Whats New in Cisco IOS XE Dublin 17.11.x

Hardware Features in Cisco IOS XE Dublin 17.11.99SW

There are no new hardware features in this release.

Software Features in Cisco IOS XE Dublin 17.11.99SW

Feature Name

Description

Tenant Routed Multicast over BGP EVPN VXLANv6

Tenant Routed Multicast over BGP EVPN VXLANv6 enables the delivery of IPv4 and IPv6 multicast host traffic in BGP EVPN overlay multi-tenant fabric in an efficient and resilient manner. The new software capability enables IPv4 and IPv6 multicast in overlay with underlay network infrastructure natively running single-stack IPv6. The Tenant Routed Multicast over BGP EVPN VXLANv6 is supported over IPv6 Default MDT group.

For more information, see Configuring Tenant Routed Multicast over BGP EVPN VXLANv6.


New on the WebUI

There are no new WebUI features in this release.

Hardware and Software Behavior Changes in Cisco IOS XE Dublin 17.11.99SW

There are no behavior changes in this release.

Software Features in Cisco IOS XE Dublin 17.11.1

Feature Name

Description

BGP EVPN VXLAN

  • Dynamic BGP Peering for EVPN

  • EVPN Microsegmentation

  • EVPN Route Map Support

  • Multi-Homing in a BGP EVPN VXLAN Fabric

The following BGP EVPN VXLAN features are introduced in this release:

  • Dynamic BGP Peering for EVPN: Introduces support for BGP dynamic neighbor sessions to the L2VPN EVPN address family.

    (Network Advantage)

  • EVPN Microsegmentation: BGP EVPN VXLAN integrates Cisco TrustSec to provide microsegmentation and end-to-end access control with the propagation of the security group tag (SGT). Using security group-based access control lists (SGACLs), you can control the operations that a user can perform, based on the security group assignments and destination resources in a VXLAN campus fabric.

  • EVPN Route Map Support: The Leaf, Spine, and Border nodes of a BGP EVPN fabric now support route map for the L2VPN address-family. With route map support, the BGP attributes and their values can be modified to customize the routing policy based on the requirement. The routing policy can be applied for both inbound and outbound EVPN routes.

  • Multi-Homing in a BGP EVPN VXLAN Fabric: BGP EVPN is enhanced to restrict the ethernet segment operations to the EVPN-controlled VLANs on the trunk port. This allows traditional Layer 2 domains to co-exist with Layer 2 VNI-enabled VLANs at access layer. It also allows selective VLAN migration to overlay VXLAN segmentation.


Default Limits for redistributed routes and LSA in OSPF

Default values have been assigned to the number of redistributed routes and LSAs in OSPF to prevent the device being flooded with routes. The default values for redistributed routes is 10240 routes. The default value for LSAs is 50,000 LSAs. You can customize the default values.


Deprecation of Weak Ciphers

The minimum RSA key pair size must be 2048 bits. The compliance shield on the device must be disabled using the crypto engine compliance shield disable command to use the weak RSA key.


Device Telemetry

Important: Cisco is constantly striving to advance our products and services. Knowing how you use our products is key to accomplishing this goal. To that end, Cisco will collect device and licensing systems information through Cisco Smart Software Manager (CSSM) for product and customer experience improvement, analytics, and adoption. Cisco processes your data in accordance with the Cisco End User License Agreement, the Cisco Privacy Statement and any other applicable agreement with Cisco. To modify your organization’s preferences for device and licensing systems information, use the pae command. See Network Management Commands → pae.


Introduces the support for device telemetry. This feature allows for the collection of non-personal usage device systems information for Cisco products, which helps in continuous product improvements. This feature is enabled by default. Use the no form of the pae command to disable this feature.

Note

 

Turning off Smart Licensing Device Systems Information does not impact other systems information collection from Cisco DNA Center or vManage.

The following commands are introduced as part of this feature:

  • pae

  • show product-analytics kpi

  • show product-analytics report

  • show product-analytics stats


GRE over IPsec

Introduces support for GRE over IPsec tunnel on Cisco Catalyst 9300X Series Switches. This feature allows a GRE encapsulated payload to be transferred securely over an IPsec tunnel.


