Advertising Primary IP Address
On a vPC enabled leaf or border leaf switch, by default all Layer-3 routes are advertised with the secondary IP address (VIP) of the leaf switch VTEP as the BGP next-hop IP address. Prefix routes and leaf switch generated routes are not synced between vPC leaf switches. Using the VIP as the BGP next-hop for these types of routes can cause traffic to be forwarded to the wrong vPC leaf or border leaf switch and black-holed. The provision to use the primary IP address (PIP) as the next-hop when advertising prefix routes or loopback interface routes in BGP on vPC enabled leaf or border leaf switches allows users to select the PIP as BGP next-hop when advertising these types of routes, so that traffic will always be forwarded to the right vPC enabled leaf or border leaf switch.
The configuration command for advertising the PIP is advertise-pip .
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On the Cisco Nexus 9300-FX2 switch, the advertise-pip command was not supported prior to Cisco NX-OS Release 7.0(3)I7(4). For more information, see CSCvi42831. |
The following is a sample configuration:
switch(config)# router bgp 65536
address-family 12vpn evpn
advertise-pip
interface nve 1
advertise virtual-rmac
The advertise-pip command lets BGP use the PIP as next-hop when advertising prefix routes or leaf-generated routes if vPC is enabled.
VMAC (virtual-mac) is used with VIP and system MAC is used with PIP when the VIP/PIP feature is enabled.
With the advertise-pip and advertise virtual-rmac commands enabled, type 5 routes are advertised with PIP and type 2 routes are still advertised with VIP. In addition, VMAC will be used with VIP and system MAC will be used with PIP.
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The advertise-pip and advertise-virtual-rmac commands must be enabled and disabled together for this feature to work properly. If you enable or disable one and not the other, it is considered an invalid configuration. For Cisco Nexus 9504 and 9508 switches with -R line cards, always configure advertise virtual-rmac without advertise-pip . |