Several customers have expressed interest in using IPv6 addresses for VXLAN underlay in their Data Centers (DC). Prior to 4.24.1F, EOS only supported IPv4 addresses for VXLAN underlay, i.e., VTEPs were reachable via IPv4 addresses only.

Several customers have expressed interest in using IPv6 addresses for VxLAN underlay in their Data Centers (DC). Prior to 4.27.2F, only IPv4 addresses are supported for VxLAN underlay, i.e VTEPs are reachable via IPv4 addresses only. This feature enables a VTEP to send VxLAN Encapsulated packets using IPv6 underlay.