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juniorexus
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Apr 11, 2014

BGP Route redistribution

Hi Guys,

 

I'm playing around with BGP between F5 and Cisco and RHI and I have a quick question regarding route-maps matching.

 

F5 config: router bgp 1000 bgp graceful-restart restart-time 120 redistribute kernel route-map F5-JUN neighbor 172.24.101.6 remote-as 35000 neighbor 172.24.101.6 soft-reconfiguration inbound neighbor 172.24.101.6 capability graceful-restart ! ip prefix-list PREFIX seq 5 permit 192.168.200.0/24 ! route-map F5-JUN permit 10 match ip address prefix-list PREFIX

 

Cisco: router bgp 35000 bgp log-neighbor-changes neighbor 172.24.101.5 remote-as 1000

 

Configuration is quite simple, my VIP address is 192.168.200.1. My goal is to advertise /32s to cisco neighbor, without manipulating prefix-list every time there is new /32 from this subnet . When I'm using 192.168.200.0/24 in the prefix list, VS route is not being advertised to neighbor, which shouldn't be an issue as prefix-list is configured to match first 3 octets. Is this expected behavior in F5? Then when I reconfigure prefix list to exactly match that VIP (ip prefix-list PREFIX seq 5 permit 192.168.200.1/32) , route advertisement is working fine. I'm using BIG-IP v11.4.1HF3.

 

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2 Replies

  • PeteWhite's avatar
    PeteWhite
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    Apr 11, 2014

    I think that command matches only that specific route - you need to put a modifier on the end such as 

    ip prefix-list PREFIX seq 5 permit 192.168.200.0/24 le 32

    Maybe you can check whether this is possible