[j-nsp] BPDUs over EVPN?

[Alexander Marhold]

Normally in layer 2 like Voldemort and evpn you need a separate layer-2-Control instance to activate layer 2 control protocols like SPT
IMHO the mentioned behavior is a bug 

Regards Alexander 

Von meinem iPhone gesendet

> Am 18.10.2019 um 11:09 schrieb Rob Foehl <rwf at loonybin.net>:
> 
> On Fri, 18 Oct 2019, Gert Doering wrote:
>>> On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 05:37:16PM -0400, Rob Foehl wrote:
>>> Is EVPN expected to be forwarding BPDUs at all, intact or otherwise?
>> 
>> The way understand "how things are meant to be plugged together", you
>> should not see forwarded BPDUs - "containing layer2 madness to one
>> attachment site" is the whole point, isn't it?
>> 
>> I could see very special cases where it would be necessary, but that
>> would need to be a non-default-enabled switch.
> 
> Right, I'd only expect this to work in very specific "make it entirely transparent" cases...  It looks like both Cisco and Huawei document options related to BPDU tunneling, and neither enable any of it by default.  Not coming up with much else for comparison.
> 
> Juniper is now telling me that this is occuring by design, but can't point to any documentation or standards which support that, nor explain why it suddenly changed post-upgrade.  I'm... not convinced.
> 
> -Rob
> 
> 
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