Monday, January 28, 2019

BGP Multi-Instance and Multi-AS feature on IOS-XR

I am looking to use a couple ASR9001 routers at the Internet edge to bring in some Internet circuits, then I need to push it through an firewall and IPS stack. Then after traversing the security stack, I want to bring it back into the same ASR9001 routers in a different VRF. From there, I can distribute scrubbed Internet handoffs to multiple tenants within the data center. Dynamic routing within this Internet edge topology is a must so I would need to have multiple OSPF instances, and would like to use a second BGP instance (scrubbed) on the ASR9k routers to peer with the other BGP instance (external). I would like to not have to purchase another set of routers for the scrubbed side of this design.

The documentation states that this is one of the use-cases ("Mechanism to consolidate the services provided by multiple routers using a common routing infrastructure into a single IOS-XR router.").

But, the restrictions section states "Only one Address Family can be configured under each BGP instance". Does that mean that on the external BGP instance, I can run IPv4 unicast, but I cannot run IPv4 unicast on the scrubbed BGP instance, but I could run another address-family? Or is it such that I can run only one address-family on each BGP instance, but both instances could both be running the IPv4 unicast address-family?

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/routers/asr9000/software/asr9k-r6-2/routing/configuration/guide/b-routing-cg-asr9000-62x/b-routing-cg-asr9000-62x_chapter_010.html#concept_E6B1D3D6B8CA4742AED837B3A94E826F



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