Category Archives: EPG

ISIS, COOP, BGP and MP-BGP in Cisco ACI

Posted on 2018/03/01 by

Let me start with a picture.  Imagine a simple 2leaf/2spine topology with HostA attached to to Leaf1 and with HostB attached to to Leaf2. Enter IS-IS. The leaves and spines will exchange IS-IS routing updates with each other so that Leaf1 sees that it has two equally good paths to reach Leaf2, and Leaf2 sees that it has two equally good paths to reach Leaf1. Now think about the hosts. This is where COOP comes in. BGP is not needed until an external router is connected. Continue reading →

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Configuring In-Band Management for the APIC on Cisco ACI (Part #3-via a L3Out)

Posted on 2016/12/29 by

Note: This is the third and last in a series of articles – the following is a variation of the first and second in the series. Much of the story is identical – but with a few added extras to configure the L3 out rather … Continue reading →

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Configuring In-Band Management for the APIC on Cisco ACI (Part #2-via a L2Out)

Posted on 2016/12/23 by

Note: This is the second in a series of articles – the following is a variation of the first in the series.  In fact, the whole story is almost identical – it is just that this one uses a L2 out … Continue reading →

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Configuring In-Band Management for the APIC on Cisco ACI (Part #1-via an EPG)

Posted on 2016/12/22 by

And anyone unlucky enough to try and decipher Cisco’s official documentation for configuring In-Band management on the Cisco APIC or watch their pathetic video are probably feeling frustrated to the point of giving up.

Let me ease your frustration and take you through a journey showing you how to configure In-Band management in ACI. Continue reading →

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