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Path Technologies for Different Vendors

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NetBrain dynamic path feature visualizes the forwarding of the packet and emulates the real packet forwarding process by looking up route tables in your live network and provides end-to-end visibility across any network path. Besides looking up route tables to find the next hop, It can also look into PBR, NAT, ACL, firewall policy and other traffic control technologies to ensure the correctness of a path.

This document introduces the vendors and device types that the system supports to parse in terms of the following special path technologies when calculating a path:

▪Policy

▪ACL

▪PBR

▪NAT

▪SNAT

▪MPLS VPN

▪IPsec VPN

▪GRE VPN

▪MPLS TE

▪Fabricpath

▪OTV

▪VPLS

▪VXLAN

Firewalls

Device Type	Policy	ACL	PBR	NAT	MPLS VPN	IPsec VPN	GRE VPN
Checkpoint Firewall	√			√		√
Checkpoint Firewall R80
Cisco ASA Firewall		√		√		√
Cisco Firepower NGFW		√
Cisco Firepower NGFW with FTD Firewall		√
Cisco PIX Firewall		√		√		√
Fortinet FortiGate Firewall	√		√	√		√	√
Juniper SRX Firewall	√	√		√	√	√	√
NetScreen Firewall	√		√	√		√
Palo Alto Firewall	√		√	√		√
Sidewinder Firewall						√

Routers

Device Type	ACL	PBR	NAT	MPLS VPN	IPsec VPN	Pure MPLS	GRE VPN	MPLS TE	OTV	VPLS	QoS
Alcatel Lucent Service Router	√			√				√		√
AWS DX Router
AWS Vpc Router	√
Cisco IOS XR	√	√		√		√		√		√
Cisco Router	√	√	√	√	√	√	√	√	√		√
Juniper Router	√		√	√	√		√			√
Versa FlexVNF					√
Versa Controller					√
Viptela vEdge	√				√

Switches

Device Type	Policy	ACL	PBR	NAT	MPLS VPN	Pure MPLS	IPsec VPN	GRE VPN	MPLS TE	Route Table	Fabricpath	OTV	VXLAN	QoS
3Com Switch
Adtran Switch
Arista Switch		√	√	√						√
Avaya Switch
Avaya VSP
Brocade Switch					√					√
Ciena Switch
Cisco ACI Leaf Switch										√
Cisco ACI Spine Switch										√
Cisco Catalyst Switch
Cisco IOS Switch		√	√	√	√	√	√	√	√	√				√
Cisco Nexus Switch		√	√		√	√				√	√	√	√	√
Dell Force 10 Switch		√	√							√
Dell Networking Switch		√	√							√
Dell Sonicwall	√		√	√			√			√
Dell PowerConnect Switch
Enterasys Switch
Extreme Switch		√			√				√	√
HP Menu-Driven Switch
HP ProCurve Switch
Juniper EX Switch		√			√			√		√
Nortel Switch
vSphere Distributed Switch
vSphere Standard Switch

Load Balancer

Device Type	Policy	SNAT	Virtual Server
A10 Load Balancer	√		√
AWS Application Load Balancer
Cisco ACE Load Balancer			√
Cisco CSS Load Balancer
F5 Load Balancer	√	√	√
Netscaler Load Balancer		√	√
Radware Alteon Load Balancer			√

Tips:

▪See the Multiple-vendor Support List for details about the basic traffic path support of a device type. If a device type is in the Tier-2 level, it means that this device type supports the basic L2 or L3 traffic path in the system.

▪For devices that the system does not recognize these special technologies as described above, you can use the traceroute function to obtain the traceroute hops and draw the path on a map with the traceroute hops.