tunnel recursive routing

From: GAURAV MADAN (gauravmadan1177@gmail.com)
Date: Mon Jul 21 2008 - 11:23:41 ART


Hi All

I have following setup . I want to avoid virtual-link use .
Hence I created tunnel between R5 and R1

R4----- Area 0 ------R5-------Area1---------R3----------Area
1--------- R1 --------Area2 ----------R2

Rack1R1(config-if)#do sh run int tunnel 15
Building configuration...

Current configuration : 120 bytes
!
interface Tunnel15
 ip address 163.1.15.1 255.255.255.0
 tunnel source 163.1.13.1
 tunnel destination 163.1.35.5
end

Rack1R5(config-if)#do sh run int tunnel 15
Building configuration...

Current configuration : 136 bytes
!
interface Tunnel15
 ip address 163.1.15.5 255.255.255.0
 keepalive 10 3
 tunnel source 163.1.35.5
 tunnel destination 163.1.13.1
end

I have everything fine and running .

BUT if I had my tunnel source and dest as loopbacks ; my tunnel comes
up fine but I start getting recursive loopback error s.

Now I had following ques :

1) Why this inconsistency . I am able to reach loopback as well as
physical inte via same route

Rack1R5(config-if)#do trace 163.1.13.1

Type escape sequence to abort.
Tracing the route to 163.1.13.1

  1 163.1.35.3 28 msec 28 msec 28 msec
  2 163.1.13.1 28 msec * 28 msec

Rack1R5(config-if)#do trace 150.1.1.1

Type escape sequence to abort.
Tracing the route to 150.1.1.1

  1 163.1.35.3 28 msec 28 msec 24 msec
  2 163.1.13.1 28 msec * 28 msec

2) In case I land in same situation ; what options do I have which are
applicable in this scenario . ?

Thnx
Gaurav Madan.



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