Sunday, August 30, 2020

EVPN-MPLS vs EVPN-VXLAN

I'm trying to understand the benefit of using VXLAN for the data plane in EVPN.

It seems like you can use MP-BGP to have the MAC address info shared for EVPN. As in you can just run EVPN over BGP and call it a day.

So why use VXLAN + BGP + EVPN, which seems to be the setup I find mostly when I google it? What does the additional VXLAN encapsulation get you?



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