Better yet , he could get my blunt old one ! And I could get an upgrade . Lovely idea <| sep |> I intentionallyy play with drunks , hood boys and white supremacists for this specific reason . <| sep |> I regularly work with installing the Nexus line for big DC projects in both NSX and ACI environents , I use SVIs to peer with routers . However the SVI VLAN cannot be trunked over the vPC peerlink . So a nonvPC VLAN . If you want to peer with the second switch , use a dedicated link for L 3 traffic between the two switches . The alternative is using a routed port no switchport . Okey that makes sense , SVI for a nonvpc VLAN is used peer vPC switch # 1 with router 1 which only has physical link to switch # 1 and use a layer 3 link between vPC switches for peering vpc switch # 1 and vPC switch # 2 vPC switch # 2 and router 1 . But according to N 9 K configuration guide for vPC , that is improved by command layer 3 peerrouter under vPC . But I never used it before so not sure if I understand it correctly . x i n t e r f a c e s c o n f igurationguidebCiscoNexus 9000 S e r i e s N X O S I n t erfacesConfigurationGuide 7 xbCiscoNexus 9000 S e r i e s N X O S I n t erfacesConfigurationGuide 7 xchapter 01000 . html # id 40276 Make sure you use the command peergateway on the vPC config , which is basically HSRP for L 2 framesI do have peergateway configured under vPC .