OSPFv3 (IPv6) Router ID handling

Ondrej Zajicek santiago at crfreenet.org
Wed Jan 15 01:00:54 CET 2014


On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 11:40:12AM +0100, arno.odermatt at ch.schindler.com wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am evaluating an OSPF solution with bird for IPv4 and IPv6. Tests are 
> all working fine.
> 
> Unfortunately, with OSPFv3 for IPv6, this seems not to behave the same, 
> therefore configuration effort an a explicit router ID concept  is 
> required , when setting up and deploying further IPv6 OSPF routing 
> instances.

Yes, BIRD does not scan and remember IPv4 addresses in IPv6 mode,
so router ID has to be configured.

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