A county engineer must describe the end-to-end VXLAN data-plane path for a unicast frame between servers on different leaves. Which sequence is correct?
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Short Explanation
Walk the package: pick up at the server, wrap at the local leaf, ride equal-cost underlay roads, unwrap at the far leaf, hand off locally. That’s the VXLAN leaf-spine story in one breath. Spines are the highway—not where you tear open the tenant envelope on every ramp.
Full Explanation
A typical unicast VXLAN path starts with the ingress leaf accepting the frame on an access port, encapsulating it with the appropriate VNI toward the remote VTEP, and forwarding outer IP across underlay ECMP. The egress leaf decapsulates and switches or routes locally to the attached host. Intermediate spines forward outer IP and do not need to terminate tenant overlay state for this packet walk. This end-to-end mental model anchors municipal fabric troubleshooting.