Spine & Leaf Flashcards
When talking about the spine & leaf architecture, what direction does the traffic move?
East to West
In one word, how would the spine & leaf architecture be described?
A fabric
What device is every leaf switch connected to?
A spine
True or false: For redundancy, spines connect to other spines and all leaves.
False, spines do not connect to other spines. They do connect to all leaves.
What is ECMP?
Equal Cost Multi-Path routing
It’s a type of routing where next-hop packet forwarding to a single destination take place over multiple best paths which tie for top place in routing metric calculation.
What is a spine?
What is a border leaf?
It provides connectivity and hands off traffic to one or more external devices that provide additional functionality for the fabric.
What is considered a POD in spine/leaf architecture?
A pod is a datacenter.
