Access Control Lists
The Fabric Extender supports the full range of ingress access control lists (ACLs) that are available on its
parent Cisco Nexus Series device.
For more information about ACLs, see the Security Configuration Guide for your device.
IGMP Snooping
IGMP snooping is supported on all host interfaces of the Fabric Extender.
The Fabric Extender and its parent switch support IGMPv3 snooping based only on the destination multicast
MAC address. It does not support snooping that is based on the source MAC address or on proxy reports.
For more information about IGMP snooping, see
http://tools.ietf.org/wg/magma/draft-ietf-magma-snoop/
. Also, see the Multicast Routing Configuration Guide for the Nexus software release that you
are using. The available versions of this document can be found at the following URL:
www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps9670/products_installation_and_configuration_guides_list.html
Note
Switched Port Analyzer
You can configure the host interfaces on the Fabric Extender as Switched Port Analyzer (SPAN) source ports.
You cannot configure Fabric Extender ports as a SPAN destination. Only one SPAN session is supported for
all the host interfaces on the same Fabric Extender. Ingress source (Rx), egress source (Tx), or both ingress
and egress monitoring are supported.
All IP multicast traffic on the VLANs that a Fabric Extender host interface belongs to is captured in the
SPAN session. You cannot separate the traffic by IP multicast group membership.
If you configure ingress monitoring and egress monitoring for host interfaces on the same Fabric Extender,
you might see a packet twice: once as the packet ingresses on an interface with Rx configured, and again
as the packet egresses on an interface with Tx configured.
Note
For more information about SPAN, see the System Management Configuration Guide for your device.
Fabric Interface Features
The FEX fabric interfaces support static port channels and priority flow control (PFC). PFC allows you to
apply pause functionality to specific classes of traffic on an interface (instead of all the traffic on the interface).
During the initial discovery and association process, SFP+ validation and digital optical monitoring (DOM)
are performed as follows:
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The FEX performs a local check on the uplink SFP+ transceiver. If it fails the security check, the LED
flashes but the link is still allowed to come up.
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Access Control Lists