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Medium
Describe the future/missing documentation
What to clarify: The Network Prerequisites → "Tenant Networks" section documents the /31-per-interface allocation, but doesn't explain how NICo actually delivers connectivity: that a tenant network is a routed L3 overlay, and how instances reach one another across it. Adding this makes the existing /31 detail make sense and sets correct expectations for ISVs building on NICo.
How NICo does it (to document):
- Each instance interface gets a
/31 point-to-point link to its DPU; the instance is advertised to the VPC as a /32 host route over the VXLAN/EVPN overlay.
- DPUs are the VTEPs and interconnect over the overlay, so any instance reaches any other by routing — instances are routable but not L2-adjacent and don't share a flat subnet.
- Implication for ISVs: treat the VPC as a routed network (run the CNI in routed/overlay mode), don't assume L2 adjacency. (Surfaced when SpectroCloud's K8s cluster-formation assumed flat L2.)
Existing page: https://docs.nvidia.com/infra-controller/documentation/getting-started/prerequisites/network
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How would you describe the priority of this documentation request
Medium
Describe the future/missing documentation
What to clarify: The Network Prerequisites → "Tenant Networks" section documents the
/31-per-interface allocation, but doesn't explain how NICo actually delivers connectivity: that a tenant network is a routed L3 overlay, and how instances reach one another across it. Adding this makes the existing /31 detail make sense and sets correct expectations for ISVs building on NICo.How NICo does it (to document):
/31point-to-point link to its DPU; the instance is advertised to the VPC as a/32host route over the VXLAN/EVPN overlay.Existing page: https://docs.nvidia.com/infra-controller/documentation/getting-started/prerequisites/network
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