Arista 7050CX - Packet Forwarding Pipeline

 

Reference: https://www.arista.com/assets/data/pdf/Whitepapers/Arista_7050X_Switch_Architecture.pdf

Arista EOS: how to ping link local address under VRF

Here is the subinterface configuration:

interface Ethernet34.4007
   description =>v7:Sp4-ck478
   mtu 9214
   encapsulation dot1q vlan 4007
   vrf cust
   ipv6 address fe80::1/64 link-local

To ping the remote link-local address, we could use 

RtrA#ping vrf cust ipv6 fe80:: interface et34.4007
PING fe80::(fe80::) from fe80::1%et34.4007 et34.4007: 72 data bytes
80 bytes from fe80::1%et31.4007: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.076 ms
80 bytes from fe80::1%et31.4007: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.029 ms
80 bytes from fe80::1%et31.4007: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.027 ms
80 bytes from fe80::1%et31.4007: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.027 ms
80 bytes from fe80::1%et31.4007: icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=0.032 ms

Arista EOS: % - Pending BGP convergence when "show bgp evpn"

1. Router(RR) receives 4 bgp evpn prefixes from RRC

wa465-PD.P1-JHM.SR.14:35:52(config-router-bgp-af)#show bgp evpn summary
BGP summary information for VRF default
Router identifier 100.250.250.30, local AS number 65000
Neighbor Status Codes: m - Under maintenance
  Neighbor         V  AS           MsgRcvd   MsgSent  InQ OutQ  Up/Down State   PfxRcd PfxAcc
  100.250.250.11   4 65000            500       487    0    0 00:02:15 Estab   4      4
  100.250.250.12   4 65000            504       488    0    0 00:02:15 Estab   4      4

2. But "show bgp evpn" complains about "Pending BGP convergence"

wa465-PD.P1-JHM.SR.14:36:48(config-router-bgp-af)#show bgp evpn

BGP routing table information for VRF default

Router identifier 100.250.250.30, local AS number 65000

Route status codes: s - suppressed, * - valid, > - active, E - ECMP head, e - ECMP

                    S - Stale, c - Contributing to ECMP, b - backup

                    % - Pending BGP convergence

Origin codes: i - IGP, e - EGP, ? - incomplete

AS Path Attributes: Or-ID - Originator ID, C-LST - Cluster List, LL Nexthop - Link Local Nexthop

          Network                Next Hop              Metric  LocPref Weight  Path

   %     RD: 100.250.250.12:100 auto-discovery 0 0000:0000:0000:1111:0000

                                 100.250.250.12        -       100     0       i

   %     RD: 100.250.250.12:1 auto-discovery 0000:0000:0000:1111:0000

                                 100.250.250.12        -       100     0       i

3. Check the NH, it was resolved in the tunnel rib

wa465-PD.P1-JHM.SR.14:37:33(config-router-bgp-af)#show tunnel rib brief | grep 100.250.250.12

   100.250.250.12/32       IS-IS SR IPv4       3               65                      115               20

4. The cause is the mis-configuration under router bgp evpn address family. The EOS needs to know to resolve the NH by using the mpls NH tunnel rib. 

wa465-PD.P1-JHM.SR.14:36:53(config-router-bgp-af)#router bgp 65000

wa465-PD.P1-JHM.SR.14:36:57(config-router-bgp)#add evpn

wa465-PD.P1-JHM.SR.14:37:00(config-router-bgp-af)#neighbor default encapsulation mpls next-hop-self source-interface loopback 0

wa465-PD.P1-JHM.SR.14:37:25(config-router-bgp-af)#show bgp evpn

BGP routing table information for VRF default

Router identifier 100.250.250.30, local AS number 65000

Route status codes: s - suppressed, * - valid, > - active, E - ECMP head, e - ECMP

                    S - Stale, c - Contributing to ECMP, b - backup

                    % - Pending BGP convergence

Origin codes: i - IGP, e - EGP, ? - incomplete

AS Path Attributes: Or-ID - Originator ID, C-LST - Cluster List, LL Nexthop - Link Local Nexthop

          Network                Next Hop              Metric  LocPref Weight  Path

 * >     RD: 100.250.250.12:100 auto-discovery 0 0000:0000:0000:1111:0000

                                 100.250.250.12        -       100     0       i

 * >     RD: 100.250.250.12:1 auto-discovery 0000:0000:0000:1111:0000