Caution: To provide ECMP fast reroute functionality in the event of an interface failure, the members of an equal cost multipath must be resolved to corresponding interfaces. If the member is an indirect next hop, the interface is obtained by using the forwarding equivalence class (FEC) to which the member points. This method of resolving members occurs only if the FEC, pointed to by the indirect next hop, is either an interface or a direct next hop.

An indirect next hop member is not resolved to an interface if it points to another indirect next hop or to an equal cost multipath. ECMP fast reroute functionality is not available if any interfaces that correspond to unresolved indirect next hop members go down.

If you modify an indirect next hop member to point to a different FEC (that is, a different interface, direct next hop, indirect next hop, or ECMP), the indirect next hop member is not resolved for the new changes.