I'm by no means recommending it, but you could get around the issue by using something like CE <-> vPE BGP peering..? Its a hack, but i'm sure you could make it go. Failover times would be longer, states might get screwed up, just an idea...
On 8 September 2010 08:13, Sascha Pollok <nsp-l...@pollok.net> wrote: > On 8 September 2010 08:44, Michael Sprouffske <msprouff...@yahoo.com> >> wrote: >> >>> So, I have this hsrp lab setup with a coulple PE routers and come CE >>> routers. Everything works and all is well. I wanna know how the 2 PE >>> routers that are playing in the hsrp role notify other PE routers upstream >>> or if they do. So for example, I have one CE1 router attached to PE1 and >>> PE2 and they are doing hsrp and it works well. I also have PE3 and PE4 >>> attached to CE2. How do PE1 and PE2 communicate the hsrp stuff to PE3 and >>> PE4 or do they need to? How does PE3 and PE4 know where to send packets? >>> >> >> They don't notify anyone in normal circumstances. HSRP address is only >> used by traffic from CEs towards PEs. In the other direction normally >> both PEs advertise the same 'connected' network, and the rest of the >> > > This reminds me of a long-time wish that I have that has not been > satisfied yet :) As I would like to also influence the traffic > from the backbone to the PE (thus, to connected routes redistributed > into the IGP) I would like to modify the admin distance or metric for the > connected routes for a particular interface. So that I can tweak the > connected routes in a way that traffic Backbone->PE also prefers the > HSRP/VRRP master (not to mention "tweak connected routes according to > HSRP status"). > > I know I could tweak the redistribute connected in my OSPF router > using route-maps but that would require listing all connected routes > in ACLs or similar. > > Anyone with a good solution for that one? > > Cheers > Sascha > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ > _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/