Table Of Contents

Numerics - A - C - D - F - G - I - K - L - M - N - P - R - S - T - U - V -

Index

Numerics

10 Gigabit-Ethernet

peer link ports 1-14

A

ARP processing with vPC 2-2

auto-recovery

about 1-8

replacing reload restore 1-8

status 1-9

C

Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extender

installing a new Fabric Extender 1-13

replacing in a dual-homed vPC topology 1-12

replacing in a single-homed vPC topology 1-13

replacing in a vPC topology 1-12

Cisco Nexus 5000 Series switch

replacing in a vPC topology 1-11

connecting to a router in a vPC topology 2-3

consistency check

bypassing when a peer link is lost 1-8

failure 1-7

configuration differences that lead to 1-7

status 1-7

successful 1-7

consistency checks

configuring per-VLAN 1-5

control traffic forwarding in a vPC topology 2-6

D

dedicated VRF 2-7

delay restore 2-4

delay timer 2-4

designated router 2-10

CFS message 2-11

elected 2-11

priority 2-11

DR election

see designated router 2-11

F

faster convergence

in vPC topology 2-9

FHRP. See also First Hop Redundancy Protocol

First Hop Redundancy Protocol 2-1

G

graceful consistency check 1-2

about 1-3

I

improved convergence 2-4

ISSUs

not supported 2-17

supported 2-18

K

keepalive interface

dedicated VRF for a 2-7

keepalive link

failure followed by a peer link failure 1-16

L

Layer 3

and ISSUs 2-17

connecting to a router in a vPC topology 2-6

improved convergence with a vPC topology 2-4

module failure 2-5

recommendation for connections between a router and switch 2-6

source and Rendezvouz Point (RP) 2-10

vPC consistency check 2-8

M

multicast

data forwarding 2-11

forwarding algorithm 2-11

forwarding process 2-13

forwarding rules 2-12

routing table size 2-9

unsupported topology in vPC configurations 2-9

multicast routing table

example of switch output 2-10

multicast traffic

not routed 2-12

N

new and changed features (table) 2-9

P

peer-gateway command 2-4

peer link

failure followed by a peer keepalive link failure 1-16

peer links

bandwidth 1-14

failure 1-14

peer switch

failure 1-16

PIM router 2-9

prebuilt source tree

faster convergence 2-9

R

reload delay period 1-8

reload restore 1-8

bypassing the vPC consistency check 1-15

Rendezvous Point (RP) 2-10

routing table size 2-9

S

STP

mode mismatch example 1-4

Type 1 consistency checks 1-5

T

traffic flow

tracing in a vPC topology 1-17

Type 1

interface-level inconsistency 1-4, 1-5

Type 2

parameter mismatch 1-2

U

unsupported multicast topology 2-9

V

VLAN

consistency checks 1-5

vPC

consistency checks 1-1

identifying inconsistent configurations 1-6

member port failure 1-13

peer keepalive link failure 1-15

traffic flow 1-17

diagram 1-17

unsupported multicast topology 2-9

vPC and peer-gateway 2-3

vPC failure scenarios 1-13

vPC operations

about 1-1

vPC peer link failure 2-5

vPC topologies

configuration changes 1-9

vPC topology

multicast interaction 2-8

VRF

services that are recognized 2-8