[AusNOG] Management VRF

[Andrew Jones]

On 11.12.2014 13:46, Ross [Eve IT] wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 12:47 PM, Ben Hohnke <settra at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>
>> I know some of our kit, such as the Cisco ASR 1001 and cat4948's 
>> have dedicated management ethernet interfaces locked in a management 
>> VRF.
>
> From memory, I believe the Mgmt-intf VRF does have limitations.
> I don't recall what they are, I'm sure other Noggers could tell you 
> :)

One of the main limitations is that the management port can't be used 
for routing production traffic. It can only be in the predefined 
management VRF, and no other interfaces can be, if I recall correctly. 
Traffic from that port can't be forwarded to other interfaces.