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Layer 3
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IP Layer
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* ICMP
* IPv4
* IPv6
* IPSEC
* Link Local Addressing
MultiCast
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* Multicast FiB
* IGMP
Virtual Routing and forwarding (VRF)
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* VRF scaling, thousands of tables.
* Controlled cross-VRF lookups
Multi-path
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* Equal Cost Multi Path (ECMP)
* Unequal Cost Multi Path (UCMP)
IPv4
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* ARP
* ARP Proxy
* ARP Snooping
IPv6
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* Neighbour discovery (ND)
* ND Proxy
* Router Advertisement
* Segment Routing
* Distributed Virtual Routing Resolution
Forwarding Information Base (FIB)
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* Hierarchical FIB
* Memory efficient
* Multi-million entry scalable
* Lockless/concurrent updates
* Recursive lookups
* Next hop failure detection
* Shared FIB adjacencies
* Multicast support
* MPLS support