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 10.3(x).

Table 1. New and Changed Features

Feature

Description

Changed in Release

Where Documented

Policy Based Routing: Next hop over tunnel

Added PBR support for redirecting to next-hop over tunnel on Cisco Nexus 9000 Series platform switches.

10.3(3)F

Guidelines and Limitations for Policy-Based Routing

PBR Default NH -Sequential Preference

Added support for redirecting the packets that match the default route to specified Next-Hop in the policy.

10.3(3)F

Redirecting Default Route Match to Next-Hop

BGP Autonomous node IP assignment for container networking

The IPv6 Compute Node IP Auto-Configuration support is provided to assign and distribute the node IP addresses to multi-homed compute nodes and establish reachability to K8s cluster using the assigned node IP.

10.3(3)F

IPv6 Compute Node IP Auto-Configuration

Guidelines and Limitations for IPv6

Verifying the IPv6 Configuration

Configuring Route Redistribution

ECMP Hash key not set for ECMP routes

Added hardware keyword to enable underlay and overlay load balancing between two different ECMP VXLAN routes.

10.3(3)F

Configuring Load Sharing in the Unicast FIB

Expanded support for Type-6 password encryption - BGP​

Added Type-6 encryption support for BGP user password.

10.3(3)F

Guidelines and Limitations for Advanced BGP

Configuring BGP Authentication

Expanded support for Type-6 password encryption - OSPF​

Added Type-6 keychain encryption support for OSPFv2 user password.

10.3(3)F

Guidelines and Limitations for OSPFv2

PBR- Default IPv4/IPv6 nexthop VRF Selection Support

Added support for default IPv4/IPv6 nexthop VRF selection for PBR on Cisco Nexus 9000 Series platform switches.

10.3(2)F

Set Criteria for Policy-Based Routing

Route Map Support Matrix for Policy-Based Routing

Guidelines and Limitations for Policy-Based Routing

Configuring a Route Policy

Configuration Examples for Policy-Based Routing

UCMP Load Balancing

This feature provides support for balancing the traffic load and for administering control over the routing behavior.

10.3(1)F

Unequal Cost Multipath (UCMP) over BGP

Enabling UCMP over BGP

Guidelines and Limitations for UCMP over BGP

BGP Interface-Range Peering

This feature allows BGP to provision a group of interfaces by specifying the interface range.

10.3(1)F

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

BGP Interface Peering with Multiple Instances

This feature allows BGP to enable the maximum-peers command under the neighbor interface mode to control the number of sessions that are brought up from an interface.

10.3(1)F

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

Multi VRF support

Multi VRF is supported on the Cisco Nexus 9808 platform switches.

10.3(1)F Guidelines and Limitations for VRFs

ECMP, 64-way

ECMP, 64-way is supported on the Cisco Nexus 9808 platform switches.

10.3(1)F

Supported Platforms

Route leak between VRFs

Route leak between VRFs is supported on the Cisco Nexus 9808 platform switches.

10.3(1)F

Guidelines and Limitations for VRF Route Leaking

OSPF

OSPF is supported on the Cisco Nexus 9808 platform switches.

10.3(1)F

Guidelines and Limitations for OSPFv2

Guidelines and Limitations for OSPFv3

EIGRP

EIGRP is supported on the Cisco Nexus 9808 platform switches.

10.3(1)F

Guidelines and Limitations for EIGRP

BGP

BGP is supported on the Cisco Nexus 9808 platform switches.

10.3(1)F

Guidelines and Limitations for Basic BGP

Guidelines and Limitations for Advanced BGP

IPv4 and IPv6 Static Routing

Static routing is supported on the Cisco Nexus 9808 platform switches.

10.3(1)F

Guidelines and Limitations for IPv4

Guidelines and Limitations for IPv6

IPv4 and IPv6 Dynamic Routing

Dynamic routing is supported on the Cisco Nexus 9808 platform switches.

10.3(1)F

Guidelines and Limitations for IPv4

Guidelines and Limitations for IPv6

VXLAN EVPN is supported only as transit

VXLAN EVPN is supported only as transit on Cisco Nexus 9808 platform switches.

10.3(1)F

Guidelines and Limitations for Advanced BGP

Unicast consistency checker

Added support for Unicast consistency checker on Cisco Nexus 9808 platform switches.

10.3(1)F

Guidelines and Limitations for the Unicast RIB

BGP Large Community

This feature adds support to define large communities that are 12 bytes in size and provides the flexibility in classification of BGP routes.

10.3(1)F

Configuring NX-OS BGP Large Communities