Yes, this is what we are planning. We are landing the L2 circuit (in our case, it's over DWDM) on the VTEPs directly. But they also have access to an L3 path through the IGP. The tunnel is always in use.
-- Hunter Fuller Network Engineer VBH Annex B-5 +1 256 824 5331 Office of Information Technology The University of Alabama in Huntsville Systems and Infrastructure On Sun, Dec 23, 2018 at 11:03 AM Arie Vayner <[email protected]> wrote: > One approach I can see to make it work consistently regardless what path it > takes is to use the overlay at all times, even when the primary path is up. > > Basically you just make the layer 2 link routed (i.e. terminate it with > layer 3 ports on both ends), and run the VXLAN one hop before (or anywhere > it makes sense). > > This way you just run a vxlan extension over a layer 3 redundant path. > > On Sun, Dec 23, 2018, 02:48 Richard Clayton <[email protected] wrote: > > > Hi Arie > > > > I did encounter the MTU requirement and configured the lab to allow for > > it. VXLAN may be the future but this topology isn't really what it was > > intended for, due to the loop it creates (same with OTV). I was still > able > > to ceate a working design for both protocols regardless. > > > > Would interesting to see how others would meet the requirement with this > > particular set of constraints. > > > > Thanks > > Rick > > > > gamma.co.uk > > > > > > > > On Sat, 22 Dec 2018, 20:29 Arie Vayner <[email protected] wrote: > > > >> Vxlan is the future... 😉 > >> Be very careful with the mtu implications. > >> > >> Tnx, Arie > >> > >> On Sat, Dec 22, 2018, 03:25 Richard Clayton <[email protected] wrote: > >> > >>> Hi Guys > >>> > >>> Scenario > >>> > >>> Customer has dual homed geographically seperated site into mpls wan. > >>> They > >>> also have a single layer 2 circuit running between the two. The > >>> requirement is to backup the layer 2 over the wan circuits. The wan > >>> hardware at both sites is cisco 4k ios xe. > >>> > >>> I'm interested to know how you guys would achieve this. I've had the > >>> luxury of 4 days in the lab testing VXLAN, OTV and L2TPV3 xconnect > >>> between > >>> the two 4k routers, also did JDSU throughout testing over the tunnel, > was > >>> quite interesting. > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > >>> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > >>> archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ > >>> > >> > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ > _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
