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EX Series Switch Software Features Overview

The following tables list the Juniper Networks EX Series Ethernet Switches software features and the Juniper Networks Junos operating system (Junos OS) release in which they were introduced:

Table 1—Access Control Features
Table 2—Administration Features
Table 3—Class-of-Service (CoS) Features
Table 4—High Availability and Resiliency Features
Table 5—Interfaces Features
Table 6—IP Address Management Features
Table 7—IPv6 Features
Table 8—Layer 2 Network Protocols Features
Table 9—Layer 3 Protocols Features
Table 10—MPLS Features
Table 11—Multicast Features
Table 12—Network Management and Monitoring Features
Table 13—Port Security Features
Table 14—System Management Features

Table 1: Access Control Features

Feature	EX2200 Switches	EX3200 and EX4200 Switches	EX4500 Switches	EX8200 Switches
802.1X authentication	Junos OS 10.1R1	Junos OS 9.0R2	Not supported	Junos OS 10.2R1
Authentication fallback	Not supported	Junos OS 10.3R1	Not supported	Not supported
Captive portal authentication	Not supported	Junos OS 10.1R1	Not supported	Not supported
Dynamic allocation of TCAM memory to firewall filters	Not supported	Junos OS 10.0R1	Not supported	Junos OS 10.3R1
Dynamic firewall filters for 802.1X authentication	Junos OS 10.1R1	Junos OS 9.0R2	Not supported	Not supported
Firewall filters and rate limiting	Junos OS 10.1R1	Junos OS 9.0R2	Junos OS 10.2R1	Junos OS 9.4R1
For a list of supported firewall filter match conditions and actions, see Firewall Filter Match Conditions and Actions for EX Series Switches.
Firewall filters on LAGs	Junos OS 10.1R1	Junos OS 9.0R2	Junos OS 10.2R1	Junos OS 10.0R1
Firewall filter on loopback interface	Junos OS 10.1R1	Junos OS 9.2R1	Junos OS 10.2R1	Junos OS 9.6R1
Firewall filters with IPv6	Not supported	Junos OS 10.1R1	Not supported	Junos OS 10.3R1
MAC RADIUS authentication	Junos OS 10.1R1	Junos OS 9.3R2	Junos OS 10.2R1	Junos OS 10.3R1
Policing	Junos OS 10.1R1	Junos OS 9.0R2	Junos OS 10.2R1	Junos OS 9.4R1
Server fail fallback	Junos OS 10.1R1	Junos OS 9.3R2	Junos OS 10.2R1	Junos OS 10.2R1
TACACS+	Junos OS 10.1R1	Junos OS 9.0R2	Junos OS 10.2R1	Junos OS 9.4R1

Table 2: Administration Features

Feature	EX2200 Switches	EX3200 and EX4200 Switches	EX4500 Switches	EX8200 Switches
System logging (syslog) over IPv6	Not supported	Junos OS 9.3R2	Not supported	Not supported
System logging (syslog) over IPv4	Junos OS 10.1R1	Junos OS 9.0R2	Junos OS 10.2R1	Junos OS 9.4R1
System snapshot	Not supported	Junos OS 10.0R1	Junos OS 10.2R1	Junos OS 10.0R1

