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Layer 3 enhancements
TABLE 22 Layer 3 enhancements
Enhancement Description See page
Graceful Restart With this release, you can enable Graceful Restart 
for OSPF and BGP 
Book: BigIron RX Series 
Configuration Guide
Chapter:“Configuring 
OSPF Version 2 (IPv4)” 
and “Configuring BGP4 
(IPv4 and IPv6)”
Section: “OSPF graceful 
restart” and “Graceful 
restart in BGP”
BGP Null0 Routing With this release, BGP can use null0 to resolve the 
next hop and install null0 BGP routes to the routing 
table 
Book: BigIron RX Series 
Configuration Guide
Chapter:“Configuring 
BGP4 (IPv4 and IPv6)”
Section:“BGP Null0 
routing”
GRE IP Tunneling This release supports creation of a GRE tunnel 
across an IP network.
Book: BigIron RX Series 
Configuration Guide
Chapter:“Configuring IP”
Section:“GRE IP tunnel”
OSPF point-to-point OSPF point-to-point eliminates the need for 
Designated and Backup Designated routers, 
allowing for faster convergence of the network.
Book: BigIron RX Series 
Configuration Guide
Chapter:“Configuring 
OSPF Version 2 (IPv4)”
Section: “OSPF 
point-to-point links”
Neighbor Local AS Neighbor Local Autonomous System (AS) feature 
allows a router that is a member of one AS to appear 
to be a member of another AS. 
Book: BigIron RX Series 
Configuration Guide
Chapter:“Configuring 
BGP4 (IPv4 and IPv6)”
Section:“Neighbor 
local-AS”
Full AS Path information in 
sFlow
In this release, sFlow packets now contain full AP 
Path information.
Book: BigIron RX Series 
Configuration Guide
Chapter:“Configuring 
sFlow”
Section: “Extended 
gateway information”
Policy Based Routing Policy-Based Routing (PBR) allows you to use ACLs 
and route maps to selectively modify and route IP 
packets in hardware. The ACLs classify the traffic. 
Route maps that match on the ACLs set routing 
attributes for the traffic.  
Book: BigIron RX Series 
Configuration Guide
Chapter:“Policy-Based 
Routing”