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EVPN Route Type supported by FortiOS

By: Author Alex Lim

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Categories Technology

This article provides information on route types that are supported by FortiOS.

Scope

FortiGate v7.4 and v7.6 .

Solution

  • Ethernet VPN (EVPN), a Network Virtualization Overlay (NVO) solution, is used as a control plane protocol with VXLAN / MPLS.
  • FortiOS EVPN implementation is based on RFC 7432 (MPLS Encapsulation) and RFC 8365 (VXLAN, NVGRE and GENEVE Encapsulations).
  • Below is the list of route types supported by FortiOS currently :

Below is the list of route types supported by FortiOS currently.

FortiOS supports processing Type1/Type4-5 for interoperability with other vendors. These routes will not be installed in FortiGate’s BGP table but will be reflected to other vendor devices for compatibility.