Cisco – Internal BGP route exchange issue

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I have BGP multihoming with two cisco routers. Each router has its own ISP and announce our AS with our /24 network to the internet.

My issue is between those two routers :

Router A, routing table looks like :

BGP table version is 9622808, local router ID is 10.100.100.2
Status codes: s suppressed, d damped, h history, * valid, > best, i - internal,
              r RIB-failure, S Stale, m multipath, b backup-path, f RT-Filter,
              x best-external, a additional-path, c RIB-compressed,
Origin codes: i - IGP, e - EGP, ? - incomplete
RPKI validation codes: V valid, I invalid, N Not found

     Network          Next Hop            Metric LocPrf Weight Path
 *>i 1.0.0.0/24       10.100.100.3         10041    150      0 175 15169 i
 *                    192.168.200.1              0             0 800 15169 i

Router B, routing table looks like :

router#sh ip bgp 

BGP table version is 10261936, local router ID is 192.168.1.2
Status codes: s suppressed, d damped, h history, * valid, > best, i - internal,
              r RIB-failure, S Stale, m multipath, b backup-path, f RT-Filter,
              x best-external, a additional-path, c RIB-compressed,
Origin codes: i - IGP, e - EGP, ? - incomplete
RPKI validation codes: V valid, I invalid, N Not found

     Network          Next Hop            Metric LocPrf Weight Path
 *>  1.0.0.0/24       192.168.1.1        10041    150      0 175 15169 i

Router A 

 
    #sh ip bgp 1.0.0.0
    BGP routing table entry for 1.0.0.0/24, version 9124223
    Paths: (2 available, best #1, table default)
    Multipath: eBGP
     Not advertised to any peer
    Refresh Epoch 1
    175 15169
    10.100.100.3 from 10.100.100.3 (192.168.1.1 )
      Origin IGP, metric 10041, localpref 150, valid, internal, best
      rx pathid: 0, tx pathid: 0x0
    Refresh Epoch 1
    8220 15169
    192.168.200.1 from 192.168.200.1 (212.74.90.252)
      Origin IGP, metric 0, localpref 100, valid, external
      Community: 538770940 538771322
      rx pathid: 0, tx pathid: 0

Router B 


    #sh ip bgp 1.0.0.0
    BGP routing table entry for 1.0.0.0/24, version 9772009
    Paths: (1 available, best #1, table default)
    Multipath: eBGP
    Advertised to update-groups:
     15
    Refresh Epoch 1
    175 15169
    192.168.1.1 from 192.168.1.1 (38.28.4.10)
      Origin IGP, metric 10041, localpref 150, valid, external, best
      Community: 11424364 11425276
      rx pathid: 0, tx pathid: 0x0



Router B
    #sh ip bgp summary
   Neighbor        V           AS MsgRcvd MsgSent   TblVer  InQ OutQ Up/Down  State/PfxRcd
   10.100.100.2    4        48020  748914 2167278 10705132    0    0 2w4d         3350
   192.168.1.1   4          175 2591251   29738 10705000    0    0 2w4d       509418

My issue is that Router B has only one Next Hop for the 1.0.0.0/24 (this is an example).
I am expecting that router B has another Next Hop to router A.

Router A is showing both Next hop as expected.

This issue has serious impact, If we lose router B as the preferred router we lose Internet, since it is not able to route traffic through router A.

Best Answer

In your case, B should not have route from A because B itself is declaring its learned route as the best route and disseminating this info via iBGP.

Router A can't advertise its eBGP learned 1.0.0.0/8 to B because it's not the best route. The best route for A is the one it learned via iBGP from B and iBGP routes can't be re-advertised.

Both of the eBGP routers are learning networks from both ISPs. When ISP for B fails, A eBGP routes will become eligible to be sent to B.

HTH.

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