Description

Intention of the article is to provide debugging steps to check when IBGP neighborship is not getting established.

 

show bgp summary

Threading mode: BGP I/O

Default eBGP mode: advertise - accept, receive - accept

Groups: 2 Peers: 4 Down peers: 4

Table          Tot Paths  Act Paths Suppressed    History Damp State    Pending

bgp.rtarget.0

                       0          0          0          0          0          0

inet.0

                       0          0          0          0          0          0

inet.3

                       0          0          0          0          0          0

bgp.l3vpn.0

                       0          0          0          0          0          0

bgp.l3vpn-inet6.0

                       0          0          0          0          0          0

bgp.l2vpn.0

                       0          0          0          0          0          0

bgp.evpn.0

                       0          0          0          0          0          0

inet6.0

                       0          0          0          0          0          0

Peer                     AS      InPkt     OutPkt    OutQ   Flaps Last Up/Dwn State|#Active/Received/Accepted/Damped...

192.168.1.2           1***7          0          0       0       0    13:21:34 Active

192.168.2.2           1***7          0          0       0       0    13:21:34 Active

Symptoms

Customer in a MW were migrating their network during which RR configurations were changed and they reported that bgp configurations were not getting established .

 

Upon checking the configurations noticed that ISIS adjacency were not established and ISIS was configured under the routing-instance 

 

show isis adjacency instance MX_L1
IS-IS instance is not running

 

 

Solution

Perform the following checks to debug the issue. 

  • Verify if link between remote and local device is up and we are able to ping the remote ip. 

show interfaces terse ae1

Interface               Admin Link Proto    Local                 Remote

ae1                  up    up

ae1                  up    up   inet     172.16.1.1

                                iso      49.0001.0000.0000.0001

ping 172.16.1.2

 

PING 172.16.1.1 (172.16.1.1): 56 data bytes

64 bytes from 172.16.1.2: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.072 ms

64 bytes from 172.16.1.2: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.066 ms

^C

--- 172.16.1.1 ping statistics ---

2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0% packet loss

round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.066/0.069/0.072/0.003 ms

 

  • Next check if ISIS configuration is activated or not under the routing-instance . Upon checking the configuration ISIS protocol was deactivated . Activate the configuration . BGP came up after that. 

show configuration routing-instances MX_L1

instance-type no-forwarding;
protocols {
    inactive: isis {
        apply-groups ISIS_L1;
        interface ae1.0 {
            level 1 {
                metric 10;
             
           }
        }
    }
}


 

show | compare

[edit routing-instances MX_L1 protocols]

!      active: isis { ... }

 

 

show isis adjacency instance MX_L1
Dec 13 03:12:13
Interface             System         L State        Hold (secs) SNPA
ae1.0                 MX_L2 1  Up                   29

show bgp summary

Threading mode: BGP I/O

Default eBGP mode: advertise - accept, receive - accept

Groups: 2 Peers: 4 Down peers: 4

Table          Tot Paths  Act Paths Suppressed    History Damp State    Pending

bgp.rtarget.0

                       0          0          0          0          0          0

inet.0

                       0          0          0          0          0          0

inet.3

                       0          0          0          0          0          0

bgp.l3vpn.0

                       0          0          0          0          0          0

bgp.l3vpn-inet6.0

                       0          0          0          0          0          0

bgp.l2vpn.0

                       0          0          0          0          0          0

bgp.evpn.0

                       0          0          0          0          0          0

inet6.0

                       0          0          0          0          0          0

Peer                     AS      InPkt     OutPkt    OutQ   Flaps Last Up/Dwn State|#Active/Received/Accepted/Damped...

192.168.1.2           1***7          0          0       0       0    27 Establ

192.168.2.2           1***7          0          0       0       0    23 Establ 

 

Modification History

2024-12-21 : Article Created