On 21/Oct/16 19:02, Javier Solis wrote:
With that said, what are the best options to be able to cost effectively scale without using vlans and maintaining a routed core? What technology would someone suggest (mpls, vxlan,etc) to be the best possible solution?
IME, MPLS is a good use-case here. If you are going to use the same /24 (or whatever prefix applies to you) across multiple locations, you will need some kind of overlay. Be it IP-in-IP, GRE, MPLS (l2vpn's or l3vpn's) or plain old Ethernet, you will need something. MPLS makes a lot of sense to me. It's native in hardware, upper-layer agnostic, mature, and reasonably affordable even at low scale. While I would not say MPLS is simple from a "complexity in your network" standpoint, it does provide a notable amount of simplicity when you're looking for an overlay that is transparent to all manner of Layer 2 and Layer 3 applications that a packet-based network needs to transport. Mark.