Orphan Ports...

VPC orphan port-suspend -- interface level command

1. 5k1 connected to active LB1 and 5k2 connected to stanby LB2
2. traffic in normal condition comesfrom internet to active LB1, it takes a U turn to 5K1 and then it
goes on to the vpc member port towards the server
3. If 5K1 goes for a reboot and comes back as operation secondary, in that case :
4. If traffic comes from intenrnet to Lb1 whichis still active load balancer, it will again take a Uturn
and then goes to 5K1 and from there on it goes to VPC member port to the final server.
5. But now if peer link fails but keepalive link is still active, now if traffic comes from intrnet it will go
to 5K2 because 5k1 would no longer be advertisining the LB subnets.
6. on 5K2 we wont have reachability to active load balancer i.e LB1 and traffic will be blackhold
7.So in such cases we would like that LB1 port connected to Nexus 5k1 should be disabled along with
SVI and VPC member ports.
8. On orphan port connected

from Lokesh Chugh to Everyone:

8. On orphan port connected to LB1 we would issue a command vpc orphan port suspend which in
this case would bring doing the port when peer link fails between 5k1 and 5k2 .. remember 5k1 is
OPERATIONAL SECONDARY.
9. Now Lb2 will be able to promote itself as Active Load balancer and traffic from northbound to 5k2
will then go to LB2 and from there it will take
a Uturn and it will go to vpc member ports.. remember 5k2 is OPerational Primary