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Layer 2 Features
● Layer 2 switch ports and VLAN trunks
● IEEE 802.1Q VLAN encapsulation
● Support for up to 4096 VLANs
● Rapid Per-VLAN Spanning Tree Plus (PVRST+) (IEEE 802.1w compatible)
● Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP) (IEEE 802.1s): 64 instances
● Spanning Tree PortFast
● Spanning Tree root guard
● Spanning Tree Bridge Assurance
● Cisco EtherChannel technology (up to 16 ports per EtherChannel)
● Cisco vPC technology
● Enhanced vPC enable vPC between Cisco Nexus 5000 and 2000 Series as well as between Cisco Nexus 3000 Series and end host
● vPC configuration synchronization
● Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP): IEEE 802.3ad
● Advanced PortChannel hashing based on Layer 2, 3, and 4 information
● Jumbo frames on all ports (up to 9216 bytes)
● Pause frames (IEEE 802.3x)
● Storm control (unicast, multicast, and broadcast)
● Private VLANs
● Private VLAN over trunks (isolated and promiscuous)
● Private VLANs over vPC and EtherChannels
● VLAN Remapping
● Cisco FabricPath
● EvPC and vPC+ with FabricPath
● Cisco Adapter FEX
● Cisco Data Center VM FEX
● Support for up to 24 fabric extenders on each Cisco Nexus 5500 platform
Layer 3 Features
● Layer 3 interfaces: Routed ports on Cisco Nexus 5500 platform interfaces, switch virtual interface (SVI), PortChannels, subinterfaces, and
PortChannel subinterfaces for a total of 4096 entries
● Support for up to 8000 prefixes and up to 16000 IPv4 and 8000 IPv6 host entries
● Support for up to 8000 multicast routes
● Support for up to 8000 IGMP groups
● Support for 1000 VRF entries
● Support for up to 4096 VLANs
● 16-way equal-cost multipathing (ECMP)
● 1664 ingress and 2048 egress access control list (ACL) entries
● Routing protocols: Static, Routing Information Protocol Version2 (RIPv2), Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP), Open
Shortest Path First Version 2 (OSPFv2), and Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
● IPv6 Routing Protocols: Static, Open Shortest Path First Version 3 (OPFv3), Border Gateway Protocol (BGPv6), Enhanced Interior Gateway
Routing Protocol (EIGRPv6)
● IPv6 VRF Lite
● Hot-Standby Router Protocol (HSRP) and Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)
● ACL: Routed ACL with Layer 3 and 4 options to match ingress and egress ACL
● Multicast: Protocol Independent Multicast Version 2 (PIMv2) sparse mode, Source Specific Multicast (SSM), Multicast Source Discovery
Protocol (MSDP), Internet Group Management Protocol Versions 2, and 3 (IGMP v2, and v3), and Multicast VLAN Registration (MVR)
● Virtual Route Forwarding (VRF): VRF-lite (IP VPN); VRF-aware unicast; and BGP-, OSPF-, RIP-, and VRF-aware multicast
● Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding (uRFP) with ACL; strict and loose modes
● Jumbo frame support (up to 9216 bytes)
● Support for up to 16 fabric extender on each Nexus 5500 with L3 modules
● RFC 896
QoS
● Layer 2 IEEE 802.1p (CoS)
● 8 hardware queues per port
● Per-port QoS configuration
● CoS trust
● Port-based CoS assignment