Table 3: Class-of-Service (CoS) Features

Feature	EX2200 Switches	EX3200 and EX4200 Switches	EX4500 Switches	EX8200 Switches
Class of service (CoS)—Class-based queuing with prioritization	Junos OS 10.1R1	Junos OS 9.0R2	Junos OS 10.2R1	Junos OS 9.4R1
CoS—DSCP, IEEE 801.p, and IP precedence packet rewrites on routed VLAN interfaces (RVIs)	Not supported	Junos OS 9.5R1	Junos OS 10.2R1	Not supported
CoS—Interface-specific classifiers on routed VLAN interfaces (RVIs)	Junos OS 10.3R1	Junos OS 9.4R1	Not supported	Not supported
CoS—multidestination	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Junos OS 9.5R1
CoS support on LAGs	Junos OS 10.1R1	Junos OS 9.2R1	Junos OS 10.2R1	Junos OS 9.4R1
CoS support on routed VLAN interfaces (RVIs)	Junos OS 10.3R1	Junos OS 9.4R1	Not supported	Junos OS 9.4R1
Interface-specific CoS rewrite rules	Junos OS 10.3R1	Junos OS 9.4R1	Not supported	Junos OS 10.2R1
Junos EZQoS for CoS	Junos OS 10.1R1	Junos OS 9.3R2	Junos OS 10.2R1	Junos OS 9.4R1
Port shaping and queue shaping	Junos OS 10.1R1	Junos OS 9.3R2	Junos OS 10.2R1	Junos OS 10.1R1
Remarking of bridged packets	Not supported	Junos OS 9.4R1	Not supported	Junos OS 10.2R1

Table 4: High Availability and Resiliency Features

Feature	EX2200 Switches	EX3200 and EX4200 Switches	EX4500 Switches	EX8200 Switches
Graceful protocol restart for BGP	Not applicable	Junos OS 9.0R2	Not applicable	Junos OS 9.4R1
Graceful protocol restart for IS-IS	Not applicable	Junos OS 9.3R2	Not applicable	Junos OS 9.4R1
Graceful protocol restart for OSPF	Not applicable	Junos OS 9.0R2	Junos OS 10.2R1	Junos OS 9.4R1
Graceful Routing Engine switchover (GRES) for EX4200 Virtual Chassis configurations	Not applicable	Junos OS 9.1R1 (EX4200 only)	Not applicable	Not applicable
GRES for ARP entries	Not applicable	Junos OS 9.2R1 (EX4200 only)	Not applicable	Junos OS 9.4R1
GRES for the forwarding database	Not applicable	Junos OS 9.2R1 (EX4200 only)	Not applicable	Junos OS 9.4R1
GRES for port security	Not applicable	Junos OS 9.2R1 (EX4200 only)	Not applicable	Junos OS 9.6R1
Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP)	Junos OS 10.1R1	Junos OS 9.0R2	Junos OS 10.2R1	Junos OS 9.4R1
LACP support for dual-homing applications in data centers	Junos OS 10.1R1	Junos OS 10.0R1	Junos OS 10.2R1	Junos OS 10.0R1
Link aggregation groups (LAGs)	Junos OS 10.1R1	Junos OS 9.0R2	Junos OS 10.2R1	Junos OS 9.4R1
Link aggregation groups (LAGs) over Virtual Chassis ports (VCPs)	Not applicable	Junos OS 9.6R1 (EX4200 only)	Not applicable	Not applicable
Redundant trunk groups	Junos OS 10.1R1	Junos OS 9.0R2	Not supported	Junos OS 9.4R1
Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)	Not supported	Junos OS 9.0R2	Junos OS 10.2R1	Junos OS 9.4R1
VRRP for IPv6 (except authentication type and authentication key)	Not supported	Junos 10.0R1	Not supported	Junos 10.1R1
Virtual Chassis Atomic software upgrade Fast failover Split and merge	Not applicable	Junos OS 9.3R2 (EX4200 only)	Not applicable	Not applicable
Virtual Chassis Automatic software update on prospective member switches Front-panel configuration of uplink module ports as Virtual Chassis ports (VCPs)	Not applicable	Junos OS 10.0R1 (EX4200 only)	Not applicable	Not applicable
Virtual Chassis Autoprovisioning of Virtual Chassis ports (VCPs)	Not applicable	Junos OS 9.5R1 (EX4200 only)	Not applicable	Not applicable
Virtual Chassis Support for SFP uplink module ports	Not applicable	Junos OS 9.2R1 (EX4200 only)	Not applicable	Not applicable

