Question

MPLS with BGP and EIGRP

Asked by: jkpcnet

Hello,
I'm new to the whole MPLS Setup. I'm trying to connect remote sides using BGP on the providers side and EIGRP on our side. I'm able to ping router from router on each side trough MPLS network but can not ping my network. This is private network ....No Internet access through this MPLS Network.
This is what I setup in routers:

Router A
router  eigrp  1
network  10.0.0.0
no  auto-summary
no eigrp log-neighbor-changes

router bgp 60000
no synchronization
bgp log-neighbor-changes
neighbor 192.168.1.1 remote-as 11250
no auto summary

interface Serial1/0
ip address 192.168.1.2 255.255.255.252
interface fastethernet0/0
ip address 10.10.1.1

Router B
router  eigrp  1
network  10.0.0.0
no  auto-summary
no eigrp log-neighbor-changes

router bgp 60000
no synchronization
bgp log-neighbor-changes
neighbor 192.168.2.1 remote-as 11250
no auto summary

interface Serial1/0
ip address 192.168.2.2 255.255.255.252
interface fastethernet0/0
ip address 10.10.2.1


Please, can someone help me with this? What's missing in this setup?
,jackowaty

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Answers

 

by: lrmoorePosted on 2008-09-12 at 06:10:36ID: 22459379

You don't need both eigrp and bgp

Try this on both sides

router bgp 60000
no synchronization
network 10.10.2.0 mask 255.255.255.0  <== add local network
network 192.168.2.0 mask 255.255.255.252 <== add WAN network
bgp log-neighbor-changes
neighbor 192.168.2.1 remote-as 11250
no auto summary

Then compare sho ip route

 

by: jkpcnetPosted on 2008-09-15 at 09:40:49ID: 22480376

Thank you for your help.
I need  EIGRP for my internal routing.  I typically have 4 subnets at each remote locations, total 16 remote sides &..local network on 10.0.0.0 network.
I made these changes to my router unfortunately it didnt help. Still cant ping from local subnet 10.0.0.0 - mpls interface nor ping my private network 10.0.0.0 through mpls.
This is what I did in bgp configuration:
router bgp 60000
 no synchronization
 bgp log-neighbor-changes
 network 10.0.0.0 mask 255.0.0.0
network 192.168.2.0 mask 255.255.255.0
 neighbor 192.168.2.2 remote-as 11250
 neighbor 192.168.2.2 description main location MPLS
 neighbor 192.168.2.2 version 4
 neighbor 192.168.2.2 soft-reconfiguration  inbound
 neighbor 192.168.2.2 weight 1
 no auto-summary

interface Serial4/0
 ip address 192.168.2.1 255.255.255.252

This is from  sho run: on outer A
!
interface Serial0/1:0
 description Second T1 XXXXXXXX
 ip address 10.50.25.53 255.255.255.252
 fair-queue
 service-policy output voip
!
interface Serial0/2:0
 description T1 XXXXXXXX
 ip address 10.50.25.81 255.255.255.252
 fair-queue
 service-policy output voip
!
interface Serial0/3:0
 description T1 XXXXXXXX
 ip address 10.50.25.77 255.255.255.252
 shutdown
 fair-queue
 service-policy output voip
!
interface Serial0/4:0
 description XXXXXXXXXXXXX
 ip address 10.50.25.17 255.255.255.252
 fair-queue
 service-policy output voip
!
interface Serial0/5:0
 description XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
 ip address 10.50.25.73 255.255.255.252
 fair-queue
 service-policy output voip
!
interface Serial1/0:0
 description T1 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
 ip address 10.50.25.70 255.255.255.252
 fair-queue
 service-policy output voip
!
interface Serial1/1:0
 description T1 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
 no ip address
 encapsulation ppp
 fair-queue
 ppp multilink
 ppp multilink group 1
!
interface Serial1/2:0
 description XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
 ip address 10.50.25.21 255.255.255.252
 fair-queue
 service-policy output voip

! Backup is on ISDN&.in case primarly line goes down
interface Serial2/0:23
 description ISDN-PRI backup
 ip address 10.100.100.100 255.255.255.0
 encapsulation ppp
 dialer idle-timeout 300
 dialer-group 1
 isdn switch-type primary-5ess
 ppp authentication chap
 ppp multilink
!

