How to add IPv6 support?
David Rohleder
davro at ics.muni.cz
Thu Sep 30 19:16:34 CEST 2010
Ondrej Zajicek píše v St 29. 09. 2010 v 22:41 +0200:
> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 09:16:40PM +0200, Christoph Biedl wrote:
> > Or should I really start bird6 as a second routing daemon to handle
> > the IPv6 prefixes?
>
> Yes.
>
> > This is silly since this means duplication of the
> > configuration file and all the peer detection and route switching is
> > not synchronized.
>
> It seems silly for the first moment, but it has several advantages.
> IPv4 and IPv6 usually needs slightly different configs, different filters
> (esp. addresses in filters) and having separate IPv4 sessions and IPv6
> sessions means that you forward IPv4/6 routes only if IPv4/6 is really
> working on the routers.
>
And what about BGP+ announcing IPv6 prefixes over IPv4 connection?
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