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gRPC Network Operations Interface (gNOI) Support

Posted on April 9, 2021 by Shyam Kota | 124 Views

Description gNOI (gRPC Network Operations Interface) defines a set of gRPC-based microservices for executing operational commands on network devices. Supported operational areas: gNOI Certificate Management (starting with 4.20.6F) – executes commands on the target relating to certificate management. /gnoi.certificate,CertificateManagement/CanGenerateCSR – used to check if a certificate signing request is supported, /gnoi.certificate,CertificateManagement/GetCertificates – used to get a list of certificates available. /gnoi.certificate.,CertificateManagement/Rotate – used to replace an existing certificate on the switch. Note: only internally generated CSRs are supported. gNOI System – a collection of operational RPCs. /gnoi.system.System/Ping (starting with 4.22.1F) – executes the ping command on the switch and streams...
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LDP Pseudowire

Posted on December 22, 2020 by Pedro Coutinho | 565 Views

Description The LDP pseudowire feature provides support for emulating Ethernet connections over a Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) network using the extension of the MPLS Label Distribution Protocol (LDP) specified in RFC4447. The patch panel configuration mode allows “patching” a local interface “connector” to an LDP pseudowire “connector” terminating on the local switch. The LDP pseudowire itself is defined under the pseudowires configuration mode, under the mpls ldp configuration mode. This feature also supports locally patching traffic between two interfaces or subinterfaces and is again configured under the patch panel configuration mode. Both these features support tagged (type 4) and raw...
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VxLAN VTEP counters on 7020R, 7280R, 7280R2, 7280R3, 7500R, 7500R2, and 7500R3 series

Posted on December 18, 2020 by Bin Wang | 143 Views

Description The VxLAN VTEP counters feature allows the device to count VxLAN packets received and sent by the device on a per VTEP basis. Specifically, it enables the device to count bytes and packets that are encapsulated and decapsulated as they are passing through. The counters are logically split up in the two VxLAN directions: “encap” counters count packets coming from the edge, encapsulated on the device and directed to the core “decap” counters count packets coming from the core, decapsulated on the device and heading towards the edge. To be able to count VxLAN packets the device has to...
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Qos Policy Map Counter

Posted on November 23, 2020 by Shyam Kota | 337 Views

This feature is an extension of Qos Policy. It allows the user to configure Qos Policy Map counters. If a class-map is configured for a policer action then the conformed and non-conformed packet and byte counters are displayed for that class-map. Otherwise the number of packets and bytes hitting the class-map are shown. Platform compatibility DCS-7280E DCS-7020R DCS-7280R DCS-7280R2 DCS-7500R2 DCS-7280R3, DCS-7500R3, DCS-7800R3 (EOS 4.24.2F) Configuration Following command allocates the Counter Engines for Qos which actually count and store the counter value. switch(config)#[no|default] hardware counter feature qos in 7280E Currently, there is not enough space in TCAM action bank for...
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Port security protect mode enhancements

Posted on September 15, 2020 by Coy Humphrey | 326 Views

Description This TOI describes a set of enhancements made to the existing Port Security: Protect Mode (PortSec-Protect) feature. Please see the existing TOI for this feature here: https://eos.arista.com/eos-4-24-0f/port-security-protect-mode/ Unless otherwise noted, all information contained in the original Protect Mode TOI continues to apply. The persistent port security feature also continues to be supported, and is described by the following TOI: https://eos.arista.com/eos-4-18-1f/port-security-preserve-macs-on-link-flapreload/ The primary enhancement is extending the limits placed by PortSec-Protect to apply to MAC addresses learned in the hardware MAC table. Previously, the port security limit would affect only the forwarding behavior, while allowing an unlimited number of MAC...
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Overlay Source MAC Rewrite

Posted on September 1, 2020 by Panduranga Bhat | 106 Views

Description This feature rewrites the overlay source MAC address of the packet which egresses the switch after the VXLAN encapsulation. It provides a CLI configuration to specify source IP address and VRF of the incoming packet as the match criteria for this rewrite. In other words, the feature rewrites the inner source mac address of the packet using inner source IP address and ingress VRF as the match criteria. This feature assumes that if the ARP for a certain IP address is resolved on a certain L3 interface, all packets with that IP address as the source address will...
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“show interfaces interactions” CLI command

Posted on August 27, 2020 by Michael Chin | 187 Views

Description The ‘show interfaces interactions’ command aims to provide users a resource that explains various relationships between ethernet interfaces. It describes interactions in which a configuration on an interface causes another set of interfaces to become inactive or have reduced capabilities. Examples include a primary interface consuming subordinate interfaces to service a four-lane speed or platform restrictions that require four interfaces of a port to operate at the same speed. Platform compatibility With the EOS-4.21.3F release, the command is supported on the following products: 7280QR-C72 7280QRA-C36S With the EOS-4.23.1F release, the command is supported on the following products: 7060DX4-32 7060PX4-32...
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Multi-Command

