:lastproofread: 2021-07-09 .. _vxlan-interface: ##### VXLAN ##### :abbr:`VXLAN (Virtual Extensible LAN)` is a network virtualization technology that attempts to address the scalability problems associated with large cloud computing deployments. It uses a VLAN-like encapsulation technique to encapsulate OSI layer 2 Ethernet frames within layer 4 UDP datagrams, using 4789 as the default IANA-assigned destination UDP port number. VXLAN endpoints, which terminate VXLAN tunnels and may be either virtual or physical switch ports, are known as :abbr:`VTEPs (VXLAN tunnel endpoints)`. VXLAN is an evolution of efforts to standardize an overlay encapsulation protocol. It increases the scalability up to 16 million logical networks and allows for layer 2 adjacency across IP networks. Multicast or unicast with head-end replication (HER) is used to flood broadcast, unknown unicast, and multicast (BUM) traffic. The VXLAN specification was originally created by VMware, Arista Networks and Cisco. Other backers of the VXLAN technology include Huawei, Broadcom, Citrix, Pica8, Big Switch Networks, Cumulus Networks, Dell EMC, Ericsson, Mellanox, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Red Hat, Joyent, and Juniper Networks. VXLAN was officially documented by the IETF in :rfc:`7348`. If configuring VXLAN in a VyOS virtual machine, ensure that MAC spoofing (Hyper-V) or Forged Transmits (ESX) are permitted, otherwise forwarded frames may be blocked by the hypervisor. .. note:: As VyOS is based on Linux and there was no official IANA port assigned for VXLAN, VyOS uses a default port of 8472. You can change the port on a per VXLAN interface basis to get it working across multiple vendors. Configuration ============= Common interface configuration ------------------------------ .. cmdinclude:: /_include/interface-common-without-dhcp.txt :var0: vxlan :var1: vxlan0 VXLAN specific options ----------------------- .. cfgcmd:: set interfaces vxlan vni Each VXLAN segment is identified through a 24-bit segment ID, termed the :abbr:`VNI (VXLAN Network Identifier (or VXLAN Segment ID))`, This allows up to 16M VXLAN segments to coexist within the same administrative domain. .. cfgcmd:: set interfaces vxlan port Configure port number of remote VXLAN endpoint. .. note:: As VyOS is Linux based the default port used is not using 4789 as the default IANA-assigned destination UDP port number. Instead VyOS uses the Linux default port of 8472. .. cfgcmd:: set interfaces vxlan source-address Source IP address used for VXLAN underlay. This is mandatory when using VXLAN via L2VPN/EVPN. .. cfgcmd:: set interfaces vxlan external Specifies whether an external control plane (e.g. BGP L2VPN/EVPN) or the internal FDB should be used. Unicast ^^^^^^^ .. cfgcmd:: set interfaces vxlan remote
IPv4/IPv6 remote address of the VXLAN tunnel. Alternative to multicast, the remote IPv4/IPv6 address can set directly. Multicast ^^^^^^^^^ .. cfgcmd:: set interfaces vxlan source-interface Interface used for VXLAN underlay. This is mandatory when using VXLAN via a multicast network. VXLAN traffic will always enter and exit this interface. .. cfgcmd:: set interfaces vxlan group
Multicast group address for VXLAN interface. VXLAN tunnels can be built either via Multicast or via Unicast. Both IPv4 and IPv6 multicast is possible. Multicast VXLAN =============== Topology: PC4 - Leaf2 - Spine1 - Leaf3 - PC5 PC4 has IP 10.0.0.4/24 and PC5 has IP 10.0.0.5/24, so they believe they are in the same broadcast domain. Let's assume PC4 on Leaf2 wants to ping PC5 on Leaf3. Instead of setting Leaf3 as our remote end manually, Leaf2 encapsulates the packet into a UDP-packet and sends it to its designated multicast-address via Spine1. When Spine1 receives this packet it forwards it to all other leaves who has joined the same multicast-group, in this case Leaf3. When Leaf3 receives the packet it forwards it, while at the same time learning that PC4 is reachable behind Leaf2, because the encapsulated packet had Leaf2's IP address set as source IP. PC5 receives the ping echo, responds with an echo reply that Leaf3 receives and this time forwards to Leaf2's unicast address directly because it learned the location of PC4 above. When Leaf2 receives the echo reply from PC5 it sees that it came from Leaf3 and so remembers that PC5 is reachable via Leaf3. Thanks to this discovery, any subsequent traffic between PC4 and PC5 will not be using the multicast-address between the leaves as they both know behind which Leaf the PCs are connected. This saves traffic as less multicast packets sent reduces the load on the network, which improves scalability when more leaves are added. For optimal scalability, Multicast shouldn't be used at all, but instead use BGP to signal all connected devices between leaves. Unfortunately, VyOS does not yet support this. Example ------- The setup is this: Leaf2 - Spine1 - Leaf3 Spine1 is a Cisco IOS router running