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  • 1.  Multipath in vrf routing-options

    Posted 08-03-2016 23:18
    Hi Guy

    I would like to know how MX treat with vpnv4 for bgp.l3vpn.0 routes to consider multipath


  • 2.  RE: Multipath in vrf routing-options

     
    Posted 08-03-2016 23:41

    The forwarding next hops for both the active route and alternative paths will be used for load balancing with below command

    under routing options of vrf 

     

    multipath {
    vpn-unequal-cost equal-external-internal;
     
    }


  • 3.  RE: Multipath in vrf routing-options

    Posted 08-04-2016 01:41

    Alternate path include route with different cluster-list ? , IGP metric ?  ,Could you provide some document for me ?

     

    Thank you



  • 4.  RE: Multipath in vrf routing-options

     
    Posted 08-04-2016 02:14

    Your understanding is correct indifferent igp metric and cluster list length will be considered.

     

    vpn-unequal-cost knob load balancing to VPN routes that are equal until their interior gateway protocol (IGP) metrics in route selection process

     

     

    It means it  considers indifferent igp metrics and cluster list length(any attribute starting from IGP metric and after in path selection can be indifferent and be considered for load balancing )and load balances them ....as per above definition whichever attibutes falling before igp metric will not  be load balanced unequally (Attributes like Local preference ,Origin, As path length ,Med should be same before being considered for unequal cost load balancing for VPNV4).

     

    Below link states the same:

    https://www.juniper.net/documentation/en_US/junos15.1/topics/reference/configuration-statement/vpn-unequal-cost-edit-routing-options.html

     

    I will check if thery any good doc on the same and get back.

     

    Please mark my answer as accepted solution , if you agree it solves the question



  • 5.  RE: Multipath in vrf routing-options

    Posted 08-04-2016 02:17

    http://www.juniper.net/documentation/en_US/junos15.1/topics/reference/configuration-statement/multipath-edit-routing-options.html

     

     

     

    Protocol-independent load balancing is applied to VPN routes that are equal up to their router identifiers (router-id) with regard to route selection.



  • 6.  RE: Multipath in vrf routing-options
    Best Answer

     
    Posted 08-04-2016 04:16

     

    Basically there are two types of load balancing for VPNV4 routes 1) Equal cost  2) Unequal cost 

     

     Equal cost load balancing for VPNV4 is the same as IPV4 load balancing 

     

    Equal cost load balancing cannot load balance VPNV4 routes received from different igp metrics and different cluster list length , which I beleive is your requirement .

     

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    Protocol-independent load balancing is applied to VPN routes that are equal up to their router identifiers (router-id) with regard to route selection/

     

    This is the default load balancer for vpnv4 routes (i.e equal cost load balancer), which is the same as ipv4 load balancing in which load balancing occurs if untill router-id ,other attributes before that having same cost. .

     

    This is the default behavior , if  unequal-cost knob is not configured.

     

    With Unequal cost knob enabled my last mentioned Post explanation holds good.

     

     



  • 7.  RE: Multipath in vrf routing-options

    Posted 08-06-2016 05:25

    Hi Guy

     

    When compare VPNv4 routes IGP metric for BGP next-hop that use to compare use inet.3 or inet.0 ? 

     

     



  • 8.  RE: Multipath in vrf routing-options

     
    Posted 08-06-2016 05:35

    Inet.0 entry  is sufficient for igp metric comparison . 

     



  • 9.  RE: Multipath in vrf routing-options

    Posted 08-24-2016 23:02

    I test and result bgp use metric on inet.3 to mpbgp (all = 1) when compare igp metric .the way to copy metric from inet.0 to inet.3 (LDP route) is using cli "track-igp-metric"