04-26-2012 05:50 AM - edited 03-04-2019 04:09 PM
Guys, need your help again as always.
What i want to achieve is track a destination, if that destination is unreacable then bring that static route into routing table.
i know Track can take our route from routing table if destination is unreachable, i want to bring route into table if destination is unreachable.
actually my Site A is advertising some routes in my internal MPLS cloud. if Site A WAN link goes down.i want to advertise same routes from Site B router. so i want to track Site A wan link or loopback from Site B router and advertise same routes if Loopback of Site A not reachable.
any suggestion?
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05-02-2012 12:46 AM
Hi!
As per what you stated " What i want to achieve is track a destination, if that destination is unreacable then bring that static route into routing table"
I couldt find a related example on cisco website which fits, but i have a config for you which i wrote.
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track 1 ip route 10.10.10.10/24 reachability
event manager applet TRACK_IF_DOWN
event track 1 state down
action 1.0 cli command "enable"
action 2.0 cli command "conf t"
action 3.0 cli command "ip route 192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0 192.168.2.1"
exit
event manager applet TRACK_IF_UP
event track 1 state up
action 1.0 cli command "enable"
action 2.0 cli command "conf t"
action 3.0 cli command "no ip route 192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0 192.168.2.1"
exit
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1] You can change the commands as per your need like for vrf "ip route vrf " and so on.
Here is the link for Emebeded Event Manager
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios-xml/ios/eem/configuration/12-4t/eem-12-4t-book.html
2] You can use IP SLA with TRACK for tracking the destination as well.
Let me know if this helped. Thanks.
04-26-2012 06:18 AM
Does it mean that constantly advertising routes from site B with inferior metrics [when compared to those of site A] won't work for you?
Thanks.
04-26-2012 07:29 AM
in my design not an option, i am running OSPF with carrier PE router, and they are doing BGP internal in their MPLS core. and all my attributes are lost in their cloud.
Regards,
04-26-2012 07:56 AM
Try this out.
There is also a conditional default-route advertisement supported on Cisco ospf that you might be able to use.
HTH.
05-01-2012 09:57 AM
thank you, i will try this and see if it serves the purpose. thank you Rais.
04-26-2012 11:34 AM
You can create a tracked object. Then create a event manager applet for "event track , state = down" and insert required "action cli " for advertising routes. & another applet to reverse the action when state = up.
That should work.
Nandan Mathure
05-01-2012 09:56 AM
can you give me some document URL for this?
05-02-2012 12:46 AM
Hi!
As per what you stated " What i want to achieve is track a destination, if that destination is unreacable then bring that static route into routing table"
I couldt find a related example on cisco website which fits, but i have a config for you which i wrote.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
track 1 ip route 10.10.10.10/24 reachability
event manager applet TRACK_IF_DOWN
event track 1 state down
action 1.0 cli command "enable"
action 2.0 cli command "conf t"
action 3.0 cli command "ip route 192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0 192.168.2.1"
exit
event manager applet TRACK_IF_UP
event track 1 state up
action 1.0 cli command "enable"
action 2.0 cli command "conf t"
action 3.0 cli command "no ip route 192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0 192.168.2.1"
exit
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1] You can change the commands as per your need like for vrf "ip route vrf " and so on.
Here is the link for Emebeded Event Manager
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios-xml/ios/eem/configuration/12-4t/eem-12-4t-book.html
2] You can use IP SLA with TRACK for tracking the destination as well.
Let me know if this helped. Thanks.
05-03-2012 09:32 AM
that is something really cool never came to know such flexibility exists .
Looks like my life is going to be lot easier.
thank you very much Nandan
04-26-2012 03:00 PM
Hi,
If you can not modify the attritbutes to the MPLS network and you run ospf between PE-CE I would recommend an other solution.
From the site A which is the primary site you could advertise all your subnets to the MPLS.
From the site B which is the backup site to advertise an ospf summary address of these subnets.
So, the MPLS network, when both A and B are up selects the most specific subnets of Routers A to route the traffic. If Router A fails the traffic is routed via the summary address of Router B.
Hope that helps,
Vasilis
05-01-2012 09:55 AM
hi Vasileios, Thats what i am doing right now i thought to find another way.
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