Installation and Getting Started Guide

•BGP4 re-advertises BGP routes even when OSPF or RIP routes to the same destination have a lower cost

•Redistribution changes take place immediately

•Option to redistribute Internal BGP (IBGP) routes into RIP and OSPF

•Dynamic BGP4 route refresh

•BGP4 route reflection updated to RFC 2796

•Change to route map processing of ACL or other filtering deny statements

•Option to clear BGP4 neighbor sessions based on a specific Autonomous System (AS) number.

•You can specify a route map name when configuring BGP4 network information

•Enhancements to set metric command in route maps

•Enhancements to show ip bgp commands

•Enhancement to BGP4 Syslog message

•Network Address Translation (NAT)

•Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol Extended (VRRPE)

•ICMP Router Discovery Protocol (IRDP) is disabled by default

•Policy-Based Routing (PBR)

•Support for standard static IP routes and interface or null static routes to the same destination

•Dynamic memory for BGP4

•BGP4 peer groups

•New BGP4 show commands

•Enhanced BGP4 show commands for neighbor information

Layer 2 Enhancements

•Updated STP port Path Cost defaults

•Compatibility with Cisco Systems’ Per VLAN Spanning Tree (PVST)

System-Level Enhancements

•Enhanced software version information

•New strict mode for ACL processing of UDP traffic

•Fixed Rate Limiting

•Adaptive Rate Limiting

•Denial of Service (DoS) protection for TCP SYN and ICMP transit traffic

•Authorization and Accounting support for RADIUS and TACACS+

•TACACS+ password prompt support

•VLAN-based management access control

•RSA authentication for SSH

•SCP support for secure file transfers

•Automatic load re-distribution following a healed trunk link

•Support for up to 4095 VLANs and up to 4095 virtual interfaces (VEs)

•VLAN and virtual interface groups

•Enhanced CLI for managing redundant management modules

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