Wim,
The draft currently assumes that all the S-PEs are EVPN PEs. However, the 
remote S-PEs really don't have to be EVPN PEs. They can be IP-VPN PEs and we 
can use evpn-ipvpn-interop draft for the interoperability between the two 
types. On the other hand, the S-PEs in the redundancy group have to be EVPN PEs.

Now, regarding using local edge PIC on the SPEs, it doesn't give you the 
sych-up of prefixes for VRFs and ARP cache tables. We are talking about a 
single BGP session between the CE and S-PEs. And upon failure, we are talking 
about non-stop forwarding with min. traffic disruption.

-Ali

From: BESS <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> on behalf of 
"Henderickx, Wim (Wim)" 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Date: Thursday, November 5, 2015 at 1:17 AM
To: "Jakob Heitz (jheitz)" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>, 
"Jeffrey (Zhaohui) Zhang" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>, 
"[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Subject: Re: [bess] draft-sajassi-bess-evpn-l3vpn- multihoming-00.txt

Jakob, thx this is clear.
What I see is that the benefits of ESI and Mass withdraw indication are also 
solved based on implementation. By using PW/tunnel indications and local Edge 
PIC on the SPE connected to the access network can enable the same behaviour 
with similar convergence results.


From: "Jakob Heitz (jheitz)" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Date: Thursday 5 November 2015 at 15:44
To: Wim Henderickx 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>, 
"Jeffrey (Zhaohui) Zhang" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>, 
"[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Subject: RE: draft-sajassi-bess-evpn-l3vpn- multihoming-00.txt

The point is that the CE does not realize that it is multihomed.
The access node implements the multihoming, but the CE has only one BGP session 
and one interface.
The APE-SPE connections is an ethernet with the same ESI towards SPE1 and SPE2
The SPEs talk EVPN, using route type 5 to implement an L3VPN service.
This provides the ESI and mass withdrawal that RFC4364 routes do not.

--Jakob

From: BESS [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Henderickx, Wim (Wim)
Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2015 9:46 PM
To: Jeffrey (Zhaohui) Zhang <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>; 
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [bess] draft-sajassi-bess-evpn-l3vpn- multihoming-00.txt

IF you do Edge-PIC this is optional afais.

From: "Jeffrey (Zhaohui) Zhang" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Date: Thursday 5 November 2015 at 14:44
To: Wim Henderickx 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>, 
"[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Subject: RE: draft-sajassi-bess-evpn-l3vpn- multihoming-00.txt

My understanding is that an IP-VPN PE would not be able take advantage of 
"mass-withdraw"?

From: Henderickx, Wim (Wim) [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2015 2:42 PM
To: Jeffrey (Zhaohui) Zhang <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>; 
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: Re: draft-sajassi-bess-evpn-l3vpn- multihoming-00.txt

Is the draft assuming also IP-VPN in the core or only EVPN?
I don't see a reason for excluding one or another

From: "Jeffrey (Zhaohui) Zhang" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Date: Thursday 5 November 2015 at 14:40
To: Wim Henderickx 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>, 
"[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Subject: RE: draft-sajassi-bess-evpn-l3vpn- multihoming-00.txt

I did not get that either until Ali confirmed that in the meeting.

I had thought that SPEs were running regular L3VPN (not EVPN) but the ones that 
a CE multi-home to would also use EVPN procedures. Now it looks like there is 
no "regular" L3VPN - everything is EVPN.

Jeffrey

From: BESS [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Henderickx, Wim (Wim)
Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2015 2:25 PM
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: [bess] draft-sajassi-bess-evpn-l3vpn- multihoming-00.txt

Maybe good to clarify in this draft which nodes are involved in EVPN from the 
drawing on p3 in 
https://www.ietf.org/proceedings/94/slides/slides-94-bess-11.pdf?
Did I understood correctly in the meeting that this is required between all 
SPE(s), if so why?

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