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rajagopal-sivaramakrishnan · 07-14-2026

Hi AllWe have a POC headend in a BGP AS (say 65001), and want to see if we can introduce a PROD headend with a different BGP AS within the same Org (say AS 65002). The spokes will not autovpn to both poc and prod. they will be cutover from POC to PRO...

rajagopal-sivaramakrishnan · 05-08-2026

Hi AllAttached a high level diagram of our setup. As of now, the existing RP is configured with Anycast with MSDP , and is not in PATH of the SPT (shortest path). Incase the RP goes down, the existing SPTs are not broken, and any new receivers, will ...

rajagopal-sivaramakrishnan · 04-29-2026

Hi AllIm trying to work through a Shared services VRF for my FW connectivity. the remote sites (about 100) have 14 different vrfs, and they also have P2Ps and GREs. with GRE , i need to create 14 different tunnels per location, which doesnt scale mu...

rajagopal-sivaramakrishnan · 07-14-2026

Thanks Aleabrahao. I read through the same doc, but AI suggested something else. Thats why I got confused. I think once you have a BGP AS in the headend, all the spoke config updates to that AS , because it has to run IBGP to the headend. but if the ...

rajagopal-sivaramakrishnan · 05-13-2026

Hi @paul driver Thanks so much. "once SPT has completed the data path is based on the igp rib table so the RP isn’t consulted even if it’s inpath of mc source/receivers- so if you drop your RP whist MC is flowing post SPT traffic should not be affect...

rajagopal-sivaramakrishnan · 05-12-2026

Hello @Giuseppe Larosa Thanks for the response. Both the nexus in the diagram are not in VPC. they are actually in different datacenters. Ill try to test this and get back. My only requirement is - i dont want exisiting connections to drop if there ...

rajagopal-sivaramakrishnan · 05-12-2026

Hi M02@rt37 The default route will force the traffic to WAN, but there will be specific routes for IOT,BMS segments on the WAN - in shared VRF, because the WAN router needs a return route back. Because of this specific route, traffic is hairpinned to...

rajagopal-sivaramakrishnan · 05-11-2026

Hi @Giuseppe Larosa Thanks for your email. As always, great answer.Yes. we have an option to move to nexus , and i saw that anycast RP is possible without MSDP. I thought anycast is different from MSDP. Anycast gives us an option to have multiple rou...

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