Configuring VXLAN BGP EVPN

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Topology:
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Premise:
You have 1 Spines and 3 Leafs. Leaf-2 and Leaf-3 are setup as vPC pairs.
• The host port on Leaf-1 is in VLAN 10 and on Leaf-2 in VLAN 10 & 20

• vPC pair has a L2 switch connected to its member port and is passing all Vlans
10, 20 , 30.
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Requirement:
Image Name Downloaded Filename Version vCPUs vRAM

nxosv9k-9.3.3 nxosv9k-9.3.3.qcow2 nxosv9k-9.3.3 2 8192
Link download NexusOS: https://bom.to/EldO25C
Goal: The Goal of the lab is to configure VXLAN overlay to provide reachability
between SW1,SW2 and SW3 using VXLAN
Perform the initial configuration for the Swich Nexus

After turning on the Nexus Switch, the switch starts long, about 4 -5 minutes, after
starting, we see the log as below, select "yes".
Abort Power On Auto Provisioning [yes - continue with normal setup, skip - bypass
password and basic configuration, no - continue with Power On Auto Provisioning]
(yes/skip/no)[no]:
The switch will continue to run until the log appears as below, select "no". This dialog
requires us to use a highly secure password, if we select "yes" will have to set a
complex password, if "no" then just set the password simply. If you want to ignore not
setting a password, select any and then press Ctrl + D
Do you want to enforce secure password standard (yes/no) [y]:
Then log on to the switch with the newly set password, if the password is not set, the
password line is blank.
STEP1: Configure basic IP reachability between Leaf and Spine switches using OSPF
routing protocol and enable feature OSPF.
hostname Spine-1
!
feature ospf
feature bgp
feature pim
feature fabric forwarding
feature interface-vlan
!
interface Ethernet1/1
no switchport
ip address 10.1.1.1/24
ip router ospf 1 area 0.0.0.0
no shutdown
!
no switchport
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no shutdown
!
no switchport
no shutdown
!
interface loopback0
!
router ospf 1
hostname Leaf-1
!
feature ospf
feature bgp
feature pim
!
no switchport
no shutdown
!
switchport access vlan 10
spanning-tree port type edge trunk
!
interface loopback0
!
router ospf 1
hostname Leaf-2
!
feature ospf
feature bgp
feature pim
feature lacp
feature vpc
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!
no switchport
no shutdown
!
switchport mode trunk
channel-group 1 mode active
!
!
channel-group 10
!
interface mgmt0
vrf member management
ip address 192.168.1.1/24
!
interface loopback0
ip address 5.5.5.56/32 secondary
!
Router ospf 1
hostname Leaf-3
!
feature ospf
feature bgp
feature pim
feature lacp
feature vpc
!
no switchport
no shutdown
!
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!
!
channel-group 10
!
interface mgmt0
vrf member management
ip address 192.168.1.2/24
!
interface loopback0
!
router ospf 1
STEP2: Configure multicast between Leaf and Spine. Best practice is to use
bidirectional mode. We can configure anycast or phantom RP for Spine redundancy.
Make sure to allow the correct group address to be used for VxLAN.
hostname Spine-1
!
feature pim
!
vlan 1
ip pim rp-address 1.1.1.1 group-list 224.0.0.0/4 bidir
ip pim ssm range 232.0.0.0/8
ip pim anycast-rp 1.1.1.1 1.1.1.1
ip pim anycast-rp 1.1.1.1 2.2.2.2
!
interface loopback0
ip pim sparse-mode
!
ip pim sparse-mode
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!
ip pim sparse-mode
!
ip pim sparse-mode
Note: Flood and Learn (F&L)
As the name suggests, F&L used exactly flooding and learning procedure to learn the
end hosts. F&L works in data plane.
Step3: Configure “feature nv overlay” and “feature vn-segment-vlan-based” on all

Leaf switches
feature vn-segment-vlan-based
feature nv overlay
Step4: Configure Vlan and associate unique vn-segment per vlan.

hostname Leaf-2
vlan 1,10,20,500
fabric forwarding anycast-gateway-mac 0000.2222.3333
ip pim rp-address 1.1.1.1 group-list 224.0.0.0/4
ip pim ssm range 232.0.0.0/8
vlan 10
vn-segment 10010
vlan 20
vn-segment 10020
vlan 500
vn-segment 10500
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Step5: Configure “nve” interface with source interface of Loopback 0. Associate vni to
nve interface and assign multicast group of which vni should be part of.
interface nve1
no shutdown
source-interface loopback0
member vni 10010
mcast-group 228.1.1.1
member vni 10020
mcast-group 228.2.2.2
member vni 10500 associate-vrf
Step6: Configure a common secondary IP on loopback for vpc peers. The nve peering
will be done with secondary IP only.
interface loopback0
ip pim sparse-mode
Step7: Configure VPC nve vlan on both vpc peers and SVI with ospf on it. Make sure
to have increased cost on this link, so that it can’t be used as transit for all traffic.
Interface vlan99
No shutdown
No ip redirects
Ip address 20.20.20.1/24
No ipv6 redirects
Ip router ospf 1 area 0
Note: In F&L, there is no configuration needed on Spine.
Verification: Once nve interface is configured on all the leafs, you are ready to test
the connectivity.
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Verification: you will see (*,G) and (S,G) entry in mroute table.
BGP EVPN:
Step1: Configure “nv overlay evpn” on all switches.
nv overlay evpn
feature ospf
feature bgp
feature pim
fearture vn-segment-vlan-based
feature nv overlay
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Step2: For control plane, configure BGP from Leaf to Spine with address family l2vpn
evpn.
Verification:
Step3: configure bgp in line with the interface to use bgp as a protocol for host
reachability.
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Step4: Map the vni to evpn and configure RD/RT. Here we have an option configure
device to automatically generated RD/RT value.
Verification:
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Step5: Configure the spines as route-reflector Client
This is data driven protocol, which means you will see nve peer and mac address only
when there is an active traffic.
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Once the address is learned on leaf, BGP control plane will advertise the same to
remote peers.
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• The host port on Leaf-1 is in VLAN 10 and on Leaf-2 in VLAN 10 & 20

Image Name Downloaded Filename Version vCPUs vRAM

Link download NexusOS: https://bom.to/EldO25C

Perform the initial configuration for the Swich Nexus

channel-group 1 mode active

Note: Flood and Learn (F&L)

Step3: Configure “feature nv overlay” and “feature vn-segment-vlan-based” on all

Step4: Configure Vlan and associate unique vn-segment per vlan.

Note: In F&L, there is no configuration needed on Spine.

Step5: Configure the spines as route-reflector Client

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