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Contents

1 Introduction ...............................................................................................................7

Supported Platforms..............................................................................................................................7

How the Active Fabric Works................................................................................................................ 7

Advantages of Active Fabric Deployment............................................................................................ 8

Active Fabric Element Definitions and Requirements..........................................................................8

AFC and SDN....................................................................................................................................... 10

2 Active Fabric Features............................................................................................13

Active Fabric Resiliency....................................................................................................................... 13

Link Resiliency................................................................................................................................13

Switch Resiliency .......................................................................................................................... 13

Packet Forwarding...............................................................................................................................13

Policies.................................................................................................................................................14

Important Points to Remember.................................................................................................... 14

Policy Configuration and Types....................................................................................................14

Policy Association..........................................................................................................................15

Network Policies............................................................................................................................15

Endpoint Policies........................................................................................................................... 15

Middlebox Policy........................................................................................................................... 16

Filter Policy.....................................................................................................................................16

Statistics............................................................................................................................................... 16

User Authentication ............................................................................................................................17

Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS)................................................................ 18

Terminal Access Controller Access Control System (TACACS)...................................................18

3 Supported Technologies and Protocols........................................................... 19

Bare Metal Provisioning (BMP)............................................................................................................19

Destination Lookup Failure (DLF)........................................................................................................19

DLF Port Roles...............................................................................................................................20

DLF Topology................................................................................................................................20

High Availability (HA)............................................................................................................................21

HA and SDN...................................................................................................................................22

Deployment Model........................................................................................................................22

Design ........................................................................................................................................... 23

Role Determination....................................................................................................................... 23

Checkpoints...................................................................................................................................24

Reconciliation Process..................................................................................................................24

Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) and NIC Teaming.......................................................... 25