May 2024
Beginner to intermediate
688 pages
27h 50m
English
The focus of this chapter is understanding, configuring, and validating a bridged overlay in an EVPN VXLAN fabric, but it also serves as a foundation for several other features that are fundamental to know both for this book and for data center design and deployment in general. This chapter includes the following topics:
Understanding how local and remote MAC addresses are learned
Replicating broadcast, unknown unicast, and multicast (BUM) traffic
Multihoming with ESI LAG and Core Isolation
Route Targets and auto-generation of Route Targets
MAC mobility
Loop detection in an EVPN VXLAN fabric
Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) for the underlay and overlay
Through the course of this chapter, ...