Enterprise SONiC Distribution (AsterNOS) for Data Center Release Note Version 3.1
Date: November 07, 2025 |
Modify Remarks: AsterNOS_V3.1_R0408P03 released. |
1 Instruction
The release version is AsterNOS_V3.1_R0408P03.
AsterNOS_V3.1_R0408P03-FL.bin for CX308P-48Y-N-V2, CX532P-N-V2 and CX732Q-N-V2.
md5: 32edc8a536485500fb77cb53f755085c
sha1: 62326af2b123e8ba087770d72c958669913bfe6c
AsterNOS_V3.1_R0408P03.bin for other models.
md5: 608e3ae9b5b2aa12db41f9ca49b9d2ba
sha1: dac0d7e4be11f8cded3357d6ce71f8519112f149
2 List of Features
Features | Level 1 | Level 2 |
Interfaces | Ethernet Port | 1G[1] 10G[2] 25G 40G[3] 100G 200G[4] 400G[5] 800G[6] Breakout[7] |
Logical Interfaces | Ethernet port based L3 Interface Port-Channel port based L3 Interface SVI Sub-interface Loopback | |
Interface management | Port management Statistics MTU Jumbo Frame | |
Optical module | CMIS Diagnostic Presence Reading info | |
L2 Switching | MAC | Static MAC configuration Dynamic learning MAC address move MAC Flapping detection MAC blackhole MAC flushing MAC filtering by source |
VLAN | VLAN management VLAN member mode: Access/Trunk VLAN member type BUM forwarding control | |
Port-Channel | Port-Channel Mode: Static/LACP LACP Parameter Load balance mode: Static hash/ Eligible Load Balance Load balance hash key Hash configuration | |
LLDP | Working mode LLDP Neighbor Information | |
STP | STP mode: MSTP STP Parameter Edge-port BPDU protection | |
L3 Switching | IP Address | IPv4 address IPv6 address Secondary IP |
ARP | Static ARP Dynamic ARP ARP aging and update Gratuitous ARP ARP proxy ARP moving ARP-to-host-routing | |
NDP | ND SLAAC NDP proxy ND-to-host-routing | |
Basic routing | IPv4 static routing IPv6 static routing Default routing IPv4 routing with IPv6 nexthops Loopback Packet Control | |
PBR | IPv4 Policy Based Routing IPv6 Policy Based Routing Bind Port Type Nexthop action | |
ECMP | Group member type Load balance hash key Hash configuration Load balance mode: Static hash/ Eligible Load Balance | |
BGP | IBGP EBGP Peer Group Peer Type Route Reflection AS-Path replace Route redistribution Graceful restart MP-BGP | |
OSPF | OSPF Version Network type Instance Area Authentication Route redistribution Graceful restart | |
IS-IS | - | |
Routing Policy | Prefix Lists Route Map | |
VRF | Loopback interface assignment Inter-VRF route leaking Management VRF ping/ssh to VRF | |
DHCP | DHCPv4 server DHCPv6 server DHCPv4 relay DHCPv6 relay DHCP relay over VXLAN | |
Virtualization and tunnel | VXLAN | VTEP[8] VXLAN mapping L2 forwarding ARP/ND suppression VXLAN maintenance |
BGP-EVPN | Route type Tunnel auto establish/tear down L3 Gateway type Symmetry IRB Routing dynamic population VM migration Inter-VRF Local Route Leaking Multi-homing Anycast gateway | |
DCI | VLAN hand-off | |
QoS and DCB | Classification & Scheduling | Classification Queue scheduling Traffic shaping Bandwidth limiting WRED Queue statistics |
Rewrite | Matching with ACL Mark action | |
QoS and DCB | DCB | ECN PFC PFC Watchdog DCBX |
RoCE | RoCEv2 Easy RoCE | |
Load Balance | Adaptive Routing and Switching [9] Packet Spray[10] | |
Security | CoPP | Bandwidth limit for CPU port CoPP Configuration |
Storm Suppression | Suppression type Control mode: Value-based | |
ACL | Match field ACL action ACL type Time-ranged ACL Control-Plane ACL | |
AAA | TACACS+ Radius | |
Port Isolation[11] | Working mode: L2 Interface type: Ethernet port | |
Service Operation and Reliability | Software Architecture | Apps in container Configuration database Warm restart |
MC-LAG | Ethernet-based MC-LAG MC-LAG peer gateway Consistent check Secondary ICCP Session L3 Forwarding Unique IP Routing protocol: OSPF/BGP over MC-LAG MC-LAG with EVPN Loopback detection | |
