New and Changed Information

This chapter provides release-specific information for each new and changed feature in the Cisco Nexus 9000 Series NX-OS Label Switching 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 Label Switching 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

Local label allocation

Added support for IPv4 and IPv6 labeled and unlabeled unicast route on a single BGP session. This behavior is the same irrespective of whether one or both SAFI-1 and SAFI-4 are enabled on the same session or not.

7.0(3)I7(6)

About Labeled and Unlabeled Unicast Paths

Advertisement and Withdraw Rules

Enabling Local Label Allocation

TCAM Capacity

Introduces the show hardware internal forwarding table utilization command.

7.0(3)I7(5)

Verifying MPLS QoS

Static MPLS

Adds support for the Cisco Nexus 9300-FX platform switches and the N9K-X9700-FX line cards.

7.0(3)I7(5)

Configuring Static MPLS

Segment Routing

Introduced MPLS Time-to-Live (TTL).

7.0(3)I7(5)

MPLS Time-to-Live (TTL)

MPLS QoS

Introduced this feature on the Cisco Nexus 9300-EX, 9300-FX platform switches, N9K-X9700-FX, and N9K-X9700-EX line cards.

7.0(3)I7(5)

About MPLS Quality of Service (QoS)

MPLS Queuing

Introduced this feature.

7.0(3)I7(5)

About Traffic Queuing

Segment Routing Application (SR-APP) module

Added support for Segment Routing Application (SR-APP) module for BGP and IS-IS protocols.

7.0(3)I7(3)

Guidelines and Limitations for Segment Routing

Segment Routing with IS-IS Protocol

Added support for configuring Segment Routing with IS-IS protocol.

7.0(3)I7(3)

Guidelines and Limitations for Segment Routing

Segment Routing

Added support for configuring Segment Routing on Cisco Nexus N9K-X9736C-FX line cards.

7.0(3)I7(3)

Guidelines and Limitations for Segment Routing

InterAS Option B

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

7.0(3)F3(3)

InterAS Option B

MPLS and VXLAN

Added support for multiple hardware profile to configure MPLS and VXLAN on Cisco Nexus 9508 platform switches with the N9K-X9636C-R, N9K-X9636C-RX, and N9K-X9636Q-R line cards.

7.0(3)F3(3)

Configuring MPLS using Hardware Profile Command

VPNv4 Multipath

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

7.0(3)F3(3)

Configuring MPLS Layer 3 VPNs

MPLS L3 VPN

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

7.0(3)F3(3)

Configuring MPLS Layer 3 VPNs

Support for Cisco Nexus 9300-FX platform switches

Added support for segment routing, Layer 3 EVPN, SR OAM, MPLS Label Stack Imposition, Egress Peer Engineering, Static MPLS, and MPLS Stripping on Cisco Nexus 9300-FX platform switches

7.0(3)I7(1)

Guidelines and Limitations for Segment Routing

Configuring MPLS Segment Routing OAM

Added support for configuring MPLS Segment Routing OAM.

7.0(3)I6(1)

Overview of MPLS Segment Routing OAM

Configuring EVPN over Segment Routing MPLS

Added support for configuring EVPN over Segment Routing MPLS.

7.0(3)I6(1)

Configuring Layer 3 EVPN over Segment Routing MPLS

Configuring BGP EVPN and Label Allocation Mode

Added support for configuring BGP EVPN and Label Allocation Mode.

7.0(3)I6(1)

Configuring BGP EVPN and Label Allocation Mode

MPLS label stack imposition

Added support for MPLS label stack imposition.

7.0(3)I5(2)

Configuring MPLS Label Imposition

Configuring Egress Peer Engineering

Added support for configuring Egress Peer Engineering.

7.0(3)I5(1)

Overview of BGP Egress Peer Engineering With Segment Routing

Configuring Neighbor Egress Peer Engineering Using BGP

Configuring the BGP Link State Address Family

Added support for configuring the BGP Link State Address Family.

7.0(3)I5(1)

Configuring the BGP Link State Address Family

Support for segment routing, static MPLS, and MPLS stripping on Cisco Nexus 9300-EX Series switches

Added support for segment routing, static MPLS, and MPLS stripping on Cisco Nexus 9300-EX Series switches

7.0(3)I5(1)

Guidelines and Limitations for Static MPLS

Segment Routing

Added support for configuring Segment Routing.

7.0(3)I3(1)

Configuring Segment Routing

Static MPLS

Replaced the mpls ip static command with the mpls ip forwarding command to enable MPLS on an interface.

7.0(3)I3(1)

Configuring Static MPLS

Static MPLS

Introduced this feature.

7.0(3)I2(1)

Configuring Static MPLS