[c-nsp] EVPN Book/paper recommendation

Pete Lumbis alumbis at gmail.com
Sat Jul 14 15:40:38 EDT 2018


Dinesh Dutt, the co-author of VxLAN wrote two books you can get for free*
They are both focused on the datacenter, but the principals are the same
for both DC and non-DC use cases.

BGP in the datacenter: http://cumulusnetworks.com/bgp
EVPN in the datacenter:
https://cumulusnetworks.com/lp/evpn-data-center-oreilly/?utm_source=social+media&utm_term=EVPN&utm_campaign=2018+EVPN+in+the+data+center+eBook

* Behind a regwall. Disclaimer: I work for Cumulus

On Sat, Jul 14, 2018 at 9:13 AM James Bensley <jwbensley at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On 14 July 2018 00:42:46 BST, Sami Joseph <sami.joseph at gmail.com> wrote:
> >Heya
> >
> >I'm looking for book/paper recommendation on EVPN, specially for
> >use-cases
> >in Carrier Ethernet deployments, replacing IETF L2VPN implementation
> >and
> >deployments?
> >
> >I found this book by Ivan Pepen., but it doesnt cover that.
> >https://blog.ipspace.net/2018/06/book-evpn-in-data-center.html
>
> Have you read the RFCs?
>
> I.e., read this first (if you haven't already)
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7209 and then this
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7432 (assuming you want to use MPLS
> instead of VXLAN).
>
> They're always my go-to place to understand a new (to me) technology. Then
> read papers and books by vendors and operators after, to get an idea of how
> to implement the technology.
>
> Cheers,
> James.
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