Tag: evpn
All the articles with the tag "evpn".
The EVPN underlay has three jobs
EVPN gets the attention, but it moves nothing on its own. The layer underneath has exactly three jobs, and there are two very different ways to do them. I built both.
BGP for EVPN: Type 2 and Type 3
How BGP carries EVPN routes using Type 2 and Type 3 advertisements, and why even a perfect control plane depends on a healthy underlay.
Why does EVPN/VXLAN exist? The problems that broke the old way
EVPN/VXLAN didn't appear because engineers wanted more acronyms. It appeared because the old network model broke under the demands of modern data centers.