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Ethernet Card Software Feature and Configuration Guide, R7.2
January 2009
Chapter 1 ML-Series Card Overview
ML-Series Feature List
Cisco Proprietary RPR:
Ethernet frame check sequence (FCS) preservation for customers
Cyclic redundancy check (CRC) error alarm generation
FCS detection and threshold configuration
Shortest path determination
Keep alives
Fast EtherChannel (FEC) features (ML100T-12):
Bundling of up to four Fast Ethernet ports
Load sharing based on source and destination IP addresses of unicast packets
Load sharing for bridge traffic based on MAC addresses
IRB
IEEE 802.1Q trunking
Up to 6 active FEC port channels
Gigabit EtherChannel (GEC) features (ML1000-2):
Bundling the two Gigabit Ethernet ports
Load sharing for bridge traffic based on MAC addresses
IRB
IEEE 802.1Q trunking
Auto-negotiation with Remote Fault Indication (RFI)
POS channel:
Bundling the two POS ports
LEX encapsulation only
IRB
IEEE 802.1Q trunking
Layer 3 routing, switching, and forwarding:
Default routes
IP unicast and multicast forwarding
Simple IP access control lists (ACLs) (both Layer 2 and Layer 3 forwarding path)
Extended IP ACLs in software (control-plane only)
IP and IP multicast routing and switching between Ethernet ports
Reverse Path Forwarding (RPF) multicast (not RPF unicast)
Load balancing among equal cost paths based on source and destination IP addresses
Up to 18,000 IP routes
Up to 20,000 IP host entries
Up to 40 IP multicast groups
IRB routing mode support
Supported routing protocols:
Virtual Private Network (VPN) Routing and Forwarding Lite (VRF Lite)