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Layer 2 switch ports and VLAN trunks
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IEEE 802.1Q VLAN encapsulation
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Support for up to 4000 VLANs
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Support for up to 4000 access control list (ACL) entries
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Rapid Per-VLAN Spanning Tree Plus (PVRST+) (IEEE 802.1w compatible)
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Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP) (IEEE 802.1s): 64 instances
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Spanning Tree PortFast
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Spanning Tree root guard
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Spanning Tree Bridge Assurance
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Cisco EtherChannel technology (up to 16 ports per EtherChannel)
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Cisco vPC technology
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vPC configuration synchronization
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vPC shutdown
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Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP): IEEE 802.3ad
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Advanced port-channel hashing based on Layer 2, 3, and 4 information
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Jumbo frames on all ports (up to 9216 bytes)
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Pause frames (IEEE 802.3x)
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Storm control (unicast, multicast, and broadcast)
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Private VLANs
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Private VLAN over trunks (isolated and promiscuous)
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Private VLANs over vPC and EtherChannels
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VLAN remapping
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FabricPath
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EvPC and vPC+ with FabricPath
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Adapter FEX
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Data Center VM-FEX
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Support for up to 24 fabric extenders (Layer 2) with each Cisco Nexus 5672UP, 5672UP-16G, and 56128P Switch
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RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) using Data Center Bridging (DCB) support (DCB Exchange [DCBX] no drop and priority flow control [PFC])
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Layer 3 interfaces: Routed ports, switch virtual interface (SVI), port channels, subinterfaces, and port-channel subinterfaces
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Support for up to 32,000 IPv4 and 8000 IPv6 host prefixes
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Support for up to 8000 multicast routes (IPv4)
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Support for up to 8000 IGMP snooping groups
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Support for 4000 Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF) entries
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Support for up to 4096 VLANs
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Equal-Cost Multipathing (ECMP) up to 64 ways
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4000 flexible ACL entries
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Routing protocols: Static, Routing Information Protocol Version 2 (RIPv2), Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP), Open Shortest Path First Version 2 (OSPFv2), Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), and Intermediate System-to-Intermediate System (IS-IS)
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IPv6 routing protocols: Static, OPFv3, BGPv6, and EIGRPv6
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IPv6 VRF-lite
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BFD support: OSPFv2, BGPv4, EIGRP, and VRF instances
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Policy-Based Routing (IPv4 and IPv6)
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Hot-Standby Router Protocol (HSRP) and Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)
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IP direct broadcast
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vPC+ routing protocol peering
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ACL: Routed ACL with Layer 3 and 4 options to match ingress and egress ACL Multicast: Protocol Independent Multicast Version 2 (PIMv2) sparse mode, Source-Specific Multicast (SSM), Bidir-PIM, Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP), IGMPv2 and v3, and Multicast VLAN Registration (MVR)
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VRF: VRF-lite (IP VPN); VRF-aware unicast; and BGP-, OSPF-, RIP-, and VRF-aware multicast
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Unicast Reverse-Path Forwarding (uRFP) with ACL; strict and loose modes
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Jumbo frame support (up to 9216 bytes)
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Support for up to 24 fabric extenders on each Cisco Nexus 5600 10-Gbps platform switch