Re: EVPN ESI BUM Forwarding

2022-11-18 Thread Tarko Tikan
hey, The switches doing it are two Arista 7050SX3 with a single instance VXLAN EVPN. It should be a pretty simple setup. Not aware of any knobs to modify any of this behavior or what we could be missing. Hard to speak for Arista (we do also have EVPN-VXLAN implementation with 7050SX3 and A-A

Re: EVPN ESI BUM Forwarding

2022-11-17 Thread Crist Clark
Thanks for the response. It really doesn't bear directly on my situation, but it does have references to what I need in RFC 8365. Now that I know the terminology for these features, "Split Horizon" and "Local Bias" (neither of which seems to fit very well to me), it's easier to find more info. I

Re: EVPN ESI BUM Forwarding

2022-11-17 Thread Tarko Tikan
hey, "The EVPN split-horizon procedure ensures that the BUM traffic originated by the multi-homed PE and sent from the non-DF to the DF, is not replicated back to the CE (echoed packets on the CE). To avoid these echoed packets, the non-DF (PE1) sends all the BUM packets to the DF (PE2) with

EVPN ESI BUM Forwarding

2022-11-17 Thread Crist Clark
My google-fu and attempts to dig through all of the standards is failing me. I am trying to understand the mechanism to prevent an ESI designated forwarder from looping BUM traffic. The scenario I am imagining is BUM traffic coming into the fabric on an ESI link on a non-designated member of the E