[c-nsp] L3VPN - redistribute into OSPF, default metric

[Ulrik Ivers]

Hi,

I have a question regarding redistributing routes from BGP to OSPF in a L3VPN setup. I've got limited experience in this area, so please excuse if the question is incorrectly formulated.

The topology is like this
   P -- PE1 -- CE1
   |     |
 PE2 - PE3
   |\   /|
   | \ / |
   |  X  |
   | / \ |
CE2 - CE3

A subnet is directly connected to PE1 from CE1, no OSPF. PE1 is doing
    address-family ipv4 vrf CUST-A
         redistribute connected
    exit-address-family

PE2 and PE3 (ASR9K) are doing OSPF with CE2 and CE3. PE2 and PE3 are redistributing from BGP into OSPF, today no route-maps etc.

Now to the question. The subnet from CE1 is redistributed to CE2 and CE3 from both PE2 and PE3 with the same metric (metric 1, default for BGP into OSPF) . The result is that CE2 and CE3 have to equal cost routes to the subnet to both PE2 and PE3. Wouldn't it better if the route to PE2 had a higher metric so that when all links are up the traffic goes via only PE3?

Can we accomplish this in some "automatic" way (we have several VRFs set up in the same way)? Getting PE2 and PE3 to take into account the IGP cost to reach PE1 when redistributing? Or do we need to manually create route-maps in PE2 to set a higher cost for the subnet from CE1 when redistributing into OSPF?

Regards,
/Ulrik Ivers