How to add IPv6 support?

Ondrej Zajicek santiago at crfreenet.org
Fri Oct 1 15:42:13 CEST 2010


On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 02:24:01PM +0200, David Rohleder wrote:
> > I am not sure what kind of answer you would expect. BIRD (AFAIK)
> > supports announcing IPv6 over IPv4 connection, but it is not a suggested
> > configuration. Because if bird6 is listening also on IPv4 socket, you
> > cannot start bird4 on the same address/iface. And also it can forward
> > IPv6 routes even if IPv6 is not really working on the router.
> > 
> 
> OK, I have my upstream provider providing my IPv4 and IPv6 connectivity.
> Your idea is to run 2 instances of BIRD and 2 BGP sessions to my peers
> just to announce my IPv4 and IPv6 routes, isn't it?

Yes.

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