Wednesday, May 26, 2021

How does EVPN work with VxLAN?

I was tasked with installing and configuring EVPN-VxLAN on a small network. I have BGP and VxLAN configured, so now I only have EVPN. The thing is, I have no idea what EVPN does. Various documentations and sources are mostly confusing. It looks like it does exactly what VxLAN does. So why do I need it? What does it add to my network and why would I need it? I get connectivity fine between various VLANs in different WAN, so why would I need it? Sorry if this is a dumb question, I simply don't understand the purpose of EVPN.



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