Junos OS

How can I specify the local VRF that needs to be used to resolve the destination and source IP addresses when trying to copy a file from one router to another?

For example:

The route to 10.1.1.1 and 11.1.1.1 resolves via VRF UBER-SECRET.inet.0.

file copy <file> scp://10.1.1.1/<destination location>/<file>
ssh: connection to host 10.1.1.1 port 22: No route to host

file copy <file> scp://10.1.1.1/<destination location>/<file> source-address 11.1.1.1
bind: 11.1.1.1 : Can't assign requested address
ssh: connection to host 10.1.1.1 port 22: Can't assign requested address

Hello,

You have to drop to shell to do that and use SCP with -JU option:

aarseniev@mx480> start shell 
% cd /var/tmp
% scp
usage: scp [-12346BCpqrv] [-c cipher] [-F ssh_config] [-i identity_file]
           [-l limit] [-o ssh_option] [-P port] [-S program]
           [-JU routing_instanse]
           [[user@]host1:]file1 ... [[user@]host2:]file2

HTH

Thanks

Alex

Still broken as of today on 17.4 with ftp... "file copy" doesn't map the given source-address with the appropriate routing instance and thus fails

It would be nice to have either a fix of the command or an added attribute to specify a routing instance.

I think you have already figure out the solution from my other post. Pasting over here for completion:

Please check the is your system is running FreeBSD11 (OCCAM) kernel or Legacy (non-OCCAM) kernel. FTP with routing-instance is not supported on Occam based devices

Example:

start shell user root

root@e11-42:~ # what `which ftp`

/usr/bin/ftp:
FTP built by builder on 20180730.152300
feyrith.juniper.net:/volume/build/junos/occam/gcc/freebsd/stable_11/20180725.182919_builder_stable_11.2cd3a6e/obj/amd64/usr.bin/ftp <<<< this is ocaam

FTP release 18.4R1.8 built by builder on 2018-12-17 04:25:48 UTC
svl-junos-p001:/volume/build/junos/18.4/release/18.4R1.8/obj/i386/bsd/usr.bin/ftp << this is non-occam

You can use following method to do FTP via the instance:

show route forwarding-table table instance_name extensive | match "Routing table"
Routing table: instance_name.inet [Index 10009]  < get the istance index

start shell

setfib -F 10009 ftp 10.219.57.21   <<< it will allow you to do ftp via routing-instance

PS: Please accept my response as solution if it answers your query. Kudos are appreicated too.