route-distinguisher

Syntax

Hierarchy Level

Description

Specify an identifier attached to a route that distinguishes to which VPN or virtual private LAN service (VPLS) the route belongs. Each routing instance must have a unique route distinguisher (RD) associated with it. The RD places bounds around a VPN so the device can use the same IP address prefixes in different VPNs without having the addresses overlap. You must configure the route-distinguisher statement for instances with instance type vrf.

Use the following guidelines when you assign RDs:

For Layer 2 (L2) VPNs and VPLS, if you configure the l2vpn-use-bgp-rules statement, you must configure a unique RD for each PE router participating in the routing instance.

If you configure mesh groups, the RD in each mesh group must also be unique.
For Ethernet VPNs (EVPNs), you must configure a unique RD for each provider edge (PE) device participating in the routing instance to ensure that the prefixes generated by different PEs are unique.
For other VPNs besides L2 VPNs, VPLS, and EVPNs, we recommend that you use a unique RD for each PE device participating in a particular routing instance. You can alternatively use the same RD on all PE devices for the same VPN routing instance, but if you use a unique RD, you can determine the customer edge (CE) router from which a route originated within the VPN.
On EVPN data center interconnect (DCI) gateway devices, if you configure an interconnect RD at the [edit routing-instances name protocols evpn interconnect] hierarchy, the interconnect RD must be different from the local RD in the routing instance.

Note:
When you configure DCI with seamless stitching for EVPN Type 2 routes, the device throws a commit error if you try to configure the same value for the interconnect RD and the local RD.

To enforce this condition for DCI seamless stitching with EVPN Type 5 routes as well, you also see a commit error with Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved Releases starting in 22.4R2 and 23.1R1.

CAUTION:

We strongly recommend that if you change an RD that you configured and committed previously, or change the routing instance type from virtual-router to vrf, make either of those changes during a maintenance window, as follows:

Deactivate the routing instance.
Change the RD.
Activate the routing instance.

Options

as-number:number—as-number is an assigned AS number, and number is any 2-byte or 4-byte value. The AS number can be from 1 through 4,294,967,295. If the AS number is a 2-byte value, the administrative number is a 4-byte value. If the AS number is 4-byte value, the administrative number is a 2-byte value. An RD consisting of a 4-byte AS number and a 2-byte administrative number is defined as a type 2 RD in RFC 4364 BGP/MPLS IP VPNs.

Note:

In Junos OS Release 9.1 and later, the numeric range for AS numbers is extended to provide BGP support for 4-byte AS numbers, as defined in RFC 4893, BGP Support for Four-octet AS Number Space. All releases of Junos OS support 2-byte AS numbers. To configure an RD that includes a 4-byte AS number, append the letter “L” to the end of the AS number. For example, an RD with the 4-byte AS number 7,765,000 and an administrative number of 1,000 is represented as 77765000L:1000.

In Junos OS Release 9.2 and later, you can also configure a 4-byte AS number using the AS dot notation format of two integer values joined by a period: <16-bit high-order value in decimal>.<16-bit low-order value in decimal>. For example, the 4-byte AS number of 65,546 in the plain-number format is represented as 1.10 in AS dot notation format.

number:id—Number and identifer expressed in one of these formats: 16-bit number:32-bit identifier or 32-bit number:16-bit identifier.

ip-address:id—IP address (ip-address is a 4-byte value) within your assigned prefix range and a 2-byte value for the id. The IP address can be any globally unique unicast address.

Range: 0 through 4,294,967,295 (2³² – 1). If the router you are configuring is a BGP peer of a router that does not support 4-byte AS numbers, you need to configure a local AS number. For more information, see Using 4-Byte Autonomous System Numbers in BGP Networks Technology Overview.

Note:

For Ethernet VPNs (EVPNs), an RD that includes zero as the id value is reserved for the default EVPN routing instance by default. Because you can't assign the same RD for two routing instances, the device throws a commit error if you use an RD of the form ip-address:id with id value zero for another routing instance.

Required Privilege Level

routing—To view this statement in the configuration.

routing-control—To add this statement to the configuration.

Release Information

Statement introduced before Junos OS Release 7.4.

Support at [edit routing-instances routing-instance-name protocols vpls mesh-group mesh-group-name] hierarchy level introduced in Junos OS Release 11.2.

Support at [edit routing-instances routing-instance-name protocols l2vpn mesh-group mesh-group-name] hierarchy level introduced in Junos OS Release 13.2.

Support at the following hierarchy levels introduced in Junos OS Release 20.3R1 on QFX Series switches: [edit protocols evpn interconnect] and [edit routing-instances routing-instance-name protocols evpn interconnect].

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