VXLAN / EVPN Types – Comprehensive Guide

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Looking into EVPN and the route types (type 2 and 5) is my understanding correct.
In terms of their placement into the relevant forward tables upon the device.

EVPN Route Type 2: MAC/IP Advertisement
Placed into the mac forwarding table.

EVPN Route Type 5: IP Prefix Route
Are placed into the RIB

With both route types also being placed into the VTEP tables. Is this understanding correct?

Thanks,

Best Answer

Yes, your understanding is correct.

You need route type 2 messages to fill your ARP tables since there's no traditional broadcast domain anymore. You can find more details on type 2 messages in RFC7432.

Type 5 routes are used, as you assumed, to fill routing tables, as described in draft-ietf-bess-evpn-prefix-advertisement, which also explains some of the use cases for this route type.

There's a nice article on bgphelp.com about all the BGP EVPN route types.

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