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FEX Forwarding – Cisco Describing the Cisco Nexus Family and Cisco NX-OS Software
FEX Forwarding The Cisco Nexus 2000 (that is, the 2200 or 2300 platform) Series fabric extender does not perform any local switching. All traffic is sent to the parent switch, which provides central forwarding and policy enforcement, including host-to-host communications between two systems that are connected to the same fabric extender, as shown in Figure…