A subnet (L2 VPN) could communicate with end-systems on other subnets
via a default gateway IP interface that is in a VRF which is a member
of an L3 VPN.

On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 12:49 PM, NAPIERALA, MARIA H <[email protected]> wrote:
> Don,
>
>> Perhaps I'm missing something but I thought EVPN was built using many
>> of the same building blocks as RFC4364 so that it could be used in
>> combination with EVPN.  In other words IP VPN + EVPN.
>
> It needs to be explained why/what are the requirements that you need both 
> (IPVPN and EVPN) in the same solution because this is not a trivial 
> complication.
> The complexity of the solution depends on the requirements.  If majority of 
> traffic in a (significant class of) data center is inter-subnet, a solution 
> should be optimized for such traffic and, hence, solving the forwarding of 
> such traffic should be the starting point.
>
> Maria
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
>> NAPIERALA, MARIA H
>> Sent: Monday, September 24, 2012 10:09 AM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [nvo3] draft-drake-nvo3-evpn-control-plane
>>
>> I think we should try to clarify what problems or what type of data
>> centers specific solutions are addressing.
>> Specifically, EVPN can only address traffic bridged in the same VLAN.
>> In data centers where most traffic is inter-VLAN, i.e., packets are
>> routed, the EVPN doesn't achieve much as an overall solution.
>> I tried to make this point on the webex during the nvo3 interim session
>> when draft-drake-nvo3-evpn-control-plane was discussed but I am not
>> sure if my message went through.
>>
>> Maria
>>
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
>> Of
>> > Thomas Nadeau
>> > Sent: Monday, September 17, 2012 11:55 AM
>> > To: [email protected]
>> > Subject: [nvo3] draft-drake-nvo3-evpn-control-plane
>> >
>> >
>> >     A number of us just published this draft and wanted to bring it
>> > to the NVO3 WG's attention.  We will be presenting/discussing this
>> > draft at the interim meeting this week as well, but please discuss
>> here
>> > on the list as well.
>> >
>> >     Thanks,
>> >
>> >     Tom, John, et al
>> >
>> >
>> > A new version of I-D, draft-drake-nvo3-evpn-control-plane-00.txt
>> > has been successfully submitted by Thomas D. Nadeau and posted to the
>> > IETF repository.
>> >
>> > Filename:    draft-drake-nvo3-evpn-control-plane
>> > Revision:    00
>> > Title:               A Control Plane for Network Virtualized Overlays
>> > Creation date:       2012-09-16
>> > WG ID:               Individual Submission
>> > Number of pages: 12
>> > URL:             http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-drake-
>> nvo3-
>> > evpn-control-plane-00.txt
>> > Status:          http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-drake-nvo3-
>> evpn-
>> > control-plane
>> > Htmlized:        http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-drake-nvo3-evpn-
>> > control-plane-00
>> >
>> >
>> > Abstract:
>> >        The purpose of this document is to describe how Ethernet
>> Virtual
>> >        Private Network (E-VPN) can be used as the control plane for
>> >        Network Virtual Overlays.  Currently this protocol is defined
>> to
>> >        act as the control plane for Virtual Extensible Local Area
>> >        Network (VXLAN), Network Virtualization using Generic Routing
>> >        Encapsulation (NVGRE), MPLS or VLANs while maintaining their
>> >        existing data plane encapsulations. The intent is that this
>> >        protocol will be capable of extensions in the future to handle
>> >        additinal data plane encapsulations and functions as needed.
>> >
>> >
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