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Juniper EVPN BGP options – eBGP-only design

Juniper EVPN BGP options – eBGP-only design

In another part of his never-ending EVPN/BGP saga Ivan Pepelnjak argued with Juniper fanboys once again about sanity of iBGP-over-eBGP and eBGP-over-eBGP designs and all that fun stuff. I’ve already written my opinion about that topic in my previous post and numerous comments to Ivan’s posts (TL;DR: iBGP-over-eBGP design has its advantages, just implement it wisely – don’t place RR on spine switches). But there is one thing that worries me. In almost every one of his posts Ivan talks…

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IP Fabric

IP Fabric

Next topic – Layer 3 Underlay – Clos IP fabric. Please refer to Juniper QFX5100 Series book and this whitepaper. Pretty basic stuff if you already have some experience with BGP and policies. Make sure you know the differences between various IBGP and EBGP design options, although there is only EBGP option stated explicitly in JNCIE-DC lab exam topics. Learn different schemas of AS numbers assignment. BGP configuration example: bgp {     log-updown;     import bgp-clos-in;     export bgp-clos-out;    …

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