Cisco Nexus 5600 Series - Openflow Limitations; Supported Interface Types; Unsupported Interface Types; Supported Interface Modes

OpenFlow Limitations
The Cisco Nexus 5500 and Cisco Nexus 6000 switches do not support the OpenFlow action to rewrite the
layer-2 destination MAC address. Therefore, the XNC controller use cases such as Topology Independent
Forwarding and Latency Optimized Forwarding may not be work correctly on the Cisco Nexus 5500 and
Cisco Nexus 6000 switches.
Supported Interface Types
The following is a list of supported interface types:
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Regular Layer 2 physical ports (switchport)
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Layer 2 port channels
Unsupported Interface Types
The following is a list of unsupported interface types:
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Layer 3 ports (no switchport)
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Fabric extender ports
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Virtual Port-Channel (VPC) ports
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Layer 3 Port-Channel
Supported Interface Modes
The following is a list of supported interface modes:
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Access port
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Trunk port
Supported Match Fields
The following are lists of supported match fields:
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Layer 2 header
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Ethertype
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VLAN ID
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VLAN priority (PCP)
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Source MAC address
Cisco Nexus 5600 Series NX-OS System Management Configuration Guide, Release 7.x
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Configuring OpenFlow
OpenFlow Limitations