i a gree with RAUL idea 100%

but before u go to VRFs config

just try to add the following command to ur posted config

ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 interface serial0/0/0.1

ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 serial0/0/0.2

and in ur route-map replace the line next-hop

with the folowing line

set ip default next-hop [here put the remote router ip address]

and good luck

I didn't try the suggestion of adding 2 default routes:

ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 interface serial0/0/0.1

ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 serial0/0/0.2

I was concerned that I wouldn't be able to get back in the router remotely. I also don't see how this would work. I am not sure how the router would know which default route to send the traffic out since there isn't an identifier. If you could explain that would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Thanks. I think I am headed in the right direction now. I thought that PBR was the correct way to direct my traffic but vrf seems even easier to configure.

I followed your instructions. I had to enable cef first. When I did get the ip vrf commands on the interfaces though, it deleted their ip addresses. I logged back though and added the addresses again and everything was good. A couple of weird things now though... I am trying a traceroute with my source as 10.10.24.1 and the following error is output:

% Invalid source address- IP address not on any of our up interfaces

A show int clearly shows that the interface is up.

router#show int fastEthernet 0/0

FastEthernet0/0 is up, line protocol is up

Internet address is 10.10.24.1/24

I can ping addresses on the 10.10.24 subnet and traffic is passing. If I tracert from an XP machine on the subnet it shows that the traffic is going out the correct PVC.

If I traceroute with the source interface of FastEthernet 0/0 though, the traceroute functions and doesn't return an error but the traffic still goes out the default route address and not the new vrf default route.

Why would the traffic take different default paths? If I specified the source as FE0/0 (10.10.24.1) it goes out the wrong PVC but all client machines on that subnet go out the correct PVC?

One other weird thing. If I show arp on the router, I only see clients connected to the 10.10.5.0 subnet and nothing on the 10.10.24.0 subnet. I don't even see the 10.10.24.1 arp entry.

This all might be normal behavior in this configuration but I thought I would double check.

Thanks for your help.

Ryan

I do not agree with Marwan and his suggestion that you need a second static default route. Your implementation should work perfectly fine with a single default route.

The symptoms that you are describing reflect the fact that the VRF works on traffic passing through the router but that ping and traceroute which are originated by the router itself are not affected by this. I would suggest that to get your ping and traceroute to also work you try local policy based routing:

ip local policy

and I believe that your route_subnet1 would probably be ok here.

HTH

Rick

Thanks for the input. I questioned that suggestion but I appreciate all the help that I can get.

I basically did away with the PBR since I was having some issues with it not routing anything. I implemented the VRF and that seems to be working with the exception of not being able to see any addresses in the ARP table coming from the interface with VRF specified.

The routing of the traffic going through the router as opposed to originating from the router makes sense. Would that be the same thing with the VRF instead of the PBR?

Thanks!

Ryan

I wrote my response initially in terms of PBR. After posting and rereading the thread I realized that you had stopped PBR and gone to VRF so I re-wrote my response to fit what I thought was the case with VRF and I think that the same basic issue exists with VRF about traffic initiated by the router itself. I think my suggestion would work ok. But also take a close look in the reponse by Raul and note the ability to reference the VRF in various commands:

ping vrf SUBNET1 x.x.x.x

sh ip route vrf SUBNET1

telnet x.x.x.x /vrf SUBNET1

HTH

Rick