VXLAN Between a FortiGate and Proxmox, Part 2.5: A Security Aside

What this overlay actually buys you on the security side, beyond writing firewall policies, plus an honest list of what it does not buy you, and an FAQ on VXLAN and EVPN versus plain VLANs.

June 25, 2026 · 10 min · 1957 words · Nate

VXLAN Performance on a FortiGate 70F: The Software Switching Tax

Measuring the throughput cost of VXLAN on a small FortiGate with no VXLAN offload, by A/B testing the same VM over an overlay segment versus a plain VLAN, and tracing the ceiling back to the silicon.

June 25, 2026 · 9 min · 1904 words · Nate
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VXLAN Between a FortiGate and Proxmox, Part 2: EVPN

Part 1’s static peer lists don’t scale. EVPN makes the fabric learn its own endpoints — here’s the working BGP control plane.

June 23, 2026 · 13 min · 2653 words · Nate

VXLAN Between a FortiGate and Proxmox

Standing up a single stretched Layer 2 segment between a FortiGate and a Proxmox host using unicast VXLAN, and proving the data plane before adding any complexity.

June 21, 2026 · 6 min · 1249 words · Nate