VXLAN for WAN Pseudowires?

Tim Jackson jackson.tim at gmail.com
Fri Jul 21 17:45:54 UTC 2017


On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 12:38 PM, Sabri Berisha <sabri at cluecentral.net>
wrote:

> > From: "Simon Lockhart" <simon at slimey.org>
>
> Hi,
>
> > 2) Traffic engineering - we don't have a lot of requirement for this,
> but do
> >   have a small number of customers who buy A and B circuits, and require
> them
> >   to be routed across different paths on our network. This is easy with
> MPLS
> >   using explicit LSPs, but we've not yet worked out how to achieve the
> same
> >   thing in VXLAN.
>
> You may be able to achieve this by using a second loopback for the B
> circuit VTEP IP address, and use either PBR or *cough* a static *cough*
> route *cough* towards a different path. Not pretty, but will probably work.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sabri
>

Or just use RSVP-TE... It's just IP.. T2 can do a MPLS lookup after
encapsulating in VXLAN..

--
Tim



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