Table 5: Interfaces Features

Feature	EX2200 Switches	EX3200 and EX4200 Switches	EX4500 Switches	EX8200 Switches
Digital optical monitoring (DOM)	Not supported	Junos OS 10.0R1	Not supported	Junos OS 10.0R1
Interface-range support	Junos OS 10.1R1	Junos OS 10.0R1	Junos OS 10.2R1	Junos OS 10.0R1
Power over Ethernet (PoE)	Junos OS 10.1R1	Junos OS 9.0R2	Not applicable	Not applicable
Power over Ethernet Plus (PoE+)	Junos OS 10.3R1	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported
PoE power management mode	Junos OS 10.1R1	Junos OS 9.3R2	Not applicable	Not supported
Unicast reverse-path forwarding (RPF)	Not supported	Junos OS 9.3R2	Not supported	Junos OS 10.1R1
VLAN-tagged Layer 3 subinterfaces	Not supported	Junos OS 9.2R1	Not supported	Junos OS 9.4R1

Table 6: IP Address Management Features

Feature	EX2200 Switches	EX3200 and EX4200 Switches	EX4500 Switches	EX8200 Switches
DHCP server and relay with option 82 for Layer 2 VLANs	Junos OS 10.1R1	Junos OS 9.3R2	Not supported	Junos OS 9.4R1
DHCPv6 and IPv6 DNS	Not supported	Junos OS 9.3R2	Not supported	Not supported
Local DHCP server	Not supported	Junos OS 9.3R2	Not supported	Junos OS 9.4R1
Static addresses	Junos OS 10.1R1	Junos OS 9.0R2	Junos OS 10.2R1	Junos OS 9.4R1

Table 7: IPv6 Features

Feature	EX2200 Switches	EX3200 and EX4200 Switches	EX4500 Switches	EX8200 Switches
A separate software license is required for IPv6. See Understanding Software Licenses for the EX Series Switch.
IPv6 (except multicast protocols)	Not supported	Junos OS 10.1R1	Not supported	Not supported
IPv6 multicast protocols (PIM, MLDv1/v2)	Not supported	Junos OS 10.1R1	Not supported	Junos OS 10.2R1
IPv6 Management and Services	Junos OS 10.3R1	Junos OS 9.3R2	Not supported	Junos OS 10.1R1
IPv6 CoS (multi-field classification and rewrite, scheduling based on TC),	Not supported	Junos OS 10.2R1	Not supported	Not supported
IPv6 Path MTU Discovery	Not supported	Junos OS 9.3R1	Not supported	Junos OS 10.2R1

