Objective

This page provides an overview of the technical capabilities and limitations of the OVHcloud Connect solution.

Instructions

Link capabilities

• 1000Base-LX/LH for 1Gb
• 10GBase-LR for 10Gb
• 100GBase-LR4 for 100Gb
• Jumbo frame up to 9000 bytes
• Autonegotiation not supported

Technical limitations

Layer 2 mode

• The number of client-side MAC addresses is limited to 512 per port
• The maximum bandwidth is 10Gb per port

Layer 3 mode

• Each EntryPoint/POP supports only one BGP session (no eBGP Multihop)
• Each EndPoint/DC supports up to 4 BGP peers
• Up to 100 prefixes can be announced per BGP session

Unsupported features

Layer 2 mode

• 802.1p CoS-based
• DCBX and related protocols (802.1Qbb, 802.1Qaz, 802.1Qau)
• TRILL, SPF and FabricPath
• FCoE
• Spannning-tree
• IGMP and Multicast
• EtherChannel, PaGP for aggregation

Layer 3 mode

• IPv6
• Any QoS mechanism
• 802.1q tag
• Multi-VRF
• eBGP Multi-Hop
• iBGP
• Static routing in EntryPoint/PoP

Known issues

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