ASR9k A9K-iVRF-LIC license Question

[Andreas Martensson]

Hi.

I'm having problems with the vrf license in ios-xr. I have installed the VRF license and it seems to be working. But when i commit the vrf config the following error message appears in the logbuffer;

%LICENSE-ASR9K_LICENSE-2-INFRA_VRF_NEEDED : 1 VRF(s) are configured without a valid license / license configuration A9K-iVRF-LIC in violation of the S...

Some outputs from the router;

sh license

FeatureID: A9K-iVRF-LIC (Slot based, Permanent)

  Total licenses 1

  Available for use         1

  Allocated to location     0

  Active                    0

  Store name             Permanent

  Store index               1

    Pool: Owner

      Total licenses in pool: 1

      Status: Available     1    Operational:    0

sh license log administration

#ID     :SDR     :FeatureID       :NodeID    :Time:   Log

1       :Owner   :None            :0/RSP0/CPU0:Thu May 19 14:16:07 2011:   License add successful for feature(s): "A9K-iVRF-LIC"  License command "license add disk0:/xxx.lic sdr Ow

sh license log operational

29      :Owner   :A9K-iVRF-LIC    :0/1/CPU0  :Tue Aug 23 10:52:12 2011: license_acquire: opaque_string (null), result('License Manager' detected the 'warning' condition 'No such license')

I really dont understand what the trouble is all about. Any ideas?

Regards

Andreas

[xthuijs]

Hi Renato,

yeah cool you found the reference. This restriction will be lifted in XR 5 dot something (dunno the precise release), just fyi.

You could static pin the satellite interfaces you want to bundle to a single 10G uplink maybe? and leave the remainder that dont need to be bundled in an ICL bundle of 3?

regards

xander

[Renato Reis]

Could you provide a sample of this configuration because I don't think I got your point.

Thank you !

[xthuijs]

Ok, lets say you want to use ports 0-9 on your satellite to create bundles, which means they can't be part of an ICL bundle. Then do the following:

router(config)# interface TenGigabitEthernet 0/1/0/0
router(congig)# ipv4 point-to-point
router(config)# ip unnumbered Loopback 1000
router(config)# nv satellite-fabric-link satellite 100
router(config)#    remote-ports GigabitEthernet 0/0/0-9

So now we have static pinned the ports 0 to 9 to tengig 0/1/0/0, which menas we can bundle the sat ports 0-9

as normal.

Now we can take 3 other tengigs and make them a 3 member bundle:

router(config)# interface TenGigabitEthernet 0/2/0/1
router(config)# bundle id 10 mode on

Under the bundle ethernet we define the other sat ports to be linked:

router(config)# interface Bundle-Ethernet 10
router(config)# ipv4 point-to-point
router(config)# ip unnumbered Loopback 1000
router(config)# nv satellite-fabric-link satellite 200
router(config)#    remote-ports GigabitEthernet 0/0/0/10-39

[Renato Reis]

I see,  that could be a solution but it also means that I'm wasting a 10-GE interface and if this interface goes down, my bundle interface will also go down, right?

Thank you

[xthuijs]

Correct indeed Renato, if the Ten 0/1/0/0 goes down then you lose all those ports it serves, there is no ICL redundancy in that case.

One thing though is that I am recofnirming with our SAT development we can do bundled and non-bundled ICL as that was a restriction in XR42.1 when SAT came out. I'll let you know when I have confirmation on that.

regards

xander

[Renato Reis]

Thank you Alexander !

[xthuijs]

Hi Renato, confirmed, you can do this trick of bundled with non bundled ICL's starting XR4.3.0.

cheers

xander

[Renato Reis]

Thank you Alexander for your help, I'm gonna test it today ! Do you have any ideia when Cisco will realease the IOS-XR with a fix to this problem?

[]'s

Renato

[Renato Reis]

Hello Alexander,

I would like to thank you for all your help ! I tested the configuration you recommended and it worked fine.

[]'s

Renato Reis

[xthuijs]

hi renato,

thanks very much for confirming, generally I dont hear when things work, so it is very awesome to hear that the trick did the trick

cheers!

xander

[Renato Reis]

Hello Alexander,

It's me again ! Have you ever tested if the interfaces go down when you change the remote ports range?

thanks !

Renato

[xthuijs]

Hi Renato,

yes this is expected, the ports that are (un)configured will have a state change. Example:

Start:

interface TenGigE0/2/0/0

nv

  satellite-fabric-link satellite 100

   remote-ports GigabitEthernet 0/0/0-43

Changing the range to 0-9 will down all ports 10-43.

Changing the range back to 0-43 will enable all ports 10-43 and puts them in admin down state.

regards

xander

[sameermunj]

Hi 

In my case the the license is tsill showing Available only , it is still not active after using commnds mentioned by you