How to make BGP preferred than static

[lanzailan]

Hi all,

I have MX10 with redundant links active-standy running BGP & gre tunnel to J2320 and to some other sites.

The other end I have J2320 also with backup standby  + gre tunnels running static and primary running BGP. 

I need to give priority to BGP and when BGP route down, it will automatically goes to static. 

I changed preference value at protocols BGP on J and MX - BGP preferred. When I simulate by shutting down the primary on J, the outbound traffics to MX is directed to backup which is through tunnels, but inbound traffics from MX is still preferred BGP.

I thought when BGP neighbour is down, the route will be removed since it;s now inactive.

Here's the captured result from show route;

MX10.

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lanzailan@DC_SYMPHONY# run show route 192.168.2.0

inet.0: 40 destinations, 71 routes (40 active, 0 holddown, 0 hidden)
+ = Active Route, - = Last Active, * = Both

192.168.2.0/24 *[BGP/2] 00:00:00, localpref 200
     AS path: 9534 9534 I
> to 10.185.117.1 via ge-1/0/0.0
[BGP/2] 00:00:00, localpref 150
AS path: 9534 9534 I
> to 10.185.117.9 via ge-1/0/1.0
[Static/5] 00:00:31
> to 10.10.14.1 via gr-1/0/10.4
[Static/25] 00:00:30
> to 10.10.15.1 via gr-1/0/10.5

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J2320

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lanzailan@JLN_KLANG_LAMA# run show route 192.168.21.0

inet.0: 11 destinations, 12 routes (11 active, 0 holddown, 0 hidden)
+ = Active Route, - = Last Active, * = Both

192.168.21.0/24 *[Static/5] 00:02:51

> to 10.10.14.2 via gr-0/0/0.4
[Static/25] 00:02:49
> to 10.10.15.2 via gr-0/0/0.5

Thanks.

[mhariry]

Hi,

Yes you are right when the BGP neighbor went down the route should be removed from the routing table.

I notice the route is received by two bgp next-hop (10.185.117.1 & 10.185.117.9) and two AS path. Probably you still receiving the bgp update from another neighbors is any of these neighbors the J2320 peer IP address ?

If not you could solve the problem by change the preference only for this neighbor not all

#set protocols bgp group <group name> neighbor <J2320 peer IP> preference 2

Regards,

Mohamed Elhariry

JNCIE-M/T # 1059, CCNP & CCIP

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[lanzailan]

Hi Mohamed,

It turned out that the problem happened because it still receiving update from protocol static that I advertise to BGP.

Problem solved when I removed that policy. 

Anyway, thanks for your help.

Ma'assalama...