Control plane messaging in all-active multi-homed ethernet virtual private networks

A network device that is a first provider edge (PE) network device, the network device comprising:

• a network interface that receives, from a second PE network device of a plurality of PE network devices that provide an active-active configuration for an Ethernet segment, a control plane message comprising at least one address that identifies that second PE network device;
• an Ethernet Virtual Private Network (EVPN) module that configures, based at least in part on the control plane message, a forwarding plane of the first PE network device to identify network packets having respective destination addresses that match the at least one address;
• wherein the EVPN module, responsive to receiving a network packet, determines by the forwarding plane of the first PE network device, that at least one address of the network packet matches the at least one address that identifies the second PE network device;
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• wherein the EVPN module, responsive to the determination, skips, by the forwarding plane of the first PE network device, a decrement of the Time-To-Live (TTL) value of the network packet, and forwarding the network packet to the second PE network device.

A method comprising:

• receiving, by a network device and from a second network device of a plurality of network devices that provide an all-active configuration in which the plurality of network devices operate as a logical network link, a control plane message comprising a first identifier that identifies that second network device;
• configuring, by the first network device and based at least in part on the control plane message, a forwarding plane of the first network device to identify network packets having a second identifier that matches the first identifier;
• responsive to receiving a network packet, determining by the forwarding plane of the first PE network device, the network packet includes the second identifier that matches the first identifier that identifies the second PE network device;
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• responsive to the determination, skipping, by the forwarding plane of the first PE network device, a decrement of the Time-To-Live (TTL) value of the network packet, and forwarding the network packet to the second network device.