Single-AS EVPN Fabric with OSPF Underlay: Underlay Network Unicast Routing

 Introduction


Image 2-1 illustrates the components essential for designing a Single-AS, Multicast-enabled OSPF Underlay EVPN Fabric. These components need to be established before constructing the EVPN fabric. I've grouped them into five categories based on their function.

  • General: Defines the IP addressing scheme for Spine-Leaf Inter-Switch links, set the BGP AS number and number of BGP Route-Reflectors, and set the MAC address for the Anycast gateway for client-side VLAN routing interfaces.
  • Replication: Specifies the replication mode for Broadcast, Unknown Unicast, and Multicast (BUM) traffic generated by Tenant Systems. The options are Ingress-Replication and Multicast (ASM or BiDir options).
  • vPC: Describes vPC multihoming settings such as vPC Peer Link VLAN ID and Port-Channel ID, vPC Auto-recovery and Delay Restore timers, and define vPC Peer Keepalive interface.
  • Protocol: Defines the numbering schema for Loopback interfaces, set the OSPF Area identifier, and OSPF process name.
  • Resources: Reserves IP address ranges for Loopback interfaces defined in the Protocols category and for the Rendezvous Point specified in the Replication category. Besides, in this section, we reserve Layer 2 and Layer 3 VXLAN and VLAN ranges for overlay network segments.

The model presented in Figure 2-1 outlines the steps for configuring an EVPN fabric using the Continue reading

Repost: Think About the 99% of the Users

Daniel left a very relevant comment on my Data Center Fabric Designs: Size Matters blog post, describing how everyone rushes to sell the newest gizmos and technologies to the unsuspecting (and sometimes too-awed) users1:

Absolutely right. I’m working at an MSP, and we do a lot of project work for enterprises with between 500 and 2000 people. That means the IT department is not that big; it’s usually just a cost center for them.

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Repost: Think About the 99% of the Users

Daniel left a very relevant comment on my Data Center Fabric Designs: Size Matters blog post, describing how everyone rushes to sell the newest gizmos and technologies to the unsuspecting (and sometimes too-awed) users1:

Absolutely right. I’m working at an MSP, and we do a lot of project work for enterprises with between 500 and 2000 people. That means the IT department is not that big; it’s usually just a cost center for them.

Read more …

IPv6 Prefix Lengths

These days its up to IPv6 Service providers to determine what IPv6 address prefix length they assign to each customer. This leads to the question: What lengths are commonly used for customer assignments? Let's see if we can answer it.

NAN061: Transforming Network Telemetry Into Operational Insights With Kentik (Sponsored)

The expectations for application delivery are higher than ever before, the networks that support those applications are increasingly distributed, and visibility is essential for network operations and troubleshooting. On today’s sponsored episode, Kentik’s Phil Gervasi joins us to discuss how Kentik collects essential performance data to help you monitor and manage all the networks your... Read more »

Stop the Network-Based Application Recognition Nonsense

One of my readers sent me an interesting update on the post-QUIC round of NBAR whack-a-mole (TL&DR: everything is better with Bluetooth AI):

Cloudflare (and the other hyperscalers) are full into QUIC, as it gives them lots of E2E control, taking a lot of choice away from the service providers on how they handle traffic and congestion. It is quite well outlined by Geoff Huston in an APNIC podcast.

So far, so good. However, whenever there’s a change, there’s an opportunity for marketing FUD, coming from the usual direction.

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Stop the Network-Based Application Recognition Nonsense

One of my readers sent me an interesting update on the post-QUIC round of NBAR whack-a-mole (TL&DR: everything is better with Bluetooth AI):

Cloudflare (and the other hyperscalers) are full into QUIC, as it gives them lots of E2E control, taking a lot of choice away from the service providers on how they handle traffic and congestion. It is quite well outlined by Geoff Huston in an APNIC podcast.

So far, so good. However, whenever there’s a change, there’s an opportunity for marketing FUD, coming from the usual direction.

Read more …

Lessons from building an automated SDK pipeline

In case you missed the announcement from Developer Week 2024, Cloudflare is now offering software development kits (SDKs) for Typescript, Go and Python. As a reminder, you can get started by installing the packages.

// Typescript
npm install cloudflare

// Go
go get -u github.com/cloudflare/cloudflare-go/v2

// Python
pip install --pre cloudflare

Instead of using a tool like curl or Postman to create a new zone in your account, you can use one of the SDKs in a language that you’re already comfortable with or that integrates directly into your existing codebase.

import Cloudflare from 'cloudflare';

const cloudflare = new Cloudflare({
  apiToken: process.env['CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN']
});

const newZone = await cloudflare.zones.create({
  account: { id: '023e105f4ecef8ad9ca31a8372d0c353' },
  name: 'example.com',
  type: 'full',
});

Since their inception, our SDKs have been manually maintained by one or more dedicated individuals. For every product addition or improvement, we needed to orchestrate a series of manually created pull requests to get those changes into customer hands. This, unfortunately, created an imbalance in the frequency and quality of changes that made it into the SDKs. Even though the product teams would drive some of these changes, not all languages were covered and the SDKs Continue reading

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