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A local MAC address, which the hardware uses as the outer source MAC address when
encapsulating and sending packets on the tunnel. This MAC address is the MAC address of
the originating local routing interface MAC address.
For VXLAN tunnel, UDP destination port to use in VXLAN header while encapsulation.
The tunnel VLAN ID. This is the VLAN associated with the outgoing interface in the underlay. If
the outgoing interface is a port-based routing interface, this is the VLAN ID assigned internally
to the port- based routing interface. If the outgoing interface is a VLAN routing interface, the
tunnel VLAN ID is set to the VLAN ID of this routing interface.
The next hops in the underlay network. Each next hop is specified as the combination of the
following parameters:
– The internal interface number of the outgoing routing interface in the underlay network.
– The MAC addresses corresponding to the next hop IP address. The hardware uses this as
the destination MAC address of the outer Ethernet header.
9.6.2.6.
MAC Learning and Aging
The hardware does MAC learning for VXLAN. Normal MAC learning associates a MAC address with a VLAN
and interface. For VXLAN, the hardware learns MAC entries associated with both access ports and network
ports. The forwarding entries are learned in the VPN. The VLAN ID field in the entry is replaced by a VPN field.
For network-side entries associated with VTEPs, the interface is the hardware tunnel identifier. The MAC
address in network-side entries is the MAC address of a tenant system behind a remote VTEP. For access-side
entries, the associated interface is the physical or Port-channel interface who are members of the
configured VXLAN VLAN. The MAC address in access-side entries is the MAC address of a tenant system
behind the local interface (physical or Port-channel interface).
VXLAN MAC entries are not listed in the
show mac-addr-table
command output. They can be listed using
show vxlan address-table
. Both access and network-side entries are listed in the show command output.
The maximum age of a VXLAN MAC entry is the same as normal L2 entries. The user cannot configure a
different maximum age for VXLAN MAC entries than for normal L2 entries.
VXLAN performs aging of learned entries in software when the MLAG feature is present in the build package.
VXLAN handles entries those are learned in configured VPNs only. It would not handle MAC entries learned in
VLANs or listed in the
show mac-addr-table
command output. For packages without the MLAG component,
VXLAN relies on hardware aging for MAC entries learned in configured VPNs.
9.6.2.7.
Host Configuration
An operator may wish to statically configure host MAC-to-VTEP mappings. Doing so eliminates the initial
flooding of packets on all tunnels when the MAC-to-VTEP mapping is unknown. So for each remote VTEP, an
operator can optionally configure the MAC addresses of the tenant systems reachable through the VTEP.
The maximum allowed static host MAC-to-VTEP binding (or remote tenant systems MAC entries) per tenant
is 600. Once this limit is reached, configuring new MAC-to-VTEP bindings for the tenant results in failure. The
system generates a log message that describes the reason for failure.
Summary of Contents for QuantaMesh QNOS5
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