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Step by step configuration for vPC:

1. Enable vPC and lacp Feature:

2. Configure vPC domain:

3. Configure keep-alive (Please verify reachability using “Ping” command).

4. Configure Peer-link

We have to understand below things from above output.

Delay restore : To delay the virtual port channel (vPC) from coming up on the restored vPC peer device after a reload when the peer adjacency is already established, use the delay restore command.

Command under vPC domain: delay restore <seconds>

Delay restore interface-vlan (Delay-restore SVI): To allow Layer 3 routing protocols to converge and Forwarding Information Base (FIB) programming to complete for a more graceful restoration of switched virtual interfaces (SVI) on the restored virtual port channel (vPC) after the delay of the vPC from coming up on the restored vPC peer device, use the delay restore interface-vlan command.

Command under vPC domain: delay restore interface-vlan <seconds>

5. Configure member ports and down-stream device.

Useful commands:

Few things for you consideration: 

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4. Click here to understand more about replacement procedure in vPC setup

L3 over vPC:

Let’s discuss about issue with L3 over vPC and how cisco  came to out of it.

Data Plane issue : As we know that Loop Avoidance Rule for Traffic over Peer Link – Data Traffic received on the peer link cannot be forwarded and routed on a vPC. Here’s the example which we discussed earlier as well.

Control plane issue: TTL will be decremented which will lead us in below condition.

When peer routing is enabled TTL will not be incremented for packet forwarded to peer SVI. we have to use peer-router feature under vPC domain. Here’s the command:

Please find link for more insight:

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  • Thanks for the all relevent information about VPC.
    So we can configure “spanning-tree port-type network on peer link interface and “spanning-tree port-type normal” on vpc member port.

    shailesh kumar Reply
    • Hi Shailesh,

      Thanks for your feedback and reaching out to us.

      As we know that “spanning-tree port type normal” as well as “spanning-tree port type network” are used on ports connected to switches, the difference between them is:

      Normal: normal spanning-tree behaviour
      Network: Enable spanning-tree with bridge assurance.

      Let me come to your point.Cisco recommendation is to configure switch-to-switch ports as “spanning tree normal” when running vPC. The only port that it is recommended to run as type “network” is the vPC peer link. As soon as you configure “vPC peer-link” command under port-channel port type will automatically changed to “Network” and MTU will automatically changed to Jumbo.

      Regards,
      EvaNetwork Team

      admin Reply
  • thanks for the information

    shailesh kumar Reply
  • Thanks for the good information about VPC. when peer-gateway configured mac-address learned for remote peers so the device will learn mac-address for orphan port as well.

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