vPC peer keep alive (management VRF) N5K

[janvandek]

        Hi,

If I'd like to create the vPC peer keep alive (routed), do I need a L3 module (Nexus 5K) to do the keep alive?

As best practive, keep alive should always be routed, so a L3 should always be necessary, or do I miss something in my reasoning ?

Regards

Jan

[ajay chauhan]

Best practice is to configure Keepalive on Mgmt interface for that vrf mgmt comes as default but if you want to use seprate vrf for keealive then yes layer 3 module is required.

thanks

Ajay

[Lei Tian]

Hi Jan,

L3 module is not required for vPC Peer keep alive. Peer will be directly connected, routing is not needed.

HTH,
Lei Tian

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[jwmolenaar]

Hi Jan,

We recommend to use the mgmt0 interface if possible, this interface is member of a different VRF and there is no need to use the layer 3 module.

Please note that you will lose the ISSU feature if you insert a Layer 3 module.

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