BGP EVPN Considerations and Limitations

Consider the following when configuring BGP EVPN.

BGP EVPN Considerations

  • When BGP EVPN is configured, remote MAC addresses are learned via the control plane only.
  • VXLAN remote site configuration is not required when BGP EVPN is configured.
  • BGP EVPN extensively uses standard and extended BGP path attributes. The send-community option must be configured for each BGP EVPN peer. Refer to BGP L2VPN EVPN Address Family or to the neighbor send-community command in the RUCKUS FastIron Command Reference for more information on this command.
  • Singlehoming and multihoming configurations are supported.

BGP EVPN Limitations

  • BGP EVPN is supported for RUCKUS ICX 7850 and ICX 7550 devices only.
Parent topic: BGP EVPN VXLAN