[j-nsp] Advertising inactive routes to iBGP neighbors

[Crist Clark]

I don't quite understand. Why don't you just export the static into your
routing protocol? How is the static route a "fallback" if it is really the
active route?

On Sun, Apr 17, 2022 at 8:57 AM James via juniper-nsp <
juniper-nsp at puck.nether.net> wrote:

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> Hi all,
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> I have two routes in inet.0, neither of which come from BGP:
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> 10.200.7.2/32      *[Static/5] 00:14:40
>                     >  to 10.200.7.2 via irb.102
>                     [EVPN/7] 00:08:25
>                     >  via irb.102
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> I want to advertise the 'EVPN/7' route, either alongside or completely in
> place
> of the 'Static/5' route. The particular use case here is EVPN-VXLAN virtual
> machine traffic optimization, where I want to advertise the EVPN route
> with a
> higher localpref to steer traffic towards one or more particular leaf
> switches
> while still advertising the static route as a fallback in case the EVPN
> route
> is not there. Normally this works because the attached prefixes are longer
> than
> a /32, but I just can't seem to figure out how to make this work with /32
> statically routed prefixes.
>
> I've already tried several methods including rib-groups to bring the route
> into
> another table (no support for rib-groups with EVPN routes), bgp add-path
> (doesn't advertise the second path), and playing with route preferences
> (static route needs to be the active route for forwarding purposes), but
> none
> of those have been successful.
>
> Any other suggestions on how I could achieve this?
>
> Thanks,
> James
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