New and changed information

New and changed information

This table summarizes the new and changed features for the Cisco Nexus 9000 Series NX-OS Unicast Routing Configuration Guide, Release 10.6(x).

Table 1. New and Changed Features

Feature

Description

Changed in Release

Where Documented

DLB on BGP Unnumbered Link Local IPv6 with WCMP.

Beginning with Cisco NX-OS Release 10.6(2)F, you can configure DLB on BGP Unnumbered Link Local IPv6 with WCMP.

10.6(2)F

Configure BGP Interface Peering via IPv6 Link-Local for IPv4 and IPv6 Address Families

Layer 3 Heavy Routing Template for CloudScale switches

Added support for the Layer 3 Heavy Routing Template, which reallocates hardware resources to maximize IPv4 and IPv6 route scale.

10.6(2)F

Layer 3 Heavy Routing Template

Guidelines and Limitations for Layer 3 Heavy Routing Template

Layer 3 Heavy Routing Template Scale Limits

Configure the Layer 3 Heavy Routing Template

Verify Layer 3 Heavy Routing Template

Namespace-specific DNS resolution for third-party Linux applications in containers

Beginning with Cisco NX-OS Release 10.6(2)F, Cisco Nexus 9000 Series switches support namespace-specific DNS resolution for third-party Linux applications running in containers.

10.6(2)F

Guidelines and Limitations for DNS Clients

Unicast Routing/ L3 (IPv4 and IPv6)

Added support for the following features on N9324C-SE1U and N9348Y2C6D-SE1U:

  • OSPF

  • EIGRP

  • ISIS

  • BFD

  • RIP

  • VRF

  • ECMP, 8192 ECMP groups, 512-way ECMP

  • IP directed broadcast

  • uRPF

  • Static routing, PBR

  • IP unnumbered (non-SVI)

  • HSRP, VRRP

10.6(2)F

Guidelines and Limitations for RIP

Guidelines and limitations for VRFs

Guidelines and limitations for EIGRP

Guidelines and limitations for OSPFv3

Guidelines and limitations for OSPFv2

Guidelines and limitations for basic and advanced BGP

Configuring static routing

Guidelines and Limitations for HSRP

Guidelines and Limitations for VRRPv3

Guidelines and Limitations for IPv4

Policy-driven DLB on CloudScale switches

Added support for Policy-driven DLB mode on CloudScale switches.

10.6(2)F

Dynamic Load Balancing on CloudScale switches

DLB Static pinning support on N9364E-SG2 switches

Added support for DLB static pinning on Cisco N9364E-SG2-Q and N9364E-SG2-O switches.

10.6(2)F

Dynamic Load Balancing on Silicon One switches

Configuration samples for Dynamic Load Balancing

Verify the Dynamic Load Balancing configuration

New HW template to handle /128 host route

Added support for template-l3-host-heavy to handle /128 host routes.

10.6(2)F

Guidelines and limitations for IPv6

Configure L3 host heavy template

Hardware assisted IP directed broadcast

Added support for hardware assisted IP directed broadcast.

10.6(2)F

Guidelines and Limitations for IPv4

Configure IP directed broadcasts

NX-OS BGP Maximum-prefix [ discard-extra-paths ] feature support

Added support for NX-OS BGP Maximum-prefix [ discard-extra-paths ] feature.

10.6(2)F

Guidelines and limitations for basic and advanced BGP

Configure Maximum Prefixes

BGP Large Communities over EVPN address family

Added support for BGP Large Communities over EVPN address family.

10.6(2)F

Guidelines and Limitations for Route Policy Manager

About NX-OS BGP large communities

AI/ML License Enhancements (Adaptive routing)

Added support to utilize the end-to-end Adaptive Routing capability between qualified Cisco Nexus switches and NVIDIA® Spectrum-X SmartNICs.

10.6(1)F

Configure Dynamic Load Balancing

Support BGP Prefix Origin Validation State Extended Community when connected via eBGP.

Added support for signaling of BGP Prefix Origin Validation State Extended Community towards eBGP peers.

10.6(1)F

Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI)

Commands for marking incoming prefixes with RPKI validation state

Support for Breakout interfaces with DLB

Added support for breakout ports on N9364E-SG2 switches for the Dynamic Load Balancing feature.

10.6(1)F

Guidelines and limitations for Dynamic Load Balancing on Silicon One switches

Configure Dynamic Load Balancing on Silicon One switches

Support for IPv4 and IPv6 unicast routing, non SVI IP unnumbered interface, and directed broadcast

Added support for IPv4 ans IPv6 unicast routing, non SVI IP unnumbered interface, and directed broadcast on N9336C-SE1 switches.

10.6(1)F

Guidelines and Limitations for IPv4

Guidelines and limitations for IPv6

Support for BGP, OSPFv2, OSPFv3, ISIS, PBR, and ECMP

Added support for BGP, OSPFv2, OSPFv3, ISIS, PBR and ECMP on N9336C-SE1 switches.

10.6(1)F

Guidelines and limitations for basic and advanced BGP

Guidelines and limitations for OSPFv2

Guidelines and limitations for OSPFv3

Guidelines and limitations for IS-IS

Guidelines and Limitations for Policy-Based Routing

Support for URPF, HSRP, user-defined MAC address, vPC, and vPC peer gateway

Added support for URPF, HSRP, user-defined MAC address, vPC, and vPC peer gateway on N9336C-SE1 switches.

10.6(1)F

Guidelines and Limitations for HSRP