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Interfaces and Device Settings Regular Firewall Interfaces Configure VXLAN Interfaces About VXLAN Interfaces

Last updated: Jul 29, 2025

About VXLAN Interfaces

VXLAN provides the same Ethernet Layer 2 network services as VLAN does, but with greater extensibility and flexibility. Compared to VLAN, VXLAN offers the following benefits:

  • Flexible placement of multitenant segments throughout the data center.

  • Higher scalability to address more Layer 2 segments: up to 16 million VXLAN segments.

This section describes how VXLAN works. For detailed information about VXLAN, see RFC 7348. For detailed information about Geneve, see RFC 8926.