networking
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A small lab using containerlab and FRR to test the VCF 9.1 distributed connection model with BGP EVPN over VXLAN, focusing on Route Controller peering and control-plane visibility before testing against a physical EVPN fabric.
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NSX 4.1.2 introduces support for Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) tunnels for Tier-0 gateways and Tier-0 VRF gateways offering another standards-based option for “plumbing” network paths that lead traffic into and out of the Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC). In today’s short article I’ll go over configuring a GRE tunnel in order to facilitate communication between two…
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Offloading the NSX Distributed Firewall (DFW) to a Data Processing Unit (DPU) is an exciting new feature which is GA as of NSX version 4.1. Other NSX features that were already supported within DPU-based acceleration for NSX are: For NSX DFW, offloading and accelerating by a DPU means layer 4 traffic flows go through the…