STATIC ROUTING AND BGP

[shaahin13631363]

Hi

I have a BGP route on my Nexus switch for 179.217.249.0/24 . Now I want to write a static route for 179.217.249.32/27 but the BGP route is always chosen . Can you guide me how to write correctly this route So that the static route is always selected for the subnet 179.217.249.32/27?

[Flavio Miranda]

@shaahin13631363 

  static route should be prefered over BGP as it has lower administrative distance. 

Are you sure the static route is correct configured?  

[shaahin13631363]

hi But don't forget that the router always chooses the longest match route to forward traffic so if you have a longer BGP prefix it will win over the static route 

i find this 

[MHM Cisco World]

Both are different prefix so NX-OS must add both into rib' do you see both prefix??

MHM

[shaahin13631363]

no only see 179.217.249.0/24

[shaahin13631363]

show ip route 179.217.249.62 

via 172.19.32.93, [20/0], 21w6d, bgp-13135, external, tag 43754

[MHM Cisco World]

Then nexus not add static at all.

Can I see how you add static route

MHM

[shaahin13631363]

ip route 179.217.249.32/27 172.16.12.2

[shaahin13631363]

hi , Where should I look?

[MHM Cisco World]

How yoh add it ?

Under vlan or under vrf or in global ?

If under vlan are yoh sure vlan is UP and add to DB?

MHM

[shaahin13631363]

in global mode also we use default vrf only

[MHM Cisco World]

let me check how we can trouble static in NSK 

MHM

[shaahin13631363]

thank you all

route is working now

ip route clear*

[MHM Cisco World]

you are welcome bro 

MHM

[paul driver]

Hello
Even though the static route will be added to the rtr/sw it will NOT be entered into the route table unless that static route has a valid next-hop address and that next hop address is reachable ( directly or recursively)

So what you are stating suggests the above is  the possible route cause of that static route not working