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p.mayers at imperial

Apr 13, 2012, 9:05 AM

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NX-OS 6.0(1) BGP graceful restart on SUP failover

Does anyone have this working?

I am testing an N7k with dual SUP, and when I perform a failover, BGP
graceful restart is not working as expected. I have a TAC case open, but
was wondering if anyone else had run into it.

The symptoms are:

1. The initial BGP session has the "graceful restart" capability
negotiated, and the expected AFI/SAFI marked for GR.

2. When I perform "system switchover", the box continues to forward
traffic, and the neighbour continues to send it traffic.

3. Once the 2nd SUP becomes active, it establishes a new BGP peering.
In the OPEN message, the "flags" of the GR capability has the R-bit set
(indicating restart has occurred) but the F-bit for each AFI/SAFI is set
to 0 - the neighbour thus assumes forwarding was not preserved, and
discards the stale routes.

So, I have the odd situation that, after a switchover, forwarding works
for about 20 seconds, then stops as the SUP effectively commits "BGP
suicide" by telling the peer that forwarding didn't work!

This is on M-series linecards, in an MPLS/L3VPN config if that matters -
though I am fairly sure it's a problem at the BGP level, since packet
forwarding did continue, stopping immediately upon the new BGP session
startup i.e. step #3 above.
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p.mayers at imperial

Apr 17, 2012, 9:28 AM

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Re: NX-OS 6.0(1) BGP graceful restart on SUP failover [In reply to]

On 13/04/12 17:05, Phil Mayers wrote:
> Does anyone have this working?
>
> I am testing an N7k with dual SUP, and when I perform a failover, BGP
> graceful restart is not working as expected. I have a TAC case open, but
> was wondering if anyone else had run into it.


For info, this work just fine in the 5.2(4) train, which TAC have
advised us to run. So it seems to be a bug/regression in 6.0.
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