API Guide

50 00:00:00:cc:cc:cc lcl 0 ethernet1/1/8:1
OS10# show evpn mac evi 50
Type -(lcl): Local (rmt): remote
EVI Mac-Address Type Seq-No Interface/Next-Hop
50 00:00:00:aa:aa:aa rmt 0 55.1.1.3
50 00:00:00:cc:cc:cc lcl 0 ethernet1/1/8:1
VXLAN BGP EVPN routing
This section describes how EVPN implements overlay routing between L2 segments associated with EVIs belonging to the same tenant
on a VTEP. IETF draft draft-ietf-bess-evpn-inter-subnet-forwarding-05 describes EVPN inter-subnet forwarding, Integrated Routing and
Bridging (IRB), and how to use EVPN with IP routing between L2 tenant domains.
You set up overlay routing by assigning a VRF to each tenant, creating a virtual-network interface, and assigning an IP subnet in the VRF
to each virtual-network interface. The VTEP acts as the L3 gateway that routes traffic from one tenant subnet to another in the overlay
before encapsulating it in the VXLAN header and transporting it over the underlay fabric. On virtual networks that associate with EVIs,
EVPN IRB is enabled only after you create a virtual-network interface.
When you enable IRB for a virtual network/EVI, EVPN operation on each VTEP also advertises the local tenant IP-MAC bindings learned
on the EVPN-enabled virtual networks to all other VTEPs. The local tenant IP-MAC bindings are learned from ARP or ICMPv6 protocol
operation. They advertise as EVPN Type-2 BGP route updates to other VTEPs, each of whom then imports and installs them as ARP/
IPv6 neighbor entries in the dataplane.
To enable efficient traffic forwarding on a VTEP, OS10 supports distributed gateway routing. A distributed gateway allows multiple VTEPs
to act as the gateway router for a tenant subnet. The VTEP that is located nearest to a host acts as its gateway router.
To enable L3 gateway/IRB functionality for BGP EVPN, configure a VXLAN overlay network and enable routing on a switch:
1. Create a non-default VRF instance for overlay routing. For multi-tenancy, create a VRF instance for each tenant.
2. Configure globally the anycast gateway MAC address used by all VTEPs.
3. Configure a virtual-network interface for each virtual network, (optional) assign it to the tenant VRF, and configure an IP address.
Then enable the interface.
4. Configure an anycast gateway IP address for each virtual network. OS10 supports distributed gateway routing.
EVPN supports different types of IRB routing for tenants, VMs, and servers, that connect to each VTEP:
• Centralized routing: For each tenant subnet, one VTEP is designated as the L3 gateway to perform IRB inter-subnet routing. All other
VTEPs perform L2 bridging.
• Distributed routing: For each tenant subnet, all VTEPs perform L3 gateway routing for the tenant VMs and servers connected to a
VTEP. In a large multi-tenant network, distributed routing allows for more efficient bandwidth use and traffic forwarding. IRB routing is
performed either:
• Only on an ingress VTEP.
• On both ingress and egress VTEPs.
Asymmetric IRB routing
In asymmetric IRB routing, IRB routing is performed only on ingress VTEPs. Egress VTEPs perform L2 bridging in the tenant subnet.
An ingress VTEP directly routes packets to a destination host MAC address in the destination virtual-network VNI. An egress VTEP only
bridges packets to a host by removing the VXLAN header and forwarding a packet to the local Layer 2 domain using the VNI-to-VLAN
mapping.
The ingress VTEP is configured with all destination virtual networks, and has the ARP entries and MAC addresses for all destination hosts
in its hardware tables. Each VTEP learns the host MAC and MAC-to-IP bindings using ARP snooping for local addresses and type-2 route
advertisements from remote VTEPs.
For VXLAN BGP EVPN examples that use asymmetric IRB, see Example: VXLAN with BGP EVPN and Example: VXLAN BGP EVPN —
Multiple AS topology.
Symmetric IRB routing
In symmetric IRB routing, both ingress and egress VTEPs perform IRB routing and bridging for a tenant subnet. The ingress VTEP routes
packets to an egress VTEP MAC address in an intermediate virtual-network VNI. The egress VTEP then routes the packet again to the
destination host in the destination virtual-network VNI.
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