Installation and Getting Started Guide
• BGP4 re-advertises BGP routes even when OSPF or RIP routes to the same destination have a lower cost
• Redistribution changes take place immediately
• Option to redistribute Internal BGP (IBGP) routes into RIP and OSPF
• Dynamic BGP4 route refresh
• BGP4 route reflection updated to RFC 2796
• Change to route map processing of ACL or other filtering deny statements
• Option to clear BGP4 neighbor sessions based on a specific Autonomous System (AS) number.
• You can specify a route map name when configuring BGP4 network information
• Enhancements to set metric command in route maps
• Enhancements to show ip bgp commands
• Enhancement to BGP4 Syslog message
• Network Address Translation (NAT)
• Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol Extended (VRRPE)
• ICMP Router Discovery Protocol (IRDP) is disabled by default
• Policy-Based Routing (PBR)
• Support for standard static IP routes and interface or null static routes to the same destination
• Dynamic memory for BGP4
• BGP4 peer groups
• New BGP4 show commands
• Enhanced BGP4 show commands for neighbor information
Layer 2 Enhancements
• Updated STP port Path Cost defaults
• Compatibility with Cisco Systems’ Per VLAN Spanning Tree (PVST)
System-Level Enhancements
• Enhanced software version information
• New strict mode for ACL processing of UDP traffic
• Fixed Rate Limiting
• Adaptive Rate Limiting
• Denial of Service (DoS) protection for TCP SYN and ICMP transit traffic
• Authorization and Accounting support for RADIUS and TACACS+
• TACACS+ password prompt support
• VLAN-based management access control
• RSA authentication for SSH
• SCP support for secure file transfers
• Automatic load re-distribution following a healed trunk link
• Support for up to 4095 VLANs and up to 4095 virtual interfaces (VEs)
• VLAN and virtual interface groups
• Enhanced CLI for managing redundant management modules
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