[c-nsp] IOS XR BGP error: parent address family not initialized

[John Neiberger]

It turns out that this may all be for nought anyway. I think we're
close to getting it working, but I just saw that this feature may only
really be supported on the 12000, not the ASR9K. I just looked at an
ASR9K-specific multicast conifguration guide for IOS XR 4.0 and it
makes no mention of mVPN Extranet Routing. And even if we could get it
to work, it sounds like only one receiver VRF can join the source, so
the other receiver VRFs that I want to create would not be able to
join.

So, for a couple of reasons, this may just not work at all for what
we're trying to do, which makes me a sad panda. I thought we were
really getting close to making it work!

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 11:02 AM, John Neiberger <jneiberger at gmail.com> wrote:
> That's it! I'm still not able to get the rest of the config working
> yet, but we're getting closer. This is a bit tricky. I think we'll
> figure it out eventually.  I'm trying to get a receiver in one VRF on
> a router to be able to join a source that is coming in on a different
> VRF on that router. The IOS XR configuration guide says to use the
> Multicast VPN Extranet Routing feature, but I think the guide assumes
> a clueful engineer with a bit more experience. I'm too new to IOS XR
> to be called clueful.
>
> On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Oliver Boehmer (oboehmer)
> <oboehmer at cisco.com> wrote:
>> John,
>>
>>> router bgp 1
>>>  vrf A
>>>   address-family ipv4 unicast
>>> !!% 'BGP' detected the 'warning' condition 'The parent address family
>>> has not been initialized'
>>>   !
>>>  !
>>
>> did you enable
>>
>>  router bgp 1
>>  address-family vpnv4 unicast
>>
>> before committing the vrfs? IIRC, this is required in XR..
>>
>>        oli
>>
>