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The Cisco Nexus 3164Q, 31128PQ, 3232C, and 3264Q switches and the Cisco Nexus 3100 Series switches in N9K mode run Cisco Nexus 9000 Series software and follow the Cisco Nexus 9000 license model. Therefore, these switches require the Layer 3 Enterprise Services Package (rather than the Layer 3 Base Services Package) to support routing protocols.

Layer 3 Base Services Package

LAN_BASE_SERVICES_PKG

N3K-BAS1K9

Static routing

RIPv2

EIGRP stub

OSPFv2 (limited routes)

PIMv2 (sparse mode)

Note

The Cisco Nexus 3164Q, 31128PQ, 3232C, and 3264Q switches and the Cisco Nexus 3100 Series switches in N9K mode run Cisco Nexus 9000 Series software and follow the Cisco Nexus 9000 license model. Therefore, these switches require the Layer 3 Enterprise Services Package (rather than the Layer 3 Base Services Package) to support routing protocols.

I'm experiencing problems with PIM and would like to be sure that they are not related with this.

The output of show version is:

Cisco Nexus Operating System (NX-OS) Software
TAC support: http://www.cisco.com/tac
Copyright (C) 2002-2016, Cisco and/or its affiliates.
All rights reserved.
The copyrights to certain works contained in this software are
owned by other third parties and used and distributed under their own
licenses, such as open source.  This software is provided "as is," and unless
otherwise stated, there is no warranty, express or implied, including but not
limited to warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose.
Certain components of this software are licensed under
the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2.0 or
GNU General Public License (GPL) version 3.0  or the GNU
Lesser General Public License (LGPL) Version 2.1 or
Lesser General Public License (LGPL) Version 2.0.
A copy of each such license is available at
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.php and
http://opensource.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html and
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/lgpl-2.1.php and
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/library.txt.

Software
  BIOS: version 3.5.0
  NXOS: version 7.0(3)I3(1)
  BIOS compile time:  01/25/2016
  NXOS image file is: bootflash:///nxos.7.0.3.I3.1.bin
  NXOS compile time:  2/8/2016 20:00:00 [02/09/2016 05:18:17]


Hardware
  cisco Nexus 3172T Chassis
  Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-3227U CPU @ 2.50GHz with 8153496 kB of memory.
  Processor Board ID FOC20332ZW0

  Device name: Switch1
  bootflash:   14900224 kB
  usb1:               0 kB (expansion flash)

Kernel uptime is 4 day(s), 0 hour(s), 44 minute(s), 31 second(s)

Last reset
  Reason: Unknown
  System version: 7.0(3)I3(1)
  Service:

plugin
  Core Plugin, Ethernet Plugin

Active Package(s):

I'm experiencing problems with PIM and would like to be sure that they are not related with this.