BFD | BFD Mode BFD for routing protocol BFD acceleration[12] | |
SLA | Echo mode User defined TRACK with static route | |
Monitoring Link | Monitoring group Monitoring configuration | |
VRRP | VRRPv2 VRRPv3 | |
Visibility and Monitoring | SNMP | SNMP v2 SNMP v3 SNMP Trap |
Network Quality Analysis | Port Mirroring sFlow gRPC In-Network-Telemetry | |
AsterNOS exporter | Visibility template System info Device monitoring Interface BGP MC-LAG EVPN VXLAN RoCE | |
AIDC Intelligent Routing[13] | Static routing | VRF assignment Path assignment Failure recovery Configuration templates |
Dynamic routing | Path Quality Measurement Path Quality Advertisement Dynamic path selection ECMP for multi-tenant Adaptive Multipath Load Balancing | |
Multicast | Multicast Route | IPv4 static multicast routing multicast route counter multicast route type |
IGMP | IGMP snooping | |
Management | Device Management | User interface NOS Maintenance License Device Information |
System Management | Login & MOTD User management Feature Management System configuration System time Syslog Critical Resource Monitoring NTP PTP | |
DevOps | ZTP Ansible FTP TFTP SCP Toolkit | |
Note:
[1] 25GE interfaces of CX308P-48Y-N-V2 support to set rate to 1G.
[2] 25GE interfaces of CX308P-48Y-N-V2 support to set rate to 10G.
[3] 100GE interfaces of all series products support to set rate to 40G.
[4] CX664D-N supports 200GE interfaces which can be set to 100G/40G.
[5] CX732Q-N and CX732Q-N-V2 support 400GE interfaces which can be set to 200G/100G/40G.
[6] CX864E-N supports 800GE interfaces which can be set to 400G/200G/100G/50G/25G.
[7] The breakout modes supported by different speed interfaces are as follows:
– 100GE interfaces support splitting into 4x25G[10G].
– 200GE interfaces support splitting into 2x100G[50G], 4x50G, or 4x25G[10G].
– 400GE interfaces of CX732Q-N support splitting into 4x100G, 2x200G[100G], or 4x25G[10G]. 400GE interfaces of CX732Q
N-V2 support splitting into 4x100G, 2x200G, or 4x25G[10G].
– 800GE interfaces support splitting into 2x400G[200G] or 4x200G[100G].
[8] Only CX308P-48Y-N-V2, CX532P-N-V2 and CX732Q-N-V2 support VXLAN Multi VTEP.
[9] This feature is only supported on CX864E-N.
[10] This feature is only supported on CX864E-N.
[11 Port isolation is supported on CX308P-48Y-N-V2, CX532P-N-V2 and CX732Q-N-V2.
[12] Hardware BFD is supported on CX308P-48Y-N-V2, CX532P-N-V2 and CX732Q-N-V2.
[13] CX308P-48Y-N-V2, CX532P-N-V2 and CX732Q-N-V2 do not support intelligent routing.
3 Update Records
3.1 New Features
[Counter] Support to set the polling intervals for statistical counters in each module.
[DHCPv6 Relay] Support to set option 79 to carry client MAC address.
[Hash] Support configuration for GRE inner/outer layer Hash.
[Interface] for statically splitting the interface into 4×100G and 2×200G modes on CX732Q-N-V2.
[MAC] Support notifications of MAC online in syslog.
[Multicast] Support policer for Layer 3 multicast packets based on multicast routing.
3.2 Major Bug Fixes and Optimizations
[Interface] Reduce CPU usage when the switch has a lot of interfaces.
[KLISH] Fix redundant interface configurations in running-config after 4× 25G split and restore.
[LAG] Fix occasional admin down state of LAG interface after IP configuration.
[Multicast] Optimize issuance logic of multicast policer entries to avoid Hash conflicts.
[PTP] Support real-time detection of upstream GM clock ID changes.
[PTP] Increase PTP session scale and reduce PTP process CPU usage.
[PTP] Fix occasional PTP process crash after PTP configuration on large-scale interfaces.
[PTP] Fix occasional failure of configured announce sync packet interval parameters to take effect.