New and Changed Information

This chapter provides release-specific information for each new and changed feature in the Cisco Nexus 9000 Series NX-OS Multicast Routing Configuration Guide, Release 7.x.

New and Changed Information

This table summarizes the new and changed features for the Cisco Nexus 9000 Series NX-OS Multicast Routing Configuration Guide, Release 7.x and tells you where they are documented.

Table 1. New and Changed Features for Cisco NX-OS Release 7.x

Feature

Description

Changed in Release

Where Documented

IGMP snooping

Added vPC support and the ability to filter IGMP joins per VLAN for Cisco Nexus 9508 switches with the N9K-X9636C-R, N9K-X9636C-RX, and N9K-X9636Q-R line cards.

7.0(3)F3(1)

Guidelines and Limitations for IGMP Snooping

Configuring IGMP Snooping Parameters per VLAN

MVR

Introduced this feature for Cisco Nexus 9508 switches with the N9K-X9636C-R, N9K-X9636C-RX, and N9K-X9636Q-R line cards.

7.0(3)F3(1)

Configuring MVR

PIM ASM and SSM

Added vPC support for Cisco Nexus 9508 switches with the N9K-X9636C-R, N9K-X9636C-RX, and N9K-X9636Q-R line cards.

7.0(3)F3(1)

Guidelines and Limitations for PIM and PIM6

IGMP snooping

Added support for Cisco Nexus 9508 switches with the N9K-X9636C-R and N9K-X9636Q-R line cards.

7.0(3)F2(1)

Guidelines and Limitations for IGMP Snooping

PIM

Added PIM ASM and SSM support for Cisco Nexus 9508 switches with the N9K-X9636C-R and N9K-X9636Q-R line cards.

7.0(3)F2(1)

Guidelines and Limitations for PIM and PIM6

Layer 3 multicast routing

Added support on FEX ports and FEX port channels for Cisco Nexus 9300-EX platform switches.

7.0(3)I7(1)

Guidelines and Limitations for Multicast

Multicast VRF-lite route leaking

Introduced this feature.

7.0(3)I7(1)

Configuring PIM and PIM6

PIM

Added support for the multicast heavy template and multicast counters for Cisco Nexus 9300-FX Series switches.

7.0(3)I7(1)

Configuring PIM and PIM6

PIM

Added Layer 3 port-channel subinterface support for PIM sparse mode for Cisco Nexus 9300-EX Series switches, Cisco Nexus 3232C and 3264Q switches, and N9K-X9732C-EX, N9K-X9736C-EX, and N9K-X97160YC-EX line cards.

7.0(3)I6(1)

Guidelines and Limitations for PIM and PIM6

PIM

Introduced multicast counters for Cisco Nexus 9300-EX Series switches.

7.0(3)I6(1)

Multicast Counters

Verifying the PIM and PIM6 Configuration

PIM

Added Layer 3 port-channel subinterface support for PIM sparse mode for Cisco Nexus 9300 Series switches.

7.0(3)I5(2)

Configuring PIM and PIM6

MLD

Introduced this feature.

7.0(3)I5(1)

Configuring MLD

PIM

Added PIM6 ASM and SSM support.

7.0(3)I5(1)

Configuring PIM and PIM6

IGMP snooping

Added the ip igmp snooping report-flood and ip igmp snooping proxy-leave use-group-address commands.

7.0(3)I4(2)

Configuring IGMP Snooping Parameters per VLAN

PIM

Added PIM SSM support over vPCs.

7.0(3)I4(1)

Configuring PIM and PIM6

Multicast heavy template

Introduced this feature.

7.0(3)I3(2)

Multicast Heavy Template

Enabling the Multicast Heavy and Extended Heavy Template

IGMP

Added a limitation for Cisco Nexus 9200 Series switches.

7.0(3)I3(1)

Configuring IGMP

IGMP

Added support for Source-Specific Multicast (SSM) translation.

7.0(3)I2(1)

Configuring IGMP

PIM

Added support for the Source-Specific Multicast (SSM) and bidirectional shared trees (Bidir) distribution modes.

7.0(3)I2(1)

Configuring PIM and PIM6

PIM

Added the resilient option to the ip multicast multipath command.

7.0(3)I1(1)

Configuring PIM and PIM6