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Configuring EVPN-VPWS over SRv6

EVPN VPWS provides point to point Layer 2 VPN service using EVPN signaling. EVPN-VPWS supports both single homed and multihomed (single-active or all-active) devices. EVPN-VPWS over SRv6 (Segment Routing over IPv6). SRv6 uses the IPv6 Segment Routing Header (SRH) extension to encode an order list of network instructions. The network instruction contains explicit information about SRv6 nodes that are available for packet processing on the path. The instruction also include task or function information for the SRv6 node in the SRv6 network. The SRH contains a list of 128-bit segment identifiers (SIDs) in the form of an IPv6 addresses. SIDs consist of the following:

  • Locator—The locator is the first part of the SID and consists of the most significant bits. It represents the address of a particular SRv6 node. The locator is similar to a network address. It is used to route the packet.

  • Function—The function is the second part of the SID. It defines the packet processing function that the node identified by the locator performs locally. Junos OS supports End.DX2 function for EVPN-VPWS. End.DX2 specifies endpoint decapsulation and L2 cross-connect behavior.

Benefits of EVPN-VPWS over SRv6

EVPN-VPWS over an SRv6 underlay has the following benefits IPv6 network:

  1. Network Programming depends entirely on the IPv6 header and the header extension to transport a packet, eliminating protocols such as MPLS. This ensures a seamless deployment without any major hardware or software upgrade in a core IPv6 network.

  2. Packets can be transported through an SRv6 ingress node even when the transit routers are not SRv6-capable. This eliminates the need to deploy segment routing on all nodes in an IPv6 network.

Figure 1 illustrates how the SRH is processed by the nodes in a SRv6 topology .

Figure 1: SRH and Outer IPv6 Header Processing in a SRv6 TopologySRH and Outer IPv6 Header Processing in a SRv6 Topology

  1. PE1 encapsulates the payload with an SRH. The SRH list contains three SIDs. Each SID represent a SRv6 node along the segment path. The function on the last SID is END.DX2 endpoint.

  2. P1 pops and processes the first SID at the bottom of the SRH list and copies the next SID to the outer destination. The SRH list contains 2 SIDS.

  3. P2 is a non-SRv6 node. P2 forwards the packet on the current segment path with no further processing.

  4. P3 pops and processes the second SID and copies the third SID in the SRH list.

  5. PE2 pops and processes the third SID. END.DX2 identifies the CE facing interface and PE2 forwards the packet.

EVPN-VPWS builds upon an SRv6 baseline configuration. For more information about configuring SRv6, see Understanding SRv6 Network Programming and Layer 3 Services over SRv6 in BGP.

To configure EVPN-VPWS over SRv6 to support static SID, you must do the following:

  1. Enable enhanced-ip support on all MX devices.

  2. Enable an evpn-vpws routing instance.

  3. Configure the SRv6 encapsulation type for the EVPN-VPWS1 routing instance.

  4. Configure support for SRv6 and the locator address.

  5. Enable preserve nexthop hierarchy support for source packet routing.

  6. Configure the interface with the local and remote VPWS SID for the EVPN-VPWS1 routing instance.

  7. Configure the locator to support END.DX2 on the interface in the EVPN-VPWS1 routing instance.

  8. Enable the BGP protocol to advertise and to accept the EVPN NLRI for SRv6 services.

  9. Configure a routing policy that sets the next-hop address for EVPN routes to the locator address.

Dynamic SID Allocation

Dynamic SID allocation allows you to provision the Junos device by only specifying the locator name. To enable dynamic provisioning, configure the locator name at the [edit routing-instance routing-instance-name instance-type protocols evpn interface interface-name vpws-service-id source-packet-routing srv6] hierarchy. The device dynamically allocates a SID with en-dx2-sid to the corresponding locator prefix when the service is needed. The following is the sample configuration for the dynamically allocated SID EVPN-VPWS instance:

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