Complex MPLS VPNs
Using Advanced VRF Import and Export
Features
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Outline
Overview
What Are Advanced VRF Features?
Configuring Selective VRF import
Configuring Selective VRF Export
Summary
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Advanced VRF Features
Selective import
This features allows you to specify additional
criteria for importing routes into the VRF.
Selective export
This features allows you to specify additional RTs
attached to exported routes.
VRF route limit
This features allows you to specify the maximum
number of routes in a VRF to prevent memory
exhaustion on PE routers or denial-of-service
attacks.
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Configuring Selective VRF Import
VRF import criteria might be more specific than
just the match on the RTfor example:
Import only routes with specific BGP attributes
(community, and so on).
Import routes with specific prefixes or subnet masks
(only loopback addresses).
A route map can be configured in a VRF to make
the route import more specific.
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Configuring Selective VRF Import (Cont.)
Router(config-vrf)#
import map route-map
This command attaches a route map to the VRF
import process.
A route is imported into the VRF only if at least one
RT attached to the route matches one RT
configured in the VRF and the route is accepted by
the route map.
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Configuring Selective VRF Import (Cont.)
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Configuring Selective VRF Export
Routes from a VRF might have to be exported with
different RTs.
An example would be export management routes with
particular RTs.
An export route map can be configured
on a VRF:
This route map can set extended community RTs.
No other set operations can be performed by this route map.
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Configuring Selective VRF Export (Cont.)
Router(config)#
route-map name permit seq
match condition
set extcommunity rt extended-community-value [additive]
This command creates a route map that matches
routes based on any route map conditions and
sets RTs.
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Configuring Selective VRF Export (Cont.)
router(config-vrf)#
export map name
This command attaches a route map to the VRF
export process.
All exported routes always get RTs configured with
the route-target export command in the VRF.
A route that is matched by the export route map will
have additional RTs attached.
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Configuring Selective VRF Export (Cont.)
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Summary
Two advanced VRF features were discussed:
Selective import
Selective export
Use the import map command to configure an
import route map for VRF.
Use the export map command to attach a route map
to the VRF export process.
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