VRF & Static Route Question

Hi Folks,

I am not overly well versed with VRF's but i had a inquiry to see if what the scenario is would work.

We currently have two routers connected via port-channel in different locations.

Location 1

Router 1

192.168.10.5

Location 2

Router 2

192.168.10.6

Currently 'Router 2' has a static route in place to forward pretty much all traffic from itself to 'Router 1', 10.0.0.0 255.224.0.0 192.168.10.5. This works and the management applications residing in Location 1 are able to view the traffic from the vlans in location 2.

Here comes my issue, we need to have some VRF's in places and when i add the VRF's into the Vlan's this is where routing stops going back to the other side.

I had tried putting the following into the Vlan interface.

'ip route vrf automation 10.1.100.0 255.255.255.0 192.168.10.5', i had also tried by specifying the port-channel interface. I also tried 'ip route vrf automation 10.1.100.0 255.255.255.0 192.168.10.5 global' and still the network traffic doesnt seem to go over to the other router.

Any insight into why this may not be working. My initial thought might be because of the static route in place.

Thanks

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