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NVIDIA Networking Documentation

  • Cumulus Linux 5.17 User Guide
    • What's New
      • Cumulus Linux 5.17 Packages
      • Cumulus Linux 5.17 Release Notes
      • New and Removed NVUE Commands
      • New and Updated Telemetry Metrics
    • Quick Start Guide
      • Installation Management
        • Upgrading Cumulus Linux
        • Installing a New Cumulus Linux Image with ONIE
        • Managing Cumulus Linux Disk Images with ONIE
        • Adding and Updating Packages
        • Zero Touch Provisioning - ZTP
        • Factory Reset
      • System Configuration
        • NVIDIA User Experience - NVUE
          • NVUE Object Model
          • NVUE CLI
          • NVUE Snippets
          • NVUE API
        • Date and Time
          • Setting the Date and Time
          • Network Time Protocol - NTP
          • Precision Time Protocol - PTP
          • Pulse Per Second - PPS
          • Synchronous Ethernet - SyncE
        • Authentication Authorization and Accounting
          • SSH for Remote Access
          • User Accounts
          • Role-Based Access Control
          • Using sudo to Delegate Privileges
          • LDAP Authentication and Authorization
          • TACACS
          • RADIUS AAA
          • FIPS
        • Access Control Lists
          • Firewall Rules
          • Access Control List Configuration
        • Services and Daemons in Cumulus Linux
        • Configuring switchd
        • Configuring a Global Proxy
        • CLI Configuration
        • Secure Mount Directory Encryption
        • Maintenance Mode
        • System Power and Switch Reboot
        • Disk Management
        • Docker with Cumulus Linux
      • Layer 1 and Switch Ports
        • Interface Configuration and Management
          • Switch Port Attributes
          • ifplugd
        • Quality of Service
          • Packet Trimming
          • RDMA over Converged Ethernet - RoCE
        • DHCP
          • DHCP Relays
          • DHCP Servers
          • DHCP Snooping
        • 802.1X Interfaces
        • Prescriptive Topology Manager - PTM
        • Port Security
      • Layer 2
        • Ethernet Bridging - VLANs
          • VLAN-aware Bridge Mode
          • Traditional Bridge Mode
        • Link Layer Discovery Protocol
        • Spanning Tree and Rapid Spanning Tree - STP
        • Storm Control
        • Bonding - Link Aggregation
        • Multi-Chassis Link Aggregation - MLAG
        • LACP Bypass
        • Virtual Router Redundancy - VRR
        • IGMP and MLD Snooping
        • MAC Address Translation
      • Network Virtualization
        • Ethernet Virtual Private Network - EVPN
          • Basic Configuration
          • EVPN Enhancements
          • Inter-subnet Routing
          • EVPN Multihoming
          • EVPN BUM Traffic with PIM-SM
          • Troubleshooting EVPN
          • Configuration Examples
        • VXLAN Devices
        • VXLAN Routing
        • Static VXLAN Tunnels
        • VXLAN Active-active Mode
        • Bridge Layer 2 Protocol Tunneling
        • VXLAN Tunnel DSCP Operations
        • QinQ and VXLANs
      • Layer 3
        • Routing
          • Static Routing
          • Forwarding Table Size and Profiles
          • Route Filtering and Redistribution
          • Policy-based Routing
          • Equal Cost Multipath Load Sharing
          • BGP Weighted Equal Cost Multipath
          • Segment Routing
          • Redistribute Neighbor
          • Routing Tables
        • Border Gateway Protocol - BGP
          • Basic BGP Configuration
          • Optional BGP Configuration
          • Troubleshooting BGP
          • 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
        • FRRouting
        • Protocol Independent Multicast - PIM
        • Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol - VRRP
        • GRE Tunneling
        • Network Address Translation - NAT
        • Bidirectional Forwarding Detection - BFD
        • Address Resolution Protocol - ARP
        • Neighbor Discovery - ND
      • Monitoring and Troubleshooting
        • Monitoring System Hardware
          • Network Switch Port LED and Status LED Guidelines
        • Understanding the cl-support Output File
          • Troubleshooting Log Files
          • Troubleshooting the etc Directory
        • Troubleshooting Network Interfaces
          • Troubleshoot Layer 1
          • Monitoring Interfaces and Transceivers with NVUE
          • Monitoring Interfaces and Transceivers with ethtool
        • Network Troubleshooting
          • 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
        • Log Files with NVUE
        • Syslog
        • Security Alerts
        • Single User Mode - Password Recovery
        • Resource Diagnostics
        • High Frequency Telemetry
        • ASIC Monitoring
        • Open Telemetry Export
        • gNMI Streaming
        • Latency Monitoring
        • Monitoring Best Practices
        • switchd Log Message Reference
        • FRRouting Log Message Reference
      • Reference Topology
        • NVUE Command Reference
          • Show Commands
            • 802.1X
            • ACL and CoPP
            • Adaptive Routing
            • API
            • ARP
            • BFD
            • BGP
            • BGP IPv6
            • BGP EVPN
            • Bridge
            • cl-support File
            • DHCP Relay
            • DHCP Server
            • DHCP Snooping
            • DNS
            • Docker
            • EVPN
            • FIB
            • gNMI
            • IGMP
            • Interface
            • LDAP
            • LLDP
            • MLAG
            • NAT
            • Neighbor Discovery
            • NTP
            • OSPF
            • Packet Trimming
            • PBR
            • PIM
            • Platform
            • Port Mirror
            • Port Security
            • PPS
            • PTM
            • PTP
            • QoS
            • RADIUS
            • RIB
            • Router Nexthop
            • Router Policy
            • sFlow
            • Segment Routing
            • SNMP Server
            • SSH Server
            • Static Routing
            • SyncE
            • Syslog
            • System
            • System Config
            • System Forwarding
            • System Logs
            • System Packages
            • System Security
            • TACACS
            • Telemetry
            • User Account
            • VRR
            • VRRP
            • VXLAN
            • WJH
            • ZTP
          • Set and Unset Commands
            • 802.1X
            • ACL and CoPP
            • Adaptive Routing
            • API
            • ARP
            • BFD
            • BGP
            • BGP IPv6
            • BGP EVPN
            • Bridge
            • cl-support File
            • DHCP Relay
            • DHCP Server
            • DHCP Snooping
            • DNS
            • Docker
            • EVPN
            • Extended Traceroute
            • Firewall
            • gNMI
            • IGMP
            • Interface
            • LDAP
            • LLDP
            • MLAG
            • NAT
            • Neighbor Discovery
            • NTP
            • Segment Routing
            • sFlow
            • OSPF
            • Packet Trimming
            • PBR
            • PIM
            • Port Mirror
            • Port Security
            • PPS
            • PTM
            • PTP
            • QoS
            • RADIUS
            • RIB
            • Router Nexthop
            • Router Policy
            • SNMP Server
            • Static Routing
            • SyncE
            • Syslog
            • System Configuration
            • System Forwarding
            • System Maintenance
            • System Packages
            • System Security
            • TACACS
            • Telemetry
            • User Account
            • VRR
            • VRRP
            • VXLAN
            • WJH
          • Config Commands
          • Action Commands
          • Common Options
        • Cumulus Linux in a Virtual Environment
          • NVUE Format Reference

        VRFs

        This section discusses:

        • Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF)
        • Management VRF

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