Reviewing MVE Connection Settings in Arista VeloCloud SD-WAN

You can review your MVE connection settings through Orchestrator and the CLI. In Orchestrator, under Test & Troubleshoot > Remote Diagnostics, select the MVE and click Run for Troubleshoot BGP - Show BGP Summary to verify the BGP session and ensure the remote router is up. You can also check connectivity and BGP status from the CLI of the edge device.

SSH to your MVE using the SSH keypair you provided during MVE creation. ssh -i megaport-mve-instance-1-2048 root@162.43.144.9
Check the interface configuration.
edge:megaport-demo-1:~# ip addr list | grep eth2.1000 22: eth2.1000@eth2: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP group default qlen 1000 inet 169.254.11.18/30 brd 169.254.11.19 scope global eth2.1000
Interface numbering on the CLI differs from the Orchestrator console. In the CLI, interface numbering begins at 0 so the corresponding CLI interface for GE3 is eth2. The number following eth2 is the subinterface ID (the A-End VLAN ID).

Ping the remote end.

edge:megaport-demo-1:~# ping 169.254.11.17
PING 169.254.11.17 (169.254.11.17) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 169.254.11.17: icmp_req=1 ttl=63 time=29.5 ms
64 bytes from 169.254.11.17: icmp_req=2 ttl=63 time=28.7 ms
64 bytes from 169.254.11.17: icmp_req=3 ttl=63 time=32.6 ms
64 bytes from 169.254.11.17: icmp_req=4 ttl=63 time=34.2 ms
64 bytes from 169.254.11.17: icmp_req=5 ttl=63 time=28.6 ms
64 bytes from 169.254.11.17: icmp_req=6 ttl=63 time=28.6 ms
^C
--- 169.254.11.17 ping statistics ---
7 packets transmitted, 6 received, 14% packet loss, time 6008ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 28.629/30.413/34.279/2.232 ms

Check the BGP status.

edge:megaport-demo-1:~# debug.py --bgp_view_summary
show ip bgp summary
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BGP view name 0
BGP router identifier 192.168.1.1, local AS number 65135
RIB entries 1, using 112 bytes of memory
Peers 1, using 4568 bytes of memory

Neighbor        V         AS MsgRcvd MsgSent   TblVer  InQ OutQ Up/Down  State/PfxRcd
169.254.11.17   4      64512    2762    2694        0    0    0 22:25:07            1

Total number of neighbors 1

Last modified on August 21, 2026