXLAN encapsulated frames while continuing to trap regular/local LLDP frames to the CPU per interface.