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Month: June 2018

Vagrant + vQFX + Ansible = EVPN-VXLAN Fabric

Vagrant + vQFX + Ansible = EVPN-VXLAN Fabric

Did you know that Juniper vQFX images are available in Vagrant Cloud? There is vQFX RE image and vQFX PFE one. You can use only RE image to build simple topologies, or pair every RE with PFE to use more complex protocols. There is also a bunch of examples in Juniper’s github repository. What is Vagrant? Let me quote official website: “Vagrant is a tool for building and managing virtual machine environments in a single workflow. Vagrant gives you a disposable environment and…

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List of EVPN and DC-related IETF drafts (as of 1H 2018)

List of EVPN and DC-related IETF drafts (as of 1H 2018)

Ethernet Virtual Private Network (EVPN) solution is becoming pervasive for Network Virtualization Overlay (NVO) services in data center (DC) networks and as the next generation VPN services in service provider (SP) networks. As a result of this popularity a lot of work is going on in IETF in this area. In this post I collect links to some of the interesting IETF drafts in this area. All this information is relevant for 1H 2018 timeframe. Keep in mind to pay…

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