Using VRFs to maintain security zones in an Layer 3 datacenter network

The number of overlay technologies available today for the datacenter are numerous and highly functional. The flexibility they provide enables security zone enforcement and physical portability of hosts more seamlessly (among other benefits). However, a few risks in deploying popular layer 2 overlay technologies are vendor-lockdown, scalability, specialized hardware required to mitigate bottleneck points, and […]

Author information

Paul Zugnoni

Paul Zugnoni has been in networking for 15 years, primarily working on publicly facing data center networks. He has enjoyed roles including network engineer, data center planner, traveling cable monkey, consultant, manager, peering coordinator, network architect, and spanning-tree therapist.

The post Using VRFs to maintain security zones in an Layer 3 datacenter network appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Paul Zugnoni.