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Hi,

I'm trying to make EVPN via VXLAN encapsulation work between two ASR9001
(with the goal of eventually making it work between ASR9001 and Arista
boxes, but right now I'm failing ASR9001 <-> ASR9001 already).

As warmup, I tried EVPN with MPLS encapsulation, and that is much better
documented and very straightforward to set up (basically, all the defaults
work - configure neighbours that have labels, ensure RDs match, attach
EVI <n> to bridge-domain <n>, done)... so, BGP works, IGP works,
bridge-group setup works.


With VXLAN, it "should" be similarily straightforward, but I'm overlooking
something. Namely, both sides create their l2vpn evpn BGP routes, and
the neighbours talk to each other, but neither side is willing to export
anything but Type 4 routes (ESI).

Tried with and without ESI config, without explicit RT config, with
lots of different RT combinations... no avail, routers are not announcing.


The two boxes are 195.30.3.251 and 195.30.3.252 (you'll see that in the
RDs below, and redacting BGP output never helps debugging).

This is what I have in BGP right now on 195.30.3.252:

RP/0/RSP0/CPU0:M52#sh bgp l2vpn evpn
...
Network Next Hop Metric LocPrf Weight Path
Route Distinguisher: 195.30.3.251:0
*>i[4][0040.0000.0000.0034.3502][32][195.30.3.251]/128
195.30.3.251 100 0 i
Route Distinguisher: 195.30.3.252:0 (default for vrf ES:GLOBAL)
*> [1][195.30.3.252:1][0040.0000.0000.0052.0002][4294967295]/184
0.0.0.0 0 i
*>i[4][0040.0000.0000.0034.3502][32][195.30.3.251]/128
195.30.3.251 100 0 i
*> [4][0040.0000.0000.0052.0002][32][195.30.3.252]/128
0.0.0.0 0 i
Route Distinguisher: 195.30.3.252:2799 (default for vrf v2799)
*> [1][0040.0000.0000.0052.0002][0]/120
0.0.0.0 0 i
*> [2][0][48][3cfd.febd.7835][0]/104
0.0.0.0 0 i
*> [2][0][48][3cfd.febd.7835][32][10.27.99.2]/136
0.0.0.0 0 i
*> [2][0][48][a80c.0d56.503f][0]/104
0.0.0.0 0 i
*> [3][0][32][195.30.3.252]/80
0.0.0.0 0 i

P/0/RSP0/CPU0:M52#sh bgp l2vpn evpn su
Neighbor Spk AS MsgRcvd MsgSent TblVer InQ OutQ Up/Down St/PfxRcd
195.30.3.251 0 5539 21 21 480 0 0 00:15:28 1

RP/0/RSP0/CPU0:M52#sh bgp l2vpn evpn neigh 195.30.3.251 advertised-routes
Sun Mar 29 11:37:43.281 MEDST
Network Next Hop From AS Path
Route Distinguisher: 195.30.3.252:0
[4][0040.0000.0000.0052.0002][32][195.30.3.252]/128
195.30.3.252 Local i

so both sides symmetrically announce the Type 4 ESI DR election route
(which isn't really relevant as all ESIs are single-homed right now),
but refuse to announce anything else.


The neighbour config is trivial:

interface Loopback30
description VXLAN/EVPN endpoint
ipv4 address 195.30.3.252 255.255.255.255

router bgp 5539
neighbor 195.30.3.251
remote-as 5539
description m34/evpn-vxlan-test
update-source Loopback30
address-family l2vpn evpn
encapsulation-type vxlan
!
!
!

(no matter of what policy statements or import/export statements I
added there had any positive effect)


So is the EVPN config:

RP/0/RSP0/CPU0:M52#sh run evpn
Sun Mar 29 11:40:23.694 MEDST
evpn
evi 2799
bgp
!
advertise-mac
bvi-mac
!
!
interface TenGigE0/0/2/2
ethernet-segment
identifier type 0 40.00.00.00.00.00.52.00.02
!
!
interface Bundle-Ether102
ethernet-segment
identifier type 0 40.00.00.00.00.00.52.00.01
!
!
source interface Loopback30
!


no explicit configured RDs or RTs (I did try about everything...), but
the default values seem to make sense, for example for the Type 3:

BGP routing table entry for [3][0][32][195.30.3.252]/80, Route Distinguisher: 195.30.3.252:2799
Versions:
Process bRIB/RIB SendTblVer
Speaker 480 480
Last Modified: Mar 29 11:23:56.823 for 00:18:44
Paths: (1 available, best #1)
Not advertised to any peer
Path #1: Received by speaker 0
Not advertised to any peer
Local
0.0.0.0 from 0.0.0.0 (193.149.44.20)
Origin IGP, localpref 100, valid, redistributed, best, group-best, import-candidate
Received Path ID 0, Local Path ID 1, version 480
Extended community: RT:5539:2799
PMSI: flags 0x00, type 6, label 24022, ID 0xc31e03fc


"Not advertised to any peer" << and *this*...


For reference, here's the bridge group and the NVE config, but those
are also trivial enough so I assume the issue is "in BGP", not somewhere
there:

l2vpn
bridge group vlandb
bridge-domain v2799
interface TenGigE0/0/2/2.2799
!
routed interface BVI2799
!
evi 2799
!
member vni 102799
!
!

Interface nve1
member vni 102799
host-reachability protocol bgp
!
overlay-encapsulation vxlan
source-interface Loopback30
!



Oh, finally, this is on 32bit IOS XR 6.5.3.sp2 - in case this matters...


So... any ideas or suggestions what to try next? Or "just give up on
this and go with EVPN/MPLS instead" (which would not help me with the
larger goal "connect a remote location that only has Arista gear")?

thanks,

gert

--
"If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you
feed honest figures into a computer, honest figures come out. Never doubted
it myself till I met a computer with a sense of humor."
Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

Gert Doering - Munich, Germany gert@greenie.muc.de