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This solution optimizes the delivery of multicast to a VLAN over an Ethernet VPN (EVPN) network. Without this solution IPv6 multicast traffic in a VLAN is flooded to all Provider Edge(PE) devices which contain the VLAN.

This solution allows delivery of IPv6 multicast traffic in an IP-VRF using an IPv4 multicast in the underlay network. The protocol used to build multicast trees in the underlay network is PIM Sparse Mode.

E-Tree is an L2 EVPN service (defined in RFC8317) in which each attachment circuit (AC) is assigned the role of Root or Leaf. Root ACs can communicate with leaf ACs and other root ACs. Leaf ACs can only communicate with root ACs. Leaf AC to leaf AC traffic is blocked. In this implementation, ACs are configured at the VLAN level, and the forwarding rules are enforced using a combination of local configuration of leaf VLANs (for local hosts), and asymmetric route targets (for remote hosts).

This solution allows the delivery of customer BUM (Broadcast, Unknown unicast and Multicast) traffic in a VLAN using