What’s Changed

Flow-label configuration status for EVPN ELAN services—The output for the show evpn instance extensive command now displays the flow-label and flow-label-static operational status for a device and not for the routing instances. A device with flow-label enabled supports flow-aware transport (FAT) flow labels and advertises its support to its neighbors. A device with flow-label-static enabled supports FAT flow labels but does not advertise its capabilities.

New ARP and NDP packet classification (QFX10002, QFX10008, and QFX10016)—We've introduced two control plane classes for ARP and NDP packets received over VTEP interface. When your device identifies a packet as ARP or NDP, it performs an ingress port check which verifies whether the VTEP interface receives these packets. If VTEP interface receives the packet, datapath re-writes the control plane class to the newly defined values. Based on this new control plane class, the system performs the remaining packet processing and forwards the packets toward the host path. The system adds a separate DDoS policer to this ARP traffic, which ensures that the ARP traffic is not triggering underlay ARP DDoS violation.

Junos YANG modules for RPCs include the junos:command extension statement (ACX Series, EX Series, MX Series, PTX Series, QFX Series, SRX Series, vMX, and vSRX)—The Junos YANG modules that define RPCs for operational mode commands include the junos:command extension statement in schemas emitted with extensions. The statement defines the CLI command for the corresponding RPC. The Juniper yang GitHub repository stores the RPC schemas with extensions in the rpc-with-extensions directory for the given release and device family. Additionally, when you configure the emit-extensions statement at the [edit system services netconf yang-modules] hierarchy level and generate the YANG schemas on the local device, the YANG modules for RPCs include the junos:command extension statement.

AR replicators with OISM install multicast states only on the OISM SBD (QFX5130-32CD and QFX5700)—In an EVPN-VXLAN ERB fabric with many VLANs, QFX5130-32CD and QFX5700 switches running as assisted replication (AR) replicators with optimized intersubnet multicast (OISM) might have scaling issues when they install multicast (*,G) states (with IGMPv2) or (S,G) states (with IGMPv3). As a result, these switches only install these multicast states on the OISM supplemental bridge domain (SBD) VLAN. They don't install these states on all OISM revenue bridge domain VLANs. On those devices, you see multicast group routes only on the SBD in show multicast snooping route command output.

[See OISM and AR Scaling with Many VLANs].

Changes to the JSON encoding of configuration data for YANG leaf nodes of type identityref (ACX Series, EX Series, MX Series, PTX Series, QFX Series, SRX Series, vMX, and vSRX)—If a YANG leaf node is type identityref, Junos devices emit the namespace-qualified form of the identity in the JSON encoding of that node. In addition, Junos devices accept both the simple (no namespace) and the namespace-qualified form of an identity in JSON configuration data. In earlier releases, Junos devices only emit and accept the simple form of an identity. Emitting and accepting the namespace-qualified identity ensures that the device can properly resolve the value in the event that the YANG data model defines an identity and a leaf node containing the identifyref value in different modules.

The file copy command supports only text-formatted output in the CLI (ACX Series, EX Series, MX Series, PTX Series, QFX Series, SRX Series, vMX, and vSRX)—The file copy command does not emit output when the operation is successful and supports only text-formatted output when an error occurs. The file copy command does not support using the | display xml filter or the | display json filter to display command output in XML or JSON format in any release. We've removed these options from the CLI.