The following table describes information added to this guide for the Extreme Fabric Automation 2.5.0 software release.
| Feature | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|
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Support for suppress Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) and Neighbor Discovery (ND) |
New topic that describes how to enable or disable suppress-arp and suppress-nd. |
Suppress Address Resolution Protocol and Neighbor Discovery on VLAN or Bridge Domain |
|
Support for bfd-software-session |
New topic that describes configuration of software Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) sessions on the Cluster Edge Port (CEP) on SLX 9150 and SLX 9250 platforms. | Software BFD Session Support on CEP |
| Shared Router support | New topic that describes the provisioning model to support sharing of VRF and Router across multiple tenants. | Shared VRF and Router |
| Local ASN support | New topic that describes how to update local-asn on a VRF. | Update Local ASN on VRF |
| NTP config at the fabric level | New topic on using native CLIs to complete the NTP server configuration on the SLX device. | Configure NTP at Device and Fabric Levels |
| Support for RME | New topic on configuring Redundant Management Ethernet (RME) on the SLX interface. | Configure RME on Interface |
| Firmware download restart or Fabricwide firmware download | New topic that describes the firmware download and upgrade process on the fabric devices. | Firmware Download |
| Native CLI commands for configuring SNMP configuration on the fabric level. | Modified topic to include new commands for configuring SNMP. | EFA as SNMP Proxy |
| RD allocation independent of RT (router-target) | New topic describes EFA provisioning of RD and RT. | Route-Distinguisher (RD) allocation independent of Route-Target (RT) |
| Centralized Routing on a single rack small data center fabric | New topic describes the configuration of Centralized Routing on a single rack small data center fabric. | Centralized Routing on Single Rack Small Data Center Leaf Pair (not Border Leaf Pair) |
| Sharing Multiple VRFs with the same RT (route-target) | New topic on sharing multiple VRFs with the same RT (route-target) | Sharing Multiple VRFs with the same RT (route-target) |
| BGP Peer: Operational: GET | New topic describes the procedure to get the operational state of the BGP peers belonging to the tenant-vrf. | Getting the operational state of the BGP peers |
| RD allocation independent of RT (router-target) | New topic describes allocating RD durinig EFA provisioning. | Route-Distinguisher (RD) allocation independent of Route-Target (RT) |
| BFD timers for router-bgp BFD and static-route BFD sessions | New topic on Bidirectional Forwarding Detection timers | BFD timers for router-bgp BFD and static-route BFD sessions |
| SLX configuration backup | New topic that describes how to back up a device running config that can be included as part of the existing EFA backup. | SLX Configuration Backup |
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Interface admin-state, speed attributes DRC, DB persistence
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New topic on SLX interface and system configuration |
For more information about this release, see the Extreme Fabric Automation Release Notes, 2.5.0 .