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