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Licensing

Aviz Packet Broker supports 3 license types as listed below

License

Features

Platforms

Basic

Layer 3/4 (IPv4 and IPv6) Filtering.
Layer 2 (VLAN and Ethertype) Filtering.
VLAN Actions (Ingress and Egress).

Broadcom (TD2X)

EC5812

Broadcom (TD3)

DELL S5232, DELL S5248, DS1000, DS2000, DS3000, EC5835, EC7326, EC7726

Broadcom (TH)

Advanced

(Includes Basic)

Generic Header Filtering (MPLS, L2GRE, VXLAN, IP-n-IP)
User Defined Offset Filtering
Truncation (Slicing)

Nvidia (Spectrum 2,3)

SN3420, SN3700C, SN3800, SN3700, SN4600C, SN4600, SN4700

**Supported only on Broadcom TD3 platforms - EC7726, EC7326, EC5835, DS1000, DS2000, DS3000, Dell S5248, Dell S5232.

Limitations

ASIC Limitations:

Multiple flows can not have the same network port
In VLAN-aware mode, VLAN is a mandatory match qualifier in the flow rule for matching tagged packets
Pop-VLAN is supported on flow rules which have VLAN id as a qualifier
Flow rule VLAN qualifier is not supported in VLAN-Unaware mode
For VxLAN, NVIDIA supports only one source VTEP per system but supports multiple destination VTEP
For VxLAN, multiple VNI cannot be mapped to the same Destination VTEP
GTP, UDF and Generic Header Filtering configurations and rules are not supported for the NVIDIA SN2100 switch
Ingress-VLAN is not supported on EC-AS7326 and EC-AS7726 platforms
Dell 5232 does not support Dynamic Port Breakout configurations on Ethernet32

Software Limitations:

A Maximum of 4 active SSH sessions are supported
Tunnel attributes cannot be updated and will require deleting the existing tunnel and reconfiguring
Override qualifiers are not supported for the VxLAN feature

SSH connection should be disconnected gracefully using the “quit” command once the usage is completed

Image Management

The switch image is the executable code running on the device. APB can be upgraded to the device

ONIE to APB
APB to APB

The typical upgrade process for the image consists of the following steps:

Load a new firmware image and boot image onto an SFTP, HTTP, SCP, or TFTP server on your network.
Transfer the new images to the switch
Specify the new image as the one to be loaded the next time a switch reload occurs
Reload the switch

Installing APB from ONIE

To install APB from ONIE, please follow the below steps:

Login using the console port and reboot the switch
Enter ONIE mode

Select 'ONIE: Uninstall OS' to clean up installed images

This step takes a few minutes and reboot the switch after cleanup is complete

The Switch will reboot and boot into 'ONIE: Install OS' mode, run the below command to stop auto-discovery

The 'onie-discovery-stop' command is deprecated and will be removed in 2019.02.

If you are using the latest version of ONIE, Use 'onie-stop' instead.

Assign 'eth0' with a management-IP to copy image from remote server

If server is present on different network using below command to add a default route

Image can be installed using HTTP or SCP:
- SCP -

HTTP -
- start HTTP-server on image directory, on a linux server below command can be used to achieve this

On the switch console use the below command to install the image using HTTP, This will download and install the OPBNOS

Installing APB from USB Drive

To install APB from USB Drive, Please follow the below steps:

Login using the console port and reboot the switch
Enter ONIE mode

Image Upgrade from APB

Note: The introduction of key enhancements, specifically LACP support and the SONiC operating system upgrade, dictates a direct upgrade path to APB version 2.10.0 from legacy versions is unavailable.

ONIE Install approach is recommended.

Image Upgrade from APB

To upgrade image to a newer version from APB CLI, use the following command:

CLI Example:

To verify, Please run below command:

Selecting APB on next boot

To specify APB image on next reboot, use the following command:

Reference

Comment

Removing available images

You can remove unused or old images from the device to optimize disk utilization using the "cleanup-images" and "remove-image" commands.

Reference

Command

remove-image < image_name>

Description

CLI Example

Reference

Rebooting the Switch

You can reload/reboot the switch using the below command:

pbnoscli# save   
  save                  Copy Running configuration to Startup configuration
pbnoscli# save 
Saving Configuration

pbnoscli# reboot 
Check if running config is saved
Do you want to reboot the device [y/n]: y

Supported Platforms

List of switches along with their speeds and supported licenses:

Port Speed

HWSKU

Vendor

License

1/10GbE

[48x1GbE + 8x10GbE]

Celestica

Basic, Advanced**

1/100GbE

[48x1GbE + 4x100GbE]

NVIDIA

Please refer to the "Licensing" page for detailed information.

* Devices are End-Of-Life

Scalability

Vendor

ASIC

Platform Matrix

HWSKU

Supported Speeds

Specification

pbnoscli# show boot Current: OPBNOS-master.0-dirty-20250213.013329 Next: OPBNOS-master.0-dirty-20250207.160956 Available: OPBNOS-master.0-dirty-20250207.160956 OPBNOS-master.0-dirty-20250213.013329 pbnoscli# show version Aviz OPB NOS Version: 2.8.0 Distribution: Debian 11.11 Kernel: 5.10.0-18-2-amd64 Platform: x86_64-mlnx_msn4600c-r0 HwSKU: ACS-MSN4600C ASIC: mellanox ASIC Count: 1 Serial Number: MT2040X05753 Model Number: MSN4600-CS2FC Hardware Revision: A1 Uptime: 18:07:38 up 3:20, 3 users, load average: 0.11, 0.57, 0.71 Date: Mon 24 Feb 2025 18:07:38 Docker images: REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID SIZE docker-syncd-mlnx latest c530e940d41c 898MB docker-syncd-mlnx master.0-dirty-20250207.160956 c530e940d41c 898MB docker-snmp latest 27018d6fc1c5 408MB docker-snmp master.0-dirty-20250207.160956 27018d6fc1c5 408MB docker-platform-monitor latest b48d9e8798f6 881MB docker-platform-monitor master.0-dirty-20250207.160956 b48d9e8798f6 881MB docker-orchagent latest 83e221477668 396MB docker-orchagent master.0-dirty-20250207.160956 83e221477668 396MB docker-lldp latest b8dda16e3032 403MB docker-lldp master.0-dirty-20250207.160956 b8dda16e3032 403MB docker-eventd latest cfc31e8b5c59 361MB docker-eventd master.0-dirty-20250207.160956 cfc31e8b5c59 361MB docker-database latest 7099928b9e6f 361MB docker-database master.0-dirty-20250207.160956 7099928b9e6f 361MB docker-sflow latest 8f7d4b72342d 361MB docker-sflow master.0-dirty-20250207.160956 8f7d4b72342d 361MB docker-nagr latest 2d4c3653029e 804MB docker-nagr master.0-dirty-20250207.160956 2d4c3653029e 804MB fv latest a55f748c07a0 173MB latest a55f748c07a0 173MB

Licensing