!-- Interface Vlan20 is connected to interface Vlan20 on CAT2 via the trunk.
!
router bgp 4
no synchronization
bgp log-neighbor-changes
network 192.168.0.0 mask 255.255.0.0
neighbor 192.168.1.2 remote-as 10
!-- This command establishes eBGP peering with AS10.
neighbor 192.168.2.1 remote-as 4
!-- This command establishes iBGP peering with interface VLAN 20 on CAT2.
neighbor 192.168.2.1 next-hop-self
!-- This command assigns a next-hop value to 192.168.2.3 !-- for updates sent to 192.168.2.1 (the iBGP peer).
!
ip classless
ip route 192.168.0.0 255.255.0.0 Null0
MSFC Configuration on CAT2
CAT2 (enable)
CAT2 (enable) session 15
Trying Router-15...
Connected to Router-15.
Escape character is '^]'.
MSFC-CAT2>enable
MSFC-CAT2#show running-config
Building configuration...
Current configuration : 890 bytes
!
version 12.1
!
hostname MSFC-CAT2
!
boot system flash bootflash:c6msfc-jsv-mz.121-8b.E7
!
ip subnet-zero
!
!
redundancy
!-- This command enables redundancy.
high-availability
!-- This command enables high availability.
single-router-mode
!-- This command enables SRM.
!
interface Vlan10
ip address 192.168.1.3 255.255.255.0
!-- Interface Vlan10 connected to interface Vlan10 on CAT1 via the trunk.
!
interface Vlan20
ip address 192.168.2.1 255.255.255.0
!-- Interface Vlan20 connected to AS20.
!
router bgp 4
no synchronization
bgp log-neighbor-changes
network 192.168.0.0 mask 255.255.0.0
neighbor 192.168.2.2 remote-as 20
!-- This command establishes eBGP peering with AS20.
neighbor 192.168.2.3 remote-as 4
!-- This command establishes iBGP peering with interface Vlan20 on CAT1.
neighbor 192.168.2.3 next-hop-self
!-- This command assigns a next-hop value to 192.168.2.1 !-- for updates sent to 192.168.2.3 (the iBGP peer).
!
ip classless
ip route 192.168.0.0 255.255.0.0 Null0
Troubleshoot
Now that you've verified the high availability SRM configuration, you need to verify the BGP MSFC on CAT1 and CAT2. Use the show ip bgp summary command to verify the neighbor establishment. The output below confirms sUCcessful eBGP and iBGP peering with AS10 and the CAT2 MSFC respectively.
MSFC-CAT1#show ip bgp summary
BGP router identifier 192.168.2.3, local AS number 4
BGP table version is 4, main routing table version 4
3 network entries and 4 paths using 435 bytes of memory
4 BGP path attribute entries using 240 bytes of memory
2 BGP AS-PATH entries using 48 bytes of memory
0 BGP route-map cache entries using 0 bytes of memory
0 BGP filter-list cache entries using 0 bytes of memory
Neighbor V AS MsgRcvd MsgSent TblVer InQ OutQ Up/Down State/PfxRcd
192.168.2.2 4 20 110 112 4 0 0 01:46:43 1
192.168.2.3 4 4 101 101 4 0 0 01:35:09 2
In the event the designated MSFC (Mod 15 on CAT1) eXPeriences a failure, the standby MSFC (Mod 16 on CAT1) takes over the role of active MSFC. It is important to understand that with the failure of the designated MSFC and fail over to the non-designated MSFC, packet switching will continue to work with the Cisco Express Forwarding (CEF) table programmed by the old designated MSFC. The newly designated MSFC will eventually re-program the CEF table with its own entries and the old entries will expire.
Failure of designated MSFC is simulated by resetting Mod 15 on CAT1 as shown below.
CAT1> (enable) reset 15
This command will reset module 15.
Unsaved configuration on module 15 will be lost
Do you want to continue (y/n) [n]? y
2002 May 16 11:52:54 %SYS-5-MOD_RESET:Module 15 reset from Console//
Resetting module 15...
Ping traffic was generated from AS10 to a destination in AS20 during the fail over on CAT1 from designated to non-designated MSFC. Note that there was minimal packet loss during this fail over and the packet forwarding continued to work with the old CEF table programmed by the Mod 15 MSFC until the Mod 16 MSFC re-programs the CEF table with its own entries.
AS10-Router#ping
Protocol [ip]:
Target IP address: 172.16.1.1
Repeat count [5]: 1000
Datagram size [100]:
Timeout in seconds [2]:
Extended commands [n]:
Sweep range of sizes [n]:
Type escape sequence to abort.
Sending 1000, 100-byte ICMP Echos to 172.16.1.1, timeout is 2 seconds:
