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 9.2(x).

New and Changed Information

The following table summarizes the new and changed features for the Cisco Nexus 9000 Series NX-OS Unicast Routing Configuration Guide, Release 9.2(x) and tells you where they are documented.

Table 1. New and Changed Features for Release 9.2(x)

Feature

Description

Changed in Release

Where Documented

Changed the document title from 9.x to 9.2(x)

Title page

Balancing Policy-based Routing Traffic Added support for balancing policy-based routing traffic on N9K-C9372TX, N9K-X9564TX and N9K-X9732C-EX switches.

9.2(3)

Route-Map Processing Logic

Enabling the Policy-Based Routing over ECMP

BGP

Added RFC 5549 support for Cisco Nexus 9500 platform switches with -R line cards.

9.2(2)

RFC 5549

BGP best-path algorithm

Added the option to ignore the Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP) metric for next hop during best-path selection.

9.2(2)

Tuning BGP

BGP path selection in route maps for advertising BGP additional paths to peers

Added the ability to specify backup paths, the second best path, or multipaths as advertised paths.

9.2(2)

Configuring Advertised Paths

BGP PIC edge

Introduced this feature for Cisco Nexus 9200, 9300-EX, 9300-FX, 9300-FX2, and 9300-FXP platform switches and Cisco Nexus 9500 platform switches with -EX, -FX, and -R line cards.

9.2(2)

Configuring Basic BGP

Policy-based routing

Added the ability to drop packets when the configured next hop becomes unreachable, when setting the IPv4 or IPv6 next-hop address, for Cisco Nexus 9200, 9300-EX, 9300-FX, 9300-FX2, and 9364C platform switches and Cisco Nexus 9500 platform switches with -EX and -FX line cards.

9.2(2)

Configuring a Route Policy

VRRPv3

Added support for object tracking

9.2(2)

VRRPv3 Object Tracking section

Multi-hop BFD

Introduced support for this feature.

9.2(1)

Configuring Advanced BGP

Weighted ECMP

Added support for Cisco Nexus 9332PQ, 9396PX, and 9396TX switches.

9.2(1)

Configuring Advanced BGP