Layer 3

IP Layer

  • ICMP
  • IPv4
  • IPv6
  • IPSEC
  • Link Local Addressing

MultiCast

  • Multicast FiB
  • IGMP

Virtual Routing and forwarding (VRF)

  • VRF scaling, thousands of tables.
  • Controlled cross-VRF lookups

Multi-path

  • Equal Cost Multi Path (ECMP)
  • Unequal Cost Multi Path (UCMP)

IPv4

  • ARP
  • ARP Proxy
  • ARP Snooping

IPv6

  • Neighbour discovery (ND)
  • ND Proxy
  • Router Advertisement
  • Segment Routing
  • Distributed Virtual Routing Resolution

Forwarding Information Base (FIB)

  • Hierarchical FIB
  • Memory efficient
  • Multi-million entry scalable
  • Lockless/concurrent updates
  • Recursive lookups
  • Next hop failure detection
  • Shared FIB adjacencies
  • Multicast support
  • MPLS support