• In the previous designs, we looked at single-hub DMVPN topologies. A single hub is simple, but it also creates a clear single point of failure. The next logical step is to add a second hub while keeping a single DMVPN cloud. The goal is to provide hub redundancy while keeping the overlay simple. Design Goal…

  • DMVPN is often designed to provide transport flexibility. A company may have an MPLS WAN as the primary transport and an Internet circuit as a backup path. At first glance, the design looks simple: build one DMVPN cloud over MPLS and another DMVPN cloud over the Internet. This design is usually called Single Hub, Dual…

  • DMVPN is often introduced as a configuration topic, but in real networks the more important question is design behavior. The same DMVPN topology can behave very differently depending on the phase and the overlay routing protocol. In this post, we look at the simplest DMVPN topology: Single Hub, Single Cloud. This design contains one hub…

  • The real complexity begins when you design a scalable VPN architecture for hundreds or thousands of customer sites. At small scale, almost any design works. At large scale, every design decision affects: For example: • Internet Access Design Should Internet access be centralized through a shared hub/firewall VRF? Or should every site use local Internet…

  • One of the most elegant features of IPv6 is the ability to dynamically allocate entire prefixes to downstream routers using DHCPv6 Prefix Delegation (PD). Instead of manually assigning IPv6 subnets to every remote site, an ISP can delegate a larger block to a customer edge router, which can then automatically create internal LAN subnets for…