profile
Syntax
8320 switch series
profile {l3-agg | l3-core | leaf}
8325 switch series
profile {l3-agg | l3-core | leaf | spine}
Description
Sets the hardware forwarding table profile on an 8320 and 8325 switch series.
The switch must be rebooted for a mode change to take effect.
For the 8320 switch series, prior to release 10.2, the forwarding table mode was configured with the command
platform forwarding-table-mode {3 | 4}
. When upgrading to release 10.02, any existing configuration is converted as follows: table mode
3
is converted to
l3-agg
and table mode
4
is converted to
l3-core
.
Command context
Manager (#
)
Parameters
- l3-agg
Optimizes the hardware forwarding mode for layer 2 forwarding with more table space allocated to host(ARP/ND) entries.
- l3-core
Optimizes the hardware forwarding mode for layer 3 forwarding with more table space allocated to route entries. (Default on the 8320 switch series.)
- leaf
Optimizes the hardware forwarding mode for layer 2 forwarding with more table space allocated to overlay host entries (VXLAN). (Default on the 8325 switch series.)
- spine
Optimizes the hardware forwarding mode for layer 3 forwarding with more table space allocated to route entries. (8325 switch series only.)
Authority
Administrators or local user group members with execution rights for this command.
Examples
Optimizing the hardware forwarding table mode for layer 2 forwarding (aggregation layer):
switch# config switch(config)# profile l3-agg switch(config)# exit switch# boot system
Optimizing the hardware forwarding table mode for layer 3 forwarding (core layer):
switch# config switch(config)# profile l3-core switch(config)# exit switch# boot system