Cisco Nexus 9000 Series NX-OS Unicast Routing Configuration Guide, Release 6.x

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Updated:: July 24, 2014

Chapter: New and Changed Information

New and Changed Information

This chapter provides release-specific information for each new and changed feature in the Cisco Nexus 9000 Series NX-OS Unicast Routing Configuration Guide, Release 6.x. The latest version of this document is available at the following Cisco website:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/datacenter/nexus9000/sw/6.x/unicast/configuration/guide/l3_cli_nxos.html

To check for additional information about Cisco NX-OS Release 6.x, see the Cisco Nexus 9000 Series NX-OS Release Notes available at the following Cisco website:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/datacenter/nexus9000/sw/6.x/release/notes/61-nxos-rn.html

Table 1 summarizes the new and changed features for the Cisco Nexus 9000 Series NX-OS Unicast Routing Configuration Guide, Release 6.x and tells you where they are documented.

Table 1 New and Changed Features for Release 6.x
Feature	Description	Changed in Release	Where Documented
64-bit ALPM routing mode	Introduced this feature.	6.1(2)I3(2)	Chapter 2, “Configuring IPv4” and Chapter 3, “Configuring IPv6”
BGP	Added the ability to disable policy batching.	6.1(2)I3(2)	Chapter 10, “Configuring Advanced BGP”
Policy-based ACLs (PBACLs)	Introduced this feature.	6.1(2)I3(2)	Chapter 16, “Configuring Policy-Based Routing” and Cisco Nexus 9000 Series NX-OS Security Configuration Guide
Policy-based routing	Introduced this feature.	6.1(2)I3(1)	Chapter 16, “Configuring Policy-Based Routing”
BGP	Added the ability to enable or disable neighbor status change messages for a specific neighbor in the Cisco NX-OS 6.1(2)I2.x software train.	6.1(2)I2(2b)	Chapter 10, “Configuring Advanced BGP”
Nonhierarchical routing mode	Introduced this feature.	6.1(2)I2(2a)	Chapter 2, “Configuring IPv4” and Chapter 3, “Configuring IPv6”
BGP	Added the ability to advertise newly learned BGP routes only after these routes are confirmed by the Forwarding Information Base (FIB) and programmed in the hardware.	6.1(2)I2(2a)	Chapter 10, “Configuring Advanced BGP”
BGP	Added the ability to configure BGP to pre-shrink next-hop groups when a session goes down.	6.1(2)I2(2a)	Chapter 10, “Configuring Advanced BGP”
FIB	Added the rotate and concatenation options to the ip load-sharing address command.	6.1(2)I2(1)	Chapter 14, “Managing the Unicast RIB and FIB”
Hardware IP glean throttling	Introduced this feature.	6.1(2)I2(1)	Chapter 2, “Configuring IPv4”
HSRP	Introduced this feature.	6.1(2)I2(1)	Chapter 17, “Configuring HSRP”
Max-host routing mode	Introduced this feature.	6.1(2)I2(1)	Chapter 2, “Configuring IPv4” and Chapter 3, “Configuring IPv6”
Object tracking	Introduced this feature.	6.1(2)I2(1)	Chapter 19, “Configuring Object Tracking”
OSPFv2 and OSPFv3	Added vPC support.	6.1(2)I2(1)	Chapter 5, “Configuring OSPFv2” and Chapter 6, “Configuring OSPFv3”
Route policy manager	Added VLAN support.	6.1(2)I2(1)	Chapter 15, “Configuring Route Policy Manager”
VRRP	Introduced this feature.	6.1(2)I2(1)	Chapter 18, “Configuring VRRP”
BGP	Added the ability to enable or disable neighbor status change messages for a specific neighbor in the Cisco NX-OS 6.1(2)I1.x software train.	6.1(2)I1(3)	Chapter 10, “Configuring Advanced BGP”

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