XRv is simple control-plane of XR in a VM. This is why L2 forwarding isnt supported (though is configured). XRv9000 is full control- and data-plane and much tighter coupling of the two. L2 forwarding should work, but L2VPNs and such will fail miserably.
q. -- quinn snyder | snyd...@gmail.com -= sent via iphone. please excuse spelling, grammar, and brevity =- > On May 31, 2018, at 14:25, Aaron Gould <aar...@gvtc.com> wrote: > > I used XRv in GNS3 I think I used both 5.1.1 and 5.3.0 ... I recall getting > some good use out of it. > > I'm not a systems guy, so climbing the learning curve and asking for help > from the communities online was what I had to do in order to figure out how > to get it show up inside the GNS3 app (used virtual box, and recall ova, > vmdk, qemu, etc, etc) .... then it was useable and working. I also did > Juniper Olive/vMX. > > A couple things.... > > I don't think I ever got the Layer 2 forwarding to work. L3 routing worked > and packets would flow... but L2 bridging and MPLS Layer 2 type things I > don't think I ever got to properly flow. > > I also would have to bounce interfaces using a batch file anytime I > restarted gns3 or even if I added a new instance of XRv... so because of > that, I would never reboot my windows vm that it was all contained inside > and tried not to close gns3 app > > -Aaron > > > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/