Routing

is there any limitation on copying route

Not right, i dont see your static route in any table, you only show a bgp route in the inet.0 table.

Using rib groups you have to put the vrf interface in the inet.0 table where you configure your static route.

If not the route dont have the next hop interface reachable. Sure you could see this with a show route hidden table inet.0. Your default route pointing to the next table is not valid for this purpose.

  This command will add the interface routes from a VRF or vpn routing-instances, into a rib-group called RIB. And from this RIBrib to the inet.0 table.

set routing-instance VRF routing-options interface-route rib-group inet RIB

set routing-options rib-group RIB import-rib VRF.inet.0 inet.0

   On your example, you dont see the static route in the inet.0 table because you import all routes (excluding interfaces) from the vrf  table to the inet.0 table, but you have to import the interface routes. You didnt import the next hop or interface from the vrf to the inet.0 table. This is why you cant see the static route.

  Also, you have to configure the other way, from the inet.0 table to the vrf table, if you want to test connectivity with ping or anything else. Again with rib-groups.

set routing-options interface-routes rib-group inet INET

set routing-options rib-group INET import-rib inet.0 VRF.inet.0

  If you dont want to import all table routes, you will have to apply import policy.

set routing-options rib-group INET import-policy INET-Policy

set routing-options rib-group VRF import-policy VRF-Policy

Hi Rob,

When you configure the static route the next-hop address that is configured should be active or reachable.

http://www.juniper.net/techpubs/software/junos/junos94/swconfig-routing/configuring-static-routes.html#id-10352299

http://www.juniper.net/techpubs/software/junos/junos94/swconfig-routing/id-10385931.html

In first case [1], the static route was configured under default instance which would be meant for default RIB inet.0 and this would be installed only when 192.168.16.6 is reachable via a direct connection in inet.0
Since this wasn't the case, the static route will not be installed.

Now import-rib is special scenario whose usage should be clearly understood. import-rib is mainly used to copy the routes from primary table to secondary table. If a check similar to static route is performed then it will never achieve the intented behaviour.

Regards,

Surya