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