Campus Trends for 2017 for Campus Networks

Reading Time: 5 minutes In this post, I will highlight some key trends for campus networks. Which technologies are important for 2017 and which campus trends can make your life easier in the future. For the year 2017 I see the following campus trends for campus networks: The wireless only office is there Layer 3 mobility for wired clients Locations … Read more

VXLAN WAN and IPSec

Reading Time: 7 minutes I did this post for two reasons. First I would like to demonstrate the possibility to extend a layer 2 network with VXLAN over a WAN connection and second to show the configuration of two VSR routers creating an IPSec tunnel with one router being on a dynamic IP address. The reason for me, to … Read more

VXLAN: Implementation

Reading Time: 8 minutes This post will describe one option to implement a VXLAN enabled fabric. I will use VSR router to create the fabric and create the overlay using VXLAN. I already gave a general overview about VXLAN in an earlier post here:VXLAN: What is VXLAN VXLAN Implementation Introduction Before I will start to describe the configuration I … Read more

VXLAN: What is VXLAN

Reading Time: 5 minutes In this post I would like to talk about VXLAN, what it is and what you can do with VXLAN. In later posts I will show some use cases for VXLAN. What is VXLAN VXLAN was designed by VMWare and is documented in RFC7348. The abbreviation VXLAN means Virtual Extensible Local Area Network and mainly provides a MAC-in-IP encapsulation. Doing this, … Read more