Cisco ASR - Service Instance Crypto errors

[jamesitsolutions]

Hi,

I recently encountered a issue with a relatively simple config on a Cisco ASR920, we are simply bridging a service instance on one port to another port (which is working)

However we are getting crypto errors on the ASR920 for traffic that is inside the bridge, but the router does not have a bridge interface so I am confused as to why it is even inspecting packets

The below is repeated every minute, and appears to be a VRRP instance on the customers network

%CRYPTO-4-RECVD_PKT_INV_SPI: decaps: rec'd IPSEC packet has invalid spi for destaddr=224.0.0.18, prot=51, spi=0xA00000E(167772174), srcaddr=10.0.0.14, input interface=TenGigabitEthernet0/0/24

Is anyone able to shed light on what is causing the router to inspect this traffic?

interface TenGigabitEthernet0/0/24
 mtu 9216
 no ip address
 service instance 100 ethernet
  encapsulation dot1q 100
  rewrite ingress tag pop 1 symmetric
  bridge-domain 100
 !
 service instance 999 ethernet
  encapsulation default
 !
 service instance 3801 ethernet
  description Te1/1
  encapsulation dot1q 3801
  rewrite ingress tag pop 1 symmetric
  bridge-domain 3801
 !
end

Bridge-domain 3801 (2 ports in all)
State: UP                    Mac learning: Enabled
Aging-Timer: 300 second(s)
Maximum address limit: 16000
    GigabitEthernet0/0/10 service instance 3801
    TenGigabitEthernet0/0/24 service instance 3801

   Nile Mac Address Entries

   BD    mac addr        type     ports
   ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
   3801  0000.5e00.0129  DYNAMIC  Te0/0/24.Efp3801

Thanks

[Giuseppe Larosa]

Hello @jamesitsolutions 

as an initial note

224.0.0.18 is associated to VRRP Hello messages that are bridged over your service instance protocol 51 may be AH protocol , 50 should be ESP.

Hope to help

Giuseppe

[jamesitsolutions]

Thanks for the response, I am aware it is VRRP traffic but my question is more as to why this ASR is even looking at the traffic as the traffic is a forwarding through two ports as a bridge (eg. all layer 2)