Posted on August 26, 2020 by Hua Zhong | 253 Views

Support for running multiple CLI commands in one line separated by semicolons. Description Multiple CLI commands can be run sequentially through the “run” command, separated by semicolons. For example: switch#run show version ; show boot #show version Arista DCS-7050CX3M-32S-F Hardware version: 01.03 Serial number: JAS19100008 Hardware MAC address: 985d.8284.7c33 System MAC address: 985d.8284.7c33 ... #show boot Software image: flash:/EOS.swi Console speed: (not set) Aboot password (encrypted): (not set) Memory test iterations: (not set) The commands start at the EXEC mode. For example, configuration commands can be supported by running the “configure” command: switch#run configure ; interface Po1 ; shutdown #configure...
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OSPF unnumbered interface hello subnet mask

Posted on August 25, 2020 by Chris Roche | 114 Views

Description Section 9.5 of RFC2328 “OSPF Version 2” states that the mask in Hello packets should be set to 0.0.0.0 when transmitting on unnumbered point-to-point interfaces. The EOS OSPF implementation currently sets the mask in Hello packets to 255.255.255.255 when transmitting them on unnumbered p2p interfaces. Some vendors set the mask to 0.0.0.0 while others set the mask to 255.255.255.255 when transmitting OSPF hello packets on unnumbered point-to-point interfaces. Some vendors’ OSPF implementations require that the mask is set to 0.0.0.0 in hello packets received on unnumbered point-to-point interfaces and will drop the packets if the mask is set to...
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Monitor session enhancements

Posted on August 25, 2020 by Haotian Zhang | 524 Views

Description This article describes some enhanced mirroring configurations in addition to the ones described in https://eos.arista.com/advanced-mirroring-features/. Monitor Session on Mirroring Destination Overview An interface can be both RX (ingress) source and destination of different monitor sessions at the same time. Platform compatibility DCS-7020 DCS-7280SE DCS-7500E DCS-7280R DCS-7280R2 DCS-7500R DCS-7500R2 Configuration The following commands configure Ethernet interface 2 to be the RX source of monitor session s2 and the destination of monitor session s1. switch(config)#monitor session s1 source Et1 switch(config)#monitor session s1 destination Et2 switch(config)#monitor session s2 source Et2 rx switch(config)#monitor session s2 destination Et3 Show Commands The above configurations can...
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Redistribution of DHCPv6 routes into OSPFv3

Posted on August 25, 2020 by Sulyab | 57 Views

Description This document describes the feature that allows redistribution of DHCPv6 routes into OSPFv3. Platform compatibility This feature is supported on all platforms in multi-agent routing mode. Configuration EOS supports two configuration styles for OSPFv3. The command ‘redistribute dhcp’ can be used to redistribute DHCPv6 routes into OSPFv3. This command is available in ‘ipv6 router ospf ...’ configuration mode and the ‘address-family ipv6’ sub-mode of the ‘router ospfv3’ configuration mode. Both configuration styles are captured below. ‘router ospfv3’ configuration style The ‘redistribute dhcp’ command is available under the ‘address-family ipv6’ sub-mode of the ‘router ospfv3’ configuration mode: (config-router-ospfv3)#address-family ipv6 (config-router-ospfv3-af)#redistribute...
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NETCONF: Candidate Configuration Feature

Posted on August 25, 2020 by Kiran Kumar Immidi | 221 Views

Description The candidate configuration feature implements support for a candidate data store as specified in RFC6241. The candidate is a separate datastore from the running datastore and allows configuration to be manipulated and modified without affecting the running configuration. A commit RPC is used to set the running configuration to the contents of the candidate datastore. Candidate datastore support in NETCONF is advertised as a capability urn:ietf:params:netconf:capability:candidate:1.0 during session establishment. The candidate capability allows the new commit and discard-changes operations. The get, get-config, edit-config operations can specify the candidate as the source or the target datastore. Platform Compatibility All Configuration...
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Route Cache support for 7170

Posted on August 24, 2020 by Navdeep Bhatia Bhatia | 67 Views

Description Route Cache is a feature where users can configure Static EVPN VXLAN routes beyond the hardware capacity. The prefixes that cannot fit in hardware use the optional Software Forwarding Engine (SFE) as the secondary forwarding plane such that routes missed in hardware can get forwarded in software. This feature is useful for cases where we need to scale up the number of static EVPN VXLAN routes but not all of those are active all the time. Platform Compatibility DCS-7170 Configuration The feature can be enabled by configuring 7170 to use “baremetal” profile using the following CLI: config#platform barefoot profile...
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Wake-on-LAN for Phone Trunk Ports

