Last-resort tunnel recommendations on WAN network ...

Bryan Holloway via NANOG <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.operators.nanog
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Greetings, Dear Community!

Consider the following scenario: major colo with a pair of transits, 
peering, and a single transport back to another colo on our backbone.

Transport carries public but also several overlays (VRFs) for management 
and whatnot.

If the transport fails, we're good on transit/peering, but we can't get 
back to the mothership for mgmt.

We're looking at solutions (secure tunnels over transit) to bring the 
severed colo back to "HQ" ... looking at a hub/spoke topology with the 
intent of possibly doing this more than once.

Requirements:
* Multiple VRFs across the tunnel

* OSPF - each VRF should have its own instance, so we need something 
that supports interface-based tunneling since IPsec doesn't handle 
multicast well. Open to other tunneling strategies. Wireguard? OpenVPN?

* v6 a plus (OSPFv3)

* 10G should suffice across the board, but it should have interfaces 
that are LAGable.

The appliances we have considered so far do most if not all of these 
things, but they come with a lot of features (and cost) we simply don't 
need (e.g., UTM, DPI)

Also open to something server (VM) based since our traffic requirements 
aren't that significant.

Easy to support is obviously a plus.

Curious if others have had similar needs and how they solved this problem.

Recommendations (good or bad) greatly appreciated.

Thank you!

		- bryan

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