Creating Routing Policies for QFX Series Devices in Contrail Networking

Name

Enter a name for the routing policy in the Name field.

Type

Select Physical Device or vRouter. You can create a routing policy for the type of device you select.

Select Physical Device to create a routing policy for a QFX Series device.

Term(s)

From

Select the matching conditions to be satisfied by the incoming routes.

Add Route filter > Route Filter

Enter an IP prefix address as a route filter in the Route Filter field.

Type

Select one or more type of prefix. If an incoming route satisfies the prefix match condition, the route is processed.

Community

Select the community string to match for the routing policy. The community string is represented with no-advertise, no-export, and no-export-subconfed.

Match All

Select the check box to match all the community strings.

Click Add match condition. The Additional Match conditions field is displayed. To add more match conditions, click on Add match condition.

Select a match condition from the list. A route must match the criteria of the match condition you selected. You can define one or more match conditions. If a route matches all match conditions, one or more actions are applied to the route.

Additional Match conditions

AS-path

Select AS-path from the list. In the Type/Value field, enter the name of the path regular expression of an autonomous systems (AS). In the BGP routes, the AS path that matches the regular expression are processed.

External

Select External from the list. In the Type/Value field, select the type of OSPF route: OSPF Type1 or OSPF Type2. External OSPF routes, including routes exported from one level to another are processed.

Family

Select Family from the list. In the Type/Value field, select the type of BGP family from the list to which the route belongs:

• evpn

• inet

• inet-vpn

local-pref

Select local-pref from the list. In the Type/Value field, enter a preference value between 0-4,294,967,295 (2^32 – 1). A route that matches the BGP local preference attribute, is processed.

NLRI

Select NLRI from the list. In the Type/Value field, select a NLRI route type from the list: Type 1 to Type 10. You can specify multiple route types in a single policy.

Prefix List

Select Prefix List from the list. In the Type/Value field, select a prefix from the list of prefixes in the prefix list. You must select a prefix length qualifier from the list beside the Type/Value field:

• exact

• orlonger

• longer

Example: 10.1.0.0/16 orlonger

A route matches this condition if its prefix matches any of the prefixes in the list.

Protocol

Select Protocol from the list. In the Type/Value field, select the name of the protocol from which the route was learned or to which the route is being advertised. The protocols are aggregate, bgp, direct, evpn, ospf, ospf3, pim, and static.

Then

Select the actions to be performed on the matching routes. The supported actions and the values are: