Spec Sheet

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Data SheetEX4600 Ethernet Switch
• DHCP snooping
• Filter based forwarding
• IP directed broadcast traffic forwarding
• IPv4 over GRE (encap and decap)
Layer 3 Features (IPv6)
• Static routing
• Routing protocols (RIPng, OSPF v3, IS-IS v6, BGP v6)
• Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP v3)
• IPv6 CoS (BA, MF classification and rewrite, scheduling
based on TC)
• IPv6 over MPLS LSPs (6PE)
• IPv6 ping
• IPv6 traceroute
• Neighbor discovery protocol
• Path MTU discovery
• SNMP, NTP, DNS, RADIUS, TACACS+, AAA
• Virtual router support for IPv6 unicast
Quality of Service (QoS)
• L2 and L3 QoS: Classification, rewrite, queuing
• Rate limiting:
- Ingress policing: 1 rate 2 color, 2 rate 3 color
- Egress policing: Policer, policer mark down action
- Egress shaping: Per queue, per port
• 12 hardware queues per port (8 unicast and 4 multicast)
• Strict priority queuing (LLQ), smoothed deficit weighted
round-robin (SDWRR), weighted random early detection
(WRED), weighted tail drop
• 802.1p remarking
• L2 classification criteria: Interface, MAC address, Ethertype,
802.1p, VLAN
• Congestion avoidance capabilities: WRED
• Trust IEEE 802.1p (ingress)
• Remarking of bridged packets
• Priority-based flow control (PFC)—IEEE 802.1Qbb
• Enhanced Transmission Selection (ETS)—IEEE 802.1Qaz
• Data Center Bridging Exchange Protocol (DCBX), DCBx
FCoE, and iSCSI type, length, and value (TLVs)
• Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)
• FCoE transit switch (FIP snooping ACL installation)
• Virtual fiber channel gateway
• FCoE session path learning
• FCoE session health monitoring
• Graceful restart for FIP snooping
• FC-BB-6 VN2VN snooping
Virtual Chassis
• 40GbE and 10GbE as Virtual Chassis port
• Virtual Chassis Routing Engine (RE) election
• Virtual Chassis pre-provisioning (plug and play)
• Auto-LAG formation of Virtual Chassis ports
• Mixed Virtual Chassis support between EX4300-EX4600
(in data center only)
• FCoE transit across Virtual Chassis members
• QoS on Virtual Chassis ports
• Local designated forwarding
• Graceful RE switchover (GRES)
• Nonstop routing (NSR)
• Nonstop bridging (NSB)
• Monitor distributed aggregate interface
• Control plane protection for virtual RE
High Availability
• ISSU (in standalone and MC-LAG configuration)
• Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD)
• Uplink failure detection (UFD)
• Graceful Routing Engine switchover (GRES) in Virtual
Chassis configuration
• Non-stop bridging (NSB) in Virtual Chassis configuration
• Non-stop routing (NSR) in Virtual Chassis configuration
• Non-stop software upgrade (NSSU) in Virtual Chassis
configuration
MPLS
• VRF-Lite
• 2-label stack
• Static label-switched paths (LSPs)
• RSVP-based signaling of LSPs
• LDP-based signaling of LSPs
• LDP tunneling (LDP over RSVP)
• MPLS class of service (CoS)
• MPLS access control list (ACL)/policers
• MPLS LSR support
• Push, swap, pop, IP lookup
• IPv6 tunneling (6PE) (via IPv4 MPLS backbone)
• MPLS Operation, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM)—
• LSP ping
• IPv4 L3VPN (RFC 2547, 4364)
• Ethernet-over-MPLS (L2 circuit)
• Layer 3 VPN (L3VPN)
• Layer 2 VPN (L2VPN)
• Link protection
• MPLS fast reroute (FRR)- 1:1 Protection
• Node-link protection
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