Table 8: Layer 2 Network Protocols Features

Feature	EX2200 Switches	EX3200 and EX4200 Switches	EX4500 Switches	EX8200 Switches
802.1Q VLAN tagging	Junos OS 10.1R1	Junos OS 9.0R2	Junos OS 10.2R1	Junos OS 9.4R1
BPDU protection for spanning-tree protocols	Junos OS 10.1R1	Junos OS 9.1R1	Junos OS 10.2R1	Junos OS 9.4R1
GARP VLAN Registration Protocol (GVRP)	Not supported	Junos OS 9.1R1	Junos OS 10.2R1	Junos OS 9.4R1
Layer 2 protocol tunneling (L2PT)	Not supported	Junos OS 10.0	Not supported	Not supported
Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP)	Junos OS 10.1R1	Junos OS 9.0R2	Junos OS 10.2R1	Junos OS 9.4R1
Link Layer Discovery Protocol-Media Endpoint Discovery (LLDP-MED) with voice over IP (VoIP) integration	Junos OS 10.1R1	Junos OS 9.0R2	Not supported	Not supported
Loop protection for spanning-tree protocols	Junos OS 10.1R1	Junos OS 9.1R1	Junos OS 10.2R1	Junos OS 9.4R1
MAC-based VLAN	Junos OS 10.1R1	Junos OS 9.2R1	Junos OS 10.2R1	Not supported
Multiple VLAN Registration Protocol (MVRP)	Not supported	Junos OS 10.0R1	Not supported	Junos OS 10.0R1
Private VLANs (PVLANs)	Not supported	Junos OS 9.3R2	Not supported	Junos OS 10.1R1
Proxy ARP—restricted	Junos OS 10.1R1	Junos OS 10.0R1	Junos OS 10.2R1	Junos OS 10.0R1
Proxy ARP—unrestricted	Junos OS 10.1R1	Junos OS 9.6R1	Junos OS 10.2R1	Junos OS 10.0R1
Proxy ARP per VLAN	Junos OS 10.1R1	Junos OS 10.1R1	Junos OS 10.2R1	Junos OS 10.1R1
Q-in-Q tunneling	Not supported	Junos OS 9.3R2	Not supported	Not supported
Q-in-Q VLAN extended support for multiple S-VLANs per access interface, firewall-filter-based VLAN assignment, and routed VLAN interfaces (RVIs)	Not supported	Junos OS 9.6R1	Not supported	Not supported
Root protection for spanning-tree protocols	Junos OS 10.1R1	Junos OS 9.1R1	Junos OS 10.2R1	Junos OS 9.4R1
Spanning tree: Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP) Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP)	Junos OS 10.1R1	Junos OS 9.0R2	Junos OS 10.2R1	Junos OS 9.4R1
Spanning tree: VLAN Spanning Tree Protocol (VSTP)	Junos OS 10.1R1	Junos OS 9.4R1	Junos OS 10.2R1	Junos OS 9.6R1
Spanning tree: RSTP and VSTP concurrent configuration	Not supported	Junos OS 10.2R1	Junos OS 10.2R1	Junos OS 10.2R1
Storm control	Junos OS 10.1R1	Junos OS 9.1R1	Junos OS 10.2R1	Junos OS 9.4R1
Unknown Layer 2 unicast forwarding	Not supported	Junos OS 9.3R2	Junos OS 10.2R1	Junos OS 10.0R1
VLAN ID translation	Not supported	Junos OS 10.0R1	Not supported	Not supported
VLAN range	Junos OS 10.1R1	Junos OS 9.2R1	Junos OS 10.2R1	Junos OS 9.4R1

Table 9: Layer 3 Protocols Features

Feature	EX2200 Switches	EX3200 and EX4200 Switches	EX4500 Switches	EX8200 Switches
Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD)	Not supported	Junos OS 9.0R2	Junos OS 10.2R1	Junos OS 9.4R1
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)	Not supported	Junos OS 9.0R2	Not supported	Junos OS 9.4R1
A separate software license is required for BGP and MBGP. See Understanding Software Licenses for the EX Series Switch.
Filter-based forwarding	Not supported	Junos OS 9.4R1	Not supported	Junos OS 9.6R1
Intermediate System-to-Intermediate System (IS-IS)	Not supported	Junos OS 9.0R2	Not supported	Junos OS 9.4R1
A separate software license is required for IS-IS. See Understanding Software Licenses for the EX Series Switch.
IPv6 protocols: Open Shortest Path First version 3 (OSPFv3), RIPng, IS-IS for IPv6, IPv6 BGP	Not supported	Junos OS 9.3R2	Not supported	Junos OS 10.1R1
IPv6 Layer 3 multicast protocols	Not supported	Junos OS 10.1R1	Not supported	Junos OS 10.2R1
Jumbo frames on routed VLAN interfaces (RVIs)	Not supported	Junos OS 9.4R1	Junos OS 10.2R1	Junos OS 9.4R1
OSPF Multitopology Routing (MT-OSPF)	Not supported	Junos OS 9.5R1	Not supported	Junos OS 9.5R1
See the Junos OS Routing Protocols Configuration Guide at //www.juniper.net/techpubs/software/junos/index.html.
OSPFv2	Not supported	Junos OS 9.0R2	Junos OS 10.2R1	Junos OS 9.4R1
OSPFv3 IPSec support	Not supported	Junos OS 10.3R1	Not supported	Not supported
Routed VLAN interfaces (RVIs)	Junos OS 10.1R1	Junos OS 9.0R2	Junos OS 10.2R1	Junos OS 9.4R1
Routing Information Protocol version 1 (RIPv1) and RIPv2	Junos OS 10.1R1	Junos OS 9.0R2	Junos OS 10.2R1	Junos OS 9.4R1
Static routes	Junos OS 10.1R1	Junos OS 9.0R2	Junos OS 10.2R1	Junos OS 9.4R1
Virtual routing and forwarding (VRF) with IPv4—virtual routing instances	Not supported	Junos OS 9.2R1	Not supported	Junos OS 9.6R1
VRF with IPv4—virtual routing instances for multicast traffic	Not supported	Junos OS 10.0R1	Not supported	Junos OS 10.0R1
VRF with IPv6—virtual routing instances for multicast traffic	Not supported	Junos OS 10.1R1	Not supported	Junos OS 10.1R1
VRF with IPv6—virtual routing instances for unicast traffic	Not supported	Junos OS 10.1R1	Not supported	Junos OS 10.1R1