Posted on August 24, 2020 by Yagna Siriki | 85 Views

Description Some devices connected to Dot1x port in trunk phone mode won’t start authentication until it is awakened with a magic packet. A magic packet is a broadcast frame containing anywhere within its payload 6 bytes of all 255 (FF FF FF FF FF FF in hexadecimal), followed by sixteen repetitions of the target computer’s 48-bit MAC address, for a total of 102 bytes. When a system in place sends these magic packets from a remote subnet, the command “ip directed-broadcast” must be enabled on any SVIs of VLANs where sleeping systems reside. The remote system sends the magic packets...
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EVPN VXLAN Support for Wireless APs

Posted on August 24, 2020 by Mitchell Jameson | 202 Views

Description Typical Wi-Fi networks utilize a single, central Wireless LAN Controller (WLC) to act as a gateway between the wireless APs and the wired network. Arista differentiates itself by allowing the wireless network to utilize a distributed set of aggregation switches to connect APs to the wired network. This feature allows a decentralized and distributed set of aggregation switches to bridge wireless traffic on behalf of the set of APs configured to VXLAN tunnel all traffic to those aggregation switches, or their “local” APs. This is an extension of the VXLAN VTEP to VTEP bridging feature (https://eos.arista.com/eos-4-22-1f/vxlan-vtep-to-vtep-bridging/) which supports only...
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EVPN Control Plane Support for MSS

Posted on August 24, 2020 by Arup Raton Roy Roy | 463 Views

Description This feature enables support for Macro Segmentation Service (MSS) to insert security devices into the traffic path for VXLAN networks using an EVPN control plane. With this feature enabled, CVX will continue to monitor the network via NetDB state and will initiate intercept and offload rules. With this feature enabled, MAC and IP reachability information will be learned and distributed in user configured L2 domains via EVPN. There are two options for pairing MSS and EVPN: Option 1: MSS + EVPN asymmetric IRB Option 2: MSS + EVPN symmetric IRB with VXLAN bridging to firewall (see https://eos.arista.com/eos-4-20-1f/evpn-irb-with-vxlan-underlay/ for...
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EVPN MPLS Virtual Private Wire Service (VPWS)

Posted on August 24, 2020 by Wade Carpenter | 1090 Views

Description EVPN MPLS VPWS (RFC 8214) provides the ability to forward customer traffic to / from a given attachment circuit (AC) without any MAC lookup / learning. The basic advantage of VPWS over an L2 EVPN is the reduced control plane signalling due to not exchanging MAC address information. In contrast to LDP pseudowires, EVPN MPLS VPWS uses BGP for signalling. Port based and VLAN based services are supported. VLAN Based Service Port Based Service Platform compatibility DCS-7280R DCS-7280R2 DCS-7500R DCS-7500R2 DCS-7800R3 DCS-7500R3 DCS-7280R3 Configuration VPWS configuration is made up of two main components on each participating router. The first...
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7368X4 Interface Configuration and Behavior

Posted on August 24, 2020 by Kewei Shi | 563 Views

Description This document describes the configuration and behavior of physical interfaces on the 7368-series switches and Linecards (LC) including: Speed Logical ports Forward Error Correction (FEC) Precoding Transceiver Online Insertion and Removal (OIR) Hardware Description The 7368-series switch has 1 Switchcard slot and 8 usable Linecard slots. All 8 Linecard slots support Linecard Online Insertion and Removal. Linecards There are 8 slots on 7368-series switch and each slot is compatible with any of the following Linecards: 7368-16C 7368-4D/7368-4P 7368-16C Each 7368-16C Linecard has 8 pairs of (QSFP28, QSFP56) ports where each pair contains one QSFP28 100G port and one QSFP56...
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GUE Decap

Posted on August 21, 2020 by Kaushik Kumar Ram | 215 Views

Description Generic UDP Encapsulation (GUE) is a general method for encapsulating packets of arbitrary IP protocols within a UDP tunnel. GUE provides an extensible header format with optional data. In this release, decap capability of GUE packets of variant 1 header format has been added. This variant allows direct encapsulation of IPv4/IPV6 in UDP without the GUE header. The inner payload could be one of IPv4, IPv6, or MPLS. But only IPv4 transport is supported. The switch identifies a GUE packet based on the outer UDP destination port. Then it terminates the tunnel based on the outer destination IP and...
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Support for dynamic load balancing on ECMP groups

Posted on August 21, 2020 by Deepanshu Shukla | 404 Views

Description This feature adds support for “Dynamic Load Balancing (DLB)” on Equal Cost Multi Path (ECMP) groups. It is intended to help overcome the potential shortcomings of traditional hash-based load balancing by considering the traffic load of members of ECMP groups. It can also identify instances where the traffic flow can be moved to some other ECMP group member based on the traffic load of the currently selected member. Platform compatibility DCS-7260CX3-64 DCS-7260CX3-64E DCS-7060DX4-32 DCS-7060PX4-32 7368 Configuration This feature can be configured using following CLI command: switch(conf)#ip hardware fib load-balance distribution dynamic To disable this feature and move back to...
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