Concepts Flashcards
Key Concepts of ACI
What is the name of the ACI architecture?
Spine and Leaf
Which devices do leaf switches connect to?
Spine Only
Where is the forwarding controlled in the ACI Fabric, hardware or software?
Hardware
How many potential blocking ports are on a 48 port leaf switch?
None
Which protocol do fabric devices use to discover each other?
LLDP
What does the ACI fabric do to all traffic entering the fabric.
Normalization (to an endpoint group using VXLAN)
How are bridge semantics (TTL, MAC Header) treated for intra subnet traffic.
Preserved - No TTL decrements.
How are non IP packets handled by the fabric?
Forwarded based on mac address.
Is the ACI Fabric stateless or stateful?
Stateless. i.e. The network can continue to function if the control plane (ACI controller) is removed.
What is BUM traffic?
Broadcast
Unknown-Unicast
Multicast