Use the following procedure to verify if the spine switches are available and that MetalLB peering to the spine switches via Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is established.
Access to the spine switches is required.
Log in to the spine switches.
Check that MetalLB is peering to the spines via BGP.
(sw-spine#) Check both spines if they are available (powered up):
show ip bgp summary
All the neighbors should be in the Established state.
Example working state:
VRF name : default
BGP router identifier : 10.252.0.1
local AS number : 65533
BGP table version : 6
Main routing table version: 6
IPV4 Prefixes : 84
IPV6 Prefixes : 0
L2VPN EVPN Prefixes : 0
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Neighbor V AS MsgRcvd MsgSent TblVer InQ OutQ Up/Down State/PfxRcd
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10.252.0.4 4 65533 465 501 6 0 0 0:03:37:43 ESTABLISHED/28
10.252.0.5 4 65533 463 501 6 0 0 0:03:36:51 ESTABLISHED/28
10.252.0.6 4 65533 463 500 6 0 0 0:03:36:39 ESTABLISHED/28
(sw-spine#) If the State/PfxRcd is IDLE, then restart the BGP process.
clear ip bgp all