Kireeti,

It seems that you make EVPN and IPVPN orthogonal now: If IP, use IPVPN, if not, 
EVPN.

Do you also see that the end system can be distinguished this way?

Using IP VPN for all the IP applications is good in one way, but it requires 
the substantial changes on all the hosts/hypervisor and require the behavior 
changes on the VM/physical server. Giving millions VM/servers are there, will 
this realistic?   Why do we ask all the tenant systems to change behavior in 
order to use of IPVPN?

IMO, IPVPN is very useful for many applications and it is also  necessary to 
support multi-tenancy in DC without changing tenant system behavior.

Thanks,
Lucy

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kireeti 
Kompella
Sent: Friday, December 21, 2012 10:21 PM
To: NAPIERALA, MARIA H
Cc: Thomas Narten; [email protected]; Aldrin Isaac
Subject: Re: [nvo3] Multi-subnet VNs [was Re: FW: New Version Notification for 
draft-yong-nvo3-frwk-dpreq-addition-00.txt]

Hi Maria,

On Dec 20, 2012, at 13:36, "NAPIERALA, MARIA H" 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

The question is what problem does EVPN solve?
Pure layer 2 traffic. Yes, it does exist, and needs to be dealt with properly. 
But just that.

In the context of DC, EVPN can only address packets bridged in the same VLAN. 
If most packets are routed then EVPN, even if all the complexity problems are 
addressed, doesn't achieve anything for the traffic that is routed. I believe 
it is the wrong tradeoff to design a solution around EVPN (i.e., around 
bridging).
Agreed.

Kireeti.
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