(DNA Advantage)

LAN MACsec over MPLS

Introduces support for MACsec with MPLS. This feature allows MPLS packets to be encrypted with a MACsec tag.


NETCONF support for PTPv2

Introduces support for configuring PTPv2 with NETCONF. NETCONF provides a mechanism to install, manipulate, and delete the configuration of network devices.


Programmability

  • gNMI Dial-Out Telemetry

  • Multicast Routing Support on the AppGigabitEthernet Port

  • PROTO Encoding

  • Secure Zero-Touch Provisioning

  • YANG Data Models

The following programmability features are introduced in this release:

  • gNMI Dial-Out Telemetry: This feature introduces a tunnel service for gNMI dial-out connections. Using this feature, you can use the device (that acts as a tunnel client) to dial out to a collector (that acts as a tunnel server). The tunnel server forwards requests from gNMI or gNOI clients.

    This feature is supported only on Cisco Catalyst 9300, Catalyst 9300L, and Catalyst 9300X Series Switches.

    (Network Essentials)

  • Multicast Routing Support on the AppGigabitEthernet Port: Multicast traffic forwarding is supported on the AppGigabitEthernet interface. Applications can select the networks that allow multicast traffic.

    This feature is supported only on Cisco Catalyst 9300, Catalyst 9300L, and Catalyst 9300X Series Switches.

  • PROTO Encoding: gNMI protocol supports PROTO encoding. The gnmi.proto file represents the blueprint for generating a complete set of client and server-side procedures that instantiate the framework for the gNMI protocol.

    This feature is supported only on Cisco Catalyst 9300, Catalyst 9300L, and Catalyst 9300X Series Switches.

  • Secure Zero-Touch Provisioning: Secure ZTP is a technique to securely provision a device, while it is booting in a factory-default state. The provisioning updates the boot image, commits an initial configuration, and executes customer-specific scripts. The provisioned device can establish secure connections with other systems.

    This feature is supported only on Cisco Catalyst 9300, Catalyst 9300L, and Catalyst 9300X Series Switches.

    (Network Essentials)

  • YANG Data Models: For the list of Cisco IOS XE YANG models available with this release, navigate to: https://github.com/YangModels/yang/tree/master/vendor/cisco/xe/17111.

    (Network Advantage)

show aaa dead-criteria radius enhancement command

The show aaa dead-criteria radius enhancement command allows you to use the configured radius server name as the input to identify the unique server in the server group and print the server dead criteria configuration.


show access-session command

The info keyword was introduced for the show access-session command.


Silent Host Handling

The silent-host-detection keyword was introduced for the following commands:

  • database-mapping

  • show lisp instance-id ipv4 database

  • show lisp instance-id ipv6 database

  • show lisp instance-id ipv4 server

  • show lisp instance-id ipv6 server


TCN Flood

The no ip igmp snooping tcn flood command was introduced to disable the flooding of multicast traffic during a spanning-tree Topology Change Notification (TCN) event on STP non-edge ports. STP Edge Ports do not flood multicast traffic during a spanning-tree Topology Change Notification (TCN) event.


New on the WebUI

There are no new WebUI features in this release.

Hardware and Software Behavior Changes in Cisco IOS XE Dublin 17.11.1

Behavior Change

Description

Deprecation of snmp-server enable traps license global configuration command

The command was deprecated. The associated MIB, CISCO-LICENSE-MGMT-MIB, is also no longer supported. In place of the deprecated command and unsupported MIB, use CISCO-SMART-LIC-MIB.

New flag for the IPv6 SGACL monitor mode

A new flag has been introduced for the IPv6 SGACL monitor mode. This was introduced to address hardware limitation of a single counter shared for IPv4 and IPv6 traffic. The HW_Monitor counter gets incremented irrespective of the type of traffic, which in turn updates the monitor mode flag. With a separate flag for IPv6 and IPv4 SGACL monitor mode, only the corresponding protocol flag is updated depending on the type of traffic.

show power and show power detail command output

The show power and show power detail command outputs are modified to display the correct power information of the standby switch.