Table 10: MPLS Features

Feature	EX2200 Switches	EX3200 and EX4200 Switches	EX4500 Switches	EX8200 Switches
MPLS with RSVP-based label switched paths (LSPs) and MPLS-based circuit cross-connects (CCCs)	Not supported	Junos OS 9.5R1	Not supported	Not supported
A separate software license is required for MPLS. See Understanding Software Licenses for the EX Series Switch.
MPLS with class of service (CoS) and IP over MPLS	Not supported	Junos OS 10.1R1	Not supported	Not supported

Table 11: Multicast Features

Feature	EX2200 Switches	EX3200 and EX4200 Switches	EX4500 Switches	EX8200 Switches
Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) version1 (v1) and IGMPv2	Not supported	Junos OS 9.0R2	Junos OS 10.2R1	Junos OS 9.4R1
IGMPv3	Not supported	Junos OS 9.3R2	Junos OS 10.2R1	Junos OS 9.6R1
IGMPv1/v2 snooping	Junos OS 10.1R1	Junos OS 9.1R1	Junos OS 10.2R1	Junos OS 9.4R1
IGMP snooping with routed VLAN interfaces (RVIs)	Junos OS 10.1R1	Junos OS 9.2R1	Junos OS 10.2R1	Junos OS 9.4R1
IGMPv3 snooping	Junos OS 10.1R1	Junos OS 9.6R1	Junos OS 10.2R1	Junos OS 9.6R1
IGMPv3 snooping EXCLUDE modes	Junos OS 10.3R1	Junos OS 10.3R1	Junos OS 10.3R1	Junos OS 10.3R1
Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP)	Not supported	Junos OS 9.4R1	Junos OS 10.2R1	Junos OS 9.4R1
See the Junos OS Multicast Configuration Guide at http://www.juniper.net/techpubs/software/junos/index.html.
Multicast VLAN registration (MVR)	Not supported	Junos OS 9.6R1	Not supported	Not supported
Protocol Independent Multicast dense mode (PIM DM)	Not supported	Junos OS 9.2R1	Not supported	Junos OS 9.4R1
See the Junos OS Multicast Configuration Guide at http://www.juniper.net/techpubs/software/junos/index.html.
Protocol Independent Multicast sparse mode (PIM SM)	Not supported	Junos OS 9.0R2	Junos OS 10.2R1	Junos OS 9.4R1
See the Junos OS Multicast Configuration Guide at http://www.juniper.net/techpubs/software/junos/index.html.
Protocol Independent Multicast source-specific multicast (PIM SSM)	Not supported	Junos OS 9.3R1	Junos OS 10.2R1	Junos OS 9.4R1
See the Junos OS Multicast Configuration Guide at http://www.juniper.net/techpubs/software/junos/index.html.
Single-source multicast	Not supported	Junos OS 9.0R2	Not supported	Junos OS 9.4R1

