A transit-agency leaf receives a VXLAN packet destined to a server on a local access port. What should the VTEP do in the data plane?
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Short Explanation
The leaf is the last truck stop: peel the VXLAN wrapper off, then hand the inner frame to the bay where the server lives. Local switching after decap is the whole point of being a VTEP. Leaving the outer header on would be like wheeling the shipping container into the office.
Full Explanation
On the egress (or local) VTEP, VXLAN data-plane processing removes the outer IP/UDP/VXLAN encapsulation and recovers the original Ethernet frame. The switch then performs ordinary local L2 or L3 forwarding to the attached host based on the VNI-mapped bridge domain or IRB context. Spines and remote VTEPs are not required to re-encapsulate traffic already destined to a local port. Underlay IGPs advertise VTEP reachability; they do not replace local MAC/IP forwarding after decap.