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RE: Strange connectivity issue Frontier EVPL


From: <aaron1 () gvtc com>
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2020 11:27:06 -0600

EVPL (eline) should not be learning macs.  So mac table size should be a non-issue.  Unless someone somewhere has 
constructed a 2-part bridge domain (mef-speak, etree or elan of sorts) which would have mac learning, then Matt's 
question comes into play.

-Aaron

-----Original Message-----
From: NANOG <nanog-bounces+aaron1=gvtc.com () nanog org> On Behalf Of Matt Hoppes
Sent: Friday, November 6, 2020 11:09 AM
To: Jay Hennigan <jay () west net>; NANOG list <nanog () nanog org>
Subject: Re: Strange connectivity issue Frontier EVPL

Could you be running up against a MAC table limit on the circuit?

On 11/6/20 11:59 AM, Jay Hennigan wrote:
We have a strange issue that defies logic. We have a NNI at our POP 
with Frontier serving as an aggregation circuit with different 
customers on different VLANs. It's working well to several customers.

Bringing up a new customer shows roughly half of the IP addresses 
unreachable across the link, as if there's some kind of load-balancing 
or hashing function that's mis-directing half of the traffic. It's 
consistent, if an address is reachable it's always reachable. If it's 
not reachable, it's never reachable. Everything ARPs fine.

The Frontier circuit is layer 2 so shouldn't care about IP addresses. 
Frontier tech shows no trouble. They changed the RAD device on-premise. 
We've triple-checked configurations, torn down and rebuilt 
subinterface, etc. with no joy.

Any suggestions?



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