Table 12: Network Management and Monitoring Features

Feature	EX2200 Switches	EX3200 and EX4200 Switches	EX4500 Switches	EX8200 Switches
802.1ag Ethernet OAM connectivity fault management (CFM)	Not supported	Junos OS 10.2R1	Not supported	Not supported
Ethernet OAM link fault management (LFM)	Not supported	Junos OS 9.4R1	Not supported	Junos OS 10.0R1
Port mirroring	Junos OS 10.1R1	Junos OS 9.0R2	Junos OS 10.2R1	Junos OS 9.4R1
Port mirroring enhancements Layer 3 interface support Multiple VLAN support	Not supported	Junos OS 9.5R1	Not supported	Junos OS 9.5R1
Port mirroring enhancements Ingress-only and egress-only attributes on VLAN members to avoid flooding mirrored traffic to member interfaces of a VLAN on the intermediate switch	Not supported	Junos OS 10.0R1	Not supported	Not supported
Real-time performance monitoring (RPM)	Junos OS 10.1R1	Junos OS 9.3R2	Junos OS 10.2R1	Junos OS 10.1R1
RMON	Junos OS 10.1R1	Junos OS 9.0R2	Junos OS 10.2R1	Junos OS 9.4R1
sFlow monitoring technology	Not supported	Junos OS 9.3R2	Not supported	Junos OS 10.0R1
sFlow technology: Persistent IP addresses for agent IDs and use in datagrams	Not supported	Junos OS 10.2R1	Not supported	Junos OS 10.2R1
Simple Network Management Protocol version 1 (SNMPv1), SNMPv2, and SNMPv3	Junos OS 10.1R1	Junos OS 9.0R2	Junos OS 10.2R1	Junos OS 9.4R1
Time Domain Reflectometry (TDR)	Junos OS 10.1R1	Junos OS 9.0R2	Junos OS 10.2R1	Junos OS 9.4R1

Table 13: Port Security Features

Feature	EX2200 Switches	EX3200 and EX4200 Switches	EX4500 Switches	EX8200 Switches
Automatic recovery for port error disable conditions	Not supported	Junos OS 9.6R1	Junos OS 10.2R1	Junos OS 10.0R1
DHCP option 82	Junos OS 10.1R1	Junos OS 9.3R2	Junos OS 10.2R1	Junos OS 9.4R1
DHCP snooping	Junos OS 10.1R1	Junos OS 9.0R2	Not supported	Junos OS 10.3R1
Dynamic ARP inspection (DAI)	Junos OS 10.1R1	Junos OS 9.0R2	Not supported	Junos OS 10.3R1
IP source guard	Junos OS 10.1R1	Junos OS 9.2R1	Not supported	Junos OS 10.3R1
MAC limiting	Junos OS 10.1R1	Junos OS 9.0R2	Junos OS 10.2R1	Junos OS 10.3R1
MAC move limiting	Junos OS 10.1R1	Junos OS 9.0R2	Not supported	Junos OS 10.3R1
Persistent storage for DHCP snooping	Not supported	Junos OS 9.4R1	Not supported	Not supported
Static ARP support	Junos OS 10.1R1	Junos OS 9.0R2	Junos OS 10.2R1	Junos OS 9.4R1

Table 14: System Management Features

Feature	EX2200 Switches	EX3200 and EX4200 Switches	EX4500 Switches	EX8200 Switches
Autoinstallation of configuration files	Junos OS 10.1R1	Junos OS 9.4R1	Junos OS 10.2R1	Not supported
Automatic software download	Junos OS 10.1R1	Junos OS 9.6R1	Junos OS 10.2R1	Junos OS 9.6R1
Configuration rollback	Junos OS 10.1R1	Junos OS 9.0R2	Junos OS 10.2R1	Junos OS 9.4R1
IP directed broadcast	Not supported	Junos OS 9.4R1	Junos OS 10.2R1	Junos OS 9.4R1
J-Web interface, for switch configuration and management	Junos OS 10.1R1	Junos OS 9.0R2	Junos OS 10.2R1	Junos OS 9.4R1
Online insertion and removal (OIR) of uplink modules	Not applicable	Junos OS 10.0R1	Not applicable	Not applicable
Power budget management	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Junos OS 10.2R1

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Published: 2010-07-14