Layer-2 protocols

IEEE802.3ae (10GBase), IEEE802.3ak, IEEE802.3an, IEEE802.3x, IEEE802.3ad (link aggregation), IEEE802.1p, IEEE802.1x, IEEE802.1Q, IEEE802.1D (STP), IEEE802.1w (RSTP), IEEE802.1s (MSTP), IGMP Snooping, Jumbo Frame (9 KB), IEEE802.1ad (QinQ), and GVRP

Layer-3 protocols (IPv4)

BGP4, OSPFv2, RIPv1, RIPv2, MBGP, LPM Routing, Policy-based Routing, Route-policy, ECMP, WCMP, VRRP, IGMP v1/v2/v3, DVMRP, PIM-SSM/SM/DM, MSDP, Any-RP

IPv6 basic protocols

Neighbor Discovery (ND), ICMPv6, Path MTU Discovery, DNSv6, DHCPv6, ICMPv6, ICMPv6 redirection, ACLv6, TCP/UDP for IPv6, SNMP v6, Ping/Traceroute v6, IPv6 RADIUS, Telnet/SSH v6, FTP/TFTP v6, NTP v6, IPv6 MIB support for SNMP, VRRP for IPv6, IPv6 QoS

IPv6 features

Static routing, equal-cost routing, PBR, OSPFv3, RIPng, BGP4+, MLDv1/v2, PIM-SMv6, manual tunnel, automatic tunnel, IPv4 over IPv6 tunnel, and ISATAP tunnel

Data center features

Supports PFC, ECN, and other data center features.

Supports RDMA.

Support VXLAN routing and VXLAN bridging.

Supports EVPN VXLAN.

Supports OpenFlow 1.3. 

Visualization

Supports the GRPC protocol.

Supports sFLOW high-precision sampling.

QoS

Supports EXP priority mapping including 802.1p, DSCP, and ToS.
Supports ACL-based traffic classification.
Supports priority marking/remarking.
Supports multiple queue scheduling mechanisms including SP, WRR, DRR, SP+WRR, and SP+DRR.

Virtualization

Supports the VSU technology (virutalizes multiple devices into one device).

HA design

Supports GR for RIP, OSPF, BGP, and other routing protocols.
Supports BFD.
Supports REUP dual-link fast switching and RLDP unidirectional link detection.
Supports 1+1 power redundancy and fan redundancy.
Supports hot swap for all cards and power modules.

Security functions

Network Foundation Protection Policy (NFPP), CPP, DDoS attack defense, illegitimate data packet detection, data encryption, source IP spoofing prevention, IP scanning prevention, RADIUS/TACACS, ACL-based IPv4/v6 packet filtering by standard and extended VLANs, plaintext-based and MD5 ciphertext-based authentication for OSPF, RIPv2, and BGPv4 packets, telnet login and password mechanisms for restricted IP addresses, uRPF, broadcast packet suppression, DHCP Snooping, gateway ARP spoofing prevention, and ARP check

Management modes

SNMP v1/v2/v3, Telnet, Console, MGMT, RMON, SSHv1/v2, FTP/TFTP-based file upload/download management, NTP, Syslog, and SPAN/RSPAN

Other protocols

DHCP Client, DHCP Relay, DHCP Server, DNS Client, UDP relay, ARP Proxy, and Syslog