Dynamic inter-VRF communication explained

Inter-VRF communication via BGP

Dynamic inter-VRF route leakage is achieved by making copies of BGP routes that exist in one BGP address-family associated with one VRF instance, to another BGP address-family associated with a different VRF instance.

OSFP

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

routerpeer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1

 

 

Redistribute BGP

 

 

 

OSPF

 

 

from VRF red FIB

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

VRF

 

 

 

 

 

Redistribute OSPF

 

red

 

 

 

Redistribute BGP

 

FIB

 

 

 

 

from VRF red FIB

 

 

 

 

 

from VRF blue FIB

 

 

 

 

 

 

BGP

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

address

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

family

-

 

 

 

 

VRF

 

 

red

 

 

 

 

blue

 

 

 

 

 

BGP

FIB

 

OSPF

 

 

 

 

 

 

2

 

 

 

address

 

 

 

 

 

family

-

 

 

 

 

 

 

blue

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Redistribute OSPF

 

OSFP

 

 

 

 

 

from VRF blue FIB

 

routerpeer

BGP routes copied between BGP

 

 

 

 

 

 

VRF Device

address-families to facilitate inter-VRF

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

communication

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In the diagram above, the following is configured:

OSPF1 is configured in VRF-red, and OSPF1 contains redistribute BGP

OSPF2 is configured in VRF-blue, and OSPF2 contains redistribute BGP

BGP is configured and contains BGP address-families red and blue

Both BGP address-families contain redistribute OSPF

Then route leakage of routes from VRF red to VRF blue occurs as follows:

1.OSPF1 selects appropriate OSPF routes learned from external VRF red OSPF peer and automatically adds them to red FIB route table.

2.OSPF1 routes are imported from red FIB route table into BGP address-family red BGP route table (via the BGP redistribute OSPF command).

3.Via the route-target import command, BGP address-family red BGP routes are selected and copied into BGP address-family blue BGP route table.

4.Appropriate BGP address-family blue BGP routes are selected and automatically added to the VRF blue FIB route table.

5.OSPF2 then imports and redistributes the BGP routes (learned originally from VRF red OSPF peer) into OSPF2 from VRF blue FIB route table (via OSPF redistribute BGP command).

6.Those OSPF routes are then advertised to external VRF blue OSPF peer.

And the same process is used to leak routes from VRF blue to VRF red.

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