Hi Sami,

Please refer to my response inline in red …

From: BESS <[email protected]> on behalf of Boutros, Sami 
<[email protected]>
Date: Tuesday, May 23, 2023 at 2:31 PM
To: BESS <[email protected]>
Subject: [bess] Question on symmetric EVPN IRB RFC 9135
Hi,

Looking at section 5.2, it doesn’t address quite few cases like for example.


  *   What should the receiving PE do if it receives a non zero label2, but no 
IP VRF route target? Should we treat as asymmetric?

No, non-zero label2 means it is symmetric IRB and if it doesn’t receive the 
corresponding IP-VRF RT, then it should be treated as an error and not be 
imported (also logged an error message).


  *   What should the receiving PE do if the IP VRF route target import the 
route to a VRF different then the VRF the IRB interface belong to? will that 
even function?

I guess, you are asking what happens when IP-VRF RT doesn’t correspond to 
MAC-VRF RT. In this case, the wrong RT will be imported into the wrong table if 
the receiving has a match for that wrong RT. But this is the same as IP-VPN use 
case when the transmitter uses the wrong RT – i.e., the receiver imports it 
into the wrong table when there is a match.

The section seems to assume that the IP VRF route target must be present and 
must be related to the VRF the IRB interface belong too? If so, then why do we 
need to add an IP VRF route target to start with?

Because IP-VRF table is identified uniquely  via its own RT just like IP-VPN.

Cheers,
Ali

Thanks,

Sami
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