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NVIDIA Networking Documentation

  • Cumulus Linux 4.3 User Guide
    • What's New
      • Cumulus Linux 4.3 Open Source Packages
      • Cumulus Linux 4.3 Release Notes
    • Quick Start Guide
      • Installation Management
        • Managing Cumulus Linux Disk Images
        • Installing a New Cumulus Linux Image
        • Upgrading Cumulus Linux
        • Migrating from LNV to EVPN
        • Back up and Restore
        • Adding and Updating Packages
        • Zero Touch Provisioning - ZTP
      • System Configuration
        • Authentication, Authorization and Accounting
          • SSH for Remote Access
          • User Accounts
          • Using sudo to Delegate Privileges
          • LDAP Authentication and Authorization
          • TACACS+
          • RADIUS AAA
        • Netfilter - ACLs
          • Default Cumulus Linux ACL Configuration
          • Filtering Learned MAC Addresses
        • Network Command Line Utility - NCLU
        • Cumulus User Experience - CUE
        • Setting Date and Time
        • Services and Daemons in Cumulus Linux
        • Configuring switchd
        • Power over Ethernet - PoE
        • Configuring a Global Proxy
        • HTTP API
        • Smart System Manager
      • Layer 1 and Switch Ports
        • Interface Configuration and Management
          • Switch Port Attributes
          • ifplugd
        • Buffer and Queue Management
          • Hardware-enabled DDOS Protection
        • DHCP
          • DHCP Relays
          • DHCP Servers
          • DHCP Snooping
        • 802.1X Interfaces
        • Prescriptive Topology Manager - PTM
        • Port Security
      • Layer 2
        • Link Layer Discovery Protocol
          • Voice VLAN
        • Ethernet Bridging - VLANs
          • VLAN-aware Bridge Mode
          • Traditional Bridge Mode
          • VLAN Tagging
        • Spanning Tree and Rapid Spanning Tree - STP
        • Storm Control
        • Bonding - Link Aggregation
        • Multi-Chassis Link Aggregation - MLAG
        • LACP Bypass
        • Virtual Router Redundancy - VRR and VRRP
        • IGMP and MLD Snooping
      • Network Virtualization
        • Ethernet Virtual Private Network - EVPN
          • Basic Configuration
          • EVPN Enhancements
          • Inter-subnet Routing
          • EVPN Multihoming
          • EVPN BUM Traffic with PIM-SM
          • Troubleshooting
          • Configuration Examples
        • Virtualization Integrations
          • Integrating Hardware VTEPs with Midokura MidoNet and OpenStack
          • Integrating Hardware VTEPs with VMware NSX-V
          • Integrating Hardware VTEPs with VMware NSX-MH
          • OVSDB Server High Availability
        • VXLAN Active-active Mode
        • VXLAN Routing
        • Bridge Layer 2 Protocol Tunneling
        • Static VXLAN Tunnels
        • VXLAN Scale
        • VXLAN Tunnel DSCP Operations
        • Hybrid Cloud Connectivity with QinQ and VXLANs
      • Layer 3
        • Routing
          • Static Routing
          • Supported Route Table Entries
          • Route Filtering and Redistribution
          • Policy-based Routing
          • Equal Cost Multipath Load Sharing - Hardware ECMP
          • Unequal Cost Multipath with BGP Link Bandwidth
          • Redistribute Neighbor
          • Segment Routing
        • FRRouting
          • Configure FRRouting
          • Comparing NCLU and vtysh Commands
        • Border Gateway Protocol - BGP
          • Basic BGP Configuration
          • Optional BGP Configuration
          • Troubleshooting
          • Configuration Example
        • Open Shortest Path First - OSPF
          • Open Shortest Path First v2 - OSPFv2
          • Open Shortest Path First v3 - OSPFv3
          • OSPF Configuration Example
        • VRFs
          • Virtual Routing and Forwarding - VRF
          • Management VRF
        • Protocol Independent Multicast - PIM
        • GRE Tunneling
        • Network Address Translation - NAT
        • Bidirectional Forwarding Detection - BFD
        • Address Resolution Protocol - ARP
      • Monitoring and Troubleshooting
        • Monitoring System Hardware
          • Network Switch Port LED and Status LED Guidelines
          • TDR Cable Diagnostics
        • Understanding the cl-support Output File
          • Troubleshooting Log Files
          • Troubleshooting the etc Directory
        • Troubleshooting Network Interfaces
          • Troubleshoot Layer 1
          • Monitoring Interfaces and Transceivers Using ethtool
        • Network Troubleshooting
          • Using NCLU to Troubleshoot Your Network Configuration
          • Mellanox What Just Happened (WJH)
          • Monitoring System Statistics and Network Traffic with sFlow
          • SPAN and ERSPAN
        • Simple Network Management Protocol - SNMP
          • Configure SNMP
          • Configure SNMP Traps
          • Supported MIBs
          • Troubleshoot SNMP
          • Using Nutanix Prism as a Monitoring Tool
        • Single User Mode - Password Recovery
        • Resource Diagnostics Using cl-resource-query
        • Monitoring Virtual Device Counters
        • ASIC Monitoring
        • Monitoring Best Practices
        • switchd Log Message Reference
        • FRRouting Log Message Reference
      • Network Solutions
        • Data Center Host to ToR Architecture
        • Cumulus Networks Services Demos
        • Campus Deployments
        • Docker on Cumulus Linux
        • OpenStack Neutron ML2 and Cumulus Linux
        • Anycast Design Guide
        • RDMA over Converged Ethernet - RoCE

    Layer 2

    This section describes layer 2 configuration, such as Ethernet bridging, bonding, spanning tree protocol, multi-chassis link aggregation (MLAG), link layer discovery protocol (LLDP), LACP bypass, virtual router redundancy (VRR) and IGMP and MLD snooping.

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