MPLS failover to Meraki auto-vpn

stroighne
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MPLS failover to Meraki auto-vpn

Silly question time...

 

Currently have a pair of MX600's in Passthrough mode acting as the VPN concentrater. I am advertising the 'local subnets' as the 3 RFC1918 IP blocks .

 

My question is, should the static routes for my branch sites (which have the MPLS connected via the MX LAN port) match the local subnets advertised from the MX600? so that I see '2 routes' in the branch mx routing table? 

 

OR

 

Should the static routes be more specific (say 172.16.0.0/13 & 172.24.0.0/13) at the branch site

 

OR does it not matter?

 

Many Thanks

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jdsilva
Kind of a big deal

MX's will use the available routes in the following order:

 

https://documentation.meraki.com/MX/Networks_and_Routing/MX_Routing_Behavior#Route_Priority

 

  1. Directly Connected
  2. Client VPN
  3. Static Routes
  4. AutoVPN Routes
  5. Non-Meraki VPN Peers
  6. NAT

 

More coming.... The forum is throwing an error on me... Standby

jdsilva
Kind of a big deal

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@CarolineS @MeredithW  Any idea what's going on here ^^

CarolineS
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@jdsilva - WEIRD. Let me check our filters.

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CarolineS
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Hm, @jdsilva - I found (and adjusted) one filter that may have had some overly-aggressive wildcards. Try again?

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jdsilva
Kind of a big deal

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Slightly different error, but still no dice 😞

In addition, for any device that routes, not just Meraki, the longest matched prefix will always be used for a given decision. E.g. if you have a packet with destination of 192.168.1.1 and there's 2 routes in the routing table of 192.168.1.0/24 and 192.168.0.0/23 the /24 will be used to route the packets as it has a longer prefix (is more specific).

@jdsilva works for me ;).

@CarolineS ! What the heck is this?!?!? You're censoring me and not @BrechtSchamp ?!?!

 

I DEMAND TO BE TREATED EQUALLY!!!

 

😉

CarolineS
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Oh SHOOT you figured it out, @jdsilva! We thought we were so sneaky with our censorship. :-P.

 

Sorry about the troubles posting!! My best guess about that 2nd error message is that it's related to our spam-flood controls - if you were editing & re-posting rapidly, that mechanism could be triggered.

 

Apologies for hijacking this thread w/ community-posting issues. Hopefully they are resolved now! 

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jdsilva
Kind of a big deal

In addition, for any device that routes, not just Meraki, the longest matched prefix will always be used for a given decision. E.g. if you have a packet with destination of 192.168.1.1 and there's 2 routes in the routing table of 192.168.1.0/24 and 192.168.0.0/23 the /24 will be used to route the packets as it has a longer prefix (is more specific). 

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