BGP L2VPN EVPN Address Family Overview

A variety of Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Ethernet Virtual Private Network (EVPN) options can be configured in the BGP L2VPN EVPN address family configuration mode. The commands that you enter at this level apply only to the BGP L2VPN EVPN address family, and are part of BGP EVPN configurations.

BGP EVPN provides an efficient control plane protocol for Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN). When BGP EVPN is configured for a VXLAN, remote Virtual Tunnel End Points (VTEPs) and Virtual Network Identifiers (VNIs) do not need to be manually configured, and remote MAC addresses can be learned via the control plane. VTEPs in a VxLAN network can use BGP EVPN to exchange locally learned Layer 2 and Layer 3 destinations with remote VTEPs.

For more information on BGP EVPN, and full BGP EVPN configurations, refer to the RUCKUS FastIron Layer 2 Switching Configuration Guide.

Note: The BGP L2VPN EVPN address family must be enabled for all EVPN peers.

The following configuration options are allowed under BGP L2VPN EVPN configuration mode:

  • client-to-client-reflection
  • graceful-restart
  • neighbor activate
  • neighbor advertisement-interval
  • neighbor ao
  • neighbor description
  • neighbor local-as
  • neighbor maxas-limit
  • neighbor password
  • neighbor peer-group
  • neighbor remote-as
  • neighbor route-map
  • neighbor route-reflector-client
  • neighbor send-community
  • neighbor shutdown
  • neighbor soft-reconfiguration
  • neighbors timers
  • neighbor update-source
  • neighbor weight

For detailed examples of all the BGP commands configurable for the BGP L2VPN EVPN address family, refer to the RUCKUS FastIron Command Reference.

Parent topic: BGP L2VPN EVPN Address Family