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EVPN Optimized Inter-Subnet Multicast (OISM) Forwarding
draft-ietf-bess-evpn-irb-mcast-05

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This is an older version of an Internet-Draft whose latest revision state is "Active".
Expired & archived
Authors Wen Lin , Zhaohui (Jeffrey) Zhang , John Drake , Eric C. Rosen , Jorge Rabadan , Ali Sajassi
Last updated 2021-04-29 (Latest revision 2020-10-13)
Replaces draft-lin-bess-evpn-irb-mcast
Replaced by draft-lin-bess-evpn-irb-mcast
RFC stream Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
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Stream WG state WG Consensus: Waiting for Write-Up
Document shepherd Mankamana Prasad Mishra
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Abstract

Ethernet VPN (EVPN) provides a service that allows a single Local Area Network (LAN), comprising a single IP subnet, to be divided into multiple "segments". Each segment may be located at a different site, and the segments are interconnected by an IP or MPLS backbone. Intra-subnet traffic (either unicast or multicast) always appears to the endusers to be bridged, even when it is actually carried over the IP or MPLS backbone. When a single "tenant" owns multiple such LANs, EVPN also allows IP unicast traffic to be routed between those LANs. This document specifies new procedures that allow inter-subnet IP multicast traffic to be routed among the LANs of a given tenant, while still making intra-subnet IP multicast traffic appear to be bridged. These procedures can provide optimal routing of the inter- subnet multicast traffic, and do not require any such traffic to leave a given router and then reenter that same router. These procedures also accommodate IP multicast traffic that needs to travel to or from systems that are outside the EVPN domain.

Authors

Wen Lin
Zhaohui (Jeffrey) Zhang
John Drake
Eric C. Rosen
Jorge Rabadan
Ali Sajassi

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