! my BGP interface
interface Serial4/0
 ip address 192.168.2.1 255.255.255.252
!
router eigrp 10
 passive-interface Serial2/0:23
 network 10.0.0.0
 no auto-summary
 no eigrp log-neighbor-changes
!
router bgp 60000
 no synchronization
 bgp log-neighbor-changes
 network 10.0.0.0 mask 255.0.0.0
network 192.168.2.0 mask 255.255.255.0
 neighbor 192.168.2.2 remote-as 11250
 neighbor 192.168.2.2 description main location MPLS
 neighbor 192.168.2.2 version 4
 neighbor 192.168.2.2 soft-reconfiguration inbound
 neighbor 192.168.2.2 weight 1
 no auto-summary

I think I should redistribute eigrp network within bgp. There is no internet access from this network so I did not set up routing table for this.
Sincerely,
jk

 

by: lrmoorePosted on 2008-09-15 at 10:19:13ID: 22480745

Yes, I would redistribute eigrp 10 into bgp

router bgp 65000
 redistribute eigrp 10 subnets  

 

by: harbor235Posted on 2008-09-15 at 12:09:44ID: 22481893


I disagree, you should never redistribute an IGP into an EGP inless you have to and there is not other possibility. It is a bad practice, some of the original granularity is lost and metrics change. It makes troubleshooting problematic and takes more time to manage it as well. Why add to the confusion.
Internal routes are EIGRP and external routes are BGP, makes reading and troubleshooting your routing table much easier.

I would run EIGRP and BGP simultaneously as you started, however, BGP will not advertise a route that is not in it's routing table. If you are not using the entire 10.0.0.0/8 perhaps you are using 10.1.0.0/22 for example, you could advertise 10.1.0.0/21 (the supernet) by adding a static route like the following;
ip route 10.1.0.0 255.255.7.0 null0.

This adds the supernet to the routing table so BGP can advertise the 10.1.0.0/22. When traffic arrives
at the router the more specific route wins out (the /22), traffic is routed as required.

verify your advertisements;
show ip bgp regexp ^$

Do your neighbors come up?
sh ip bgp summ

harbor235 ;}

 

by: jkpcnetPosted on 2008-09-15 at 12:52:57ID: 22482223

These are my :   sh ip bgp summ     and     show ip bgp .   I will give a try with setting route for 10.25.0.0/16 this will covered 53 subnets in this network

MPLSWAN01#sh ip bgp summ
BGP router identifier 192.168.2.1, local AS number 60000
BGP table version is 13, main routing table version 13
2 network entries using 202 bytes of memory
3 path entries using 144 bytes of memory
3 BGP path attribute entries using 180 bytes of memory
1 BGP AS-PATH entries using 24 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
BGP using 550 total bytes of memory
BGP activity 6/4 prefixes, 7/4 paths, scan interval 60 secs

Neighbor        V    AS MsgRcvd MsgSent   TblVer  InQ OutQ Up/Down  State/PfxRcd
192.168.2.2     4 15270     436     442       13    0    0 07:08:30        2
MPLSWAN01#show ip bgp regexp ^$
BGP table version is 13, local router ID is 192.168.2.1
Status codes: s suppressed, d damped, h history, * valid, > best, i - internal,
              r RIB-failure, S Stale
Origin codes: i - IGP, e - EGP, ? - incomplete

   Network          Next Hop            Metric LocPrf Weight Path
*> 192.168.2.0/30 0.0.0.0                  0         32768 i

 

by: lrmoorePosted on 2008-09-15 at 13:30:47ID: 22482533

Thanks for jumping in, harbor235
Must have been late when I posted.... will give this some more thought.
It is always problematic when using same BGP AS number at each site...

