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• Baby giants (up to 1600 bytes)

• Unidirectional Ethernet

– SSO in subsecond failover time

Layer 3 Features

• Hardware-based IP Cisco Express Forwarding routing at 48 Mpps

• IP routing protocols: IGRP, EIGRP, OSPF, Routing Information Protocol (RIP), and RIP2)

• BGP4 and Multicast Border Gateway Protocol (MBGP)

• Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP)

• NSF Aware

• Software routing of Internetwork Packet Exchange (IPX) and AppleTalk

• IS-IS routing protocol

• IGMP v1, v2, and v3

• IGMP filtering on access and trunk ports

• IP Multicast routing protocols (PIM, SSM, and Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol [DVMRP])

• PGM

• Cisco Group Multicast Protocol (GMP) server

• Full Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) support

• ICMP Router Discovery Protocol

• Policy-based routing (PBR)

• Virtual Route Forwarding-lite (VRF-lite)

• IPv6 software switched

Sophisticated QoS and Traffic Management

• Per-port QoS configuration

• Support for four queues per port in hardware

• Strict priority queuing

• IP differentiated services code point (DSCP) and IP Precedence

• Classification and marking based on IP type of service (ToS) or DSCP

• Classification and marking based on full Layer 3 and Layer 4 headers

• Input and output policing based on Layer 3 and Layer 4 headers

• Support for 1024 policers on ingress and 1024 policers on egress configured as aggregate or individual

• Shaping and sharing output queue management

• DBL: Congestion-avoidance feature

• No performance penalty for granular QoS functions