VXLAN Performance on a FortiGate 70F: The Software Switching Tax
The setup, and the question A while back I built an EVPN/VXLAN overlay between a FortiGate and a three node Proxmox cluster. The overlay segments come out of Proxmox SDN (an EVPN zone with a handful of VNets), and the FortiGate plays anycast gateway for them. I wrote up the build itself in a separate post; this one is only about the thing I wanted to know once it was actually working: what does all that encapsulation cost me in throughput? ...