BGP Path selection relies on the BGP attributes. I have described the eight most important BGP attributes in my previous BGP Basic Information post. Weight: The path with the highest weight is preferred. This is only locally significant and not affect any other router within the AS. Cisco only, used for outbound path selection Local Preference: The […]
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I have been over the automatic creation of the VXLAN topology in the previous post. However, this stopped at the creation of the topology only. If in the future I wanted to add a new spine or leaf switch, this could be done, but the other switches wouldn’t be aware as they would also need
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This is going to follow on from the previous post to get a basic three switch topology up and running with VXLAN. This time however, instead of doing more VXLAN I will concentrate on a way to automate the adding of spine and leaf switches to the fabric.The purpose of this automation piece is to
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This lab use part of the Arista Spine and Leaf topology I have created in GNS3. Specifically, I will only be using three switches. One spine and two leaf switches. I have chosen this to get a good understanding of the core concepts of VXLAN, HER and EVPN. This is the basic VXLAN topology that
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