Understanding VRF-lite

Route limiting per VRF instance

In a multi-VRF network environment, it may be problematic if one VRF injects too many routes and fills up the hardware forwarding table (FIB) on the device, which can affect other VRFs as well as the global VRF. For more information see "Route Limits" on page 84

VRF-aware utilities within AW+

Some network utility and management features such as ping, traceroute, telnet client, SSH client, and tcpdump are supported in a VRF aware manner.

VRF aware services include

Ping

awplus#ping ?

WORD

Ping destination address or hostname

ip

IP echo

ipv6

IPv6 echo

vrf

VRF instance (source VRF)

<cr>

 

 

awplus#ping vrf <name> ?

WORD

Ping destination address or hostname

ip

IP echo

awplus#ping vrf <name> x.x.x.x

awplus#ping vrf <name> x.x.x.x ?

broadcast

Ping to a broadcast address

df-bit

 

Enable do-not-fragment bit in IP header

interval

Specify interval between pings

pattern

Specify data pattern

repeat

 

Specify repeat count

size

 

Specify datagram size

source

 

Specify source address or interface name

timeout

Specify timeout interval

tos

 

Specify type of service

<cr>

 

 

Trace route

awplus#traceroute ?

WORD

Trace route to destination address or hostname

ip

IP Trace

ipv6

IPv6 trace

vrf

VRF instance

<cr>

 

awplus#traceroute vrf <name> ?

WORD

Trace route to destination address or hostname

ip

IP Trace

awplus#traceroute vrf <name> x.x.x.x

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Allied Telesis C613-16164-00 REV E Route limiting per VRF instance, VRF-aware utilities within AW+,  Ping,  Trace route

C613-16164-00 REV E specifications

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