[ovs-discuss] BGP EVPN support

[Daniel Alvarez]

+Ankur

> On 9 Mar 2021, at 22:34, Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org> wrote:
> 
> I'm not arguing against it, I just don't know of anyone working on it.

Nutanix folks presented this in the OVS/OVN conf last fall:

http://www.openvswitch.org/support/ovscon2020/slides/OVS-CONF-2020-OVN-WITH-DYNAMIC-ROUTING.pdf

I am not sure about the progress though.


> 
>> On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 12:23:31AM +0300, Sergey Chekanov wrote:
>> I mean why not use EVPN to extend OVN logical switch (with current VTEP
>> Gateway functionality)?
>> Is it a good Idea to implement it as a BGP daemon which will takes records
>> from vtep database?
>> The reason is: not all switches support vtep schema, but almost all support
>> EVPN.
>> 
>> Maybe it is bad idea... We just start use OVN, so I am not sure, will be
>> happy to listen your opinions.
>> 
>>> On 10.03.2021 00:11, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>>> On Mon, Mar 08, 2021 at 01:40:58PM +0300, Sergey Chekanov wrote:
>>>> Is there are any plans for support BGP EVPN for extending virtual networks
>>>> to ToR hardware switches?
>>>> Or why it is bad idea?
>>> I haven't heard anyone mention such plans.
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