I have created a routing instance, vlan and the irb interface. I have everything configured properly: the interface is added to the routing-instance and the irb interface is added to the vlan.
What I am trying to accomplish is to have this routing-instance only route internally between other routing instances on the same switch. There is no need for routing to happen externally of the switch.
The issue I am running into is that the routing instance will not actually route any traffic unless I assign the vlan to an actually physical interface. When I view the route table of the routing instance without first adding the vlan to a physical interface then the tabe shows that local/o is reject. If I add the vlan to any existing physical interface then the route table shows as "via irb.xxx" and then traffic starts to work.
Is it possible to make this work without assigning the vlan to a physical interface?