Segment Routing Traffic Engineering Policy (SR-TE)
Description Segment Routing Traffic Engineering Policy (SR-TE) aka SR Policy makes use of Segment Routing (SR) to allow a headend to steer traffic along any path without maintaining per flow state in every node. A headend steers traffic into an “SR Policy”. EOS 4.21.0F adds support for SR Policy for the MPLS dataplane (SR-MPLS) for Type-1 SR Policy segments with BGP and locally configured policies as sources of SR Policies on Arista’s 7500, 7280 families of switches. SR Policy Overview SR Policy identification An SR Policy is identified using a 2-tuple of Endpoint – an IPv4 or IPv6 address which...
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