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OVHcloud Connect - Technical capabilities and limitations

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Instructions

  • 1000Base-LX/LH for 1Gb
  • 10GBase-LR for 10Gb
  • 100GBase-LR4 for 100Gb
  • Jumbo frame up to 9000 bytes
  • Auto-negotiation 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
  • Spanning-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

DescriptionDetailCauseWorkaroundAffected sites
DC routes not propagated to PoPWhen using AS65501, routes announced using BGP in vRack are not propagated to PoPOVHcloud internal configurationDo not use AS65501ALL
Light received but port is downDevice fails to change interface status to UP despite optical levels on RX are correctAutonegotiation is configuredUnconfigure autonegotiationALL PoPs

 

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