Hello All,
Needing some assistance with an IP SLA setup that I'm having some issues wrapping my head around. I have a router that has two connections to a remote site router. One connection from HQ-Rtr has a serial connection to an MPLS cloud using BGP as it's routing protocol. The other connection is an Ethernet connection to an ASA (which uses an IPSEC tunnel to the remote router). Here is what I'd like to do. I'd like to use the MPLS cloud connection as the primary connection. Once it fails, I would want the Ethernet connection to the ASA to kick in. However, I would like it to fall BACK over to the MPLS cloud connection in the event that the Serial connection comes back online.
With that said, I know I'll have to use IP SLA to make this work but I'm running into an issue getting it to fall BACK to the primary route. I'm not sure why. I'm basically doing the following:
track 1 ip sla 1 reachability
ip sla auto discovery
ip sla 1
icmp-echo a.a.a.a source-interface Serial1/0
request-data-size 32
ip sla schedule 1 life forever start-time now
ip route 1.1.1.0 255.255.255.0 x.x.x.x track 1 (learned via bgp from cloud, metric 20)
ip route 1.1.1.0 255.255.255.0 y.y.y.y 25
So, to me.....this says as long as I can ping a.a.a.a from source int s1/0, the route for network 1.1.1.0 should go to x.x.x.x. Then once it fails, it falls over to y.y.y.y. It requires the 25 cost so that it doesn't take precedence over the x.x.x.x route. Am I seeing this correctly so far? Then once x.x.x.x comes back online, it SHOULD fall back over to that one being it has the lower cost route of 20. Is this right?
Well regardless it's not working quite as expected so someone had mentioned something about setting another IP SLA up with a 'Boolean and' statement. I'm not 100% sure about this so if anyone can explain this to me and how it would work in the above scenario or why it would be done, then that would help also. Here is what they suggested:
track 2 list boolean and
object 1 not
and to change my routes to look like the following:
------Remove route for x.x.x.x all-together-------
ip route 1.1.1.0 255.255.255.0 y.y.y.y track 2
I'm guessing (and I do mean guessing) this says to monitor track 1 and if track 1 is NOT true (false) then apply the route for y.y.y.y?
Can someone take a look and help me with the concept, I guess maybe I'm in left field here but I'm struggling a bit on making this work.
Thanks in advance,
