Layer 3 handoff

In the case of Layer 3, all VRFs in the data center are terminated on the border leaf and traffic is routed towards the WAN, as shown in the following figure. Similarly, Layer 3 traffic received from the WAN is routed and forwarded over tunnels in the data center. Because Layer 3 routes across multiple VRFs can be imported into a single (interconnecting) VRF, all possible VRFs in a given data center do not have to be configured on the border leaf.
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Layer 3 handoff-based DCI