Open-Shortest Path (OSPFv3) Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF) and Management Information Base (MIB) Support

ExtremeXOS 22.1 supports multiple Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRFs) in the same virtual router (VR). Each VRF can have a separate instance of a routing protocol with its own routing table. OSPFv3 can run in a VRF and support multiple instances of the protocol in different VRFs at the same time. This allows more scalable deployments of OSPFv3 as ExtremeXOS can have more VRFs than VRs, and OSPFv3 VRF instances belonging to the same VR run in a single ExtremeXOS process. Each VR still has its own process, so different VRs have very low impact on one another.

Additionally, all tables and variables of the OSPFv3-MIB (draft-ietf-ospf-ospfv3-mib-10) are now supported. and subset of the traps in RFC 5643.

Supported Platforms

For VRF: Summit X450-G2, X460-G2, X670-G2, X770 series switches.

For MIB: Summit X450-G2, X460-G2, X670-G2, X770 and ExtremeSwitching X440-G2, X620 series switches.

Limitations

  • Only non-VPN VRFs are supported. OSPFv3 is blocked on VPN VRFs.
  • BGP does not support VPN-IPv6 routes, so PE-CE support is not available.
  • SNMP SET requests for OSPFv3 MIB objects are not supported.

New CLI Commands

enable snmp traps ospfv3

disable snmp traps ospfv3

Changed CLI Commands

The following show command now displays OSPFv3-related SNMP trap status (shown in bold):

show ospfv3

OSPFv3              : Enabled            RouterId            : 10.1.1.1 
RouterId Selection  : Configured         ASBR                : No 
ABR                 : No                 ExtLSAs             : 0 
ExtLSAChecksum      : 0x0                OriginateNewLSAs    : 3 
ReceivedNewLSAs     : 0                  SpfHoldTime         : 10s      
Num of Areas        : 1                  LSA Batch Interval  : 30s 
10M Cost            : 100                100M Cost           : 50 
1000M Cost (1G)     : 40                 10000M Cost (10G)   : 20 
40000M Cost (40G)   : 20                 100000M Cost (100G) : 10 
Graceful Restart    : Both               Grace Period        : 120s 
Restart Status      : None 
Last Restart Exit Reason: None 
Import Policy File  : none 
SNMP Traps    : Disabled 
Redistribute: 
  Protocol               Status    Cost      Type  Tag    Policy 
  direct                 Disabled  20        2     ---    none 
  e-bgp                  Disabled  20        2     ---    none 
  i-bgp                  Disabled  20        2     ---    none 
  ripng                  Disabled  20        2     ---    none 
  static                 Disabled  20        2     ---    none 
  isis-level-1           Disabled  20        2     ---    none 
  isis-level-2           Disabled  20        2     ---    none 
  isis-level-1-external  Disabled  20        2     ---    none 
  isis-level-2-external  Disabled  20        2     ---    none