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Cisco ONS 15454 SONET/SDH ML-Series Multilayer Ethernet Card Software Feature and Configuration Guide, R4.0
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Chapter 1 Overview
ML-Series Feature List
– G-Series card compatible
– PPP over SONET/SDH (IP POS and bridging with VLANs)
• Layer 2 bridging features
– Layer 2 transparent bridging
– Layer 2 MAC learning, aging, and switching by hardware
– Spanning Tree Protocol (IEEE 802.1D) per bridge group
– Protocol tunneling
– A maximum of 255 active bridge groups
– Up to 60,000 MAC addresses per card, with a supported limit of 8,000 per bridge group
– Integrated routing and bridging (IRB)
– VLAN features
– 802.1P/Q-based VLAN trunking
– 802.1Q VLAN tunneling
– 802.1D Spanning Tree and 802.1W Rapid Spanning Tree
• Layer 3 routing, switching, and forwarding
– Default routes
– IP unicast and multicast forwarding support
– 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
– 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
• Supported routing protocols
– Virtual Private Network (VPN) Routing and Forwarding Lite (VRF Lite)
– Intermediate System-to-Intermediate System (IS-IS) Protocol
– Routing Information Protocol (RIP and RIP II)
– Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP)
– Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) Protocol
– Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM)—Sparse, sparse-dense and dense modes
– Secondary addressing
– Static routes
– Local proxy ARP
– Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
– Classless interdomain routing (CIDR)
• Fast EtherChannel (FEC) features (ML100T-12)