Openflow Limitations; Supported Interface Types; Unsupported Interface Types; Supported Interface Modes - Cisco Nexus 5600 Series Configuration Manual

OpenFlow Limitations

OpenFlow Limitations
The Cisco Nexus 5500 and Cisco Nexus 6000 switches do not support the OpenFlow action to rewrite the
layer-2 destination MAC address. Therefore, the XNC controller use cases such as Topology Independent
Forwarding and Latency Optimized Forwarding may not be work correctly on the Cisco Nexus 5500 and
Cisco Nexus 6000 switches.

Supported Interface Types

The following is a list of supported interface types:
• Regular Layer 2 physical ports (switchport)
• Layer 2 port channels

Unsupported Interface Types

The following is a list of unsupported interface types:
• Layer 3 ports (no switchport)
• Fabric extender ports
• Virtual Port-Channel (VPC) ports
• Layer 3 Port-Channel

Supported Interface Modes

The following is a list of supported interface modes:
• Access port
• Trunk port

Supported Match Fields

The following are lists of supported match fields:
• Layer 2 header
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◦ Ethertype
◦ VLAN ID
◦ VLAN priority (PCP)
◦ Source MAC address
Configuring OpenFlow
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