Hi authors, EVPN experts, Any feedback?
Regards, Muthu On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 4:00 PM Muthu Arul Mozhi Perumal < [email protected]> wrote: > draft-ietf-bess-evpn-inter-subnet-forwarding describes two ways of > provisioning the default gateway MAC and IP addresses on the IRB interface > associated with the corresponding subnet: > > <snip> > 1. All the PEs for a given tenant subnet use the same anycast default > gateway IP and MAC addresses . On each PE, this default gateway IP > and MAC addresses correspond to the IRB interface connecting the BT > associated with the tenant's VLAN to the corresponding tenant's IP- > VRF. > > 2. Each PE for a given tenant subnet uses the same anycast default > gateway IP address but its own MAC address. These MAC addresses are > aliased to the same anycast default gateway IP address through the > use of the Default Gateway extended community as specified in > [RFC7432], which is carried in the EVPN MAC/IP Advertisement routes. > </snip> > > Further below it says: > > <snip> > Irrespective of using only the anycast address or both anycast and > non-anycast addresses on the same IRB, when a TS sends an ARP request > or ND Neighbor Solicitation (NS) to the PE that is attached to, the > request is sent for the anycast IP address of the IRB interface > associated with the TS's subnet and the reply will use anycast MAC > address (in both Source MAC in the Ethernet header and Sender > hardware address in the payload). > </snip> > > In the above, it says the ARP response or NS will use the anycast MAC > address. The question is, how is this feasible if the second option of > provisioning > the default gateway MAC and IP addresses on the IRB interface are chosen, > where each PE for a given tenant subnet uses the same anycast default > gateway IP address but its own MAC address? > > Should it instead say: > the request is sent for the anycast IP address of the IRB interface > associated with the TS's subnet and the reply will use *configured* > MAC address? > > i.e. s/anycast MAC/configured MAC? > > Regards, > Muthu >
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