Is there any reasoning to pick VxLAN vs VPLS in this config?

RouterOS General
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I have 2 CCR1036, each in a different data center. Both have a 10gb/s gateway, I want to build L2 connectivity between them. Only 2 sites and there will only ever be two sites. I have EoIP in place but it is not performing optimally. (Unfortunately, neither data center supports jumbo frames)

Is there a reason to use VPLS instead of VXLAN? Both appear to work but does RoS on CCR1036 process one better/faster than the other? VXLAN would be a hell of a lot easier to set up and support. I’ll always opt for the simple solution as it is more reliable but only if it will perform.

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Do you have a MPLS backbone between the two datacenters? If not then why is VPLS even a option? Seems like a lot of overhead for a simple p2p vpn.

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IPSEC/GRE/VXLAN seems like a lot of overhead as well, but it doesn’t look like mikrotik supports layer 2 gre. what kind of problems are you having with eoip? I guess if I was having problems with EOIP my next thing to try would be Vxlan as well.

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L2 GRE (gretap) is essentially same as EoIP. If you have mikrotik on both end, you can use this proprietary implementation instead.