Conditional Route Advertisement over Redundant Ethernet Interfaces on SRX Series Firewalls in a Chassis Cluster

Before you begin, understand conditional route advertising in a chassis cluster. See Understanding Conditional Route Advertising in a Chassis Cluster.

As illustrated in Figure 1, routing prefixes learned from the redundant Ethernet interface through the IGP are advertised toward the network core using BGP. Two BGP sessions are maintained, one from interface ge-0/0/0 and one from ge-1/0/0 for BGP multihoming. All routing prefixes are advertised on both sessions. Thus, for a route advertised by BGP, learned over a redundant Ethernet interface, if the active redundant Ethernet interface is on the same node as the BGP session, you advertise the route with a “good” BGP attribute.

Figure 1: Conditional Route Advertising on SRX Series Firewalls in a Chassis Cluster

To achieve this behavior, you apply a policy to BGP before exporting routes. An additional term in the policy match condition determines the current active redundant Ethernet interface child interface of the next hop before making the routing decision. When the active status of a child redundant Ethernet interface changes, BGP reevaluates the export policy for all routes affected.

The condition statement in this configuration works as follows. The command states that any routes evaluated against this condition will pass only if:

• The routes have a redundant Ethernet interface as their next-hop interface.

• The current child interface of the redundant Ethernet interface is active at node 0 (as specified by the route-active-on node0 keyword).

Note that a route might have multiple equal-cost next hops, and those next hops might be redundant Ethernet interfaces, regular interfaces, or a combination of both. The route still satisfies the requirement that it has a redundant Ethernet interface as its next hop.

If you use the BGP export policy set for node 0 in the previous example command, only OSPF routes that satisfy the following requirements will be advertised through the session:

• The OSPF routes have a redundant Ethernet interface as their next hop.

• The current child interface of the redundant Ethernet interface is currently active at node 0.

You must also create and apply a separate policy statement for the other BGP session by using this same process.

In addition to the BGP MED attribute, you can define additional BGP attributes, such as origin-code, as-path, and community.