Add EVPN Service Site Details
An EVPN service is provisioned on a collection of sites to exchange network traffic over a shared infrastructure with a common layer 2 technology such as Ethernet. Use the Site Settings section of the Add L2 VPN Service page to enter details of sites that you want to connect to the EVPN.
Ethernet VPN (EVPN) is the only L2VPN service that is supported in this release.
You configure the following in the Site Settings section:
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General details (site ID, site VPN flavor, location, devices, and MAC loop prevention parameters) about the site. See Add EVPN Site.
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Parameters for site network access (connection with the service provider network). See Add EVPN Site Network Access Parameters.
Add EVPN Site
Prerequisite
Before adding the EVPN service site details, you must create a new EVPN service instance and enter general details about the service. Follow steps 1 to 4 of the Add an EVPN Service Instance procedure to create a new instance and add EVPN service general details.
An EVPN site refers to the geographical area where the VPN service spans. To add an EVPN service site in the Site Settings section:
Configure the network access parameters. See Add EVPN Site Network Access Parameters.
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Description |
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Site ID |
Enter a unique site ID to identify the site in the network. The site ID can be a set of alphanumeric characters, space, and special character hyphen (-). The maximum number of characters allowed is 64. |
Site VPN Flavor |
Define how you want to connect the site to the VPN. For example, a site can connect to a single VPN or multiple VPNs. Only single site VPN flavor (site-vpn-flavor-single) is supported in this release. In the single site VPN flavor, the site is connected to only one VPN. |
Locations |
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Location ID |
Enter a unique ID for a location in the site. For example, MAN for Manhattan and BRO for Brooklyn in the New York site. |
Address |
Enter the address (number and street) of the location in a site. |
City |
Enter the city where the site is located. |
Country Code |
Enter the ISO alpha-2 code of the country where the site is located, for example, ZA for South Africa and CH for Switzerland. |
Postal Code |
Enter the postal code of the location in the site. |
State |
Enter the state in which the site is located. If the country doesn't have states, enter the region in which the site is located. |
Devices |
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Devices |
Enter or select the CE devices to be used for the EVPN service at the site. This parameter allows the customer to request for devices from the service provider to be installed at the site. |
MAC Loop Prevention |
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Frequency |
Enter the number of times that MAC address duplication is to be detected in a default time interval of 180 seconds or 3 minutes. When a MAC address is detected as duplicate, it is added to a list of duplicate MAC addresses. The default frequency is 5. |
Retry Timer |
Set the retry interval (in seconds) for a duplicate MAC address. Enter a value in the range 60 to 21600. After the retry timer expires, the duplicate MAC address is removed from the MAC-VRF table (virtual routing and forwarding table for MAC addresses) on PE devices. |
Add EVPN Site Network Access Parameters
Prerequisite:
To set site network access parameters:
Add Access Diversity Parameters for EVPN Site Network Access
Prerequisite:
Complete steps 1 to 3 of the Add EVPN Site Network Access Parameters procedure.
A network administrator can group the connections from a site to the service provider network, assign group ID to each connection group, and apply certain constraints to all the connections included in a group. You can assign one or more group IDs for a connection, specify constraint types, and select the target group ID that the constraint must be applied to, in the Access Diversity section.
To assign group IDs to a connection and apply constraints to target group IDs:
Add Connection Parameters for EVPN Site Network Access
Prerequisite:
Complete steps 1 to 5 of the Add EVPN Site Network Access Parameters procedure.
To add connection parameters: