CCNP Data Center Question of the Week: Layer 3 Card

Which statement about the Layer 3 card on the Cisco Nexus 5500 Series Switch is true?

A. BGP is not supported, but RIP, EIGRP, and OSPF are supported.
B. Up to two 4-port cards are supported with Layer 3 forwarding capability.
C. Up to 16 FEX connections are supported.
D. Port channels cannot be configured as Layer 3 interfaces.

Reveal Answer

Answer: C.

Per the Cisco data sheet for the Nexus 5500:

Layer 3 interfaces: Routed ports on Cisco Nexus 5500 platform interfaces, switch virtual interface (SVI), PortChannels, subinterfaces and PortChannel subinterfaces for a total of 4096 entries.

• Support for up to 8000 prefixes and up to 16000 IPv4 and 8000 IPv6 host entries
• Support for up to 8000 multicast routes
• Support for up to 8000 IGMP groups
• Support for 1000 VRF entries
• Support for up to 4096 VLANs
• 16-way equal-cost multipathing (ECMP)
• 1664 ingress and 2048 egress access control list (ACL) entries
• Routing protocols: Static, Routing Information Protocol Version2 (RIPv2), Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP), Open Shortest Path First Version 2 (OSPFv2), and Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
• IPv6 Routing Protocols: Static, Open Shortest Path First Version 3 (OPFv3), Border Gateway Protocol (BGPv6), Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRPv6)
• IPv6 VRF Lite
• Hot-Standby Router Protocol (HSRP) and Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)
• ACL: Routed ACL with Layer 3 and 4 options to match ingress and egress ACL
• Multicast: Protocol Independent Multicast Version 2 (PIMv2) sparse mode, Source Specific Multicast (SSM), Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP), Internet Group Management Protocol Versions 2, and 3 (IGMP v2, and v3), and Multicast VLAN Registration (MVR)
• Virtual Route Forwarding (VRF): VRF-lite (IP VPN); VRF-aware unicast; and BGP-, OSPF-, RIP-, and VRF-aware multicast
• Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding (uRFP) with ACL; strict and loose modes
• Jumbo frame support (up to 9216 bytes)
• Support for up to 16 fabric extender on each Nexus 5500 with L3 modules

 

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