 

by: harbor235Posted on 2008-09-15 at 13:36:24ID: 22482591


That sounds great, check to make sure the route is advertised. i always add my external interface
into an IGP as well (your MPLS interface) that way if you expand and add IBGP peers in the future you will not have a next-hop issue, it's a good practice. I would however make it passive, there is no need to form expediencies on that network, you are just making sure that network is in your routing table for future
next-hop propgation down to your IBGP neighbors.

harbor235 ;}

 

by: harbor235Posted on 2008-09-15 at 13:38:06ID: 22482604


No problem lrmoore, you have helped me more times than I can remember.  

harbor235 ;}

 

by: harbor235Posted on 2008-09-15 at 19:01:21ID: 22484307

Sorry typo;

That sounds great, check to make sure the route is advertised. i always add my external interface
into an IGP as well (your MPLS interface) that way if you expand and add IBGP peers in the future you will not have a next-hop issue, it's a good practice. I would however make it passive, there is no need to form adjacencies on that network, you are just making sure that network is in your routing table for future
next-hop propagation down to your IBGP neighbors.

harbor235 ;}

 

by: jkpcnetPosted on 2008-09-16 at 08:00:04ID: 22489089

I added   ip route 10.1.0.0 255.255.0.0 null0.   And it brought down all my connections on this subnet . Unfortunately this is live system and cant  do to many things.  
What do you think? Wouldnt be better to generate a default route into the IGP at  my router than to redistribute BGP.  Then create default route to be used by the IGP
to direct traffic to my router .
I  hope Im not getting to creative with this.

Sincerely,
jk

 

by: harbor235Posted on 2008-09-16 at 08:44:19ID: 22489710

The key is that the 10.1.0.0/16 is a supnet (larger block of IPs that was broken up into smaller blocks.
You need to have more specific routes in your routing table for this to work. So in EIGRP you have 10.1.0.0/24? routing is concerned with the longest prefix match, if you do a show IP route | i 10.1,
what do you get?

Eigrp network statements should reflect teh exact subnets in use not the enitre 10/8. BGP should also reflect the more specific 10 routes and not the 10/8 range.

Can you post an updated config?

harbor235 ;}

 

 

by: jkpcnetPosted on 2008-09-16 at 10:53:03ID: 22491159

MPLSWAN01#show IP route | i 10.1
D       10.10.10.0/24 [90/2181120] via 10.255.255.1, 1d05h, Serial1/3:0
B       192.168.1.0 [20/0] via 192.168.2.2, 1d05h

When I use       show IP route | i 10.    I get all 50 subnets.
I will set up more specific routes.

jk

 

by: jkpcnetPosted on 2008-09-16 at 11:56:15ID: 22491959

Just placed an order for new router. Get to many worry that system may go down for 1 minut. Will setup MPLS on new routers.
jk

 

by: harbor235Posted on 2008-09-17 at 08:57:39ID: 22500260


Ok, the key here is getting all your routing correct, youo advertise a supernet but your routing table has more specific routes to internal destinations via EIGRP, thats how it should work.

Let me know how I can help out.

harbor235 ;}

 

by: jkpcnetPosted on 2008-09-18 at 15:15:49ID: 22516054

Thank you for your help.
With directly connected computers to these routers I can ping across MPLS network. && Although to each router I have connected Cisco switch 3560  with Vlans.  Vlan1   10.25.2.1 ,   Vlan2   10.25.4.1. EIGRP is enabled on the switch.
When pinging from  SwitchA  through RouterA network on Router B I get no reply. I get reply from MPLS interface on Router B but not gateway fa0/1.
Before MPLS I had eigrp that was taking care routing. I still have EIGRP on the switch and router .
To the same switch I have connected my old Frame relay network.
On  switch I added    ip route 192.168.1.2 255.255.255.252 10.255.2.4
And                            ip route 192.168.2.2 255.255.255.252 10.255.2.4

