/mcpData sheet Cisco public © 2025 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Model Catalyst 9500 Catalyst 9500X IP routing Routing Information Protocol version 2 (RIPv2) and next generation [RIPng] Yes Yes Open Shortest Path First version 2 (OSPFv2) and OSPFv3 Yes Yes Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP), and EIGRPv6 Yes Yes Intermediate System-to-Intermediate System version 4 (IS-ISv4) Yes Yes Border Gateway Protocol version 4 (BGPv4) and BGPv6 Yes Yes Protocol-Independent Multicast (PIM) Sparse Mode (PIM-SM) Yes Yes PIM Source-Specific Mode (PIM-SSM) Yes Yes Bidirectional PIM (PIM-BIDIR) Yes No1 IPv6 routing Yes Yes Layer 3 routed subinterfaces Yes Yes MPLS MPLS Layer 3 VPN Yes Yes Ethernet over MPLS (EoMPLS) Yes Yes Virtual private LAN service (VPLS) Yes No1 MPLS over GRE Yes No1 MPLS traffic engineering (MPLS-TE) Yes Yes