Support for in-band traffic in a management VRF without routed SVI or physical interfaces
Description A Management VRF instance allows network operators to separate their management traffic from the rest of the production or services traffic. Previously, if there was a requirement to access the management VRF over an in-band interface (without the provision of an out-of-band management port) then an assignment of a dedicated routed SVI or physical port to that VRF would be required. This enhancement removes the need to configure a routed in-band interface in a management VRF or when IP control packets in a non-management VRF is exchanged over routes which point to special forwarding adjacencies like nexthop-groups or tunnels...
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