MPLS RouterA interface Serial1/0      ip address 192.168.1.2 255.255.255.252
MPLS RouterB interface Serial1/0      ip address 192.168.2.2 255.255.255.252
These are my sh run &.config from both routers.
ROUTER   A
version 12.4
!
hostname RouterA
!
boot-start-marker
boot-end-marker
!
ip cef
ip auth-proxy max-nodata-conns 3
ip admission max-nodata-conns 3
!
!
voice-card 0
 no dspfarm

controller T3 1/0
 clock source line
!
!
policy-map voip
!
!
interface FastEthernet0/0
 description RouterA MPLS
 ip address 10.25.2.4 255.255.255.0
 ip route-cache flow
 duplex auto
 speed auto
 no keepalive
!
!
interface Serial1/0
 ip address 192.168.1.2 255.255.255.252
 dsu bandwidth 6000
!
interface Virtual-Template1
 no ip address
!
router eigrp 10
 redistribute static
 passive-interface Serial1/0
 network 10.0.0.0
 network 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.3
 default-metric 6000 100 255 1 15000
 no auto-summary
!
!
router bgp 60000
 no synchronization
 bgp log-neighbor-changes
 network 10.25.2.0 mask 255.255.255.0
 network 10.25.4.0 mask 255.255.255.0
 neighbor 192.168.1.1 remote-as 11250
 neighbor 192.168.1.1 description LAN A MPLS
 neighbor 192.168.1.1 version 4
 neighbor 192.168.1.1 soft-reconfiguration inbound
 no auto-summary
!
ip forward-protocol nd
ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 192.168.1.1
!

ROUTER   B
controller T1 0/1/0
 framing esf
 linecode b8zs
 channel-group 1 timeslots 1-24
!
controller T1 0/1/1
 framing esf
 linecode b8zs
 channel-group 1 timeslots 1-24
!
!
class-map match-any voip
 match ip dscp ef
 match ip dscp af41
!
!
policy-map voip
 class voip
!
!
interface Multilink1
 ip address 192.168.2.2 255.255.255.252
 no cdp enable
 ppp multilink
 ppp multilink group 1
!
!
interface FastEthernet0/1
 description LAN-B
 ip address 10.25.125.1 255.255.255.0
 duplex auto
 speed auto
 no snmp trap link-status
!
router eigrp 10
 redistribute static
 passive-interface Multilink1
 network 10.0.0.0
 network 192.168.2.0 0.0.0.3
 default-metric 3000 100 255 1 1500
 no auto-summary
!
router bgp 60000
 no synchronization
 bgp log-neighbor-changes
 network 10.25.118.0 mask 255.255.255.0
 network 10.25.125.0 mask 255.255.255.0
 network 10.25.254.0 mask 255.255.255.0
 neighbor 192.168.2.1 remote-as 11250
 neighbor 192.168.2.1 description LAN B
 neighbor 192.168.2.1 version 4
 neighbor 192.168.2.1 soft-reconfiguration inbound
 neighbor 192.168.2.1 weight 1
 no auto-summary
!
ip forward-protocol nd
ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 192.168.2.1

Can you help me with this? I think that the problem is that I use network 10.25.2.0/24 and I have gateway 10.25.2.2 assigned to my frame relay network that's connected to the same switch. On test router I use  10.25.2.4    

jk

 

by: harbor235Posted on 2008-09-22 at 06:53:41ID: 22539962

FYI, you should never use vlan 1, potential security hole, you should also not trunk it anywhere.

Router A should only advertise network 10.25.2.0/24 not the 10.0.0.0
Router B should only advertise network 10.25.125.0/24 not the 10.0.0.0

See if this changes connectivity between routers.

I assume your MPLS provider devices are up and running and have all the routes and labels active?

harbor235 ;}


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