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8. VRF Lite and EVPN

Iwan Hoogendoorn1  
(1)
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
 

This chapter describes VRF, explains the use cases, benefits, and limitations, and shows how to configure and validate VRF Lite.

You will also learn about EVPN architecture and learn about the use cases and benefits related to EVPN.

VRF Lite Use Cases

When you require separate routing instances for different tenants, you need to deploy multiple edge transport nodes and multiple Tier-0 gateways (per tenant, at least one Tier-0 gateway). This does not scale very well because you ...

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