version 15.4, Leaf2 and Leaf3 is each a VyOS router running 1.2. This topology was built using GNS3. Topology: .. code-block:: none Spine1: fa0/2 towards Leaf2, IP-address: 10.1.2.1/24 fa0/3 towards Leaf3, IP-address: 10.1.3.1/24 Leaf2: Eth0 towards Spine1, IP-address: 10.1.2.2/24 Eth1 towards a vlan-aware switch Leaf3: Eth0 towards Spine1, IP-address 10.1.3.3/24 Eth1 towards a vlan-aware switch **Spine1 Configuration:** .. code-block:: none conf t ip multicast-routing ! interface fastethernet0/2 ip address 10.1.2.1 255.255.255.0 ip pim sparse-dense-mode ! interface fastethernet0/3 ip address 10.1.3.1 255.255.255.0 ip pim sparse-dense-mode ! router ospf 1 network 10.0.0.0 0.255.255.255 area 0 Multicast-routing is required for the leaves to forward traffic between each other in a more scalable way. This also requires PIM to be enabled towards the leaves so that the Spine can learn what multicast groups each Leaf expects traffic from. **Leaf2 configuration:** .. code-block:: none set interfaces ethernet eth0 address '10.1.2.2/24' set protocols ospf area 0 network '10.0.0.0/8' ! Our first vxlan interface set interfaces bridge br241 address '172.16.241.1/24' set interfaces bridge br241 member interface 'eth1.241' set interfaces bridge br241 member interface 'vxlan241' set interfaces vxlan vxlan241 group '239.0.0.241' set interfaces vxlan vxlan241 source-interface 'eth0' set interfaces vxlan vxlan241 vni '241' ! Our seconds vxlan interface set interfaces bridge br242 address '172.16.242.1/24' set interfaces bridge br242 member interface 'eth1.242' set interfaces bridge br242 member interface 'vxlan242' set interfaces vxlan vxlan242 group '239.0.0.242' set interfaces vxlan vxlan242 source-interface 'eth0' set interfaces vxlan vxlan242 vni '242' **Leaf3 configuration:** .. code-block:: none set interfaces ethernet eth0 address '10.1.3.3/24' set protocols ospf area 0 network '10.0.0.0/8' ! Our first vxlan interface set interfaces bridge br241 address '172.16.241.1/24' set interfaces bridge br241 member interface 'eth1.241' set interfaces bridge br241 member interface 'vxlan241' set interfaces vxlan vxlan241 group '239.0.0.241' set interfaces vxlan vxlan241 source-interface 'eth0' set interfaces vxlan vxlan241 vni '241' ! Our seconds vxlan interface set interfaces bridge br242 address '172.16.242.1/24' set interfaces bridge br242 member interface 'eth1.242' set interfaces bridge br242 member interface 'vxlan242' set interfaces vxlan vxlan242 group '239.0.0.242' set interfaces vxlan vxlan242 source-interface 'eth0' set interfaces vxlan vxlan242 vni '242' As you can see, Leaf2 and Leaf3 configuration is almost identical. There are lots of commands above, I'll try to into more detail below, command descriptions are placed under the command boxes: .. code-block:: none set interfaces bridge br241 address '172.16.241.1/24' This commands creates a bridge that is used to bind traffic on eth1 vlan 241 with the vxlan241-interface. The IP address is not required. It may however be used as a default gateway for each Leaf which allows devices on the vlan to reach other subnets. This requires that the subnets are redistributed by OSPF so that the Spine will learn how to reach it. To do this you need to change the OSPF network from '10.0.0.0/8' to '0.0.0.0/0' to allow 172.16/12-networks to be advertised. .. code-block:: none set interfaces bridge br241 member interface 'eth1.241' set interfaces bridge br241 member interface 'vxlan241' Binds eth1.241 and vxlan241 to each other by making them both member interfaces of the same bridge. .. code-block:: none set interfaces vxlan vxlan241 group '239.0.0.241' The multicast-group used by all leaves for this vlan extension. Has to be the same on all leaves that has this interface. .. code-block:: none set interfaces vxlan vxlan241 source-interface 'eth0' Sets the interface to listen for multicast packets on. Could be a loopback, not yet tested. .. code-block:: none set interfaces vxlan vxlan241 vni '241' Sets the unique id for this vxlan-interface. Not sure how it correlates with multicast-address. .. code-block:: none set interfaces vxlan vxlan241 port 12345 The destination port used for creating a VXLAN interface in Linux defaults to its pre-standard value of 8472 to preserve backward compatibility. A configuration directive to support a user-specified destination port to override that behavior is available using the above command. Unicast VXLAN ============= Alternative to multicast, the remote IPv4 address of the VXLAN tunnel can be set directly. Let's change the Multicast example from above: .. code-block:: none # leaf2 and leaf3 delete interfaces vxlan vxlan241 group '239.0.0.241' delete interfaces vxlan vxlan241 source-interface 'eth0' # leaf2 set interface vxlan vxlan241 remote 10.1.3.3 # leaf3 set interface vxlan vxlan241 remote 10.1.2.2 The default port udp is set to 8472. It can be changed with ``set interface vxlan port ``